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This Ummah is Unique! | Khutbah by Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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in alhamdulillah
Allah for
we thank Allah subhah wa tala as he
should be thanked and we bear witness
that there is no God but one God
Allah and wear witness that Muhammad
sallu alai wasallam is his prophet and
messenger the
final May Allah's peace and blessings
and salutations be upon
him my dear brothers and sisters Subhan
Allah every the beginning of the reminds
us
of and is a word that is comprehensive
and
inclusive of all the
different you know components of Islam
be it the inner Dimension
ofh all the pillars of IM or applying
the pillars of
Islam or staying away from Haram all to
avoid the and the things that Allah has
forbid us starting from to to
to the major sins and all the sins it
also includes in the word tawa the good
morals and manners and fulfilling your
words you want to know the meaning of
the word tawa go to Ayah number
177 inah bak and you will see the
comprehensive meaning of it Subhan
Allah we are right now in the beginning
of the month
of the month in which the prophet
sallallahu alaih wasallam was born even
though there is different narrations was
it the 12th was it the 19th was it the
27th but we know it was on a Monday and
most likely from deciphering from the
Muslim historians and the early
Generations it's you know the 12th but
the date is not as important as the
event itself it's with that birth that
Allah subhana T send the final prophet
and Messenger to the world stage
sallallahu alaihi wasallam to make a
fundamental
change the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was definitely as I said before
he was an anomaly he was not like his
life story and his life accomplishment
and his umah after him was unlike any
other umah before him sallallah alaihi
wasallam truly truly he was unique and
special and every way we know
that and they were military leaders and
S DA andan they were both Kings right
and especially
s these are the only two prophets that
actually LED an army say mus led a
nation right but for someone to be the
leader of the army the leader of the
nation the prophet the messenger the
husband the father and to score a high
success on all friends in all fronts
that's unique
toam to see
120,000 people attending the final seron
in that is very unique for his um during
the the 30 years for Islam to spread
after his death sallallahu alaihi
wasallam after after his death more than
it spread in his life that's unique to
the umah of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam when we read the stories
of the prophets and Messengers most of
them had few followers and the followers
could not take it to the next level even
we read in the story of Sanam after his
death his kingdom plunged and the
Israelites split into two 10 tribes in
the north that were completely anti High
religious and two tribes in the South
that were attached to the city of
Jerusalem and that's quickly after the
death of
s for the um of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam to survive after that
for 1300 years moving from one Dynasty
to another that kept the religion
standing up that preserved the dean from
the preservation of the Quran to the
preservation of the Arabic language
starting with the
the Quran started being preserved in
written format in the of
abak started ordered AB to preserve the
grammar the Arabic grammar then to
preserving the because Islam spread so
fast that there was so many questions
that the um had to produce Under
Pressure like Al IM
abif who was a student of IM
to the IM of Malik in
IM IM Malik to IM who had the old maab
in Iraq and the new mhab in Egypt to IM
Ahmed that settled in Damascus and
before that he was in Bagdad these they
had to answer the huge amount of
questions that were asked because Islam
spread so fast and very so many new
situations where where they presented
themselves and the musl Muslim um had to
graduate a scholar under pressure and
these four imams are just out of when
you study out of 18 imams at that time
that were some of them the teachers of
those imams but their M did not spread
because their students did not carry the
maab the way these four M carried and
the final maab IM Ahmed he did not even
think of himself as a fak he started the
movement you know officially because
before him imami has documented the
Hadith but he officially started the
movement of um registering the Hadith
and of his students was IM alkari and
then the movement of Hadith came and
they preserved the Hadith from
theid to the um Dynasty to the abbaside
dynasty to the mamluks in Egypt to the
Ottomans for 1300 years Islam stood
strong on Quran and Sunnah preserve the
dean preserve the mainstream of Islam
there is an anomaly to this umah no
other um before the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was able to accomplish
what this umah has accomplished we are
in the year
2024 and it was only in the
1924 100 years to the dot that the
Ottoman Empire collapsed and you and I
were born in a new reality new situation
that that even needs a whole new and a
new whole new generation of that can
help us to navigate these new Waters
