And
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alhamdulillah We Begin by praising
Allah we praise him we seek his help and
we ask for his forgiveness and we take
refuge we take refuge with
Allah from the evil of
ourselves and from the evil consequence
of our evil
actions whomsoever Allah guides no one
can misguide and whomsoever Allah leaves
to go astray no one can guide
and I testify that Allah alone is worthy
of worship and that
Muhammad s
wasam
is the servant of Allah the slave of
Allah and he is the final messenger of
Allah my dear brothers and
sisters what I want to talk to you today
about is a
reflection of a very
beautiful Hadith of the Prophet
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sallam The Prophet sallallah wasam
said and I really want you please to try
and remember
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this and even more
important I want you to try and act upon
it the prophet sallallah wasam
said you will not enter Paradise until
you
believe you will not enter Paradise
until you
believe and you will not
believe until you love one
another you will not enter Paradise
until you believe and you will not
believe until you love one
another in this Hadith my brothers and
sisters the prophet sallallah wasam made
it very
clear that the connection between the
Muslims must be a connection of
love we must love one another and if we
don't have this love for each other if
we don't have this concern for each
other if we don't have this compassion
for each
other if we don't have
that then we don't truly
believe it's very similar to what the
prophet sallallah Ali wasallam also
said that none of you truly
believes until he loves for his brother
what he loves for himself none of you my
dear brothers and sisters truly
believe until you love for your Muslim
brother and for your Muslim
sister until you love for
them the good
things which you love for
yourself if you don't have that
quality that you prefer your Muslim
brother and sister to yourself
or at least that you love for them what
you love and you want for them what you
want and you desire for them what you
desire then you don't truly believe your
Iman your faith is
deficient and there are many things like
this in Islam my dear brothers and
sisters that the reality of Iman the
reality of
Faith the real ity of what it means to
truly believe in Allah does not mean
that we merely believe that Allah
exists or simply that we have the right
belief concerning Allah in his names and
attributes or even that we worship Allah
subhana wa taala alone without any
sh but there are things that stem from
this belief there are things that are
necessitated by this belief if we truly
know who is Allah and this in reality is
the purpose of our
existence this is the
explanation this is the meaning of what
Allah subhah wa taala when he subhana wa
taala he
said that we have not created the human
beings and the Gin except to worship
us and Abdullah IB Abbas he said it
means to know Allah it means to know
Allah when you know
Allah when you know Allah when you know
your lord one of the things that will
become clear to you is that Allah loves
Allah loves the people of Iman Allah
loves the people who submit to him and
surrender to him and worship him
alone
and that is why the prophet sallallah
alai wasallam said that none of you will
come
close there is no way or no means
through which we can draw close to
Allah except through those things that
Allah has made an obligation upon
us there is no way to come close to
Allah except through those things which
Allah has made an obligation upon us
and then a person increases they do
extra Deeds they increase upon those
obligations they do
the they do the they do the extra deeds
and through this a person becomes even
closer and closer to Allah subhah wa
ta'ala this is how we come close to
Allah this is the means of approach to
Allah this is the wasila
this is the means of approach between us
and Allah ours is not a Dean where we
worship the dead people and call upon
Saints and call upon the prophet or the
prophets we don't believe that this is
the way that we become close to Allah no
we become close to Allah by worshiping
him alone and by doing those deeds that
Allah has obligated upon us and
increasing on those things and when we
do that this is how we become close to
Allah this is how we reach closeness to
Allah and when Allah loves someone my
brothers and
sisters think about this please think
about this imagine this when Allah loves
someone Allah says to
jiel oh jiel I love such and such
person
and then jiel tells the
Angels Allah loves such and such
person and then the Angels start to tell
the creatures on the earth that Allah
loves such and such person Until the
Love of this person is established upon
the
Earth my brothers and
sisters that is why we should make Dua
we should ask Allah subhah wa ta'ala we
should beg and plead with Allah subhana
wa ta'ala oh
Allah make me of those people who love
you make me of those who love
you and cause those people who love you
to love
me and cause me to love those people who
love you and cause me to love the
Deeds that will cause you oh Allah to
love
me what could be more beautiful what
could be more greater what could be a
more beautiful blessing in your life
then Allah loves you and that you love
Allah subhah wa taala and if you love
Allah if you love Allah you will love
the people whom Allah loves if you love
