Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni KHUTBAH : FALSE RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS

 

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Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem.

Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family.

Committed Muslims, brothers and sisters…

 

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/336456 (02-21-2014)

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FALSE RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS

We, the Muslims, were in the previous khutbah taking a look at we the Muslims. We speak about we and then we speak about the other (i.e.) there are those who are not Muslims. So there is a 'we' and there is an "other." One of the most difficult issues to understand is what is it exactly that distinguishes us from the other and what is it exactly that makes us part of the other. This is an area in some people's minds is confusing and there are plenty of ways to approach this. One of the inputs into this subject matter is basically to take a look at we, the committed Muslims, and the other- in this particular Bani Isra'eel because there multiple others out there. There are many others so we have to take them one step at a time. One of these is we the committed Muslims vis à vis those who in one way (or) in definition or the other describe themselves as Bani Isra'eel- and they have many definitions by the way. We will take a sequence of ayaat, (and we know the weather conditions here are not very favourable (but) all of this is in Allah's good calculations), from Surah Az Zukhruf, we will try to read them with a present mind and try to figure out whether Bani Isra'eel of today belong to these ayaat or whether the Muslims of today belong to these ayaat or whether none of them belong to these ayaat or whether all of them belong to these ayaat. It's not only these ayaat alone that will help us understand this issue. We have to take the many other ayaat in the Qur'an to build on to realise what distinguishes us from Bani Isra'eel and then what is common with some of those who call themselves Bani Isra'eel. These ayaat are around ayah number fifty, (give or take), in Surah Az Zukhruf. By the way the word zuhkruf simply means gold. So the question here, for a thinking mind, is: most people who are aware of the language now the word gold to be dhahab. The word adh dhahab is the word that is commonly known as referring to gold.

Alluring to man is the enjoyment of worldly desires through women and children and heaped up treasures of gold and silver… (Surah Aal Imran verse 14)

So the question for those who read the Qur'an carefully and consciously, becomes why was not this surah called then adh dhahab? Why was it called Az Zukhruf? Which invites you and me to think! That's right- why is this Surah called Az Zukhruf and not adh dhahab? With some effort (and) some investigation adh dhahab is something that appeals to you (or) to human nature. People want to have gold, they want to have silver, they want to have possessions because it is decorative- that is why the ayah says

Alluring to man is the enjoyment of worldly desires through women and children and heaped up treasures of gold and silver… (Surah Aal Imran verse 14)

You see when there is an appeal and when there is luxury the word dhahab is used; that ayah in Surah Aal Imran just quoted demonstrates it but here in this Surah the word that is used is Az Zukhruf and Az Zukhruf speaks about gold when gold has influence not when it has appeal. When it has appeal it is dhahab when it has influence it is zukhruf. That's a very important distinction here. So these ayaat, (in the short time that the weather conditions are permitting us), say (or) Allah is saying

We have sent Musa to Phiraun and his elite, (more precisely), his financial elite… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 46)

Now we want to draw your attention to the fact that Allah says

We have sent Musa to Phiraun and his financial elite… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 46)

Many people in their mind (understand that) Allah sent Musa (alayhi as salaam) to Bani Isra'eel because they are other ayaat in the Qur'an that say that Allah sent Musa to Bani Isra'eel. So another inconsistency in the contemporary Muslim mind is they don't think about Musa being equally sent to Bani Isra'eel and to Phiraun.

… He said "Indeed I am the Messenger of the Lord of all environments (or) of all the worlds. When Musa came with his demonstration of ayaat, they began to laugh at him (or) they began to make fun of him. (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 46)

You see- this is a form of false religious consciousness. A person is coming and he has something to say and he demonstrates (or) he proves what he is saying with ayaat from Allah. You are familiar with these nine ayaat that are mentioned in other surahs in the Qur'an which Musa demonstrated (to show) that he is not a fake person (and) this is for real but they laughed at him, they made fun of him (and) they ridiculed him.

And every time we come to them with an ayah it proves to be more significant than the previous one… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 48)

Meaning there was an escalation of ayaat to breakthrough their attention and their minds and their hearts. Listen- this is the power and authority of Allah that I come to you with.

… so when they don't respond Allah punishes them (or) He brings forms of sufferings to their society. (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 48)

These could be natural types and these could be social types. See- now a person comes to them with ayaat from Allah and they think

Aah, this is a sorcerer (or) this is some type of person who is trying to trick our minds or senses- a type of illusionist; call your Sustainer… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

Notice here, (which unfortunately many Muslim minds do not notice), that these people (i.e.) Phiraun and his elites are speaking to Musa.

… call your Sustainer… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

Remember other ayaat in the Qur'an that Bani Isra'eel themselves said to Musa the same words (and) the same form of speech from those who were supposed to belong to him or they said they did and those who were his public enemies; both of them seem to be speaking to him with the same words exactly these are the words in the Qur'an.

… you have a covenant with him he has a covenant with you… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

OK.

… then plead our case with Him; by that we will indeed be guided. (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

So this is what they say to him when they are in the adhaab. They are pleading now because they are under pressure. When people are under pressure then they begin to open up (and) say "OK- you are God's Messenger, God has a pledge with you and you have a pledge with God… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

OK-

… then beseech Him (and) pray to Him… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

Then He says

When all of this social or natural upheaval is dismissed now… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 50)

Allah causes it to go away

… they break their word. (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

They told Musa just call upon your God (or) your Sustainer and when He responds we will be guided but when Allah responds to them they don't respond to Him.

Now Phiraun has the public word… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 51)

He's out there. Just like today's media, Phiraun had his media. Today's establishmentarians powers have their media. So this media speaks to the crowds. What did he say?

… He said: "my people, don't I have the dominion over Egypt? … (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 51)

Remember the word here is not milku Misr, the word here is mulku Misr. He is not saying I'm in possession of Egypt. He says I have dominion over Egypt, meaning I have rule and I have authority over all of this land.

