oh
alhamdulillah
all Praises are due to Allah lord of the
worlds and surely Allah is the friend
and protector of the righteous and I
bear witness that Allah is one and has
no partners that Muhammad the son of
Abdullah is his servant and his last
messenger may Allah always and
constantly send peace and blessings to
Muhammad to his family to his companions
to all those who call to his way and
establish his Sunnah to the day of
judgment as to what follows my beloved
brothers and
sisters it is again a great privilege uh
to be with you here today uh in
Melbourne and to be down under and um we
are also down under on the other side of
the
world and um we have a Unity between us
we have a similarity in uh climate we
have a similarity to a certain extent in
our
experiences and the more you travel
amongst Muslims is the more you find the
closeness that we have and not really
the differences that really differences
amongst people are not the greatest
issue but there are more things that
unite us and combine us than there are
things that separate
and so we pray that Allah asael would
bless us and would unite our ranks would
give us that ability to have one
s that we would be one uh United
umah following our beloved Prophet
Muhammad Sall
wasallam recently in the month of
December I had the opportunity to visit
uh Malaysia to visit Singapore and to be
with the Muslims in that part of the
world world and I was pleasantly
surprised to find when I went there uh
to see faces of the people who I have
lived with for the last 10 years in Cape
Town Cape Town is the home of the cape
malays and it is reported in the 17th
century that the Dutch Colonial forces
brought uh political prisoners and
slaves to the cape and uh they formed
the first Muslim Community uh in the
southern hemisphere uh there in uh South
Africa and they had a a a trying
experience because they came in
bondage and not only from uh Malaysia
from java but also from uh Sri Lanka
from East Africa to make up this new
community there uh in South Africa and
um I was pleasantly surprised to see the
faces it was as though uh I was in Cape
Town when I was seeing the face of the
people but their
experience was not the
same the people in the cape had suffered
they were taken away from their homes
they were stripped uh from their
ancestrial LC their culture was taken
away they had to struggle just to
maintain their faith and it is reported
that there were uh people amongst the
political prisoners and slaves in the
cape who would get up in the middle of
the night in
Chains and pray to Allah subhana wa
ta'ala that he would bless them to
maintain their faith and to pass it on
to the generations who would come uh
after
them this was uh really important to me
because uh my people as well in the
Americas were uh taken as political
prisoners as slaves from on the western
coast of Africa and came into the
Americas and now we have documented
proof that over
30% of the political prisoners and
slaves who were taken into the Americas
were Muslims we have documented evidence
of of Scholars who were taken in Chains
who maintained their faith and now uh
books are coming out whole copies of the
Quran written from memory by the slaves
discussions of the the recal
of the great
Malak uh written uh from the memory of a
person in bondage and a discussion about
this how this and and how this this this
affected him in his condition of bondage
also in the island of
Jamaica they found a document that is
called
alwa and this waa called the the slaves
to revolt
that they should stand up against the
colonial forces they should throw off
the chains and now it is being connected
to a document written by a great scholar
in West
Africa who
wrote Sudan who wrote this uh his famous
document which was their um uh it was
the call to struggle uh for the people
of uh the Sudan meaning not only present
Sudan but also West Africa as well and
so um they they
resisted they resisted on the shore they
resisted uh in the ocean the Middle
Passage they resisted in the Americas
slave revolts are documented in Surinam
South America in in
Jamaica in Haiti and you'll be surprised
to know with the recent recent Haitian
crisis that went on on with the
earthquake that the Revolt of tant lur
there in Haiti it was begun by Muslims
mandal Bookman these were great what
they call marabu morabit who came from
West Africa they were Scholars and they
LED successful revolts organized the
people and then tant lature came along
with the skills of a general and and he
was able to unite the whole of of the
island
and they threw off the French and it was
the first
successful Rebellion against colonial
rule in the Americans and and they
suffered up until today and that is part
of the reason why uh when the earthquake
struck that the sanctions that had been
applied to them they were not able to H
resist their houses fell down and I want
to read to you uh a document uh that has
been
Unearthed this is a document from the
19th century written by a scholar of
Islam in the West Indies in Jamaica a
person who is in slavery and this is
something that Muslims did not know
about we take our religion for
granted we we we we feel that because we
