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Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem.
Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family.
Dear committed brothers and dear committed sisters…
DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN KINGS AND
KHULAFA'
Being that we're in the shades of that occasion (i.e.) a couple of days ago a certain percentage of Muslims were, with differing degrees, aware of the encounter between Al Imam Al Hussein and his few dedicated and devout followers on one side and the tyrannical concentration of abusive power represented by king Yazid on the other side what is due is to try to put some of this remarkable historical confrontation in the parameters of some ayaat and some ahadith (or) some verses from the Qur'an and some guiding statements from the Prophet. An ayah which is one hundred and fifteen from Surah Hud says for everyone who reads it and is willing to live by it
Don't rely upon those who are tyrannical, those who are oppressors (or) those who are practitioners of injustice…. (Surah Hud verse 115)
By Allah's word you can't. Ar Rukn literally means the meeting of two walls and that is an area that is supposed to be a protective area. If there is danger around (or) there's instability, whether it's physical instability or its psychological instability, that place offers a form of reassurance. So this same meaning is delivered to us.
Don't find a place of security or refuge with adh dhalimeen…. (Surah Hud verse 115)
After every ayah and after every hadith we want to remind those who were either absent minded during the past week or were only emotionally present during the past week that Allah is saying
Don't find a place of security or refuge with adh dhalimin…. (Surah Hud verse 115)
Hussein obviously understood these ayaat very well. So for those some of us who were emotionally high in the past week or ten days since the beginning of Al Muharram this is a reminder. An ayah from the dear book to remind you! What is it? An occasion (or) a day (or) a week that you are emotionally attached to Hussein and then once this goes by you go back to business as usual?! There's a world out there of injustice, of aggression, of intimidation, of usurping your rights (and) infringing on your life- all of this is reality out there. What do you do? You climax during the tenth of Muharram and then after that you're back to the cozy relationship with adh dhalimin?!
Another reminder is the couple of ayaat in Surah Al Baqarah,
There are people who say "we are committed to Allah and the final day" but they are not committed to Allah and the final day. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 7)
How beautiful the wording of this ayah that deliver these precise meanings.
There are people who verbally state "we are Mu'mins, we are people of iman, we have faith in Allah, we believe in the final day…" (Surah Al Baqarah verse 7)
That's what they say. Allah's retort to that is
… they are not Mu'minin. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 7)
It doesn't stop here.
They are in the process of attempting to deceive Allah and the truly committed Muslims… (Surah Al Baqarah verse 8)
Listen to this- their efforts are exerted to try to deceive Allah and the committed Muslims.
… and they only fool and deceive their own selves and they don't feel (or) they can't feel what they are doing. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 8)
This doesn't apply to fairytale figures out there somewhere in Disneyland , this is the real world. There are people out there (and) they say "we are committed to Allah and the final day" and how do they have you and me believe them? They go through the necessary rituals because if they do their daily rituals (i.e.) they pray, they fast, they even go to Hajj, and they do all of these things then on the surface of it you think that they are committed Muslims. Allah is providing you with further information about these types of people.
… they are definitely not committed Muslims. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 7)
How would I know that? How would you know that? Because they are in a life long process of trying to play tricks on Allah and the committed Muslims. But how do they get away with that? Because either they have power or they have connections to people who have power- that's how they get away with it. You see- the wording of the ayah is not yakhda'una, (i.e.), they deceive Allah and the committed Muslims- no! They can't deceive Allah and if the committed Muslims are with Allah they can't deceive the committed Muslims. But how come we have some Muslims who are actually deceived? Because they aren't with Allah! The power evaluation of them- not the ritualistic evaluation of them- places them at a distance from Allah so they are deceived! The result is they are deceiving their own selves and they have no perception of what they are doing. It is quite a responsibility of al Ulema', (i.e.) those who have pertinent and active knowledge and to be inheritors of the Prophets as the Prophet said the struggling and the involved Ulema' are the inheritors or the successors to Allah's Prophets. Allah is going to ask all of us (in) whatever capacity that we are in, especially those of us who have some workable knowledge. Allah is saying
We will bring to accountability those who had Prophets dispatched to them and we're going to bring to accountability Prophets themselves. (Surah Al A'raf verse 6)
The Prophet of Allah, (we mentioned this and we repeat), in the after shocks of Karbala
