Brothers In Islam, Sisters, Viewers, People Present In The Masjid (Tawhid, Leyton)
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. It Gives Me Great
Pleasure To Be Here
Once Again On The Mimber, The Establishing One Of ....
Of Islam Jummah Prayer.
May Allah Subhana Allah Keep Us On This Path Going Forward.
Today Is The 24th Of Dhul-Hijjah And Because We Are Out Of
Sync With Our Islamic Heritage And The Lunar Calendar, Which
Is Supposed To Govern Our Lives, Many Of Us Are Unaware.
That We Are Less Than A Week Away From The End Of The Year.
The End Of The Islamic Here Is Literally A Handful Of Days
Away. We On The 24th Of The Dhul-Hijjah And This Provides
A Golden Opportunity For Us.
Every Sunset, Every Week That Passes Every, Month That Passes,
Every Year That Passes Is A Moment Of Reflection On Opportunity
For Mahasabha/ To Hold Yourself To Account Before You Are
Held To Account And It Is A Reminder And A Symbol
As Allah Subhanaw Taala Said In The Quran
Everything Upon The Earth Will Perish, Everything Upon The
Earth Will Perish Like This Year Has Passed, Like Another
Day Has Passed.
Like Our Years Of Our... Our Life Is Passing Everything
Upon This Earth Will Pass.
The Only Thing That Remains Forever
Is The Face Of Our Lord, Full Of Majesty And Honour. Everything
Else Will Perish, Everything Else Will Fade Away.
So This Is An Opportunity For Us
To Remind Ourselves Of The Temporary Nature Of Life And The
Importance For All Of Us To Make The Most Of This One Opportunity
We Have To Be In This Dunya And To Leave A Legacy. Just Think
How Quickly Time Passes! The Lockdown Began Around Five Months
Ago, And We Remember It As If It Was Yesterday.
The First Ramadan We Have Experienced In Our Lives Without
The Masjid
Passed Around 3 Months Ago. Time Is Running So Quickly.
Our Lives Are Being Depleted So Quickly, When Somebody Asked
You How Old You Are, You Mentioned The Number Of Years That
Have Passed And It Gives You A False Impression That Your
Age Is Getting Bigger And Bigger And Bigger, When In Fact
You Are Just One Year Closer To Your Passing Away.
Your Age Is Getting Shorter And Shorter And Shorter.
So This Is An Opportunity To Remind Ourselves That This Dunya
Is Temporary.
It Will Fade.
It Will Perish, The Only Thing That Will Last The Only Thing
That We Will Find With Allah Subhanaw
Taala Are Our Deeds.
Good Or Otherwise. So This Is An Opportunity For Us
As Umar (Ra) Used To Say We'D Be Coming Of
The End Of This Islamic Year, Make Mahasabha Of Yourself Before
Mahasabha Is Done To You.
Before That Day When We Stand On The Day Of Judgment
I Have To Answer For Our Deeds.
Make Mahasabha Today.
What Has This Year Been Like For You And It Has Been A Unique
Year. Have You Drawn Closer To Allah Subhanaw
Taala This Year On A Day-By-Day Basis, Is Your Relationship
With The Quran Stronger?
Are You Reciting The Quran Every Day?
Do You Have A Moment Of Reflection On At Least One Ayah Every
Date? Are You Part Of Some Kind Of Program Of Hifs
However, Small And Moderate It Is, So On Yawm Al Qiyamah
You'Ll Be Able To Present Before Allah Subhanaw Taala.
Even If You Did Not Complete The Journey. Oh Allah I Started
A Journey To Memorize Your Book.
How Is Your Fasting Or Have You Abandoned Fasting Since
That Amazing Ramadan?
How Is Your Sadaqah Or Have You Forgotten With All The Controversy
Surrounding Certain Muslim Charities Who To Give To Now?