blessed our families have the dean uh we
think it'll always be with us we think
that because we come from a certain
group it'll always stay but this is the
words of a person by the name of Abu
sidik and he writes my name is Abu Bakr
sidik born in timbak which is a great
Center of knowledge and brought up in J
I acquired the knowledge of the Quran in
the town of Guna in which there are many
teachers for young people my father's
name is Kar Musa Sharif some of goon's
people were obliged to fly to Kong and
on that very day they made me captive as
soon as I was made prisoner they
stripped me and tied me with a cord and
gave me a heavy load to carry and led me
into the country of bundu from then to
the town of Kumasi where the Ashanti
reigned then it goes
on it said we we there they sold me to
the Christians in that town we were
three months at Sea before we arrived in
Jamaica which was the beginning of
bondage I have none to thank but those
that brought me here but but praise be
to Allah who has everything in his power
to do as he thinks good and no man can
remove whatever burden he chooses to put
on us as he said Allah subh tala nothing
shall fall on us except what he shall
ordain he is our Lord and let all that
believe in him put their trust in him my
parents religion is Islam they are all
circumcised and their devotions are five
times a day they fast in the month of
Ramadan they give tribute according to
to the law they can marry up to four
wives but the fifth is an Abomination to
them they fight for their religion they
travel to the hij they don't eat any
meat except what they themselves kill
they do not drink wine nor Spirits as it
is held an Abomination to do so they do
not associate uh with any uh worship uh
they do not associate Partners uh with
God or worship idols or profane the
lord's name or do dishonor to their
parents or commit murder or bear false
false witness or are Covetous proud or
boastful for such Faults Are Abomination
unto my religion they are particularly
careful now look what a person is saying
now in slavery he said they are
particularly careful in the education of
their children and in their behavior but
I am lost to all these advantages since
my bondage I be I am become corrupt and
I now now conclude by begging the
almighty God to lead me into the path
that is proper for me for he alone knows
the secrets of my heart and what I am in
need of Abu Bakr sidik Kingston Jamaica
September 20th
1834 and so the pain of
slavery mother separated from father
language taken away if you fasted in
Ramadan if they see you fasting they
will punish you if you read the Quran or
if you speak Arabic they will they will
uh beat you to death in front of the
other slaves because of this uh a
generation went by and Islam was for the
most part lost and it was only just a
memory but the Dua of these uh people
who were suffering praying for their
children mercy of Allah subhana wa
ta'ala
that now decades later hundreds of years
later Islam is the fastest growing
religion still in this land the children
the descendants of those who suffered
are coming back into the faith now what
was uh different for me with the two
experiences is that on one hand the
people in the west and the Americans
lost the faith and now they're returning
but the people in the cape although they
suffered in slavery apartheid Colonial
oppression they were able to keep their
as isnad they kept their chain of
knowledge right up until
today and the great Scholars she YF from
makasar great Scholars developed uh uh
mades taught the Quran even though they
were suffering and through this now in
Cape Town there are over 150 m Ms and
one of the Traditions that they had
something which they used to do after
they finished reading uh their Salat
they used to read certain verses and I
wondered about these verses and it took
me a a period of time traveling and
reflecting upon them to realize how deep
it was uh that the of that these verses
they were reading how important it was
and I think that we should reflect upon
this
ourselves in Sur unas are verses 62 and
verse
63 the slaves the political prisoners in
bondage they would constantly read uh
these verses it gave them strength they
turned to Allah
Asel
these verses say behold verily on the
friends of Allah there is no
fear nor shall they
grieve those who believe and constantly
God against evil for them there are Glad
Tidings in the life of this world and in
the
Hereafter no change can can there be in
the words of Allah and this is indeed
the Supreme Triumph so in these verses
it tells
us and the schols tell us that this now
it it it is dealing with the present and
the future and the past just in this
simple verse when it
says this refers to there is nothing for
them to be afraid of not now and in the
future if you are of the friends of
Allah there is nothing to to
fear and there's nothing to be sad about
in the
past so there's nothing to cry about and
Muslims today we have to stop crying and
wallowing
around in in the valley of
Despair and cry about future you have to
deal with him cry about our
future cry about our
situation we have to stop
this and we have to uh raise ourself
up to deal with our
