Venue: Laisterdyke Community Centre Bradford 3
Date: 26th May 2003
Talk 1: Islam: Ancient Truths for a Modern World – Abu Aaliyah
In Surah Baqarah we come across the creation of man. It tells us who we are, why we are and what we are. It explains to us our purpose in life,
Allah azzawajal put us on this earth to look after it,
- There are 6 billion people on this earth and 1.2 billion of them are supposed to be Muslims.
- 1/5 of people live in poverty,
- 1 billion live in starvation.
- We use 75% of the world’s resources in the West.
How thankful are we?
The Ulama say that the Quran transforms us when we read it; it is a cure from evil and sin when it is applied. Just like insulin needs to be used many times a day for a diabetic, the Quran needs to be used many times a day for a Muslim. It cleanses the human heart and is constant medicine for us. The dua for anxiety asks Allah azzawajal to make the Quran the life of my heart and a light of my breast, and a departure for my sorrow and a release for my anxiety.
Adam alayhi salam had a type of knowledge the Angels didn’t have. Asma akulaha. Allah azzawajal taught Adam alayhi salaam the names of things/angels/concepts therefore increased him with ilm.
وَعَلَّمَ آدَمَ الأَسْمَاء كُلَّهَا ثُمَّ عَرَضَهُمْ عَلَى الْمَلاَئِكَةِ فَقَالَ أَنبِئُونِي بِأَسْمَاء هَـؤُلاء إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ
“And He taught Adam all the names (of everything)…”
Surah Baqarah 2 : Ayah 31.
This is an important part of insaan, knowledge; this is the distinguishing factor between Angels and humans and increases our makaam above them. The first revelation which was brought to the Prophet Muhammad salalahu alayhi wasalam by the Angel Jibraeel was about knowledge,
اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ
“Read, in the Name of your Lord who created” (96:1)
This shows us the importance of knowledge and gaining knowledge, it should be our main focus. We need to gain this knowledge/read/learn “in the Name of Allah,” for the sake of Allah azzawajal.
We are here in the west as a minority so we shouldn’t do anything to insult the host community as they also now have rights over us. Traditions are fine as long as they don’t go against the Quran and Sunnah. We don’t have to completely arabise our lives because the Sunnah was for humanity not just an Arab thing.
Talk 2: When the Two Worlds Clash – Brother Ilyas
There’s a battle taking place, which is trying to make us think like the people around us. The Jews and Christians won’t be happy until we follow their ways.
- A time will come which will be bad except the time after will be worse. (Hadith)
- Firstly there will be the rule of the Nabi salalahu alayhi wasalam, then the rafideen, then an unjust rule, then tyranny, and then the return to the rule of the manhaj of the Nabi salalhu alayhi wasalam
- Knowledge will disappear leaving ignorance – people will give fatawas without knowledge
There will be a general increase in dhulm, killing will become widespread and life will become cheap, a battle will take place between eemaan and kufr.
إِنَّ اللّهَ اشْتَرَى مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُم بِأَنَّ لَهُمُ الجَنَّةَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ فَيَقْتُلُونَ وَيُقْتَلُونَ وَعْدًا عَلَيْهِ حَقًّا فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَالإِنجِيلِ وَالْقُرْآنِ وَمَنْ أَوْفَى بِعَهْدِهِ مِنَ اللّهِ فَاسْتَبْشِرُواْ بِبَيْعِكُمُ الَّذِي بَايَعْتُم بِهِ وَذَلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ
“Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be Paradise. They fight in Allah’s cause, so they kill and are killed. It is a promise in truth, which is binding, on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain, which you have concluded. That is the supreme success.”Surah At-Tauba 9 : Ayah 111
“Verily, Allah has purchased of the believers their lives and their properties for (the price) that theirs shall be Paradise. They fight in Allah’s cause, so they kill and are killed. It is a promise in truth, which is binding, on Him in the Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain, which you have concluded. That is the supreme success.” Surah At-Tauba 9 : Ayah 111. We give everything in the service of Allah azzawajal – we possess nothing and everything is His. This is a most beneficial agreement for us. Allah azzawajal has given us wealth so that worship can be established thus wealth should correlate with an increase of ibaadah. We are far from fulfilling this; on the contrary the wealth is increasing us in kufr and disobedience to Allah azzawajal, which is a way that we are giving into this battle.
Many Muslims will die as a Jew or a Christian and won’t even realise it. The Jews were given knowledge and rejected it and are cursed by Allah azzawajal as they distorted their religion. The Christians act without any knowledge at all. Some Muslims have these characteristics.
We are required to fulfil our agreement with Allah azzawajal. We need to constantly ask for forgiveness. Allah loves tauba as it’s purification for us, it helps develop a relationship between Allah azzawajal and the slave. After a sin has been committed, tauba should be done with haste and good deeds should be done to make up for our bad deeds. Fasting makes us the master and controller of our nafs and desires. Salah will be the first thing to be weighed; if a prayer is missed you are in a state of kufr. Salah is the basis of the individual’s purification.
Enjoining the good and forbidding evil – Ibn Taymiyyah and some companions passed by some tartars who were drinking alcohol. The companions rebuked the tartars for this act and Ibn Taymiyyah rebuked them for rebuking the tartars and said, “Alcohol diverts a believer from his worship but diverts them from killing and tyranny.”
People have always existed who have wanted to destroy Allah’s word and try to attack the weaknesses but Allah azzawajal makes us stronger with each attack if indeed we are the believers.
1. A time which will be bad except the time after will be worse – there will be a general degeneration of the condition of mankind. At the end of time all that will be left will be the kalimah, which people will say because their forefathers used to say it. Ignorance will remain and the winds will have taken the souls of the believers.
We see ignorance amongst many people now who don’t know the requirements of the kalimah. There was a rapid increase in knowledge in the 23 years of the prophet salalhu alayhi wasalam and then a degeneration of knowledge will occur until the day of judgement.
Story – A people lived in a valley where a Messenger has arisen. The valley is in need of rain so the messenger makes dua for this rain. A stream comes down for these people and the people become physically and mentally strong and their characters become strong due to the purity of the water. The source of this strength was the pure stream. They wash themselves, give their children the water and protect it from pollution. This occurred for a generation until the people became complacent and forgot the source of this strength that they had and began to pollute the water with filth. The people still use the water as before ignoring the pollution. Disease then spread amongst the people and they became weak. The enemies in the next valley used to be jealous of their strength. During this weakness they came and humiliated them and took what they could.
3 types of people arose from the valley:
1) Lets fight the people who have invaded us but they were weak and were destroyed by the enemy
2) Lets make a treaty and find a solution, so they sat with them and worked out terms based upon materialistic values which mostly benefited the enemy
3) Lets go back to the source which was the purity of the water – they recognised that their strength was the purification of the water
This is a similitude of the Muslims today, we have had the Quran and the Sunnah which, is pure which made us strong in character, and made us strong physically and mentally with its teachings. We then forgot the source of our strength and polluted and added to the religion by polluting it with bidahs. The enemy who were always jealous of our strength then attacked us when we became weak and 3 groups of people arose/are arising:
1) Muslims who try to fight the enemy when they haven’t been back to the purity of the source that made us strong
2) Muslims who want to establish a treaty with the enemy which is on materialistic values which will mostly benefit the enemy and will only benefit the Muslims in the dunya
3) The Muslims who alhumdulilah recognise that the source of our strength was the Quran and Sunnah and the purity of it without the bidahs / pollution and have gone back to it / are going back to it inshaAllah
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