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Seeking Prophetic Justice | Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri at UC Berkeley

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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Alhamdulillah for the blessing of
security,
for the blessing of peace,
for the blessing of stability.
Uh something that our brothers and
sisters in Gaza are far, far away from
enjoying.
They cannot even sit down like that.
They haven't had a proper salat
al-Jumu'ah in now almost a year.
That and a proper They have turned their
tents into places of memorizing the
Quran.
So, the memorization is going. I don't
know if you've seen the videos of ladies
while breastfeeding their kids.
That's a student sitting down with a
teacher who's um checking her
memorization.
And half of war, living in a tent, the
school is in a tent,
wife,
little child, infant, must be in the
first 2 years.
And all of that did not stop her from
memorizing Quran.
Quite a
a scene that one might read about in in
the books in the old times, you know.
So, alhamdulillah that we It's an honor
to live at the same time on the same
planet
as those people in Gaza. It's really an
honor. We're witnessing history. We are
Maybe they will make dua for us and
Allah will answer their dua.
I am more
more you know, more hopeful in their dua
than our dua
for them even though we have to make
dua. May Allah accept our dua. May Allah
give him give them mercy. May Allah give
them
peace, security.
May Allah give them
a good economy. May Allah stop this war
with in a way that he can plan subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And may Allah help us to help
them. And may Allah does not count us
from those who has forsaken them or
forgot about them or that we will be
held responsible on the day of judgment
that we didn't do our best, right? And
because we can have lectures and
lectures can be emotional and nice and
you feel great and high, but at the end
of the day, you're not dealing with the
issues of the time. You're not dealing
with now. And so, let's not I don't
believe anything can be normal. I try my
best with every khutbah that I give,
with every class that I start first by
talking about the people of Gaza,
connecting everything with them. Then
whatever topic we want to talk about, we
can talk about, but let's not forget
them. That's the least. The last two
khutbahs at MCA, I gave a khutbah about
parenting and relationship between
parents and children. Looks like doesn't
have anything to do with Gaza.
But I don't know if you are watching the
1-minute videos. Something that I
noticed, a 5-year-old is crying about
his parents, normal.
A 10-year-old is crying that he lost his
parents, normal.
A 15-year-old teenager crying so hard
that they lost their parents.
How many teenagers in America cry for
losing one of their parents?
At 20 years old, at 25 years old, at 30,
at 40, at 50 years old crying like a
5-year-old because he lost his parents.
If you don't look beyond the picture,
there is something that is not
normal everywhere else. This love
between parents and children, you know,
this 12-year-old shaking his dad saying,
"Baba, Baba,
I need you to wake me up so that you can
take me to the masjid on Fajr. Wake up,
Baba. Who's going to take me to Fajr?"
Look, this is caught on video.
So, I said, "What What is it that these
people have? Why these kids love their
parents to this level?" Daughters crying
about their fathers like
like you've never seen before. Sons
crying for their mothers and dads. It's
for young ages normal, but when you see
a 25-year-old crying like a child, that
means there was a strong relationship.
Why don't we have that strong
relationship? What can we learn from the
Quran? So, even with a seemingly
parenting
and parent-children relationship that
seemingly have nothing to do with Gaza,
I still connect it with Gaza. And I want
you to do that. In every conversation,
bring your meeting with your friends.
You're about to eat breakfast. Say, "May
Allah azza wa jal give similar food and
better food to the people of Gaza." Amin
ya rabbal alamin. Allah will reward you
for that. Allah looks at the body that
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam
made an expectation that we're like one
body. If one part of the body is
hurting, the rest of the body is hurting
and reacting with fever
and lack of sleep. That's what the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam. Do
you have fever?
Like mental fever. Are you lacking sleep
because of the people of Gaza? It's too
much to to be now almost a year waiting
for all of that. So,
when I talk about the justice of the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam today,
I'm not talking in a vacuum. I'm talking
in in reality on the ground. What can we
learn from him salallahu alayhi
wasallam? And how can we
embody that ourselves? Because also to
stay in touch with reality. One thing is
happening in in the Muslim world. I I I
don't know. I call it spiritual
schizophrenia
uh in or or schedule is spiritual
bipolar disorder in which you might have
two personality. If someone mentally has
bipolar,
our Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam
and the Quran tells us they have no
blame on them. Take your medication,
this and that. Uh
and and and there's no So, that the
mental issue is excused by the Quran.
