In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate

 

"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"

 

   Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah

          As-Salaam Alaykum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakaatuh

1) Muslim world struggle for freedom is the beginning of a universal struggle for a moral world order

I greet you with the greeting of peace, with a reminder that true peace is only found in absolute submission to the One God of Abraham, God, who first introduced Himself to us as "I am I," and there is no God except God. I bear witness that Muhammad Ibn Abdullah is a prophet of God, and that the Qur'an was revealed to Him through the angel Gabriel, and that it is the last divinely reveled message to mankind from God. What is left are messengers, bringers of warnings and admonition and invitations to freedom and salvation. I bear witness to the other monotheist prophets of God, of whom we make no distinction, and their Books and missions, including among others the prophets Moses, and Jesus, to whom was revealed the Torah and the Injil. May Allah be pleased with all of them and their righteous descendants, disciples and companions.Ameen?

Today, as before, the Ummat of the prophet Abraham is faced with a daunting challenge. After so many years of corruption and usurpation of authority by wicked men and women, the ummat of Abraham has embarked upon a universal struggle for freedom. For so many years, and throughout the Muslim world, Muslim people have been suffering and dying in ways not suited to a believing people.  God allowed our enemies to subjugate us, to impoverish us, to deny us education, to rob us of our resources, to turn our women into whores and our children into non believers. They have invaded our lands, hunted us like animals, deprived us of all rights, tortured and killed us, all because we say, there is only One God and Muhammad is one of His prophets, and we bow to no man, or created thing. So, we ask ourselves why we have been subjected to such trials. Please allow me to suggest that perhaps it is because we not only took our blessings, bestowed upon by God for granite, but we stopped appreciating and also began to attribute our good fortune to our own imagined merit, races, cultures, genders and geography.

We declared ourselves believers and pure and everyone else non believers and impure, yet we did not pray, or fast, or obey God. Not satisfied with our own blessings, we became bored and greedy people. We wanted more, until we became like Adam in the garden when he lost all resolve towards righteousness, and sought in its stead immortality and kingdom, and disobeyed God, believing that the liar and enemy of mankind Satan, could grant him such things.  So we turned our heads to evil and corruption and sin, until Satan had mounted us and rode us to near death, languishing in a world of darkness, mocked and ridiculed and humiliated. Yet, due to repentance and prayer of the righteous servants of God for His Ummat, God has awakened us, and the spirit of jihad within us that is necessary to bring about internal purification, which cannot co-exist peacefully with the external evils in our world.

We have looked up from our graves, and sought to be resurrected, as new men and women who can no longer bear that our sins have cast dark clouds upon an entire earth. An earth, dependent upon prayers and acts of faith of righteous men and women to survive, to be prosperous and to be free. We learned, just as our father Adam learned in the garden, that Only God can and does provide sustenance to His creation without asking for anything in return. God's rain irrigates the soil of the believer and the non believer, and his sun shines on those who serve Him and those who curse Him. Only God, who is Ar Rahman, the Merciful, and Ar Raheem, the Compassionate loves this way. And His love has awakened us to be healed.

As a result of our sins and ingratitude, God allowed a coalition to form against us that called themselves a coalition of the willing. What are they willing to do? They are willing to break every law of God and man to wipe out Islam and its adherents, except those who will bow to Israel, Zionism and the secular world order along with them.  They have called us extremists ad radicals, hunted us down like animals, criminalized our rights to live and to defend our lives and property, locked us up in prisons indefinitely and without any charge, where they tortured us and killed us and humiliated us, while they raped our daughters and carried out sodomy and unnatural sexual acts on our sons, many still small children. Then they appealed to our false and demonic pride, ignorance and greed, seduced us into hatred of one another and sectarian wars, where we slaughtered one another in large numbers to appease our common enemies, as Satan and his wicked jinn and men, stood on the sidelines and laughed at Adam's children, confident that he would lead us all to self destruction.

