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From Enemies to Brothers: The Miracle of Unity | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman
Becoming a Friend of Allah - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Becoming a Friend of Allah - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue, Numbness, and Burnout - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Overcoming Compassion Fatigue, Numbness, and Burnout - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Speaking a Word of Truth to a Tyrant - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

Speaking a Word of Truth to a Tyrant - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

What Do You “Smell” Like? - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

What Do You “Smell” Like? - Sh. Omar Suleiman | Khutbah

A Living Heart Under Siege | Khutbah

A Living Heart Under Siege | Khutbah

Don't Forget Your Mistakes, Learn From Them | Khutbah

Don't Forget Your Mistakes, Learn From Them | Khutbah

Repentance Delayed and Denied: Learning from a Dying Pharoah | Khutbah

Repentance Delayed and Denied: Learning from a Dying Pharoah | Khutbah

“There is no refuge or escape from you, except to you...” | Khutbah

“There is no refuge or escape from you, except to you...” | Khutbah

How Istighfar Clears the Fog | Khutbah

How Istighfar Clears the Fog | Khutbah

Don't Minimize Your Pain, Seek its Reward | Khutbah

Don't Minimize Your Pain, Seek its Reward | Khutbah

How Aisha (ra) Became a Doctor | Khutbah

How Aisha (ra) Became a Doctor | Khutbah

Stop Trying To Escape Death. Just Make The Most of Life | Khutbah

Stop Trying To Escape Death. Just Make The Most of Life | Khutbah

You Will Never Be As Alone Or Desperate As Yunus (as) | Khutbah

You Will Never Be As Alone Or Desperate As Yunus (as) | Khutbah

Do You Think You Will Enter Jannah? | Khutbah

Do You Think You Will Enter Jannah? | Khutbah

A Message Regarding the Muslims in France | Khutbah

A Message Regarding the Muslims in France | Khutbah

“Indeed, Your Enemy is The One Cut Off” | Khutbah

“Indeed, Your Enemy is The One Cut Off” | Khutbah

Maintaining Character in Chaos and Confusion | Khutbah

Maintaining Character in Chaos and Confusion | Khutbah

Allah Spared Me, Why Would I Dip my Tongue in it?  | Khutbah

Allah Spared Me, Why Would I Dip my Tongue in it? | Khutbah

Allah Laughs at This Awkward Meeting | Khutbah

Allah Laughs at This Awkward Meeting | Khutbah

Black Friday: Fear of Missing Out on Good Deals or Deeds | Khutbah

Black Friday: Fear of Missing Out on Good Deals or Deeds | Khutbah

Don’t Wait For Others To Ask | Khutbah

Don’t Wait For Others To Ask | Khutbah

Your Father: The Middle Gate to Jannah | Khutbah

Your Father: The Middle Gate to Jannah | Khutbah

Do Not Curse Time: What A New Year Really Means | Khutbah

Do Not Curse Time: What A New Year Really Means | Khutbah

Three Moments That Lead to Paradise | Khutbah

Three Moments That Lead to Paradise | Khutbah

Owning Our Mistakes | Khutbah

Owning Our Mistakes | Khutbah

Serving the “Undeserving” | Khutbah

Serving the “Undeserving” | Khutbah

“A Life Cut Short...” | Khutbah

“A Life Cut Short...” | Khutbah

Before Our Hearts Were Hardened | Khutbah

Before Our Hearts Were Hardened | Khutbah

Wash Our Hearts With Water, Snow, and Hail | Khutbah

Wash Our Hearts With Water, Snow, and Hail | Khutbah

Let Your Water Flow To Your Neighbor | Khutbah

Let Your Water Flow To Your Neighbor | Khutbah

The Blessing You Won't Forget Next Time | Khutbah

The Blessing You Won't Forget Next Time | Khutbah

"Am I Really Sincere?" | Khutbah

"Am I Really Sincere?" | Khutbah

Forbidden From Qiyam For Questioning His Sincerity | Khutbah

Forbidden From Qiyam For Questioning His Sincerity | Khutbah

Am I Accountable for My Thoughts? | Khutbah

Am I Accountable for My Thoughts? | Khutbah

Two Conditions For Forgiveness in Sha'aban | Khutbah

Two Conditions For Forgiveness in Sha'aban | Khutbah

The Knots, Whispers, Sticks & Stones of Shaytan | Khutbah

The Knots, Whispers, Sticks & Stones of Shaytan | Khutbah

From Bad To Better & Good To Great | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

From Bad To Better & Good To Great | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Best Forms Of Dhikr In Ramadan | Khutbah

The Best Forms Of Dhikr In Ramadan | Khutbah

What Are You Willing To Give Up For Allah? | Khutbah

What Are You Willing To Give Up For Allah? | Khutbah

5 Best Things To Do On Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

5 Best Things To Do On Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

The Effect Of Laylatul Qadr On The Heart | Khutbah

The Effect Of Laylatul Qadr On The Heart | Khutbah

Al Aqsa Will Always Matter To Us | Khutbah

Al Aqsa Will Always Matter To Us | Khutbah

Learning Courage from Palestine & Our Predecessors | Khutbah

Learning Courage from Palestine & Our Predecessors | Khutbah

David and Goliath in Islam | Khutbah

David and Goliath in Islam | Khutbah

Dua to Overcome Feeling Helpless | Khutbah

Dua to Overcome Feeling Helpless | Khutbah

Sins We Commit When We’re Scared and Vulnerable | Khutbah

Sins We Commit When We’re Scared and Vulnerable | Khutbah

How Paradise Keeps Us Patient | Khutbah

How Paradise Keeps Us Patient | Khutbah

The Du’a Taught to Only 1 Prophet | Khutbah

The Du’a Taught to Only 1 Prophet | Khutbah

How Allah sends Salah upon you | Khutbah

How Allah sends Salah upon you | Khutbah

One Ummah, One Body | Khutbah

One Ummah, One Body | Khutbah

When Your True Colors Show | Khutbah

When Your True Colors Show | Khutbah

The First Footstep Of Shaytan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The First Footstep Of Shaytan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Virtues of Ashura and How to Observe It | Khutbah