… and look at the flowing waters beneath us, can't you see. … (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 51)

What Phiraun and these establishments are trying to says is can't you see who is the authority here? Don't be fooled by Musa. Look what I have. Look who I am.

Am I better or this, referring to Musa here, creature of humiliation who can barely express himself? … (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 52)

Remember when Musa asked Allah to help him out in his communication with Harun (alayhi as salaam).

He is more communicative (or) he is more elaborate in expressing himself than I am. (Surah Al Qassas verse 34)

Phiraun takes this little point here and amplifies it.

… he barely can express himself. … (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 52)

Musa is not a person whom you would say is the articulate speech giver. So here Phiraun takes this little, (what you may call), personality gap and he plays on it in public opinion. He says who do you think is better? He said people, look (and) judge for yourselves- this is who I am and this is who he is. Right now this mentality and psychology is at work today. Money speaks. This is Surah Az Zukhruf. Az Zukhruf is gold that speaks, it is money that speaks. This is what we have in today's world. A simple person comes and wants to express Allah's words (and) Allah's will and because he's a simple person- even when the Prophet of Allah, the last Prophet, came to the Mushrikin how did they refer to him? They said oh, he's the orphan of Abu Talib. That's the orphan of Abu Talib, that's the orphan or Abdul Muttalib. That's the way they wanted to put him down. (It's the) same psychology. The psychology of Quraysh, the psychology of Phiraun, the psychology of today's power structure all speak the same language. Who's going to pay attention? "Who are you? Who is Musa? Who's this guy? Some sorcerer? Illusionist?" They have other words because they come at it from different angles. Don't think that the establishment and the media and the establishments out there are dumb people. No! They are very very precise and calculated in how they express themselves.

If only there were golden armlets that were presented to him from heaven or even some angels accompanying him. … (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 53)

Look how they want people to meet their standards. "Oh you want us to pay attention to you, why can't we see decoration of gold on your body," meaning you don't appear to be a person of status and if you're not why should we pay attention to you? "Then there's no angels around you. You say you're speaking to the heavens and the God up there- where are the angels? If you are the man of God at least have some angels around so you can prove yourself."

He took his people lightly and they obeyed him… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 54)

This is the crux of the matter. This is what we have today. We have people who are in power (and) we have individuals who are in power who take their people lightly. (It's) true! Look how light Muslims are. They're light-weights. If a person has power and money they listen; just like Phiraun- he had power and money people listened. If you don't have power and money people are not going to listen. They didn't Musa, they didn't listen to Muhammad, they didn't listen to the other Prophets. Why? Because they didn't have power and money! There's a relationship between power and money. One of them begets the other. They sort of go together and then they eventually converge and when they do converge and blend in they destroy societies.

… and if We, (in reference to Divine power and authority), want to destroy a social order, We have two classes- those in power and those in wealth- combined into one… (Surah Al Isra' verse 16)

The Pharaoh and everyone in his position consider their people to be light-weights. They take their people lightly. People don't have any weight, they don't have any solid positions in other words they don't have any principles. When do people begin to show up as people? When they stick to their principles then they register. They are on the radar but without principles any combination of wealth and power can wreak havoc with them. This is what we are supposed to learn and understand from the history in the Qur'an and this is what we are supposed to learn from current affairs if we can just read and understand.

 

Now we want to make a transition from that time period in this context to today's world and look at we the Muslims. How many rulers do we have that take us lightly? Why do they take us lightly? Why can they almost automatically dismiss us as if we don't exist? Ask yourself why? It is because, as we should have learned from history, we don't have any principles and we listen to those who have the money and have the power. No one is trying to make anything up. All it takes is to look around. Look around in your circle of your friends, look around at these Islamic centres all around (and) the way the communities make their decisions. What speaks is money and the combination of money with those who have power. That's what speaks and so we listen to that combination (and) we don't listen to Allah! We're sorry to be frank. We don't listen to His Prophet because to us they don't have money (and) they don't generate any profit; in other words there's nothing in it for us "so what are you talking about?" So if someone wants to come and express these social laws from Allah- dismiss him (and) forget about it as if no one said anything. So we have a false religious consciousness! This is false all around. It's huge but it's the truth about something so significant that it goes unnoticed, (i.e.) that Muslims are living with a false religious consciousness. It's false because they listen to Phiraun and they don't listen to Musa. They listen to the upper crust of society and they don't listen to Allah. This is what is happening. If what we're saying is wrong please correct it- anyone out there. Take a look at these ayaat and other ayaat in the Qur'an and say "where do we stand in all of this." So we don't say it by our own. Give Banu Isra'eel credit for being blunt. When they spoke to Musa with a distance they said

… ask your Sustainer for us… (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 49)

We don't say it like that but our behaviour means it like; that this is how we behave and sometimes, if not most of the times, behaviour is more important than words.

… because they were people whose pledge with Allah was broken therefore their social character degenerated. (Surah Az Zukhruf verse 54)

Now look at their social character in history and look at our social character today and tell us what makes us distinctive? What makes us different from them?

