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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 brothers and sisters…
Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/346092 (08-01-2014)
THE LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN MUSLIMS
Two things are happening simultaneously. One of them is we've just finished the month long observance of Ramadhan and the second one is an imposed war on part of our bleeding body in the Holy Land of Palestine. To try to bring both of these in perspective we begin by saying that Allah has condemned in the strongest terms as did His Prophets (alayhim as salaam) the deniers of Bani Isra'eel.
Condemned are the deniers of Allah's power and authority from among the Children of Isra'eel… (and) that is because or due to their disobedience and their acts of aggression. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 78)
The ayah says it; as if it fits exactly the reality that we are watching and sensing today.
The Children of Isra'eel who are in denial of Allah's power and authority are condemned by the words of Dawud and Isa ibn Maryam and that is because of their active disobedience and their ongoing aggression (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 78)
A feature that obvious is in them at times like this! The ayah further goes on to say
They were not of the type who would take issue with their own munkar- a munkar that they were committing with their own hands (or) they were not in the process of a systematic or a systemic objection to a munkar that they are guilty of (and) that they commit themselves, awful and foul is what they have been doing (and) what they are doing. (Surah Al Maa'idah verse 79)
In this context what Allah in His enlightening and guiding words and instruction to us- as we've ended the month of Ramadhan- we take a look at our own selves. We take a look at what is being done to us by these types and then we take a look at our own selves. The month of Ramadhan is meant, among other things, to strengthen us. Its almost automatic when a person says "the month of Ramadhan is meant to empower you or strengthen you" (that) because of the nature of the information system that we live in what immediately comes to mind is the military strength or the physical strength or the material strength. Whoever thinks like that should know that they are impacted not by the root meanings in the Qur'an and Sunnah but by processing meanings through the medium that is responsible for the way they think. So when the Prophet of Allah says a strong mu'min is better and more to the liking of Allah than a weak one, once again, when the average you and me hears this we think that strength here means physical strength if we're talking about an individual or it means military strength if we're taking it to the social or societal level because we're programmed to think like that. What we don't understand is this is not what is meant. This is a gap in our thinking. What is meant is the strength of our will power, the strength of our will determination (and) the strength of our resolve. This is where strength is, not in the muscles but in the confidence that you have. When we pay close attention to our corresponding Muslims we realize that when it comes to confidence there's no strength there. There's no strength of confidence! It's like we are void of confidence even thought we fasted. We just finished fasting this past week (and) even though that is the case and we're supposed to emerge from this fasting with a robust and a healthy and an active form of confidence we still are the weaklings that we are in this area. We are weak! Muslims don't display a sense and a character of confidence. This is where we are weak but we are expected in this area to be strong. When we begin to enter this area of psychology we find that there are two issues that are working to erode this confidence. One of them is vainglory or self-centeredness. The ego! You will encounter Muslims who think that they are on the top of the world. These Muslims don't have confidence and even though they don't have confidence they brag and their language is loaded! They dismiss scholars. They dismiss people of knowledge. They say a lot of things but if you go beyond what they say and investigate their internal character, their true selves, you will find that they don't have confidence. Its hot air; its bragging but at the end of they day the person of the individuals or the leader who's supposed to be a leader or whatever just don't have confidence and some ayaat in the Qur'an are supposed to recharge this area. When Allah tells us
You are the best of Ummah to interact with people… (Surah Aal Imran verse 110)
You realize people who lack confidence don't have what it takes to interact with each other. What's wrong? A person is truly weak who is incapable of interacting with the other whoever the other is. It could be a Zionist, it could be an Imperialist, it could be a person who is wrong theologically, it could be a person who is wrong ideologically, partially right or partially wrong here or there. What's wrong with you? You can't interact?! If they invite some Muslim to speak (he says) "how can I go? How can I speak?" What's wrong with you? If you're invited to go to a church or a synagogue or some public arena or in the media you can't speak?! Once again, this is who we are. We are taking a look at our selves. They say "no. We can't do that." What's wrong? If there's no strings attached, if there's no terms and conditions placed on you you can't speak your Allah-given mind and conscience about the issues?! To take it a step further in the real world today- because when we are expressing the meanings of these ayaat and the discipline of Allah's Prophet we don't mean to be going back to history and breaking loose from today's reality- no! We want to understand the context then so that we can behave in our context now. Allah's Prophet is no fairytale and Allah's words are no pie in the sky! They were meant for the reality (and) realism in our life and in our moment and place here. So when we take a look at today's world with these attacks- there's military attacks and there's a demonstration of fire power and killing power in Ghazzah how does the average Muslim react? With a lack of confidence! Announcers, broadcasters, anchor men and women- you see them! In Egypt Egypt
You are the best of Ummah to interact with people… (Surah Aal Imran verse 110)
Another ayah
… it is in this manner that We have rendered you a central Ummah so that you bear witness over other people and the Prophet bears witness over you … (Surah Al Baqarah verse 143)
Where are we? These are ayaat that are supposed to be boosting our confidence level
Another ayah
Don't lose confidence and don't grieve while you are in a position of superiority if you are truly committed to Allah's power and authority. (Surah Aal Imran verse 139)
So this is one of the problems that we have. Allah is giving us ayaat that raise our confidence level but these people who speak in these controlled Islamic Centers want to drain us of this confidence that Allah is giving us. This is planned. This is not haphazard. We are not praying in the street because it is our choice. We are praying in the street because there are people in control who say "you are allowed into the Masjid and you are not allowed into the Masjid." So that's one of the problems that we have- there's no confidence. Muslims simply don't display their God-given confidence that comes from their commitment to Allah.