Virtues of Ashura and How to Observe It | Khutbah

When You Hit Your Lowest Point | Khutbah

When You Hit Your Lowest Point | Khutbah

The Highest Degree of Love for Allah | Khutbah

The Highest Degree of Love for Allah | Khutbah

Friends That Hold You Back | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Friends That Hold You Back | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

When People Keep Letting You Down | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

When People Keep Letting You Down | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How Tahajjud Removes Stress and Sins | Khutbah

How Tahajjud Removes Stress and Sins | Khutbah

How Would The Prophet ﷺ Advise You? | Khutbah

How Would The Prophet ﷺ Advise You? | Khutbah

Inscribed on the Sword of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

Inscribed on the Sword of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

A Believer Cannot Be A Liar | Khutbah

A Believer Cannot Be A Liar | Khutbah

'I guarantee Jannah for the one who…' | Khutbah

'I guarantee Jannah for the one who…' | Khutbah

Quenching Our Humanity | Khutbah

Quenching Our Humanity | Khutbah

What Makes You Cry |  Khutbah

What Makes You Cry | Khutbah

7 Ways To Increase Baraka In Your Time | Khutbah

7 Ways To Increase Baraka In Your Time | Khutbah

Do Not Aid an Oppressor | Khutbah

Do Not Aid an Oppressor | Khutbah

Virtual Reality & the Fitna of Dajjal | Khutbah

Virtual Reality & the Fitna of Dajjal | Khutbah

Seeing With The Light of Allah | Khutbah

Seeing With The Light of Allah | Khutbah

Allah’s Name: At Tawwab - The One Who Accepts Repentance | Khutbah

Allah’s Name: At Tawwab - The One Who Accepts Repentance | Khutbah

Gems from the Miracles and Manners of Jesus (as) | Khutbah

Gems from the Miracles and Manners of Jesus (as) | Khutbah

But You Want Something Else From Allah | Khutbah

But You Want Something Else From Allah | Khutbah

Allah’s Guidance | Khutbah

Allah’s Guidance | Khutbah

Do Not Belittle the Efforts of Others | Khutbah

Do Not Belittle the Efforts of Others | Khutbah

Don’t be Hasty | Khutbah by Sh. Ibrahim Hindy

Don’t be Hasty | Khutbah by Sh. Ibrahim Hindy

Is Allah Punishing Me? | Khutbah

Is Allah Punishing Me? | Khutbah

Turning Your "Waste" Into Rewards | Khutbah

Turning Your "Waste" Into Rewards | Khutbah

New Beginnings with the Messenger ﷺ | Khutbah

New Beginnings with the Messenger ﷺ | Khutbah

To Truly be Free | Khutbah

To Truly be Free | Khutbah

Dangerous Assumptions | Khutbah

Dangerous Assumptions | Khutbah

Resting the Soul and Avoiding Burnout | Khutbah

Resting the Soul and Avoiding Burnout | Khutbah

The Day of Judgement as if You Can See it | Khutbah

The Day of Judgement as if You Can See it | Khutbah

Let's Let Go of Our Ego  | Khutbah

Let's Let Go of Our Ego | Khutbah

How To Start Ramadan Right  | Khutbah

How To Start Ramadan Right | Khutbah

Fasting is a Shield  | Khutbah

Fasting is a Shield | Khutbah

Al-Aqsa, Indian Muslims and Ramadan Silence  | Khutbah

Al-Aqsa, Indian Muslims and Ramadan Silence | Khutbah

What Allah Decides for you on Laylatul Qadr  | Khutbah

What Allah Decides for you on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

