National Masjid Network
These categories or the maqasid ?
Our primary problem is that we don’t have a strong Muslim State that will defend Muslims and Islam on all fronts, because we were divided by the West.
Secularized definitions of Iman and Ibadah. Change it with your hands.
Tie your camel. First we get the camel, then we tie it. We got no camel, no rope.
Tawakkul first. Tie your camel later ?
We must become people of evidence. Whats your daleel?
Change only happens when you.
Difference between Islamizing a culture and bidah.
Taghut such as Pharoah saw himself as self-sufficient.
A military requires a military
Astate requires a state.
How they present us
- Muslims are enemies within
- We must attack them, when we get a chance.
- Why are you always targetting Muslims ?
- Whether you are kalafi or salafi or talafi, you will be targetted.
Their are good people and bad people in every community
The good must make it loud and clear, that they reject these evil activites.
Allah’s Rights
They totally ignore the rights of the creator.
Human Rights
Human beings want real happiness, not pleasure.
They put the right of individual, over the society.
The confuse the rights of the parents and the children.
The confuse the rights of the husband and the wife.
International Law is how the world works
Israel violated the International Law.
South Africa took Israel to court.
Namibia took Germany to court.
Gambia took Myanmar to court.
Their is a difference between believing in International Law and llving under it. We all carry passports.
Civilizational-level thinking
Erdogan said secularism has different forms.
We need ulema to criticize secularism on a theory level.
Social-level thinking
Space to apply Islamic systems
Apply Islamic principles in every situation, whereever you live, even under secularism.
Otherwise we will be out of touch with reality. Be in touch with reality. Islam has solutions for our reality.
Personal-level thinking
In the 80s their were Muslim groups pushing that their will never be an Islamic State, and therefore we must only focus only on personal level instructions.
How to pray salaah
How to make whudhu
How to bath
How to go toilet
Road to establishing a Strong Muslim State
Strong representation globally.
This will prevent evil in the world.
Present victory of the Muslim world.
We have khilfah, anything below that is defeat.
It is counterproductive.
As long as you are climbing the mountain, you are successful.
Allah SWT says: “There will be many obstacles. As long as you are progressing, you are superior.”
Don’t be distracted. Don’t unite with any power who does not carry our political goals.
Many leaders are afraid of their followers. They need to educate their followers.
- Imaan
- Increase the religiousity and the faith of people.
- Islamic and General Knowledge
- Knowledge is power, Ignorance is weakness.
- The only thing that Allah SWT commanded Nabi SAW for, is more knowledge.
- Unity of the ummah, and a level of unity with Non-Muslims who share the Muslim Political sentiment.
- The basis for unity is akhlaaq, not ideology.
- Deter that which is bad, with that which is good.
- We need to influencial in these seven areas in order to be respected in society
- Politics
- New leaders will come from the grassroots.
- Apply more pressure than the pressure from their Western managers.
- Judiciary & Law
- Media
- We are winning the media war, because the young people are sharing videos from the warzone.
- Economy & Finance
- We have to be rich to be strong.
- Education
- Social
- Dawah
- Military – Muslim countries only
- Politics
Unity & Sects
It’s a matter of Imaan and Kufr now, the time of bidah and bickering is over
Failing people cannot diguish between major problems and minor problems.
Think big.
Failing people are only interested in the details.
They think micro all the time.
Failing people are willing to fight over Rafalyadain, while our sisters are being attacked.
This is a sign of failure
Successful people are not fearful or cowardly people.
They went too far with their studies of the Shariah.
Which person of bidah? Everyone is calling everyone else a person of bidah?
Prophet SAW said: “The pray salaah, face our qiblah, they eat halaal. They are Muslim.”
They agree on 90% of aqeedah.
In your view, they are doing Shirk. But they say “AllahuAkbar” and they establish the Salaah.
They only know the hadith of 73 sects. Who transmitted it, everything about it.
The Quran addressed Muslims as one Ummah.
“Muslims are brothers and sisters. You will never believe until you love each other.”
If these sects was an important topic, why did the Quran not address it ?
Dealing with conflict
Their are two ways of looking at conflict: Emotionally or strategically.
Liberation necessitates some sympathy, but to judging matters strategically.
If we look at conflict from a humane level, we will never be able to defend themselves.
They will never be able to liberate themselves.
Strategic people, in most cases are not humane.
They don’t cry when they see someone killed.
The more you talk about the pain, it does not mean you are treating the pain.
It may even make it worse.