situation there is nothing for them to
fear in the life of this world now or or
in the future and there is nothing for
them to be sad
about when it speaks about o Allah quiet
who does it speak about it says not a
special category of
people not a special group that has a
special uniform on or a special name
Allah
says the description of the friends of
Allah are those who
believe and they have tawa so two
qualities we need to reflect on E and
tawa these are the qualities of the
aah anybody any Muslim can be described
in this anybody can fall under the mercy
of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
and fall into the CATE category of aah
who
have they have nothing to be afraid of
they have nothing to be sad about it is
a win-win situation for
them and so when we look at this in our
in our present
situation we need to constantly say
alhamdulillah because we are not going
through necessarily the suffering that
those who came before us went through
and I reflect upon this with people who
would get up in the middle night in
Chains and pray to Allah subhana wa tala
to relieve them of their situation hold
onto their faith they are being beaten
to death and they will still maintain
their faith and Muslims have done this
and looking at different points in
history to see what Muslims have done we
take our religion for granted recently
we ran across a feta of a great scholar
uh from North Africa uh the she bua
at Wan and he made a fatwa for the
Muslims of Al andelo and this was in
1504 this is after the fall of
Granada and he made a feta for these
people who were now known as
Moresco and the mesos were Muslims who
had to hide their
identity they had to uh because of the
Inquisition the Spanish Inquisition that
was going on they would take you in
front of The Inquisitor
and if you are not a Catholic they will
burn you at the stake and that is a
terrible way to
die and then there were people who said
okay I'm a Catholic Father Son and Holy
Ghost whatever you want I believe but
they still followed them and this
situation was so uh was so trying for
these people they could not display any
Islam and it is reported that there were
people who uh who actually took a bath
on Thursday
night he just took a bath he's a
Catholic he took a bath on Thursday
night and they burned him at the
stake why is that because they thought
he was making the G of
Juma so the Sheek made a
fatwa and he said I
know that you cannot show your faith you
have testified that you are Catholics
now but you have to hold on to your de
and in the spirit ofar
Y and
Ali in the time of the Prophet Salli
wasallam we remembered their story that
they were being tortured in the early
period tortured in a terrible way and
one time the prophet peace be upon Him
came be next to them and he
said have patience Ali your place is in
paradise and sure enough the mother
of she was the first person to give her
life for
Islam Amar came to the prophet one time
and he said I have destroyed
myself so the prophet peace be upon said
how did you destroy yourself he said I
said
K I said the word of disbelief couldn't
control myself the prophet peace be upon
him said how is your heart he said my
heart
was I believed I was strong in faith in
my heart then the prophet said then you
are still on the path in words and so
what came out of this that the Muti used
for the mesco people who are hiding
their identity is that even though you
you are told or you have to testify that
you are Catholics if your heart is still
on the
faith then you're still
Muslim imagine this situation we take it
for
granted we walk around as Muslims we
think there some pressure on us because
they look funny at us at the
airport imagine this situation that
they're in the Shea said to
them I know your situation you can't
show anything so if you want to HH make
Salat you got to make W so walk along
the street make your intention inside
tap the wall That's
T you make salot with your
eyes pray with your
eyes you you want to give your zakat
then give somebody a gift and make the
intention of of of
zakat you want to maintain
yourself to maintain your Dean but they
force you to marry in a
church and so you have to do it but in
the middle of the night then have a
nikah they bury you in your your death
you may be
buried with the the Trinity but later on
in the middle of the night have your
people make janaza for you and so he
gave them a system of
resistance how they could maintain their
faith if they could not escape and make
hij across to North Africa and into the
Muslim world he gave them a system by
which they could maintain their faith
and by the mercy of Allah subhana tala
and the Lucian people now are entering
Islam in Spain right
now we take our religion for
granted we take
it and we become
stagnated we become lazy in our
Dean and the great scholars in looking
at these two terms the first one is
tawa the great scholars in looking at
this said that tawa is made up
of it is made up of fear and hope and
the have told us men
they said to us that who whoever hopes
in something he uh he requests it he
wants it so he moves towards it and if
you are if you fear something then you
run from it so there's action involved