Was my Ramadan Accepted?  | Khutbah

Was my Ramadan Accepted? | Khutbah

Fighting the Ramadan Blues  | Khutbah

Fighting the Ramadan Blues | Khutbah

Our Priorities as an Ummah  | Khutbah

Our Priorities as an Ummah | Khutbah

3 Ways to Save Yourself from Fitna  | Khutbah

3 Ways to Save Yourself from Fitna | Khutbah

Social Media, Misinformation, And The Assassination of Uthman (ra)  | Khutbah

Social Media, Misinformation, And The Assassination of Uthman (ra) | Khutbah

Do Not Compromise Your Deen  | Khutbah

Do Not Compromise Your Deen | Khutbah

Why the Shaheed would want to come back  | Khutbah

Why the Shaheed would want to come back | Khutbah

The Benefits of Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel | Khutbah

The Benefits of Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel | Khutbah

Our Father Ibrahim (as) Still Cares About Us | Khutbah

Our Father Ibrahim (as) Still Cares About Us | Khutbah

What to do on 'Arafah | Khutbah

What to do on 'Arafah | Khutbah

The Du'as of the Salaf on Arafah | Khutbah

The Du'as of the Salaf on Arafah | Khutbah

Uniting Our Ummah When Politics Divide | Khutbah

Uniting Our Ummah When Politics Divide | Khutbah

Your Image of Allah and Attachment to Him | Khutbah

Your Image of Allah and Attachment to Him | Khutbah

The 3 Keys to Human Excellence | Khutbah

The 3 Keys to Human Excellence | Khutbah

Life Only Starts When You Die | Khutbah

Life Only Starts When You Die | Khutbah

Why Ashura is so important | Khutbah

Why Ashura is so important | Khutbah

Will Anyone Remember Me? | Khutbah

Will Anyone Remember Me? | Khutbah

Learning to Trust Allah’s Timing | Khutbah

Learning to Trust Allah’s Timing | Khutbah

Defining Masculinity Through Qur’an | Khutbah

Defining Masculinity Through Qur’an | Khutbah

Vocabulary of a Narcissist | Khutbah

Vocabulary of a Narcissist | Khutbah

The Sin of Using People | Khutbah

The Sin of Using People | Khutbah

Think Well of Allah | Khutbah

Think Well of Allah | Khutbah

O Allah, I Love You Even Though I Disobey You | Khutbah

O Allah, I Love You Even Though I Disobey You | Khutbah

Why Don't We All Have the Same Blessings? | Khutbah

Why Don't We All Have the Same Blessings? | Khutbah

A World Without Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

A World Without Muhammad ﷺ | Khutbah

The Advice You Need to Hear | Khutbah

The Advice You Need to Hear | Khutbah

The Pursuit of Balance | Khutbah

The Pursuit of Balance | Khutbah

The Good Deed That Ruins You | Khutbah

The Good Deed That Ruins You | Khutbah

A Summary of Islam by the Prophet ﷺ | Khutbah

A Summary of Islam by the Prophet ﷺ | Khutbah

Tired of Being Taken Advantage Of | Khutbah

Tired of Being Taken Advantage Of | Khutbah

Lost Without Allah | Khutbah

Lost Without Allah | Khutbah

How To Diagnose Your Heart | Khutbah

How To Diagnose Your Heart | Khutbah

The Fear of Living an “Ordinary” Life | Khutbah

The Fear of Living an “Ordinary” Life | Khutbah

How To Change Your Desires | Khutbah

How To Change Your Desires | Khutbah

Is All Knowledge Good? | Khutbah

Is All Knowledge Good? | Khutbah

What Causes Du‘as to Be Unheard? | Khutbah

What Causes Du‘as to Be Unheard? | Khutbah

What the Prophet ﷺ Wished He Hadn't Asked | Khutbah

What the Prophet ﷺ Wished He Hadn't Asked | Khutbah

Negative Speaking and Belittling Blessings | Khutbah

Negative Speaking and Belittling Blessings | Khutbah

When Forgiving Is Complicated | Khutbah

When Forgiving Is Complicated | Khutbah

When Parents Beg Their Kids To Believe | Khutbah

When Parents Beg Their Kids To Believe | Khutbah

Why Allah Allows Earthquakes and Suffering | Khutbah

Why Allah Allows Earthquakes and Suffering | Khutbah

Would You Pass This Test | Khutbah

Would You Pass This Test | Khutbah

Your Time to Shine #Sha'ban | Khutbah

Your Time to Shine #Sha'ban | Khutbah

Your Heart Isn’t Ready for Ramadan Unless… | Khutbah

Your Heart Isn’t Ready for Ramadan Unless… | Khutbah

A Jannah Worth Chasing | Khutbah

A Jannah Worth Chasing | Khutbah

Your Ramadan Uniform | Khutbah

Your Ramadan Uniform | Khutbah

Your Greatest Motivation | Khutbah

Your Greatest Motivation | Khutbah

Getting Past the Mid-Ramadan Dip | Khutbah

Getting Past the Mid-Ramadan Dip | Khutbah

When Allah Gifts You With Tranquility | Khutbah

When Allah Gifts You With Tranquility | Khutbah

The New You | Eid Khutbah

The New You | Eid Khutbah

AI and ChatGPT: Spiritual Resilience and Ethics | Khutbah

AI and ChatGPT: Spiritual Resilience and Ethics | Khutbah

Feeling Paralyzed by Stress and Fitna? | Khutbah

Feeling Paralyzed by Stress and Fitna? | Khutbah

The Qur’an and Intellectual Humility | Khutbah

The Qur’an and Intellectual Humility | Khutbah

Wasted Potential | Khutbah

Wasted Potential | Khutbah

Your Lord Doesn’t Forget | Khutbah

Your Lord Doesn’t Forget | Khutbah

Who Should You Really Care About? | Khutbah

Who Should You Really Care About? | Khutbah

Where Has Your Tongue Taken You? | Khutbah

Where Has Your Tongue Taken You? | Khutbah

Why Would A Man Sacrifice His Son? | Khutbah

Why Would A Man Sacrifice His Son? | Khutbah

How To Make Du'a For Barakah | Khutbah

How To Make Du'a For Barakah | Khutbah

Do You Love To Argue? | Khutbah

Do You Love To Argue? | Khutbah

Missed Opportunities | Khutbah

Missed Opportunities | Khutbah

When Allah Guides Through You | Khutbah

When Allah Guides Through You | Khutbah

The Ashura Within | Khutbah

The Ashura Within | Khutbah

Allah Appreciates Your Smallest Deeds | Khutbah

Allah Appreciates Your Smallest Deeds | Khutbah

Islam's Cure for Depression | Khutbah

Islam's Cure for Depression | Khutbah

Conquering Your Insecurities | Khutbah

Conquering Your Insecurities | Khutbah

Allah Will Honor You | Khutbah

Allah Will Honor You | Khutbah

How Allah Uses “Tomorrow” in the Qur’an | Khutbah

How Allah Uses “Tomorrow” in the Qur’an | Khutbah

When Love Makes You Crazy | Khutbah

