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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 brothers and dear committed sisters…
Audio on http://www.islamiccenterdc.com/apps/podcast/podcast/353361 (03-13-2015)
FANATICSM AROUND AHMAD IBN HANBAL
Allah says in an ayah in Surah Al Baqarah and this ayah is speaking to Bani Isra'eel in particular and whoever falls into their description in general.
أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
Do you order (or) do you instruct people towards virtue and then you forget about your own selves; in the meantime you are reading the scripture and you are mentally aware of what you are doing? Do you not have any reasoning in you? (Surah Al Baqarah verse 44)
In you another ayah in Surah As Saff, and once again it speaks to the same crowd of people.
لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ اللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
… why do you say what you do not do? It is malice in its utmost form to say what you do not do. (Surah As Saff verse 2-3)
These ayaat are quoted simply because we have clones of Bani Isra'eel and clowns of Bani Isra'eel who are running the show today with the worldly power- and that power is all the way from money to military- and in the process as they are running this show they want to play us for the fools and we give them that chance if we abandon Allah and His Prophet. These clones and clowns Bani Saud- they are the ones who are generating hatred and divisions which result in bloodshed and wars. We're not speaking in a vacuum. Recent figures that came out from Iraq, (we don't know how accurate these figures are but they've been out there supposedly from reliable sources), say the devastation of that country has resulted in 1.2million widows. Imagine a society that has a population of somewhere around 35 million having 1.2 widows in it. The number of orphans, (according to this same source of information), is about 1.5million orphans in that society. We had information earlier that the orphans are around 4million. Whatever the source of information is or (whatever) the accuracy of the information is, something happened to us that we made this type of carnage and chaos possible. We tried to put our finger on the problem in these past khutbahs in these past years and we will continue to refer to the source of this problem being the kingdom of hatred that finances and sponsors and guides or rather misguides those who come under its sway. We do this without any malice in our hearts (and) in ourselves. We do this without any sense of revenge. We do this for truth sake. Truth is an absent element nowadays. People don't want to speak the truth and if truth is absent in the whole world it never should be absent on jum'ah at this time. What do these fanatical Hanbalis say? Now, there are Hanbalis who are decent people; just like any other school of thought has decent people to it but there are some who are not decent and they generate bad feelings among the Muslims. They say- these are their own books- we've mentioned in previous khutbahs several of these books. A reminder of a few of them: 1- the book called As Sunnah by Abdillah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal; 2-Tabaqat Al Hanabilah; 3-ibn Al Athir; 4-ibn Maskaway and there are others. What do they say in their own books? We are taking their own words and presenting them as the truth that has been for a long time on their own leech. They say
الرفدة اكثر من اليهود والنصارى
جاء في كتاب السنة وطبقات الحنابلة وابن ال اثير و ابن مسكوي
The word Ar Rafidha literally means the rejectionists and this a derogatory term that they use in their books to refer to the Islamic opposition in the early Islamic history. That's how they generalize and the word the way is constructed in Arabic would come out to sound like this in English: the rejectionists. So to bring the flavor out it is like saying the rejectionists, (i.e.), the Muslim opposition in early Islamic history and by that they in particular mean the Shi'is because they were the bulk of this opposition. So that's who they are referring to when they use the word Ar Rafidha. Thank Allah that this word has been buried. One of the virtues of 13 or 10 or five centuries of ignorance, if there is any virtue to ignorance, is that a word with such connotations has fallen out of use. It is no longer used; but if you go back to their books and you go back into their internal discussions they use it. They say Ar Rafidha have more kufr in them than Al Yahud and An Nasara. Is there any surprise that they've been treating Muslims like this for all of these years? Jum'ah in the street! Because in their view we are a type of opposition. We don't know what they call us but they have certain words that they can coin "so yeah- let them pray in the street." These are the same people who say
الحنفية كاللصوص
جاء في كتاب السنة وطبقات الحنابلة وابن ال اثير و ابن مسكوي
These are their words. Those who are of the Hanafi school of thought are like thieves. They are the ones who describe the Ashaa'irah. The Ashaa'irah are probably 90% of the Sunnis in the world who use at tawil as an instrument to understand Allah's book. Some people think that there is a bone between the Shi'is and the Wahabis; this issue goes much beyond Shi'is and Wahabis. These types (i.e.) the fanatics of the Hanbalis also accuse the rest of the Muslims with accusations that have no basis. So they say the Ashaa'irah, (i.e.), those who agree with that particular person Abdul Al Hassan Al Asha'ri who took a position that is reasonable but they disagree with are just like atheists and just like the Unix of Mu'tazilah. We're going to read these words in Arabic because they're taken from their own books.