 

Brothers and sisters, committed Muslims…

In today's world- these are things that have been in the news no one is plucking something out of imagination or theory, it's the real thing- a couple of weeks ago in Davos, in Switzerland one of the royalty of the Saudis had an encounter with the current minister of justice in Occupied Palestine Turki Al Faisal- is the name of that prince who by the way at one time was the ambassador here in Washington DC for a relatively short period of time- met with Tzipi Livni who is the minister of justice. We don't know how those words go together with all of the injustice that is going on in the Occupied Palestine! They had a friendly encounter and they said friendly things towards each other. Now you would ask do these people in the positions that they are in realised that now they have so much in common that they are beginning to set precedents (i.e.) meeting in public, being photographed in public, exchanging statements in public. All of that is going on. Before, much of this has been going on behind the scenes. It was confidential and it was secret. Saudi princes would go to Tel Aviv and Zionist politicians would go to the Arabian Peninsula- this was back and forth but it was low key and far from the public eye but now there's a new dynamic at work. We see with our own eyes those who are supposed to be on contradictory positions now closing ranks! Have they discovered something that we, the average Muslims, with our false religiosity or false religious consciousness still have not discovered? And that is, basically, there's nothing that distinguishes, in a significant way, those who are nationalist Zionists and those who are nationalist Munafiqs. Nothing distinguishes them. They find they have so much in common. How come they discovered that and we, the average Muslims in the world in the hundred of millions, still have not discovered that? Is it due to the fact that the world- because of their financial and their military and political and ideological and philosophical- (i.e.) all of this common ground that they have together they look at this as "why should a population such as the Palestinians five to ten million of them be disturbing all of us when we are so close together?" They've discovered this through their banks, they've discovered this through their petroleum transactions, they've discovered this through their militaries- that's how they discovered it and we have Allah explaining all of this for us, historically and currently, and we still haven't caught on?! We still can't understand it! Ever since the Khilafah or the Imamah of Ali ibn Abi Talib (radi Allahu anhu) (i.e.) those forty years were gone we slipped down this slope in which what distinguishes us from the other no longer distinguishes us! But there has to be something that makes a Muslim different from a none Muslim so what was done in over a thousand years is to place all the emphasis on "how long is your beard?" That's what is going to distinguish you! "How short is your trouser or robe?" That's what is going to distinguish you! "How big is your miswak or your toothbrush?" That's what is going to distinguish you! They played up these minute issues to become the distinction between us and the others. A false religious consciousness that haunts us to the refugee camps that we are in to the dislocated people that we have become. If only we could appreciate the information we have on our shelves in our Qur'an in our Prophet.

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 21 February 2014 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C. The Imam previously led the daily and Jum'ah prayers inside the Masjid. His speeches were revolutionary and thought provoking, and eventually irritated and threatened the Middle-East Ambassadors who control the Masjid. Finally, the Imam, his family, and /other Muslims faithful to the course of Islam were forced out, into the streets. This khutbah originates from the sidewalk across the street from the Islamic Center, currently under seige.

 

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Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni KHUTBAH : THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION

 

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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 on As Sirat Al Mustaqeem…

 

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/335300 (02-07-2014)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_acmyqcvQ

 

THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION

An occasion coming up this week falls between two Fridays, (i.e.) this Friday and the coming Friday. What we're referring to by saying this occasion is the triumph and the victory that comes from Allah but was materialised by those who sacrificed for Allah. Of course, in today's world, we live in a psychology that is unprepared or unable to express the truth about a favour and a bounty and a blessing and a privilege that came from Allah. Allah says

… express appreciation and thanks to Me and don't be ungrateful and in denial. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 152)

If He has given the Muslims a victory at a time when victory is hard to come by then obviously we should be very thankful and very appreciative of what He has given and we should be happy and we should rejoice. The issue of triumph and victory comes from Allah is reason for us to be joyful and happy. An ayah in the Qur'an says

… and on that day the committed Muslims will rejoice (or) will be happy about Allah's victory… (Surah Ar Rum verse 4-5)

Notice here the victory here is not attributed to the Mu'minin. Victory is not something that a particular group of people own. We the Muslims have an Israeli problem because they want to own everything and here some of us, on this occasion, want to own this nasr (or) this triumph and this victory. (It's a) mistake. You don't own it! It is Allah's.

If you are helping Allah He will help you (or) if you are striving for Allah's victory He will strive to give you His victory. (Surah Muhammad verse 7)

Unfortunately as I mentioned we the Muslims don't even have the psychology to properly behave. Now we want to caution you that (in) being joyous and being happy as a result of being thankful and grateful there is a precautionary note here because sometimes this happiness or this joy goes to our ego. So the issue of being happy can have a positive content to it and it could have a negative content to it. The negative one is as is mentioned in the ayah

… and on that day the committed Muslims will rejoice (or) will be happy about Allah's victory… (Surah Ar Rum verse 4-5)

Committed Muslims are joyful about Allah's nasr. Another ayah speaks about joy it says

… don't be happy cause Allah does not like those who are happy or joyful. (Surah Al Qasass verse 76)

Now of course if you take these two ayaat out of context you get confused or you get this impression "what is this?!" The Qur'an is speaking to us in contradictory ways. No if you place it in context you will understand. Allah is telling us we have all the right in the world to celebrate a victory and be happy about it provided that this doesn't go to our ego and we don't attribute a nasr that comes from Allah to our own weakling selves; but then on the other hand the other ayah

… don't be happy because Allah does not like those who are happy. (Surah Al Qasass verse 76)

What's the context here? What's the larger picture?

Qarun went out into the dunyah- not with the ambition of Musa, but with the greed of Phiraun- and Allah gave him the fortunes and treasures of which just the keys to have access to them will bear down heavily on any mode of transportation. His people told him- understanding the events within context- "don't be happy, Allah does not like those who are happy within these types of times or within your types of terms and condition or within what you are doing." Seek with that which Allah has given you- all this wealth and resources- the final abode or the end-life and don't forget your share or portion of the world, and be generous the way Allah was generous to you or give to the degree of perfection or be as generous to others as Allah was generous to you and don't seek policies of destruction on Earth because Allah does not like those who cause destruction on Earth. (Surah Al Qasass verse 76-77)

In the same scenario the type of happiness that leads to fasaad is unwanted (and) is not part of who we are so when Allah says don't be happy He says don't be happy as a result of the wealth that you have accumulated. So these are two fine psychological lines that some of us never think through and therefore on an occasion like this some uninformed Muslims will speak and say "look, this is a bid'ah." Out of the depths of their ignorance they will come out and say "look at Muslims. They are celebrating an occasion and this celebration is a type of bid'ah." If they were referred to Allah and His Prophet to read and understand Allah's words and His Prophet's behaviour in context then they will know there is no contradiction to speak about and to rejoice a victory that comes from Allah that was demonstrated by the struggle and the sacrifices of Muslims.