So Make Mahasabha Of Yourself And Your Relationship With
Allah Subhanaw Taala And Make Mahasabha Of Your Relationship With Other
People, Which Is Also Part Of Your Relationship With Allah
Subhanaw Taala, People
Sometimes Wrongly Separate Islam Into The Rights Of Allah
And The Rights Of People. Now There Is Just The Rights Of
Allah, But There Is The Rights Of Allah Which Are Directly
Fulfilled Through Our Worship Of Him And Then There Are The
Rights Of Allah Which Are Fulfilled Through With Other People.
How Is Your Relationship With Your Parents?
Has It Improved?
The Global Pandemic It Reminded Us Especially Of The Mortality
Of Our Elders. So Many Of Our Respected And Loved Elders Lost
To Covid-19, Has This Made You More Grateful, More Observant
About The Rights Of Your Parents
And If Your Parents Have Passed Away, Are You More Intensely
Now Making Dua For Them And Give Sadaqa
Jariya In Their Name?
How Is Your Relationship With Your Spouse?
Have You Understood The Very Simple Fact That There Is No
Unity Of The Ummah Without Unity Of The Family?
The Family Is The Basic Building Block Of The Ummah.
Have You Become More Forbearing To Your Spouse, More Loving
And More Caring Not Because You Need Something From Them
Because You Understand The Importance Of Unity?
How Is Your Relationship With Your Children Or Have You
Drifted Apart?
Have You Understood That You Are The Main Person Responsible
For Their Tarbiyah And Tarbiyah Is Based On Their Love For You.
If They Love You They Love What You Love. If They Despise
You, Have Hatred For You And Anger Towards You Because You
Neglect Them And You Always Put Something Before Them.
Then They Will Hate What You Love
Whether That Be Religion, Whether That Be Charitable Projects,
Whatever. What Is Your Relationship With Your Children Like?
So This Is An Opportunity For Us To Make Mahasabha Of Ourselves
And Our Relationship With Allah Subhanaw Taala
And Our Self And Our Relationship With Other People, Which
Is Also Part Of Our Relationship With Allah Subhana Allah.
So Use This Opportunity To Set Yourself Some Goals For The
New Islamic Year, Moderate Simple Goals.
The Prophet (Saw) Said The Best Deeds Are Those Done Regularly,
Even If They Are A Few.
Even If You Can Increase Your Recitation Of Quran By Just
One Page.
A Day, Alhamdulillah In A Week That Seven Pages, In A Month
That'S Up To 30 Pages.
That'S Over A Juz,
Even If You Can Meet Just Once A Week With One Of The Mashaikhs
And Imams To Hear Your Recitation And Correct You, You Are
On That Path And On That Journey.
Even If You Can Increase In Fasting Just Three Days In The
Month, The Middle Days Of The Month.
...
Even If You Can Then Increase May Be Fasting Mondays Or Perhaps
Even Thursdays.
Then You Are On That Path And On That Journey, And Every
Day Is Better For You Than The Day Before, For The Muslim
Every Day, Every New Day Must Be Better Than The Day Before.
Have You Strove Now That The Time For Fajr Is Getting
Later And Later To Even Pray Just Two Raqqa, Qiyamul Lail
Now The Masajid Are Open, Allahu Akbar
Are You Every Single Day Making An Effort To Come To The
Masjid Or Are You One Of Those Mouthpieces Who Was Talking
Talking During The Lockdown
Who'S Praying In The Masjid?
How Comes I'M Not Getting An Opportunity To Pray In The Masjid?
Who Chose The Two Or Three People Who Are Praying The Salah?
Why Don'T I Get A Chance? And When The Majsids Are Open, You Are
Nowhere To Be Seen.
Alhamdulillah, The Masajids Are Open, Leave The Issues Of Social
Distancing And ... Our Scholars.
They Will Advise Us.
We Just Want To Come To The Masjid For The Reward And If
You Already Coming To The Masjid, Could You Make It Three
Prayers A Day Allahu Akbar?
