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Friday, January 23, 2015

Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni KHUTBAH : MUSLIMS ARE NOT TERRORISTS

 

THE STREET MIMBAR
JUM'AH KHUTBAH (23 January 2015)
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It is in such a manner that We make plain Our signs so that the course of the Criminals may become clear.
Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem.
Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family.
Dear Committed Muslims …
 
 
MUSLIMS ARE NOT TERRORISTS
Allah says in a manner consoling the Prophet (and) with a tone of advice
وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ
We know that your chest feels constricted due to what they say (or) you feel tight in your chest because of what they are saying. (Surah Al Hijr verse 97)
We know these are Allah's words and the reference is to Allah. Allah's speaking to the Prophet. The antidote to this is the following completion of the ayah
فَسَبِّحْ
When you feel like that, (Allah is saying), the consequence of that should be say subhanAllah… (Surah Al Hijr verse 98)
In the case of the Prophet it is more than just verbalizing a word, it is actualizing the meaning- something that is lost on many Muslims.
بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ
… praise Allah … (Surah Al Hijr verse 98)
And the way and the manner and the meaning in which Muslims praise Allah is that He, in His affairs- and we are part of Allah's affairs- there can be no interference by what they say or by what they do. There's no interference in Allah's affairs. 
 
بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَكُن مِّنَ
… praise in the bounty or blessings of Allah (or) your Sustainer with the bounty of Allah and be of those … (Surah Al Hijr verse 98)
Here the human mind finds an area to understand what being a sajid means. Allah's telling His guided Prophet in conditions and circumstances like this to honor Allah. This is as if to say (that) when you emotionally give in to the harmful words that come from the opposite side (or) from those who are against you (or) from those who are against Allah you are taking away from Allah's honor. 
 
وَكُن مِّنَ السَّاجِدِينَ
… and be of those who honor Allah. (Surah Al Hijr verse 98)
So if you are honoring Allah, whether this honor is a type of general honor just like we understand the word honor and respect or whether it is the technical honor and respect of Allah when we go through the sajdah in our salah. The ayah is comprehensive of both the specific and the general.
وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ
And conform to your Sustainer (or) and comply with your Sustainer until certitude comes to you.  (Surah Al Hijr verse 99)
Once again, if we connect the meanings of the ayah if we begin to emotionally slip (then) that is an indicator of the absence of thorough certitude in the way that Allah will take care of these issues.
 
Now why are we beginning this with these ayaat? Why are we saying this in the context that we are in? Obviously we are here (and) this is a no nonsense Friday khutbah. We're not here to tap on people's emotionalism, we are not here to present fancy statements or bide our time. We are here, as directed by Allah, to deal with the real issues. One of the real issues that we've been living with for the past, (we don't know), 10 days or so is the issue that: "look at Muslims. They go around killing people." Then these news items that become headlines- they could minimize these news items if they wanted to but here they deliberately, and as the larger plan dictates, work up and amplify these events. What happened in Paris and before that what happened in Sydney, Australia and what continues to be happening in Iraq and in Syria and in Nigeria and in Yemen and in other areas; there's so many geographies- take your pick: Pakistan, Somalia, North Africa and from time to time in the Caucasus, etc. et. We are in the day, in the moment (and) in the circumstance (and) when we look at ourselves we find many of us want to listen to what these newsmakers and what these planners of these events are saying and how they are characterizing all of this. We actually have Muslims who listen to all of this and they fall for the information that is engineered by those who are not fair and who are not equitable. We, Muslims, have a weakness and Allah is helping us out with our own weakness. Our weakness is (that) we listen to two categories of people that some of us are impressed by and others feel inferior towards them. These two categories of people per the words of the Qur'an are the Mushriks and the Munafiqin. The ayah in Surah At Tawbah which is ayah 47 and this is in reference to these Munafiqin, (i.e.), the ones that pretend to be Muslims but in fact are not. Then here is the catch word that sheds the spotlight on our psychology
 
وَفِيكُمْ سَمَّاعُونَ لَهُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِالظَّالِمِينَ
… and among you there are those who are ever willing to listen to what they have to say and Allah is very well aware of adh dhalimin. (Surah At Tawbah verse 47)
Notice (that) in this ayah, (and this is just an attempt at stimulating the Muslim mind), there's no mention of adh dhalimin. Listen- this is in Surah At Tawbah and it's speaking about Muslim conditions at times of war
لَوْ خَرَجُوا فِيكُم مَّا زَادُوكُمْ إِلَّا خَبَالًا وَلَأَوْضَعُوا خِلَالَكُمْ يَبْغُونَكُمُ الْفِتْنَةَ
If they, (and they is in reference to the Munafiqin), were to exit with you (or) if they were to go on this military mission with you the only thing they would do is to increase your instability (and) they would go back and forth, to and fro for purposes of seduction (and) of confusing your determination… (Surah At Tawbah verse 47)
Remember this is in a military atmosphere. Then Allah says
وَفِيكُمْ
… and in your midst… (Surah At Tawbah verse 47)
Allah is speaking to the committed Muslims, to you and to me. He is saying
وَفِيكُمْ سَمَّاعُونَ لَهُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِالظَّالِمِينَ
… and in you there are those who are ever willing to lend their ear to what these Munafiqin have to say and Allah is very well versed on adh dhalimin. (Surah At Tawbah verse 47)
The word adh dhalimin here is in reference to the acts that are generated by what the Munafiqin say and our going along and accepting what these Munafiqin say.
 