in this you're stimulated one way or the
other but whoever asks for forgiveness
and continues to do wrong that person is
deluded that P person is in a state of
deception they are in an
illusion and this is the situation that
Muslims find themselves in in many parts
of the world and the evil
one is coming at us in a way that
probably he never came to people before
to make us feel satisfied with the life
of this world satisfied with our
religion we strive to a certain extent
you will see Islamic movement we will
put on the clothes we will make the
slogans we will make salot and and and
and we will we will we will do what
appears to be you know our fundamentals
of Islam and then we
relax and we say I'm over we are the SU
successful ones we
are we are the one who will enter
Paradise then we start to relax we
become stagnated but the scholars have
shown us that your tawa stimulates you
if you fear Allah AEL you hope in his
Mercy you strive for this Consciousness
it's action you are involved in your
action once you become
stagnated once you slow down and stop
and feel that you made it then you're
deceived this is the delusion now that
we need to consider when we take things
for granted some people are fooled by
their families and we see it very often
happen they will say well I come from a
part of the world where there's Muslims
there's great mades I don't have to
study I don't have to give soda my
mother used to give s so the earthquake
happened in Haiti so uh people are
suffering I don't have to give toward
this the United Nations will give toward
this why do I have to do anything to
help the poor the people are suffering
in Gaza they are
surrounded but why do I have to you know
they'll make it out I have to deal with
my own family because my father was a
great struggler my mother used to give
soda so we think because of our
family that it is all right but we are
being
deluded never forget the story of
Noam
his own son turned against him look at
the case of
ibraim his father his father was an idol
maker turned against him Lam his wife
turned against him and so your family
this is not enough your generation
because you speak a certain language you
come from a certain part of the world
that is not enough now we are being
deluded and should be involved in
consistent action some people have good
deeds and bad Deeds they think that
their good deeds will be enough for them
they make 100 times
after and they think that because
they've they've made their they count
their things they they they go to Mecca
and they count okay now I'm in the Masid
uh Mas Haram in Mecca that's a 100,000
times and then I'm praying a jamat
prayer uh that's time 27 and then I'm on
Hajj and they start multiplying things
up so I must have about uh two billion
Hass uh so now I can go home I can do
what I want I can swear drink some
alcohol fornicate because I got two
billion
hassat so like my scale is going to be
so heavy on one
side that you know I can do what I want
because you it's still not tipping up he
is being
diluted he's being
fooled he thinks that he is successful
but
thean has has has scooped him
up and has taken him off the
path other
people they're even in a deeper
situation and this is something that we
need to study go over it over and over
again try to understand what is
happening to us in this section there
are some people who study the books and
they know about
deception they can tell
you but they don't apply it
TOS they will tell you all the vers all
the AY but they don't do it themselves
they just intellectually know
it and they don't they forget that Allah
says uh when he speaks to us about the
soul that the one who is successful is
the one who purifies his soul and the
one who who who leaves his soul that is
the person who will be unsuccessful and
that is the person who will be defeated
and so it is action it's not enough to
say it then we have another group that's
even deeper than
that we have another
group who
claim uh that you should not only say it
but you should do
it and they talk about action and they
will do some of the things but they
don't apply it completely to their
hearts they leave their heart alone they
practice Islam on the outside and you
will see them they they will make Salat
first in line they will fast in Ramadan
they will have the closeth of Islam they
will have the appearance they claim to
be the successful Muslims but he's
jealous he's jealous of you he has this
evil spirit he looks at you and instead
of trying to find you know some some way
to to to help you he's trying to find
out what's wrong with you brother your
your pants are too long your
beard H sister there's a little hair
sticking out of your your sister this is
not right and they will look for faults
that you're
doing and and instead of giving you n to
support you you find something wrong
with your brother and your sister and
you try to help them they will use it
against you to try to bring you
down this person is also
deluded a person on the path who thinks
that they they're 100% Muslim but they
they are being diluted and and a person
who doesn't even look like them who may
seem like a simple person that person
