THE STREET MIMBAR – Khutbah (23 December 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. 

Sisters and brothers, committed Muslims…

This week is a week of religious meanings and significance to the Jews and the Christians because of their celebrations concerning Passover and Easter. And for more than one reason not only are we dwelling in their midst, but also because they are incharge of some of the decisions that affect us in our own homes and in our own lands- they are a significant number of people in sensitive positions in the land of the Prophet. So not only because we live here, in a country that calls itself predominantly Judaic and Christian, but also because the Jews and the Christians have found their ways into our own social set-up. And, the combination of our virtual insignificance here, and their overwhelming significance there, has resulted in where we are today. It has come down to Muslim life being almost worthless. Insha-Allah we will understand that in their worldly measures we are on par with the others whose lives (in their opinion) were worthless- but they were Allah’s Prophets. Concerning this holy week in the symbolic or token Christian-Judaic influence, we take a look at Allah’s words. When Allah speaks about the Jews concerning Jesus the son of Mary, He says in Surah An-Nisa:
Due to their kufr, or with their kufr (Surah An-Nisa verse 156-157)
(Remember, these are people who in the undeveloped mind are presented as “Ahlul Kitaab”, but Allah wants you to understand that there is no blank approval of Yahud and Nasara and even those who may say that they are Muslims because of a name or a couple of words.) Can people who have scripture generate kufr? The words of Allah are obvious, YES, WA BI KUFRIHIM
And with their calumny, with their malicious and accusitory words towards the virgin Mary (Surah An-Nisa verse 156-157)
What are these accusations that come from these foul mouths of Yahud towards a servant of Allah? They say that she committed adultery. Wanastaghfirullah. Allah says, (listen to what Allah says, and then you can compare that with what comes your way from speakers who want to drown out what Allah says:
And their boasting that they killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, Allah’s Messenger (Surah An-Nisa verse 156-157)
This Qur’anic ayah becomes problematic in the infomational construct that we have because there’s no-one coming in public and saying that they killed Jesus. When was the last time you heard someone belonging to the Judaic context come out and say “Yes, we were responsible for killing Jesus”? And the Qur’an says they stated it “they said we killed the Messaih, Jesus, God’s Prophet”. Allah comments on what Yahud says
He says they did not kill him, they did not crucify him, but they were made to think or believe it. (Surah An-Nisa verse 156-157)
In other words, it appeared to them that they killed him.

Now people/Muslims listen. There are humans who not only very clearly make these types of statements, but then are able to take these statements from public circulation, where they don’t brag anymore that they did such a thing, but inside their own social order they continue to brew with hatred and scorn against those who follow these messengers of Allah. They may not say it in public, so you are going to have to do some work. And if you do some work and look into Yahudi literature, you will find that they said in their Talmudic literature: “Yes it was a Rabbinacle council that properly passed the death sentence on Jesus, because he was an idolatrist and he was enticing the Jews to idolatry”, and that has been incorporated into their religious character. If a Yahudi passes by a Christian cemetary or one belonging to the Gentiles, then, (if he has a religious character, we’re not talking about the atheist Yahud or the liberal Yahud, we are talking about Yahud who are steeped in the Talmudic teachings), they are required to curse and condemn those who are buried in a Christian cemetary. Should this strike a Muslim as being strange if you are reading the Qur’an and if Allah is telling you that they boasted of being responsible for killing Jesus? In other literatures- they have what is called “Tolodat Yashu’a”, which means The History of Jesus, they say that Jesus is an illegitimate son, born of fornication. If they have whatever it takes of malice and evil to generate this type of approach to one of Allah’s messengers besides their own approach to many other messengers of Allah,- did they not say that Ismail, the son of Ibrahim is illegitimate also- a bastard? If we wanted to roll out their language and begin to say that Ismail and Isa (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon them) are bastards, then they are not only taking on some Palestinians in the occupied land, they are taking on Allah because they virtually created an air of animosity between them and Allah’s Prophets. 

