Muslims the Way to Victory
http://www.islamidag.dk/capetownkhutbah.htmJumua
Khutba (this is a Arabic word meaning Speech or a Sermon given on Friday during a important prayer of the week for Muslims)
by Shaykh Muhammad al Qasabi - 3rd November 2006
Jumua Mosque of Cape Town
Shaykh Muhammad al Qasabi is Imam of the Granada Mosque
Muslims you should know that amongst the most important objectives of the Islamic shariah is being united, helping one another to goodness and taqwa and these are amongst the most fundamental goals which the shariah pursues. Our mutual experience of solidarity and gathering and mutual assistance in our obligatory acts of ibada such as the prayer, zakat and hajj and the celebrations of the two Eids is nothing but an active proof and a container of the secrets of the communal nature of our din. It also shows that the din encourages co-operation and mutual concern. There are quranic ayats and prophetic hadiths which order us to come together and forbid us from splitting up.
He says ta'ala in Surat Ali Imran:
"You who believe have taqwa of Allah as He deserves and do not die without being muslims and hold firm to the rope of Allah altogether and do not separate and remember Allah's blessing to you when you were enemies and He united your hearts. By His blessing you became brothers."
In this ayat Allah ta'ala addresses His slaves by an attribute which makes them beloved by Him and that is that attribute of iman which is defined as the declaration by the tongue, confirmation by the heart and action with the limbs. And then He orders His slaves to have taqwa which is defined as obeying the commands of Allah and avoiding His prohibitions.
Then He goes on to warn His slaves from leaving this world without being in a state of submission to Him. Since no-one knows when his death will arrive he has no alternative but to be in a continual state of preparation and preparedness and far away from everything which the shariah of Allah has forbidden and this can only be attained by holding fast to the rope of Allah.
When the slave loves his Lord he draws nearer to him by increasing his acts of obedience, and when he is afraid of Allah's punishment or fears harm from any of Allah's creatures he should seek refuge with Allah from that because there is no safety from Him except in Him. Allah sent all His prophets to establish the din and the community and to abandon differences and divisions because that leads to conflict and conflict inevitably leads to failure and the loss of command and strength.
Allah ta'ala says in Surat al-Na'am
"Do not quarrel or you will fail and lose your sovereignty."
Concern for the unity of the community is one of the top priorities of the sharia and has always been the formative pattern of the prophets and the people of Allah. When Musa went for his appointment with his Lord he left his community in the hands of his brother Haroon. Upon his return he found them worshipping the golden calf. He was furious with them and reprimanded his brother and in Surat al Ta Ha we find the ayat:
"Haroon what prevented you when you saw them going astray from following my instructions, did you disobey me?"
Haroon said:
"Son of my mother do not take hold of my beard or take me by the head - I was afraid that you would say that I have caused a division among the tribe of Israel and had not paid attention to what you said."
Haroon's excuse for his silence in the face of what happened was his fear of breaking up the community and he preferred to wait until his brother's return. If that had happened in the present time you would find many who would have accused Haroon, who was a prophet of Allah and protected from any wrong action, of failure to denounce the greatest form of shirk. This is because the people of our time have been overpowered by egotism and made their own understanding the measure of everything and they quickly leap to accusing others of kufr and bida.
If you examine the story of Musa with al Khidr in Surat Al Kaf you will find a useful lesson in the rules of companionship and steadfastness and there are many people who are unable now to show patience in the face of something they do not understand.
Coming back to the ayat we started with the Book of Allah reminds us that amongst the greatest of Allah's blessings to His believing slaves is that He has sewn affection and affinity between their hearts and it is clear that enmity and rancour take those who have them to the fire - so have taqwa of Allah slaves of Allah and strive to implement everything that leads to the unity and cohesion of the community and know that the present weakness of the muslims in the world is due to their lack of holding together in the face of the kuffar and know that if there is a sincere intention there is no doubt that Allah ta'ala is capable of restoring might and sovereignty to this community.
And what you witness of the great actions of Shaykh Abdalqadir as Sufi in the cause of dawa in the way of Allah and his using of every possible means to ensure that Allah's words are made uppermost in the world once more and his directing his call to action to muslims in every part of the world so that they gather in the love and remembrance of Allah and his encouragement of the revival of the knowledge of the din and his opening of the schools and colleges where the knowledges may be studied and his spreading of the lights of knowledge of Allah in many languages and his spreading of Islam throughout the world will help the ummah to regain its rightful position of power in the world.
All these things are evidence of his strong intention and his absolute trust in Allah's support and in Allah's promise that he will never break and we ask Allah ta'ala to give him success in all that he does and reward him with His help that will bring victory to the din and the same for everyone else who strives to benefit the ummah of Islam.