When a person has a serious mental
sickness or illness or not in control,
Allah tells the angels not to write the
deeds anymore. So, they are they're not
But when you have a spiritual bipolar,
right? That
that on one side,
you know, when when when we look at our
reality today and and it's like on one
side,
we want to
care about the people of Gaza and about
Islam and Muslims worldwide, but on the
other side, we just don't want to you
know, we don't want to change our lives.
So, at the end of the day,
a believer has one face, has one heart,
one mind. A believer
seeks to
seeks to fulfill his purpose and his job
in this world. So, if I were to start
and and and and say,
subhanallah, how can I speak about the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam when
he is the Prophet and we are no one to
speak about him.
Uh it's it's embarrassing, but one can
start with what our mother Aisha
radiyallahu ta'ala anha she said about
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam,
his morals, his manners, his character
was al-Quran al-Kareem.
His morals, his character was al-Quran
al-Kareem, right?
But before I start with that,
I want to share with you that this sense
of justice, fairness, doing what is
right, being fair, being just
is a character that the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wasallam had before
receiving the revelation.
And it was one of his qualifications
to receive the revelation. So, we know
part of the qualification, as-sadiq, the
truthful.
Al-amin, the trustworthy. But one of the
things that we actually don't mention,
al-adil, the fair and just before
receiving the revelation. If you want
someone to lead a nation and moreover to
be the last prophet and messenger to
lead humanity, that person has to have a
very strong sense of fairness and
justice.
That is manifested in a saying that the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam said.
He said, "When I was young
and Rasulullah salallahu alayhi
wasallam, we could decipher he was 16,
17, 18
at that time
or in his early 20s, he I was invited to
an alliance.
An alliance that was established, Hilful
Fudul.
A group of tribes got together
and said,
"Anyone that is oppressed in the city of
Mecca,
we want to give them back their rights."
There is no Islam yet. Revelation didn't
come yet. A group of tribes, one of the
tribes is Bani Hashim. One of the tribes
is Bani Zuhrah. Bani Zuhrah is the tribe
of the mother of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasallam, Aminah bint Wahb.
Right? So, they had that very also
strong sense of justice. Like So,
Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasallam,
you can tell he came from good two
families, right?
And and into me and that just a
footnote,
make sure inshallah
that
as you're growing and inshallah you're
all going to get married,
make sure you have a good family with a
strong sense of goodness, justice. You
will invite a lot of guests to your
home. You will give a lot of charity.
You will make your home a place where
you host halaqas, knowledge, a house of
knowledge because guests bring barakah,
right? And bring knowledge with them.
Make plans like that because believe it
or not,
when you
whatever you intend right now, Allah
will give you a spouse that wants to do
the same thing. And if you and your
spouse do that, you don't know the
impact you're going to make for a long
time, for generations to come.
Yani, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, if you read his story
and you go back into his grandparents,
both from the father's side and also
from the mother's side, you will find
that these people, these families in the
middle of Jahiliyyah
drew a different standard for
themselves. Bani Hashim
lived on a different standard than the
rest of Mecca. Even though there is no
Islam yet. Even though there is but with
a sense, pure fitra, they set up that
standard. That affected the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Inshallah,
if Allah gives me life and gives me the
time, I wanted to make a record, a
silsila, like a episodes about the
grandparents of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And how did he grow up listening to
these stories? These were the big
stories of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam when he was a child and that
had a huge impact on him when he grew
up.
Qusai ibn Kilab. Qusai united Quraysh.
Brought back Quraysh to the Kaaba. And
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
before Islam united Quraysh. Quraysh
were about to fight one another. Who's
going to put the black stone? And when
they saw the Prophet coming, they
appointed him as a judge and they said
he's a Sadiq al-Amin. Whatever he says
we will do. There was a trust in the
judgment, trust in the fairness.
