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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 Muslims…
Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/346719 (08-15-2014)
TAKFIR- INTERNAL IGNORANCE PLUS EXTERNAL INTRIGUE
One of the most dangerous developments in the time frame that we are in is the animosity in some places; in other places it is just hatred that Muslims have towards other Muslims to the degree that they begin to kill each other. This is a fact that we are living. It's not something that we're reading about, it's not something that is historical and has no presence in our lives. It's claiming hundreds and thousands of lives every day and every week and all of this rationalization for a Muslim becoming an enemy of another Muslim in contravention and contradiction to the ayah
Oh you who are securely committed to Allah, guard against or be warned against His corrective power presence as is due to Him and do not expire except in a state of submission and surrender to the only Power, Authority and Divinity that is legitimate. And hold firm to Allah's binding matter all of you- no exceptions- and be not divided; and bare in mind Allah's provision, favour and privilege upon you when you, who are now Committed Muslims, were once enemies of each other and then He reconciled your hearts and familiarized and acquainted you with each other and then, due to this provision, favour and privilege you became brethren of each other; you were on the edge of a pit of fire and Allah saved you from it; it is with this is mind and with understanding these dynamics and factors that Allah is going to guide us. (Surah Aal Imran verse 102-103)
As is the case with the conditioned inability to think through what Allah is telling us listen carefully to how the first ayah is worded. It says
Oh you who are secure in your commitment to Allah be on guard against Allah's present corrective power as is due to Him and don't die except in a state when you are submissive to Him. (Surah Aal Imran verse 102)
The ayah began with Ya Ayyuha Alladhina Aamanu and it ended with illa wa antum Muslimun. It didn't end like it began it didn't end saying illa wa antum Mu'minun. This is a release (and) out of expression of Allah's mercy and grace He expects us to pass on from this life in a state of submission to Him. This submission could be just words. A person just saying "I submit to Allah"- that's enough Allah is not requiring you and me and anyone who is approaching his final minute in life, by this ayah, to part with this life and go unto Him as Mu'minin (or) as committed Muslims. Of course, He expects that from us but out of His mercy if we can't meet that high standard at least we part from this life as being Muslims. There's a difference between Al Mu'minin and Al Muslimin and this difference is expressed in another ayah. The prior ayah was around one hundred in Surah Aal Imran. This following ayah that fine tunes our minds to the difference between iman and Islam says
The primitive Arabians say we are committed to Allah… … (Surah Al Hujurat verse 14)
Allah knows that's not the case so He corrects them. Allah says to His Prophet
… say to them you have not committed yourselves to Allah, rather say we have submitted (i.e.) our civic character is one of submission but you have not proved the higher responsibility of iman (and) you have not show that you are in this higher category of iman… … (Surah Al Hujurat verse 14)
So now with this little background information we take a leap forward into the mentality of those who are saying "so and so Muslim is a Kafir." What they do is they build an argument on that that becomes in their territory of control a rationalization for killing the other Muslim which has no basis in the Qur'an or in the Sunnah. There's an ayah in Surah An Nisa' that speaks about individuals
… who are at one time committed to Allah and in another time in denial of Allah then they go back to committing themselves to Allah then they go back to denying Allah and they die in a state of denial. (Surah An Nisa' verse 137)
The reason why these Takfiris are getting away with slaughter, civil war (and) the killing of innocent people is because we have absented our minds from what Allah is telling us. If there was a public mind (and) if you and me and everyone else were thinking through these ayaat of Allah we would stop these Takfiris and tell them what are you doing? Isn't this an ayah in Surah An Nisa'? But the ayah says
There are people who commit themselves to Allah and then they deny Him… … (Surah An Nisa' verse 137)
They are Mu'mins and then they become Kafirs and then they become Mu'mins again and then they become Kafirs again in an Islamic context. If what these Takfiris are saying is correct, (i.e.) you kill a person who becomes a Kafir then why does this ayah speak about people who change from iman to kufr then back to iman again then back to kufr and they stay Kafirs and they die? There's no hadd (or) there's no legal punishment applied to them. They die a natural death or whatever other death
… they die without your interference in their lives and then they go on to Allah and Allah is not going to forget or forgive them. … (Surah An Nisa' verse 137)