Another ayah in Surah Al Imran, 186
لَتُبْلَوُنَّ فِي أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ
Allah's going to try you in reference to your wealth and your possessions and in reference to your own selves- whether it is your personal self or whether it is your family self or whatever self you have… (Surah Aal Imran verse 186)
Here, once again, Allah created us; He knows our tendencies, He knows our weaknesses (and) He knows our deficiencies. One of these deficiencies is that we listen to what they- and they here is everyone who disagrees with us in an aggressive manner.
وَلَتَسْمَعُنَّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا أَذًى كَثِيرًا
… we tend to listen to them… (Surah Aal Imran verse 186)
Now we have an accommodating approach to Ahl Al Kitab. We are not hostile to people of scripture, we are not aggressive towards people of scripture as long as they are people of scripture but notice here people of scripture are conjoined with Al Mushrikin. So when that is the case then this behavior of accommodation and coexistence and the rest goes on alert but many Muslims they don't notice this.
مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا أَذًى كَثِيرًا
… those who have been given scripture aforetime (or) before your time and from the Mushriks a tremendous amount of harm… (Surah Aal Imran verse 186)
 
There's another ayah, actually there's a full surah, Surah Al Munafiqun but in particular ayah number 4 from that surah says
وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ تُعْجِبُكَ أَجْسَامُهُمْ ۖ وَإِن يَقُولُوا تَسْمَعْ لِقَوْلِهِمْ
… if you see them, you're impressed by their physique and if they speak (or) if they verbalize their thoughts you tend to listen to what they have to say… (Surah Al Munafiqun verse 4)
These ayaat we take notice of in the context that what we are in. You've listened; you've had a full week or ten days to listen to the descriptions, to the analysis (and) to the recall that comes to us not via our own selves. Ask yourself- when you listen to what happened in Paris or when you listen to what happened in Sydney before that or when you listen every day to what's happening in Syria or Iraq or Pakistan or these other areas where there's this terroristic kill the other Muslim or kill the other individuals or organizations where does this information come to you from? Have you ever asked yourself where am I getting this information from? This is a deliberate, well thought out plan to undermine our sense of balance and our direction of guidance. They want to throw us off balance by these crazies who go about. Now we know sometimes words seem or come across as being very sharp, (i.e.) a Muslim saying about another Muslim or other Muslims who do these types of things that they are crazy! The reason for that is… Inside of themselves they could be very moral persons as far as etiquette is concerned (and) as far as everyday mannerisms are concerned. These people can be very moral individuals. We don't know. The enemy doesn't care to tell us that part of who they are and we ourselves don't have the resources to investigate who they are. So we are left with what is out there, (i.e.), "look, we have to tighten security measures, we have to take away some civil liberties, we meaning the establishments and the power centers have to begin to spy on these individuals or these types of people, we have to listen to their telephone calls, we have to watch their emails- we have to do all of this." All of us know or at least we should know and be familiar with Islamic movements (and) the Islamic pulse for independence and self determination. These individuals don't come from that background! What Islamic movement do they come from? You tell us (or) you ask yourself: where do they come from? The honest answer to that is that they are a product of a type of Islamic emotionalism that is presented to them on the internet and the internet can be anyone. How do you certify (or) how are you sure that the site you went to on the internet is put together by sincere, bona fide, Islamically committed individuals? How are you sure of that? How is anyone sure that that is the case? We are not. When this whole thing that began with Al Qa'idah and Taliban back then 14 years (or) 15 years ago, (whenever it was and it continues to now), ran out of gas now they come with a new instrument of theirs, calling it ISIS in Asia or Boko Haram in Africa and they breath new life into this utility that doesn't serve the Muslims. It has no basis in the Qur'an. Where in the Qur'an or in the Prophet's hadiths does it say these types of acts are sanctioned (and) this type of behavior is acceptable? Where does it say this? As we say this and express this it doesn't mean we don't have Muslims who are desperate. We do have Muslims who are desperate, Muslims who are poor (and) Muslims who are in need- look at the condition of Muslims in today's world. The majority of the refugees of the world, (we can say this comfortably), are Muslims. A good amount of the poor people in this world are Muslims living under the poverty line (and) barely surviving. So there are harsh economic and social conditions that the Muslims are in (but) this does not justify murder and mayhem. It doesn't explain doing these types of acts.
 
