religions generally you know especially
in modern postmodern Society religion is
considered something personal like
religion is you know in our constitution
for instance we have the freedom of
religion and just like the freedom of
speech you know and the freedom of
choice etc etc these freedoms that we
enjoy in this country are because
religion is a personal matter so nobody
can stop me from praying and I can't
stop somebody else from worshiping the
devil if they want to that's entirely up
if they want to believe in a god their
business if they don't believe in no God
that's their business right it's a free
Marketplace of ideas and it's a personal
thing but you know this understanding
from the Quran and from the life of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam it
lends us to something Islam isn't only
concerned with yourself if you're a
Muslim Islam is not just your personal
business Islam by definition needs to be
shared Islam by definition seeks to
benefit others too to it seeks to and if
I'm a Believer in Islam then I cannot
say my Islam is limited to myself it
doesn't affect anybody else I don't have
to do anything else but worry about
myself so long as I'm praying so long as
I go to Hajj so long as I give some
zakat so long as I pray I'm I'm sad I
don't have to worry about anybody else
that is not something our religion lets
us do by definition it is at the core of
it concerned with others one of the most
fundamental suras of the Quran
that probably all of you know by Heart
Is Right very short Surah very easy to
memorize most of you probably know it by
heart if Islam was just about yourself
it would
be full
stop if it was just about yourself it
would just
be but we
have and we
have that is necessarily engagement with
others that is necessarily sharing this
religion and its goodness with others so
it is something that is inherent into
our religion and it's not something I
have to prove to you I mean look around
us the fact that we're sitting in a
Masid the fact that there are volunteers
recording this video This is actually
Collective work there are people that
you know could just be sitting home and
eating halal food and waiting for and
pray and say look my Islam is done I'm
I'm not doing anything wrong but you
know we're we're we we built Community
we engage engaged ourselves in this kind
of work right so there is something that
inherently we appreciate about the
struggle for this religion Beyond
ourselves