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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/354455 (05-01-2015)
The khutbahs on Fridays are meant to centre around the concept of taqwa.
وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ ۖ وَيُعَلِّمُكُمُ اللَّهُ
… and protect yourselves against Allah, for in this manner Allah will teach you… (Surah Al Baqarah verse 282)
إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا
For sure, for those who are on guard against Allah there is success. (Surah An Naba' verse 31)
اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ
… guard against or be warned against His corrective power presence as is due to Him and do not expire except in a state of submission and surrender to the only Power, Authority and Divinity that is legitimate. (Surah Aal Imran verse 102-103)
وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُ مَخْرَجًا
… and he who is conscious of Allah's power Allah will offer him a way out of the circumstances (in which human forces are deployed against those who are committed to Allah and are confident in His power presence here and now). (Surah At Talaaq verse 2)
In one of the hadiths of Allah's Prophet in which he tries to clarify the meaning to taqwa he says
التَّقْوَى هَاهُنَا ، التَّقْوَى هَاهُنَا، ثُمَّ يُشِيرُ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى صَدْرِهِ) جاء في كتاب الإيمان لابن أبي شيبة (
At taqwa is here and he points with his hand to his heart and chest. This is not an easy issue as thinking Muslims may realize- speaking about the taqwa of Allah at a time and in a generation when taqwa seems to be a lost cause. It is not easy to speak about being vigilant and on guard and attentive to the power presence of Allah when there are so many other powers distracting from Him. We're supposed to be like this- al Jum'ah with its khutbah, (and let us remind you, the Prophet of Allah presented to the Muslims (khutbahs) for ten years after his exodus to Al Madinah. He spent 10 years (and in) every year there is 52 khutbahs. 10 times 52 is 520 Jum'ah khutbahs. Virtually all of them are gone! Meaning we don't have these khutbahs in our possession today. What we do have is Allah's instructions that this day is a day of taqwa and the khutbah is a khutbah centered around taqwa, (i.e.), Allah's power presence in our lives. Now, we can take a look at today's world and unfortunately, (we say this with pain in the heart), we Muslims are forced to speak about trivial issues (and) nonsensical affairs because of the way we are programmed. Since we are small until we grow old we are programmed to think about Islam being the rituals of Islam, (i.e.), if a person satisfies his or her rituals then he has completed his or her Islam. This is the way we are programmed and conditioned to think. How many ayaat in Allah's clear and crystal clear book say
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ
… Those who are committed themselves in faith to Allah and do what is right…
The description Amilu as salihat is absent. There's no amal as salih coming from the aggregate Muslims (or) coming from the 2 billion Muslims in the world. Can anyone point to an amal as salih that stands up in world affairs today? Can anyone point to any of this? Why? Because we are drowned! They drown us in issues like what? If you go to Islamic halaqat, to Islamic discussions, to Islamic lectures, to Islamic khutbahs even on Fridays, what do some or most of these speakers speak about? They speak about issues like these: "is a Muslim a true Muslim or not?" Meaning they want to scrutinize a persons aqidah. This is their key word- aqidah. OK- what is it to be a true Muslim to these types of people who are financed? There's money coming to them and they're financed to speak along these lines. If you have a true aqidah you believe Allah has a hand- this is what they say; or Allah has an eye. How do they do this? They go to Allah's book, of course. They say look at the ayah; the ayah says
يَدُ اللَّهِ فَوْقَ أَيْدِيهِمْ
… Allah's hand is over their hand… (Surah Al Fath verse 10)
The literal translation of the ayah is
يَدُ اللَّهِ فَوْقَ أَيْدِيهِمْ
… Allah's hand is over their hand… (Surah Al Fath verse 10)
So they say to some of the Muslims who may understand the word hand not the configuration that we have "a hand has five fingers." We're not going to say Allah has five fingers. Remember this is how they want us to think. We're only presenting these examples for you to understand how far we are in the depths of ignorance. What is happening today? There are wars against us. Even here, not far from where we are geographically, in our location in Baltimore there are confrontations that are going on. Innocent people are being killed either individually, (as we have), and there's demonstrations and protests or massively like we have in the war torn areas of our Islamic geography. These are real issues happening. OK- you would think on a day of taqwa like this that people, at least some of them, who have pertinent information with them would connect the dots. There has to be taqwa of Allah in these issues and affairs of war, life and death issues, breaking peoples' bones, maiming them (and) injuring them until the end of their lives, sending them to cemeteries and graves. These are issues of taqwa but they don't want us (and) they don't want our minds to explore these areas with our God-given information. "Oh you are not permitted to go into that direction with the ayaat and the ahadith." So what are we permitted to do? We are permitted to argue. That's what they permit us to do. They permit us to argue and then to hate each other because some of us say "Allah has a hand" and they want to understand this literally and if you disagree with them your aqidah is corrupt and if your aqidah is corrupt then you are sahib bid'ah and on and on they go. Now, this is where they don't want us to use our minds; just think for a moment. The literal translation of the ayah in the Qur'an that says (or) that refers to Allah's eye or eyes- there's no ayah in the Qur'an that refers to two eyes. We're sorry to go into this territory but we're compelled to do it. We're forced to do it because it's imposed on us by people who are occupying our Masajid (and) who are occupying our manabir. When Allah speaks about Nuh (alayhi as salaam) and the vessel that he built He says
تَجْرِي بِأَعْيُنِنَا
It sails with our eyes… (Surah Al Qamar verse 14)
That's the literal translation of the ayah. Now if I as a Muslim want to understand this ayah- we're not debating the meanings of this ayah. We all, as Muslims, concur (that) this is an ayah. Now if there are some types in the Arabian Peninsula who have all of this money and all of this wealth who understand Our Eyes to be the eyes that we are familiar with, with the 20/20 vision that we have (and) if they want to transfer this to Allah that's their understanding. We're not going to say they are not Muslims. We're not going to accuse them of having a less aqidah. No. But if we understand
تَجْرِي بِأَعْيُنِنَا
It sails with our care… (Surah Al Qamar verse 14)
You have a problem with that? Why would they have a problem with that? Then they create hatred out of this problem.