When Love Makes You Crazy | Khutbah

Natural Disasters & The Day of Judgment | Khutbah

Natural Disasters & The Day of Judgment | Khutbah

What Are Your Real Intentions? | Khutbah

What Are Your Real Intentions? | Khutbah

How to Make The Most of your Salah | Khutbah

How to Make The Most of your Salah | Khutbah

Palestine Khutbah Outside the White House | Dr. Omar Suleiman

Palestine Khutbah Outside the White House | Dr. Omar Suleiman

"What's the Point?" | Khutbah

"What's the Point?" | Khutbah

How Palestine Exposes Hypocrisy | Khutbah

How Palestine Exposes Hypocrisy | Khutbah

Feeling Helpless While Watching Oppression | Khutbah

Feeling Helpless While Watching Oppression | Khutbah

Palestine Awakens the Ummah | Khutbah

Palestine Awakens the Ummah | Khutbah

What Does Islam Say About War and Justice? | Khutbah

What Does Islam Say About War and Justice? | Khutbah

Your Leg is Already in Paradise | Khutbah

Your Leg is Already in Paradise | Khutbah

The Value of Just One Righteous Life | Khutbah

The Value of Just One Righteous Life | Khutbah

Media Martyrs and Symbolic Resistance | Khutbah

Media Martyrs and Symbolic Resistance | Khutbah

Staying Sincere for the Cause | Khutbah

Staying Sincere for the Cause | Khutbah

Do You Doubt the Return? | Khutbah

Do You Doubt the Return? | Khutbah

When Laws are Held Hostage | Khutbah

When Laws are Held Hostage | Khutbah

It Actually Starts with Tahajjud | Khutbah

It Actually Starts with Tahajjud | Khutbah

The Most Underestimated Major Sin | Khutbah

The Most Underestimated Major Sin | Khutbah

How Allah will Mock Them | Khutbah

How Allah will Mock Them | Khutbah

Is It All Our Fault? | Khutbah

Is It All Our Fault? | Khutbah

Why this Sha'aban is so Important | Khutbah

Why this Sha'aban is so Important | Khutbah

What Happens on the 15th of Sha'aban? | Khutbah

What Happens on the 15th of Sha'aban? | Khutbah

Ramadan Joy and Gaza Depression | Khutbah

Ramadan Joy and Gaza Depression | Khutbah

How to Make this Your Best Ramadan | Khutbah

How to Make this Your Best Ramadan | Khutbah

Setting Character Goals in Ramadan | Khutbah

Setting Character Goals in Ramadan | Khutbah

When Your Heart is On Empty | Khutbah

When Your Heart is On Empty | Khutbah

Those Who are Deprived on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

Those Who are Deprived on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

When the Decree Shocks Everyone on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

When the Decree Shocks Everyone on Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

A Night Even Better than Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

A Night Even Better than Laylatul Qadr | Khutbah

Is the End Near? | Khutbah

Is the End Near? | Khutbah

"Don't Move!" - Gaza Encampment at Northwestern University | Khutbah

"Don't Move!" - Gaza Encampment at Northwestern University | Khutbah

Act and Allah Will Unlock Success | Khutbah

Act and Allah Will Unlock Success | Khutbah

Overcoming Despair When We See Mutilated Bodies | Khutbah

Overcoming Despair When We See Mutilated Bodies | Khutbah

Resistance in Exile: from Hijra to Nakba | Khutbah

Resistance in Exile: from Hijra to Nakba | Khutbah

The Inner Strength to Keep Fighting | Khutbah

The Inner Strength to Keep Fighting | Khutbah

Will Gaza be Israel's Downfall? | Khutbah

Will Gaza be Israel's Downfall? | Khutbah

When Allah Tests You with the Truth | Khutbah

When Allah Tests You with the Truth | Khutbah

Hidden Causes of Disconnect from Allah | Khutbah

Hidden Causes of Disconnect from Allah | Khutbah

How Close Are You to the Prophet (as)? | Khutbah

How Close Are You to the Prophet (as)? | Khutbah

The Most Important Ashura of Our Lives? | Khutbah

The Most Important Ashura of Our Lives? | Khutbah

Is Allah Really with Us? | Khutbah

Is Allah Really with Us? | Khutbah

The Real History of Palestine in the Qur'an | Khutbah

The Real History of Palestine in the Qur'an | Khutbah

The One Child Pharoah Didn't Kill | Khutbah

The One Child Pharoah Didn't Kill | Khutbah

The Art of Finding Closure | Khutbah

The Art of Finding Closure | Khutbah

Don't Let them Steal your Revolution | Khutbah

Don't Let them Steal your Revolution | Khutbah

Thank God We're Not Them | Khutbah

Thank God We're Not Them | Khutbah

What If I Can't Look Anymore? | Khutbah

What If I Can't Look Anymore? | Khutbah

Wounds That Aren't Meant To Heal | Khutbah

Wounds That Aren't Meant To Heal | Khutbah

Your False Sense of Security: From Gaza and Beyond | Khutbah

Your False Sense of Security: From Gaza and Beyond | Khutbah

Hind Rajab to Aafia Siddiqui: Re-humanizing the De-humanized | Khutbah

Hind Rajab to Aafia Siddiqui: Re-humanizing the De-humanized | Khutbah

When It’s Hard to say Alhamdulilah | Khutbah

When It’s Hard to say Alhamdulilah | Khutbah

Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself? | Khutbah

Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself? | Khutbah

Is Revenge Worth it? It Hurts You More Than You Think | Khutbah

Is Revenge Worth it? It Hurts You More Than You Think | Khutbah

Earning Jannah While Watching a Genocide | Khutbah

Earning Jannah While Watching a Genocide | Khutbah

What if Oppression is Our Destiny? | Khutbah

What if Oppression is Our Destiny? | Khutbah

Who Do I Vote For? A message to American Muslims | Khutbah

Who Do I Vote For? A message to American Muslims | Khutbah

What are Your True Intentions? Goodwill VS Ego | Khutbah

What are Your True Intentions? Goodwill VS Ego | Khutbah

Allah Will Surprise You - Embracing the Unknown | Khutbah

Allah Will Surprise You - Embracing the Unknown | Khutbah

Allah WILL Test You With Your Words | Khutbah

Allah WILL Test You With Your Words | Khutbah

Just When You Thought It Was Over | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Just When You Thought It Was Over | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

