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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/350279 (11-14-2014)
DELICATE ISSUES ABOUT UTHMAN PART 3
We are going to continue our journey to have the facts stand on their own merits and by doing so to bring to light those who right now are causing our internal instabilities, internal discomfitures and internal wars. We've mentioned previously and we are saying this to obey Allah when He says to us
O You who are divinely and securely committed: be conscious of Allah's power presence and when you speak you speak forthwith and accurately. (Surah Al Ahzaab verse 70)
We've said that in this early history that is used nowadays by prejudiced individuals and biased decision makers to explain to their followers "why it is permissible to kill the other Muslim." They go back to this history right now that we are trying to deconstruct or reconstruct. We said that there were three individuals in that early history that took issue with Uthman (radi Allahu anhu)'s mistakes or with the mistakes that were done during Uthman's reign and these three are prominent individuals, (viz.), Talha, Az Zubayr and A'ishah (radi Allahu anhum). They took issue with Uthman in a very vociferous and a very public way but they were apart- this is a part of history that either people don't want to mention or they know it or they're afraid to mention it because it's going to cause them to answer some questions in your mind. These individuals had their own followers and they were different from those who were following Muawiyah. You can't lump them all together. It is very simplistic and it is very deadly to do so. Besides, it's not factual. These three individuals never, (at least to the best of our days and years in reading over this time period), accused Imam Ali (radi Allahu anhu) of having anything to do with the assassination of Uthman. Never! Unlike those who were following Muawiyah. They were pointing fingers of accusation at Ali and telling him you had a hand in the assassination of Uthman either directly or indirectly but these did not do that. They knew better. On the other hand these three individuals and their followers were very serious about bringing to justice those who were responsible for the assassination of Uthman; unlike the followers of Muawiyah. They were not serious about this. They were using this as a political instrument to serve the purposes that they had in mind, i.e. climbing the ladder of power and becoming the highest ranking officials in the Islamic state. When Uthman was assassinated these individuals realized that those who were in the camp of Muawiyah had taken advantage of them. This is something also that your historians, your speakers, your lecturers, your khutaba', your preachers, etc. don't mention and because this area is not in our thinking mind we have people who plan for civil wars visiting this particular area and then trying to make cannon fodder out of it so that we kill each other. Then, when Uthman was assassinated they felt that they had to somehow address this issue of those who were trying to take revenge for Uthman's blood using them as an excuse and using them for a justification for the assassination of Uthman. You see how these issues get inter-tangled? And they have to be diffused. Obviously these prominent individuals are much higher in rank and in status and honor and respect than Muawiyah and his followers. Talha and Az Zubayr according to some hadiths are from those ten who were given the glad news of accessing paradise. They were from the Muhajirin. They attended the battles of the Prophet, etc. A'ishah was from the Muhajiraat. She was one of the most beloved from the Prophet's wives. Compare that to Muawiyah and those who were with him. It was the Tulaqa' (i.e.) those who were freed or amnestied when Makkah was liberated. Along with them there was the Qahtaniyah, (i.e.) one of the two major Arabian tribes and its offshoots in the Arabian Peninsular and there were also the A'rab. Remember the word A'rab in the Qur'an?
These nomadic Arabians are more intense in their kufr and their nifaq than the others… (Surah At Tawbah verse 97)
These were the types who were amassed around Muawiyah. After the dust settles, (as it were), now Uthman was assassinated. People began to come to their minds and their senses now. It's all over now. Where do we go from here? What is to be done? In this atmosphere A'ishah and Talha and Az Zubayr expressed their regrets having figured out that they were used by these Tulaqa'. We ask some of these sectarians who are around why don't they invite themselves into the details of this history and come to realize that these issues are delicate issues, especially if they want to bring the details of that history into today's world? You see- in today's world we have Islamic movements, we have Islamic state (and) we have Islamic self determination and we have some of these elements in today's world. Who is going to stand today and say "I'm going to take the commercial class, (i.e.) the people who have wealth and influence to task on the basis of Qur'anic and Prophetic principles?" Who's going to say today "No! We can't do without them? If the wealthy class is going to support us why should we exclude?" The same things you hear today if you are living in circles that think (and) people who are aware of the issues then you can hearken back to those early years and look at the world through the lenses of today and say "wait a minute, the world at that time was as complex in human relations as it is in today's world."
Then we had the unfortunate development of what is called in history Ma'rakat Al Jamal that took place in the vicinity of Al Basrah. The result of that battle was the loss of those who were against Ali. That loss had a drawback in the sense that the people (or) the general population who were living in the Basrah area carried within them- because the battle took place within their geography- the resentment of them having lost that battle. Just like Ali had most of his supporters in the Kufa area, most of the supporters of Talha, Az Zubayr and A'ishah, Umm Al Mu'minin had their supporters in the Basrah area and this was not going to die as a result of the consequences of the battle of Al Jamal. This was going to live in the centuries to come. That's why if you are familiar with some of the hadith literature, some of the fiqhi personalities and all of this you will find many of them from Al Basrah carry a type of historical grudge against their opponents to the degree that… In the Sunni world this is not something that is common knowledge but these leftovers who resented the results of Ma'rakat Al Jamal in the area of Al Basrah killed An Nasa'i one of the six major narrators of the hadith because of their impression that he had sentiments towards Ali in some of the hadiths that he quoted from the Prophet.
