Protest by Praying in Your Mosques!!!
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 | London UK
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As-salaam alaykum wa rhamatullahi wa barakutuh,
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Alhamdulillahi rabil
alameen was-salaat was-salaam ala ashrifil-anbiya
wal-mursaleen. Alhamdulillah alladhee hadana li hadha
wa ma kunna li-nahtadee law la an hadaana-Allah.
Wa ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah wa nashadu anna
Sayyidina Muhammad (s) Rasulullah….
Oo.. Muslims, brothers and sisters, I came from a long
distance not because I like to come but because I had
to come. Because it is a duty on us, and on everyone
to remind each other about what is good and what is
bad. I am not here to lecture to you, I am lecturing
to myself. I am reminding myself first of all and then
you like to accept or you don't like it is up to you.
I am not that one that going to say, "I am this famous
or I am this scholar. I am this or that." No, I am the
lowest between you. And what makes us great is when we
attach ourselves to Sayyidina Muhammad (saw), that is
what makes us great. Else we are normal human being.
We eat we drink we and we look after our desires and
sleep and die. But if we connect ourselves to
Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) we never die, because our
hearts will be alive and our body will be alive in the
grave, as the Prophet (saw) mentioned and the Holy
Qur'an mentioned that our grave will be a paradise to
those who are following the right path.
We cannot play, we cannot pay with Allah swt, we
cannot play with his religion. Allah sent a religion
to every community. Every community has its own
religion. We have to advise ourselves. Our religion is
to ourselves between us and Allah swt we must not
argue about religion. We must come closer to Allah
swt.
يَ
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Ya ayyuha an-naasu inna khalaqnaakum min dhakkarin wa
untha wa ja`alanaakum shu`uban wa qabaa'il
li-ta`arafoo, Inna akramakum `ind-Allahi atqaakum.
inna Allaha `aleemun khabeer.
Oo.. mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a
male and a female, and made you into nations and
tribes, that you may know each other (not that ye may
despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you
in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most
righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is
well acquainted (with all things). Al-Hujurat [49:13]
So it means the one who is righteous and sincere is
the one who is going to be saved. There are many who
believed in Sayyidina Ibrahim as, they accepted him
and followed him. Do we say these people are going to
go to hell? No. Are these people going to be punished.
No. Many people believe in Sayyidina Musa
Alayhissalam. Can we say these people Are they going
to be sent to hell? No. they believed in what
Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam came with. Those who
believed in Sayyidina `Isa as, Jesus, the Hawariyoon,
his disciples , can we say these people are going to
hell? No.
Those people who accepted Sayyidina Muhammad (saw)
accepted all religions. It is our duty to tolerate, no
not tolerate, tolerate is out of our dictionary. It is
to accept. To accept people of all religions…we are
not on Mars. Allah created us and put us on earth. Why
we are on earth is another discussion. Why we are not
on Venus or Mars or Pluto is a different question. Are
there other creations there or not is another
discussion. But we were placed on earth.
Who is Insan al-Kaamil. Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) that
means the complete perfect personality that Allah swt
gave to His servant as a gift. He is a servant to
allah swt, and he is proud of that, and he is perfect.
What does perfection mean, al-Insan al-Kamil. The
complete human being. You have a computer that has all
kinds of a big memory and has all kinds of things in
it. If one chip is missing the whole computer falls
down. It has to be perfect, else it will go down. If
anything is missing the whole computer will crash.
Sometimes you go to the airport and you cannot do
anything due to one chip, or one glitch. One glitch
shuts whole computer down.
The Insan al-Kaamil has no glitch in it, he has no
imperfection. That perfection is reflect to us. And I
am speaking of all human being, because the Prophet
(saw) was sent to humanity. And as brother Ahmad
Maqsood, Wa ma arsalnaaka illa rahmatan lil-`alameen.
We sent you not but as mercy for alameen. For everyone
and for everything. Anything living on this planet is
under the name `alameen. Even a worm, even an ant has
to receive from that perfection that Allah put on
Sayyidina Muhammad (saw).
That is why an ant was speaking when Sayyidina
Sulayman as was coming. She was urging all the other
ants to come in or else Sayyidina Sulayman and his
army would destroy them. And that is from a perfection
that Sayyidina Sulayman is receiving from the soul of
Sayyidina Muhammad (saw). and that is mentioned in
many hadith and some people might say that hadith is
da`eef as some say or maqbool or hasan, , and that is
our belief, whatever thy want to say, they say, they
have their beliefs and we have our beliefs, but that
hadith says, the first that Allah created of Sayyidina
Muhammad (saw)." "I was a prophet and Adam as between
clay and water."
