A Qur'anic Odyssey: Examining the Imams in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed and Examining Ourselves

WITH ALLAH’S NAME, THE MERCIFUL BENEFACTOR, THE MERCIFUL REDEEMER

A Qur’ānic Odyssey:

Examining the Imāms in the Islāmic Community of Prophet Muhammed and Examining Ourselves

Khatīb: Jibrīl Abdul-Hafīz (جبريل عبدالحفيظ)

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Friday, May 1, 2009 / Khutba-tul-Jumu’ah, Ju-mā-dal-ūl-lā 6, 1430

As Salaam ‘Alaykum: We thank Allāh, we seek His help, we ask for His forgiveness, we believe and put our complete trust in Him, Mighty and Sublime is He. We witness that there is no deity except Allāh, He alone is without partners, and we witness that Muhammed is His Servant and Messenger, the prayers and peace be on him, on his descendants, his companions, and peace be on Allāh’s Messengers (all of them), and what follows of this traditional salutation.

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم

Sūrah, 1:1, Qur’ānic prayer language:

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Actions begin with intentions; we ask Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) for protection from the actions and the intentions of the rejected devil. Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) explains that we should begin our actions and intentions: With Allāh’s Name, The Merciful Benefactor, The Merciful Redeemer. The questions to start with is, how does الشيطان | Ash-Shay-tān | the devil get into our conscious and subconscious mind? Where did he come from? Are Muslims immune from Satan? For the record, after some deliberative consultation about investing into acquiring a community reentry shelter, an inspiring proposal is taken shape. Is there a community reentry program where we can go to protect ourselves from the open enemy of humanity? Can we establish a “Refuge House from Satan?”

Sūrah, 5:91, Qur’ānic prayer language:

يُرِيدُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَن يُوقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاء فِي الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ وَيَصُدَّكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللهِ وَعَنِ الصَّلاَةِ

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) explains: Satan wants to يُوقِعَ | yū-qi-ﻉa | bring about hostility and الْبَغْضَاء | al-bagh-dā-a | hatred between you with intoxicants and gambling and distract you from ذِكْرِ اللهِ | dhik-ril-lāh | remembering Allāh and prayer. A hadith commentary explains the worldwide Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed’s (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) position on intoxicants:

«لُعِنَتِ الْخَمْرُ وَشَارِبُهَا، وَسَاقِيهَا، وَبَائِعُهَا، وَمُبْتَاعُهَا، وَحَامِلُهَا، وَالْمَحْمُولَةُ إِلَيْهِ، وَعَاصِرُهَا وَمُعْتَصِرُهَا، وَآكِلُ ثَمَنِهَا»

The intoxicant is cursed, and so are those who drink it, serve it, sell it, buy it, carry it, have it carried to them, brew it, have it brewed and consume its price. Our Prophet’s (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) explanation makes it clear:كُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ خَمْرٌ، وَكُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ حَرَامٌ، | every intoxicant is khamr and every intoxicant is harām (unlawful)! Allow this to serve as a News Release: Modern day devils are outcasts; they are not welcome in the worldwide Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) until they repent and seek Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) forgiveness for their fiendish behavior. Qur’ānic prayer language is an obligation on all practitioners in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) without compromise; this is the house that we live in for protection from the rejected devil.

If we see the devil as a metaphor of a extremely contagious communicable disease, Qur’ānic Prayer Language is the prescription prescribed to strengthen and protect our spiritual immune system five times a day to fight off the debilitating effects of this parasite called Satan. For example, Sūrah, 29:45, Qur’ānic prayer language:

وَأَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاء وَالْمُنكَرِ وَلَذِكْرُ اللهِ أَكْبَرُ

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) explains: Establish prayer (!) No doubt, prayer restrains from الْفَحْشَاء | al-fah-shā-a | obscenity and الْمُنكَرِ | al-mun-kar | that which is strange to human nature, and لَذِكْرُ اللهِ | la-dhik-rul-lāh | no doubt, Allah’s remembrance is أَكْبَرُ | ak-bar | greater, bigger, and more important than anything we can imagine. Qur’anic Prayer Language is our protection from the satanic parasite that works to disable our نَّفْسِ اللَّوَّامَةِ | naf-sil-law-wā-mah | accusing mind.