والاشاعرة ملحدين ومخانيث المعتزلة الحنفية كاللصوص
جاء في كتاب السنة وطبقات الحنابلة وابن ال اثير و ابن مسكوي
These are the same people now who run this centre and buy off consciousness.
The fanatics of these Hanabilah laid siege to that famous historian and Mufassir called Abu Jarir in At Tabari. They laid siege to his house until he died and was buried in his own residence. Who did this? Why did they do something like this? If they disagree with someone, OK, you disagree with them! Let his own presentation of ideas either gain him credibility or gain him notoriety. Why do you do this to people? Then they accused him of being of At Tashayu' in some of their books or in other books he is referred to as Ar Rafidha and in other books he is a Mulhid. Accusations that come free and these accusations were buried in their own books until they had the petro-wealth that they have today to use it to poison the Islamic atmosphere. Ibn Al Athir in his writings says "there came a time roughly in the fourth hijri century when these Hanbali types, because the rulers were their supporters, began accusing whoever they disagreed with of immorality." During the time of one of their scholars called Al Barbarhari- listen to this- if they disagreed with you and you went to the Masjid they would go to a blind person and take that blind person and tell him to strike you. They used to use blind people for physical abuse of Muslims in the Masajid. Is it any wonder of what they are doing today? The same historian, ibn Al Athir, mentions concerning the events of the year 567 in the hijri calendar that they poisoned a Shafi'i faqih who had nothing good to say about them. This faqih's name is Al Buri. How did they poison him? They put poison in some of the sweets that they brought to him and he was inflicted with a severe case of diarrhea and he died as a consequence of that. These are the same people who run these Masajid not because of their brains but because of their money. Then, whoever they disagree with they begin to accuse him of accusations that are baseless. They accused Al Jahm ibn Safwan, one of the opposition figures during the Umawi dynasty, that "he wanted to erase an ayah from the Book of Allah and they tell us which ayah it is."
الرَّحْمَٰنُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ اسْتَوَىٰ
Ar Rahman is above the throne. (Surah Ta-Ha verse 5)
You know there is a big mental issue about the word istawa. How does the word istawa relate to Allah? So they said "this person, who disagrees with them, wanted to eliminate this ayah from Al Kitab Al Aziz." They accused him of saying "as salah and as salaam upon Nabi Isa but not upon the Prophet of Allah and that he used to say that intoxicants are halal." This is how they operate. They put a person whom they disagree with under a frame and a structure of accusations and fabrications and out and out lies to discredit that person from the public. Speaking about an intoxicant is haram or halal- we all know intoxicants are haram. Any elementary Muslim knows this fact but recently in the past couple or few days in the past week one of these Tunisian scholars- and here we are talking about a person who is a university educated person not a religious scholar in the sense of an A'lim from Al Ulema'- no. An intellectual type! He comes on TV. This is an elderly person, probably in his early 90's and he says "Al Khamar is halal." Of course he causes all the Tunisian society to buzz with ideas for and against what he said. He related his sentence to the Prophet's hadith in which the Prophet tells his wife, A'ishah, to bring him al khumra.
ناوليني الخمرة من المسجد
جاء في كتاب سنن إبن ماجه
This is what happens when we have pseudo-intellectuals. He confused the word khumra with the word khamra. So he said "this is a hadith- you Muslims go and look at this hadith." This is the word but this person, because of his substandard knowledge of the Arabic language, didn't differentiate between the word in which the khaa has a dhamma on it from the same word that the khaa had a fat'ha on it and he rattles this statement in front of a population but the citation here is where are the Saudi Hanbali fanatics? They are quick to accuse Ulema' and make books about it but when someone like that, who probably is a secular person and because they owe their allegiance to secularism he goes unnoticed. Why aren't they presenting khutbahs and why aren't they writing and distributing free books about such individuals who are aplenty in our times?