Know who the Muslims are
The Muslims are successful
“The believers succeeded.” Why? Khushoo in salaah.
Allah does not want Muslims to be a failing nation.
Allah never presented Muslims as a failing nation.
Successful people turn challenges into opportunities.
Failing people turn opportunities into challenges.
Sabr is self-control, not accepting punishment [41:33-36]
“And whose words are better than someone who calls ˹others˺ to Allah, does good, and says, I am truly one of those who submit? Good and evil cannot be equal. Respond ˹to evil˺ with what is best, then the one you are in a feud with will be like a close friend. But this cannot be attained except by those who are patient and who are truly fortunate. And if you are tempted by Satan, then seek refuge with Allah. Indeed, He ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing.”
Muslims are active by nature, we cannot sit back and watch things go wrong
Be goals-driven.
Don’t be distracted.
Muslims are strong and resiliant.
If there is no Islam or God-conscioussness, people can become like animals.
Try to get into key influencial areas.
Others will not work for the interests of society.
In management, don’t look at obstacles before success.
If their is a will, there is a way.
Be solutions and goal oriented.
If you don’t influence, you are influenced
Successful people are never influenced in a negative way.
They are proactive and influence.
Be effective leaders, controllers and decision makers, or Influencers,
Don’t accept pessimistic discourse.
Don’t talk about pain. Be positive.
Easy life will not last for long.
Wallace Muhammed on the Nation of Islam
1. I have a respect for blood ties, but there is also a dedication to God and good faith.
2. I would be a hypocrite not to call out the sexual promiscuity of my father.
- The misappripriation of funds in the organization.
- Elijah mohammed never acknowledge the issues and ignored them completely.
They have become spiritual slaves
1. The organization demands that the followers accept everything that is said without question.
2. If you show a desire to do a little thinking on your own by returning to the Quran, then you are pointed out as a hypocrite, as a deciever, austracized and threatened.The individual should always be permitted the right to think.
3. We are not pacifists, but we are not promoters of violence and not to be portrayed as reckless aggressors.
- We are advocators of self-defence, with respect for the law and justice.
- They feel that there is a need for goon squads in order to bring peoples thinking into line.
- Religious and spiritual values are gone.
Movements are built on sentiment
Islam is exceptional.
We have a history that we are proud of.
That will inpire greatness.
Nurture the correct sentiments.
The image of God
Fulfil the Will of God and actualize in their lives.
Solve the self-hatred.
Be a confident, strong, proud Muslim.
Iran
Algeria
China
Russia
Their is no reality beyond the human being, so man became his own God.
Man is more important than the tribal community of Israel.
The Prophethood is for man. It’s all about man.
The Will of God will not happen without man.
Morality
- Knowledge of good and evil.
- Free-Will, without compulsion.
- Ability to act.
The highest realm of Gods will
Christianity is about faith, not rationality and science.
The image of God does not exist in all men, only those who embrace Christianity.
Being created in the image of God:
Honor
Responsibility
Pessimistic view of life
Man is born in sin
Man is a fallen creature
The image of God remains in man, regardless of his religion.
Jews also developed a negative view of life. Claimed to be children of God.
The theology of sin is the highest philosophy of the Christians
The reason for our suffering was our sins.
The division, misery and suffering from oppression, problems and exile had filled Jewish consciousness.
They tried to solve this problem with tribalism through racism.
We are suffering because all mankind has become evil, the non-Jews and polytheists.
If Non-Jews stop them from establishing their racist state.
I am sinful because my parents are evil.
If a Jew blames his suffering on all mankind, he will see mankind as animals.
Morality is an individualistic.
The all men have sinned and will sin. Sin is rooted in the nature of man.
Besides Jesus, their is no sinless man.
Sin is the starting point of
Christianity – Evil is necessary, and goodness is impossible.
Evil is not necessary, and goodness is possible.
To create the heavens and the earth costs him no labour.
To remove the sin of the world, costs him his own life blood.
Believers understand everything based on the most fundamental concept.
The purpose of God and Jesus in Sin.
The Adam Story
Adam was tempted by Satan who told him that he will forever remain in Jannah. Adam had a good intention, he wanted to be closer to God. He ate from the tree. Adam made a mistake. It was an ethical misjudgement.
Conclusion is that God is teaching him to choose God’s obedience over your good intentions, which are influenced by Satan.
Far from being the father of sin, the Quran sees Adam as the father of the Prophets.
God commanded him to enjoin good and forbid evil.