You Need to Love Allah More | Ramadan Prep Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

You Need to Love Allah More | Ramadan Prep Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Beyond Halal & Haram: Are You Numbing Your Heart? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Beyond Halal & Haram: Are You Numbing Your Heart? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Who are the human devils amongst us? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Who are the human devils amongst us? | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Amazing Connections Between Jumah and Laylatul Qadr | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Amazing Connections Between Jumah and Laylatul Qadr | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do Not Abandon the Masjid After Ramadan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do Not Abandon the Masjid After Ramadan | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

What is your biggest fear? A wake up call amidst collapse | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

What is your biggest fear? A wake up call amidst collapse | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Your Future Self Is Not Who You Think It Is | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Your Future Self Is Not Who You Think It Is | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How to Deal With Angry People | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

How to Deal With Angry People | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

"If Only I Had the Strength…" | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

"If Only I Had the Strength…" | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How Allah Defends Those Who Believe | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How Allah Defends Those Who Believe | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

India VS Pakistan: The Deadly Cost of Nationalism | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

India VS Pakistan: The Deadly Cost of Nationalism | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How the Plot of Israel Will Backfire | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How the Plot of Israel Will Backfire | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Waiting to Become a Victim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Waiting to Become a Victim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Why is the World Falling Apart? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Why is the World Falling Apart? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Ashura is Not Nostalgia | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Ashura is Not Nostalgia | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

"What I Saw in Bosnia." 30 Years After the Genocide | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

"What I Saw in Bosnia." 30 Years After the Genocide | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Willing to Truly Sacrifice for Allah? | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You Willing to Truly Sacrifice for Allah? | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Practicing Detachment: A Daily Guide to Freeing Your Heart for Allah | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Practicing Detachment: A Daily Guide to Freeing Your Heart for Allah | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Crime of Hunger | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Crime of Hunger | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Don’t Just Exist—Live for What Allah Created You For | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Don’t Just Exist—Live for What Allah Created You For | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Gaza Is Starving — But Allah’s Promise Has Not Failed | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

Gaza Is Starving — But Allah’s Promise Has Not Failed | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy

The Qur’an They Can’t Bomb: Stories from Gaza | Dr. Omar Suleiman

The Qur’an They Can’t Bomb: Stories from Gaza | Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do People Have Hope In You? | Dr. Omar Suleiman

Do People Have Hope In You? | Dr. Omar Suleiman

How You Should Eat While Gaza Starves | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

How You Should Eat While Gaza Starves | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You a Mediocre Muslim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

Are You a Mediocre Muslim? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman

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From Enemies to Brothers: The Miracle of Unity | Lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman

What is the foundation of true unity? Is it shared heritage, culture, or even family ties? This lecture by Dr. Omar Suleiman highlights that genuine unity is rooted in piety and the collective striving for goodness. Learn why the most effective way to help an oppressor is to stop their oppression—and how this principle becomes the basis for working together in truth. This isn't just a discussion about community; it's a profound challenge to redefine your understanding of unity and solidarity.