 

Now we can't obviously cover this whole territory of the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran in one khutbah. Its obvious- not even in a series of khutbahs- even though we think just our presence out here without saying anything is a contribution to the success of that revolution but now let us- and we hope you can- summon all of the information and all of the imagery in today's public mind and you can bring that to your fore and you realise there are accusations that are generated by those who pray five times and fast Ramadhan and they do all of these other personal obligations. They have churned up (and) gone full blow on the issue of speaking against this nasr from Allah that is, (in a few days time), thirty five years old in an official sense. Today's mouth pieces of Ash Shayateen are saying "the Islamic revolution is a threat" and they speak this in a thousand words and in a thousand books and in a thousand programs- that's what they say. The bottom line the end result "the Islamic revolution is a threat to them, to the Muslims, to the world" and we have some Muslims who are considered on the side of the Islamic success and victory and triumph of thirty five years who are placed in that category who are unable to respond to this mental trouble making that is out there. What some of them do is they play politics. They want to use some fancy words and some statements that can be interpreted in different ways and these things short of just expressing the truth. The truth speaks for itself if you just have the courage to say it! The truth goes a long way. It doesn't need your fancy words and your diplomatic statements and this, that and the other. It doesn't need that! All it needs is "please say the truth." There are hundreds of thousands of people who gave their lives and who were maimed for life for this nasr from Allah to become possible. If they did all of that you can't just speak the truth? You can't just do that minimum amount? Something is wrong. When we have a psychology like that something is wrong! So here we have people stepping back just from saying the truth and some of them have a shell that they go into. They, (and this is not an insignificant amount of people, this is a substantial number. Some of them are university graduates, some of them are post university researchers, scholars, Ulema', clergymen, all of this- with thirty five years of success they can't live with it), come and say "what you people are calling an Islamic revolution all of this is actually a contrivance. It is a concoction that doesn't even belong to our understanding of Islamic history. How can we have an Islamic leadership when we don't have the twelfth Imam ruling?" In their own words, of course they will coach it in a fancy way (and) in a way that appeals to some people, they will say "you guys are out of your minds." They won't use the "Wahabbi word" bid'ah- bid'ah is not a Wahabbi word in its original context and in its original form but it just got hijacked by them! But that's what they mean. They mean that this enlistment to support the Islamic thirty five year effort of honour and dignity and sacrifices all of this is something that is weird. It shouldn't have happened. They calculate that time is on their side (and) that this Islamic revolution is going to lose its appeal, it's going to slow down and eventually it is going to disappear. Some of them don't have the nerves and they don't have the courage to say it in public but in their own close door intimate sessions that's what they would express in their own way i.e. "this concept of Wilayah Al Faqih or the ruling of the jurisprudence scholar is unwarranted and unwanted. It's something that is alien to who we are." This is one type of people who want to take away the thunder from this success.

 

The other type is the type that actually doesn't belong, in a fiqhi way, inside the context in which this major success took place thirty five years ago. These are people who have become, as a result of this revolution conscious of their Sunnism. They consider themselves Sunnis. Never before have they thought about a Sunni and a Shi'i but all of a sudden now they are hypersensitive against Shi'is not because of the fiqh that Shi'is have because they've had this for over a thousand years. They lived with it. They had no problems with it. Why has Shi'ism become a problem in these thirty five years and before that it was not a problem? So they also want to empty our souls from the courage to celebrate this success from Allah and they throw at it every type of fanatical, disgusting, foul language. Then some of them have a little more sophisticated approach and they want to try and say "this is a type of Shi'i colonialism that is going to take over the Muslim world." Nonsense of course but that's how they think and that's how they want you and me and the other Muslim to be excluded from at least participating in our minds and in our hearts with a success. You know success now is not easy. Victory doesn't come to the Muslims in an easy way. Look at North Africa (and) what they call "the Arab spring" and what's been happening in the past three or four years. It's not easy to have a victory and when we have one they want to distract us from it.

 