Now we come to the core of the issue. The core of the issue is that Muslims are upset that there is a publication in France that is abusive of concepts and figures that Muslims honor and respect- first and foremost among them is Allah's last Prophet. OK- this has been going on ever since Allah's Prophet came to the world. The Mushriks in Makkah made more fun of the Prophet than these people in Paris. The Mushriks in Arabia gave Allah's Prophet wars and battles and confrontations. Can anyone bring one incident from the 23 years of the Prophet's struggle in Makkah and in Al Madinah when an equivalent event happened that is reminiscent of what happened in Paris or in Sydney or what is happening on a daily basis in many areas in Syria and in Iraq? Can anyone bring us one incident equivalent to that? Absolutely not because there is no such thing! This is not Islamic, it is not Qur'anic. It is not Prophetic to go to a certain place and kill individuals as hateful and as bitter as they are against Islam and the Qur'an and the Prophet, etc. Nothing! Our approach is an approach of confidence. It's only people who don't have confidence of who they are who do these things. They are doing it with direct or indirect supervision from masters that they don't see and they don't hear; (they are), financed by them (and) supported by them with weapons, with logistics, with connections, with the ability to travel. (Do) you mean to tell us (that) these states with their security systems (and) with their intelligence organizations are unable to see to it that a Muslim doesn't leave their lands with the destination being that ISIS area in Syria and Iraq? They failed to do that?! They can't do that any longer? These are people who have satellites. They tell us they have satellites that can read the license plates of these vehicles and they are incapable of tracing and tracking wayward individuals who go to kill in another part of the world?! All of a sudden all of the technology and all of the organization that they had failed?! They want us to believe this?! They want world public opinion to believe that "Muslims are no good, Muslims are bloodthirsty, Muslims are killers"- that's how they want the whole world to believe because they set up some patsy individuals to do these types of things. They have media. Remember they have correspondents, they have writers, they have investigators, they have researchers- they are not short of all of these; why don't we know the Islamic background of these individuals? What is it? How much Qur'an do they know? To which Islamic teacher they belong to- whether it is a Shaykh, whether it is an Imam, whether it is a Mujtahid, whatever. Just off the street like that?! And we're supposed to believe that these are some type of Muslims of the future?! They, meaning these people who have the master plans in their hands, take our ignorance for granted. Here we are. The Muslims of the world are the underclass of the world. The Muslims of the world are the bleeding class of the world. The Muslims of the world are the refugees of the world. This is who we are but they overlook us in the hundred and millions. We don't count in the hundreds and millions! They pick on a few individuals that they themselves recruited (and) that they brainwashed and gave them what is necessary as far as freedom of movement is concerned as far as what it takes to eventually pull the trigger- they facilitate all of that and then they parade these individuals in front of world wide public opinion and they say "look this is what Islam is all about. These are the Muslims." That is how they do it and we are supposed to believe all of this. Pity the Muslims who don't realize what is happening to us. This is what happens when we ourselves are disconnected from Allah and His Prophet. No longer is the words (alive)- you see the ayah that was quoted earlier from Surah Aal Imran, the ayah from Surah At Tawbah, the ayah from Surah Al Munafiqun just sample ayaat
وَفِيكُمْ سَمَّاعُونَ لَهُمْ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ بِالظَّالِمِينَ
… and in your midst there are people who will listen to what they, (i.e.), the Zionists and the Imperialists have to say… (Surah At Tawbah verse 47)
Now we wish listening to them would have been about other issues but in this case we listen to them about what they say concerning us and that hurts. Allah in His wisdom and in His foresight saw our condition. He knows who we are and this is our weakness- we listen to not only what they have to say about us but also to the wording that they use about us. We listen to that and we begin to use there own words and we fall victims of our distance from Allah and his Prophet. This need not be! They would not be able to ever get away with this if we were in tune with these insightful ayaat that shed light on the dark corners of their psychology and the dark corners of our internal ignorance but here we are… These are the facts of life. We are dealing with this type of crowd out there that continues to demonize Islam and to dehumanize Muslims. This is the crowd and they are not tired of it! You'd think after 10 or 20 years they'd get sick and tired of this and they'd recognize the Muslims for who they are. We have no qualities to us!? They say "we don't speak out against this." One of the issues that is brought up in this context is freedom of speech. Now listen to this- they say "they pride themselves on freedom of speech." We don't have the freedom of speech to express ourselves in the House of Allah here in Washington DC. There's no freedom! Who are they talking to? Freedom of speech?! How many journalists have been killed just trying to relay a news item even though they are working within the nexus of their own news organizations? They send them out to Syria and Iraq and they're killed every year in the hundreds! People collecting news are killed in the hundreds but that doesn't make it to public attention, that's not on the front page of a newspaper (and) that's not a subject matter that becomes commentary over the airwaves but something that serves them very well are these acts which they, themselves, have financed and they, themselves, have sponsored.
لَتُبْلَوُنَّ فِي أَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنفُسِكُمْ وَلَتَسْمَعُنَّ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا أَذًى كَثِيرًا
Allah's going to try you in reference to your wealth and your possessions and in reference to your own selves- whether it is your personal self or whether it is your family self or whatever self you have and you tend to listen to those who have been given scripture aforetime (or) before your time and from the Mushriks (resulting in) a tremendous amount of harm… (Surah Aal Imran verse 186)
 (Surah Aal Imran verse 186)
 