In another ayah in the Qur'an when Allah speaks about Musa (alayhi as salaam) (and) that Allah more or less cared so much for him that He saw to his upbringing; the ayah says
وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَىٰ عَيْنِي
… so that you are going to be made with My own eye or My own supervision or you are going to be custom made by Me. (Surah Ta-ha verse 39)
Now if they want to understand this 'ayn (as) that you may be produced by my eye by the literal and physical eye that's their understanding. This is the ayah and that is their understanding but if we want to understand or another Muslim wants to understand that this means my care. In other words to refrain or to take the translator's license
وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَىٰ عَيْنِي
… I have custom made you. (Surah Ta-ha verse 39)
Allah is saying about Musa I have custom made you, why should anyone from the Arabian Peninsula come and say because I understand the ayah like that something is wrong with my aqidah? Why? What purpose does that serve? They make a divisive issue out of that claiming that your iman is subnormal or insufficient. When Allah speaks about
وَيَبْقَىٰ وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ
What remains is the face of Allah full of Majesty and Honour … (Surah Ar Rahman verse 27)
If they want to understand the word wajh, wajh means face, the way they translate it;
كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ
Everything is going to perish except the face… (Surah Al Qasas verse 88)
Wajh could also mean social status (and it) could also mean being because the wajh of a person or an entity or an individual is in reference of the rest of the individual. But we have literalists who are trying to impose their understanding of the Qur'an on the rest of the Muslims. That is not compatible with our combining iman. There's words in the Qur'an. One of the words is bayna yadayhi.
وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَن نُّؤْمِنَ بِهَٰذَا الْقُرْآنِ وَلَا بِالَّذِي بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ
The Kafirs say we shall not commit ourselves to this Quran neither to that which is between His hands… (Surah As Saba' verse 31)
This of course in their explanation is whatever is between the hands of the Prophet, but this is the literal understanding of the ayah. If these people just matured their thinking they would know bayna yadayhi means whatever is in front of you. It's a combination of words that simply means- and everyone's familiar with ayah al kursi
يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ
… He knows that which is in front of them and that which is behind them… (Surah Al Baqarah verse 255)
Bayna aydihim here does not literally mean that which is within their hands. It means that which is in front of them and that which is behind them. So we, Muslims, have an issue with other Muslims and this issue has to be solved so that we can mature and break out of the rituals that have paralyzed us from moving from iman to amal as salih.
الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ
… Those who are committed themselves in faith to Allah and do what is right…
Our iman requires amal as salih but we have sabotaged al amal as salih by accentuating these issues of divisiveness that has placed us in the type of world that we are living in today.
Dear committed brothers and dear committed sisters…
What you are going to hear right now in the second khutbah are exactly the elements that are omitted from the khutbahs, affairs, issues and developments that are supposed to be located in the meanings of the Qur'an and in the meanings of the Sunnah. As we mentioned in the first khutbah, there are life and death issues. Almost wherever you look in the Muslim domain you will find life and death issues; even if you are looking outside of the Muslim domain you will find life and death issues- demonstrations, protests, confrontations, people with force, people without force, populations that are unarmed, militaries that are armed and of all of this goes into action. This is not a passive world. These are real issues and we are supposed to be real Muslims. So how do we perceive (or) how do we think about these issues? The Masajid under occupation don't want us to think about these issues. They want us to be automatons. You come into the Masjid, you listen to a sermon that you probably have listened to for 1000 times and then you leave the Masjid just like an automaton! You haven't gained one scintilla of information that relates to vital issues and human affairs. Nothing! You entered empty headed and you exited empty headed! So these are some of the issues that are supposed to be presented with the confidence of the knowledge of Allah's Book and the teachings of Allah's Prophet.