The identification of the tree as a tree of life
Christian account is about the evil nature of man.
Our property belongs to Allah
You don’t have the right to do as you wish with it.
Not allowed to undermine the welfare of the community.
Our wealth comes with responsiblity.
Rights individuals are regulated by principles to prevent hoarding, monopoly and exploitation.
The role of the state isn’t todictate or centralize control, but to enforce ethical standards in the market preventing exploitation, and ensuring that wealth doesn’t accumulate solely among the elite, but rather circulates.
Compete not only on the basis of profit, but also serving the community.
Accountability to Allah and Man.
In Islam, no one has a right to act immorality in public. Their values should not be assaulted.
In the West, they can behave in any immoral or indecent way, regardless of how it violates the general public.
Freedom from decency, accountability, morality.
You apply those same principles in the free markets.
Happiness and prosperity
When the human beings achieves certain qualities.
Golden mean
Man must reach a balance between these qualities.
These qualities define us.
If we don’t know how to apply it, and transgress it’s bounds.
The desires must become subservient to rationality, not the other wany around.
Educating the desires
Virtue is having the right desires, towards the right obects to the right degree.
Colonialist tools
Eurocentric nature of the objective truth, reason and value.
Scientific truths and objective facts are tools of domination.
Reason is a tool for ideologies.
Ethics – Reaching the golden mean
Controlling the nafs.
Sources of knowledge
- The intellect
- The five senses
Knowledge can solve phychological sicknesses
Cognitive behavioural therapy.
Cognitive distortions – From thoughts, beliefs and attitudes.
Fear of embracing the realities of life creates mental sicknesses in some people.
Dealing with sadness and death.
Western – Specialization
Islam – Unity, Wholistic, Interdisciplinary
We don’t fear cultures. We benefit from all, without fear of influence from cultural exchange.
Muslim civilization has always been an open civlization with a comprehensive worldview contributed to by many learned scholars.
Concept of a Complete Building
The foundation of Islam is the set of basic beliefs which is composed of
- Belief in One God Alone, Allah with all His attributes and knowing their meaning and impact on one’s life,
- Belief in divine guidance of mankind through His Prophets and Messengers and belief in Muhammad (S) as the last Prophet/Messenger,
- Belief in the Books of Allah and Qur’an being His last and complete Book,
- Beliefs in the Angels as His functionaries,
- Belief in the Last Day or the Last Hour,
- Belief in the LIFE HEREAFTER which includes resurrection of man and accountability to his Creator and Lord, the Day of Judgement followed by reward and punishment meaning the eternal life of paradise or hell, and
- Belief in destiny (Qadr).
The set of beliefs may also be looked at as the engine of a car. If the engine of a car is good the car (body) will go places and if the engine is bad the car will not go any place irrespective of the condition of the body. The set of beliefs of a person is his engine, if beliefs are no good the person will have problems in his life. A society composed of people with sick beliefs will be a sick society as it is the condition of Muslim society today.
The rest of the building of Islam, GOOD DEEDS OR WORKS, (a’maalus salihaat) consists of the following seven components.
1. The first component consists of RITES OR ACTS OF WORSHIP commonly known as five pillars of Islam namely, shahada, salah, zakah, saum and hajj which have been discussed in the beginning of this article. These pillars support the building of Islam above ground.
2. The most important good work after establishing the pillars for a Muslim is to be a ROLE MODEL for mankind as Prophet Muhammad (S) is the role model for Muslims. To be a role model requires excellence in knowledge which includes professions and vocations. A good Muslim must be the best in his vocation to be a role model. A society composed of knowledgeable best persons will also be the best society which would become a role model for all other societies of the world.
3. The MORAL CODE of Islam is another component of the building of Islam. Propagation of the moral code of Islam, enjoining good and forbidding evil (amr-bil-ma’roof wa-nahi ‘an-almunkar) is a duty of every Muslim.
4. RIGHTS AND DUTIES given by Islam is another component of the building. There are three areas of rights and duties, namely (a) God-man relation, (b) man-man relations, and (c) man-earth relations. The details of these rights and duties are given elsewhere.
5. Islam also provides guidelines in SHARI’A law which is the system of civil and penal law. As a part of the legal system there are guidelines for allowed/lawful (halal) and disallowed/unlawful (haram) in four areas, namely, (a) eating and drinking, (b) sources of income, (c) spending of wealth, and (d) sexual relations. These areas of law also become a part of the building of Islam.
