THE STREET MIMBAR – Khutbah (28 October 2005)
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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. 

Maasharal Mu’mineen…

In our ongoing attempt to bridge the details of Allahs Prophets life with the details of our life, we look at a chapter that is relevant to our times and the mechanations there-in. After the battle of Uhud, the second major military encounter between the Muslims and the mushriks, the yahudi media began to put out poisonous propaganda. The Prophet and the committed Muslims did not score a conclusive military victory at Uhud, they came out of Uhud scathed, because the instructions that were given by Allahs Prophet to some of those who were in commanding positions were not fulfilled. And then, yahud began to say (which, if brought into the language of our times would mean), Muhammed is after power. This is not a Prophet. There weren’t such Prophets who endured such humiliation. Muhammed has been damaged in his physical body and he has been damaged in the crowd around him. Remember, these words are coming from jewish sources in Al-Medinah. In the first instance, the first thing that would come to our mind, living in the type of information that circulates around us is “Freedom of Expression.” They say Muslims don’t tolerate objecting views, criticism and their opponents expressing their opinion. In this instance, which is a case setting example for the rest of the Muslims for the rest of time, these yahudis were not taken to task for what they said, even though some committed Muslims came to the Prophet and said: “Listen to what these yahudis are saying, let us take out their leaders.” The Prophet said If it’s just a matter of expressing their internal thoughts, let them come out with their internal thoughts. It’s more poisonous for society at large if they internalise these thoughts. Besides, they begin to define who they really are.  And, there was no immediate forceful or physical action taken against them because of the statements or irritating comments, as much as they would irritate everyone who is dear to the Prophet and who the Prophet is dear to them. So, the Muslims listened to what these yahud had to say.  (By this time, one of the factions of yahud- Banu Qaynuqa- were already told to leave Al-Medinah, not because of what they said, but primarily because of what they did or wanted to do.) Then, as Allah would have it, weeks and months would go by, and then, a Muslim accidentally killed a kaafir as he was leaving a massacre. So, he comes to the Prophet and explains what happened. Now, because of the conditions that was written in the contract that defined social relations in Al-Medinah, the Prophet had to pay diyah or blood-money, because an opponent was killed accidentally. Allahs Prophet (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam) had to go to yahud to defray this financial obligation. According to the contract of Al-Medinah, that yahud signed with Allahs Prophet, yahud had to participate in this financial responsibility. So, Allahs Prophet along with prominent sahabah go to Banu Nadhir who were outside Al-Medinah and he explains exactly what happened and he reminds them that they are financially responsible the same way the Muslims are because a member of Medinah ended another persons life. Before we go on to the further details, we ask ourselves- were the Muslims (meaning the Aws and the Khazraj), capable of paying this diyah themselves? And the most obvious answer to that is: Yes, the Muslims were capable of paying that diyah if they wanted to, and if they did not want yahud to bear their responsibilities. But, (after listening to what yahud were saying), the Muslims wanted them to prove their metal. If they signed on the dotted line and they said they were going to honour the particulars of that agreement, this is the time and this is the occasion to do it.  It wasn’t that the Muslims were in need of finances, but they were in need of placing yahud where they belonged. So, Allahs Prophet went to Banu Nadhir, and they said after listening to him, “You have come to us and we will be as forthcoming as we can be, but give us a few minutes to discuss this issue,” and they left him and his company and went into seclusion to deliberate on what to do. Then, some of them said “This is the best oppurtunity we have. Now he is within our territory, he is on our grounds, he is in our area and now is the time to eliminate him.” (Imagine what they just told him a few minutes before that and what they are saying in secret among themselves.) Then, one of them volunteered. He said, “I will go and do this myself.” As they were reaching a decision to kill Allahs Prophet, (these are the types who are “re-incarnated” today in the Israeli zionist figures and images), as they were plotting and planning to shed the blood of Allahs last Prophet, Allah revealed to His Prophet what is going on behind yahudi curtains and closed doors. Immediately, Allahs Prophet leaves and he hastens back to Al-Medinah. And then, they come out more or less to implement what was in their mind and they found that he was gone.

