THE STREET MIMBAR – Khutbah (17 February 2006)
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They want to extinguish the light of ALLAH with their mouths but ALLAH will complete and perfect HIS light, it doesn’t matter how averse the kaafirs and the mushriks are there-to 	
Bismillah Ar-Rahmaan Ar-Raheem. 
Alhumdulillah. Peace and blessings on Muhammad, his Noble Companions and Family. 

Brothers and Sisters of the Islamic way…

With guidance and guidelines from Allah and through understanding and living what He has to say to us, we sense as a matter of being with Allah that His victory is near. This is not an illusion, we are not wishfully thinking and this is not recklessness on our behalf. 
Allah has promised those who are committed to Him and who do As-Salihaat, ie. who perform the work of Allah in this world (Surah An-Nur verse 55)
If you are in that position, you receive Allah’s promise. What is His promise?
He will have you become the heirs, the inheritors of this World. (Surah An-Nur verse 55)
This is not a local issue, nor a self-centred issue, this is a universal issue. Allah’s promise is inheritance of World affairs. This is quite an ambition from where some people think they are to where this statement is taking them.
And He will consolidate this Deen for them, for which He is satisfied and He will certainly replace their fear with security. Conforming unto Me, not having anything else compete or vie with Me. (Surah An-Nur verse 55)
Allah says: Conforming unto me, not worshipping me, The word worship for the word Ya’bud is so meaningless, no Muslim should ever use that word again. It takes away the active component, the social context and the heavenly direction of the word Ya’Budunani. As close as we can come to that is- we conform or adapt to Allah or else you can worship Allah for a few minutes in the Masjid and go out to real life and conform and adapt to everything else, and then, you think that you are a committed Muslim! You think you are included in this ayah and in other ayaat.

And then, when He speaks about His victory that is pending if Muslims decide to enter into these agreements with Him, Allah says it is our due (to break this meaning down for the regular person to understand), Allah is saying
 I owe it to Al-Mu’mineen, to give them triumph and victory.  (Surah Ar-Rum verse 47)
These are the parameters of the ayaat in the Qur’an. But how come none of us find ourselves thinking and behaving within these parameters? How can we begin to sense the impending victory that is due from Allah when there are deliberate forces that want us out of the Qur’anic context and into the Jahili mode?? The indications are around us…

We can see Allah’s victory in the making when we see His enemies falling apart (not because we are talking about this issue, but because we are working and sacrificing for it). Allah’s enemies want to play the convenient/political role of saying that they are with us and saying that they are with our enemies. When they speak to us, they feed us with words our ears want to hear, and without the immunity of the Qur’an, the words of the kaafirs, mushriks and munafiqs penetrate beyond the ear and they begin to take their effect in the lives of these individuals. We should have enough confidence generated by Allah’s words and enough insight to watch these rulers when they go from our original lands to Washington DC. Back home, when they speak to the Muslim crowd, they impregnate their presentations with ayaat from the Qur’an and hadiths from the Prophet, because they still have a shallow area to penetrate. But when they go to Washington, what do they say? What do they do? 

When Colin Powell the then secretary of state of the United States- when he was in Jordan, he drove the kings car from the Palace to the airport and the king was sitting next to him. What were they doing? This is how a person will understand how Allah’s victory is just awaiting us. The king was telling him some things that he was not secure of telling him anywhere else in his Kingdom. The securest place he could find to speak to one of his own was when they were driving to the airport. Why? Are they afraid that there are some Muslims in the Royal court- servants, maids, ushers or low ranking employees in the government who will pick up and understand what they are communicating? This is treachery at its highest level and at its best expression. In the meantime, there are Muslims who have sewerage running in Jordanian waters that is not filtered properly because of the way the Israeli Zionist Jews are running the show. Is a king like that interested in the affairs of his own people at least to secure pure drinking water for the subjects in his Kingdom, or is he more concerned about how to implement schemes to kill off what is becoming an Islamic expression of fighting Yahud? 