that we are you know in where there is
no Khalifa no muslim um United and in
front of your eyes and in my eyes we are
seeing how we are paying the price
because there is no umah this is what
you and I are witnessing today is not
the normal for, 1300 years this was not
this is unique this is different this is
you know and now we're going back for
the first time Islam is chased and in
every corner like it was chased in mekah
aluk like the prophets before Muhammad
s like before him like how they were
chased the followers
of all of the sudden the Muslim umah is
in a new reality going back to the days
of mecah and some of the days of Medina
where they are under sanction Siege
embargo attack in every possible way the
goal is to wipe out this umah from
history make no mistake about it that
there's some people when they sit down
they are bitting that the 1300 years
will end you know very quickly and this
umah will be wiped out the depth of the
Muslim umah is being attacked Iraq Egypt
philistine this is the depth of the
Muslim umah this is the heart of the
Muslim umah that has been preserved all
the way till 1924 now no longer the
British came and took festine and
imagine imagine the audacity before they
take festine before they won the first
World War already in 1917 they promised
Palestine to the Zionist movement not to
the Jewish people to few people the
Zionist movement before this 1917 the
first world war is not done yet it got
done in
1918 imagine the audacity and the Heart
of the Muslim um has been ripped I still
remember in the uh lectures of she Ahmed
deat he has he said I have a an advice a
for the Jewish people you are in the
heart of the Muslim um imagine the whole
body is one thing and the heart when you
put a new plant you know planted art new
transplant in the art the body will
reject it that's why they have to give
so much medicine to suppress the body
whether it's a kidney transplant or a
heart transplant so he said I advise you
that you become like the rest of the
body accept Islam for Islam will bring
you back to true Judaism and true
Christianity right because the heart is
on a whole different level it's like a
foreign heart in a in a certain body so
my dear brothers and sisters this at
this moment in history that we are in
Demands a reflection from your side
demands that you say okay let's imagine
we are at the time of the prophet
sallallahu alaih wasallam in Mecca
number one I have to preserve my own
Dean and
IM there's no avoidance to the three
steps that Allah put for us in this Dean
number one to seek knowledge don't be
ignorant about your faith everyone
around you is now is asking you about
Islam don't don't make your answer oh I
don't know Islam I'm not the I'm going
to ask the she I'm going to give you the
number Islam is your religion as much is
is the Sheik's religion seek knowledge
number one but seeking knowledge without
turning it into step number two and
three is also not good which is Allah
said that seeking of knowledge has to go
in an internal Dimension it has to
change you inside out and it has to be
explicit on the external dimension in
your words and actions this is what you
have to do you have to save yourself
from Hellfire but Allah said in the
Quran and save your family spouse and
children and in the last I brought the
issue of the relationship between
parents and children and I shared with
you ayat from the Quran and I showed you
how the approach of the Quran to the
relationship between parents and
children is very deep
sophisticated and unbelievable not the
way we say it but that if you trace how
Allah subhana wa tala through the words
of the Quran taught us how to deal with
our parents it's a whole new demographic
why because my dear brothers and sisters
at this point when there is no Khalifa
and there is no official Muslim um
the only way we can maintain ourselves
is through a strong Muslim individual
that builds a strong Muslim family that
builds a strong Muslim Community a
strong Muslim Community will be will not
be made of weak families and a weak and
a family will not be strong from weak
individuals so the individuals in the
family have to be strong and as much as
we like to put the blame and the focus
on our children I say to you
what Allah put the responsibility on the
shoulders of us the parents not the
children what Allah is asking from your
child towards you he's asking of you
towards your own parents I know many of
us have hit their 40s and 50s but then
many of us still our parents are alive
are you practicing with your parents
what you want your children to practice
with you are you tracing the words of
the Quran the last I shared with you how
the Quran approaches the relationship
between parents by asking the father to
do the same with his parents the
grandparents that he's asking his child
to practice with him and the
sophistication of the Quran that Allah
used words
like and we explain the the meaning of
the
word and we explained that and Allah
told us
be thankful to me and to your parents
another D damic that we explained in the
last that Allah asked of
us befriend your parents and we said
it's not a friendship of equals but it's
a friendship of a parent with their
children whether you are the mom or dad
that when Allah said in the