Quraysh was not afraid that if they make
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the
decision maker, who's going to put the
black stone in its place, that Muhammad
is going to say Bani Hashim is going to
put the stone. They didn't fear that. He
knew he was not going to do that.
So they put him as a judge because
there's a strong sense of fairness.
Second, this
alliance of the virtuous, the alliance
Hilful Fudul,
I want you to hear what the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said about it
after becoming a prophet. He said,
"When I was in my youth,
I got invited to participate in Hilful
Fudul."
Why that's so unique? Because Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was young. He
was in his early 20s. So most likely he
wouldn't be invited. Abu Talib will be
invited, you know,
al-Abbas,
Abu Lahab, but not a young man like
Rasulullah. But they sensed in him
strong sense of justice that they
actually invited him to the meeting.
Sometimes it's just an honor to attend a
meeting with the leaders, right? So he
said, "I was invited to a meeting
in my youth, in Quraysh Hilful Fudul.
Wallahi,
I would not I would rather yani I would
not
exchange
that meeting with the weight of Uhud as
gold.
I would not missed that meeting. If
someone told me, 'Miss the meeting and I
will give you the weight of Uhud in
gold,' I would have not spared. I would
not did the exchange.
And then listen to the second statement.
And wallahi,
if I am invited to this
alliance today, I will answer."
Which gives us right now
that opened a whole huge research for
our ulama to say, "Okay, if you're a
Muslim and there is non-Muslims with you
in the society and they come together
and they unite over a good cause,
it is encouraged to you participate. You
don't say, 'I'm a Muslim, they're
kuffar, we don't agree on Islam, so I'm
not going to work with you.' This hadith
became usul, it became a foundation in
political participation, social
participation,
justice participation that when people,
even if they're not Muslims, come
together over an issue and unite over
justice, you participate.
This is a big hadith. So what I want to
tell you, justice and fairness was not
strange to the DNA of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Was not
strange to
It was in his blood, it was in his
psyche, it was in his persona,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and that was
one of the reasons why Allah chose him
also as a not only a prophet and
messenger but the last prophet and
messenger. So after receiving the
revelation, what happened?
After receiving the revelation, now
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
facing persecution in Mecca.
Right? Facing persecution in Mecca that
he had to endure for 13 years. What
happened in the 13 years?
I just want you to know
that after Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam declared that I am a prophet, I
am a messenger and I invite you to
Allah.
How long did the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam made a private dawah?
Not secret, it wasn't secret, but it was
private dawah, one-on-one.
It was for 3 years.
Tayyib.
And then Allah told him, "Get up and
declare the message." So he got up and
declared the message. And the first one
that stood against him
was his uncle Abu Lahab and he told him,
"Tabban laka ya Muhammad." And Allah
revealed "Tabbat yada Abi Lahab wa tab."
Okay? Now, I want you to count with me.
3 years from al-Ba'thah. Now Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
43 years old cuz he received the
revelation at 40. And I want to share
something with you. He received the
revelation at age 40 lunar.
So he was 39, 38 and a half.
Yani, young. Yani, in his 30s.
Look at the maturity. Right? In America,
they want to dumb you down. "Oh, you're
a teenager." As if teenagers don't have
brains. Like you were excused from
intellect. You're excused from
logic, right? Subhanallah, by age 39,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
received the revelation. So 3 years. Now
he declares the dawah.
Do you know how long after declaring the
dawah did Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam tell his ashab, "Go to
Abyssinia. I cannot protect you anymore.
They're going to go after you. They're
going to kill every last one of you and
I cannot protect you and I don't want
you to be dead. I want to preserve you.
I want you to be my backup plan
just in case something happens to us
here."
You know how long it took for Quraysh to
go from zero to 100?
2 years.
In the fifth year of al-Ba'thah, now
Rasulullah is not 43, he's 45 lunar
years.
45, he sent them.