may be the one on the path the real oah
is not necessarily the ones with the
long does and the giant uh hats and
turbin and and and and all the things
the real oah is probably the person
who's sweeping the
Masid he's a simple person you don't
even know this person you walk by him
but that's the person that gets up in
the morning and cleans the Masid and
makes the aan
and wakes everybody up that is the
W that is the person that Allah loves
but we will not look at that person
because we want the fame and the glory
right we want the hype and and so this
is
delusion and this state of delusion can
actually reach movement people it can
actually uh Reach people who are on the
path who are striving and spending their
time
learning about
Islam there are other cases the talk
about there are people who will spend
their time they will spend their time
studying and studying Islam and they
will study and they will study the
different details about grammar and
and and and how to pronounce the Quran
and they will read the Quran
beautifully but they don't put it into
practice and the prophet sallam said the
time would come when people would read
the Quran in melodious
tones and it would not reach their
hearts would not pass their
throats and so by not passing their
throats it does not reach their hearts
and so this is a state of
delusion it is a false construct a
fantasy world and this is what is being
done to our our people now the younger
generation they want to put them in a
fantasy they send them out in space and
they spend their day fighting aliens or
or mutant creatures on
Earth other people are in a fantasy
world and they think they're waiting for
the Mahi to come the Khalifa must be
marching through down the road they're
waiting for something to come without
doing something they can be
deluded because they should this does
not mean that you don't make your
Salat that you don't call to the good
and forbid evil
because you think the Mah is coming
people said the same thing a thousand
years
ago there were some people who called
them themselves
Mahi and some were pretty sure about it
there's one person in the Sudan Muhammad
Ahmed he he came from the the the
the he had qualities he organized the
people he defeated uh the British army
their greatest General Chinese Charles
Gordon and he thought he was the mahi he
was in a state of
delusion and he gathered the troops and
now he was heading toward Mecca cuz he
wanted to be between the Blackstone and
the yemeni corner he wanted to take the
bayar and then get the Judgment Day on
and he dropped dead from typhoid
fever and then everybody realized this
is not the
one and it happened many times people
have made these claims reached high
levels and they are in a state of
delusion and so it is the simple things
it is the simple innocence of a
child that if you can have love for your
brothers and
sisters if you can stand up for what is
Right prohibit the evil
unite and feel that innocence inside of
yourself this is greater than a person
who memorized thousands of verses of the
Quran but not put it into
practice this is the important
thing the other element that we have
along with ta that our verse has shown
us those who had tawa and also those who
believed and it is reported that the
prophet Sall wasallam on one occasion
and this is reported by sufyan
abdah that he said
so this person came to the prophet Sall
wasallam and he said say to me oh
messenger of Allah tell me something in
Islam that uh of which I will not have
to ask anybody about this thing after
you in other words give me something
which is a gem give me something
special I need some special advice and
the prophet having
J he
said sounds very simple he said that you
should say I believe in Allah and then
become
upright and this
word is
another it is one it is a small word
with a great meaning and this is that
the person just becomes
upright just become a good P person
that's
all just clean your
intentions be a righteous person and
when you have this you will be in a
special category this is a great
blessing from Allah subhana tala and
Allah tells us
in in verse verse 30 30 and 31 he tells
us
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Allah sub has revealed to us
verily those who say our Lord is Allah
and then they become upright believing
in the Oneness of Allah and worshiping
none but him on them the angels will
descend saying fear not nor grieve but
receive the Glad Tidings of paradise
which you have been promised we are your
friends and protectors in the life of
this world and in the Hereafter herein
you shall have all that your souls
desire and herein you shall have all for
what you ask for a welcome gift from the
off forgiving most merciful and who is
better in speech than one who calls to
Allah and does righteous deeds and says
surely I am from the Muslims and so this
verse is saying to
us they say their lord is Allah and then
they become upright as the prophet Sall
wasallam
said say you believe in Allah that's not
enough then you you you now become
upright and so your man
becomes that you will say it with your
tongue you will confirm it with your
heart and you will practice it it will
become
complete and with these simple steps we