Then, when Umar (radi Allahu anhu) became the second ruler of the Muslims, once again from his mimbar he stood up and he said O People- anyone of you who sees a twist and a turn, a zigzag and a spin from me should set me straight. He's speaking to all the people. Remember, there's no guards around. This is a unique feature of unique leaders of Muslims. They were in front of there own people. Maybe that's why they were assassinated; because they knew that this was a responsibility that was going to place them in the face of people who disagreed with them. So a person stands up and says if we see a swerve and a turn (or) zigzagging behavior from you we will set you straight with our swords. A person who has some type of egocentric character or a person who is spoiled by power would say "take that man away." You can see that today. (In) the best so-called democracy in the world if a person stands up and says "you are wrong" there's security all around the place, layers of security; remember, we're speaking about rulers who had not one security attachment to them, no one layer of security! Some of you people here on the occasion of Aashura' get carried by your emotions and you can't identify merit where it belongs! These were leaders who were facing their own people and they knew they ran the risk of being assassinated. They knew that and they were assassinated. Three out of the four successors to Allah's Prophet were assassinated. The first one who was not assassinated was simply because he lived two years in office. If those two years were extended to seven or ten or twelve years he may also have been assassinated because he was in a war with those who broke away from the central authority of Islam in Al Madinah or who wanted to break away. So what does Umar say when one person stands up in front of everyone else and says if we see you going right or left and not on as sirat al mustaqeem we will set you straight with the arms, the force (or) the power that we have? What did he say? "Take him away or throw him in the dungeons (or) imprison him?" like kings and dictators say today, yesteryear, yester century, yester millennium? No! They didn't say that. He didn't say that. He said, listen to this, all thanks are due to Allah that He has rendered in the Ummah of Muhammad those who will set Umar straight with their swords. How can someone say "Umar is a Khalifah and Yazid is a Khalifah?" Something is wrong with people who say this. Either they don't read history right or they read it right but they have a grudge in them selves and they want to equate a king with a Khalifah. Yazid would never say something like that. Besides, he had at that time and from Mu'awiyah on layers and layers of security detachments around the rulers of Muslims. On this occasion of Aashura' (and) to be fair to people and to be fair to those who were in their own minds and in their own hearts trying to do their best- we covered this territory. We're not trying to speak to you with some blanks in your minds. This was an era where Muslims had to deal with asabiyah. The asabiyah that is monstrous nowadays. It's been monstrous in many eras of history and that was one of them. How can you equate someone like Umar with someone like Yazid? He said I want to exit this world the same way I came into it. He considered himself fortunate if he could die without and ajr and without any wizr just like a new born baby who comes into this world and you have nothing for you and you have nothing against you as far as good actions and bad actions are concerned. This was the way this person, towards the end of his life, wanted to see himself exit this world and this life. How can you equate someone like that with a womanizer like Yazid? (Or) with a drunkard like Yazid? (Or)with a murderer and a killer and a war criminal like Yazid? How can you do that (with) whatever background you have! They all knew the golden rule no human being is due any obedience if he is disobeying Allah. How many times (or) how habitual was the king, who killed Hussein, in disobeying Allah? Can anyone bring any merits to him? If you do bring any merits, it would be like today's merits that talk about a certain President or a certain king. "Oh- he's philanthropic. He's humanitarian. He gives out some assistance or some of this to those who are in need." Don't get fooled by propaganda. We can go on and on but simply because of the issue of time we cannot proceed and there's many more here. We're sorry we had to skip some of this. What brings all of this about is a hadith. We've mentioned this numerous times before and we continue to do so because no one else mentions these hadiths- if these hadiths and these ayaat and we'll quote before we get to the hadith another couple of ayaat so that you'll know that the ayaat and the ahadith go together reinforcing each other. Allah says
Those who conceal that which We, meaning Allah, has brought to our attention via scripture and revelation and Prophets of His books and His guidance after we have disclosed it and clarified it to people in scripture- those are the ones who are cursed and condemned by Allah and by those who condemn and curse. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 159)
We know some Muslims have a problem with condemning others and obviously the moral and refined mannerism of a Muslim character is that it's not in his or her nature to automatically and impulsively condemn someone with la'nah. That's not normal in a Muslim character just like it's not normal in a Muslim character to naturally and impulsively pull the trigger and go to war. That's not in the fiber of the Islamic character. That's why when we are called to arms it is with a reluctance. The ayah in the Qur'an says so.
You've been called to arms knowing that you dislike this… (Surah Al Baqarah verse 216)
It's not in your nature but when you have to do it you have to do it! It's the same thing when we have to condemn those who should be condemned. It's not in our nature to do that. /it doesn't come normally and naturally but here is an area where Allah says find it in yourselves to condemn these usurpers, these abusers of power, these war criminals, these dictators.