 
Dear committed Muslims…
Two issues here that we want to mention very briefly here. Issue number one- you know we have been praying out here in the street for almost 32 years now. (In) another month and a half or so it will be 32 years. During these 32 years- because of the forces that are behind all of these shenanigans worldwide- we are prohibited from entering this building, the Islamic Centre that you see right here in front of your eyes. Yours truly, (just as an individual- nothing more (and) nothing less than whom you are), is the elected Imam of that centre right there. It happens to be that some people, who should know better, have come up recently in the past several months, (and some of these people may have been here at one time with us in the street), with a cute word to describe the person who gives this khutbah here on the sidewalk every Friday. They say "this is the former Imam of the Islamic Centre." Now if we were not here may be your could find some type of explanation to say "this person is the former Imam, he was there at one time now he is gone"; but we are not gone! We've been here for 32 years and right now you're coming and saying "this is the former Imam of the Islamic Centre." We wonder whether the type of negotiations that are going on are beginning to show in that "well let's take this a step forward and let's concede that this person is no longer an Imam of the Islamic Centre." This is a shame! It is a concession and it doesn't belong. How would these same people who right now are not only verbalising it (but) they are putting it in writing like someone to refer to Al Imam Al Hussein, (alayhi as salaam) as the former Imam of Karbala'? How would that go down with them? But once again, there's a master plan here and we are cognisant of every comma and every full stop in that master plan, especially when it comes our way. So these people who are conceding- and they can concede whatever they have- or trying to concede the struggle of others better watch their language.
 
The other issue has to do with that kingdom in the Arabian Peninsula. That kingdom in the Arabian Peninsula has an ailing king who has been admitted to the hospital because his health is failing. Then some news papers write about, maybe, the eminent death of that monarch and they may use their own journalistic language in doing that. Why does anyone get upset? Why is anyone upset if journalistic language is used with the hope that this king passes on to His Maker? Why does anyone get upset with that? Is there also here the same thing going on behind the scenes? "Oh- we cant step up on the toes of the Saudis?" No. We can step on their toes, we can step on their robes and we can step on their nasty character! There's nothing holy about them, there is nothing reverential about them! They are fools of the earth! Let this statement echo from one place to another- they are the fools of the earth! They bring down the price of petroleum. Their foreign minster meets with the foreign minister of Washington and then they decide (that) in order for these negotiations to go well in Europe, (i.e.), the P5+1 and that stuff "you have to put more squeeze on them so pump more oil and bring the prices down." These same people in the Arabian Peninsula who are in control of this abnormal exporting of oil- a few weeks ago (over) just one weekend their economies took a hit of $49billion- they lost. The Saudis who are spearheading this effort are beginning to withdraw money from their reserves for the first time- that's an act of war and it's not disproportionate to say that we hope the head of that hierarchy goes to where he belongs in the life to come. That evil of nonsense!
 
Just last week one of their "scholars" one of their "Ulema'" gave an opinion which he thinks is binding that "it is haram for Muslims to build a snowman." Look at this- where are we living?! Where is this person living?! Is that what occupies his mind? If the Muslims get some snow they're going to make a snowman?! Can't he see what is happening to the Muslims of the world and in close proximity to him? The Saudis are building a 600 kilometre long fence. The political cousins of the Zionists and Israelis who built that fence in the Holy land now are being copycatted by the Saudis who are building a fence between them and Iraq in the north of their kingdom. Speak about discrimination, speak about racism, speak about bigotry- there you have it. The events prove it to us who is who! The Saudis and the Israelis are cousins of interests.
 
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 16 January 2015 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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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni Fw: [bethak] Face Facts

 



--- On Sat, 1/17/15, Abdullah Sadiq <sadiq.abdullah55@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Abdullah Sadiq <sadiq.abdullah55@gmail.com>
> Subject: [bethak] Face Facts
> To: bethak@googlegroups.com
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10:41 AM
>
> Salaam.
>
> In the name of Allah, the
> Beneficent, the Merciful.
>
> All Glory, All Praise and All
> Thanks Belong to Allah
> Alone (Nahjul Balaagha)
>
> Let us face the following glaring
> facts, and facts are
> stubborn and haunting when they are based on the divine
> guidance from the
> Qur'an and Ahaadith, -- and judged  by a human
> intellect (Nahjul
> Balaagha, Sermon No.156).  and then let us understand
> the facts before
> death strikes to secure our souls from damnation after
> death:
>
> 1.     The purpose for Zakat is for the
> rich to help the
> poor. The rich and the poor, as two segments of mankind
> existed in the past and
> still exist today and will continue to exist.
>
>  
>
> 2.     If a person has the Zakatable
> items of crops and
> cattle as wealth of the past, Zakat becomes due and when he
> sells them and
> keeps the proceeds of sale, however large, in cash or in
> bank accounts, Zakat
> cannot become exempt, because the proceeds of sale do not
> cease to be part of
> wealth.
>
>  
>
> 3.     The great majority of the rich in
> this age produce
> wealth or have wealth, some fabulous, but not always in the
> form of the said
> Zakatable items of crops and cattle. As wealthy persons they
> are still liable
> to paying Zakat,
>
>  
>
> 4.     Consequently, if the great
> majority of the rich in the
> community pay no Zakat in their life time and the poor also
> receive no Zakat
> (poor rates) in their life time, this is wrong and the
> purpose for Zakat is
> defeated,
>
>  
>
> 5.     Among the more than 50 verses
> which enjoin Zakat, it
> is explicit that (a) wajib Zakat is apart and distinct from
> voluntary Sadqat
> and (b) paying Zakat is a quality life of a Mu'min and
> he keeps paying
> Zakat as normal acts of life.
>
>  
>
> 6.     It should baffle or intrigue any
> healthy mind how is
> it that the rich in the community pay no Zakat in their
> entire life despite the
> warning in ahaadith that those paying or advising no Zakat
> have their Salaat
> unaccepted and worse, they die in the state of
> Kuf'r.
>
>  
>
> In the absence of the
> monetary system in the past, Khums also was paid like Zakat,

