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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)
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 22nd 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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