Allah you will love the people whom
Allah loves and who does Allah
love does he love the wicked does he
love the
transgresses you know Subhan Allah this
matter of love it is so amazing I
remember I gave a talk on this very
topic of Allah and
love and when I began to research it I
discovered something it wasn't I
discovered it but I rediscovered it most
of the
time you don't find Allah subhana wa
ta'ala says that Allah hates this person
or Allah hates that person no most of
the time it
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says for
example Allah does not love those people
who make partners with him Allah does
not love the fic Allah does not love the
ungrateful one Allah does not love The
Sinner
Allah does not love the Tyrant Allah
does not love the
oppressor because the the most sad thing
the most terrible thing is that you
should be deprived of the love of Allah
subhah wa
taala that he does not love you and that
you do not have love in your heart for
Allah subhana wa ta'ala so this matter
of unity my brothers and sisters between
the Muslims
if you look and you examine and you
think about it
deeply it goes back
to love love for Allah love for the
people of Allah love for the friends of
Allah love for those people who obey
Allah and follow his
guidance and that is where this Unity
Springs from that is where this Unity
comes from it comes from this love that
we must have between each other and if I
go back to that Hadith if I go back to
the Hadith that I started with you will
not enter Paradise until you believe
okay I want to know who wants to go to
paradise hands up who wants to go to
paradise that's all of you right
alhamdulillah we all want to go to
paradise
right
okay but unless we believe we won't get
there and and unless we love each other
we will not get there do you know and
the prophet sallallah was in the same
Hadith he went on to say and shall I
tell you how to increase the love
between one
another of course they said yesol
because they the sahabah this is vital
we want to go to paradise we need to
love each other how can we increase the
love between each other and you know
what the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam
said what do you think it
was increase the giving of
salams Subhan
Allah
saying and you know what my brothers and
sisters it's one of the signs of the day
of judgment it's one of the signs of the
last day that a person will only give
salams to someone they
know they will only give salams to
someone they
know but this giving of
salams may Allah cuz that is one of the
names of Allah Assam means peace and
security Allah is the giver of peace and
security may Allah be with you may The
Giver of peace and secur
be with you and you should reply as you
know with
equal and if not equal better is
better and how much should you give
salams you want to know how much you
should give salams if you are walking on
a path you are walking on a path and a
rock divides you and you meet each other
again then when you meet each other
again you should say again
assum you leave the room you should
sayam when you come back in the room you
sayum there are the etiquet of who gives
salams to who the standing gives one to
the sitting the one that is riding gives
the salams to the group that is
sitting these are the etiquettes of
saying assalam alaykum and the best one
amongst us is the one who gives salams
first this is just something so simple
my brothers and
sisters so
simple yet you find the Muslims we don't
say
salams I was sitting just now in Tim
just it just crossed my mind this
actually it's a bit sad I was sitting in
Tim
Horton's the Canadian
institution which is now owned by
America or the what the Canadians bought
it back again really okay see one of the
one of the good sides of the credit CCH
you know it's like so this Tim Horton uh
it's one of the nice things I love when
I come to Canada it's like my mind
starts thinking you know double
double
right I don't know I wouldn't drink it
anywhere else I I'm sure if I drunk it
in England I wouldn't even like it but
here I don't know it's something special
you know so I was sitting and you know
mallah lots of brothers and sisters
coming in who obviously attending the
conference but I didn't hardly hear
anyone saying alaykum to
anyone I mean that just came to my mind
now I mean I was as guilty I'm why
brothers and sisters that's not you see
a Muslim sayam and say it like you mean
it because you will not enter Paradise
until you believe and you won't believe
until you love one
another how can we have forgotten this
this is the basic etiquette of the
Muslim when you see a Muslim you should
sayam alayum Omar Al you know why he
used to go to the marketplace even
though the marketplace is where Shayan
flies his flag Shayan flies his flag in
the
marketplace yet Omar used to go there
why cuz he could increase in giving
salams to people that's he used to go
there especially just so he could give
more
salams a simple
thing but this is our Dean my brothers
and sisters a Dean that teaches Unity a
Dean that establishes Unity amongst us
as one of the most important and
fundamental and essential aspects of
This Dean and the Sharia takes so many
steps to promote Unity amongst the
Muslims and it has so many things to
prevent disunity amongst the
Muslims and this issue of unity is
something that has been
emphasized by Allah in the Quran by the
prophet s.