Those who conceal that which We, meaning Allah, has brought to our attention via scripture and revelation and Prophets of His books and His guidance after we have disclosed it and clarified it to people in scripture- those are the ones who are cursed and condemned by Allah and by those who condemn and curse. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 159)
There's an obligation. If we can identify and if we can come to terms and throw away the traditional junk that has polluted the Islamic atmosphere and begin to look at the facts you tear off this title of Khalifah from Muawiyah and Yazid and kings and dictators and call them for what they are. Then the ayah in Surah Ahl Imran
Allah has taken a pledge from those who were vouchsafed scripture aforetime... (Surah Ahl Imran verse 187)
That includes us. We've been given scripture. The remark here is made about those who preceded us but it doesn't exclude us if we begin to behave like them.
… (or) you are expected by Allah to explain this (or) to clarify this to people... (Surah Ahl Imran verse 187)
What's wrong? Why are the majority of Muslim scholars in the world numb? Why can't they speak pertaining to those who are in power- those who inherit power illegally, those who usurp power illegitimately? All of them! Where are the Muslim scholars? They should be up in arms now! What they do now, because they don't go by Allah's program- this is Allah's guidance set out for us in His book and in His Prophet's words- (and) because many people, Muslims, are withdrawn from these active meanings (and) these applicable ayaat and ahadith they become vulnerable to programs that come your way. OK-
Condemned are the deniers of truth from the Children of Isra'eel by the words, tongue, expression or language of Dawud and Isa the son of Maryam; that is because they were disobedient to Allah and because they were aggressive or offenders. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 78)
It's not just a matter of disobeying- disobedience to Allah brings with it aggression.
They did not institutionalize al amr bi al ma'ruf and an nahi an al munkar … (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 79)
It's not that they did not just take issue with the munkar; the responsibility goes beyond what one person can say and what one person can do. The responsibility is what can we all do together here. What these scholars of Bani Isra'eel would not do is to maintain a principal and palpable opposition to the social deviation of their crown and their congregations and their communities- they couldn't do it! So they were condemned. Scholars were condemned. We didn't invent this ayah. We didn't even this hadith. Remember the Prophet's words a person who withholds the truth in tantamount to a Shaytaan who is speechless.
(Dear committed Muslims, brothers and sisters… )
In light of the ayaat and the ahadith, (i.e.) the verses in the Qur'an and the Prophet's guiding statements that were mentioned in the previous khutbah to try to have some of you updated as to who would be today's Hussein or his equivalent. Obviously there is no reincarnation here; we can't have Hussein in person in flesh and in blood among us but we can have those who approximate his character and that's what we are looking for without being fooled by ceremonials, appearances (and) the traditions and the customs that have mounted the centuries in our past. We have today people who occupy the position of kings, autocrats, despots. They're alive and kicking; more than that, they're alive and killing! And some Muslims run to the Masjid to hide there for one hour a week and then they come out to transact with the world that is what it is, (i.e.) full of tyranny, spying on us, listening to us, (you hear. We hope some of you read, at least, what's going on), placing cameras in the streets so that they can watch you when you say something and record what you are saying in the cars devices now with the technology they have, invasion of our privacy, targeting Muslims who just want independence and self determination, going on the offensive against us. They are going on the offensive against us. They are interfering in our internal affairs and all of that is made possible because of the dummy rulers that we have who are Yazids on steroids and because for many of us these ayaat and these ahadith are taken out of circulation (and) not elucidated during khutbahs and during seminars and during sermons. So we're left with what?! Some of you have the freedom to go to these Masajid around- what do they talk to you about? For those of you, (we say this as a minor brother of yours), have climaxed the day before yesterday on Aashura' (and) you discharged all of your emotions- when the Yazids of today are watching you they say "what do these Muslims do? They wait a full year for this occasion. They come to this occasion and spill out their feelings and then they come back to the world that we run and they interact with us on our terms." Who won here? If they can bottle you up into one occasion and you're satisfied with that and they're satisfied with that, what happened to all the struggle that the Imam that you are celebrating stood for? What happened? Go- whether you're Sunni or Shi'i- to your Islamic center (and) go to your Masjid and then feel reconciled with the world of dhulm that is imposed on humanity. The Saudi Arabian Yazidis are kicking out Muslims from Makkah and Al Madinah. Who said they have the right to tell any Muslim in the world "you can come to Makkah and then you have to leave Makkah by our permission?" Where did that come from? Even in the days of Yazid Muslims were permitted to enter Makkah and exit from Makkah without restriction, without laws, without law enforcement. But they've outdone Yazid. The Ethiopians are beginning right now to cry foul because it's happening to them more than it is happening to others and, as we said previously, we're not occasional Jum'ah attendees- just because the Saudis have done such and such a violation of the Sunnah this week we are going to zero-in on what they do this week. They're habitually in violation and in contradiction of Allah's words and His Prophet's direction. It's about time that we learned from ourselves and matured so that these war criminals no longer have it their way.
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 15 November 2013 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C.
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