A Rabbi, (not a secondary Rabbi), a prominent Rabbi says in his religious address on an occasion of passover that the Arabs are cursed and they should be annihiliated- an obvious call for genocide. Should it be an awkward statement to Muslim ears, or should this statement authenticate what Allah tells us concerning them? Certainly, if they consider Allah’s Prophets bastards, what are they going to consider you and me? If they were willing to kill Prophets of Allah, are they not willing to kill you and me? They have been so skillful at manipulating the facts and the truth, that now you find them in a cosy position concerning those who say they are followers of Jesus. You would think they are in a buddy-buddy relationship. But, in these Talmudic teachings, they say that if a Christian was to open a bottle of wine, that bottle of wine cannot be consumed by a Yahudi, you have to throw it away. If they pass in front of a Church or a Crucifix, they are required to spit three times. With all this religious teachings and with all this bloody history, both sides have made up, and now it seems like they found common course- it seems like the “crucifixion” habit runs deep in their psyche and smoothly in their veins. Now, they want to crucify populations. They want to kill off millions of people. This same Rabbi who made these statements pertaining to the nature of the Palestinians or the Arabs or the Muslims was a Rabbi from Iraq. According to Yahudi sources, (we’re not taking this infomation from some Muslim who has a grudge against Yahud, it’s taken from their own sources), a while back, there was a fuss in Yahudi circles. Why? Because this same Rabbi called for a press conference and he told the journalists, the correspondents and the writers who were coming to this press conference, “you may ask questions about such and such but you are not to ask questions about such and such topics”. The cameras were there, the media was there, it was a full house of journalists and the press conference began, and there were questions and he would answer. Then, one of the journalists stood up and asked a question that he was not supposed to ask according to the rules, conditions and terms of this press conference that this Rabbi dictated to them. After the press conference was over, all the wrath of the Israeli Zionist Yahudi establishment was manifested against this journalist because he asked a question that he was not supposed to ask. And he went home and he realised he no longer has any career, but he has responsibilities and a family. What is he going to do? His friends and colleagues began to call him and tell him “What did you do? Didn’t you know you were not supposed to ask the Rabbi to answer such a question? You are doomed.” And then, they told him “the only way you can atone for what you did is to go to ask the Rabbi for forgiveness”. So, the journalist (he’s a Yahudi, this is a Yahudi society, this is an Israeli state, this is a Zionist set-up, there’s no Muslims or Christians around), contacts the Rabbi (with these genocidal instincts, scorn and hatred) and says “Rabbi, I want to apologise for what I said. I made a mistake. Please accept my apologies.” Then, the Rabbi says, “If you want to apologise, you don’t apologise on your terms, you apologise on my terms”. So, the journalist asks, “What are your terms Rabbi? I’m willing to apologise anyway you want me to.” The Rabbi tells him, “We will return to the same setting, in the presence of the same people, and the journalist who were there, and we will have the cameras rolling, and then, with the cameras rolling in the presence of all those who were there, you will come to me and apologise.” He says”Yes Rabbi, I will do that.” So, the journalist were called back and the cameras were brought back and then this journalist goes to the rabbi and says “ I apologise (Rabbi) for what I did and for what I said, will you accept my apologies?” And the Rabbi extended his hand and he said “Show your respect by kissing my hand.” And the journalist, in his mind there’s nothing else to do- if that’s the only thing between him and his future- kissing a hand is something that has to be done. He took the Rabbis hand and he kissed it, with the cameras rolling, with everyone else who was there initially watching. And then, the Rabbi took his hand after it was kissed and slapped that journalist on the face and said “Now your apology is accepted.”And the journalists and everyone else returned or left. Think for a moment- if this was a Muslim religious figure or scholar who did the same thing. You probably would have had this news item circulating the globe, with commentaries, analysis, talk shows, rapotage and all sorts of people dealing with this issue. But never have we heard a Muslim personality with a religious schooling behave at this level of things. But when someone who is a jew, with a religious status, behaves like this??? Did you hear about it? Was it carried in the media? The only way we heard about it was because it was one of them who expressed it on a personal level. That’s how this information was obtained or else you can’t dig this type of thing out of the media and they continue with these instincts of aggression and hostility. 