Could You Make It Five Prayers A Day? The Prophet (Saw) Was
About To Set Fire To The Houses Of People Who Prayed Three
Prayers A Day In The Masjid.
They Were The Munafiquns, They Used To Fajr And They Used
To Avoid Esa And The Prophet (Saw) Said I Was About To... The
Prophet (Saw) Does Not Exaggerate.
The Prophet (Saw) Does Not Use Poetic License.
These Were The Munafiquns Who Used To Stay Near Their
Masjid, Live Near The Masjid But Avoid Fajr And Esa
Because It Was The Dark Prayer
Nobody Could See Them And They Were Only Coming To The Masjid
For A Show To Say That We Are Here.
So This Year, This Coming Year What Goals Have You Put For
Yourself? What Aims And Ambitions Have You Put For Yourself?
And Have You Made Mahasabha, An Honest Mahasabha Of Yourself
And Your Relationship With Allah Subhanaw Taala
And You Relationship With Other People Which Is Also Part
Of Your Relationship With Allah Subhanaw Taala.
Many Of Us Woke Up Today
To The Disappointing And Hurtful News That The Uae Has Taken
Steps To Normalize Diplomatic Relationships, Diplomatic Relations
With The State Of Israel.
They Took This Unilateral Stance
Based On A Deal Brokered By President Donald Trump And We
See Many Of These Movements And Strategic Steps Being Taken
As People Come Closer To The Elections .. President
Donald Trump Is Coming Close To His Elections In The United
States, Netanyahu Prime Minister
Netanyahu'S Coming Close To His Particular Legal Case In
Israel. So You See These World Leaders
Now Positioning Themselves
For Elections Or For Important Cases, Legal Cases Taking
Place. So You Will See Now The Balance Of Power Shifting
Around. You Will See Things Changing And You'Ll See Things
Which You Took For Granted Being Questioned And Reinterpreted.
So As We As Muslims Should Be Clear.
The Palestine Does Not Belong To The Palestinians.
It Doesn'T Even Belong To The Arabs.
The Land Of Palestine Is The Land Of The Prophets/ Anbiya
It Is An Amana/ A Trust Which Has Been Placed In The Hands
Of The Muslim Ummah To Discharge For A Period Of Time.
It Is Not Something That Can Be Bought And Sold According
To Elections And According To The Prevailing Winds Of A Particular
President Or A Prime Minister.
It Cannot Be Exchanged In Return For Favours Because It Is
Not Owned By Anybody.
It Is A Amana Of The Muslim Ummah Given By Allah Subhanaw
Taala, Particularly That Land Because His The Land Of The
Prophets. You Cannot Walk On A Footstep In The Land Of Palestine
Except There Is One Of The Great Prophets Who Has Been Walking.
There, Worshipping There Or Even Buried There.
So We Have An Important Responsibility Here To Speak Out
Against The Oppression.
The Displacement, The Apartheid Which Is Happening
To The Palestinian People In Particular And Normalizing Diplomatic
Relations. There Are Now Three Arab Countries Jordan, Egypt
And Now Uae , They Have Normalized Diplomatic Relations.
This Is In Effect A Green Light
To The Oppression, To The Ethnic Cleansing, To The Displacement
Of The Palestinian People, To The Destruction Of Their Homes,
To The Apartheid System, Which Occurs There, It Is A Green
Light And You Don'T Need To Be A Scholar Of Islam.
You Don'T Need To Be .... To Know That
Justice And Human Rights
They'Re Not Ideals Which Are Specific For Certain People.
They Are Universal And The Black Lives Matter Movement Has
Done An Excellent Job.
In Reminding People Of The Structural Racism, Oppression And
Prejudice Which Exist In Our Society.
We Take Our Hats Off To Them And We Support Them But This
Cause Is Not Just For One Particular Race Or One Particular
People, It Is Universal Either All People Have Justice This
Or Nobody Has Justice, Either All People Are Deserving Of
Human Rights Or Nobody Is Deserving Of Human Rights, Either
All People Deserve To Live With Safety And Security In Their
Homes Or Nobody Deserves To Live With Safety And Security
In Their Homes.