Then there's another type. We go back to those who come from, (let us call them the Iranian Shi'i context), and some of them early on were ardent supporters (and) fervent supporters of this Islamic nasr from Allah. They were at the battle fronts. Some of them considered themselves mental warriors. They were writing and expressing themselves in support of this nasr and it's only a matter of less than twenty years… About ten or fifteen years ago they began to abandon this. Some of them have popped up here in the United States. You'll find some of them in universities, some of them in think-tanks, some of them in Masajid and they are working on the side that wants to stifle and wants to terminate the Islamic success of thirty five years. We could give you names. (If) people want to know individuals by names, there are names out there and this is a real development in life. We're not creating something from our own minds. Our imagination is not taking us in different directions. No! These are facts. And you can find other categories that want to empty the Islamic success of thirty five years of its contents. Then all of a sudden (its) as if the Iran of prior to thirty five years doesn't exist because it becomes troublesome for them to compare the Islamic achievement of thirty five years to the non achievement of the previous centuries. This becomes problematic. How do you want us to look at Iran during the time of the Shah and then look at Iran after him? How do you want us to do something like this? Why? What's wrong with you? Don't you have a thinking mind? If you want to be fair to the subject that is what you have to do. What was the Shahenshahi Iran? Here's some of its features. First of all, this regime that was uprooted from that land thirty five years ago, was in a guerrilla warfare in the Arabian Peninsula. There was a rebellion in Dhufaar in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula- today it is called the nation state of Oman. In the early 1970's there was a serious rebellion. (There was) about two thousand rebels who were fighting against the government in Muscat. The Shah sent to the Arabian Peninsula- that today doesn't have one Iranian military personnel in it- twelve thousand of his troops to southern Arabia, to Oman to Hadhramawt to Dhufaar. Why don't you resurrect that fact? These people who are saying "the Islamic republic of Iran is a threat to you" why don't you compare it to your buddy-buddy the six feet under Shah when he had twelve thousand of his troops fighting in this rebellion. "Oh, don't remind them of that!" That spooks them out! It scares them because it's going to disrupt their formula that "the Islamic revolution and the Islamic leadership today is a threat to them." It's not a threat. It doesn't have one private in the Arabian Peninsula. The Shah of Iran was the buddy-buddy friend of Sadat of Egypt and the government of Iran gave the Egyptian government- both of them, mind you, are Zionist offshoots. Both Cairo and Tehran in the 1960's and 1970's were taking their orders from Tel Aviv and from Washington. The government of Iran gave the government of Egypt- of course, with the blessings of Tel Aviv and Washington- $1billion. Some of the German made Iranian assembled buses were given to Egypt as a gesture of goodwill and friendship and all of this other stuff. Then- listen to this little detail that barely anyone mentions- in this good climate (of) Sadat of Egypt and the Shah of Iran when Iranian tourists in the 1970's before the revolution wanted to go to Egypt the Iranian ministry of tourism was concerned (with) "why go and spend your money in Egyptian night life and not spend it in Iranian nightlife?" Oh that doesn't ruffle any feathers! The moralists out of Arabia have forgotten these types of details. The Iranians wanted concessions in the time of the Shah in the Suez Canal. They wanted an actual presence in the Suez Canal and there was no fuss! Go and review all of the media (and) all of the newspapers of the Arabian regimes, especially the ones in the Arabian Peninsula, to see if there was any objection to the presence of Iranians during the time of the Shah in the Suez Canal. Bur Sa'id- not a word. Nothing! Today they come and they tell you "not to speak about the cosy relationship between the Shah and the Zionists" while this barbaric regime of the Shah had thousands and tens of thousands of individuals behind bars being tortured. Torture in the days of the Shah was legendary (and) not to be forgotten are those Savak agents who would torture a four month old baby in front of his own mother and father behind bars to a degree that a father would say "I wish I had a knife to kill my own baby so that my baby is not tortured this much." Should we go through the details of the torture chambers of the Shah and the Israeli security contingency he had around him? The numbers differ from seven hundred to twelve thousand. In the time of the Shah when Jimmy Carter was saying "the Shah is my best friend" the Manchester Guardian said "the Southern part of Tehran is one of the most poverty stricken areas in the world." You go to Southern Tehran now, after these thirty five years of building and construction, and see what the difference is between now, today and then, yesteryear. Only people who are blind in their minds and blind in their hearts are turning their backs on this struggle and on this sacrifice of thirty five years that came as a result of a leadership of an Imam in his own right and some Muslims are incapable of speaking about this. They want to whisper "oh you want to speak about Iran, let's speak about it just among ourselves. Don't say any of this in public. Don't express this in a khutbah." What's wrong? We're not sacrificing. Does anyone see any blood flowing? Does anyone see any tears, any sweat, anything? Nothing! How many tears how much blood and sweat went into this revolution and people now want to take a step back and say "now is not the time to talk." What do you do in a khutbah? You stand up and remain silent?! What do you do when you speak about this? This is an occasion to do with the 22^nd of Bahman. Bahman is coming in a few days. What do you want? People to stand in a Masjid, in a certain lecture hall, in a community centre, whatever (and) you want them to speak about this revolution in a roundabout manner?! They go round in vicious circles saying nothing? Without producing the facts and letting the facts speak for themselves?

… and on that day the committed Muslims will rejoice (or) will be happy about Allah's victory… (Surah Ar Rum verse 4-5)

We had, you had, everyone who considers himself or herself a part of this effort has every right to rejoice on this occasion but don't let it get to your ego. If it goes that far you've violated the conditions and the definitions of Allah.

 

Dear committed brothers and sisters…

The new type of warfare that has taken a horrible toll on we, the Muslims as a whole, regardless of our backgrounds, our affiliations, our schools of thought (and) our persuasions (and) the new strategy to try to have us bleed to death is this sectarianism. There is a media industry that is churning out sectarian, (calling them ideas is too much), notions that will put into the heart of different Muslims the hatred and the hostilities against each other. This is the new strategy that is being pursued with treasuries and finances galore so that a Muslim Sunni hates a Muslim Shi'i and a Muslim Shi'i hates a Muslim Sunni. If this idea or if this strategy, may Allah forbid, takes hold that would mean that we would have lost a generation for no good reason. At the end of the day after the fighting and the killing is finished we will wake up and say "what did we do to ourselves? What happened to us? Why did we fall into this trap?" It's the nature of these Shayateen. People now take the example of the mother regime that rules in Arabia. It is busy promoting the idea "the other Muslim is a Kafir" and therefore it is offering rational weapons for the use of military weapons so that Muslims kill themselves. Their king in the past couple of days came out and said "if those who are fighting a jihad in countries outside of the kingdom are apprehended, they shall be punished with a sentence between three years to twenty years behind bars." And you see contradictory kingdom! (There's) a religious establishment that is fermenting sectarianism and a political establishment that is trying to deal with the consequences. This kingdom is not bothered (and) is not moved that it has islands that is occupied by the Israelis but it is disturbed and it is formulating that "there are three islands in the Persian Gulf that are occupied by Iran." When are these contradictions going to bring down this Arabian monstrosity?