When they had a summit meeting in Amman- and Amman and Jordan are places as far as Yahud are concerned that leak like a sif- there’s nothing that you can keep confidential- but these kings and presidents had their meeting in Amman. To do what? For those who may not have heard of the escalation of clashes and exchange of fire in Occupied Palestine- when three security officials- the flunky’s of Yahud and Nasara, viz. the Palestinian Authority were shot at- they were in their vehicles with diplomatic licences, they thought they were immune and no-one was going to bother them, and then, all of a sudden, gun fire breaks out and just one of their vehicles was riddled with sixty-eight bullets. From that exchange of fire, it was a miracle that no-one was killed. Two security agents were injured and the three highest ranking security officials from the time of Arafat escaped. These are people who sold their souls to Shaytaan and look at what Shaytaan is doing to them!!! So, the kings and the Presidents took that offensively. They looked at it thinking, if they are going to do this to the Palestinian Authority, they will probably begin to do it to Mubarak and his people, or to Abdullah and his people. So, there’s a serious concern here,- even though, remember, in light of the Qur’an these are the type of rulers who are in fact with Allah’s enemies, but only as a show are with Allah’s servants. And this demonstrates the depth of the meaning, when Allah says to us about these types of Rulers, (if we have enough thinking power):
“Don’t place yourselves in positions to be subordinate or inferior or on the receiving side of a relationship with the political and the ideological expressions of Al-Yahud and An-Nasara. (Surah Al-Maidah verse 51)
These kings, presidents, rulers, governors, princes and decision-makers make broad, far and wide reaching claims that they are from Alladhina aamanu but it is as if they are doing exactly the opposite. But the remainder of this ayah did not work itself into Muslim brains, it did not seep into Muslim hearts,
Whoever it is from among you that places himself in that type of receiving or dependant relationship on the politics of Al-Yahud and An-Nasara is one of them. (Surah Al-Maidah verse 51)
These are the words of the Qur’an- he becomes part of the whole system of kufr, in lands that conveniently hide behind divine messages, behind the Gospel and behind the Bible. Allah does not leave these types alone.

In another ayah in the Qur’an, Allah says:
Protect yourselves against a fitnah, a sedition, an air or an atmosphere in which it is very difficult to ascertain what is right from what is wrong as this type of confusion, this type of fitnah will not be limited to those who have committed the crime of oppression only. (Surah Al-Anfaal verse 25)
It will not be limited to the rulers, kings and presidents. It will also get us all involved in it. Have you taken a moment to think, in one ayah in the Qur’an, Allah says concerning these decision-makers, “Whoever belongs to you, but then aligns themselves with political and ideological yahudism and nasarism, it doesn’t matter who he is, if he’s praying night and day, how much he’s outwardly behaviour appears to be “Islamic”, he has left, and is no longer part of the Muslim crowd.” But then, in the other ayah, Allah says “Guard against a fitnah that is not going to be specific to those who have committed the crime of oppression”. That is exactly how they behave. They want to appear as though they are part of us but in fact and in reality they are part of Allah’s enemies. They come comfortably and some of them are probably praying in the Masjid- and they can pray wherever they want, the problem is not with them praying, the problem is with how Muslims have abandoned what Allah is telling them to such an extent that they cannot see these facts when they look at these characters. This is what bothers a committed and a sincere Muslim. With the level of friction increasing and with a remarkable Islamic component coming out of this friction in Palestine, the Muslims that are aloof are provided with the opportunity to verify and no longer be confused when these heads of state meet at what they call a summit conference. A more apt description for these conferences are conferences in the abyss. They’re not summit conference, these are abyss conferences. Remember- they all pray in front of the media. They have armies of reporters, journalists and correspondents thrashing the words of the Qur’an concerning these figure heads and giving them a twist and a slant of piety, but none of them dare mention the word JIHAAD in the communiqué’s that they put out by these conferences in the abyss. What’s wrong? Don’t these rulers/autocrats/authoritarians/despots, read the Qur’an? And if they do, have they ever seen the word Qitaal and Jihaad in it? And if they have, why can’t it figure into their self proclaimed summit meetings?
Allah says: 
Permission to fight has been given to those who have been oppressed and Allah is certainly able to provide them with His victory .(Surah Al-Hajj verse 39)
Are we waiting for an official communiqué from the presidents and kings to come out and say to the Muslim public, “Now is the time to do war against this avowed and vicious enemy of the Muslims.” If Muslims are going to wait for a communiqué like that, they have to wait until Jahannum freezes over. This will never be said by these types whose hearts, strategies and confidence don’t belong to Allah but rather it belongs to Shaytaan, who have as their leader the people in the white house. This is what happens to Muslims who are no longer thought provoked by the Qur’an. 