We want you to be familiar with some of the names who are within the camp of Muawiyah, (i.e.) those who were anti-(the legitimate ruler) because Ali was the legitimate ruler and here they were in a state of opposition to legitimate rule. Of course, all of us know it was Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan and then there was another Muawiyah called Muawiyah ibn Abi Hudaij and then there was Abd Ar Rahman ibn Khalid ibn Al Walid and then there was Bisr or Busr, (its pronounced both ways in these books) ibn Abi Arta'a, Abu Al A'war As Salami. Then some of the governors of Muawiyah like Ziyad ibn Abi and Mughirah ibn Abi Shu'bah and Marwan ibn Abi Hakam- all of them were hard core people of asabiyah who's sole concern was to take over power. Then there was the second generation. Obviously here you have Yazid ibn Muawiyah, Abd Al Malik ibn Marwan, Khalid Al Qasri, Ubaydullah ibn Ziyad and others. All the kings of Bani Umayah with the exception of Umar ibn Abd Al Aziz (radi Allahu anhu) who forbid the vilification of Ali from all the Manabir in the Muslim world. Remember, up until this time it was official policy during jum'ah in the khutbahs just like this that the khutbah would end (with) instructions from the government that those who are ascending the Mimbar of Friday and expressing the khutbah end their khutbah with the vilification of Ali, Al Hassan and Al Hussein at the bare minimum. Umar ibn Abd Al Aziz put an end to that. The way khutbahs end today- see how much (of) the force of tradition comes to us from early history, you go to these Masajid (and) we could comfortably say 90 per cent of them and listen to the Imam ending the khutbah. He will end it with the ayah in the Qur'an that says
Verily, Allah orders justice and that you be patient and dutiful totally for His sake and that you be forthcoming to kin and He forbids evil deeds and the things which are prohibited and aggression and oppression. Allah admonishes you so that you may take heed. (Surah An Nahl verse 90)
That ayah on instruction from Umar ibn Abd Al Aziz replaced the vilification of Ali and Imams Al Hassan and Al Hussein (radi Allahu anhum) and it still works up until today. This wasn't the way the Prophet of Allah ended the khutbahs. It was the way the government at that time told the Imams at that time who were leading the prayers and giving the khutbahs to end it that way. See the force of tradition?! We don't have the khutbahs of the Prophet. This is one area where we have t face up to ourselves and ask "why not? What happened?" In all of these years (there were) hundreds of khutbahs that he gave on Fridays and the Eids and no one wrote any of them?! We men there is a trace of it- you'll find a small khutbah that can be said in two or three minutes scattered here and there in some of the books but back to the original text. Then there were third and forth generation individuals. Some of them you might want to be familiar with the names just in case in the future you may hear the name or you read the name: Azhar ibn Ubaydillah Ar Razi, Uraiz ibn Uthman Ar Rahbi. This one, (i.e.), Ar Rahbi used to curse Ali 140 times every day! Of course, we are not saying this, obviously, to fuel sectarianism. The only reason we're saying this is because it is something that we encounter in our history books that is used by sectarians to fuel wars to kill ourselves. OK-
This type of distance from Ali and Al Hassan and Al Hussein is not a simple matter because in these positions that we just outlined there are extremists and here's where the danger is. The danger comes from these extremists. You can be an extremist against Ali and you can be an extremist for Ali. You can be an extremist for A'ishah, Talha and Az Zubayr and you can be an extremist against them. These extremists are the ones who keep these divisions among the Muslims alive. If it wasn't for these extremists on all these sides, Muslims have within themselves the propensity to come together. There's a natural God-given gravity among the Muslims. Don't let anyone fool you! This comes with our very nature but if we begin to listen to our own extremists then we create these gaps (and) these cleavages among ourselves and we do it to ourselves. One of the reasons we have these active wars now, here in our time is because we have always listened to the presentation of the extremists. They are the ones who win the day. So when you have these Masajid that are run just like the one over here and there's, (we don't know), probably millions of them. No one has even counted them. How many of these Masajid are being paid for and being subject the orientation and the diktat of the people who have power and have money just like was the case back then we have it today. But we don't even have the slightest idea of this simple fact that we just mentioned, (i.e.) how many of these Masajid exist in the world. An educated guess would be at least a couple of million. That's an educated guess. We could be far off the mark but a simple task like that, (i.e.), just to count how many of these Masajid and Islamic Centers that are concerned with dividing the Muslims exist?! We don't have that simple piece of information in our hand. (Do) you see how far we have given the enemy the opportunity to wreak havoc among us? It is time that we return to our senses.