 

One of the news items in the past week (says) "It happened to be raining and one of the Mu'adh'dhins, i.e. the person who ascends the minaret and says the adhan over an amplifier or a loud speaker, said in the adhan after hayya alal falah pray in your quarters or homes."  Then all of a sudden there was this exchange of opinions left and right, pro and con and it turns out that deep down inside the books of hadith it actually happened during the time of Allah's Prophet that that was said in the adhan. The only difference is that some literalists say "you can only say it in salah al maghrib because that's when it was said during the time of the Prophet" and those who are not literalists said "no. It doesn't matter whatever salah it is. As long as the condition (i.e.) hazardous conditions out there you can say it in the adhan." Its one of these, (what they call), sunnah maitah or dead sunnah that the person just wanted to bring alive and then they begin this back and forth discussion that borders as usual, in their minds, on the parameters of kufr. This is the type of people (and) the type of system that has been poisoning our lives! A dead sunnah is not allowed to come back! A dead spirit is not allowed to be resuscitated. A dead struggle is not allowed to take its course. Our joy and our happiness will be complete when this regime that occupies Makkah and Al Madinah follows the regime of the Shah and the rest of the regimes that are prisons for the Muslims.

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 7 February 2014 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C. The Imam previously led the daily and Jum'ah prayers inside the Masjid. His speeches were revolutionary and thought provoking, and eventually irritated and threatened the Middle-East Ambassadors who control the Masjid. Finally, the Imam, his family, and /other Muslims faithful to the course of Islam were forced out, into the streets. This khutbah originates from the sidewalk across the street from the Islamic Center, currently under seige. 

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Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni KHUTBAH : THE MUSLIM AND THE OTHER-YAHUD

 

THE STREET MMBAR JUM'AH KHUTBAH (14 February 2014) webpage: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=182501078290&ref=ts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_street_mimbar/ PLEASE e-mail Suggestions & Criticisms to khutbahs@yahoo.com It is in such a manner that We make plain Our signs so that the course of the Criminals may become clear.

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…

 

Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/334661 (01-31-2014)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUKKM96QDPk

 

THE MUSLIM AND THE OTHER-YAHUD

On this day of taqwa when saying the truth has become a rare occasion we'll dedicate this jum'ah to what may probably become a series of jum'ah khutbahs concerning the Muslim i.e. ourselves and the other (i.e.) those who don't consider themselves or don't define themselves as Muslims. We will begin by saying, (and we've said this before but we reckon it needs a little more emphasis), that in our Islam there are two components that don't conflict with each other. One of them is an inclusive component- we invite all others to this open book and to this open message and we encounter this invitation in certain words in the Qur'an

Yaa Ayyuha An Naas, Yaa Ahl Al Kitab, Yaa Bani Adam... All of these and others are inclusive invitations to humanity with its different segments and different times- that's one component we have. Another component is a component that makes us who we are. We are distinguished from others.

… It is He who has named you Muslims… (Surah Al Hajj verse 78)

Yaa Ayyuhalladhina Aamanu… So there is something called committed Muslims and then there are others in this world who are not. (Its) a fact of life. By the way, out of this comes this orientalist, colonialist mindset that saw these two elements in Islam and they worked on them. They worked on the inclusiveness of the Muslims and out of that came out things like the Baha'is and the Qadiyanis. "Oh yeah we can deal with other people. Fine. We are one big happy human family and all of this." But what makes you who you are as a Muslim went under the bus! That got trampled (so) there's nothing that distinguishes you as an individual from the other. These orientalists and colonialists who studied Islam didn't study it with their heart, they studied it with their greed and they said "oh there is something distinguishable about you. We'll concentrate that. So it is only you and then to the extreme that even other Muslims are not Muslims." (You) see how they worked on this? So out of this comes what they call al fi'ah an naji'ah and you know Islam is going to deteriorate or is going to fractionize into seventy three different components all of them are in the fire except those who the British orchestrated (i.e.) these holier than thous in the Arabian Peninsula- one time under the designation of Wahabis, another time under the name of Salafis and on and on. They are the only true Muslims in the world and everyone else is a Kafirs. (Do) you see how they worked on these two extremes? In the middle of this we, who are in the majority of Muslims, did not catch on to what they are doing to us and they did this with our own hands. They convinced some of us this is what Allah, His Prophet (and) His message is all about and these people are convinced- don't question their conviction and don't question their lack of doubt about who they are.

 

Now we make a transition to an area that hasn't been covered thoroughly and with confidence by Muslims who should know better. We say ash hadu an laa Ilaha illa Allah. Yahud say ash hadu an laa Ilaha illa Allah but there's two different psychologies lurking behind these words. These are words- anyone can say it. You can give it to a machine it will spit it out for you in words, you can give it to parrots and they will imitate your words! As far as words are concerned, words really have no practical dimension to them until we, with our thinking minds, are involved with the meanings of these words; that's when these words have connotations to them and denotations to them and meanings to them. So what do you say when Muslims come and say nash hadu an laa Ilaha illa Allah and Jews come and say nash hadu an laa Ilaha illa Allah?You would think "hey wait a minute here- we have a lot of common ground. This is the basic issue around which history circulates." There is only one authority and they agree to this." This issue that Yahud are aware of not many Muslims are aware of even though they are repeating the same words! (If you) come and say "authority belongs to Allah, the law giver is Allah" you would think there is a lot (of common ground). If there's this type of common ground between Muslims and Yahud then why is this world at war? (Its) because of the positions of Muslims on one side and the Yahud on the other side. They tell you, (this is what the media says), "it's all about the occupation of Palestine. This is where both sides are at odds with each other and at blows with each other. The issue of the occupation of Palestine." Obviously that is a very important issue but there's a psychology behind the occupation of Palestine and this psychology is one of those who are inclusive and those who are exclusive. Let us rephrase that- the psychology that pits one side against the other is not only because the Holy Land is occupied but because scripture is occupied! At Torah is occupied! Musa (alayhi as salaam) is occupied! These people who are doing the military occupation come and say to you and to us and to the rest of the world "Musa is ours." They're not only saying "Palestine is ours" they're also saying before that and during that and after that "Musa is ours." If we had thinking minds we would stand up and say wait a minute here- what do you mean? Come, can we look at your words of scripture and we look at our words of scripture and we see where Musa is in the middle of this? They want to own everything. Now they want to own Musa. We just want to go through some ayaat in the Qur'an and see why is there a reason why Yahud should hate Muslims. If they say they belong to Musa what do Muslims say about Musa? Allah is saying this and He is saying this to Musa

