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I had prepared a khutba, on a different topic today, but the events happening in Cairo yesterday, made me change it.
I had prepared a khutba, on a different topic today, but the events happening in Cairo yesterday, made me change it.
For the last century, just been seeing bloodshed war, poverty, division across the Muslim world.
For the last century, just been seeing bloodshed war, poverty, division across the Muslim world.
For the last century, just been seeing bloodshed war, poverty, division across the Muslim world.
Muslim blood has become so cheap, the 80s saw over a million Muslims die in an Iraq-Iran war fought for Western powers.
Muslim blood has become so cheap, the 80s saw over a million Muslims die in an Iraq-Iran war fought for Western powers.
Muslim blood has become so cheap, the 80s saw over a million Muslims die in an Iraq-Iran war fought for Western powers.
Muslim blood has become so cheap, the 80s saw over a million Muslims die in an Iraq-Iran war fought for Western powers.
Muslim blood has become so cheap, the 80s saw over a million Muslims die in an Iraq-Iran war fought for Western powers.
In parallel was a war in Afghanistan, funded by the Western powers to keep the Russians out.
Blood of Muslims was spilled, the money of Muslims was used. We saw a second Gulf War where Western powers attacked Iraq.
Blood of Muslims was spilled, the money of Muslims was used. We saw a second Gulf War where Western powers attacked Iraq.
Blood of Muslims was spilled, the money of Muslims was used. We saw a second Gulf War where Western powers attacked Iraq.
Sanctions were applied. Half a million children died throughout the 90s.
Sanctions were applied. Half a million children died throughout the 90s.
Sanctions were applied. Half a million children died throughout the 90s.
Sanctions were applied. Half a million children died throughout the 90s.
At the same time in Bosnia where Muslims were being slaughtered, UN protectors, peacekeepers were standing outside camps
At the same time in Bosnia where Muslims were being slaughtered, UN protectors, peacekeepers were standing outside camps
At the same time in Bosnia where Muslims were being slaughtered, UN protectors, peacekeepers were standing outside camps
and tens of thousands were butchered in front of their eyes and they did nothing. And more recently we see a second Iraq war, as it the first wasn’t
and tens of thousands were butchered in front of their eyes and they did nothing. And more recently we see a second Iraq war, as it the first wasn’t
enough; they weren’t satisfied with half a million children, hundreds of thousands had been killed, now they kicked off another war.
enough; they weren’t satisfied with half a million children, hundreds of thousands had been killed, now they kicked off another war.
enough; they weren’t satisfied with half a million children, hundreds of thousands had been killed, now they kicked off another war.
enough; they weren’t satisfied with half a million children, hundreds of thousands had been killed, now they kicked off another war.
Over a million have been killed and then they kicked off a war in Afghanistan as well.
Over a million have been killed and then they kicked off a war in Afghanistan as well.
Over a million have been killed and then they kicked off a war in Afghanistan as well.
Over a million have been killed and then they kicked off a war in Afghanistan as well.
If that wasn't enough and the Muslims want change, they’ve had enough of these failed tyrant rulers in our lands, we want you people out.
If that wasn't enough and the Muslims want change, they’ve had enough of these failed tyrant rulers in our lands, we want you people out.
If that wasn't enough and the Muslims want change, they’ve had enough of these failed tyrant rulers in our lands, we want you people out.
You tell us Islam is a problem, Islam is threatening;
it may or it may not do, the Muslim activists may or may not do these things, however you most certainly have done them.
it may or it may not do, the Muslim activists may or may not do these things, however you most certainly have done them.
it may or it may not do, the Muslim activists may or may not do these things, however you most certainly have done them.
it may or it may not do, the Muslim activists may or may not do these things, however you most certainly have done them.
Over the last century, you have failed our societies, you have secularised them, you have imposed you failed nationalistic ideologies
over us and enough is enough! Get out! Leave us, let us choose our own people!
over us and enough is enough! Get out! Leave us, let us choose our own people!
You have imposed these borders to divide us, you impose these nationalities and celebrate these false disgraceful independence days.
You have imposed these borders to divide us, you impose these nationalities and celebrate these false disgraceful independence days.
Independence from what? Independence from whom? Whom are we independent from? We are slave Third World nations!
They dominate us, the relationship between us and them is of dependency, economically, militarily, politically, culturally!