> in kind, that is
> in the form of the barter-able commodities which were 
> in demand for mass
> consumption or in gold coins. It is mystifying that Khums is
> made payable now with
> money and not Zakat.
>
>  
>
> The Quranic verse 2:177 shows
> distinctly that Zakat and Sadaqat are two different things
> under two separate
> respective "niyyat"  of wajib and
> voluntary; and Sadaqat
> (charity) cannot be a substitute for Zakat (poor-rate) when
> the latter is a
> debt due and sinning if not paid.. There is a severe rebuke
> in the verses 7:45
> and 14:3 for any attempt to confuse in the matter of
> "divine bayyinat"
> (Clear Proofs or Signs from Allah swt.in the Qur'an)
> See also 2:174 and
> 175 for the real impact of warning from Allah
> swt)
>
>  
>
> The text of the verses has
> not been shown to make this post brief. Those very much
> concerned, as they
> should, about the issue of Zakat should read the English
> translation of the verses.
> They are scaring,.
>
>  
>
> I seek apology in advance for
> the intention not to answer any post having questions whose
> answers are already
> in the earlier Treatise on Zakat.
>
>  
>
> With dua,
>
>  
>
> Sadiq
>

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni KHUTBAH : SOME THOUGHTS ON SUNNIS AND SHI’AHS

 

THE STREET MIMBAR
JUM'AH KHUTBAH (16 January 2015)
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It is in such a manner that We make plain Our signs so that the course of the Criminals may become clear.
Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem.
Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), his Noble Companions and Family.
Dear Committed Muslims, brothers and sisters…
 
 
SOME THOUGHTS ON SUNNIS AND SHI'AHS
It is from a position of trying to control the damage that is being done that we have been expressing ourselves because of the sectarian misunderstandings, stereotypes, traditions, policies, institutions, individuals, etc. who have taken sides in what really should not be an issue with these types of sides to it. We will, in this effort, continue to be part of the solution as much as we can to contribute to Muslims thinking through their problems instead of becoming victims of these problems and that is in obedience and in compliance of Allah's insistence on our togetherness, our solidarity and our cohesion.
وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا
And hold on, all of you, to Allah's fortified extension to you and be not divided… (Surah Aal Imran verse 103)
In the first instance one of the issues that some sectarians dwell on and they bring this issue up in their own circles and when the circumstances permit they try to go public with it or they do go public with it and that is the issue that "some Muslims have another Qur'an." Of course this is bogus. All Muslims have one Qur'an beginning with Surah Al Fatihah and ending with Surah Al Mu'awwadatayn, (i.e.) Surah Al Falaq and Surah An Naas and all the surahs in-between exactly as they are arranged with their ayaat, with their punctuation marks, etc. All the Muslims share this. There's no room for someone to say to some other Muslim "other Muslims have another Qur'an." This is a lie! Just because we contribute to that lie… How do we contribute to it? How does the average Muslim contribute to this lie? The average Muslim contributes to it because he's unfamiliar with the other Muslims- that's how he contributes to it. He doesn't know the other Muslim. They don't know each other. When people don't know each other any type of fabrication can be thrown out there to the public- just like this. What becomes a little argumentative here- this is what the sectarians on the Sunni side, (and, once again, we don't know how many times we have to repeat this (but) when we use the word Sunni here it's being used as it is traditional defined not as it is accurately defined)- they say "OK- have you read Al Kafi?" This is a book that- once again because of the ignorance (with the result that) Muslims don't know each other- some Muslims who are on the Sunni side say "these Shi'is have a book called Al Kafi and that is the equivalent to, in the Sunni realm Sahihayn Al Bukhari and Muslim." That's not accurate; that's not the truth of the matter. So these people who create and then spread this type of misinformation (are) obviously working on the ignorance of the Muslims. This is our ignorance that they are working on. If we knew each other no one can come and say "some Muslims have another Qur'an." But here they are! They dig up somewhere some publication somewhere along the line that says "in the Kafi, itself, the original Qur'an had 17,000 ayaat in it." Now we don't dismiss that some publication of this book had a statement like that in it but who said that and who believes that?! Allah did not say that, the Prophet did not say that, no Imam said that. Some person who put together some hadiths said something like that or it is reported in one of the additions that he said something like that. So what? Many people say a lot of things! You are going to judge what one person of a certain persuasion said and then generalise that and say "all of the people belonging to that certain persuasion believe in that statement"?! That's not the case. The problem here, (if we're going to learn from our history and our mistakes), is we contribute to an issue like this. If Muslims who are Sunnis just go to where Shi'is are and listen to them and see if they can hear anyone saying "there is another Qur'an or that some ayaat have been taken away from the Qur'an." We can turn this the other way around- if someone wants to counter this he can go to some of the sahih hadiths in the Sunni literature. In the sihah of the Sunnis there is a hadith that says there were certain ayaat in the Qur'an that no longer exist. Does any Sunni believe that? Absolutely not! What are you going to take? A "sahih hadith" like that?! Another hadith says Surah Al Ahzaab used to be such and such times more than it is right now meaning a great proportion of Surah Al Ahzaab disappeared. Any Sunni believes that? No. If Shi'is were visiting Sunnis in their Islamic Centres and wherever they speak they would realise no Sunni believes this. No Muslim believes in something like the Qur'an has extra things in it or it has minus things in it. The Qur'an is complete.
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ
Certainly We have brought into the consciousness of men this awareness, which is in reference to the Qur'an, and indeed, Allah says, We meaning divinity is preserving it. (Surah Al Hijr verse 9)
Every Muslim believes in this ayah. So how come someone comes along and tries to fabricate a lie that says "other Muslims believe in this lie." It is about time we put something like that behind our backs. Then, when we clear the issue on the Qur'an, (i.e.) all Muslims agree to this Qur'an; now there may be an issue of the Muslims themselves falling short of understanding the Qur'an- that's another issue; that's an issue to do with Muslims, it has nothing to do with the Qur'an itself. An ayah in the Qur'an says
وَقَالَ الرَّسُولُ يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِي اتَّخَذُوا هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُورًا
And the Messenger said "Oh my Sustainer, my people have abandoned this Qur'an. (Surah Al Furqan verse 30)
OK- that has to do with the human factor here. It has nothing to do with the impeccable feature of the Qur'an and these two issues should not be confused.
 