Sūrah, 7:27, Qur’ānic prayer language:

لاَ يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ كَمَا أَخْرَجَ أَبَوَيْكُم مِّنَ الْجَنَّةِ يَنزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرِيَهُمَا سَوْءَاتِهِمَا

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) explains His revelation to us this way: do not let the Devil deceive you like he got your parents out of the garden, stripping them of their clothing, to show them their private parts! Clothing can be exchanged as a metaphor for Qur’ānic prayer language that protects us from indecent act behavior exposing ourselves like savages. Our parents Adam and Eve represent the beginning of innocence, a heaven so to speak of and Qur’ānic prayer language protects us from being seduced out of this literal Garden of Paradise. Our Lord: Give us good is this world and good in the next and save us from the punishment of the fire. I say this and I ask Allāh’s forgiveness for me and you.

A Qur'anic Odyssey: Examining the Imams in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed and Examining Ourselves

WITH ALLAH’S NAME, THE MERCIFUL BENEFACTOR, THE MERCIFUL REDEEMER

A Qur’ānic Odyssey:

Examining the Imāms in the Islāmic Community of Prophet Muhammed and Examining Ourselves

Khatīb: Jibrīl Abdul-Hafīz (جبريل عبدالحفيظ)

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Friday, April 24, 2009 / Khutba-tul-Jumu’ah, Rabi-ath-Thāniy 28, 1430

As Salaam ‘Alaykum: We thank Allāh, we seek His help, we ask for His forgiveness, we believe and put our complete trust in Him, Mighty and Sublime is He. We witness that there is no deity except Allāh, He alone is without partners, and we witness that Muhammed is His Servant and Messenger, the prayers and peace be on him, on his descendants, his companions, and peace be on Allāh’s Messengers (all of them), and what follows of this traditional salutation.

Sūrah, 47:38, Qur’ānic prayer language:

وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَكُونُوا أَمْثَالَكُمْ

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) has explained: if you turn away يَسْتَبْدِلْ | yas-tab-dil | He will replace you with another people, then they will not be like you! What makes Muslims in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) think that we can turn our back on everyone outside of our faith? We are humans from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet; we cover our bodies in clothes, we dress our minds with information. Muslims are Homo sapiens created to serve Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) and develop the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) to fit our needs wherever we live. When we examine history, we see that Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) said:

كُلُّ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ ، فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ أَوْ يُنَصِّرَانِهِ أَوْ يُمَجِّسَانِهِ

Every child is born on the natural pattern (Muslim); then his parents causes him to become Jewish, Christian or Majjian. ﻔِﻄﺮَﺓٌ | fit-rah, the natural constitution with which a child is created in his mother’s womb; The faculty of knowing G_d with which He has created all people and the capability of accepting the religion of truth. Sūrah, 30:30, Qur’ānic prayer language:

فِطْرَةَ ﷲِ الَّتِي فَطَرَ النَّاسَ عَلَيْهَا

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) has explained that ﻔِﻄﺮَﺓٌ | fit-rah is: Allāh’s natural pattern which He created as the natural disposition in all people. Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) explained that the best of us is the one that learns Qur’anic Prayer Language and teaches it.

Human history has repetitive stories about the rise and fall of man. Discrimination toward or against one person or group is a sin against the whole of mankind. As we listen to what we are saying, it is clear that ours are not the views of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) constructed on the framework of Qur’anic Prayer Language. It is usually associated with prejudice promoting a negative view directed against anyone who is ambitious to think for themselves outside of our little selective circle.

Discrimination differentiates between individuals on the basis of real and perceived differences, and has been official government policy in world history, such as South Africa in the apartheid era and four for centuries until the struggle for Civil Rights changed the landscape of America.

Executive Order No. 11478 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin by federal contractors and contractors performing under federally assisted construction contracts. The United States Constitution: The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution limit the power of the federal and state governments to discriminate. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA) Title VII Equal Employment Opportunities 42 US Code Chapter 21, Title VII is the principal federal statute with regard to employment discrimination prohibiting unlawful employment discrimination by public and private employers, labor organizations, training programs and employment agencies based on race or color, religion, sex, and national origin.

Sūrah, 49:13, Qur’ānic prayer language, Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) has explained: “Verily the most honored of you in the sight of G_d is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And G_d has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)”.

Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) emphasized that: All humans are from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a black has no superiority over white nor does a white have any superiority over black except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves. Religious discrimination and hatred is un-Islamic; faith in the Islamic Community is based on brotherly love. I say this and I ask Allāh’s forgiveness for me and you.