Multiple governments, multiple armies, multiple divided small states, which are weak, they cannot do anything. And we all have been watching as they have been slaughtered, over 100,000! Our hearts cry out, we feel the pain!
The most recent events as people call for change they are now being oppressed even more.
And we all have been watching as they have been slaughtered, over 100,000! Our hearts cry out, we feel the pain!
The prophet (saw) said, the drop of blood of a Muslim is worth more than kabah and everything that surrounds it.
But we are passively watching as Muslim blood is being spilt which is much more sacred! And yesterday is where I personally had enough!
How can we watch, when now the militaries start to kill, regardless of what terms and nonsense they use, these are terrorists,
these are extremists, these are the fanatics…
no, you are the terrorists, you are the fanatics and you are the extremists!
You implement extreme ideologies over us, you siphon funds out of our countries by the billion, majority of people are impoverished in Egypt.
Tiny minority elite of secularists, less than 1%, sit on trillions of assets, and their supporters, those who bring them to power,
who support them and give them diplomatic cover, whose media becomes totally silent when they do this tyranny.
They observe and they debate whether we can call it a coup or not, whether we should stop paying for the guns and the weapons
and the bullets which are killing these people, where these people are being burnt alive, for what crime?
And what are we asked to do? Do demonstrations outside government offices in the Western capitals;
They are the ones who can solve our problems!
These people caused the fasad in the first place; you don't need long memories, you don't need much literacy.
A Google search and you can bring up how they entered our lands.
The Sykes Picot agreement, it is all public now, it is not hidden,
World War I, we had sharia, we had land which was united; we had issues, it was not perfect, but then when was it perfect in our 1400 years?
Even under the sahaba, Arabs, whole groups of them rebelled,
The Quran was nearly lost it had to be compiled, mass fabrication of the sunnah existed, somebody had to introduce a science
and funding to preserve it, our lands were occupied by Christians, people like Salahuddin had to open it up,
We had problems century after century after century and our noble predecessors, may Allah bless all of them,
they were able to come together and resolve and solve those issues.
We talk about democracy, liberalism and freedom, free markets, education that we’re going through -
we haven't a clue we're being indoctrinated!f
And what is going on in Egypt? People a year ago demonstrated –
they were fed up with the failed policies.
So what did the regime do? The whole society is against them.
They sacrifice one individual and his family – Mubarak. As if Mubarak alone ran the whole damn country!
As if the bureaucracy was run by him and the judiciary and the diplomatic service and the tax collection and the security services,
the secret police and the military. There is nobody else running it!
There is a whole layer of secularists at the top in our countries, who make the decisions, who work and collaborate in the crimes
that they do against us.
So a year ago there was the opportunity to have all of these people kicked out and it was unfortunate that the Muslim representatives,
who for a century had been struggling in Egypt, Ikhwan al-Muslimeen. They started collaborating and becoming pragmatic.
So now you are becoming desparate for power after 80-90 years of work.
Nuh (as) worked for 900 years and refused to jump into bed with tyrant governments;
Musa (as) stood up to the tyrant government in that same country and the prophet(saw) was offered power, in Mecca by the Quraysh,
one year you rule one year we rule, we will give you wealth, we will give you power.
He rejected it all; we rule we rule entirely by Islam.
He approached over 40 tribes after he failed in Mecca to change that society
asking them for nusrah, accept me as a messenger and be willing to fight for Islam fee sabeelillah against anybody and everybody who
Allah orders you to. Tribe after tribe after tribe rejected him.
Some put marginal minor conditions - we will embrace Islam, we will fight whoever you want, apart from the Romans –
the prophet(saw) said Allah does not accept this condition.
A year ago Ikhwan accepted the condition, we will enter government, Mubarak and a few politicians are kicked out, everybody else stays,
And anybody observing that whole structure could see that you will never achieve anything, the military had already blocked you,
they had changed the constitution, they had hemmed you in, the judiciary was making noises, you can't touch foreign affairs,
you can’t touch the wealth of the elites… what exactly are you going to do when all of them are still there?
Your demand had to be and should have been, all of you step down.
A new team of honest sincere people will look into where all this wealth
has been embezzled, who will look into this rubbish of tourism, where people come for sun, sex, alcohol, drugs…
But they jumped into bed and the military waited, until they had an opportunity, they were going to fail, the IMF wasn't giving loans,
funds are depleting, prices are going up, demonstrations arise, the military steps in kicks all of them out.
