I got this Friday Sermon some years ago and shared it on my facebook page. However, there was a post yesterday on solutions to religious extremism in Islam posted by Seun. I think a open minded consumption of this write up will reveal the fact that most of those deranged lunatics calling themselves muslims are actually kafir (infidels) hiding under he banner of religion to perpetrate evil. But in a society where the voice of the few violent ones a loudest, people tends to use the loudest voice as a moral compass to judge others.

Allah says that Muslims are the best people or nation? Are we now? Muslims are backward educationally, socially, and economically and in world power politically. Need to make a self-critical study: Nobel Prize winners, Olympic Gold Medal winners. Number of books published, number of articles published. Number of scientists per 100,000 population.
The Qur’an and Hadith exhort the Muslims to read and excel in education –both men and women. In this Masjid people leave free literature. How many of the worshippers pick them and read them and take action?
Look at the literacy rate in the Muslim Ummah. Muslim countries like, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, etc. Now Afghanistan is in a hopeless situation with civil wars. Sisters who constitute 50% of the population are not allowed to go pursue education. Rabbi Zidni Ilma, 20: 114 (Ta Ha) Oh Lord enrich me with knowledge.
Pakistan’s average literacy rate is 26% for all the population-male and female. Contrast this with India’s, which has an average literacy rate of 52 %. Pakistan is the most advanced country in Science and Technology. It is the only Muslim nuclear power country. What is the GDP for education and for defence? How much is wasted through corruption.
The average literary rate of the whole Muslim Ummah is around 35 %. For our sisters it is about one half. In rural areas only it is only about 2 to 5 %. In United States a woman gets 12.4 years of school education. In Bangladesh she gets only 0.9 year of school education and in Yemen she gets only 0.2 years of school education.
Knowledge is power. The U.S. is the only super power. Why? Because it has knowledge in every field of human endeavor. Most of the immigrant Muslims came here (United States of America) for higher education. Go to any developing country and ask a student where do you want to go for higher education.
The answer invariably will be United States. US is a super power and power corrupts and absolutely corrupts absolutely. No doubt the US Foreign Policy is not even handed and commits wrong to some Muslim countries because of the lobbyists. Then how do Muslims correct the situation? Most of us are immigrants and many are US citizens.
Our children and grand children are growing here. With violence we cannot correct the situation, which is not Islamic when it is targeted towards the innocent civilians. I have seen many brothers call the Westerners as Kuffar, but what I know is they are called the Ahl-e-Kitab- people of the Book. We can change the situation through Ilm (knowledge) and Aml plus Sabr (patience). We need to be organized. First we need to be united. We can learn many lessons from other communities how they correct their situations and shortcomings.
Thousand years ago, our ancestors were masters in Astronomy, like Al-Biruni, Battani, etc. Today our knowledge of Astronomy is weak. The early Muslims built astronomical observatories, created calendars, astrolabes, etc. Day before yesterday (Wednesday) was the new moon. The solar eclipse occurs when the moon comes between the sun and the earth and when they are all in conjunction or in a straight line. It happens on the new moon day.
On a new moon day the Hilal (crescent) is not visible anywhere in the world. It is visible the next day. The Hilal was seen yesterday (Thursday) and hence today is the first day of Jumada ul Awwal. Some Muslim countries declared yesterday was the first day of Jumada ul Awwal. No wonder why Muslims celebrate Ids on three different days in the same town. It happened here in the United States. It is just ignorance. We do not have sound Deeni Talim (knowledge of religion) nor of the Duniya (world).
Thirty years years ago man landed on the moon. Many Muslims consider moon as a sacred celestial clock. The devout Muslims refused to believe that man had landed on the moon. But 1,000 years ago Muslims were in the forefront in every field of knowledge. The students from the West came to Muslim Spain, Sicily, Cairo, and Baghdad to study the sciences.
Take the example of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni. He was 26 years old, 1,000 years ago today. Sultan Mahmood of Ghazna in Afghanistan conquered his native place Khev and brought him to his capitol. Sultan Mahmood was not only a conqueror but also a scholar who gathered eminent scholars like Firdousi who is famous for Shah Nama and Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni. Sultan Mahmood took Al-Biruni with him to India. In India al-Biruni stayed for 20 years studying from Pandits their sciences, mathematics, philosophy, etc.
He learnt Sanskrit and translated Snakhya and Patanjali into Arabic. He measured the radius and diameter of the earth to within + or _ 20 km and 200 km respectively. He showed the earth rotates on its axis. He explained how the solar and lunar eclipses occur. He saved the life of a traveler who told the Sultan that in a land the sun never sets. The land of the midnight sun. The Sultan decreed a death sentence to the traveler for blasphemy. However al-Biruni explained that the tilt of the earth towards the sun in the summer causes the phenomenon of the midnight sun.
Like our ancestors Muslims should take the lead in scientific study, exploration and knowledge. INTELLECTUAL REVIVAL OF MUSLIMS is the need of the hour. The greatest pleasure for a father or mother is when their son or daughter achieves or rather excels in education, profession, power, wealth, etc.
The most important is education. If I am a middle school graduate, then it is my responsibility to make my children high-school graduates or college graduates. If I am a high school graduate, then I should make my children college graduates or postgraduates. If I am a college graduate, then I should make my children obtain doctoral degrees. May Allah (SWT) give us the Tawfeek to understand His Deen and follow His Guidance.

This Jumuah Khutbah was given by Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed at the Islamic Center of Louisville, Louisville, KY on August 13, 1999. It is a food for thought for leaders of the Nigerian Muslim Ummah and Muslim political leaders.

The Noble Qurʾān and Sunnah is te solution bi IdhniLLAH

hadjipapiey:
The Noble Qurʾān and Sunnah is te solution bi IdhniLLAH

How can it be the solution when it's the cause of the problem

Quran and sunnah is never the cause rather charlatans that interpret the quran and sunnah to suit there evil tendency

annunaki2:


How can it be the solution when it's the cause of the problem

Yinkame123:

Quran and sunnah is never the cause rather charlatans that interpret the quran and sunnah to suit there evil tendency

It's either you are lying or you have no clue of the sunnah of mohamed and the contents of the quoran. Mohamed himself was a jihadist(terrorist) and it is his example that islamic terrorist follow today. Also in trying to follow the teachings of the quoran(most of which have been proven to be false and are not relevant today, muslims find themselves behaving like people stuck in the seventh century.