So what are you doing? Just because the way you fancy things (and) in your minds you give a rationale you say "come let's kill these who disagree with us. This is our Islam?! This is the way we understand this Islam and anyone who is going to disagree with us we're going to kill them." These are people of the Qiblah- they said "we're going to kill them." These are people who go for the halal and avoid the haram- they say "they're going to kill them." During the time of Allah's Prophet when the Prophet went on the journey of Al Isra' and Al Miraj, the well known night journey from Makkah to Al Quds to Sidrat Al Muntaha, when he came back it was one night… All of this happened in one night. Obviously this is a miracle. When he came back he spoke to the people around him of what had happened in the previous night. That morning when word got around other people, Muslims, heard this is what the Prophet is saying (and) they relinquished their Islam. They didn't believe him. This is Al Quds- we know where Al Quds is. We know how long it takes to journey to Al Quds back and forth and he's telling us that he went in a short period of time- he's talking about a few hours?! Remember these are Muslims speaking before they renounced their Islam, they're saying not only is he saying that he went to Al Quds, he's also saying he went up to God (and) to heaven and he expects us to believe him? No, forget it. I'm no longer a Muslim. That happened. What happened to them? Did they get killed? Was there some type of hostility, animosity (and) hatred by the other Muslims who believed Allah's Prophet? They said what you said is the truth. Furthermore he tells us he receives words from heaven and we believe him. Aren't we not going to believe him if he says he himself has gone by Allah's leave up to heaven? Of course we believe him. The lesson to take home from this is that people had the freedom to say I'm no longer a Muslim and nothing was done to them. Nowhere in any of the books- you can go and look far and near in all of the books. You'll find no one harmed any of these individuals when they said we're no longer Muslims. So where (did this come from?) How? Where did this attitude (and) where did this mentality come from? These Takfiris now who are going around killing left and right and accusing everyone who doesn't agree with them now are the types who come from a particular Islamic mindset. They say "they are the pure Muslims and they glorify people like ibn Taymiya and Muhammad ibn Abdal Wahhaab and Ahmad ibn Hanbal" and all this and they don't even know their own history. They don't know Ahmad ibn Hanbal was approached and was asked about Muawiyah and he had nothing good to say about him; contrary to the people who exist in our time. So even "the Sunnis" who disagree with them are targets of their killing and their shooting. So this causes us to think how did this happen? Everything we have said up until now you may hear from an enlightened khateeb (i.e.) someone who ascends the Mimbar and has an open mind and communicates with people around him and has a solid and substantial understanding of Allah's Book and Allah's Prophet up; until here you may hear this. It's not frequent but you may hear it from an enlightened one but this is what you're not going to hear. The reason we have what we have now (i.e.) Muslims killing other Muslims because of this sectarianism is because we have an outside enemy who is working hand in hand with those who are susceptible inside within our rank and file. When the outside and the inside work together like that we wind up with things like Da'ish, with things like this ISIS or IS for short- we have things like ISIS in Syria and Lebanon and we have Sisi in Egypt. The reason we have these is because when we're lazy minded (and) when we don't think- and what we don't mean by think is a mind that just wants to take in some information and then place it in its rational or logical construct, that is not thinking; well it is thinking but it's not thinking with the standards of Allah's Book and Allah's Prophet. When we say think we mean our thoughts are disciplined by what Allah and His Prophet are telling us- that's what we mean by thinking. So when we are not thinking we have detractors (and) we have out and out enemies who are thinking. We can't think to build ourselves (while) others who don't like us are thinking to destroy ourselves. This is what has been happening in these few hundred years. So if we read the Qur'an or the Prophet's statements and if we are not allowed to think of their meaning in these Masajid (then) these Islamic Centers and Masajid are sustained for a purpose- one purpose in short and that is when you enter them you are disallowed to think of the ayaat and the ahadith and those who are quoting the ayaat and ahadith are conditioned and taught to be literalists about the ayaat and the ahadith. So you have a literalist speaking and you have a non-thinker listening! This is what happens inside these places. We wish we were talking about a few places (but) we're talking about millions of them in the world. So here comes these others who don't like us and they open the Qur'an and they open the Sunnah and what do they find? They find that we have two (things) basically in one sense. We have a lot of things (but) in this area we have two things. One of them is Muslims are inclusive. Muslims are open hearted and open minded about the other. They