can come out of a state of
Illusion out of
deception and into the light of Allah
subhana tala angels will descend upon
that person and when that person is in
death they will feel
happiness they will have
assurity because of these actions that
they have
done what did they
do was it thousands of verse they
memorized it was simple actions that
they took with sincerity they practiced
Islam
completely and Allah has told
us
it says oh you who believe enter into
Islam
completely and do not follow the
footsteps of the evil one for he is to
you an open enemy so on the one side
ISL entering into Islam completely
all aspects we we we practice not only
do we uh practice Islam when we around
Muslims we practice it when we are in
the
society not only do we make our Salat
when we're in the Masid we make our
Salat outside at school in an
airplane anywhere we respond to the call
of Allah subhana
tala not only do we have good character
when we around certain individuals but
that good
character it stays with us in everything
that we do and so we come out of the
state of
delusion and Allah says at the end of
this and who is better in speech than
one who calls to Allah and does
righteous deeds and says surely I am
from the Muslim
and this question that comes in the
Quran whenever the verse comes in a
question form it is not a question in
the sense of Allah wants the answer from
us what it is really saying is that the
best in
speech is the one who calls to Allah and
does righteous deeds and says I am from
the Muslims and that is the essence of
our mission today that we are called
upon not to just be a Muslim in name
not to just come from a Muslim
family but to practice Islam not to just
say we are from the family of there's a
madessa in my area the IM is he knows a
lot so if I have a problem I'll go to
the Imam now we have to study Islam even
if it's in a in in a humble way all of
us have to make actions toward our Dean
to come out of the state of uh
delusion and the key issue now how do we
do this we call to the path what is the
da today it is not necessarily giving
speeches it is not necessarily debating
the people of the
book arguing against them it is now
bringing uh viable
solutions to real problems in
society this is what Islam has done
historically when whenever it has come
into an area it has upgraded the life of
the people it has helped the people to
overcome racism tribalism alcoholism
drugs
crime all of the problems in their
societies and we today have inherited
This Global Society living in sprawling
urban areas with people who have now
chemical problems serious chemical
problems serious mental problems are
amongst us families breaking up how can
this what Solutions we hold gems of
wisdom in our hands it is right with us
but we need to now implement this we
need to put it into practice and that
wealth that we have with us this is an
AM it is not my money it is not your
money this money belongs to Allah
subhana wa tala we have inherited this
in this D while we are above the Earth
but when we believe this we cannot take
it with
us and so when we are in this
position when this trust is in our hands
we need to now
Implement be involved in in in issues in
society struggle for the environment now
the environment is being destroyed
people are ruining the water ruining the
atmosphere destroying animals animals
are becoming
extinct and one study Rec was is being
done by an Egyptian brother in the UK
and he's finding that there's about 602
languages in the world it's a new
science which is developed of languages
about 602 languages in the world and
about every year 40 of them are becom an
extinct and it's going down lower and
lower and lower and lower and you know
what he found out because they have now
studied languages based on
sound and based upon the part of the the
mouth and how it has spread in societies
and for a long time they looked at the
languages of the world and they didn't
include the Arabic language and so he
took the course just recently in the UK
got his Masters now H went for his
PhD and now he put Arabic language to
the test and when they put Arabic
language to the test they have found
that Arabic language now rates at this
Point number two of the languages that
would stay on the earth no matter what
happens the first language they say
which has is a longevity in it is
Mandarin
Chinese but the brother has made a
study and he is now bringing forth his
study he came on a Middle East program
Sheik Muhammad
Hassan many of you know him he
introduced him on the program and he
brought the study and he said when I
bring this out I have proof that Arabic
language not only will be the longest
living language but it is the original
language it is the language of Mala it
is the language of Jenna and he has
scientific proof and he showed it
because they show phrases when you say a
word it has sounds inside of it they
have a machine which actually H shows
the sounds and they put the word
Allah into the machine
and they were in shock because it is the
only word that appears to have different
phrases in it but when you say it it's
only one
sound it's only one and there's no other
word in any