On earth there are demonstrations of Allah's power for those who have certainty and certitude and there are demonstrations of Allah's power in your own selves; can you not see? (Surah Az
The recent numbers say that (of) the Muslims who are under attack "one thousand five hundred have been killed. Eighty five per cent or so of them are civilians- babies, children, women, and pregnant women." In one incident a mother dies because of these bomblets that are dropped (and) the ordinance that is fired at innocent civilians a mother dies and the body is taken immediately to medical care and then the baby is extracted alive from the womb. We ask- it is only takes people who have enough confidence to step outside of the brainwashing that is going on and say- it this the Israel of the bible? We ask you, especially the Evangelists who are around, who think "these are God's chosen people (and) that this is God's chosen race" this is what they do? They, meaning the Israeli killers, send messages to cell phones of innocent people living in their own homes or in their own camps- when we speak about Ghazzah, you think about all people are living in the types of dwellings we are familiar with? No. They're not. Some of them are and some of them aren't. The Israeli killers (and) murderers send messages "leave your home in three minutes." How are you going to leave your home in three minutes? And then where do you go? And then exactly three minutes later the home is bombed. It becomes rubble! Many, many more of these types of atrocities are committed and the Islamic frame of mind or the psychology within the Muslim societies is one that says "shhhh! Don't speak. Remain silent." This is a Jum'ah. They had a Jum'ah prayer here and they have Jum'ah prayers all around the place but because they receive their finances from the regimes who are complicit in this war, the regimes particularly in the Arabian Peninsula tell them "you're not supposed to be speaking about this issue." What do they do in the Haram in Makkah at the end of the khutbah- as if they have done their job?!- they make a du'a out of three or four sentences. Allahumma alayka bi al Yahud. Allahumma ahlikhum. Allahumma this and Allahumma that! Three or four sentences and they think they've done their duty! You've done nothing! These are all fancy words (that) you're covering up your crime with and you're covering up your crime in the Haram of Makkah. Then it's broadcast to some areas and some Muslims, because of our lack (and) our absence of confidence, think "oh they've done all they can." No! They haven't done anything! If they want to show that they care for other Muslims then they withdraw the finances and the moneys that they have scattered all around the killing institutions of the world, (i.e.) the military-industrial-banking complexes of the world. What- is that asking too much? We are asking too much if we say to another Muslim who is supposed to be our brother, (who is) supposed to be the custodians of the Haramayn who are supposed to be the "puritanical Muslims" "wait a minute- you have such and such trillions of dollars in the military-industrial-banking system that is killing us." You can't do that? No one's expecting you (or) wants you to go and fight- of course, that would be the right thing to do obviously but you can't just withdraw (and) close your cheqing accounts, your saving accounts and the rest of these financial accounts- that's all! Let's say you can't do that- you, yourself, are so inferior that you can't even think of doing that- well if you can't do that can't you just shut off the petroleum? That's all. Turn off the petroleum! There is a loud mouth from the Arabian Peninsula who goes around- speaking right now he says- this reminds us of the language eight years ago when the Israelis attacked Lebanon the loud mouths of Arabia said "Hizbullah was reckless. It brought upon itself an unwarranted war. It shouldn't have done what it did when two Israelis crossed into Lebanon Holy Land-
My dear brothers and sisters on As Sirat Al Mustaqim…
Let us- with the insight and with the foresight, with the confidence and with the confidence building that comes to us from Allah and from His Prophet- take a look at what has been going on just very briefly in the coming few minutes around the Holy Land, the occupied territory of Palestine today that is subjected to this combined warfare. The Arabian regimes along with the Zionist regime are combining their efforts altogether to smother and to sniff out,(as they say), Islamic self-determination from this Holy area." OK- what has been happening in the past several years? There has been a civil war that has taken place in both Syria and Iraq OK- Syria and Iraq Palestine Syria or Iraq or Palestine or Jordan or Lebanon- Holy Land and finish it off. This doesn't mean, like people want to take our words out of context and say "someone is anti-Semite and he's rebel rousing against Jews and all of this." It has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with a Zionist theft of the Holy Land and a military machine that goes into bouts of warfare- in 2008, in 2009, in 2012 and now 2014. It just has this habit of killing and then they want to present themselves as the civilized ruling class in the area. They are on par with their counterparts in the Arabian Peninsular (and) in North Africa . We hold all of them accountable in the court of Allah's law.
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 1 August 2014 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C.
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