what what social order is and and when
things break down what happens
and if it's going to happen i mean
there's nothing that can stop it these
are things that allah subhanahu wata'ala
decrees and and when they happened
and they can't bring it forward and they
can't delay it but we should do
everything
to to to want to maintain
social order public order because of the
blessings of living in a time of
of of peace wherever you are and if if
there isn't peace you should be doing
everything you can to work
toward peace because it's it's it's
horrible especially for
uh women and children and and elderly
people
i mean young people unfortunately
there's a kind of excitement that goes
with war and this is one of the things
that
dorothy sayers mentions in her book
prisons we choose to live in where she
talks about
nobody ever wants to talk about the
attraction that young people have to war
young men in particular and and until we
deal with that we'll never deal with
with um with preventing wars and this is
why
uh the jahadi arabs were very well aware
of that
in the in the uh
lines of imminence about war being
seductive to every young
ignoramus are actually mentioned they
were
lines of poetry but the sahaba
considered them worthy of repeating
during times of fitnah
so just hopefully having a safe and
peaceful time
uh and using this time of ramadan it's a
it's a great time of blessing
so may allah subhanahu wa inshallah make
your ramadan a ramadan of virtue
and of um solace and of
family and and blessings inshallah and
and also supplication is very important
during this time
uh supplicating for our community for
ummah
our globe is obviously going through a
lot
and many many places there's incredible
difficulty and hardship and those of us
who are blessed to be in places where
we're not experiencing a lot of things
that other people are experiencing it's
a time to really
magnify those blessings and and avoid
complaining
i mean people will complain about the
fact that the samosa wasn't
cooked uh properly or something like
that and really
stupid things to to complain about we
should just
really try to avoid complaining as much
as possible
and then and then also trying to unite
people because
you know i've been thinking a lot just
about uh
you know conflict theory and there there
are real forces out there that are
trying to to
really create a lot of conflict in our
societies all around the world because
there are committed ideologues
enthusiasts that actually believe
that conflict is a good thing until
the great revolution comes and until
the great egalitarian societies created
through some kind of utopian dream
and this is a real problem because these
people
work towards creating confrontation be
between the
young and the old between the male and
the female between the
the different various ethnicities and
races these are all demonic forces
working in the world
and our tradition is a tradition that
brings people together
our tradition is a tradition that makes
brothers and sisters
of different groups and if people say
that the muslims
themselves don't live up to that it
doesn't matter that's their business
it's not our business it's their
business our business is to do it
ourselves
for us to live up to the truth of this
faith and and to live according to the
principles that the prophet sam gave us
because that's the religion what people
do is what they do
and whether it's in accordance with the
religion or not
is determined by whether they're
following our prophetic tradition or not
that that's how it's determined uh and
and
otherwise uh it's it's just a
free-for-all
so those muslims that are dishonoring
islam
or or are
are themselves wrongdoers and sinners
and people of
of arrogance or whatever sinfulness that
they're expressing
those are all in spite of their faith
they're not because of their faith and
so that's where we have to get back to
is recognizing
what does our faith say not what do
muslims do what does our faith say and
then
each one of us as an individual has to
align with that truth
and that's what this month is all about
it's about realigning ourselves
vertically
with the heavens and and inshallah we we
have
29 or 30 days to do that and and
hopefully we'll
be able to retain as much of that as
possible throughout the rest of the year
until we have inshallah life allah gives
us another opportunity we
none of us know so may allah bless all
of your ramadans
and inshallah may it be a ramadan of t
the polishing of your hearts insha'allah