6. Islam makes every person responsible to convey the message of Islam to other human beings (DA’WAH) due to our love for them. How would it be possible for a Muslim to hope for going to paradise by the Grace of Allah without providing any such chance to non-Muslims? This love for mankind demands that other’s be informed about the message of Islam and let them have a chance to accept it. CONVEYING THE MESSAGE OF ISLAM is another essential component of the building of Islam.
7. Finally, this earth belongs to Allah, therefore, He has the most right to rule this earth according to His design. The human being is a trustee or manager of God on earth (KHALIFAH) which simply means that man has a duty to manage the earth according to the wishes of the owner (Trustor, Allah) NOT according to his (trustee, humankind) wishes. This means IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RULE OF ALLAH on earth is the responsibility of Muslims. Every Muslim must implement the Rule of Allah beginning with his personal life and extending it to family life, to social life, to economic life and to include political life at local, national and international levels. This aspect completes the building of Islam with its finishing touches. Let us come together and work together to implement the Rule of Allah in its entirety and rebuild the Muslim Ummah.
Hadith Jibreel
Thought and action are intertwined.
Imaan, Islam and Ihsan.
https://booksofmuslims.com/40-hadiths/hadith-2/#5
The ummah is the deen.
The righteous carriers of the deen, are the deen. If you kill them, you killing the deen.
Told the Kaaba, the honor of a believer is greater than you.
The Muslims are the greatest symbols of the deen. Not the Kaabah, or any masjid.
The deen lives in the heart, not in the masjids, and symbols.
The ulema throughout history stood as walls to protect this deen.
It is about stopping the Zulm, because of political decisions.
Economic decisions?
They want normalize the sale of filstine and secularism.
Have no fear.
We are here for a short time.
May Allah make us of those who stand up for the haqq.
Leads to action
Capitalism vs Communism
Provatization vs Nationalization
John perkins – confessions of an economic hitman
BEGINNING with a vision of the end
Truth and Justice for all.
3 Purposes
Definitions of the 99 names
The messenger SAW established a system in which they all had a stake in society.
Tribal divisions are a point of recognition, not a point of division.
So you know one another, not hate one another.
Consciousness of Allah and righteous behaviour, not tribalism. Last sermon.
The blood of a Muslim is more sacred to Allah (SWT)
Quran teaches
Sufi Tradition
Islam with Social Justice.
An individual method and a universal method to deal with the internal and external oppressors.
People of God stand against the fundamental form of oppression in their time.
The struggle against the most powerful evil structures of the world.
White Supremacy.
The nature of man
The human being a is a noble and sacred creation of Allah.
Stop all harm and oppression from reaching the children of Adam.
A manifesto of resistance to Imperialism.
Disagreement amongst my ummah is a mercy from Allah.
Tadabbur
Tafakkur
Tadhakkir
Hadith Criticism
- Contradicts Quran
- Contradicts Established of Sunnah
- Contradicts First Principles of Reason
- Can’t be racist upon an entire race of people.
Hadtih criticism came about because of huge forgery of Hadith at the time.
Modernists
- Reduced level of humility
- A certainty about their scientific view of the world.
- The prevailing moral and scientific certainties are greater than the words of God and the Prophet SAW.
Three Sources of knowledge
- Observable knowledge
- Transmitted Knowledge
- Rational knowledge
Refutations
- Scienticism – Knowledge comes about only through Observation
- Philosophy – Knowledge comes about only through Rationalism
Islam
Knowledge Transmitted by Tawatur
4 Ways of understanding the sunnah
- Hadith – Lot of details.
- Legal interpretatation
- Most hadith come from younger companions, they take from the senior companions.
- Spirit of the Law can lead you away from the letter of the law.
- Sunnah is a way of thinking and problem solving.
- Practice of the pious community.
Nabi SAW seen a cheating Jew and said, May God fight the Jews. He did not take any action or punish the Jew. That was how they spoke at the time. He meant I disapprove of this.
We need a means of punishment.
Articulating an alternative global governance system.
Islamophobia
It could start with a Middle-East open borders, free-trade agreement
Campaigns that isolate Israel and make it stand out as a pariah.
The challenge
At 9/11 America introduced the notion of Might is Right.
South Africa was supported by their neighbours.
Palestine is not supported by their neighbours .
We should have been better organized, before the War.
ANC’s political strategy
- International – Boycott, Sanctions
- Mass Mobilization
- The underground movement – Resources, Student uprising
- The armed struggle
We need a coherant united force
If you don’t have a vehicle, you will not achieve the results.