A Qur'anic Odyssey: Examining the Imams in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed and Examining Ourselves

WITH ALLAH’S NAME, THE MERCIFUL BENEFACTOR, THE MERCIFUL REDEEMER

A Qur’ānic Odyssey:

Examining the Imāms in the Islāmic Community of Prophet Muhammed and Examining Ourselves

Khatīb: Jibrīl Abdul-Hafīz (جبريل عبدالحفيظ)

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Friday, April 17, 2009 / Khutba-tul-Jumu’ah, Rabi-ath-Thāniy 21, 1430

As Salaam ‘Alaykum: We thank Allāh, we seek His help, we ask for His forgiveness, we believe and put our complete trust in Him, Mighty and Sublime is He. We witness that there is no deity except Allāh, He alone is without partners, and we witness that Muhammed is His Servant and Messenger, the prayers and peace be on him, on his descendants, his companions, and peace be on Allāh’s Messengers (all of them), and what follows of this traditional salutation.

Sūrah, 2:18, in Qur’ānic prayer language:

صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) has explained that among His servants we are going to find those who fit the antisocial personality classification: “deaf, dumb, and blind.” This lets us know that care should be exercised when going about our daily duties in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ), that everything is not always as it appears to be on the surface. Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى), the al-Mighty speaks the truth revealing to us that we are not immune from mental health diseases, nor carrying out criminally insane behavior as reflected in the wisdom of the proverbial saying, ‘as a man thinks, so is he!’

It is a blessing that we have the guiding light in the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) to call upon; that is why it is so troubling to see crimes against our sister’s humanity committed by the hands of those who are dead wrong; such as female genital mutilation; we have males who are trying to maintaining absolute control of our sisters committing cultural genocide destroying schools and other civilized institutions to keep our sisters out of the marketplace of ideas; recently a psychopath among us decapitated his wife; we have forced marriages even though Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) has explained to us لاَ إِكْرَاهَ فِي الدِّينِ | there is no compulsion in the Deen! Incestuous acts are kept from the public view through the implementation of isolationist policies and terrorizing our sisters into silence; we practice the use of hypnotic suggestion as a coercive tool to plant the insane idea of killing as a so-called act of jihād in defense of preserving our pseudo-Muslim imperialistic identity. That is not the Sunnah of the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ); this is the sunnah of evil in the name of the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ).

Sūrah, 2:2, in Qur’ānic prayer language:

ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لاَ رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) has explained an attribute of this Book as (هُدًى | hu-dan | a guide); people are always searching and searching; our Lord (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) revealed this Book as ﺃﻠﻤَﻫْﺪِﻯ | al-mah-dīy | the guide for those who wish to be rightly guided. Here is another sign, Sūrah, 41:44, in Qur’ānic prayer language:

هُوَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا هُدًى وَشِفَاء

Allāh (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) explains that our prayers is the answer to what believers are praying for; these signs are هُدًى | hu-dan | a guide and ﺷِﻔﺂﺀٌ | shi-fā’ | a healing. This informs us that we should take responsibility for our own mental health as well as for the mental health of humanity. How are we are going to guide and heal those we deem to be outside of the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) using language that defames the character of Christians and Jews calling them ﻜُﻔﱠﺎﺮ | kuf-fār | disbelievers?

Where would the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) be if the Christians in Africa refused to shelter Muslim refugees from Arab ﻜُﻔﱠﺎﺮ | kuf-fār, anti-Muslim psychopaths? Where would the Islamic Community of Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) be without food planted, harvested, refined, packaged and delivered to stores and distribution outlets owned and operated by Christians and Jewish servants of G_d that nourish our bodies to keep up alive in America? What would we use for currency to purchase Islamic literature and how would we get to the goods and services if Christian and Jewish people would enact an embargo?

In Hadith-Prophetic language:

لَا يَبْلُغُ الْعَبْدُأَنْ يَكُونَ مِنَ الْمُتَّقِينَ حَتَّى يَدَعَ مَالَا بَأْسَ بِهِ حَذَرًا مِمَّا بِهِ بَأْس

Prophet Muhammed (ﺼﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻮ ﺴﻠﻢ) explained that: the servant will not attain الْمُتَّقِينَ | al-mut-ta-qīn | the devout status until he abandons what is harmless out of fear of falling into that which is harmful. I say this and I ask Allāh’s forgiveness for me and you.