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SPECIAL AL QUDS DAY KHUTBAH (13 July 2014)

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Assalaamualaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakaatuh

We desire to expand and build on the designation of the day of Al Quds (designated by the late Imam Al Khomeini to be commemorated on the last Friday of Ramadhan in recognition of the suffering meted out to the Palestinians and the oppressed peoples of the world), and will be insha'Allah be running a weekly additional Khutbah on Al Quds. We pray that Allah raises the awareness of people regarding the suffering of the people of Quds and the other oppressed peoples so that the designation of the last Friday to ensconce the realities in the lives of oppressed people in our minds will culminate into a daily occurrence.

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RAMADHAN JOURNEY PART 26 – AL QUDS DAY

Afeef: Asalamualaykum and welcome to Ramadhan Journey. I'm your host Afeef Khan and our travel companion is Imam Muhammad Al Asi. He is the author of The Ascendant Qur'an and currently we are through seven volumes in print and we expect that by the end of the year insha'Allah we will have up to ten volumes in print. The last volume will be up through the end of Surah Al Maa'idah. We expect that most of the discussions and most of the information that have taken place and that are going to take place is contained in The Ascendant Qur'an. So if you would like to look at any of these things in more detail and go in more depth with regard to any of these discussions please feel free to pick up your own copies of The Ascendant Qur'an. Today is Yawm Al Quds. We're going to explore why this particular day is important in Ramadhan. We have Imam Muhammad Al Asi who is going to help us understand the importance of that day. Imam, welcome.

Imam: Alhamdulillah.

Afeef: Could you go into the historical origins of Yawn Al Quds?

Imam Al Asi: Yawm Al Quds was designated by the late Imam Khomeini (may Allah rest his soul in peace) as being the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadhan. Yawm Al Quds means the global day of Jerusalem. Yawm Al Quds is observed by many Muslims around the world who are concerned- we mean seriously concerned, not just verbally and rhetorically but by action and deed, by strategy and by careful planning- with the liberation of Al Quds, Jerusalem and the Holy Land altogether- liberating every inch it from Zionist occupation. There are demonstrations and protests held around the world dedicated to this day in which Muslims and also non-Muslims, Palestinians and non-Palestinians- Muslims, Christians and Jews participate in expressing their will towards the eventual and climactic liberation of Jerusalem and Palestine. Yawm Al Quds is a day that was located at the end of the month of Ramadhan. The last Jum'ah in the month of Ramadhan falls in the special last ten days of the month of Ramadhan. These are the ten days of i'tikaf. I'tikaf is a time period that is set aside voluntarily by individuals who want to devote the nights of those last ten days to a heightened consciousness of Allah's power and His authority. So Yawm Al Quds falls in that stretch of days. Yawm Al Quds also happens to be in the vicinity of what many Muslims consider to be Laylat Al Qadr, the night of power or the night of divine calculation. According to many scholars, it falls somewhere on one night of those last ten nights of Ramadhan. Some of these scholars scrutinised the issue even more and said "it's towards the end of those last ten nights rather than towards the beginning" but this is not the time to go into any details. So Yawm Al Quds is located in that time frame.

Afeef: So as far as the responsibility of the average Muslim on this day- he or she is expected to participate in these demonstrations or if there's not one in your city then perhaps to organise one to bring attention to the occupation of the holy land.

Imam Al Asi: Of course, there's no statement about Yawm Al Quds per se in the Qur'an or in the Sunnah. You won't come across something telling you this is Yawm Al Quds in a hadith or in an ayah. What you will find in the ayaat and the ahadith are meanings and orientations towards the liberation of Al Quds and Palestine. So this is a procedural matter. If a Muslim wants to obey Allah and has his attention focused on the future culmination of Islamic efforts to liberate Palestine then there has to be some involvement in this and Yawm Al Quds is one such involvement and it should not be limited to Yawm Al Quds. The more the merrier! If there are other days in the year that are dedicated to liberating Palestine, whether it is on the popular level as Yawm Al Quds is or on many other spheres in life- there's an academic sphere, there's a military sphere, there's a civil sphere; there's many spheres and if there's some one else or some other leader who wants to dedicate some other day or some other time for this purpose I think it would reinforce and it would echo the meanings of Yawm Al Quds.