So our duty is to be inheriting what the prophet said
to us. To be perfect. Else everything in us will
shutdown. If someone has a heart problem and they say,
an artery is blocked you have to make angioplasty or
you will die. What about the artery that connects us
to Sayyidina Muhammad (saw).?
Awliyaullah and sincere people. Allah mentioned in the
Holy Qur'an, ala inna awliyaullah.
people they have nothing to worry about. Without that
connection the Ummah is lost. That is why we see today
the Ummah is lost.. I don't want to not criticize, we
must criticize in order to build ourselves back. We
don't know who to follow today.
كُ
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Kulli hizbin bima ladayhim farihoon –
Each party rejoices in that which is with itself.
23:53
Every group is happy with what they have. Ok you are
happy with that, but you are free to your own opinion
but don't impose it on others. Ok you may have your
opinion but also seek the opinion of those with you.
Just now Mawlana Shaykh Aba Bakr, mentioned something.
And for although I go along with it, I accept for sure
he is my teacher, my shaykh , whatever, and with all
my due respect, I might differ - not out of
criticism, no istaghfirullah - but out of ideas.
It is that: Why we go for Arafat? This is my own
opinion this is how I understand it. We go to Arafat
because if you don't go to Arafat, your pilgrimage is
not accepted. Al-hajju arafat.
Why Allah wants to gather everyone there on Arafat? To
show the unity and to show that they are not asking
anyone's help except Allah's swt. They are asking
Allah swt directly and interceding with Sayyidina
Muhammad (s). because Allah mentioned in Holy Qur'an,
to some Sahaba, if you have problems, if you were
oppressors to yourselves go the Prophet (saw).
وَ
أَ
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Wa maa arsalnaa min rasoolin illa liyuta`a bidhnllahi
wa law annahum idh dhalamoo anfusahum ja'ooka fa
'staghfaroollaha wa'staghfara lahumur-rasoolu
la-wajadoollaha tawwaaban raheema.
We sent not an apostle, but to be obeyed, in
accordance with the will of Allah. If they had only,
when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee
and asked Allah's forgiveness, and the Messenger had
asked forgiveness for them, they would have found
Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful. An-Nisa
[4:64]
If they made problems or did something wrong, and how
much we are oppressing ourselves. Are we perfect ? No.
and where we have to go when we oppress ourselves. We
have to go to the Prophet (s). Go to Muhammad (saw).
are we going to our leader, to the Seal of messengers,
to ask him to intercede with Allah for us. There you
make istighfaar in his presence. Are we keeping
connection with the Prophet (saw) for every action we
do, in our heart.
Look at children you see them on the street or
everywhere. Wearing shirts: Spiderman. Other than
that? Superman. Other than that? Frogman? Batman? They
are connected. They feel that connection they are
doing their actions with the connection that Hollywood
gave to them. We are not giving our children enough to
show importance of the prophet from childhood. Allah
gave to us Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) and we aren't
giving our children enough importance to show
importance to Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) from childhood.
We are preventing the celebration all kinds of Mawlid,
people are preventing it in order that destroy that
connection with the Prophet (saw) .
Look how much I appreciate what the students of
Sayyidina `Isa, they are doing today. Christians, you
go everywhere you see all these lights in Christmas
time, in the time of Sayyidina `Isa's birthday. And
for Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) we are shutting all the
lights off. So our duty is to bring that love in our
children and Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) leadership… in
this nation in order to bring that connection. When we
get that connection then our chip it blockage is no
longer there, then our connection goes directly there.
So let us go back to the issue of Arafat. We go to
Arafat for what purpose? To call on Allah swt. There
everyone is calling labayk Allahuma labayk. Labayk la
shareek laka labayk… We are all there everyone, white
color wearing, no dust, we want to come to you pure Ya
Rabbee, coming to you clean, wearing completely white,
coming to a sacred place calling you in one voice to
solve our problems.
Today where are going to solve our problems. On the
street. We are going to make demonstrations. For what
demonstrations? To make more fitna, more problems. Go
to masajid and sit and pray. Ask Allah swt to give you
what you want, what you need and what you are asking.
We are not people qawaiyoon, that create confusion for
nothing. We go thousands of people on the streets,
facing each other, throwing the police, coming against
…for what? That is not Islam.
Islam is go to your mosque, go to your home. Sit with
your family. Ask "Ya Rabbee forgive us. This is
something coming on us because we are not doing well."
Look from the beginning of life on earth, this is from
day one. When Adam Alayhissalam was coming on earth
what happened between the two brothers. There was a
struggle, between good and evil. One good, one evil.
He wanted to kill his brother when Allah ordered them
to make a sacrifice. Haabil went and brought the best
sheep he has, and the Caabil, Cain went and brought
the worst that he has. He was saying for what does
Allah need from my sheep. He is al-ghani, the Rich. I
give him the worst the sick one.
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