The second time he sent it's not getting
better,
he is in the seventh year
of al-Hijrah, of al-Ba'thah, he sent the
second uh
group of Sahabah to Abyssinia. Do you
know that you know the number of Sahabah
at that time
was like 100.
Do you know 82 of them left to
Abyssinia?
Do you know Mecca was left with nobody?
Rasul Do you know Uthman left with the
first You know, when you say Uthman,
rich man from Bani Umayya. Yani, there
is no reason for Uthman to leave.
Do you know Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was on
his way to immigrate to Abyssinia?
And one of the mushrikin said,
"Under my protection, no way you leave.
You're one of the best people in
Quraysh." So what I'm trying to share
with you is it was a lot of pressure and
it was a lot of oppression. And do you
know what happened from the seventh year
to the tenth year? 3 years of siege,
embargo, and sanction.
Do you know what the people of Gaza are
going through?
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
went through it.
Do you know what the Sahabi tells us?
One of the Sahabah that witnessed the 3
years of siege, embargo, and sanction.
Because it wasn't only embargo, it
wasn't only sanctions, it was a siege.
Do you know what a siege is? You can't
leave.
Nor someone can come from outside to
you.
Let me share with you the story. One of
the Sahabah said, "We were under siege
for 3 years.
We used to go a week without eating,
just drinking water.
And I used to feel
the call of nature and that I need to go
and use bathroom number two. And when I
used to go and feel that I need to use
the bathroom, like number two,
al-gha'it,
nothing comes out. But yet the body has
that feeling.
So nothing comes out. So one day I went
to the the to use the bathroom.
And I sat,
you know, he left his clothes, he
squatted. So while he was squatting,
feeling he had something as but nothing
is coming out, he put his hand, he heard
like there's something loose. So he
touched it and it was a piece of skin.
A piece of a dead goat skin
was left there. God knows a wolf ate a
goat and that's what's left. He said, "I
was the happiest man alive. I took that
piece, I stopped using the bathroom, put
it back my clothes and ran home. I
boiled boiled water and I cleansed it,
then I boiled water again and I made
soup and I ate it for dinner."
That's how bad was the siege, embargo,
and sanction. 3 years. What happened?
Look at this zulm. When the people of
Iraq went through sanctions for 10
years, you Some of you were not born.
Because it went from 1991 to the year
2000, I guess most of you were not born
then. Do you know how many people died?
Do you know how many children died in
Iraq?
Just so that you know,
like I don't understand people. Who
knows?
500,000
children died because of the lack of
vaccine from one side and the lack of
what? Of food from the other side.
Sisters, brothers,
I think there's about 100,000 people
dead after 1 year of bombardment.
500,000,
not adults, not women, children,
children.
And when Madeleine Albright, the
Secretary of State, was asked, and go to
YouTube and watch that clip, the lady,
the journalist, is asking her, "Was it
worth it to put sanctions on Saddam
Hussein that didn't do anything to
Saddam Hussein and kill half a million
children?" She said, "Yes, it was worth
it."
Guys, please, this is not
200 years ago. I'm talking about the
year 2000. This interview happened in
2003. Maybe some of you was already born
by then.
This is not long ago.
So, this is what we're dealing with,
injustice. Do you know how many babies
died from Bani Hashim and from Quraysh
from the Muslims because they couldn't
survive? The mother doesn't have a milk
and the baby died. Who ended up dying
because of malnutrition after 3 years?
Abu Talib
Abu Talib and Khadija radiyallahu ta'ala
anha.
The external support of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the
internal support. Khadija was 65 years
old.
Khadija was the reason why most of
Muslims and this did not die because of
that she used to use her tribe cuz
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
is from a different tribe than
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So, her tribe used to smuggle.
She used her money and the Muslims and
Bani Hashim survived because of Khadija.
She herself was malnutrition. My dear
brothers and sisters,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alihi
Wasallam, after 3 years, he lost Abu
Talib, lost Khadija, and it was called
the year of sadness cuz it was one death
and after 6 months, one death. So, he
barely he recovered from the first
death, he was hit. So, it was called the
year of sadness.