The Prophet of Allah went and met with the rest of the Muslims who joined him, and he expresses what Allah has revealed to him and then he sends word to Banu Nadhir “You have an ultimatum of 10 days, no more, to live in Al-Medinah, after which you will have to leave.” And they send back word to the Prophet (sallalahu alaihi wa sallam), and they tell him, “But we’re not going to leave, we’re staying here.” So Allahs Prophet despatches a force to lay seige over this yahudi area on the outskirts of Al-Medinah. And now, yahud were relying on their nifaaq connection, Ibn Salul, who was their Muslim on the inside. Outwardly, overtly, apparently, he was a Muslim who was praying in the front rows when Allahs Prophet was leading the prayers, but he was the type who would go to his masters- yahud- and try to relay to them inside information of what the Muslims are thinking, and what the Prophet himself was deliberating on. So, they waited for days, and for a week, and it was almost two weeks now, and their munafiq connection did not deliver, hence they decided to surrender. And Allahs Prophet told them, “Now, you may only take whatever you can on the backs of your domesticated animals and leave. You can’t take any weapons and you can’t take any wealth with you.” These were given after these yahudis left to the Muhajireen. Ansaar did not get anything out of this, except for an individual or two who were in social need. These are the facts that scream out at us from reading the particulars of the Prophets time, and if we say and :
In the Messenger of Allah we have a perfect model (Surah Al-Ahzaab verse 21)
If we confess that in the Messenger of Allah there is an example to follow, a perfect one, then how come some of us nowadays behave otherwise? Some of us think “There has to be strategic peace with yahud or with Israel.” (this was the pre-dominant thought in the past fifteen years, not to speak about previous years). That’s what the rulers in Islamic lands have been telling us, and this filtered down through religious establishments who churned out fatwas saying that Muslims should enter into an accommodation with yahud. Meaning that we will be able to do what Allahs Prophet was unable to do?!- Astaghfirullah wa A'udhubillah. And some of us profess to love the Prophet so much, and that Allahs Prophet is so dear to us- and when we ask them, “If that’s the case, can you tell me who was that yahudi who volunteered in that session of Banu Nadhir to kill Allahs Prophet?”- there’s a deafening silence! because those who claim to love Allahs Prophet don’t even know the yahudis name who wanted to kill him. And, it’s not only this piece of information, when we take a look at the details of the seerah, there are many other pieces of information that says “My mind is aloof from the Prophet, even though my heart says that I am with the Prophet.” If someone comes to you and says “Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?” The average person’s going to say “He was the person who it is said killed the president of the United States- John Kennedy?” People know who either actually or it was made by the media to be the assassin of the president of the United States. Almost anyone will recognise that name, but if you were given a multiple choice of a few names and you were asked, “Of these, names, which one was the one who wanted to kill Allahs Prophet?” In 99,99% of the cases, Muslims are going to scratch their heads and wonder who is this person? What is his name? The problem is not in the fact that an individual or a few have forgotten the name of a potential criminal, and criminal is not the word because if you want to kill one of Allahs Prophets, that’s as if you are on a vicious and bloody course of bloodshed against Allah himself, yet few of us have it in our mind to remember the name of a yahudi who wanted to kill Allahs Prophet. What has happened to this ummah, that it doesn’t use the head that Allah has put on its body? And we are left drifting in directions. Remember, throughout the past fifteen years, the rulers were speaking about a peace process between these killers of Prophets, virtuous people and killers of committed Muslims. And because the political wind keeps shifting in a different direction each time there’s a new administration in Washington, the word peace process will go away and they will concoct new words and the Muslims in the absence of the Qur’an and Allahs Prophet will drift yet again in yet another wrong direction and they will try to filter that down to us through the mimbars and the masjids as if they were self evident facts when they are self evident baatils. And we go from one occasion to the next behaving in such a manner, oblivious of our historical continuity, it means, (let us confess at this moment), they managed to break our mental relationship with the Prophet, his seerah, his sunnah, his time, his decisions and his policies- we no longer have a mental connection to it.