Then we come to the issue of ahadith. This is a very long and extended issue that has to do with the sanad of the hadith, (i.e.), you know the number of individuals who narrated these hadiths, how reliable are they, how trustworthy are they, their moral character, their social character, their communicative character, etc. Then it has to do with al matn, the content of the hadith itself. So there were those who said "they heard the hadith" and then the hadith itself. What type of meaning is it presenting? Around these two issues there have been much give and take throughout all of these years among all Muslims but the final judgement on the hadith is how well does it stand in the context of the Qur'an- that's how, in the final analysis, we verify whether a hadith is to be accepted or a hadith is not to be accepted. All Muslims agree that there are fabricated ahadith. Now you tell us, if there are fabricated hadiths which all Muslims agree to then are there not fabricated statements attributed to the Sahabis (radi Allahu anhum)? Are there not fabricated statements attributed to the Imams (radi Allahu anhum)? If the Prophet, himself, has fabricated statements (i.e.) things he never said but they are there in all Islamic literature- the Prophet said quote, quote, quote, quote… and when we put that quote in the climate of the Qur'an it doesn't stand! There's no authenticity to it! So how come all of us Muslims agree that yes there's been many ahadith that were attributed to the Prophet but the Prophet never said them but when it comes to a Sunni, (as an example), (and you) say a certain Sahabi has been reported to have said this that and the other but does not fit into the Qur'an so you should not accept it he has difficulty with that same thing?! When you come to a Shi'i (and) you say a certain hadith has been attributed to an Imam and this doesn't fit in the context of the Qur'an- he won't accept that. We are trying to tell everyone that the Prophet himself had false hadiths attributed to him so there are false hadiths attributed to everyone else and still because we choose to be ignorant of ourselves- a Sunni is ignorant or a Shi'i and a Shi'i is ignorant of a Sunni- this ignorance feeds the troublemakers. This is the heyday of the trouble makers!
 
