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alhamdulillah
indeed all praise is due to Allah and as
such we should praise him we should seek
his help
and seek refuge in him from the evil
which is within
ourselves and the evil which results
from our Deeds for whomsoever Allah has
guided none can
misguide and whomsoever Allah has
allowed to go astray none can
guide and I bear witness that there's no
God worthy of worship but Allah and that
Muhammad s wasam is the last messenger
of
Allah
indeed the most truthful form of speech
is the book of Allah and the best source
of guidance that brought by
Muhammad
and the worst of all
Affairs are the Innovations in
religion for every
Innovation is a source of
misguidance and All misguidance Leads
ultimately to the
Hellfire brothers and
sisters the umah
today is
faced with a
trial not a new
trial but an ongoing
trial our brothers our sisters our
mothers our
daughters our
sons our
family is
suffering in
Palestine
we've all read about it in the
newspapers kunut has been said in the
masjids many prayers have been
made inshallah we have all made our own
individual prayers for them in the
middle of the
night and those prayers should also
be for the Millions who
die and who continue to
die in
Iraq in
Afghanistan in
Chia and in
all the hot
spots of the Muslim
world and we as
Muslims feel
helpless what can we
do
some have chosen the root of
demonstrations some have chosen the root
of
donations
ultimately what we are
seeking is the help of
Allah
because as human
beings we are not capable we're not
able the Muslim world
today is splintered
shattered its bits and its
pieces don't act as
one and the
solution to the problem of penstein
is not one which can be
solved by the Arab
Nations we often
hear Palestine being referred to as an
Arab
cause Arab and
Islamic it is not an Arab cause it is an
Islamic
cause but this Arab thing which keeps
coming forward
is part of the
disease which makes it impossible for
us to
solve the disease of
nationalism this is one of the biggest
diseases eating away at our body
today the body of the
umah
why we cannot come
together 1 billion
plus and
solve the problem of
Palestine the challenge which is before
us with our lack of
resources our country is
exploited the challenge before
us is
one of obtaining of or of gaining the
help of
Allah this is all that we can call on at
this point in
time and all of the duas that we hear
being made in the masjids they're all
calling for Allah to
destroy
Israel to punish them with what they
have
punished our brothers and
sisters to create an earthquake which
would swallow them
up or rain down upon
them
destruction like what nations before
were
faced
a
miracle a miracle is what we are praying
for a
miracle it happened in the time of
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam so it can
happen it happened in times
following the
prophethood Muslim armies at different
points in
history received the help of
Allah at the most crucial
moments but we have to
realize that the help of
Allah
comes to those who deserve
it when the prophet s wasallam
described the man on a
journey and one of the best times for
prayers to be answered is when one is on
a
journey raising his hands to the
sky and among the best times for prayer
to be answered is when one raises one's
hands to the
sky calling on Allah and of course who
else can answer prayers but
Allah but
as the prophet wasallam
said his food and his
drink was
Haram the clothes that he
wore were Haram his flesh was grown from
Haram so how was Allah to help
him how was Allah to help him
we have to be
realistic Allah's
help doesn't come to those who don't
deserve
it he helped
before the case of
Palestine is not new in
history
the
Crusaders took
Palestine for 100
years for 100
years the
Crusaders occupied
Palestine and during that
occupation no aan was made from any
Masjid or from Mas itself noan for 100
years and that situation didn't
change until Allah brought forth
Salah who
changed the
map defeated the Crusaders and
reestablished the rule of Shar
over that Holy
Land it
came when those who sought sought it
deserved
it the whole Muslim World
suffered in that period of time but it
had its own problems of
fragmentation which were not nearly as
bad as ours
today not nearly as bad as ours today it
was fragmented but not like what we
lived
today and the Muslims of that
time were more consistent in practicing
the religion than the Muslim Muslims of
our
time
so when is the help of Allah going to
come when are our prayers going to be
answered we have to tackle this
issue with full sincerity
if we are to expect any results from our
prayers and the foundation for
that lies within the religion
itself it is not something external from
us it is something internal within the
religion
itself Allah
said very
clearly
if we support the religion of
Allah if we establish the religion of
Allah then Allah's help will come
Victory will be
ours even in military
defeat Victory will be outs
that is the promise of Allah subhana wa
ta'ala
so brothers and
sisters I ask
Allah to give us the courage to support
his
religion to make Islam real for
ourselves so that his help can come to
us and to our brothers and sisters and
our family in
razza their help is dependent on our
help I ask Allah to put this sincerely
in our hearts that we would make the
kind of efforts necessary to obtain the
help of
Allah say that asking Allah's
forgiveness for myself and for
yourselves and call on you to turn to
Allah and seek his forgiveness for none
can forgive sins besides
him
alhamdulillah there is a
Hadith which prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam
narrated from Allah
Suba Abu
Hurr narrated that he heard Prophet mam
wasallam
say indeed Allah Almighty has said
whoever shows animosity to a friend of
mine I Declare War
upon
indeed Allah Almighty
said whoever shows animosity to a friend
of mine I Declare War
upon Allah's declaration of
war is confirmation of
Destruction for none can fight
Allah that war is a one-sided War
Allah destroys
them whoever shows
animosity to a friend of mine the term
used in that Hadith
hadithi
is
W the
W this has been translated Loosely as
saint
but we can find in Surah yunus vers 62
and 63 where Allah says
there
indeed the friends of Allah are those
who are not overcome by fear or
sadness those who
believe and fear Allah those who believe
and fear
Allah IM and tawa are the conditions
which Allah has
set for one to
be his friend one who he takes as a
friend so one who has these
qualities Allah will take care of his