Allah subhanawa ta'ala says in Surat al-Nisa:
"You who have iman obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you and if you have a dispute about something refer it to Allah and His Messenger."
Allah ta'ala only created His creatures to obey and worship Him - He says:
"I only created jinn and men to worship me."
And a condition of obedience to Allah is obedience to the Messenger of Allah - He says:
"Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah."
There are people now who say that they believe in the Quran alone and do not believe in the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alahai wassalam and by the stand that they take they deny the command of Allah ta'ala in His book when He says:
"What the Messenger brings to you take it and what he forbids avoid it."
Obedience to the people of authority in the muslim community is one of the obligations of our din because our din is built on order and respect and it rejects chaos and lack of loyalty. The prophet sallallahu alahai wassalam - who received the revelation - when he sent people on expeditions and if there were more than three would appoint one of them as their amir to be obeyed in everything recognised as correct.
Therefore obedience to those in authority and respect and loyalty to them and good counsel towards them - this is one of the great elements of our ummah which has preserved its integrity and greatness throughout the ages.
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Unity is perhaps the most important advice you can offer muslims and anyone else who wants to defeat the evil forces that aim to enslave the entire human race.
It's our only chance.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
The only way to defeat the Jewish Supremacists and their goyim followers is to unite - we must first put aside our differences in order to succeed. Not only Muslims, but also Christians, Hindus, athiests - all religions and all races must work together. We all have the same enemy: Jewish Supremacists, who consider the rest of humanity to be subhuman cattle.
The cause of a great deal of suffering in the world can be successfully dealt with if we all work together.
I agree 100% Q and Justice Seeker. We do need to put aside some of these ridiculous differences of ours and stand together against this abomination that is zionism. Zionism feeds on our trivial differences - and just in another thread peacetroll was saying this to which I take considerable offense:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2507#comment-10345
Sorry peacetroll, but you can't just praise this kind of behavior and then call these people diabolical. I don't really think you meant it. But for myself this just doesn't work. They are DIABOLICAL and that's all!
Zionists are in a perpetual state of playing games to ruin lives - their ultimate goal. You call this "intelligent"? I call it sub-human antics. I call it greed, selfish, repugnant tyranny.
You call this kind of behavior wise, peacetroll? Hardly! I call zionists immature, brutish, Godless, inhumane towards their fellow man, cagey, and manipulative, and downright violent and fatal when they don't get their way.
Yes they are united. I will give them that. But they got their wealth through lying, stealing, subterfuge, fraud, embezzelment, espionage, and so on.
Zionists and zionism are not to be praised, glorfied, or saluted.
They are to be condemned.
When will you scum cease to kill Arab Christians in Palestine and Lebanon?
When will you scum cease to kill Iraqi Christians in Iraq?
When will you scum cease to oppress Iranian Christians?
Fuck Islam, but I'll give 10 points to that crafty fox Muhammed Mahat'ir of Malaysia who is one smart Muslim.
Fuck Rabbinic Judaism.
You deserve each other. An eye for an eye "rule followers" who know ONLY the Law but do not know the DEPTHS of Grace.
Islam and Judaism are as deep as a puddle compared to the ocean that is Christianity which traces it's roots from the Hindu mystics.
Peace to the Sufi Mystics.
The rest of Islam and the Godforsaken Jews can go to hell.
You deserve each other.
Take note of the Christian nations then have a GOOD, LONG, HARD look at yourself. Note why you have become a backwater until the "white" man came along to teach you how to wash yourself and make a road.
You are not going to "outbreed" us so forget about it. You will continue to be slaughtered till you wake up and smell the roses.
Women can drive and fly kites.
With regard to PeaceTroll's earlier claim that our Zionist opponents are 'more intelligent', this is simply hasbara - propaganda put out by members a self-absorbed tribe. The reason behind the oft-cited fact that so many of them have top positions in science and the arts is that they operate a cabal in academic institutions that ensures a disproportionate number of their fellow tribespeople have access to the best educational opportunities and the plum teaching posts.
In the face of such an enemy, unity is what we badly need. Unity of those who are capable of rational thought and mutual respect.
Brendon, or should that be Brendan?...
While I share a dislike for radical Islam, that same dislike applies to fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Hinduism, or indeed any belief system that seeks to impose itself on others by any other means other than example. I would also include Talmudic Judaism, even though they do not seek to spread the practice of their religion, the effects of their beliefs on others are perhaps the most pernicious.
Your foul-mouthed promotion of Christianity as being some sort of Hindu-inspired ideal religion is both laughable and seriously deluded. Christianity is a semitic religion and holds nothing in common with Hinduism - apart from the elements of belief and narrative all deist religions have in common.