wasam we have been emphasized this
importance of unity and we hear people
talk and I know brothers and sisters
most of you most of you sitting here
today you are sick and tired
of disunity you're sick and tired of the
different Jama and the different HBS and
the different parties and the different
groups bickering and arguing amongst
each other about things that you
perceive to be Petty and
insignificant the people are divided
along the lines of tribe along the lines
of color along the lines of
language even more absurd and even more
ridiculous it's
insane I think we Muslims are in a
collective state of
psychosis because we're proud to belong
to a country that was a map drawn by the
non-muslims 4050 years
ago how insane is
that zindabad
Pakistan zindabad Pakistan Pakistan is a
country that was put there by the
British
Maps drawn on the line Egypt Libya
Tunisia Morocco lines drawn on maps by
the French by the Italians by the
British dividing us up into Nations and
now we are screaming
fanatically rallying behind some flag
that didn't even exist a 100 years
ago ready to fight for it and die for it
this is
madness this is
sickness this is something so far
removed from what Allah revealed to
Muhammad S.I wasallam it's nothing but
hisb it's nothing but another form of
tribalism of partisan
Spirits about which the prophet
sallallah alai wasallam said whoever
calls for assia whoever calls for
tribalism and whoever fights for assia
for tribalism then they call and they
fight and they die the death of
Jah they die and they fight and they
call for the death of ignorance the time
of
ignorance yet these are the lines upon
which we are
divided nationalistic lines tribe istic
lines sectarian
lines yet Allah warned us in the Quran
many times in the
Quran about the danger of dividing into
sects and
groups indeed he said Allah subhana wa
tala said to the prophet sallallah
alaihi wasallam as for those people who
divide their deed into sex the meaning
of which is as for those people who
divide their Dean into sex you have
nothing to do with them in the least
their Reckoning is with Allah subhana wa
tala and in the Quran Allah likened
those people who divide the religion
into sex and into groups he likened them
to the mushriks and indeed it is one of
the quality and theat and the
attributes of
disbelievers that they divide the dean
into sects they divide the religion into
group into groups is each one rejoicing
in the part that is with them and this
is the danger brothers and sisters we
don't have a holistic approach to our
religion we don't have a holistic
approach to the Quran we approach many
people and this is how the groups they
form they have an idea they have a
concept and instead of subjecting their
concept to the Quran and the Sunnah to
see does my concept agree with the
Revelation or not does my IDE dear agree
with the Revelation or not does this fit
in to the teaching and the and the
Sunnah of the Prophet sallallah alai
wasam no what they do is they here's my
idea now let me find some verse to
justify it let me find some Hadith to
justify my idea can you see the
difference because believe me brothers
and sisters you come up with any you can
think of anything and I will find a
verse in the Quran or a Hadith of the
Prophet which I can twist it out of
context to justify what I want to do I
mean I can't think of a better example
than this right now that's so relevant
that the madness the Mad the madness
that is taking place now in the L name
of Islam the suicide bombing the killing
of women and
children the death of hundreds of
thousands of Innocents women children
people going by their business in
marketplaces being killed being
murdered murdered in the name of Islam
because some person had an idea an idea
they borrowed from the Tamil
tigers and then they thought this looks
like a good military tactic let me find
something to justify it but we had
nothing like this in our history
before this is how you come this is how
you change the
Dean this is how we become divided and
when we all know the verse where Allah
subhana tala he
said we all
know this is the verse that is quoted
again and again and again to remind us
that we need to be
United Hold On Together
to the Rope of
Allah all
together and don't be
divided we all have heard this verse
quoted and
quoted but let's ask a
question what
isah what is the Rope of Allah because
Allah tells us to hang on to something a
specific thing and the thing that Allah
tells us to hang on to is the rope of
Allah the Rope of Allah so if there is a
rope and this is Allah's rope we have
been told all of us to hang on to that
now let me ask you a question if this
rope is Allah's rope and we're hanging
on to it and someone lets go of Allah's
rope to hang on to another
rope and imagine all the people hanging
on to Allah's rope they leave Allah's
rope to hang on to another rope let me
ask you a question what are you going to
do are you going to leave Allah's rope
and go and hang with them on some other
rope or you going to keep on hanging to
the Rope of Allah even if you're the
only
one
yes yes because Allah
said hang onto the Rope of Allah and
what is this rope of Allah what is the
Rope of Allah this has been explained by
the prophet sallallah wasam in a Hadith
an authentic Hadith the rope of Allah is
Allah's book The Rope of Allah is
Allah's book which is suspended between
the heavens and the Earth the Rope of
Allah is the
Quran it is the book of Allah and it
also by extension is the Sunnah because
the prophet also said and this is the
holistic approach when you understand
the dean all
together you see there are people who
say we only believe in the Quran and we
don't believe in the Sunnah and they
will use something like this as a proof
no it's not a proof because the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam said the book
of Allah and my Sunnah they are together
and they will not separate until they
