Bis Millah Ir-rahman Nir rahim
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I think is very important for us as a community to realize is that in times of fear, people tend to be hesitant to do things that in other circumstances they would not do.
And one of the beauties of Islam is that at the root of our religion is the removal of fear. I mean this is really at the root of our
spiritual tradition is the removal of
fear and one of the meanings of McMinn
if you look at the actual arabic verbal
root of a mana it means to make safe and
when you say Amin's would be there it's
literally I made myself safe with God
with Allah subhanAllah Dada and Emin or
security is freedom from fear and this
is one of the reasons a lot of the Hana
lotuses Atta in the audio of la la
Jornada him but on yesenin that the olia
of allah subhana wa to add that they
have no fear and they have no grief and
the ulema say that the grief is about what happened in the past and the health or the fear is the expectation of harm to come in the future and our prophet (SAW) said said ARABIC
"how wondrous is the affair of the believer his affair all of it is good"
And one of the things about our culture here unfortunately is that there's a lot of fear that is put out often by the masks
Media one of the the actual time or Newsweek magazines on the cover it showed to people average Americans and they were filled with anxiety and the economy is collapsing and it said "Are you scared
yet?"
And this is what people want to do is create this type of fear and what Islam is telling us is "don't be afraid", "don't be afraid"
And even when these events happened one of the things that happens to Muslims when they have tribulations is that they say <ARABIC>. The first thing they remember is we belong to God and we're going back to God and the worst thing that can happen is that we go back to God and since we belong to him in the first place we shouldn't be worried about this thing and that's why we have to have strength and courage and one of the interesting things in ethics in the Islamic tradition is generosity is a branch of courage.
That Karim is from Shajaha because courage is courage.
with your wealth and all the of
evocative and erato be said
sj-o Rajan invader sudhi then he stole
Aloha anyway Eddie was Sydenham cannibal
bucko the most courageous human being
after the messenger of allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam was Abu Bakr and when
Abu Bakr came to the Prophet Elisha he
gave all of his wealth and that is a
pure indication of his courage because
what he was doing was showing that he
was not afraid to risk his dollars with
a loss of Manoa to Anna and that is what
courage is and so my my heartfelt hope
from all of us as a Muslim community is
that we look out in our community and we
we recognize
groups and organizations and efforts
that are worthy of our support and I
would say that for the first time and I
really mean this in all honesty for the
first time in the many years that I have
come to isne I have felt that this has
more importance than any other time that
I have felt I really feel that we are
now reaching a threshold of presence in
this country that has not existed before
we have to rise up to the level of that
that is going to take volunteerism and
it's going to take professionalism it's
going to take the efforts of individuals
and groups it's going to take a lot of
collective consultation we have to up
the ante the level because we were and I
told the Imam jihad
that because both of he and I played
baseball and I played Little League and
Babe Ruth and high school baseball I was
actually the captain of my high school
baseball team and in baseball when you
play in the Little League it's split
between you a peewee league Little
League and the majors and in Little
League the balls are very slow when you
move up to high school ball they get
faster by the time you get into college
and pro ball you can barely see them and
I felt in many ways some of all of us
felt in some level that we were people
that have been up at bat against very
slow pitches and suddenly we were thrust
into the major leagues and they're
saying three strikes you're out and you
haven't even seen the first pitch that
you literally haven't seen the first
pitch we need media training we need to
understand the people that we're dealing
with when you go up against these people
these people are paid hundreds of
thousands of dollars sometimes millions
of dollars to elicit from you responses
that they have already predetermined and
if you don't know how to deal with that
if you're not trained to do that you can
easily be manipulated and end up doing
things that are a disservice to yourself
in your community and I have felt the
pangs
of that painfully so I would say that we
need to really upgrade our community's
efforts and our understanding and that's
going to take very serious effort and
I'm hoping this year is the year that
this will happen and I'm hoping that
this year will be a threshold year for
this community and when historians look
back they will see an extraordinary
change that occurred in this time in our
leadership and in our communities
because we have an immense role to play
