It seems like killing the man wasn’t enough.
No, they had to burn him too.
And on the same night in another incident,
a husband and father-to-be murdered, and his friend now in critical condition.
This community is fed up. And it’s had enough.
We’ve seen enough tragedies young men in their prime,
killed and murdered and slain, some in front of their kids,
some in front of their wives, in front of their homes,
in front of schools, in front of mosques.
We’ve even killed innocent family members, just to prove a point.
And for what?
The streets?
We’ve left the greatest thing on Earth,
which is faith, Islam, that Allah has honored us with.
We’ve left this for the streets?
Allah has honored the human being.
Islam has honored the human beings life, the human beings intellect,
his wealth, his honor, his lineage.
Islam came to raise humanity and society, we’ve left this for the streets.
The streets has made the human’s life cheap, his wealth cheap,
his intellect cheap, no value, have we forgotten how to be men?
How to be Muslims?
How to be honorable human beings, resolve our disputes by talking,
going to our parents, going to the sheikh, going to people of influence, people of authority?
Have we forgotten all of these?
Really, I have to kill?
We need more kids on our streets orphaned?
We need more women that are widowed?
Do we need more mothers that have to live the rest of their lives
with the pain and the agony of burying their own sons?
Over what? To kill?
To take matters into your own hands?
Do you know what it means to take the life of someone?
My brother, do you know what it means to take the life of someone?
Allah Azza Wa Jalla says in the Quran, to kill the life of one human being.
It is as if you have taken the life of every human being.
Now we kill.
It is easier in the sight of Allah, that you dismantle the Kaaba, brick by brick,
than to shed a single drop of blood of your brother.
Do you know what it means that takes someone’s life?
You’re challenging Allah!
Life and death belong to Allah.
When you decide to take matters into your own hands,
What you’re saying to Allah is “Oh Allah, You don’t know how to do your job.
I’m gonna do it for you.”
You’re challenging Allah my brothers! Do you know what this means?
Pharaon challenged Allah.
He decided to take lives of the children bani israil, so Allah excepted his challenge.
And do you know what was the fate of Pharaon?
It will be the fate of every person who challenges Allah.
Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la took the life of Pharaon in front of his army,
in fronf of his people, in front of Moses.
He drowned him, not only did He drowned him,
the sea rejected him.
The Earth rejected him.
Everything that he took pride in, was there to witness his death.
And they coudn't help him, they coudn't assist him, coudn't aid him.
And Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la says to Pharaon,
"We shall leave your body as a sign for the rest of humanity untill the Day of Judgment".
This is what happens to those that challenge Allah.
But unfortunately we become blind to the signs of Allah.
You do not want to stand in front of Allah Azza Wa Jalla on the Day of Judgment
and you have blood on your hand.
You don't want this.
When will we wake up?
When we come back to the Deen of Allah?
Allah only wants good for you and I.
The streets doesn't want this for you.
The streets were designed to break you and bring you down and humiliate you in every sense of the word.
Allah Azza Wa Jalla only wants to honor you through Islam,
to honor your life, to honor your wealth, to honor your health, your intelect.
Allah Azza Wa Jalla wants to raise us and we've left this, for what?
For what, my brothers?
How many more tragedies we have to see in front of our eyes before we change?
And restore our lives, restore our families, restore our communities,
restore the honor.
The sense of safety and security within ourselves and our communities.
Yes, we will have disputes, but we will resolve them like honorable human beings.
Like men with justice, the Justice of Allah.
Not the justice of egoes.
We can not witness any more murders.
And it has to stop now.