They also say in their books "whoever says the Qur'an is created is worshipping an idol and is saying something that Al Yahud and An Nasara would never say or did never say." In their books, (this is from their books), they claimed "Abu Hanifa said if the Prophet was living during the time of Abu Hanifa the Prophet would learn from Abi Hanifa or the Prophet would endorse the opinions of Abi Hanifa." This is the gall that they have in hurting the feelings of other Muslims! They also said "whoever doubts. (i.e.), any Muslim who doubts that Ar Rafidha and Ash Shi'ah and As Sufiya and Al Ashaa'irah are Kafirs, he himself is a Kafir because of his doubt." This is the type of information now that is bringing us these fanatics with gun powder, with artillery, with means of death and destruction. It's easy to say these words in some halaqa but it is deadly to believe in these words in a society- as you can see. Then, in their literature and in their books, in their khutbahs (and) in their halaqaat they attack the Sufi Muslims because the Sufi Muslims speak highly and with respect about the Awliya'. They make that a point of contention and a point of animosity. The Sufi should not be speaking with adoration for the Awliya'. The ayah in the Qur'an says
أَلَا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاءَ اللَّهِ لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ
These acclaimed, approved and applauded individuals of Allah have no fear that they carry and they have no grief that weigh in on them… (Surah Yunus verse 62)
But they don't want to listen to what Allah has to say. Then when it comes to the Shi'is, just like they attack the Sufis they attack the Shi'is because they say "the Shi'is say that the Imams are ma'sums" and they latch on to some of the definition of that isma to they try to exclude Shi'is from being Muslims. They attack the Ashaa'irah, (i.e.), the rest of the Muslims that don't belong to them because they show an affinity and an admiration for the mental contribution of Abi Al Hassan Al Ash'ari. Now, as a footnote here we speak about the Imams. Why don't we have Muslims now after all of this time identifying with the Imams and then exposing the false rulers from Muawiyah onwards? Why don't we have Muslims capable of doing that? This issue of Sunni and Shi'i has been so sectarianized that it even becomes somewhat puzzling if a Muslim in his right mind wanted to say "I identify with the Imams that we are speaking about (or) that the Shi'is speaking about. I have nothing to do with Muawiyah or As Safah of Bani Abbas or any of these other dynastic rulers. I have nothing to do with them. If I was to be relocated at that time I would be in opposition to them but you know what? I don't think Imams are ma'sums. These are my Imams, these are my leaders but I don't think they are ma'sum." That would put a monkey ranch in this polarization of sectarianism but sectarians don't want you thinking that way. It causes a problem for them. That was just a footnote. Back to these fanatical Hanbalis. OK- the Sufis speak highly of the Awliya'. The Shi'is speak highly about the Imams. The Sunnis- not these fanatical types of Hanbalis- speak highly of the Mu'tazilis, about the Ashaa'irah, about the Maturidiyah, etc. and you have a problem with that? Look at yourself! The ayaat that we quoted at the beginning
أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
Do you order (or) do you instruct people towards virtue and then you forget about your own selves; in the meantime you are reading the scripture and you are mentally aware of what you are doing? Do you not have any reasoning in you? (Surah Al Baqarah verse 44)
لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ اللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
… why do you say what you do not do? It is malice in its utmost form to say what you do not do. (Surah As Saff verse 2-3)
So look at yourselves! How do you speak about Ahmad ibn Hanbal? Don't you glorify him? How about ibn Taymiyah? And how about ibn Al Qayyim Al Jawziya? And how about Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab? How do you speak about them? You can see a straw in your enemy's eye but you can't see a log in your own eye?! Now let's see how they give a puff piece of ego inflation to Ahmad ibn Hanbal. What do they say? These are their own books. Tabaqat Al Hanabilah says
فهو كافر أحمد من أبغض
جاء في كتاب طبقات الحنابلة
Whoever hates Ahmad ibn Hanbal is a Kafir. Where did that come from? It came from them. They said in a book called Manaqib Ahmad, The Positive Traits of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, of course,
الزنديق من ان الامام أحمد بن حنبل يعرف به المسلم
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
You can differentiate between a Muslim and a blasphemer by knowing Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
الخضر والنبي موسى اثنياء على احمد بن حنبل
جاء في كتاب طبقات الحنابلة
(In the) same book Tabaqat Al Hanabilah they say Khidr, ar rajul as salih, in the narrative of Musa in Surah Al Kahf and the Prophet Musa, both of them, had good things to say about Ahmad ibn Hanbal. These are their words.