read ayaat in the Qur'an and many of these ayaat encourage dialogue, coexistence (and) mutual understanding. Some of them speak about Yaa Bani Adam, some of them speak about Yaa Ayyuha An Naas, others speak about Yaa Ayyuha Al Insan, others speak about Yaa Ahl Al Kitab and still even with those who are in denial (i.e.) the Kafirs we speak to them. We know that we cannot include them but still we communicate. So they looked at this feature in our books of guidance and they said "oh! Is this who you are?" This is where it becomes dangerous. When we don't understand who we are- and the others who don't like us understand very well who we are- here's where they play havoc with us. They say "oh, so you're inclusive. You're not racists, you're not bigots, you're not prejudist- okay." So they take this and they go with it all the way and they blur the lines between who we are and who the other is. So if you're a Muslim you might as well be a Christian or a Jew or a happy-go-lucky other or whoever. We're all one big happy human family. So they destroy Islam by taking it out of its frame of reference but they do that with holding on to some of the elements in that frame of reference. What emerged out of all of this? Certain trends in Muslim societies. One of them which demonstrates this point very well is the Baha'is. The Babis and the Baha'is demonstrate this very well. They say "oh yes, we are friendly. There is no such thing as jihad (and) all of these other specifics. This doesn't exist or it used to be functional at one time (but) it is no longer applicable." They had these types of things in Iran
Dear committed brothers and dear committed sisters…
The loud mouths of this world, who have access to the mass media, now are doing all they can to convince everyone that we Muslims are not civilized. We are barbaric, we are savage, we are bloodthirsty, we are terrorists. You've heard it. We need not go through that verbiage. In reality if we just take a look very briefly at what happened in Ghazzah in light of who we are. We know who we are and we know when there are intruders in our midst. You don't need a PhD to understand that when this intruder comes to you and says "this other person who you've known for many years, who's a Muslim in his own way, is not a Muslim" you don't need a PhD, you don't need to graduate from a seminary, you just need your common sense to know that something is wrong here. These words are not correct. The people who have weapons of mass destruction come and they bomb Muslims, they kill Muslims every day and they don't show any regret or any guilt for what they are doing. They are supposed to be civilized. "Oh, nothing's wrong with them." They can drop bombs, they can launch raids (and) they can do lots of things, they can kill so many people and we are supposed to think of them as civilized and the poor Muslim who emerges from the rubble, literally, (this is) no exaggeration. A Muslim young man or a Muslim young lady come out from under the rubble of their destroyed home. Everything they had in life they have no more and they are seeking justice; now these are the ones who are the terrorists! Who here is manufacturing terrorism? Take this simple scenario and ask yourself who is the producer of terrorism? How does it come to exist? We know this is common sense.
On a lighter note, they think we don't have any sympathy or emotions or feelings for the other- that's what they think and they want everyone to think like that. We're sure some of you, if not most of you, have been to hospitals in these so called civilized and modernistic societies and you've seen the manners and the methods of treatment that they offer. Let us tell you of something that used to exist in hospitals when Muslims were in charge of their own societies, not like now. When we were responsible for our own medicine and the practice thereof there was something like this that we don't even find in today's hospitals. There would be a patient in a room and the patient would suffer from a certain ailment. There were two individuals who were employed, (not known by the patient of course), by the hospital or whoever pays for the hospital and what they would do is they would enter the patient's room and as the patient is listening and thinking these are medical professionals, (some of them were), they would begin to exchange their opinions about the diagnosis of the patient. The patient is thinking he is listening to his own doctors. These are not his own doctors. These are professionals, more or less like psychologists who were meant to deliberately express the diagnosis of that particular patient in optimistic terms so that they can raise the level of confidence and the hope in the patient whatever his ailment may have been. We don't see this type of profession even existing in these societies of today- that's how fine tuned we were to other people's feelings and this is how coarse and how harsh and how insensitive today's commercialized medicine is towards its own patients. Who is at the end of the day the civilized and the cultured and who is at the end of the day the opposite of the civilized and the cultured?
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 15 August 2014 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C.
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