And after that, he went to Ta'if and he
got stoned in Ta'if.
And after that, he came back to Mecca
and he got humiliated in Mecca. When Abu
Talib died, they started spitting on the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
When he makes sujud, they take the dirt
and put it on the head of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. When he
makes sujud, they slaughter a camel for
the idols, take the intestines of the
camel,
which is must be like 200 kilo or
something, right? Cuz the camel is 1,000
kilos, 1,000 lb plus, 2,000 lb. Take it,
put it on the head. It was so heavy,
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
couldn't lift up his head. There was no
one to help him. Guess who came and
removed this and slid it off him.
And started putting the water on his
head and combing his hair Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. And she used and she
told him, "Dear father, they did not
dare to do this to you when Abu Talib
was alive." It was Fatima, his daughter,
the only one because the Arabs at least
had some
um
shame on them, not like the Israeli
soldiers today.
They wouldn't attack a woman.
They would leave her alone. So, she said
and she and she was combing with a comb
the clots of blood. You know that the
intestines? And she was helping her
father and saying, "My father, they
didn't dare to do this to you when your
uncle Abu Talib was alive." Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam looked in her
face and said, "Ya Fatima, inna Allah
nasiru abaki."
Allah will give victory to your father.
Worry not.
And he was tense when he said that
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alihi Wasallam.
My dear brothers and sisters, if you
don't know this, if you don't process
this in your head, then you process the
Battle of Badr, then you process the
Battle of Uhud and killing Hamza and
tearing him apart and taking his liver
and you don't process the Battle of the
Ditch.
You If you don't process that, you will
not appreciate that when Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alihi Wasallam went
to Mecca
and conquered Mecca, that everybody in
Mecca was certain, stressed that
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
will do something to them. They didn't
know, but they had hope and fear.
And when Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa
Alihi Wasallam said, "Go, for you are
free." Did not demand their conversion,
did not force them to convert, did not
punish them, did not
take revenge. On the contrary, in the
next year, when Khutbat Hajjatul Wada'a
came,
he said,
"I I have no revenge. The first revenge
that I take is the revenge of my uncle
Al-Harith. And the first riba that I put
away is the riba of my other uncle
Al-Abbas." Al-Harith was the son It was
a cousin of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Uh
and he was killed and they were seeking
revenge to kill the one who killed him.
He said, "We don't have We have the rule
of law. We don't have revenge system
anymore. We have the rule of law." So,
if you don't go through the pain and you
scan the seerah, you will not appreciate
what happened. You will not appreciate
that you make a treaty.
There was 14 Jewish tribes in Medina.
Three out of the 14 broke the treaty.
The others did not break it. Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not touch
them, did not fight them. He just only
fought the one who broke the treaty and
almost wiped out Muslims. Muslims built
the ditch in front.
Uh and gave their back to the three
Jewish tribes that they will protect
them because they had a treaty to
protect Medina.
And when these people when these people
uh broke the treaty and and and and and
the Muslims like was under the most
stress because they thought khalas. They
thought what's happening in Gaza now is
going to happen to them. They thought
that the mushrikin are going to get with
the Jews who
broke the treaty
uh and and wipe out all the women and
children and attack them from the back.
So, while they are protecting
Al-Khandaq, the ditch, they were going
to get attacked from the back. It was
only by the grace of Allah and the
courage of Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib,
the aunt of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, she started noticing
that the Jewish is preparing an army
attacking Medina from the back. What did
she do? She told them, "It looks like
we're going to get attacked from the
back." She made all the women and
children wear the uh war outfit because
every warrior had two outfits. You know,
if one breaks. So, she they wore and
they stood on the roofs of the buildings
and they gave the impression that there
is an army protecting the Medina from
behind. Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib.
This Safiyyah, the Jews sent one person
to check, "Are these women and children
we cannot see? Or this is the real army
or pretending army?" So, they sent one
soldier.
So, what did she do? She realized where
he's going. She got into the thing,
brought a big log
of like a tree log, right? Uh
and she waited behind the door. That
Jewish soldier entered the door and she
hit him with the log and he dropped dead
cuz it fell on his back.