As the monotheists fell, so the world also descended into war and violence, poverty, economic and political collapse and ruin, while various plagues ravish the earth, along with natural disasters.  . When the banner of Muhammad (sa) began to fall, soaked in the blood of Muslims in the battlefields of Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan, a miracle occurred. On another side of the Muslim world, a side of the Muslim world where the people were deemed weak and of no significance. A people who had been ruled by tyrants and dictators for decades, deprived of rights, humiliated and persecuted for their faith, picked up the banner of Islam and cried freedom! In Islam, freedom means fitrah. It means to return to the original state of free man, not blinded and rendered powerless by falsehoods, and stripped of dignity by our own lusts and shameful carnal desires, nor enslaved by men. These people entered the mosque, and came out saying Allahu Akbar, and a revolution ensued. Two countries, one revolution.

On the continent of Africa, a people deemed weak, apathetic, ignorant  and of little consequence, have picked up the banner of monotheism and proffered a bid to lead the world to freedom. Jesus taught us that the meek will inherit this earth and God taught us in the Qur'an that a people deemed weak and of no account would inherit in both the East and the West. Today, perhaps without knowing it, the people of Egypt and Tunisia have stepped into these prophecies.

There is nothing more precious to the Muslim than freedom. There are no people on earth who understand freedom better than we do. We understand that the struggle of every monotheist prophet was to guide the people to freedom. Whether it was freedom from useless worship of stars and planets as with the prophet Abraham, or freedom from the love and worship of self as was demonstrated by the prophet Ishmael, or the freedom from servitude to the hybrid race of demon and man known as neflam in the time of Noah, prophets have led us to freedom. The prophet Moses led the believers from human bondage and captivity to a man who claimed to be god, while Jesus initiated a rebellion against a group of wicked men known as Pharisees who declared themselves chosen by God to the exclusion of all other human beings and who hid the laws of God and replaced them with wicked laws that spiritually enslaved mankind to their worship, while impoverishing their tribes with taxes, and oppressing them with laws promulgated to aggrandize priests and lawmakers over the righteous authority of righteous Kings, including Jesus himself upon whom they hung a crown of thorns. God sealed the struggle of prophethood with victory, manifest in the struggle of the last prophet to mankind, Muhammad ibn Abdullah (sa).

It was the prophet Muhammad through whom God re-established the rule of the righteous inheritors of the birth right of Abraham's seed and through whom God organized bands of believing Muslim men and women, who went onto the battlefield and gave and risked their lives for the freedom of all of mankind to choose whom to worship, and to have the right to worship and to express that worship without fear.

Through Muhammad (sa)God taught us economy and politics and social systems that offer us security and property and happiness in this earth. The prophet Muhammad freed mankind from falsehood, showed us the proof of One God, and showed us where to find our power in the truths and how to attain and to exact justice, for ourselves and others.

Now humanity has come full circle. We are back to enslavement, poverty and ignorance and a world wrought with war and violence and carnal sin, ruled by wicked men and women who worship idols and do the bidding of Satan, having launched a war against monotheist Islam and those who worship the ONE God of Abraham, and all monotheist prophets. .

God told us in the Qur'an that he sent prophets to free mankind. To break the chains that enslaves us to false beliefs and to false gods. Today, the people of Tunisia and Egypt are showing us that the legacies of our prophets, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (sa) live through us. Their sunnah, their teachings, and their lives are our inheritance and our guidance. So, it is our turn to be Abraham and Noah. It is our turn to be Moses and Jesus and Muhammad. It is our turn to free ourselves and to free all of mankind. This is the purpose of the monotheist ummah and our challenge, and never has it been clearer to us.

Today we are at war with the Pharaohs and the confederates of this world. The rebellious followers of the rebel Satan, among jinn and men. We are at war with the men and women who have constructed idols, who worship idols and false powers and who attempt to compel all of mankind into such false worship and idolatry. We are at war with poverty, disease, ignorance and unjust violence and oppression, wars and occupations, deprivation of rights and .usurpation of authority by the wicked and unjust.

