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JUMA'A hUTHBAH
...An urgent statement. PEACE BE UPORN RAMADAN.... Watevr it is dat we came out of Ramadan with is profit. No matter how little and insignificant we may regard it. And as the hope of every trade man is to atleast mentain his profit at d level dat wil warrants next investment, let our gains from Ramadan be maintained. Let it be known dat Tahajjud is everyday affar. Let it be known dat to recite d Quran is eveeyday affair. Lets add value to our devotion. Wat we hav learned during Ramadan lets inculcate. But as we do, we must listen to experienced men of spirituality when they tell us dat..... We are youth with lots of fancies and distractions. And hence, we must apply the d principle of abriviation in the process. We must do less dan our capacity, cos too much is a burden. If we can stand for 2 hours at nyt, den lets stand for 45min ay nyt, but every day. If we can recite 10 pages of the Book, den lets recite only 5, but everyday. Like dis alone can we preserve the thirst for more. For if we overload ourselves today, tomorrow wil not come, and wen it comes, it will come wit a bitter tonic dat wil gradually make us lazy and infact hate wat we have vowed in devotion alltogether. So my friends like dis can we mentain constancy which is most Loved of our Beloved (Allah). Let it be known dat the weight and quality of our devotion in His eyes does not depend on the quantity but on its constancy.
Another subtle secret is dat dis is the most delicate time of our lives. Watever we establist in our youth is wat wil manifest in our adulthood. Dis is a self evident truth. U can never be a great devotee and wayferer at adulthood if you dont establist d rudinents during youthfulness.
Who then will join me to say......
The path of servitude this naive Saliks have vowed to tread!
With hope and fear as our capital!
This day, at the hey of our destiny!
Be for us, O our pyjamas, wat the overall coat us for the carpener!

Juma'a Huthbah. Moment of prayer..... '' My Lord! Give me the total absorbtion of You. And illuminate the vision of my heart with the light of Your vision. Until the sight of my heart can penetrate the curtains of lihgt and reach the source of greatness. Ans until my spirit gets anchored to the treashold of your sanctity.''

BELIEVERS-NONBELIEVERS RELATIONSHIP RESTATED
In the name of Allah the beneficent the merciful
Some Muslim bigots look down upon the person of others who do not share the same faith as them with conceit and indignation, terming them as God forsaking people who do not harbor goodness in the least. By corollary, this fallacy gives birth to a more gruesome notion that the worse Muslim is better than the best among non-Muslim.
These notions create infamous heartily brotherhood among men, balkanize human stewardship and uproot the principle of fellow feeling from its rightful place in hearts.
As a matter of urgency, these ideas need to be redress as interrelationship of the Muslims with the non-Muslim world proves indispensable by the day.
No matter how hard I ponder, I fail to come up with a convincing reason as an answer to the wisdom behind God’s making me come to this world through an Islamic heritage, while He has made my neighbor to the right come to the same world through a Christian heritage, and my neighbor to the left through an idolatry heritage. However, from His revealed Wisdom (Quran), am able to understand to this extent that He (God) created us all for the same purpose- His worship. Also, i understand that only one methodology is there to this worship.
Without doubt, this methodology is non-other but Islam. But the more important questions here are these that; Does it mean that just anyone who professes Islam is a better human being than any other? And on the other hand, whoever refuses to accept Islam is a bad human being all together and deserves no credence and respect from the former? Certainly, affirmation to this amounts to total denial of divine justice of Allah.
God in His divine justice created every individual to this world and apportioned for him his own version of trial equal to the capacity his personality can carry. And He (God) will not unleash His wrath on him (the individual) unless he (the individual) consciously (not mistakenly) refuse to pass such trial. Just like walking on the earth is quite different from falling on it, man will be questioned on consciously walking on earth, not his unconscious fall on it. Therefore, an individual with a non-Islamic identity will not be punished by God grossly because he has an un-Islamic heritage but will be punished by the amount of his conscious obstinacy and denial of the call of his internal prophet (Fithrah) and that of his external prophet (Da’i). "My Lord, evil cannot be attributed to You. Allah's favor is common to all. It is not a prerogative of any particular class. Allah's infinite mercy is for all human beings, whether Muslims, Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians or idol-worshippers. But some men because of their wrong doing develop certain characteristics which make them unhappy, and so Allah's mercy makes some people happy and some others distressed.” (Allama Tabataba’i).