When the Jews saw that, they said,
"These are soldiers, not women and
children." One woman saved the Muslims
from the back, a warrior woman. How many
times have you heard the story? We don't
tell our own stories. We know Mulan.
But Khawlah bint al-Azwar, nobody knows.
Nusaybah bint Ka'b, she used to fight
with Khalid ibn al-Walid, she fought the
Persians and the Romans, nobody knows.
Safiyyah, Safiyyah is the mother of
Az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam. Safiyyah had her
own method. We don't agree with it
today, but at that time, you know, they
grew up in the desert. So, she used to
beat her son Az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam so
hard that his uncle, his dad's brother,
his dad, Al-Awwam, died. So, he grew up
yatim.
The brother of Al-Awwam, Nawfal. Who's
the brother of Nawfal? Khuwaylid.
Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Az-Zubayr is her
nephew. So, his mother, Safiyyah bint
Abdul Muttalib, she used to beat him
after his dad. So, his uncle, his uncle,
the brother of
yani the uncle of Khadija, said, "Can
you stop beating the kid? You beat him
like you hate him." She said, "No, he
knows that I love him, but I beat him to
become a warrior."
And she started saying poem.
Very nice poem. So, he said, "Can you
stop saying poem? I'm going to stop. Can
you just stop saying your poem? Enough.
I got the point." Subhanallah, because
the intention of the mother was good and
she didn't beat him with hate, but she
like you are a He grew up to become
Az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, one of the most
courageous. When you talk about the
three most courageous people in Arabia,
you have Sayyidna Ali ibn Abi Talib,
Khalid ibn al-Walid, and Az-Zubayr ibn
al-Awwam, the most three courageous
three soldiers and warriors and knights
in Mecca. My dear brothers and sisters,
when you see this
and you see how Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wa Alihi Wasallam reacted, let me
share with you two stories
of two Jewish men came to the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and said to him, one said,
"I come to you
because you say you are the messenger of
God.
One of your companions took money from
me and he never returned it."
So, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam called that companion.
He said, "Did you take money from him?"
He said, "Yes." "How much did you take?"
He said, "Four dirham." He said, "Okay."
That's exactly what he said. So, he His
statement is correct. Give him back his
money. He said, "Ya Rasulullah, I don't
have money."
He said, second time, "Give him back his
money." He said, "Ya Rasulullah, can I
just wait? I don't have money right now.
I'll give it back to him." The problem
is he didn't tell the guy wait.
He denied him and Rasulullah didn't like
that. So, he told him for a third time,
"Give the man back his money." So, he
took the money and he gave him back his
money sallallahu alayhi wasallam because
the Sahaba knows if Rasulullah repeats
something three times, they will not
argue with him sallallahu alayhi wa
alihi wasallam.
A second incident, a Jewish man came to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
and said, "Look." What? He said, "I lost
my tooth." He said, "Why?" He said,
"Because one of your followers smacked
me so hard, he knocked a tooth out." He
said, "La hawla wala quwwata illa
billah." "Bring him." So, they brought
the Sahabi. "Why did you smack the guy?"
He said, "Ya Rasulullah,
he swore in the middle of the market, he
said he said,
"I swear by Moses, the best of Allah's
creation,
and you are still living between us."
And he's calling Moses the best of
Allah's creation. You are the best of
Allah's creation.
You know, if Rasulullah was a centric,
you know, self-centered,
he said Rasulullah got upset,
but not for what you think. He said,
"And you smacked the man?
Don't ever
prefer me over Moses and don't ever
prefer one prophet over the other. Allah
Azzawajal and Rasulullah went on a on a
on a statement of stating the goodness
of every prophet and messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wasallam so
that he doesn't create that. These are
the Jews that broke the treaty. And what
did Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam do?
Because after the battle of Khaybar,
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam
did not want a bad blood to stay between
the Muslims and the Jews. So, what did
he do? He married Safiyyah.
You know, at war, they was they used to
capture the the
the the warriors and they would capture
and take them as uh uh
uh what we call like uh spoils of war.