من عبادة سنة بن حنبل خير من أحمد نظرة
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
A glance from Ahmad ibn Hanbal is better than worshipping for one full year. Ahmad ibn Hanbal's grave- he is buried in Baghdad- is one of the four graves in Baghdad that will protect Baghdad from all inflictions. Well where is it? Look at what is happening today. This is how they raise the status of their own and they want to knock everyone else down. Where is this takfir coming from? (And) killing other Muslims? (And) hating other Muslims? From words and statements like this.
They also said in the same book, Tabaqat Al Hanabilah, listen to this-
ان تبرك بقبر احمد بن حنبل مشروع
جاء في كتاب طبقات الحنابلة
It is legitimate to seek barakah from the grave of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, (i.e.), where he's buried. Well- what happened here? They don't accept us going to the Prophet's grave for the blessings of remembering the Prophet and emotionally identifying with the Prophet- that is haram on the Prophet but halal for Ahmad ibn Hanbal according to their own books.
Then in the same book, Manaqib Ahmad, they say,
ان احمد غضب على منكر ونكير لم يسأل في القبر
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
Listen to this- Ahmad ibn Hanbal was angry at the two angels that come to you in your grave when you are in your eternal rest. When you're buried Munkar and Nakir, the two names of these two angels come and they ask you who is your Lord? And you say Allah is my Lord and the other questions that they ask. So when they came to Ahmad ibn Hanbal he was angry with them and he said to them you mean to ask someone like me who is my Lord? And we quote
و قال لهما ا لمثل يقال من ربك ، فاعتظر له
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
They both apologized to him. This is in their books.
ان الجن نعت احمد وفاته اربعين صباحا
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
Then the Jinn, the other intellectual species that shares existence with us, spread the news of Ahmad ibn Hanbal's death 40 mornings before he died. What is this? The Jinn know al ghayb? These are the people you can't speak to them! They don't want to talk.
In their books they say Ahmad ibn Hanbal in his dream saw that he was giving bai'ah to Allah and that Allah will show Himself off in front of the angels with Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
أحمد بن حنبل إن الله عز وجل أمر الشهداء وأهل السماوات أن يحضروا جنازة
جاء في كتاب حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء
(And) that Allah ordered all of the people in the heavens and all of the martyrs to attend the funeral of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Now you tell us this is not nonsense! This is not aqidah that they speak about- the aqidah as sahihah!?
Then they go on and say once again in Manaqib Ahmad
وانه بظرك و زار قبر احمد يوم الاربعاء و دعا الله رزق الله السع
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
Anyone who's in distress, (i.e.), you fell on hard times and you go to visit the grave of Ahmad ibn Hanbal on Wednesday and then you ask Allah there for provision He will give you a type of comfort to follow.