Afeef: In a certain sense, for much of the occupation in the very beginning Palestine for most of those decades was just a forgotten issue. The whole subject in so far as its liberation is concerned was coterminous with the initiation of a day like Yawm Al Quds. Imam, could you explain to us why the liberation of Palestine is such an important part of Islamic self awareness and Islamic self determination. As you know, the land of Palestine, the Holy land, has been occupied for over six decades. Why haven't we Muslims been able to liberate it for all this time.

Imam Al Asi: To answer that type of question reference should be made to the first verses in Surah Bani Isra'eel, the seventeenth surah in the Qur'an- known by some as Surah Al Isra', The Night Journey or The Seniority. In these ayaat there's an outline of the ideological dynamics and the political dynamics that will inter-play between Muslims who understand their Islam beyond just the performance of rituals into the ideological and political sphere of human activity and the types of Jews who extend the political definitions of themselves into also the ideological and the political sphere. I can't go through these ayaat because it will take time to quote them and it will take time to translate them- suffice here to say that anyone who wants further information should refer to these ayaat in Surah Al Isra'. Hopefully they'll have a more or less accurate translation because I want to caution the readers that many of these translations are not as accurate as they should be. In those seven or eight ayaat they will find this information that pertains to do with the culminating effects of the clash of the two wills, (i.e.), the ideological political expression of Islam on one side and then the ideological and political expression Judaism on the other side. The portion of this segment of the ayah or the sentence in these ayaat that I'm referring to that zeros in to the question that you posed is saying

… when the last time comes to pass… (Surah Al Isra' verse 7)

Because previously Allah spoke about Bani Isra'eel and their history with Jerusalem and the Holy land. So here we're reaching the last cycle or the last portion of their history with the Holy land so He says

… when the final promise comes to pass they, meaning Allah's committed subjects in reference to the committed Muslims, will disgrace your faces…

The committed Muslims will disgrace the committed Zionists faces

… and they, meaning the committed Muslims, will enter into the Masjid… (Surah Al Isra' verse 7)

This is in reference to Al Masjid Al Aqsa in Jerusalem, the first Qiblah, the third Haram of the Muslims, the third sanctuary.

… they're going enter this sanctuary the same way they entered it the first time…(Surah Al Isra' verse 7)

So this tells us there's a clash of wills here between the Zionists that happen to be (Jewish). I mean not every Jew is a Zionist in the sense that is expressed by the Israeli nation state but those who fall into this definition which has become a monopoly of the Israeli nation state that say "they speak for all the Jews and they have this military and they have plans right now on confiscating Al Haram Ash Sharif (or) the area in which Al Masjid Al Aqsa is on." As we speak there are attempts to partition the place (and) make a portion of it accessible for Muslims (and) another portion of it accessible to Jews. There are tunnels that are being built beneath the structure of Al Masjid Al Aqsa that have the omen of causing the collapse of Al Masjid Al Aqsa so these are conflagration issues that will bring the committed Muslims and the committed Zionist Jews into this type of the end of days confrontation.

Afeef: In the next segment we're going to try to look at what the meaning of Zionism is. It was briefly referenced here that not all Jews belong to that particular ideology. We're going to try to understand what that means. We'd like you to come back. Please take this break with our sponsors. Stay tuned.

Afeef: We're talking about Yawm al Quds (and) the occupation of Palestine. Could you go briefly into what the meaning of Zionism is and what that has to do with the occupation of the Holy land. We understand that it's a political ideology that is very akin to Imperialism; so can you help us understand a little bit better. You suggested in the last segment that not all Jews belong to it. There's only certain kinds of Jews that have committed to this ideological orientation. Could you help us better understand this?