Then we have the issue of As Sahaba. If you read the books that praise that word As Sahaba- we're talking about the word As Sahaba. There are many books out there, of course, in the Sunni context that speak night and day about the virtues of the Sahaba which is fine- there's no problem here; but when you come to try to understand who these Sahaba are, (i.e.), "can you just define for us who you mean by these Sahaba"? Here's where we begin to have difficulties because in the majority of all of this literature they count tens of thousands of Sahabis. Impossible! How do you define who a Sahabi is in the tens of thousands? Yes. In some of these books, at least, you'll find several thousand but these several thousand that are (not) defined in these books… The Qur'an speaks about the first Islamic society on earth in Al Madinah and in Al Hejaz- that first Islamic society had Munafiqun in it. Who are the Munafiqun? Just like you have scores of thousands of Sahabis you have just a few Munafiqin that you can count with the fingers of your two hands- that's all?! With all the ayaat about the Munafiqin you only have a few of them?! Something is imbalanced here. Something is wrong. But we are not healthy enough to self criticise. This is part of our problem. Listen to this very closely brothers and sisters- part of our problem is we don't have the capacity to critique ourselves and what we mean by critiquing ourselves we don't mean a Sunni critiquing a Shi'i or vice versa- that's very difficult. It gets very difficult because of the traditionalism of a thousand or more years that have built up like a separation wall no Sunni is going to listen to a critical Shi'i speaking and no Shi'i is going to listen to a critical Sunni speaking. It's very difficult to happen but what will happen and it becomes much more difficult to deal with is if a Sunni self critiques his own history, his own background, his own traditions and a Shi'i does the same thing. This is where we are lacking. No one wants to do something like that. Why? If you are confident of Allah's word and guidance what's wrong with you? Why can't we begin this process and cleanse these impurities that have built up in our own respective contexts? Why can't we do that? This is what we need and we don't need just some average person who thinks he has the capacity to do that. We need scholars who have spent much time and effort in this area to do it and to do it with utter sincerity (and) utter selflessness. When they stand up and they say "this is our mistake" then those who are listening who identify with this particular person can accept something like that, whether he is a Sunni or whether he is a Shi'i.
 
Another issue that not many people pay much attention to is that some Muslims resist calling other Muslims Mu'mins. They are careful not to use the word Mu'min when it comes to another Muslim who doesn't agree with their particular version of things. This is dangerous. This is extremely self defeating. We have to be able to do something like that. We have to be able to say that anyone who meets the quality and condition of iman is a bona fide Mu'min and not come and almost cryptically communicate that "I will deny the other Muslim that description of iman." This does not work for Islamic solidarity and Islamic togetherness.
 
Another issue for us is you come across the word many times Jamharatu Ulema' Al Muslimin- this is particular in Sunni Islamic literature- which means the consensual opinion of Islamic scholars. We ask you- this word, may be in the past had some type of understanding but take today's world- when you Jamharatu Ulema' Al Muslimin, the consensus of the opinion of Islamic scholars- where? How are you and I going to ascertain that there is a consensus among Islamic scholars here in this time? Where? Who? Everyone is divided. Everyone lives in their national shell. Who has brought the Ulema' together, asked them these pertinent questions and then received from them the type of consensual answer? Where? Who has asked the Ulema' brave questions about wealth and poverty in this world so that we come up with Ra'i Jamharatu Ulema' Al Muslimin? Who? Has anyone heard of something like this? Can anyone tell us what the opinion of the scholars who come from the Far East of the Muslim geography to the Far West of the Muslim geography, from the furthest North to the furthest South is- all of these Ulema'? There's not one forum in the world today that brings them together so that we know how they think about a particular practical issue- not one! So how can anyone use a word like Jamharatu Ulema' Al Muslimin when they make it impossible for them to meet yet they still use these types of words and these types of words are accepted by many people. When you do have a cluster of Ulema', they cluster around a particular treasury (and) a particular nation-state! They haven't broken out of their intellectual tribalism so how do they use this type of word- Wa Qala Jamharatu Ulema' Al Muslimin, (i.e.) the overwhelming majority of Ulema' said such and such? Where are the overwhelming majority of Ulema' who said such and such? We don't even know how many Ulema' there are in this world! Has anyone taken a count of the qualifies Ulema' who qualify for ijtihad in this world? So if we can't even count them, how can we claim that they have some type of unified opinion about a certain matter? Take the issue in today's world of Aal Saud- poor us, the committed Muslims! How come everyone repeats this false designation, Aal Saud? Just give it a little thought- instead of saying Aal Saud why can't you say Bani Saud? Just like we have Bani Isra'eel (and) we had Bani Umayah we have Bani Saud. They all go perfectly. They fit together in a perfect way. Why is it very acceptable (that) if you go to Saudi Arabia and you say Aal Saud that no one is going to look at you awkwardly? "What are you saying? Aal Saud? Shush! You can't say Aal Saud. No. It's normal. You can say something like that but on the other hand if someone wants to say a speech about Aal Muhammad then this is a threat. Something's wrong here. The person is suspect. He's up to something. He's speaking about Aal Muhammad." It's haraam to speak about Aal Muhammad but it's halal to speak about Aal Saud! This is the world we are living in. They've gotten away with this description to such a degree that not many of us have turned on our minds to think about what we say. We don't even give thought to what we say. This terminology has even broken language barriers. It went beyond Arabic speakers and now the word Aal Saud is used in English and probably in many other languages without any negative connotation whatsoever. Now compare the way they are running their country today with the way- we don't know if Aal Muhammad were given a chance to run Arabia had the Umawis not come and stolen legitimacy and authority (how it would be)- but if Aal Muhammad were to rule who could say that the rule we have today in Arabia compares to the rule we would have had in Arabia 1,300 years ago or so. But it's our lazy mindedness (and) it's our ignorance that feeds the sectarianism that they are working on.
 