enemies so he has no need to be afraid
and he has no need to be saddened to be
overcome by
sadness of course there will always be
some elements of fear and sadness in all
of our
lives but we will not be overcome by
it fear and
sadness the kind of fear and sadness
which
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leads to
Suicide a few days
ago in the
newspaper there was an article about a
billionaire a billionaire this guy had 9
billion and because of the financial
crisis many of his
companies ran into
problems
and he was so saddened by
it so afraid of financial
ruin that he killed himself a
billionaire killed
himself this is a subtle
reminder for
us a subtle
reminder that if we don't
develop
IM and
tawa that is where we're
headed whether it is direct physical
destruction of ourselves through
suicide or
spiritual
emotional psychological destruction of
ourselves destruction of
ourselves we
self-destruct
because Hearts don't find
rest
except through the remembrance of
Allah it is only with the remembrance of
Allah that is the basis of
IM and
ta that
hearts become content in this
life and Allah went on to say
my servant does not draw nearer to me
with anything more beloved to me than
the religious duties that I imposed on
him how does one
become a
Wally a friend of
Allah Allah outlines it in this
well-known
Hadith we
begin
with the F what Allah has imposed upon
us what he has made
obligatory on
us this is where we
begin and this relates back to what I
spoke in the first part of
the
to gain the help of Allah as we will see
at the end of this
statement we begin with what Allah has
made obligatory on
us the first of the obligations is
Salah
Salah for men a is Salah in the
Masid
Salah in the
Masid and we have to ask
ourselves we have to ask
ourselves are we
fulfilling that
obligation can we get past stage one
Salah in in the
M how many
people prayed
Sal in the Masjid this morning put your
hands up
please how many people prayed
Salat this morning in the
Masjid
25 or 28
people 28
people out of how many people in this
Masid this is an obligation this is the
most primary
obligation and today was
jum now we have excuses during the rest
of the week we have to go to work early
and all these other kinds of things we
need extra sleep and all this but today
was
Juma and for those of us that pray in
the Masid Salat F reality is that the
lines in fud on Friday is no different
from the lines in fuder on Thursday or
Wednesday and the prophet s wasallam had
said that one of the distinguishing
characteristics of the
Hypocrites is their
inability to
consistently pray
Salat in the
Masid so what we're talking about right
now is an umah in which hypocrisy runs
in the
veins like
blood if only
25 out
of
800 or thousand people sitting
here made fjer in the Masid then that is
what it is
saying yet we seek the
help of Allah
have we supported his religion can we
say in is applicable to us if we support
the religion of
Allah can we say
that can we
say that we have supported the religion
of Allah in this the most
basic obligation on
us about which prophet muham am the last
words that he said before he left this
world
was he continued to pray
himself carried to the
Masjid and what are we
doing and we
wonder about
Gaza or
Iraq or
Afghanistan but this is what
Allah made clear for
us that if we are to become his
friends
friends for whom he declares war on
their
enemies he destroys their
enemies then we have to start
here going into the street and
demonstrating when we don't pray fuder
in the Masjid is a
joke it is a
delusion it is a
deception we are only fooling
ourselves Allah's help
is not due to us if we don't do what is
most
basic and the way by
which we come closer to him as Allah
said my servant continues to draw nearer
to me with
voluntary works
until I love
him the voluntary acts of
prayer of
fasting various
voluntary Deeds which are not prescribed
on us by Allah but recommended by his
Prophet sallallahu
alai the more that we do
those
the closer we become to
Allah and we continue to do it
until Allah loves
us and of course Those whom Allah
loves those are his
friends and Allah goes on to
say
and when I love him I become his hearing
with which he
hears and his sight with which he sees
and his hand with which he
strikes and his foot with which he
walks the
hearing the sight
the actions of the limbs hands and
feet come in line with what
Allah is pleased
with so we see and we hear what is
pleasing to
Allah we
take we
give we
restrain we we
support what is pleasing to
Allah we go we
travel we step out of our
homes we only
go in a way and to places which are
pleasing to
Allah that is the
consequence that our life becomes truly
dedicated
to
Allah and when that
happens when the umah dedicates itself
to Allah then Allah goes on to
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say and were he to ask me I would surely
give
him and were he he to seek refuge in me
I would surely Grant
him were he to ask me to ask me
anything I would surely give it to
him and were he to seek refuge in me I
would provide that refuge for
him this
is what is the goal of
Islam that we would live lives dedicated
to
Allah that he would support us in our
times of
need like these
times were it not for
some among our
brothers and sisters
in
razza were it not that there were among
them some friends of Allah then their
case would have been finished a long
time
ago from the very
beginning when Israel with all of its
might Unleashed its fury on
razah they would have surrendered and
ran what is it that held them firm all
the these days
now those among
them those among
them who are true friends of
Allah this is what we're faced with
brothers and
sisters striving to become true friends
of
Allah so that we can support them as
they deserve to be
supported and that
we can establish Islam in our
lives in our
countries as it deserves to be
established I ask
Allah to
support to
strengthen to give success to his
friends in
Gaza who are giving their lives for his
religion and I ask Allah to put in our
hearts their commitment to do the same
where we are
here I ask Allah to make this religion a
way a true way of life for us one which
we devote ourselves to in every waking
moment of Our
Lives I ask Allah to support our
brothers and sisters in razah and in
Iraq and in Afghanistan and elsewhere in
the Muslim world to give them
success to strengthen their efforts to
protect their women and
children and to give Paradise to those
that have died for his sake and I ask
Allah that we be blessed with the last
words last
before we leave this
world