language which has different phrases it
appears to have different phrases but
when you say the word it's only one
sound and
so he is bringing out this
study and we are realizing in now what
we are holding in our hands this has
caused resistance against us this has
caused us to be
demonized this is the reason why
pressure is being applied upon us
because we hold in our hands gems of
wisdom to answer the problems of society
gems of wisdom to give a future to the
plan to save the
planet but but every long journey begins
with one
step and that's step that we need to
make is to come out of our
illusion and to revive our faith to
practice the fundamentals go back
again do the
basics fall in love with what you are
doing and that wealth that is in your
hands and I say this to you tonight
because we have a great opportunity in
this community as in other communities
to do something to help our children and
to help our
society I was speaking with you know the
Amir uh just you know today we have an
opportunity and and we need to do
something to save the younger generation
we also need to do something for those
people who are coming in to be married
to find a Halal way for them to come
together to be married to be able to
counsel our community to provide
Alternatives and all of you Brothers
we're going to get you a wife inshallah
to find a Halal
alternative but that means we have to be
courageous and we have to think out of
the
box stay with Quran and Sunnah but you
don't have to be in a mold our cultures
are not necessarily this mold we have to
wear certain clothes we have to say
certain things the sun of the Prophet
sallam can be adapted can go to any
society keep the
principles but deal with the society we
are now in a society where the younger
generation is under
attack and we are one of the groups that
the majority of our people are actually
young people a study was done to find
the majority of Muslims are actually 25
years and
under if you took all of the Muslims and
put them out on one field you're going
to find most of them are young people
it's the majority but what is in our
masjids today most of our masjids with
all respect it is activities for men
over 35 years
old other people other aspects of
society there's nothing in the Masid in
the time of the Prophet the Masid was an
allpurpose Islamic Center that's how you
can describe it it was not a beautiful
building with a Kuba you know in a dome
a maum that you visit like a museum it
was an action oriented place where
people would learn about their
faith where they would they would be
taught principles of Islam da was being
given even inside of the Masjid the
people of njan the people of Yemen came
to the Masjid entered the Masjid they
embraced Islam some of them did not
Embrace they were still treated with
dignity when political decisions had to
be made the prophet wasam calls a town
hall meeting where did he do the town
hall meeting did he go outside the
Masjid in the Masid so an allpurpose
Islamic
Center this is what uh we have been
talking for years and going into the
community saying this is what we have to
give to right now do something for your
younger generation save your young
people help them to get married help the
young children to you to come out of
this fantasy world and be confused about
creatures and animals and and confused
about their own
identity do something right now this is
an opportunity that you are blessed to
have uh here in this town and there are
other people now who are standing up and
realizing that we have to think outside
the box and we have to take this Dean in
a way which is practical and relevant
and stand up in society whether they
hate you or not whether the society is
talking we have Solutions and we can
bring something else to the discourse in
this Society we can show them the
Islamic position dealing with racism the
Islamic position dealing with drug abuse
the Islamic position dealing with
homelessness dealing with depression
that people have in society this is our
opportunity and we can only pray that
Allah Asel would give us uh uh this
opportunity purify our hearts and take
us out of this delusion in the life of
this world may Allah subhana tala help
us to come out of this illusion created
by the evil one may Allah protect us
from all of the forces of evil that are
surrounding our children may Allah
protect always and and and give honor to
the children of the um of Muhammad s
wasallam may Allah protect the women of
the um of Muhammad s wasallam may Allah
protect the men of the um of Muhammad s
wasallam may Allah raise up leadership
in this generation that will stand up
for Islam regardless of the cost and may
Allah keep on our lips the words of the
Quran that we would never
forget and who is better in speech than
one who calls to Allah and does
righteous deeds and says surely I am
from the Muslims may Allah help us to
live and die in a state of Islam may
Allah give
us
the at the end of our life may Allah put
this on the lips of all who are here
tonight may all who hear this make may
Allah make our last words to be our best
words may Allah give us as our last
words
muham
I said what I have said I ask Allah to
have mercy on me and
you