Dear committed brothers and sisters…
Just to draw your attention to one little matter and one little issue that will tell me and you how Allah's words are begging us to understand their meanings. We think every post elementary Muslim is familiar with the word Alladhina Aamanu wa Amilu As Salihat. That's a phrase that's used so many times in the Qur'an. The word amilu is used to mean that an amal is inclusive of what you say and what you do. The word amal and its derivatives, whether they are nouns or verbs, means what you say and what you do. So the word amal doesn't tolerate a split between what is said and what is done. On the other hand there's another word in the Qur'an, (that we think most of you are familiar with), yaf'alun or taf'alun or if'alu. Of course, in English when translators come to translate these words they give them the same meaning which is "to do" not distinguishing the fact that al fa'l is something independent of what is being said not like al amal. Al amal is something which is inclusive of what is said and what is being done. Let's take a short surah which most of you have memorized. In Surah Al Asr
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ
We are advised to mutually and in an institutional way remind ourselves of truth and of perseverance with it (Surah Al Asr verse 3)
So the word amilu as salihaat is inclusive not only of doing what is right but also of saying what is right conterminously. They go with each with other; that is why after that their collective or synergistic counsel of al haqq and perseverance comes to underline the meaning of amilu as salihaat. On the other hand for the people who have separated church from state, (we use this as the expression is used in the English language (and) it is applicable to Christian, Jew, Muslim and whoever is secular out there), there is an ayah in Surah As Saff in which Allah says
لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
… why do you say that which you do not do? (Surah As Saff verse 2)
So al fa'l here has broken away from what was said. There's a separation of speech from action. This may seem as a subtlety, (and we hope some of you have understood what was said), but if you go and begin to re-read the same ayaat that you read previously making a distinction between ya'malun and yaf'alun in the Qur'an you will see at the most basic of levels- forget about separation of religion from politics and Mosque from parliament and church from state and the level of sociology and politics and decisions even at the level of a person's feelings and a person's motions- there has to be an integration of what is said and what is done- a subtle issue that has been buried by centuries of ignorance, the centuries of ignorance right now that we are trying our best to dispel from this position every week so that these who are ruling in our lands who are creating these innocent lives that are being killed in the tens of thousands- just a recent number that was (a) statistic used in the news just in the past 24 hours (said) in the last three or four months $1billion was used in a thousand and four hundred sautés in certain areas, this means attacker planes, fighters and bombers attacking certain positions in Iraq and in Syria. Today the speaker in the Haram in Makkah gave a long and winded khutbah against the extremists. It is interesting (that) in this khutbah that khatib didn't mention that these extremists that he is talking about- he said "they have misled the Muslims (and) they have caused unspeakable damage", (we're paraphrasing his words), "they have served the purposes of all the enemies of the Muslims" which we don't think he's exaggerating a bit but he doesn't trace this issue to its origins. These same people that he's speaking about are the ones who right now are introducing an educational curriculum in the territories that they control that promotes the ideas of the Masha'ikh and the Shuyukh and the Ulema' of the current Imam in the Haram who's speaking against them. You speak about contradictions and conflicts? You speak about schizophrenia and you speak about a type of self-centredness? He didn't have the courage to pursue this problem to its origins. Its origins are there where he's speaking from, (i.e.) the land that is occupied by his masters and he doesn't have the courage to speak truth to power and in the meantime- they don't say this, they plan this- may the Muslim's ignorance increase and may the Muslim's wars consume more lives (and) may the Muslim's divisions multiply. That's what they are interested in. Who's interested in the togetherness of the Muslims? Who's interested in defeating the common enemy of the Muslims at its roots which is the ignorance of Muslims pertaining to their own selves- their contemporary self, their historical self (and) their denominational self? At all levels there's a permeating ignorance and should that ignorance be fought in the Masajid?! Perish the thought! The Masjid should be a place that promotes ignorance- that's their official policy. If someone wants to speak a little (or) a small proportion of words that enlighten the public by the Qur'an and by the Sunnah then that person is suspect. It's about time this charade came to an end. The least we can do is to begin to think for ourselves against those who have been studying us for generations and centuries, (i.e.), "what is going to tick that Muslim off? What is going to make that Muslim upset? What is going to cause one Muslim to hate another Muslim?" (If) you go to a university of church and you give a presentation about Islam and one of the first questions if not the first question they'll ask you is "what is the difference between a Muslim Shi'i and a Muslim Sunni?" This is not a Muslim who's asking but he's listening to a lecture about Islam. What is this? They know (in) our Muslim rulers who's Sunni and who's Shi'i. We ask you, do you know the persuasion of a Yahudi ruler (or) of a Nasrani ruler? What church they go to? Are they liberal or are they orthodox? What denomination (or) what sect are they from? Do you know? How come they know everything about us and we barely know anything about them? How come the information about us is splashed all over the place and the information about them is kept silent? Poor us- we never ask! Pity our own selves- this is once again attributable to our inability to think. That's what is required. That's what we have to do. 
 
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 2 January 2015 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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