Besides the argument of divine justice, there are several other reasons why the non-Muslims must not be excommunicated from the heartily brotherhood of the believers. They include among others:
Human right: Every man has the right to live in this world as free human, holding any world view he likes. And this right must be protected by fellow humans. Indeed, both the Quran and Muhammad Mustapha(S) protected this right especially after the establishment of the Islamic state in madina. Space will not remit us attention to advance proofs in this regard. We should be enlightening the proponents of fundamental human rights about the beauty of Islam on the subject instead of dooming them and their ideas to hell.
The right of the non-Muslims on Muslims: comparatively, how many of us open our mouths and declare the non-Muslims as filth and hell bound? And how many of us make sincere efforts to cleanse their filth of disbelieve? Certainly, the first group is uncontifiably greater than the second. We go about castigating them without any effort as to their rectitude. In a world where Islam suffers from all sort of misnomer and negative propaganda, vexation on our part will not yield us any meaningful results. We must learn from the lesson taught the prophet(S) by his Lord: “Had you being severe and harsh hearted, they would have broken away from you. So pass over their faults and ask (Allah’s) forgiveness for them.” (Al-Imran: 159).
Character harmony: It is much important we understand that being a Muslim isn’t any remarkable, but living up to the name is. We need not carry out any research to believe that there are Muslims worst in character than non-Muslims around us. How can a reasonable human being with a functional and uninterrupted sense of justice behold that a Muslim who drinks human blood is better than a non-Muslim who advocates peace and understanding? This is just one of the various smock screens used by the conceited and self-righteous to delay acceptance of facts. We see the moth in their eyes but refuse to see the beam in ours. Character wise, there is no difference between many Muslims and non-Muslims today. Being a true Muslim is not by declaration but by internal and external harmony of the self with the Islamic culture.
The passport to paradise: lastly, and most importantly, we must understand that mere declaration will not earn us the passport to paradise. What will earn us such passport is harmony between us and the Islamic culture, the hub of which is sincerity of intention and ardent search for the true religion. Of course, any human being can possess such culture, even a non-Muslim. The logic is simple. Any human being who sincerely seeks God will be guided by the illumination of the Divine Essence in whatever way He (Allah) chooses to guide him. He declares: “And for those who strive in our course, we will surely guide them to our path. And verily, Allah is with the good doers.” (Ankabut: 69). This is the lofty question of justice which only the sincere and open hearted understands.
We (Muslims) must therefore and immediately begin to set aright our perspective as regard others who are not from us, deal with them first as human beings and our equal in humanity. Only then will they discover the treasure of Islam. A treasure which if found will not be exchanged for the highest price any one may offer.
O Allah send Your benediction to Muhammad (S) and his purified household and his steadfast conpanions (r).

whose better off teaching kids and teenagers abt sex education parents or teachers? And what shoukd be the necessary topics to be discussed and why??

EVERY ONE IS A DA’I
Over there is our bother gulping the salty water of aberration but we are shunning. What shall we tell father? The same old story our ten obsessed brothers told to Yaqub (A) concerning Yusuf (A)? No! We must change our plan! We must go back and save him! At least we will try!
Indeed. Both the drowning and the saving brothers would be liked and favored by the latter decision. But the nation of Muhammad Mustapha (S) is today predisposed to the former. We see individuals and nations drowning in the whirlpool of sin and misbelieve but the best we do for them is pinpoint their mistakes while we fail to draft any efficient and prolific programme for their rectitude.
Our brothers need guidance. We all do. But how do we get this guidance? From who? In what quantity? The answer to these questions simply is: Everyone is a Da’i. We are all callers to the way of Allah because we know something. We know as much as Shahada, ablution, and perhaps Salat. It is then our duty to teach those who do not know as much as we do.
Many Muslims, a group to which we (you and i) belong, have neglected this duty (Da’awa) and relinquished it to a learned few. This has led to our heedlessness as to the religion sciences and the death of our enthusiasm to practice. As a result, the incentive of personal development and rectitude which we can gain as we call people to the good and forbid them the evil is no longer ours. We forget the old lesson that; as we apply detergent in order to cleanse our stained white garment, our hands end up getting cleaner and more radiant than the garment itself.
The second group which is made up of the learned is also not favored by our (the first group) collective attitude of resignation from our duty. For our relinquishment of the duty solely to them has distorted their astuteness and has tended them more to corruption than intellectual buoyancy. They turn their intellectual circles into markets for fame and intellectual monopolization. Many of them become pompous, looking down at others with disdain and self-righteousness. In an attempt to increase their popularity and estimation in the eyes of their admirers, they hinder any idea or knowledge that lies outside their own ken of knowledge, no matter how sublime and provable it may be.
But the most sinister of results is that which is faced by the third group- the drowning brothers. The truth is that there are millions of heedless but sincere people in this world within and outside the religion who haven’t gotten the message of Islam the proper way. What else other than disinformed can we call a person who sees Islam and Muslims as terrorists when practically it is the Muslims who are killed every day and imperialized? And what else other than nescient may we call a person who sees Islam as outdated and barbaric despite Islam’s perfect correlation with everyday discovery in all fields of science and knowledge?
Alas! These filthy notions are not in all their making. For we give them the impression that we are what they think us to be. We have neglected our duty- Da’awa. When they look at us- people of the first group, they see nothing dissimilar with their life style. They see the corpses of our hearts laying side by side theirs on the altar of their immoral culture which we have assimilated in exchange for our priceless Islamic culture. They get discouraged by us. And when they look at the second group- the learned among the Muslims, they see a rigid and intolerant people who keep dooming them with hell and infidelity. They get discouraged by them.
Note: Muhammad Mustapha (S) was a Da’i. And every Muslim who seeks to live the life of Muhammad Mustapha (S) and die his death must be a Da’i. It doesn’t matter how much we know, how much money we have or how many people are willing to listen. It always yields fruits if God is our motive, and if goodness is what we intend. Rasullalah(S) told his Iman Ali (A) : “that Allah guides a single man through you is more endearing than you are given red camels (much wealth).”
For our Da’awa to yield meaningful fruits, it must be in tandem with the principles of Muhammad Mustapha (S), sincerity and patience. It must be in tandem with the principles of the Quran, subtlety and understanding. Also, we must seek acquaintance with various sciences of religion and exigencies of our time. Again, adherence in entirety to the Islamic culture must be our inclination, such that the difference that appears today between Islam and Muslims would be bridged. Such that our drowning brothers of other faith will find it hard to tell who is it that saved them- Islam or Muslims?
An educator would say: “The non-Muslims would not read the Quran, they will not read the Hadith; they will read you (the Muslims).”
Remember, Da’awa is a duty on you not a privilege offered by you. Also remember that the price is high but the profit is inexorable by you. Peace be upon you.
by UMAR ABUBILAL