So Regardless Of What The Declaration Is Made By The Uae
Which Really Makes Us Think The First Job Of A Leader Is
The Security And The National Interests Of Their Country
And Their Region.
What Benefit Does It Serve Those Countries To Normalize Diplomatic
Relations Like This, Except A Foreign Agenda, The Agenda Of
A Particular President Or Prime Minister Is Coming Close
To An Election Or A Court Case
And With Regards To The Suggestion That The State Of Israel
Has Temporarily Shelved Its Idea For The Annexation Of The
West Bank.
I Don'T Need To Go Any Further Than Prime Minister Netanyahu
Himself Who Said It Is On The Table.
His Plans Are Absolutely There.
Don'T Even Think.
That This New Relationship Will Stop Annexing Taking Over
The West Bank.
Don'T Even Think About It.
He'S Made It Very Very Clear.
And I Trust Him When He Says That. I Trust Him When He'S Very
Clear And Says, My Plans Are To Annex The West Bank And Make
It Part Of The State Of Israel, But That'S Not For Him To
Do. It'S Not For The Uae To Do And Many Leaders In The Past
Look At The Offspring
Of Salahuddin, Ayyubi (Rah) The Great Leader How They Fell
Into Internal Conflict And Strife And How Some Of Them Tried
To Sell Masjid Al Aqsa.
It Is Something Which Is An Amana And Whenever It Is In Danger
Then Allah Subhanaw.
Taala
Will Always Protect It. So It Is Our Responsibility To Speak
Out Against Oppression Wherever It Is Across The World And
The Temporary Political Interest Of Certain Leaders Will
Never Stop Us Doing That.
How Can We Ignore The 700 Kilometer Wall, Which Has Separated
The Palestinian People In The West Bank?
How Can We Ignore 45 Un Resolutions Condemning The Illegal
Occupation Of Israel, How Can We Ignore That?
What We Do With The Un Human Rights Council, Which Has Repeatedly
Condemned Israel For Its Actions?
Do We Dismiss All Of That For One Country Or Two Or Three
Who Have A Temporary Political Agenda?
No, We Must Work Tirelessly, Tirelessly.
We Must Speak Out And We Must Support Those Charities And
Those Ngos Who Are Working To Raise The Case Of The Palestinian
People And All Oppressed People Around The World.
And Alhamdulillah, It'S Not All Bad News.
It'S Not All Negative News, Because It Was Just A Few Weeks
Ago That We Found One Of The Greatest Monuments Of Islam
Return Back To The Hands Of Islam, Which Is The Aya Sophia
In Istanbul.
A Masjid A Place Of Worship Which Is 15 Centuries Old And
Since 1923 Around 85 Years
It Has Been Made A Museum And Alhamdulillah Just A Few Weeks
Ago It Came Back To Being A Masjid And The Kutib Who Stood
On The Mimbar, Allahu Akbar.
The First Thing He Said Was To Reach Out To Masjid Al-Aqsa.
So If There Is Disappointment With The Actions Of Particular
Countries In The Gulf Or Otherwise, Then Alhamdulillah, The
Muslims Need To Be Positive That They Have Been Symbols And
Clear Signs Of The Revival And Increasing Strength Of The
Muslim Ummah, Which Is A Hope To All Oppressed People, All
Disenfranchised People Across The World, All People Struck
With Poverty And Oppression.
That Our Religion Which Has Had Its Call Universal Values
Of Justice Is Becoming Stronger.
There Is A Greater Consciousness And There Is A Greater Respect
For This Religion And In Sha Allah
Taala, We All Stand Unified With Our Brothers In Palestine
And Our Brothers In Humanity Across The World Who Are Being
Oppressed, Who Are Being Displaced, Who Are Being Exploited.
By Allah Subhanaw Taala, Make All Bring Justice To All Those People;