وان كل من دفن فى المقبرة دفن فيها احمد مغفور له ببركت احمد
جاء في كتاب مناقب احمد
And that everyone who's buried in the cemetery in which Ahmad ibn Hanbal is buried in shall be forgiven their sins and their mistakes because of the blessings of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. These are the people that we are dealing with. These are the people who are inside this Islamic Centre and inside of other Centers over here directly or indirectly through their bank accounts or their personal contacts. The problem with these people is they don't understand even the words they use. When they always repeat the word as salaf as salih- who's as salaf as salih? Ask them if you come in contact with them: what do you mean by as salaf as salih? They will probably say Ahl As Sunnah. Well, who is Ahl As Sunnah? Every Muslim is from Ahl As Sunnah because every Muslim agrees to the Prophet's leadership and the Prophet's guidance- every Muslim. They say Ahl Al Hadith. Who's Ahl Al Hadith? Ask them who is Ahl Al Hadith? Every Muslim is bound by the Prophet's hadith provided that the hadith is authentic and the hadith can be verified and contextualized in the Qur'an. We all agree to the hadith. Then they come to the word bid'ah. This is one of their pivotal words. What do you mean by bid'ah? Is a sunnah hasana a bid'ah? What is a bid'ah? Is flying in an airplane a bid'ah? Are things we do today that were never done in the time of Allah's Prophet, (i.e.), things that are of utility, things that are moral, things that are not in violation of al ma'ruf, things that are counter to al munkar- are all of these things bid'ah? Then they say "ok-we refer to what the Sahaba used to do." Well what did the Sahaba (radi Allahu anhum) used to do? Did all of the Sahaba agree on everything? No! So what are you talking about? The Sahaba amongst themselves had their differences. Can we just come and look at these differences and discuss them? No! Because they are counter intellectual. They are anti-rational. They will not discuss these issues. They promote hate from their own books. There are some quotations here from their hate literature but the point is their problem with their inability to sit down with the other Muslim and sort these things out- this is their problem. They take a position that they say "they are against arguments.' Well everyone is against an argument. If what you mean by an argument is you want to score a point (then) everyone is against it. If you mean by an argument you want to prove your superiority to the other Muslim (then) everyone is against it but you can't be against peaceful exchange of ideas if you want to call that an argument because wasn't there an argument between Ibrahim (alayhi as salaam) and Nimrud (or) between Ibrahim and the potentate of his time? Didn't they argue? This guys says- astaghfirullah- he is God. And Ibrahim tells him well Allah causes the sun to raise from the East. If you are what you say you are cause it to rise from the West. There was a give and take here. It wasn't like Ibrahim was running away (saying) I don't want to speak to the guy, he's a Kafir like the attitude of these people is. There was a type of exchange between Musa (alayhi as salaam) and Firawn. Musa didn't say I don't want to speak to Firawn. He's a Kafir. There was an exchange between Muhammad and Quraysh. We all know this and they should know this and they should know better. The Prophet didn't run away from them because his reasoning, his mind (and) his information was such that he cared for the people and he wanted to communicate this care to them. But these people don't care- they want to kill!
Dear committed brothers and dear committed sisters…
Muslims have to get to the root of the problem and we have to do it in a way that avoids emotional polarization. We have to set aside our ego and pursue the truth wherever that truth may lead us. If that truth is going to lead us to identify criminals who are hiding behind false images then that's what we're going to have to do. It is surprising that after all of these years many Muslims have difficulty in evaluating what is happening in this world. We, all Muslims, are suffering from the occupation of our Holy lands and all of us concedes that. No one argues. Al Quds is under occupation. Probably 99% of the Muslims agree to that. Difficulty begins to emerge when you tell the same Muslims that we have Makkah and Al Madinah that are also under occupation. They begin to have difficulties with this. "What do you mean? How can Makkah and Al Madinah be under occupation?" When they pose that type of response or question that indicates that they don't have enough information and they simply have to be supplied with this information. This is the call of our time. We have to fill in the mental vacuum with the correct information about these rulers. What is happening now- which is left to non Muslims or non committed Muslims to speak about- is there is shifting of powers that has been going on in and around the Holy land. The process of liberating Al Yemen from its own type of occupation in all of these years has sent shockwaves in the spinal cord of the rulers in Arabia. The king who died a few weeks ago had aligned his kingdom with Egypt. The new king now seems to be distancing himself from Egypt. The gestures right now (is) he wants to align himself with Qatar and with Turkey which may cause the ruler of Egypt- who knows?! but the volatility of it- to make a surprise visit either to Damascus or to Tehran. In the middle of all of this it seems like people have lost their compass. They can't figure out- much of what is happening is precisely because there is a people's movement to get rid of the occupation of the Holy lands. The problem is (that) between now and that time we are going to have to liberate our own language (and) our own words from centuries of traditionalism and centuries of misinformation and that task can be done by you. You can begin the process of liberation by cleaning your language, by polishing your words (and) by factualizing your statements. The liberation begins then and there.
Dear committed Muslims…
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 13 March 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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