Imam Al Asi: Zionism, as it turns out to be, is a racist, expansionist, miliratist occupation of the Holy land. It was presented, at the beginning, "as being an ideological shelter for Jews who have been living in their history in a Diaspora. They have no homeland of their own. They are scattered among the nations of the world. They have been subjected to ghetto life, discriminated against, oppressed in certain places…"

Afeef: Is this mostly their European experience?

Imam Al Asi: Mostly it is European. As a matter of fact the Jews who were living in the Muslim parts of the world experienced the least type of discrimination or prejudice in the social sphere, in their civic lives. As a matter of fact, when Muslims were thriving in Andalusia in Iberia, what is today called Spain and Portugal, the Jews were also thriving along with the Muslims and the Christians. It was like a high point even by the recognition of many Jewish historians. It was one of the peaking periods in Jewish history.

Afeef: Bani Isra'eel goes back along way. Does Zionism also go back thousands of years? Or does it just have precursors then or is it just a phenomenon of modernity?

Imam Al Asi: Well, the notion of Zionism which is to the return of Zion. Zionism is taken from the word Zion and Zion is one of the hills or mountains in the area of Jerusalem so that yearning for the return to Zion has always been there. It's historical and it's contemporary. It's just what do you mean by that exactly and how do you play this out? It's very unfortunate for the Jewish people in the world that just like the Palestinians have been occupied by a militant Zionism- mistreated, abused, suffering from a Diaspora of their own, the prejudice, the discrimination; all of the ailments and all of the ills that the Jews have been complaining of in their history they, in the form of Zionist Israel, have inflicted them in a concentrated and multiplied manner on the Palestinian population and the adjacent territories there- so just like Zionism has occupied the Holy land and Palestine militarily it has occupied the Jewish context ideologically and mentally. So Zionism has inflicted harm on the Palestinians and it has inflicted harm on the Jews themselves and in this interplay, as odd as it may sound, but there hasn't been enough communication among the victims of Zionism who are Jews, Christians and Muslims to get their act together and then resolve to finish off this oppressive and this racist regime that rules in Jerusalem and in Palestine altogether.

Afeef: Are some of the victims of Zionism, as you said, Christians? Are they just Palestinian Christians or are they also American Christians? Are they victims of Zionism also?

Imam Al Asi: Of course they are. The practitioners of Zionism in the Jewish religious garb- if you really think and read closely the literature that goes back and forth between Christians and Jews- I think there is more animosity by Zionist Jews towards Christians than there is towards Muslims. One of the recommendations for an observing Zionist Jew is that if he passes by a church it is recommended that he spit on that church or on the side walk of the church. I don't know of an equivalent pertaining to Muslims (and) if they are passing by a Masjid they would do such a thing to a Masjid. This has its historical origins and it has its details in the conflicting type of history surrounding the advent of Jesus the son of Mary (alayhima as salaam). So there's a lot of tension here but the way the political world is set up is that there is a common purpose between Zionism and Imperialism and therefore some Christians have become Zionists themselves and so they have an umbrella of protection. We haven't found this to happen in the Islamic context therefore most of the hope for the liberation of Palestine as the world is today doesn't lie in the Christian world it lies in the Islamic world.

Afeef: Thank you for this explanation. We ran out of time in this program. Obviously in regard to this subject, (i.e.), the Holy land, Palestine, Zionism. It perhaps could have taken up all thirty programs in Ramadhan. It is such a big subject. We are just unfortunate that we are only able to devote one program to it. We hope that you come back for the future programs. We only have a few left. Same channel, same time. We hope to see you again tomorrow.

As Salaamualaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh

This program was aired on ITV and was hosted by Afeef Khan with guest Imam Muhammad Al Asi. 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. The khutbahs originates from the sidewalk across the street from the Islamic Center, currently under seige.

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