I have placed upon you an affection from Myself or a love for you so that you are going to be made with My own eye or My own supervision or you are going to be custom made by Me. (Surah Ta-ha verse 39)

If a Yahudi in his true mind is listening to this- and we're sure they have their scholars who read this but they want to bury it in the public mind- they say "wait a minute here- Muslims honour Musa." What is there if we go to the roots of this psychology or these two psychology that would make a Yahudi an enemy of the Muslim when the Muslims are repeating and reciting these ayaat in their salah and in their approach to Allah?

 

In Surah Maryam, another ayah that raises the status of Musa to an intimate, a Prophet, a Messenger, an Apostle

And We brought him into a close confidential relationship. (Surah Maryam verse 51-52)

If a Yahudi says "he belongs to Musa" and he reads what a Muslim is saying about Musa why does he hate a Muslim? Why do they kill us? Why is there policies of warfare and genocide in the Holy Land?

 

Another ayah in Surah An Nisa'

And Allah spoke to Musa in words. (Surah An Nisa' verse 164)

We have in our Islamic historical literature Musa kaleemullah. No other Prophet is like that. We honour this in Musa. Quote this ayah for Yahud and say what's wrong with you? Why is there this animosity that you show towards us when Musa has this status of honour in our souls and in our minds?

 

Another ayah in Surah Al A'raf

Oh Musa, I have selected you in exception to all other people with My messages and with My words. (Surah Al A'raf verse 144)

You tell us- if the Yahudi other is listening to this why should he show this type of worldwide hostility pronounced in policies, in the media, in academics, in the courts? Everywhere you look they show this raw hatred towards Muslims who are in honour of Musa more than they are in honour of Musa.

 

In Surah An Nisa'

And We have given Moses evident authority. (Surah An Nisa' verse 153)

 

Other ayaat in Surah Ta-ha from twenty five to thirty six, (some of you hear this a lot of times). The long and short of this without going into a word by word translation is Musa is asking Allah for assistance. First of all he's asking Allah for clear communication with his people, then he's asking Him for his assistance of his brother. Then Allah says you have been granted everything you have asked for. 

Oh Musa, I have selected you in exception to all other people with My messages and with My words. (Surah Ta-ha verse 25-36)

 

In Surah As Saffaat

Peace be upon Moses and Aron. It is in such a way We compensate those who seek to do better. Both of them are from our committed servants. (Surah As Saffaat verse 120-122)

 

In Surah Al Qassas

She said: My father have him work for us to be compensated because the best choice is a person of strength and a person of trustworthiness, (in reference to Musa). (Surah Al Qassas verse 26)

 

These ayaat can go on and on. There's plenty others (that) we have here. The point is very clear. When you read these ayaat you know that Musa is not a Prophet that is possessed by a people! We don't want to hear, be it in some type of auction session, we respect Musa more than some of these Yahudis respect him. The Qur'an speaks for itself. If these Zionists of today who have hijacked the Jewish faith had an inkling of wisdom in them they would refer to the sources and to the reference of who we as Muslims through our noble Qur'an. Refer to that and see where we stand on the issue and if there is a common ground- and there is a common ground- then why do they face us with their bombers and with their tanks and with their artillery and with warfare from season to season and from year to year? These are not only words. Take the time when the Prophet went to Al Madinah. When the document of Madinah was drawn up- its called As Sahifah or Al Kitab of Al Madinah- and when it was signed by Allah's Prophet and by Al Yahud it was made up of fifty odd articles. Out of those, fourteen pertained to the Yahudi community who were inhabitants of Al Madinah. In it the words stated Yahud are a nation with the committed Muslims. What more recognition do they want? Here they are, they have their autonomy, they can go by their rules and their laws, they can practice their Jewish faith exactly as they understand it to be practised- that was guaranteed to them. Their rights and their obligations were guaranteed to them in this document of Al Madinah. They had freedom of belief, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly; all the freedoms that the committed Muslims had they had. We're going to read a particular paragraph in this document of Al Madinah which proves that Muslims honoured Yahud in as far as autonomy can go. For anyone now in the trouble making arena of thoughts who come and say "Muslims have it in their Book or in the teachings of their Prophet that they are hostile to Jews" tell them you are a liar. Even if they take some part of this khutbah out of context (or) they will take some sentences out of this khutbah  and say "look, how hostile Muslims are towards Jews." That's how they work! This practical document of Al Madinah  guaranteed freedom and equality and pluralism, (remember, these are the magical words of today's political science), they had it but what happened after this? What happened is a matter of history. What happened is Yahud took the wrong side in the Mushriks of Makkah and Arabia wars against the Muslims of Al Madinah and Al Hejaz. They signed on to an agreement that they and the committed Muslims together are going to be supportive of each other. They turned their back on that and became supportive of the Mushriks at the most critical time when the Muslims were living, (and this is the word that they use today in their media), an existential threat. In Al Ahzab all the forces of Arabia put together all their potential and they besieged Al Madinah. In the middle of all of that how did Yahud behave? Instead of honouring the document of Al Madinah and being supportive of the Muslims they turned supportive of the Mushriks at a time that is described in Allah's words in Surah Al Ahzaab. The days of high treason of Yahud are put into these ayaat.