This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
The Qur'an and Sunnah
I wanted to reflect upon a few ayat of the Qur'an to sort of set the stage for the discussion that we have today.
And a lot of times you can appreciate an ayah more once you can situate it in seerah or you can relate it to your modern context. And if you could do both, then that is the best way to do tadabbur.
The best way to actually have that moment of introspection. And I want to lay the foundation of the set of ayat that I'll speak about insha'Allah ta'ala
with the reality that the Prophet ﷺ often had to have regroup moments with his ummah.
You know, regroup, a fitnah breaks out, people fall into some sort of strife, and he's got to bring everybody back together, sit them down and remind them of why they're doing this in the first place.
That has to happen many times in the seerah. And it's remarkable how the Prophet ﷺ is always able to bring these people back to the same table and to get them working for common cause.
And I want you to think about this reality. Let's take Uhud for example, just as a very simple example of what this looks like.
If Uhud was the only episode that we studied of the seerah in this regard, how many archers were on the mountain? 50. How many of them came down out of the 50?
In disobedience to the Prophet ﷺ? 40. 40 of them came down from the mountain because they thought that the battle was over. As a result of that, they left the back of the Muslims compromised.
And from a means perspective, from an asbab perspective, this is where you start to see the defeat happen. This is where you actually see the fracture is clear and the defeat happens.
Imagine being one of those 40 people who came down and then having to reintegrate into the community. That's one step of this like, how am I going to show my face after what I did?
After this type of a mistake. This isn't a mistake that made us vulnerable to an extent to where we got some bad PR as a Muslim community. This didn't cost us a little bit in the da'wah. This cost lives.
This cost over 70 lives, this mistake that we made. How do you come to terms with the guilt, right? Of having been one of those people that messed up so bad.
And now you have to show your face in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ and the community. Alright, look at the other side of that.
Imagine being one of those people whose husband was killed or whose father was killed or whose son was killed. And you have to pray next to one of the 40 archers.
Would you be able to do that? Right? Would you be able to carry that anger and still pray next to the person who made such a colossal mistake that your father was mutilated?
Your husband was mutilated. Your son was mutilated. That's a difficult thing to get past and to pull people back together.
See for the Prophet ﷺ, he forgave the people that did the most horrible things humanly possible to him.
He not only forgave them, he smiled at them, he integrated them into his community ﷺ. But that's the Prophet ﷺ. He has a different type of capacity.
But like I have to learn to pray next to the guy that messed things up, that dropped the ball and got my father killed. That's how the Shaytan is going to play with me in that regard. The Prophet ﷺ has to regroup that community.
A very simple question that I ask people, can anybody name a single one of the 40 archers that came down from the mountain? No. You know why?
Because Allah ﷻ protected them. The Prophet ﷺ protected them. They were reintegrated into the community. It's not even like later on someone says, this person was one of the 40 archers. They weren't shamed.
They were admitted back into the community fully. Why? Because they weren't hypocrites. There was a big difference between the munafiqeen who went out to Uhud,
and in the very beginning of the battle, they looked for the first excuse to come out, and then they destabilized the community from within, and they turned their backs on the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ went out to Uhud with a thousand people.
Three hundred left before the battle even started, and they were the hypocrites. But those 40 that came down from the mountain were not hypocrites. They fell into a moment of weakness.
And so they can't be treated the same as those people who deliberately tried to hurt the Prophet ﷺ from within. Rasulullah ﷺ understands these nuances of people.
And so he's able to sit people back down when things get nasty, and bring them back together around common cause, around common purpose.
This was the juggling act of the Prophet ﷺ as a leader from the very beginning. He understands ﷺ that he's bringing a message of la ilaha illallah,
not just to a people that worship hundreds of idols, but to a tribalistic society that treats those idols like teams and corporations and cults.
Every one of those idols represents a psychology, represents a whole ecosystem that he has to penetrate through all of that tribalism and classism and racism with la ilaha illallah, with one God, one purpose.
It has to strike all the way across. It's very difficult. He tries ﷺ in Mecca to speak to people's tribal sensibilities without compromising the integrity of the message, which is very important.
He doesn't come to them and demolish their tribes. Instead, the Prophet ﷺ speaks to the best qualities of those tribes. He asks them to live up to their best versions of themselves,
but no longer put down others or create identities on the basis of those tribes. So, Banu so-and-so, you are known for this, this, this and that. MashaAllah, come into Islam and refine that good quality.
Leave the other garbage behind. So he's aware of those tribal sensibilities ﷺ and he tries his best to manage how to speak to those different mindsets
and those different tribes without compromising the integrity of the message. He has a hard time in Mecca. And ultimately, the steam, the fuel that drove him out of Mecca
was that he didn't belong to their tribe. Their tribe, meaning whoever was the antagonist of the Prophet ﷺ in that moment, he's not one of us, he's one of Banu Hashim.
And so, to Abu Jahl, it doesn't matter how eloquent you are, it doesn't matter what guarantees you can give me, at the end of the day, you are not from Banu Makhzum, you're from Banu Hashim.
I can't give you that type of leverage over me. I will oppose you with every fiber of my being. And subhanAllah, before he even sets foot in Medina,
you already have those tribes from the people of the book that knew from the Torah that the Prophet ﷺ was going to enter into, that the awaited Prophet would come here,
but when he wasn't from my tribe, no way, I hate him, he's my enemy. You imagine, like people settled that region because they read the signs of the book that this is where the Prophet would come.
As soon as they learned that the Prophet was not amongst them, uh-uh. We can't have that. He belongs to a different tribe. On top of that, the Prophet ﷺ is coming to a city,
which is basically 40 plus encampments, sub-tribes of Aws and Khazraj, whose fathers had all killed each other off in tribal warfare.
So he's leaving one mess of a community in terms of the Meccan society, and he's walking into, arguably, a worse mess. See, in Mecca, they didn't kill each other off in the immediate history.
They had some skirmishes and battles and stuff like that. But like, the tribal warfare in Medina is next level. But who embraced the message? Who took it all in?
Common cause, common word, a common covenant, made all of these people put their differences aside, at least when it mattered most, to rise to the occasion.
At least when it mattered most, to rise to the occasion. Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala overwhelmed them to such an extent, that everything else that used to dominate their consciousness, was now less.
You see, as human beings, we have tribal instincts. You know, in fact, subhanAllah, one of the biggest mistakes we make when we do politics, by the way, is we assume that people are ideological.
Most people are not ideological. Most people are just tribal. They want to cling to something that offers them comfort. The way they think like I do, they talk like I do, they resonate with my being. I want to belong to something.
And so, most people vote along the lines of tribe, political tribe. Not along the lines of ideology. They're pulled into identity. Right? We make the mistake when we think most people use this.