We cannot let this issue die down, even though it’s going to take years for Muslims to be sensitised to it. When we have Muslims who cut loose with the Qur’an come and say to us “vote for so and so as president”, what did he do when virtually the whole world was in an agreement that an international force should go to occupied Palestinian territories to protect the out-gunned and exposed human beings called Palestinians? We don’t know how people who voted for President Bush felt when they began to see the first rumblings against their brethren in the occupied territories. And that was only the beginning of it. “Has there been any official or unofficial objection by the administrations and by the rulers to even say we don’t want to take a supportive position of these Palestinians, but present us with a fair approach to this issue?” We don’t know how those people felt and that might not be very important, but what is very important is why can’t the Muslims hold them responsible for wanting to have the whole Muslim community endorse the types of policies against the rest of the Muslims in the world. Make no mistake about it, the government in Washington is the headquarters from which this entire network in the world is trying to bring Muslims to their knees. All the governments in the area around Al-Quds were not elected, nor endorsed, nor given the go-ahead by their own people. How do they survive? It is because of the protection that they get from Yahud and Nasara in their political institutions. If you know some people who voted for Bush or who wanted to vote for Gore- every-time something like this happens, go to them and say to them “Maybe my understanding of the Qur’an and the Prophet is not enough. Maybe you know some-things we don’t know, and if that’s the case, explain to us how in good conscience and in your right mind you want Muslims to vote for the Pharaoh of the land.” But they know Muslims will not do such things, Why? Because Muslims are de-programmed from the Masjid itself. The Masjid has taken the fuse out of your head, so when you read the Qur’an, you don’t light up. You have no fuse in you, and of all people in the world to diffuse you from the Qur’an, it took a preacher and a clergyman from the mimbar to do it. And so, the Muslim lobby, joins the larger crowd and then looks with contempt upon the Muslim crowd that doesn’t even have enough brain power to tell these status quo organisations and spokespersons that they are wrong and because they are wrong they forfeit their position to make decisions for the Muslims. There is a dictatorship in the United States among Muslim Organisations- but if an Islamic organisation misleads the Muslim crowd, then the Muslims should have the right to relieve them of their responsibilities. Does anyone dare think about relieving AMC or ISNA or the other organisations that have been misleading Muslims to say “Enough is Enough”? Ask the voters- the Muslims around the Bush- the United States is making statements that are leading in the direction that it wants to move its Embassy to Al-Quds, what do you say to that? How do you deal with that? And if you can’t deal with it, step down and have other Muslims who understand the American system deal with these issues. There are Muslims who understand the system better than any immigrant that has been there for thirty or fifty or even a hundred years. But they don’t want those types of Muslims to speak out, and they tell them “You don’t know enough about the Qur’an, and the Sunnah, we want to teach you.” And then, they begin to select the individuals who they can teach. Why? If you want to teach the Muslim crowd, everyone can learn if they are willing to. Does it take you from the first step to begin to select and tell us who can learn and who cannot learn? That’s what they do!!! and they do it without anyone paying attention to what they are doing. Then, they send them to their universities, seminars, religious institutions and they teach them for a few years or even more than a few years in some cases, and then they send them back, thoroughly brainwashed to dwell on private Islam, personal Islam, individual Islam, selfish Islam. And if you cannot fit into the individual and selfish and personal and private Islam, then you are a kaafir. On the other hand, the same way we have Muslims who understand what the American government is, we have Muslims who understand equally what Islam is, and Islam is not second fiddle to capitalism and globalisation. Islam doesn’t need a cane to move. Islam is independence, Reliance on Allah, Freedom from kufr- but they exclude these types, and if they can’t, they try to buy them over- “What do you want? What is your price? What are you out to do? Isn’t there a way we can all work together?” And if the person is beyond that, then they have their means of trying to marginalise and exclude these types of individuals from their mainstream, and the saga continues. Once again, knowing the impending presence of Allah, we repeat what Allah says “It is due upon Us to give victory to the committed Muslims,” and commitment is within the range that Allah speaks about in His book and the Prophet’s statements.