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.