Clear campaigns focussed on driving a specific goal.
International activities.
Like the trade union, we need a Liberation Union.
Uniting common vision organizations under one union.
We cannot rely on protest. It is through uniting globally.
Forming a global activism organization
Structure, form, ideology
Strategy & Tactics
Too many factions.
International aid is sometime a source of division.
Realpolitick from the Seerah
The Quraish (the West) offered Nabi SAW to become the king. According to the West, he should have taken the position as King, According the West, their only moral is power and money.
The idealistic, unrealistic people say, “Attack the Quraish”
The country itself is a corporate entity.
They get new ideologies and solutions after every election.
When private interests influence public interests, it becomes a weak and confliceted government.
Their is a conflict of interest.
Private property
Public property
State property
Fard Khifayah
Understanding the methodologies
Preservation of the deen, through Fard Ayn only.
Preservation of the deen, through Fard Ayn and Fard Khifayah, as a complete system.
What are the Fard Khifayah?
Nouman Ali Khan
People that know Allah.
People that know the truth.
The people who truly fear Allah are the Ulema.
Those who know Allah.
It is an invitation to become and Alim. To learn about Allah.
The Christian religion and the pagan religions had something in common.
The religious class had knowledge that was classified.
You had to go through them.
Read. Revelation.
“We now have access to revelation?”
Intellectual revolution – Everyone had direct access to revelation.
The spread of Islam
The spreading of the Quran was the spreading of Islam.
Now you should take and aqeedah class, a fiqh class, seerah class.
Read the Quran, read the tafsir.
The meccans arrogance came from their money.
The Quran does not say down with the rich.
It teaches how to deal with
People doing business and fighting.
Second best
Akhirat is everything and dunya is nothing.
The state that recognizes Allah’s sovereignty?
The modern secular state is illegitimate.
The prodigal symbolism of 9/11—whose emotional power
transcended Pearl Harbor—demanded a national narrative on the scale of
America’s great wars, especially World War II. This was not simply a war
narrative but a sacred war narrative. It alone seemed to demand a
struggle between good and evil and an American national messianic
mission of world redemption—or at least Islamic-world redemption.
At that Americans were not only emotionally
vulnerable, their emotions inclined them toward the comforting and the
mythically familiar. We were ready for a great war that would unify the
nation, vanquish evil, and lead to a better world. We were primed, in
short, for a war of national transcendence.
Like Rome, the administration made victory the foundation of
authority. It was implied that a series of campaigns would be necessary
to achieve millennial goals such as “democracy in the Middle East.” The
situation called for active and constant presidential leadership. Going
further, the entire management of the war would be the president’s
alone: there would be no government of national unity, no national
mobilization, and no conscription. Not only was the president acting as
commander in chief, he had undergone a metamorphosis: his person now
fully inhabited an imperial station.
Furthermore, the administration also transformed the war into
a permanent dispensation for imperial authority. The “long war” was
designed to take normal politics and normal expectations off the table.
By accepting the reality of the long war, moreover, Americans were
encouraged to submit to a working imperial constitution. In practice
this meant widespread expansion of executive powers at home as well as
abroad.
Jasser Auda
Scholars have to be independent from the government, to be an example.
Siyasa is policy.
Not questions of fiqh. Up to the leadership of the time.
In Islam, the method fo choosing the leader was left open.
The order of the Quran has a divine significance
You should start at the beginning.
We going to establish Law.
Jewish Supremicism – God created the universe to serve the Jews.
Theft – Permissable to steal from Non-Jews.
Rape – Allowed to have sex with 3 years old.
Islamophobia – They regard Muslims as Amalek.
Borders are not defined.
Conflict and turmoil is not part of the history of the region, but parts of colonial strategy.
Pan-Arabism
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Americanism
Unity has always splet the downfall of empires.
We don’t want to spread ethno-supremacy.
We want to spread truth and justice.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
The worldview is a vision, a mission, which makes one an acitivist.
It is a system of justice, peace, security and prosperity.
Islam is not an identity, it’s a mission.
You cannot understand the sunnah, if you don’t understand the mission.
I call to Allah, with knowledge of revelation.
It is my mission and the mission of my followers.
The Quran is Allah (SWT) guiding the mission of Nabi SAW.
The Quran is not a book of theory, but a workbook.
The Quran becomes just many disconnected stories.
Begin with the end in mind.
The jamaat is a response to secularism, established for the purpose of preservation of the five pillars of Islam.
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