meet me at the hold at the pond in
Paradise the Quran and the Sunnah in
coming to under when we want to
understand the dean of Islam when we
want to understand our Dean the book of
Allah and the Sunnah come together we
don't separate between them in
understanding our dean of course the
Quran is the speech of Allah but in
understanding in the of the dean in
knowing how to worship Allah and
following the religion the Quran and the
Sunnah come together that's why the
prophet sallallah alai wasallam said I
leave you two things as long as you hang
on to them you will never go astray the
book of Allah and my Sunnah in another
narration when the prophet s. wasam he
gave a a sermon and the people began to
cry and they began to shed tears and one
man he stood up he said Yol it seems as
if this is a farewell sermon so advise
us and the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam
said I advise
you to fear Allah to have tawa of Allah
and to hear and obey your Amir even if
he is an abian
slave
and after me he said s. wasam you will
see great great
differing so cling to the book of Allah
and my Sunnah and the sun of
the the rightly guided successors and
bite it with your teeth and Beware Of
The B Beware of the new things in the
religion because the new things in the
religion this is what destroys the
Sunnah this is what destroys Islam this
is what perverts our Dean when people
invent new things in the religion they
invent new ways they change the dean
they are letting go of the Rope of Allah
subhana waala they are abandoning the
guidance of Allah for the feeble
imaginings of their own
minds so this is whato s. wasallam
warned us about have TAA of Allah obey
obey your Amir
beware there will be many differences
and we see so many
differences don't we see so many
differences don't we see what the
prophet sallallah wasallam said the Jews
and Christians divided into 72 sects and
my umah will divide into 73 sects all of
them in the Hellfire except one what is
that one the sahab wanted to know who is
saved from the Hellfire from those sex
and those groups that went astray and
the prophet sallallah alai wasallam said
that those who are what I and my
companions are upon this
day the ones who follow my Sunnah and
the Sunnah of my companions what we are
upon this day the day before the people
became divided this is the de this is
Islam this is what the AK tells us and
this is what the KN tells us us this is
what the text tells us and this is what
the intellect tells us both of them
agree because if you were to ask anyone
even a non-muslim ask anyone who do you
think understood the religion of Islam
the best people living today
1,430 years
later or the people who lived with the
prophet sallallah alai wasam the people
who saw the the Revelation they saw the
prophet sallallah am sweating when the
Revelation came to him they saw the
camel when the prophet was sitting on
the camel it saged from the weight when
the Quran was being revealed the people
who saw the prophet pray they saw him
made make Hajj they saw him fasting they
heard him reciting the Quran they heard
from their own ears his explanation of
the verses of the Quran they saw him
living the book of Allah and he S.I
wasallam was the living Quran the living
example of how to follow the Quran so
who understood who do you think
logically will understand that message
better the people living with the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam or the
people who came hundreds of thousands of
or hundreds or many hundreds of years
after surely those people and this is
what the prophet
said so Unity brothers and sisters must
be upon the truth the truth is the Quran
the truth is that which explains the
Quran and the Sunnah and those people
who best understood the Quran and the
Sunnah were the companions of the
prophets that is the people we must look
to how did they worship Allah how did
they believe in Allah how did they unite
and what did they unite
upon how did they love each other my
brothers and sisters and this is a topic
I would could talk so long about this
topic of unity I talked about it
conceptually the concept of unity is
upon the book and the Sunnah and the
reality my brothers and sisters is
beautiful we've talked about giving
salams but you know what let's look at
the five pillars of Islam very briefly
you know we live in a society that by
and large Western Society they say
religion is your own personal Affair
it's your own personal Affair but we
don't believe that brothers and sisters
religion is not just about our religion
anyway our Dean Islam is not just about
what you believe as an individual no we
have an umah the word umah comes from om
mother and we are brothers and
sisters verily the Believers are
brothers we are a Brotherhood we are
brothers and sisters we are a family
this is how our religion describes
us help your brother whether he is the
oppressor or the oppressed the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam help him you
heard what y just said just
now in the story about the sahaba who
used to drink help your brother whether
he is the oppressor or the oppressed and
they said the sahaba said well we know
how to help him if he's oppressed but
how do we help him if he's the oppressor
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
said stop him from doing his oppression
help
him this is the Brotherhood and
Sisterhood of Islam because we are the
people
of we are the people who have decided
and chosen to worship Allah to single
out Allah for worship we have abandoned
the worship of Idols we have abandoned
the worship of Jesus we've abandoned the
worship of money we've abandoned the the
worship of the world and the things of
this world and we have chosen to worship
Allah alone and to follow the guidance
that has been given to his last
messenger Muhammad s. wasam this is what
unites us my brothers and sisters so
when you take shahada when you become
Muslim and you take