Most people act with emotion. They don't use their brains. Right? The Prophet ﷺ has to walk into that mess. And he has to get them all on the same page, quickly.
Okay. Let's bring it back to now, one of the verses that we'll start off with, which is the main verse that I start with. Okay?
Allah ﷻ, when He says, hold on to the rope of Allah, all of you together, and do not be divided amongst yourselves. SubhanAllah, there is an imagery of pressure.
We often rise to the best versions of ourselves under pressure. Okay? There has to be a sense of urgency. On an individual level, when you're too comfortable,
that's when you can lean into your corruption, your own personal fasad, and waste away in a bunch of stuff that is of no benefit to you, because you don't have a greater purpose.
We talk about people that embraced Islam because of Gaza. How many young people started taking their religion more seriously because of Gaza as well? Like, wait a minute. Like, this is a lot more serious than I thought.
When you look at the people around Salahuddin, some of them were alcoholics converted into warriors overnight, because they realized, I have a greater purpose. Like, this is serious.
I can't keep thinking about wasting away my own self. Greater purpose has dawned upon me. I have to rise to the occasion. Okay? There's a very famous story, subhanAllah, of Abu Mihjan al-Thaqafi.
Abu Mihjan was a man who in the time of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (رضي الله عنه), was an alcoholic. He kept getting drunk. And eventually, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (رضي الله عنه) said, You know what? I'm just going to tie him up and leave him back.
Like, I'll deal with him later. He said, No, but I need to go to the battle of Qadisiyah. This is the most important battle of the Muslims. I need to rise to the occasion. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (رضي الله عنه) said, You're just too much into your alcohol.
You're too self-centered in the worst of ways. That's not what he says, but this is the implication. Just, you stay back. And it dawned upon him. Like, here I am, wasting away myself,
while the Muslims are in the most consequential moment of their lives. Right? Like, this is a serious moment. And I need to rise. So what does he do?
He convinces the wife of Sa'd to let him go to the battle of Qadisiyah. He wraps his face up. Sa'd's wife sees the sincerity. Wraps his face up. Goes. He fights. Comes back.
And he lets himself be imprisoned once again. And all the Muslims are talking about, Who's this guy that came out of nowhere, that thrust himself into the battlefield, and that was so brave and courageous, but he had his face wrapped. We didn't know who he was.
No one would have thought it's the alcoholic. But the guilt got to him. Like, how am I wasting away doing this nonsense, when there's a serious moment that's calling me?
So when Sa'd gets back to the house, and he tells his wife what happened, she says, do you know who that man was? He says, who? She says, your prisoner. He said, really? So he goes and he lets Abu Mihjan loose.
He tells him, go free. He said, I'll never lash you for drinking alcohol again. He said, I'll never drink alcohol again. I'm done. I got it. Clicked. A lot of the young people in here.
Gaza woke you up, just like it woke a bunch of people that aren't Muslim up to the reality of Islam. It woke you up to the reality of your purpose. Like, wait a minute, I've got something serious to do now.
I've got to actually involve myself in a world that has a lot of problems. Too many for me to waste away in my own desires. Higher calling. There's a pressure that creates a sense of urgency.
When the Prophet ﷺ stood up on the Mount of Safa, he created an immediate sense of urgency. I want you to imagine if there was an army that was coming behind you, climbing that mountain. Urgency. Well, guess what?
There's something that is also an imminent danger in the hereafter. I'm trying to help you and save you from that. I'm trying to grab you from jumping into a fire.
Like, to the point that I'm holding you by the waist belt and saying, don't jump into that fire. Think about how Allah ﷻ creates that sense of urgency in the Qur'an. Right?
Al-'urwat al-wuthqa. Hold on to the trustworthy handhold. You can't trust anything else in this world to remain stable except for Allah ﷻ. Whatever it is that you're anchoring your sense of stability in,
it's going to let up at some point. Hold on to al-'urwat al-wuthqa, the trustworthy handhold.
The Prophet ﷺ talking about a time that will come where the sunnah will become so foreign to people. Tamassakoo bi sunnati. Hold on to my sunnah.
Even if you have to bite onto it, bi al-nawajidh, with your back teeth, like someone trying to rip something out of your mouth, hold on tight. Right? Hold on tight. Don't let it be taken away from you. There's a sense of urgency that's being created.
So the image that comes to mind, wa'tasimoo bi habli Allahi jamee'an. Hold on to the rope of Allah, all of you together, is an image that strikes you as like something just, a hole just opened up under you
and a bunch of people are about to fall into that hole. Everyone grab on to that rope together. Help people grab on to that rope. Pull people on to it. Be noble.
The baseline of being intelligent in that moment when the rope is extended from the sky as the people are drowning, is to grab on to the rope. That's the baseline of intelligence.
The most prophetic implementation of that rope of Allah is to bring people on to that rope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. To use the strength that you have with one hand, bring people and get as many people on to that rope as possible. Extend it as much as possible.
That's what the Prophet ﷺ did with the rope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But at least, don't be dumb, don't drown. Grab on to the rope of Allah. Right? Grab on to the rope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So grab on to the rope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
All of you together, try to extend that rope. Try to get people on board, if you can. Grab people with the other arm, if you're strong enough to hold on to it with one arm. Grab people on to it and hold on to that covenant from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Al-'ahd. Al-'ahd. The covenant. The same book that tells you how to act in war, tells you how to act in marriage. And they're not the same thing. Alright?
The same book that tells you how to act with your communal lower desires, tells you how to act as an individual when you're pulled by your lower desires. Wa'tasimoo bi habli Allahi jamee'an.
Hold on to the covenant of Allah. What is the rope of Allah? It is the Qur'an. It is the Qur'an. At the end of the day, this book, this revelation,
this message, this risalah, took a bunch of people that have nothing else in common and turned them into brothers and sisters. It's incredible.
Not only that, like you go to any masjid and you look around and you're like, what would have brought these people under the same roof? Right? What would have made them the same?
You go to Mecca, you do tawaf and you look around. Is there anything else that would have brought this diverse group of people to perform the singular act except for a message
that was higher than everything else that they identified themselves by? Okay? And subhanAllah, the verse before by the way is, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ
O you who believe, be mindful of Allah the way that you should be mindful of Allah and don't die except as Muslims. Your identifying characteristic, your identifying feature becomes Muslim.
وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِمَّنْ دَعَا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ Who is better than the one who calls to Allah subhanAllah, who believes, who acts. But he says, I'm a Muslim.
My defining feature is that I'm a Muslim. Before every other identity, other identities can exist as long as they are in the capacity of, the understanding of,
and they are subjugated to my identity as a Muslim. Hold on to the rope of Allah together. Now when was this verse revealed?
Some of the ulama say it was revealed between Badr and Uhud. Some of them say after Uhud. I incline towards it being right after Badr and I'll tell you why.
Allah 'azza wa jalla talks about people that otherwise were gonna kill each other. Okay? They were on the edge of the fire, like they were about to all perish in this life and the next.