Christianity is far from being something to hold up as an ideal. From your (misspelled) name I assume that you are either Irish or have some Irish ancestry. If you are Irish, you will know about the almost totalitarian grip the Catholic Church held on Ireland for over half a century. You will know about the corruption and perversion scandals. If you are from the US, you will know that many leaders of fundamentalist groups have been found out to be hypocritical frauds - on the one hand condemning a behaviour and on the other engaging in it.
May I suggest that next time you posts, you engage your critical faculties before doing so?
To answer you questions sullivan:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/2570#comment-10685
"Note why you have become a backwater until the "white" man came along to teach you how to wash yourself and make a road."
Jesus taught people how to make roads or was that the way of the Romans his enemies?
Was Jesus a "white man"?
Anyway your potty mouth do you no favors.
If women want to fly kites and drive cars because that IS the most important issue facing mankind that is up to them!! But until you gain some knowledge instead of being a ignorant stereotypical fool sprouting your idiotic dialectics you will be lumped in with the Zionists and their tool.
Islam and Muslims will unite and fight the Zionists alone without any help from the atheists, hindus, christians or any other group. Muslims cannot unite with the non Muslims just because we have a common enemy. It is not possible.
I am not really interested in the anti-Islamic rants views of anyone here which are largely based on a Zionist framework and dialectics...totally ignorant of the socioeconomic and political realities of the Islamic World. Bringing Saudi arabia into every argument and women driving as if this is representative of Islam and Saudi has nothing to do with the US and British foreign policy. This just illustrates to me the utter futility of building friendships with non Muslims, they are incapable of a true analysis of the situation if they were they would become Muslim and embrace it as the Truth.
Brandon, why are you blaming Islam for those actions. Where in Islam is oppressing Christians allowed?
And how exactly are Iranian Christians being oppressed.
If you have an issue with extremists groups that advocate their actions thru Islam, then that's fair, but you can't blame the religion, especially when the acts are in complete contridiction to what the religion teaches.
you know very well that Muslims are capable of aligning with non-Muslims provided those non-Muslims treat Muslims with respect.
I know plenty of non-Muslims who are capable of logical reasoning and rational thought.
"Brendon O'Connel" is far from a shining example of a non-Muslim.
He or she is just an insignificant little twit, trying to stir trouble, using the typical zionist tactic - divide and conquer.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Nice catch, Q :)
Anyone who believes that there is no God, just a Darwinian and materialistic existence, or who does not know or understand Tawheed...can only let their rationality take them to a particular point, after that they are lost. They may be able to analyze some facts and truths about the world, but always they will be blind to the absolute truth.
Muslims are allowed to have contracts and alliances with non-Muslims of all shades, especially if they are not hostile to Muslims and Islam...but we can never have a true alliance in the sense of a complete meeting of objectives and goals....the possibility of them abandoning the Muslims is always there. (Muslims by contrast are duty bound by God to honour all contracts and agreements without exception, until the other side breaks them first).
Even amongst different factions of Muslims it is not wise to build a false and superficial unity based objectives, otherwise it will crumble as soon as problems arise. For the unity and alliance to be constructive there has to be total agreement in fundamentals and objectives and leadership.
Non Muslims always see the world from their own perspective...always islam is anti-woman...the Islamic world is like this or that....never looking at it from a point of view which is True. The true perspective takes in history, geography, geo-politics economics and understands that a place like Saudi only emerged after the global "Zionist-Christian" powers created and gave impetuous to them. This is not false 'interpretation' by a Muslim. This is undeniable fact, which contextualizes the world, analyses it and puts it in its proper perspective. Someone who is completely aware that their thinking, ideas and analysis are going to be held accountable by God on the Final Day, will do their best to try and arrive at the truth...those who have no such perspective will be sloppy, intentionally biased and arrogant.
The "Brendan O'Connell" who posted above is a Jewish Supremacist who is here to try to create divisions. He/she may be the same person who used to call himself/herself "Fester" and used a different approach, which eventually out of steam.
This is a great website, and I have personally been enlightened by it. It is viewed by Zionists as something of a threat, and so we can expect that there will be "trolls" and shills posting here regularly.
But don't let them divide us! Muslims, Christians, British, Arabs, Chinese, Black, White - ALL of us need to unite and solve the problem that's causing wars and suffering, and may even the world to nuclear disaster: Jewish Supremacism.
This Brendon character seems a little sad and confused. I'm always suspicious of faith that comes mixed up with a hateful sort of pride. That seems to compensate for fear and doubt.
In times like these, we can't allow differences in faith to separate us from our brothers and sisters. We need to look to all of God's children and find peace. There are evil forces at work that want us to hate and fear each other, but I do not think we should heed them.