And the next day, wallahi, you read the next day, billions pouring in from the gulf now that these guys are out,
they are a threat to the rest of the region.
The IMF’s insurmountable conditions suddenly become surmountable – the IMF opening up loans and the next day prices in the market
of food and agriculture start dropping.
It is orchestrated, it is blatant! We are not stupid!
That whilst they are in power let’s make Islam fail or even anything that comes near Islam or even anybody who even uses the words of Islam
so that Islam will be discredited.
But this has a 1400 year history, it is not something that emerged from nowhere in the last few years.
The time of the prophet(saw), the seerah we see it, the khulafah rashidah, we see the Umayyads, the Abbasids, the Ottomans,
we see in India, in Andalus, in Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and millions of people embraced it because the system provided solutions,
it solved the needs of people, it did not allow concentration of wealth in the hands of the few,
it ensured wealth was circulated, through laws on taxing assets, zakat, inheritance laws, sadaqa, you miss a fast you paid kafarah, you feed the
poor, or freed a slave, wealth was circulated, you don’t grab it all - what are you going to do with it, take it to the grave?
This is why people like me, my forefathers who were Hindus, embraced Islam;
We saw the justice, the tranquillity, the solutions Islam brought, unity to the people and this is what we need to call for again as without it,
as Imam Ghazali said, your states will fragment and will fall into fitnah and fasad, there will be no judiciaries, there will be no justice, no adl,
no laws, there will be no jumma salat; there is a hadith that is really problematic for us, there is no salat jumma without the Imam.
There is no hudud, no zakat, he is the one who has the responsibility for collecting it.
We are living lives where we delude ourselves into thinking these are somehow Islamic - they are not!
Bits and pieces of Islam we follow, what they allow us to follow, the vast majority remains in the Quran, the books of sunnah,
it remains in the books of fiqh, tafseer and history.
So what can be done, how do we go forward?
The prophet(saw) when he established the first dar al-Islam, he had the support of those who could wield power;
and those who wielded power had the support of the society.
The vast majority in Medina were mushrik, a tiny number, less than 1%, had embraced Islam.
The prophet(saw) sent a companion, Musab ibn Umayr, to see if he could facilitate the dawa, to see if he could do something there.
One of the Muslims who had embraced Islam introduced him to two of the leaders, the sadains, one of the Aus and one of Khazraj.
They wielded military and political power in Medina and they had appointed one overall political leader because they could not agree
between themselves how to rule the society, it was split similar to Egypt today.
These two embraced Islam; he introduced them and got them to meet the prophet(saw) secretly during the hajj, middle of the night,
when all the camp was asleep and they had a discussion with the prophet’s uncle and the prophet.
And the prophet’s uncle said, do you know exactly what you are going to do, do you understand he is expecting you to be able to implement
whatever God's laws are and that you will be required to fight the entire world if need be to expand this call.
They said this we understand; we are happy to confrim we will support him and not let go of him, all we ask for in return is jannah,
which the prophet (saw) guaranteed them - that if you adhere to this, you fight fee sabeelillah, you carry the call, Allah will grant you jannah.
They returned, the hijra was ordered and the prophet(saw) migrated.
As he entered, every exit was covered by troops, battledress, swords;
everybody in Medina realised, those in authority, those in power, a new ruler has now come.
The focus is with those who have the power - those who have the guns call the shots.
In any of these revolutions you simply ignore all the noise, who has the military capability.
The militaries are under secular generals - so to change that, you target junior officers.
You are the sons of this ummah, how can you watch this ummah flounder,
how can you watch the blood of its children, of its women, of its old people. People who call for what? Islam!
You are Muslims. Become those Sadains from the history, who when they passed away
the prophet(saw) said, the throne of Allah has shaken, that this is a man who has done so much for Islam.
Without him, Medina would never have embraced Islam.
That’s the importance of having people who can change a society and you work with them to change all the society.
So what is required now is all Muslims start contacting people in the militaries - arise and do your duty - remove this entire elite at the top.
So what is required now is all Muslims start contacting people in the militaries - arise and do your duty - remove this entire elite at the top.
Whether it is in Pakistan, whether it's in Turkey, whether it’s in Egypt, in Syria… wherever it may be in our lands.
And for what reason? For the pleasure of Allah, to implement his deen and to bring an end to the tyranny
we have been living under for the last 80 years and may Allah reward you for doing so.