and dr. Omar Abdullah Faro who's one of
the finest historians that I have ever
met and I think I think he's recognized
by all of us as he he received his PhD
from the University of Chicago with the
highest of honors he is a historian of
the first order and he has said
repeatedly that you are the most
significant minority in the history of
Islamic civilization that the American
Muslim community is the most significant
minority in the history of Islamic
civilization and we are a minority of a
minority because the Arabs in this
country who are Muslim represent about
25% of Arabs in the United States so the
Arabs that are Muslims are already a
minority that the the the
african-american Muslims are a minority
within the greater african-american
community and certainly the
euro-american Muslims are a minority
within their commute so we are a
minority of a minority but I would say
that the strength and power that is in
our community the secret of it is that
we believe la hawla wala quwata illa
billah
we believe that la hawla wala quwata
illa billah if you think that you can be
strong with yourself you are weak even
Alpina said Allah he another even
vehicle what the is an akuna by
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he boxy I am weak with my strength so
how could I not be weak with my weakness
Elaine and Jaya don't feel me
phallic even Acuna Hulan be jelly my god
I am ignorant in my knowledge so how
could I not be ignorant in my ignorant
he said alayhi Mohini misawa saccades an
otaku no Misawa Misawa my good actions
fall short so how could not my bad
actions be bad not bad but the secret of
that is Oba Diah is servitude to allah
subhana wa tada daddy caddy and ilaha
molality nominee Allah is the Lord and
protector of those who believe and we
should never forget that in allah wa u
da 0 annelid inna amino a lot defense
those who believe we must remember that
we no longer have as as a as a worldwide
community we no longer have the strength
of the philosophy of the earth many
empire to defend the muslims in the past
but we have the belief and strength that
our messenger of allah so licensed
taught us when he was at 5 is in the
lowest point of his Dawa and The
Messenger of Allah solid Islam had rocks
thrown at him he was he was chased out
of the city by children to the point
where qureishi mushrikeen from his own
tribe who witnessed it were so upset
even though they were against the
Prophet their tribalism made them so
upset that sofy fees could treat a
qureishi like he was being treated they
sent him grapes with a servant and where
was that servant from he was from Mosul
from Nineveh and that servant at death
said to the prophet sallallaahu Salam he
offered him the grapes and the prophet
Elijah them in that state said where are
you from
and he said Nina WA and he said that
Iike better Roger
Assad a unit even a meta that is the
land of that righteous
servant of Allah Yunus the son of Metsa
and a death said how do you know about
him and he said I'm a prophet like he
was he was my brother and at that point
he kissed the Messenger of Allah so a
lot a student it's very significant that
that was unisza Brunetta
that was mentioned because Yunus was
chased out by his people and when he was
in the darkest moment of his experience
in the belly of the whale he called on
Allah subhanAllah Donna and Allah
answered him at that point the messenger
of allah sallallahu Shannon said a dua
in which he said
Jana bin Mustafa - O Lord of the weak
and the oppressed elementary loonie -
who will you leave me in I do you to
Germany to a enemy who will treat me so
horribly Oh in a very de niro phony or
to some distant person who has no
knowledge of me either Lincecum even
Aamir Khan Chaka Chaka Elena fennel
Valley as long as you are not upset with
me I have no concern with the conditions
that you place me in and this is why as
a community we have the first and
foremost rectify our relationship with
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala and then after
that everything is easy like the am
Satya who said to the Prophet Allah
light incident after her father died her
sons died and her husband died in the
Battle of a hood and they would tell her
and she said I not a suit Allah and
Allah so Allah where is the Messenger of
Allah and they said your father died he
said Allah Allah I did a walk Shah Baba
Shahada may Allah give him a great
reward he's given this Shahada where is
the Messenger of Allah and when she
finally heard that he was well she said
take me to him so I can see him and when
her eyes fell on the Prophet Elias nm
she said yah Rasool Allah coulomb OC
Burton Baraka jealous every calamity
after you is insignificant this is a
woman who lost her husband
who lost her father and her children and
what she was saying was if you're well
everything is well and so I would hope
that that this is what we inculcate in
our heart is that if our relationship
with Allah is sound we can't be
concerned with the rest of the world
make your Lord content and he will make
people pleased with you and so I really
hope that we identify and I hope that we
support because we need to strengthen
this this body we need to strengthen it
if not is we should resist the
temptation of what the philosophers call