Everything the Muslims took from the
Jewish tribes, they returned and the
Muslims said when they knew Rasulullah
married Safiyyah, "Look how Rasulullah
solved the problem." They said, "These
are the in-laws of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam. We cannot We cannot
have a prisoner that is the in-law of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam."
So, what when we talk about the
prophetic justice, the prophetic justice
uh went uh both ways, whether the one
who committed the injustice was a Muslim
or was a non-Muslim. Rasulullah applied
the same principle. I want to end with
this.
Uh this is ayah from the Quran.
Um this is uh
uh alhamdulillah Surat An-Nahl.
And I'm reading from ayah number 89.
So, Allah Azzawajal starts the ayah by
saying audhu billahi minash shaytanir
rajim wa yawma nab'athu fi kulli ummatin
shahidan alayhim minhum wa sayhim. On
the day of judgment,
we will send
of every ummah of every nation a witness
from them
against them.
Yani, that says if they did good, he
will say they did good. But Allah will
not choose a witness
like let's say this generation.
Let's say the ummah of Berkeley.
Allah will bring someone from Berkeley
that Berkeley used to know and respect
and understand and and Allah will ask
him, "What did this nation do?"
Yani, on the day of judgment, it's a
court.
And you know, it's interesting. Allah
would not take even though Allah knows,
but Allah as a judge on the day of
judgment does not use his knowledge as a
proof.
He He pulls witnesses.
Imagine Allah ask Nuh on the day of
judgment, "Nuh, I sent you as a
prophet."
Nuh is standing here, his ummah standing
there.
"Did you convey the message?" He said,
"Ya Allah, 950 years,
they didn't listen." So, Allah asked the
people of Nuh, "Did Nuh convey the
message?" They said, "No, he didn't.
We He didn't convey your me Ya Allah, we
don't know." They were They're lying
thinking maybe they we can get away with
it on the day of judgment. So, Allah
asked, "Ya Nuh, do you have witnesses?
Do you have witnesses? This is a court.
Where are your witnesses?" He said,
"Yes, ya Allah, I have witnesses." He
said, "Who are your witnesses?" He says,
"The ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa alihi wasallam." So, we get called to
the stand to the witnesses stand. And
Allah asked the ummah of Muhammad, "Do
you witness that Nuh conveyed the
message?"
And the ummah of Muhammad says, "Yes, ya
Allah, we we witness that Nuh So, Allah
tells them, "And how do you bear
witness? Why? You did not witness. You
did not see it." They said, "Yes, ya
Allah, we read your book and in your
book, you said that he conveyed the
message and you don't lie, ya Allah."
So, based on your word, we are
witnesses. So, Allah accept us as
witnesses for Prophet Nuh alayhi
wasallam. So, imagine on the day of
judgment, the divine justice. You know,
one of the names of Allah is Al-Adl and
Al-Qist.
Al-Adl and Al-Muqsit.
So,
what's the difference between Al-Adl and
Al-Qist?
Both are mentioned in the Quran. Very
interesting.
Al-Adl
is when we talk about justice that
everyone gets the same.
Everyone is the same under the law.
That's justice.
What is Al-Qist? When you give everyone
their due
right.
That cannot be everyone gets the same.
So, for example,
we create a a what do they call
disability ramp so that the one with a
wheelchair can get in.
Isn't that easier?
Like why Why do I have to go up the
stairs and he can go on the ramp? Isn't
that discrimination? Isn't that giving
him more? Doesn't that cost money? Yes.
But that's not justice. That's fairness.
So, there's two names in Arabic and
they're both the names of Allah, Al-Adl
and Al-Muqsit. What's the difference?
The just and the fair. You need them
both.
To be just, people think it's justice,
everyone gets the same. Do you know who
did that? Communists.
You know, Marxism, everybody is no
business owner, no business worker,
everybody is a worker. They destroyed
their own country and the country
collapsed because they mixed between
justice
and fairness.