Quran speak to them in a generous
honorable way when Allah in the Quran
expects us
that our parents will grow older in at
our
homes that when your parents reach of
old age with you with you now if your
parents don't want to live with you
that's their choice you cannot force
them but if they want to live with you I
tell many of the marriage counseling
that I do it's because of parents-in-law
I tell the man husband and wife parents
are off limits
but
she his father and mother are very
difficult I understand nobody's saying
the parents the parents-in-law sometimes
are easy but now your job the wife and
the husband whether the one who's
difficult are the parents of the wife or
the one who difficult are the parents of
the husband the husband and wife have to
come together as a team and work
together with the difficult parents not
work against each other if your parent
is difficult you don't need to deny it
you can say my parent is difficult but
Allah commanded us to be good to our
parents so you and I will work with my
difficult parents I will not work
against you I will work with you this is
our test in life sometimes your test in
life is a difficult parent or a
difficult parent-in-law you cannot
choose your test you cannot say oh
because they are difficult I don't want
them in my house parents are off limit
between in the problems between husband
and wife parents are always welcomed in
your house not only to visit but to live
with you where do I get that from from
the
Quran when they reach one of them or
both of them of old age at your house
there is an expectation
there alhamdulillah we live in a
different country and most of the time
our parents are not living with us
though we wish that they were living
with us but if they are difficult that
is your test in life now as a husband
and wife you need to come together and
figure out how to deal with that
difficult parent you become a team not
enemies my dear brothers sisters Allah
expects us in the
Quran humiliate yourself with your
parents lower the wing of humility and
humbleness it's okay you can be Arrogant
with anyone else which anyway arrogance
has zero tolerance in Islam for
arrogance but with parents is completely
unacceptable humility and mercy my dear
brothers and sisters these words each
word of them is a lecture 45 minutes
with aat from the Quran what today I
wanted to close the circle when what did
Allah tell us not to do with our parents
when Allah
said do not scream and raise your voice
with your
parents this is what our problem with
what's so-called teenager which we said
there is nothing called teenager in
Islam there's a child or an adult but
with young adults is that they are what
that they raise their voice well my dear
brothers and sisters try to you as a
parent when you talk to them not to
raise your voice so that they don't
raise their
voice my dear brothers and sisters Allah
told taught us through the example of
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam Ann Malik who was the servant
of for 10 years gave us an example that
puts like at the top and he's always at
the top he's always ahead of us that's
why he's our role model he said I served
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
10 years never did he tell me for
something that I did why did you do that
and never did he tell me for something
that I didn't do that I was supposed not
to do why you didn't do that so both
ways he never why because wasallam
understands as a master that that
doesn't work why did you do that okay
where is the lesson instead of doing
that tell him what to do you should have
done this and this why did you do that
breaks the relationship anger argument
feeling L down feeling intimidated but
you should have done that it's the
positive now most of us cannot do that
but you you can start the training you
can start the Journey of change why
didn't you do what I told you to do you
can say it in a different way can you do
what I ask you to do it's the same
statement one in the positive one in the
negative wasallam Malik said he never
screamed at me nor he gave me that
feeling that he hates me that's why he's
our role model I know we're not there I
know you're saying well I'm not like
that that's why alhi wasall is your
model imagine my dear brothers and
sisters died as a Allah did not mention
that in the Quran but Allah mentioned
that he was good to his parents and he
did not give his parents a hard
time he was good to his parents he
applied but and he was not ja rebellious
hard to deal with and disobedient again
and again and again and that's a hint
for us that if your child disobeys you
once or twice it's okay once a week or
this you work around it but if your
child is obeying you disobeying you once
in a while and your statement to them
you always don't listen to me now you
have destroyed your child he doesn't
listen to you one out of 10 can you
acknowledge the nine just like you're
acknowledging number
10 you don't make a rebellious don't say
to your child you're disobedient you're
bad you're a loser you're not good all
of that will not get him anywhere use
the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam use the Quran look how
Allah speaks about yah in a empowerment
sense oh take the book with strength can
we talk to our children like that take