There's a war going on. We're not ostriches. We don't bury our heads in the sand and make believe nothing is happening. The war affects us. We are the victims of that war. We are the targets in that war and we can't speak about it in our Masjid, on our day of Friday during the week?! We're not supposed to deal with this? The war that is taking place in Yemen, (as an example, we take one of these areas in which there's a war), and today in the Haram, we're speaking about Makkah and we're speaking about Al Madinah where there was a Jum'ah khutbah that was pronounced by the khatib over there- what did he speak about? Remember, there's a war in his backyard, at his borders. What is he speaking about? He is speaking about "it is not permissible to sell pork or to sell al mayta which means carrion (or) dead animal flesh and these types of subjects." When there's a war going on he's speaking about a kitchen issue! This is how we've become the laughing stock of the world. Why? Doesn't he understand? Isn't there ayaat in the Qur'an that speak about the discipline and the morality of warfare? Or he doesn't want to open this chapter because it's going to expose his decision maker to their violations of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of his Prophet. Then he goes on to speak about dogs! "Are we, meaning Muslims, permitted to have dogs? Are Muslims permitted to own dogs or are they not permitted to own dogs?" And then he speaks about "are Muslims permitted to sell dogs or not sell dogs?" Then he says "yeah- there's permission given in two conditions. If you're going to use that dog for grazing purposes, meaning if you're a shepherd and you need that dog to tend to your sheep or your flock you may have a dog and the other one is for purposes of guarding, meaning you need a dog to guard your premises." This is his horizon of knowledge, speaking about dogs in domesticated conditions. Why doesn't he speak about the dogs that are sent to bite the flesh and to crush the bones of Palestinians? That's not in his radar! Why doesn't he speak about the halal and the haram transaction of his kingdom? They have around $2trillion that are circulating in usurious institutions- riba'! $2trillion dollars circulating in riba'! Why doesn't he speak about that subject? Is he afraid of something? Last week one of the princes he made a racist remark, he said, (we're paraphrasing him right now), something like this, "we would not accept from an Indian, someone who comes from India or Pakistan to come and comment on the affairs of Saudi Arabia nor will we accept from a farb fresh off the boat." In the colloquial lingo of the Arabian Peninsula at'rash literally means deaf but in their colloquial it's in reference to a person who is an equivalent to a stow-away. He came illegally inside their country, "so he cannot comment on sports affairs." Of course, the king immediately sacked that prince because he made a racist statement over the airs. This was in their media. What do you say about an organization- Da'ish, that in one of the cities in Syria rounded up Sufis and threw them in prison and they tortured one of them until he passed away? This is the divisiveness that is made possible by the type of khutbahs that are given every week on instructions that can be trailed and traced to the masters who have studied what Islam is all about. Unfortunately, the people that are studying the Qur'an and the Sunnah are the enemies of Allah and His Prophet and we who are supposed to understand Allah and His Prophet are supposed to close our minds and not think in these conditions about what they are telling us?! What do the khutaba' and the mu'adh and the Shuyukh and the Imams in the Arabian Peninsula say? Just last week they apprehended (or) they arrested 93 of them. They called them extremists and terrorists and the rest of these (descriptions) who were planning to ignite explosives here and there and some report said even at the American embassy. Over a month ago the Saudi regime declared war on Yemen. From where? From Washington DC. Imagine that! You would expect the announcement for a war to begin in the country that is launching the war- why did it begin here in Washington DC? The ambassador that they have here in Washington DC announces officially "they commenced military operations against Yemen." What's going on here? Why don't we speak to this issue among ourselves? As Muslims we can't speak to these issues? It's haram for us to speak about this? In the past week 35 Royal Decrees were given out, 15 ministers were changed in that make up of that government in Arabia. We speak about that government because Arabia doesn't belong to a family! Arabia is a land belonging to the Muslims and Ibrahim (alayhi as salaam) in his dua' opened the gates of Arabia for all displaced people in the world and then he said
فَاجْعَلْ أَفْئِدَةً مِّنَ النَّاسِ تَهْوِي إِلَيْهِمْ
… Oh Allah, cause the passions of people to gravitate towards Hajar and Isma'il in that arid area before it became the Makkah that we know of today)… (Surah Ibrahim verse 37)
Here they are clamping their control- a police state, close circuit cameras in Al Haram (and) in Al Masjid An Nabawi. What are we? Are we crooks? Are we criminals? Who are we, the Muslims, who are going to Allah and His Prophet in Makkah and in Al Madinah? Guards all around the place! Then they don't permit some Muslims to go to Makkah and Al Madinah. Their foreign minister (is) the longest lasting foreign minister in contemporary times- forty years! Suffering from Parkinson's, seven operations to his back, failing in his health like he failed in his policies! Do they have something to be proud of (by) dividing the Muslims like this- you're a Sunni Muslim and you're a Shi'i Muslim, you're an Ash'ari Muslim and you're a Sufi Muslim, you are an Ibadi Muslim or you are a Zaydi Muslim? We have to outgrow this Saudi sponsored poison that circulates in the Muslim body from the Far East to the Far West. We have to purge ourselves of this poison and once that is done we can reclaim what is ours and Makkah can be an open city, Al Madinah can be an open city for all Muslims. Visa?! Who says to another Muslim "I need a visa to go and obey Allah in Makkah and pay my respect to His Prophet in Al Madinah?" Who says that I need a visa?
This khutbah was presented by Imam Muhammad Asi on the occasion of Jum'ah on 1 May 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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