These yahudis, who thought that they were well fortified, that their defences could not be penetrated and that they were in a superior military position, Allah says regarding that type of calculation:
It is He who has caused the deniars of truth from Ahlal Kitaab, (in this instance yahud), to leave and be expelled from their fortifications.  At the first geathering, little did you think that they wuld be expelled and they thought that they were secure from Allah but Allah came to them from a direction which was not within their calculations and He threw terror in their hearts. They ruined their own homes with their own hands and the hands of the committed Muslims. (Surah Al-Hashr verse 2)
At the first occasion of their assembly, they did not think that they would be doing that. They thought they were well guarded and well protected. They thought that their munafiq connection was going to work. They thought that their military might was going to work. But Allah approached them from a direction un-beknowned to them and He terrorised them. They were terrorised. It seems like when Muslims have this connection to Allah, it generates terror in the hearts of the enemies. Instead of the enemies being afraid, some of the Muslims are afraid of this terror that is generated in the hearts of the enemies?! Do you think this is a historical ayah, speaking about the jewish community in Al-Medinah over fourteen centuries ago?  Do you think it is not applicable to the current jewish community in the Holy Land? Some of the committed Muslims who are breaking new grounds are causing late coming Muslims to think again and reconsider.
Take notice of this, those of you who have an insight and a foresight for these types of issues. (Surah Al-Hashr verse 2)
But we ask, are Muslims today able to bring the flavour of Allahs Prophets struggle into our times? In the months when the intifada in the occupied territories was gaining momentum, suddenly, the rulers in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan hysterically began to contact the Palestinian Authority to try to place pressure on it to diffuse the intifada. They had meetings and summits. You don’t have to stretch your memory to a thousand-and-four-hundred years ago, we’re just asking you to stretch it a few years. The summiteers, yahuds internal connections, the munafiqs decided to give the Palestinians some crumbs- $1billion. This is considered crumbs- $1billion- and after the summit, how much did the Palestinians receive? $228million- that’s about a quarter of what they decided to give these people. And when Muslims were beginning to track towards Mecca to perform the Hajj, the self-styled guardian of the Haramain says, “From their own pocket, they want to sponsor a thousand Palestinian pilgrims to come to Mecca and Al-Medinah to perform their Hajj.” This is supposed to be a generosity, Muslims are supposed to be thankful. “Oh, thank you!! Guardian of the two Holy Harams in Mecca and Al-Medinah. We appreciate your generosity!!” And when they go to Mecca and Al-Medinah, they have to be numb, they can’t speak about these issues- but then their Israeli connection sealed off the occupied land. This is the internal enemy of the Muslims whose hand is with the external enemy of the Muslims. Both these hands together want to muffle our voices, cloud our ideas and dissipate our determination so that we get nowhere and we have another Hajj in another year which is directionless and without purpose- the way it was meant to be by the clan that rules there. Stay alert in the coming months and see how the Saudi surrogates of the kaafirs and the mushriks will manage, once again to have Muslims with all the true and sincere motivations and intentions cattled in and cattled out. As if we are sheepish human beings and there is a Saudi shepherd in charge of this Muslim flock that goes pointlessly and aimlessly from one place and one station to the other, performing what is supposed to be meaningful, not meaningless, Hajj rituals. 

For those who need to be brought back to the gravity of the Qur’an and to the motivation of the Prophet, when this faction of yahud in Al-Medinah proved its treason and were expelled, some of them went to geographical Syria and some of them went to Khaybar. Being that the Muslims in the coming few months will be on their way to the Arabian Peninsula- to Mecca and Al-Medinah, how many Muslims, (you can ask those who have already gone to the Hajj), will be able to know the area of Al-Medinah where Banu Nahir used to live? Ask! And if the answer comes your way in the negative and they tell you, “It’s been a long time, Al-Medinah has expanded, and there’s no longer any signs or any indications or any ruins of the yahudi presence in Al-Medinah.” Does that mean we should not know where they were? Or, is there a subtle hand at work, trying to protect them? Besides, if Muslims are going to Mecca and Al-Medinah, why can’t they insist on also going to Khaybar? Is it wrong for a Muslim to go to a place where the Prophet’s generation defeated yahud? Or, is there a religious establishment there, that is going to come to your face and tell you, “This is a bid’a”. Why is it a bid’a to feel that Allah has honoured and glorified that generation of Muslims that was committed to Him? And, if that was a bid’a, then why were the Muslims at other times permitted to go to Khaybar? Why didn’t we hear this from other Islamic administrations of that land? Why are we hearing it now? Is it because they don’t want to generate an Islamic current that is opposed to the cancer in the Middle-East? They don’t want you and I to gain a military momentum from going to the Hajj and from identifying our common enemies whilst our common enemies are planning war.