the Quran with strength instead of
you're not a good Muslim you don't pray
you don't fast you don't do this well if
your child is by now 18 and you haven't
trained him since he was a child I don't
know to blame the child or to blame the
parent but at least say mashallah you
have it in you you are a good person
you're a good Muslim you're strong you
can do this again the language of the
Quran is on the
positive we give him wisd wisdom and
judgment as a young person
was good to his parents he was
not speaking as an infanta who faced Cru
crucifixion and Allah saved him from
crucifixion what does he say in his as
an
infant my dear brothers and sisters is
you know that when when the person does
wrong again and again and again and
again how did your child reach to that
let's reverse and let's start it's never
too late many of the parents feel
embarrassed they know they did wrong
they know they didn't raise their
children well so what's their uh coping
mechanism to run away not talk to the
child no sit down with your child and
say listen you were my firstborn son I
didn't have children and I you know you
are the experiment you are the we
experimented with you and then we
applied the rest on your children joke
about it you know whatever I did wrong
as a parent Allah does not we don't
condone what is wrong oh because I'm a
parent I can do what is wrong and I can
get with it and you have to accept it
wrong is wrong right is right sit down
with your child have a conversation it's
never too late even if he's 28 years old
he's never too late you will make them
whole and complete maybe your child has
been crying his whole life to hear a
good word from you to to tell him that
you are out of him to go back to the
Quran and Sunnah style which is
emphasizing that which is positive my
dear brothers and sisters the language
of the Quran is very beautiful Allah
taught us what not to do as well as he
taught us what to do with the parents
the Dynamics are sophisticated deep
complicated and it's not as simple as we
like to do it relationship between
parents and children is not relationship
between master and slave it's not just
listen to me and that's it no it's a
it's a relationship it's a relationship
yet the parents have their respect the
children have their should be treated
with love and care and mercy but that
will save our families if we save our
families we will be strong Community if
we're strong Community then we will be
able to survive under pressure like the
people of Gazza has been surviving under
pressure my comment has been for the
last three watch the movies the one
minute clips that come from Gaza the
amount of attachment between the parents
and the children is
unreal you find a 50 years old crying
over his father because he passed
away like a five years old the five and
the 15 and the 25 and the 35 and the 55
they all have a strong relationship with
their parents and their kids have a
strong relationship with them can we
learn something from that because
definitely we're not facing their EX
exam and tests definitely we're not
facing their trial and tribulation and
it's getting worse by the day in
Northern Gaza because of the uh uh
starvation and don't let people if ask
the Islamic organizations if they tell
you that they are able to pass the
support to our brother Gaza don't say no
no no I don't want to donate because the
money will not reach we have honorable
organizations that work every day
tirelessly 2 4 hours and they are
getting whatever could be given they are
getting the help to our brother sister
don't let the media they're playing on
us psychologically by even telling us
not to donate because your donation will
not reach who said that I know for a
fact your donation
reaches and you can see it with the
pictures and the videos that come out of
these organizations so let's not give up
on them and let's not give up on Dua and
let's not give up on our you know
support for them in every possible way
my dear brothers and sisters there is no
strong family in America without a
strong Islamic Center tomorrow Saturday
is the fundraising for MCA I invite you
to come I invite you to donate I invite
you to support because without this
platform we're all lost especially in
California especially in the Bay Area we
need the MCA Mas it's like a beehive we
need to support come and support and
show up if the tickets are sold out and
you donate even if you don't come and
donate generously this is this is our
first home
s alaihi wasallam when he came to Medina
he built M before he built his house he
built
mam in the heart of Medina before he
built his house after finishing M he
built theat always your home first home
is the Masjid second home is your
home and may Allah make our final home
muhamad

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As we enter into Rabi' al-Awwal, the month in which the Prophet (SAW) was born, we reflect upon the special blessings Allah (SWT) has bestowed upon this ummah. What makes it unique? Why does it carry a global message? Visit tawasaw.org for more videos, events, and programming from Tawasaw Institute

Published: September 9, 2024
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Length: 28:39
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