Oh Ummat of Abraham, who was the first to call us Muslims, my brothers and sisters in Islam, the perfection and completion of monotheism through the prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah, I remind you that God said His word is fulfilled in truth and justice. Clear the pathways to these two things so that Jesus, who is the word of God, might return and guide us through the days of transition, and the prophecies be fulfilled. Pray that perhaps we might be that generation of faithful believers who might lead the final charge against Satan and his armies, and who will usher in the days of promised peace and prosperity wherein lie the real tests of faith for 1000 years.

To our brothers and sisters in Tunisia and Egypt who have picked up the blood stained banner of Islam, carry it until death or victory with full faith in God and hope in His promise of manifest victory in all the worlds! Onward to freedom, truth and justice.  May Allah Subhana WA t'ala have mercy on His Ummat? Forgive us for our sins and guide us to destroy our enemies and to establish the kingdom of God in earth, which is us, so that we might manifest our kingdoms within this realm, where every righteous man is a king, with powers and armies and a grand destiny once awakened and free. Ameen.

Wa Salaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatu Allah.
by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih Al-Uthaymeen

Compiled, edited and adapted by Khalid Latif

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2) Prophet Muhammad - Finest instinctive social habits

A leading Arab writer of the twentieth century, Abbas Al-Aqqad, gave a short definition of the signs that indicate that someone is a messenger of God. He said: “A messenger of God is someone who has by nature a factor that controls his behavior in all matters pertaining to social interactions and transactions, big or small. The mission of a messenger of God is to establish a power of restraint that encourages people to do what is good and to refrain from what is bad or evil, setting for them clear lines that they must not transgress. Whoever has such a mission must, as a matter of absolutely top priority, be able to dispense with such a power of restraint. He must have no need for it. He must be able to behave in a way that makes it unnecessary for anyone to question him or to claim their rights from him. Muhammad (peace be upon him) attained this quality in a superior and comprehensive way. It ran through his nature and colored all his actions and verbal statements. No one ever questioned him as he held himself answerable for giving everyone, young and old, their rights and for protecting the human sanctity of both the weak and the strong.

 “This sign of his status as God’s messenger is the most accurate and most acceptable. It is a sign that comes from within his nature. It is not an external sign that could be removed from a person who acquires it. Whatever accurate measure the human race has to apply to Muhammad will certainly show that he deserves total love and maximum respect. Such a status will be granted to Muhammad by everyone, whether a believer in Islam, a believer in another religion and by those who have no religion whatsoever. The human race has no fundamental virtue that aims higher than to enshrine those qualities in which Muhammad gave the best example in human history.”

This was certainly the case with Muhammad (peace be upon him) in his dealing with all people and in all situations. A poor woman used to clean the mosque and remove any dirt from it. The Prophet missed her for a few days. On enquiring about the reason for her absence, he was informed that she had died. He said: “Why have you not told me. I would have attended her funeral and prayed for her”. He then went to the graveyard and offered the janasah prayer [i.e. the prayer for a deceased person].

 Needless to say, this was a poor woman with few relatives. Had she had any relative of a reasonably good position in society, she would not have needed to work as a cleaner. We do not even know her name. She must have been someone who would not be missed when absent. Yet the Prophet missed her when a couple of days passed and he did not see her in the mosque. Her poverty and lack of status did not prevent the Prophet from enquiring after her. He was unhappy to learn of her death so late that he could not attend her funeral and lead the janazah prayer. He then took the trouble of visiting her grave and praying for her. He could have prayed for her soul where he was at the time, i.e. in the mosque, and his prayer was certainly answered by God. He, however, wanted to show us a higher level of social responsibility. This is the type of holding himself to account in social matters which Al-Aqqad has admirably spoken of.

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