Although God is all powerful, all knowing, and omnipresent, He is humble. He allows us our freedom to believe or not to believe. Who are we, then to be prideful?
In addition, if we condemn others who do not share our beliefs, do not we then condemn ourselves when we doubt?
"Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly."
Justice, still blindfolded? lay down your sword dude unless you have some proof. a number of people here have asserted that I am this asshole Brendan O'Connell. Now that I've met him, I'm less inclined to laugh it off.
thats funny!
That I can drive and fly a kite.
Can't wait to tell my mom!
Oh wait. Not all that interested in flying kites. But driving is cool. Expensive but cool.
The idea that Islam, or any other religious belief, bestows on its believers a reliability that non-believers can not attain is a nonsense, an insult and ultimately could undermine the unity of purpose of those who want to see this world rid of the most pernicious evil it has ever seen.
The human condition persists no matter what beliefs are in play and both believers and non-believers alike are capable of the same selfless action just as they can fall prey to the same weaknesses.
We all discriminate at some point, we do not consider everything to be equal and we are naturally attracted to ideas and people who share similar ideas as us.
Some Atheists may well have some moral qualities, honor etc. Muslims may be dishonorable. However, there is hope that someone who sees their existence as dependent on God at some level will 'reform'. An Atheist has nowhere else to go...no aspiration to become better, no one to please or fear, unless there are other humans one can decieve.
Zionism is the greates evil facing humanity, and we need to be united to fight it, however large groups united on superficial ideas will crumble when the going gets tough. As such building an alliance with disperate groups needs to be done with caution.
At some level the perspective of a Muslim and that of others are opposites. Muslims see themselves as being part of a Divine Order where things happen by Design and to take us through these events, on a journey of self knowledge and Knowledge of the Divine. All others simply see events as occuring randomly, with no reason in them, they do not gain self-knowledge.
"When will you scum cease to kill Arab Christians in Palestine and Lebanon?
When will you scum cease to kill Iraqi Christians in Iraq?
When will you scum cease to oppress Iranian Christians?"
ANSWER the questions!
Here are some more for you glorified "rule followers" to answer...
When will you sand apes learn to NOT jump up and down like monkeys firing your guns in the air at the funerals of little Palestinian girls who just got their brains blown out by Israeli snipers? When will you learn that Westerners think anyone who jumps up and down chanting and firing guns at funerals is a certifiable twit? When will the Palestinian Authority invest some of the BILLIONS (not millions) it recieves over the year in a good P.R firm to teach them how to win the media battle? Or will you continue the "jumpy, jumpy, chant, chant , bang, bang" formula that is working so well for you?
When will the Palestinian Authority spend some of it's MILLIONS in the bank (RIGHT NOW) on a camera for EVERY Palestinian family so they can film the daily oppression? When will specialist units recieve "hidden cameras" so they can film the humiliation and beatings at the checkpoints?
Summing up...when will you gun toting cretins work out that the Jew can NEVER be defeated by force of arms?
The floggings and beatings will continue until none of you are left.
The only smart Muslim I know is Mahattir Mahummed...
""If we use the faculty to think that Allah has given us then we should know that we are acting irrationally. We fight without any objective, without any goal other than to hurt the enemy because they hurt us. Naively we expect them to surrender. We sacrifice lives unnecessarily, achieving nothing other than to attract more massive retaliation and humiliation.""
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/malaysian.asp
Dont forget to answer these questions LEFT FIELD...
"When will you scum cease to kill Arab Christians in Palestine and Lebanon?
When will you scum cease to kill Iraqi Christians in Iraq?
When will you scum cease to oppress Iranian Christians?"
Here is a quote from you...
""This just illustrates to me the utter futility of building friendships with non Muslims, they are incapable of a true analysis of the situation if they were they would become Muslim and embrace it as the Truth.""
Yes...if we just "analysed" things we would see that Islam is the "rational" religion to follow. :-D
You sound JUST like that "other" group of rationalists and "rule followers" I know...Jews! The "law" has given way to "Grace". One day you will work it out.
Like I said, you both deserve each other. Let the killings continue then. Eye for an eye brother. A tooth for a tooth brother and you will be a blind and toothless group of misfits.
Is your priority "Peace" or "Truth"?
If it's "Truth"...can violence bring about "Truth"? If it's "Peace", can violence bring about "Peace"?
For you, Truth is "Islam". Therefore...can Christianity exist with the "Truth" of Islam?
I know that both YOU and Rabbinic Judaism are the enemies of Christianity.
I personally wish to see you all expelled BACK to your respective countries along with the Jews where you can have at each other till the cows come home.