Sharon, the war criminal, the butcher of Beirut, the military person in “Unit 101” that began the sequence of massacres against the Palestinians in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s- that’s how steeped his psychology is in spilling innocent blood- comes out in what’s supposed to be a religious atmosphere and he says yes, he is willing to recognise a Palestinian state but only on forty-two percent of the West Bank and provided that these Palestinians are unarmed. It’s the Israelis who speak about security!!! As if they are vulnerable. As if they are weak. They are very anxious and very concerned about securing “their towns” and “their lands”, and now, the conditions they place on out-numbered and out-gunned innocent human beings is- you can’t carry arms to protect yourselves. As if there’s an arsenal and a stockpile of weapons on the West bank. The virtual arms that they have are stones that they pick up from the ground and from the streets. The next thing they’ll probably think of is, if this was possible, they’ll take the stones out of the West Bank, as security obsessed as they are. And he is received in Washington DC as a head of state. Instead of being wanted in a war crimes tribunal, they offer him this respect and they offer this type of Israeli nation state some type of legitimacy. Where do they place this legitimacy in any religious scroll or religious document? Where has it become legitimate to kill innocent people? Also, in the past, Sharon, this war criminal was saying to the Zionist Israeli forces that they should find a way for these Yahud to go into the Haram As-Sharif- Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa. These are only the opening shots. Now, prepare yourselves, our third Haram will no longer be for us. Now, they want to steal that, with all that they’ve taken, they still haven’t had enough. 

For those of you who are not familiar with the internal thoughts of these Yahud- during the past couple of thousand years, because of carrots and because of sticks coming their way, Yahud modified their language concerning Christians and Muslims. But recently, in the past fifty-six years, they’ve begun to resuscitate their original diatribes and their original malicious and accusatory statements against Muslims and Christians. Now, they have state of the art technology and they have weapons of mass destruction and dare anyone approach them with any legal or moral argument about having weapons of mass destruction in the holy land. The United Nations and other powers in the world send their teams around and they pick on Muslim territories. They see to it that we can’t acquire even for strictly civil and technological purposes- nuclear power. They send their teams to hound us out wherever they think Muslims are thinking of having their own laboratories and their own scientists. One Muslim scientist in Pakistan, who set- up the nuclear program was thinking about leaving his country to another Muslim land, and then his own government says: no, you stay here, you’re not even allowed to go to that other Muslim land. 

In the meantime, Muslims on this occasion in the Masjids and the Islamic centres around are skating through this week as if none of these variables are at work. In the meantime, when these minds with this type of history are procuring their potentials and putting their thoughts together on a war path against innocent people and Jesus said to turn the other cheek. They disavow Jesus, and they go out in the world with their military power rumbling from one corner of the world to the next. These are Christians, people who can be related to Christ, but the churches and the synagogues and now the Masjids, they all tow the line- they are not free spirirts, and free minds, and free souls any longer in the pulpits and in the mimbars of these synangogues and churches and even these mosques. And the Islamic, the sound, and healthy and forward looking and moving Islamic position has to be smothered at its sources, the source is the Masjid, the source is Allah’s retreat, the source is in your heart, the source is in your mind. But what do we do when we have these types that we are speaking about on the outside occupying our root positions on the inside? What do you do when this is the case, except to address yourself to Allah and to work His will. 

If there’s anything to be learnt from Isa (alayhis salaatu wa salaam) who authenticates what Allah’s last Prophet (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever’s salaah does not with-hold him, or deter him from moral and institutionalised evil, this type of salaah only increases the distance between him and Allah. For the status quo and the institutionalised clergy, this is blasphemy. But Allah’s will has to be done with the hands of His servants. We can’t just say a du’a-  like today, the Khateeb in Makkah says a du’a against these oppressors and he leaves it in general terms. Allah’s not going to send missiles down on these oppressors, we are responsible for sending these missiles. We need Allah’s help in constructing, building, developing aiming and launching these missiles. Do you want Allah to do these things for you and you want to bury your reality behind close doors or behind a dense heart? It is a sad moment when those who are supposed to be Muslims who raise there level of Islam to a fervent commitment with Allah are remissed in this regard. It is a painful confession to look at ourselves and see how our religious institutions have been fossilised- it’s a fossil, a huge one, and you can add to that the millions around the world in which there is no spirit, and there is no mind, and no connection between a spirit and a mind. We leave these Masjids every week, only to set ourselves up for the wars that come our way. How many more wars should we endure to have our hearts open up to Allah, and have our minds absorb the words of Allah? We still have a chance because these words are still here, no-one has buried them, changed them nor fouled them.
Lo! We reveal the reminder, and Lo! Verily we are its Guardians. (Surah Hajr verse 9)
Falsehood cannot come at it from before it or behind it. (Surah As-Sajdah verse 42)
The oppurtunity is here, but it is your response that is required.
Allah does not change the social status (that we are talking about) unless we change the psychological status that we harbour. Surah Ra'd verse 11)
How many more rivers of blood has to flow until we wake up and realise that our salvation was in our hands and our redemption was in our presence.