shahada you have to do it unless there's
something preventing you but you have to
do it publicly in front of other Muslims
because you're not only saying I believe
that there is one God worthy of
worship Allah alone and I believe
Muhammad is the messenger of Allah you
are not only doing that but you are
joining and making a declaration of your
intent to join the family the umah of
the
Muslims you are making that Declaration
of intent and that's something you need
to remember brothers and sisters those
people who have come to Islam those new
Muslims they have decided to join our
family and we have to look after them
and we have to care for
them it's so important
and look at our prayer Our Salah look
how the prophet S.I wasallam how he
emphasized the importance of praying in
Jam especially for the men the
importance of praying in Jam five times
a day why what is the wisdom what is the
intent what is the purpose behind that
because the hand of Allah is over the
jam the hand of Allah the support of
Allah is over the people who are united
and this un and this being together and
this supporting one another is so
important and we should be like one body
my brothers and sisters that's how the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
described this umah like one body so if
one part of this body hurts if one part
of this body suffers if one part of this
um is in pain the whole body is restless
none of us should be able to sleep none
of us should be able to rest
while we
find the body of the
Muslims any part of that body of Muslims
is being injured we should all feel
Restless we should all feel
Disturbed how can we really claim that
we are people of Iman how can we claim
that we're people of
Islam and we don't care for our brothers
and sisters in Islam we don't care for
them we don't feel anything
anymore when they
suffer and this suffering could be
physical it could be physical famine War
droughts
disease that's one type of suffering but
there's a worse type of suffering
brothers and that's a spiritual
suffering ignorance people far from the
dean people ignorant of Islam a
spiritual death where people have not
intern analyze the Quran they read it
they make
Salah they
say they say the prayers they make the
Salah they fast Ramadan but it doesn't
affect us anymore because we have become
dead spiritually because the dean has
become a ritual it's become part of our
culture and it's not something we feel
it anymore and we find the Muslims
practicing magic practicing shik
visiting fortune tellers and
soothsayers going to the graves and
praying to the dead
people
shook wearing taiz thinking that these
charms and bracelets are going to
protect us
shik this is even
worse this is even worse than the
physical disasters besetting us and of
course the two in fact in reality
brothers and sisters they come together
the two come together because we we are
sick the umah is
sick so where is the love if we love
each other we need to support each other
we need to help each other in B in
righteousness and tawa and fearing Allah
subhana wa ta'ala and we need to support
each other in doing the good things Al
and we need to forbid each other from Al
from the evil this is the Hallmark this
is the distinguishing characteristic of
our umah and it's a manifestation of
love if you love someone if you love
your child if you love anybody if you
see them falling into harm you will do
whatever you can to save them and you
will love good for them you'll prefer
them even to yourself This is the true
manifestation of love for another
creature and where is that brothers and
sisters where is that quality amongst us
where is that even aspiration amongst
us because you will not enter Paradise
until you believe and you will not
believe until you love one
another we need to pray together in Jam
when we fast Ramadan we break our fast
together even though fasting yes it's
for
Allah but we break our fast together
we're encouraged to feed each other and
hjj and zakah all of these things are to
do with the community the body of the
Muslims bringing us together these are
the five pillars of Islam and each one
of these five pillars my brothers and
sisters has a dimension that is to do
with and linked with the bringing
together and the unity of this umah this
nation this not this nation this this
family cuz that's how we should think of
it we are a
family let's be a family Brothers and
Sisters Let's really live this aspect of
Islam let's implement it in our lives
let's increase this love and this
compassion and this kindness towards
each other let's start by one simple
thing when you see a Muslim say to them
with a big smile with a big
heart let's not pass each other by
anymore in the streets and in the
shopping centers and in the lifts and
fail to say to each
other and don't be afraid why should you
be afraid afraid what have we got to be
afraid of we should be afraid of Allah
we should be afraid that Allah will take
this love away from us and this this
nation of Muhammad we will divide even
more let's bring back the love brothers
and sisters let's bring back the love if
we don't love ourselves if this umah we
can't love ourselves how are we going to
spread that love to others what are we
inviting people to we need to invite
people we have to It's Our obligation
but what are we inviting them
too a family divided a nation at
loggerheads with one another love
brothers and sisters we don't talk
enough about love we don't have enough
love we need more love between each
other brothers and
sisters so from me brothers and sisters
for this beautiful conference here to
see all of you here and may Allah reward
so much the brothers and sisters who
have made this happen because these
conferences they are the times when we
come together when we meet each other we
have that opportunity to share and to
feel like a family so for me my brothers
and sisters for the last time to you for
this year I would like to say to
you