Dear committed brothers and dear committed sisters…
Now we transition from our historical selves to our current selves and the headlines now all over the place whether its in the Muslim press of in the non-Muslim press is concerning this phenomenon we have that is only about two or three years old and its on everyone's mind. Just recently, in the past couple of day's, Al Baghdadi, (that's what he's called. That's not his real name but they call him that in the media), came out with a speech in which he instructed his followers. (Of course, we're paraphrasing the whole thing), he said "this progress that he's making is going to extend to everywhere and he mentioned Egypt and Libya and the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa and then he mentioned Rome among other places." Then he says, (presumably speaking to his followers and those who are similar or like his followers), "they should concentrate on two fronts: one of those front is the Arabian Peninsula and what he meant by that is the Saudi government and the other front he called Ar Rafidah by which he meant the Shi'is." In his own words he said "whoever belongs to these two entities should be killed wherever and whenever they are encountered." Like that! A free license to kill. Compare this killing machine with Allah's instructions
And you engage in warfare those who have engaged you in warfare and you don't launch into aggression (or) you don't initiate aggression because Allah's not in favour of such an act. (Surah Al Baqarah verse 190)
That's what Allah says. They're on the opposite side of this! Whether you're aggressive or you're not aggressive they kill you just because in their vocabulary and their mind you're called a Kafir! They haven't even read their master's book, i.e. ibn Taymiyah. In his book he says kufr is not enough to legalize killing a person. Just because a person is a Kafir you can't kill him! That's what their master says- but they don't even read the books of their master. They go out there and here they are, they encounter someone who disagrees with them and they take him to the killing field (or) execution block or whatever it is. This is a hadith of Allah's Prophet- we're going to quote the hadith and give you the general meaning of it and then you take it and compare the meanings of this hadith with what these killers are doing. When Allah's Messenger used to dispatch a military contingent he used to say to it embark in the name of Allah. Do not kill an elderly person and do not kill a small child and not a woman and be disciplined, be worthy of the other, be considerate and do what is right and appropriate. . Compare that with what is happening now with these people. They take prisoners- they call them prisoners of war- and then they kill them. Not only do they kill them in a most savage them then they mutilate their bodies. They go to civilian areas- it could be a bus stop, a train station, a public square somewhere- and they have explosives with them and then they ignite these explosives and then they kill 20, 30, 150 innocent people all around. Then, they omit from their syllabi in school the sciences. They take away chemistry and physics and all of this. Wait a minute- Islam is anti-knowledge and anti-science?! This is what they are doing. They take researchers and scientists and just because they're researchers and scientists and they've written something these people disagree with then they kill them. Then they also demean women. On certain occasions in Syria OK-
And those who accuse women of adultery and don't produce four witnesses … (Surah An Nur verse 4)
That's the evidence. If there are four witnesses seeing the act of adultery, how come they saw the woman and didn't see the man?! In which mind does this make sense? Obviously in their mind this makes sense?! In one of these scenarios they bring the father of the young lady that's going to be stoned and they tell her "to beg forgiveness from her own father" and the father says "I'm not going to forgive you." This is how much they have entered into the fabric of society when the father has to please them. The father now is watching (and) looking. There's about two meters or two yards between him and his daughter and he's saying "I will not forgive you." How is this? What type of Islam is this when a father no longer (can forgive his own daughter)?! Let's say she did commit adultery (and) let's say the father is 100 per cent sure that his own daughter committed adultery, (let's assume; we're assuming now, there's no evidence of this but we are giving them the benefit of the doubt), the father should say "may Allah forgive you. I will forgive you as a first step to Allah forgiving you." That is the Islamic moral fabric; not say "I will not forgive you" as if he's saying to her "you go to hell!" What is this?! Where did all of this come from?! We don't speak about morality here. Has anyone heard us speak about morality in these khutbahs? This is taken for granted, (i.e.), we are moral by nature! We don't have to speak about morality. We don't lack morality but the example that these people are projecting to the rest of the world is a shame. It is a burden! It is a blot on who we are! This is what happens- when you look at the larger picture, (you see), the Muslims have been denied throughout all of these centuries; maybe we can trace it back all the way to Muawiyah. They've been denied their presence in running there own affairs- this is the simplest way we can put it and look right now how the reaction is. This is the payback of that denial, (i.e.) you create extremists out of it and then the world wide mass media is sponsoring the extremists of the extremists, This is what we are seeing today. We ask Allah for His understanding and obviously He knows more details than anyone can speak about. He knows the hands that are behind all of this. He knows the dupes and the patsies that are used for all of this. He knows the financiers; He knows those who are supporting them by condemning them. Yes- you can support people by bad mouthing them to give them popularity. He knows all these details and much more and we refer this whole affair through our conviction and sacrifices all to Him.
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 14 November 2014 on the sidewalk of Embassy Row in Washington D.C.
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