As they are coming at you, O committed Muslims, from high positions and from near positions and when you began to have double vision and you couldn't see straight because of the fear and because of the threat and your hearts jumped up to your throats … (Surah Al Ahzaab verse 10-11)

This is experienced by people who are gripped by panic and threats and intimidation and fear and terror. This is how Muslims felt.

… and you, the committed Muslims, began to have doubts about Allah… (Surah Al Ahzaab verse 10-11)

This is how significant the threats was.

… it was there that the committed Muslims were put to the test and these committed Muslims came to tremble in a magnitude equivalent to the earth when it has its earthquake. (Surah Al Ahzaab verse 10-11)

(In) those days (and) those weeks Yahud turned their backs on the Muslim state that was protecting them (and) that was guaranteeing their rights, their obligations, their freedoms, their civil rights, their natural rights and their political rights. This is how they behaved! You would think they stopped there? No! They haven't stopped. They didn't stop there. When Yahud lost its position in Al Madinah their extension in Khaybar told the Mushriks in Makkah you can have the revenue of our agriculture to support your warfare against the Muslims in Al Madinah. In other words, Yahud knew militarily they were no match so now they were offering the Mushriks their finances and their economies in this life and death war between the Mushriks in Makkah and the Muslims of Al Madinah. These Mushriks even went to Yahud, O Yahud, you are the first people of scripture and knowledge, you know the difference between us and Muhammad; is our deen better or his deen? Yahud said your deen is better than his deen. You are on the side of the truth.

Then Allah reveals

Are you not aware of those who, after being given their share of the divine Writ, (now) commit to baseless mysteries and the powers of evil, and maintain that those who are bent on denying the truth are more surely guided than those who have committed to Allah?. (Surah An Nisa' verse 51)

It's true that- not because of their belief (and) not because of their creed, not because of their convictions- they had to dislocate outside of the Arabian Peninsula because of their economic, military and political engagements with the Mushriks and the treason that they committed that they had to leave. It's not that Muslims don't tolerate Yahud among them! Here we are on record saying you have all the autonomy in the world to live in freedom and equality and recognition among us but their psychology as we said is a different psychology. They turned the other way. They turned hostile. As we said, these are two different psychologies. Where do you find it? You find the most orthodox, in today's Judaic context, or the most liberal in today's context (but) can you find among them those who will come to you- the reader of the Qur'an and the creature of the Qur'an- and say "yes, my God. Look at how these verses in the Qur'an speak the truth about us (and) the facts about Musa, about Bani Isra'eel?" Will you find (it)? Is there any reciprocity here? Here we are giving high grade (and) high status- not because it's us; this book is from Allah and it honours the Prophets of Allah and it honours the societies that championed the Prophets of Allah. So we are there. Can you find any trace of this on their side that reciprocates what we have? This is the problem. The problem is not only occupying lands, the problem is also occupying scripture (and) occupying minds. That's where the problem is in its origins. Are there any Muslims who are up to the task to bring this out and place it in the light of day?

 

Brothers and sisters…

Our khutbah is not about polemics, it is not about a pie in the sky issue, it is trying to approximate the truth to the reality of the world that we all share- that's the function and the nature of our life. We don't live in a dream world, we don't live in our imagination- this is a real world. There is pain, there is death, there is suffering. This is the real world. There are individuals (and) there are systems that are behind all of this. When we mentioned the social behaviour of Yahud fourteen hundred years ago we remind you of their social behaviour currently along with the Mushriks. (Do) you think the Mushriks in Arabia don't have the same type of relationships with the Zionists of today? Take another look! Observe how they take their ques, they take their advice, they take their policies and they take their strategies from these Yahud. These wars that are claiming the lives of hundreds of people everyday are not acts of nature. A war just doesn't happen like an earthquake happens. Wars are things that are planned (and) thought out by men. There's a lot of input into a war before the first shot and in this regard we have these Mushriks in Arabia- we know some people are going to say "these are loaded words." We don't say these are Mushriks because of some beliefs they have- they share the same beliefs that we have; besides, don't Yahud share the same article of faith that we share? They say "we bear witness that there is no God except He" but look at their psychology. This Bandar guy used to be the Ambassador here in Washington DC and we are told "he is somewhere here in the United States. He's depressed, he's psychologically unfit and he has this lower back disc pain that he suffers from since the reported crash that he had when he was in the air force." This person is behind all of these (internal Islamic wars). He is like the Yahudi who was coordinating the war against the Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula fourteen hundred years ago (and) bringing the Mushriks together. Well, now he has his echo in this world but this time it is a Mushrik who is trying to coordinate the worldwide effort against Islamic self-determination. What's wrong? Why can't Muslims use the word Islamic self-determination in the khutbah on Fridays? Hands off Islamic lands! Hands off Islamic peoples! Hands off Islamic resources! You can't say that from the Mimbar?! Why? Because psychologically you are occupied! You are inferior in your mind with the ideas you have! You are a junior (and) you have your seniors who give you green lights and yellow lights and red lights. You're not a man of your own! So these things happen and the Masajid of the world are silent and their silence is deadly because it contributes to the mayhem and the massacres in the world today. Ninety per cent of it in our own original territories and homelands and we still can't speak truth to power? What have we become! 

 

This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 31 January 2014 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C. The Imam previously led the daily and Jum'ah prayers inside the Masjid. His speeches were revolutionary and thought provoking, and eventually irritated and threatened the Middle-East Ambassadors who control the Masjid. Finally, the Imam, his family, and /other Muslims faithful to the course of Islam were forced out, into the streets. This khutbah originates from the sidewalk across the street from the Islamic Center, currently under seige.

 

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