reification where you personify a
disembodied entity you are this
organization that's that's that's what
it is it is a collective group of people
that come together in a very significant
and important meeting a meeting of the
hearts of believers in this country to
feel the solidarity and the strength of
Muslims and that's why I know that
people the alienation during these days
that many of you were feeling in your
homes you don't feel that alienation you
don't feel that weakness you don't feel
that fear when you're here because you
see you have brothers and sisters that
are in the same conditions that you are
in and so I really we need to strengthen
this and that I would also say I believe
that our entire community has done Imams
jaraguá Hajj and injustice and I believe
it needs to be rectified this man has
has helped build more mosque in the
United States I think than probably any
other person we need to build his his
center in in Brooklyn and I want people
to go back to their communities and
their homes and I want we want to make a
jewel in the City of New York a jewel of
Islam that shines in a city that has a
blight on it that unfortunately has been
attributed to Islam and Islam is
innocent of that blight we need to give
them a jewel in which the light of Islam
can shine in that City for all of the
people of
York to see a light that will put out
all the artificial lights and that's the
light of this man's heart and the heart
of the people that are in that moss that
I visited many times and I love and so I
hope that people take that to heart I
hope that you support Q news the English
magazine this is good media care support
care help these people support you know
the organization's all all of them
there's good people out there and don't
be afraid you won't get put on any list
and don't do and if you are don't worry
about that because I'm on it Imam Suraj
is on it Jamal I don't know in Canada if
they have that dr. Jamal's but I know
dr. Musa Musa deity who I'm known for
many years and and he's a gentle soul
he's a studiously from the family of a
vocalist if he's a gentle soul and they
put him on Fox News like a terrorist and
when I saw that I just said this is
injustice it's just wrong it's wrong you
know and and and and we have to
recognize that there are people out
there that are good bad and ugly they're
all from God he made them all and he did
it for a wisdom and a reason and we have
to be patient but we have to strengthen
our community and I hope that we do that
we go back to our homes with plans of
action we need plans of action this is a
time of action and I hope that we we do
that desire below heaven
Salam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
we have the entertainment session which
will begin within a few minutes but
before that whether Abdul Aziz has to go
to that other mic over there and the
invitation is an international
entertainment decision people have come
concerts have come on the way all the
way from Indianapolis from Indonesia and
from the Arab world and from different
parts of the world so American shallow
there are two segments left one is this
entertainment partnership mother's we
are going to have and then tomorrow they
are going to be a one session as we are
growing to the conclusion of the
conference and knowing that most of the
brothers and sisters will start leaving
in the morning
we just want to actually remind you all
along that from the presentations you
had this evening and even before you can
imagine how much work we can do and how
many things we can actually achieve if
we can put our hands together so I just
want to make one final appeal to you
because last night the brothers in Islam
the rules were taking care of the
organization well not very much
satisfied with what we did and they
expect that actually the more we can
extend our hands our brothers here the
more things can be done during the
business session that we have the
brothers were urging us now to go out in
the communities and to start working out
with like having meetings the
communities out making meetings with
different people some of the sisters and
the brother was saying why don't you
distribute material for us we do have
actually a what we call a rapid response
team this was established state bio dr.
Ram
they're both doctor the same man and the
committee has disturbed the for Ingrid
and it has turned yes Ahmed and actually
one of the things that we held held us
back is that although we call it rabbit
or instant response team we couldn't get
them together in many times you couldn't
get out the things we want because we
need the funds to help us to do this so
I just want to make this appeal before
we get a shot line to the program that
we need every one of you and I said this
many times many of us think we have to
give large amounts of money some of us
just want even deleted we can so what we
want you to do is to do the thing that
we have well I I was so moved by a
meeting reminded by Baker about the
words of allah subhanaw taala
shows us in it that the essence of our
faith is sparkling giving so allah
subhana which are here at the verse for
us they said we won two aluminum ago and
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