Leninism
and Marxism just missed this point and
Russians masakin, really I feel sorry
for Russians. They had to suffer for a
long time. You know, the Russians,
between the First World War and Second
World War, 33 million died defending
their country. Just so that you know,
you know, people are dying in Gaza, but
it takes it takes effort. 33 million
died defending Russia.
First World War, Second World War. After
we're done with that, Joseph Stalin came
to them. He went crazy.
How many did Joseph Stalin kill? 19
million. Can someone add 33 + 19?
52.
52 million people died because of
because of
human
you know, that's what happened. There is
a book that I advise you all to read.
This book
I read this when I was 17.
I was in Jordan. If you ask me in
Jordan,
what's the name of the scholars of
Jordan when I was 17, I'll name you one
or two, but I didn't know the names of
the rest of scholars.
But I knew the name of this Indian
scholar
from India.
His name is Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi.
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi wrote a book that I
read when I was 17. It affected the rest
of my life.
It gave me a world perspective that I
think each and every one of you need to
have. He wrote a book. What's the name
of the book? What did the world lose
due to the declination declination of
Muslims?
When Muslims have no more khilafah and
they're not in charge anymore, they're
not leading the world, what did the
world lose? And he started writing and
he named First World War, Second World
War and all the things and the in un
unfairness and the injustice in every
country that used to have Islam and now
it doesn't. And how Muslims give up
their own faith because my dear brothers
and sisters,
what we face today in the world is
twofold.
Oppression and plotting from non-Muslims
to Muslims over Muslims. And then
oppression and plotting of Muslims on
Muslims.
I'll share something with you.
Historically, never ever did the enemy
of Muslims was the cause of their defeat
and finish them. It was never
The enemies of Muslims never never came
head to head with us. You can bring the
Tatar, the Mongolians, we defeated them.
Only only when the Muslims united
together and they didn't work against
each other. The reasons why
the Mongolians and Genghis Khan was able
to kill a million people in 1 month
in Baghdad,
it's because the some people in Baghdad
betrayed Baghdad and and opened the
gates for the Mongolians to come.
If a Muslim does not betray a Muslim,
never in a battle a non-Muslim will beat
a Muslim. Are you with me?
Zero worry that the enemies of Islam
will destroy us. They will only be able
to destroy us if we plot against each
other and betray one another. That's
when we're going to pay the price. And
what you see today, not because someone
has nuclear bomb and the other doesn't.
Someone has power and the other doesn't.
No, no, no. It's because we are
betraying each other, stabbing each
other in the back.
And it's insane. Yeah, I mean, at least
what we call a
a light of hope from Bangladesh when the
students went out and kicked this, you
know, this corrupt government out of
position and brought you any a shout out
of, you know, appreciation to
Bangladesh, right? You know, subhan
Allah.
May Allah subhana wa ta'ala reward these
students who put their blood and and and
sweat on the line. But
that's why when when when we're talking
about you, we are here in UC Berkeley.
The world thinks you're the smartest.
I'm not sure about that, but let's go
with the world, okay?
The world think you are the the smartest
and the greatest. And you're the
smartest and the greatest Muslims among
the Muslim community.
If you understand this historical
context,
believe me, it takes only a small number
of people
to to change the world. To better or to
worst.
27 people.
21 men and six women are the founders
and the hard working of the Zionist
movement that worked with Theodor Herzl
and Chaim Weizmann.
27 people. Six women and 21 men.
They they put their heart into it. They
put their mind into it. Today is what
you see. So a small number of people can
make the world an amazing place like
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and the small number of Sahaba, or they
can make the world a miserable place.
Like one or two people like Lenin and
Marx and and then, you know,
you know, Joseph Stalin, they they they
they can flip the world to worst or to
better.
Allah sends one messenger, he changes
the world.
Two messengers, Musa wa Harun.
One time Allah told us he sent three
messengers.
One person can change the world. Two
people can change the world. Three
people can change the world if they have
the right team.
So at this point we have to be thinking,
turn this thought of justice into
organization, action. How can we benefit
our countries? How can we benefit this
country and change it to a better place?
Inspire us to be like his messenger

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