And that refers to the Ansar, Aws and Khazraj. Mecca didn't have that type of animosity amongst themselves. Medina did. Aws and Khazraj.
Now I want you to think about the battle of Badr. The battle of Badr, you had almost 80%, actually more than 80% of the Muslim side were Ansar.
They were people of Medina. Okay? And they were protecting the Prophet ﷺ against, against who? His own people. His own qawm, Mecca.
Alright? Quraysh in Mecca. You're fighting alongside people and your fathers killed each other. You were divided.
But now you're making sacrifices for one another. Now you're taking in an entirely different group of people and that's healing the wounds that you had amongst yourselves. يُحِبُّونَ مَنْ هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِمْ
They loved those who migrated to them. They couldn't even love each other before. And now they love those that have migrated to them. People that were completely foreign to them because of the message. You're protecting a Prophet ﷺ who you just met.
They only knew him for a year. You are exerting yourself for a mission, a message. You're on the battlefield together. You're risking your lives because of common cause.
And subhanAllah, the Meccans that are amongst you, the Muslims that are amongst you that came from Mecca, their parents and their brothers, their blood brothers and blood fathers
are coming from Mecca to kill them. Think about subhanAllah how this joggles everything that was known to the Arabs. You have a Meccan Muslim that's standing across from his father,
from his brother, his blood brother, right? And you have the Ansar who are horizontal from Medina, the Muslims from Medina
that are from entirely different tribes whose fathers killed each other. And Allah 'azza wa jalla dangles this rope from the heavens. And suddenly all of those identities disappear with Islam, with the Qur'an.
And you grab onto it. وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا Do not be divided. وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ And remember the blessing of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon you.
إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا Remember the blessing, the favor of Allah upon you. This was the khutbah yesterday by the way. اذْكُرُوا Remember the blessing of Allah.
Before you can thank Allah, remember the blessing of Allah upon you. When you were enemies and He united you at the level of the heart.
And so you became by His blessing, ikhwan, brothers. He took you from being people who hated each other to being people that were willing to die for each other. Just like that.
Because common cause. It drowned every identity. It drowned every tribalism. It all became secondary. Subhanallah, when two people are married and they have common cause,
common cause, then they're able to drown their differences in that common cause, in that common covenant. I mean people that are both seeking the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
are not going to destroy their lives and their afterlives over petty disagreements. I'm trying to do ihsan to you because I want Allah 'azza wa jalla's favor. You're trying to do ihsan to me because you want Allah's favor.
That's how we get over the natural human differences that we have. And we relegate them to a secondary plane. And that's the ni'mah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That's nothing but the blessing of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that makes that possible. So the identity of Islam drowns out every identity. The mission of Islam drowns out every mission.
The calling of Islam drowns out every calling. You know what this looks like today by the way? In the communal sense. When people are fighting online,
or your masjid is fighting another masjid, or board members are fighting amongst themselves, or this group of people, this race of people are fighting that race of people.
You know I always say this, like we were not just watching the people of Gaza over the last two years. They were watching us as well. Can you imagine being in Gaza scrolling,
and this is what you fight about? This is what you argue about? This is what you're dedicating your lengthy posts about? This is what you're making videos about? This is what your concern is right now?
Trying to take out your brother, trying to take out your sister? This is what you do? It's just as offensive as you posting your videos and pictures of your food while people are starving and seeing that on their feeds. Equally offensive, if not more offensive.
Like we have not been sufficient of a unifying cause for you to get your act together, and drown out whatever was dividing you before? What is wrong with you? We're in the middle of a battle right now.
We're getting exterminated here. Are you gonna rise or not? Are you gonna keep on drowning in petty disagreement? Common cause drowns out all the other stuff. Then comes the second verse. You see,
وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا is amr, it's a command. وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا and do not divide yourselves is nahi. It's a prohibition. Affirmation, negation.
Allah always gives you two opposite sides of the coin. To suggest that the human being can never be idle. You can't just be as you are. You're either doing something good or you're doing something bad. And if you're in the neutral,
then you're most likely to get pulled into the bad. If you're not moving forward, you're gonna move backwards. Okay? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then says, and this is in Surah Al-Ma'idah. تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى
وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ Work together. بِالْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى
Birr is the most extensive word to describe good deeds. Public good deeds, private good deeds, acts of worship, acts of societal good. Birr is the most expansive word.
تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ Work together in birr. لَيْسَ الْبِرَّ أَنْ تُوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَلَٰكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالْكِتَابِ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ وَآتَى الْمَالَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِ
ذَوِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَالْيَتَامَىٰ وَالْمَسَاكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ وَالسَّائِلِينَ وَفِي الرِّقَابِ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he talks about what birr is in Surah Al-Baqarah what that expansive good is, you know what it is?
It's taking care of the poor, it's freeing the slaves, freeing the captives, honoring the orphan together, visiting the sick together, taking care of people together. Activate towards something else. Activate towards something good.
تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى Taqwa is the most cautious approach to sin. Meaning holding yourself back from sin with caution.
Fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that causes you to pause when you see something that could take you away from Allah 'azza wa jalla. Some of the ulama said, الْبِرُّ وَالتَّقْوَى You have to have a noble goal and you have to have noble means as well.
Sometimes we as Muslims and other people of course will justify the ends or justify the means by the ends, right? So we have a noble goal. Therefore we can do everything that we need to do.
Even if we don't have taqwa of Allah, we don't observe Allah's regulations and binding prohibitions. We got to cheat, we got to deceive, we got to eliminate, we got to do this. But at the end of the day, we got a good goal. It doesn't work that way in Islam.
So work together with noble goals and with noble means as well. وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ And don't work together. بِالْإِثْمِ
Ithm, so birr is the most expansive way to describe good. Ithm is the most minor way to describe evil. Ithm is something that disconnects you from Allah.
Because at the root of every sin is it creates a gap between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It creates a gap between you and Allah. It's not going to bring you closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's going to take you further away from Allah. بِالْإِثْمِ
So hold yourselves back from al-ithm, from the smallest sins. Don't work together on these things. وَالْعُدْوَانِ
Which is full-out transgression and harming people. See the Prophet ﷺ taught and I'll end with this inshallah ta'ala. And inshallah ta'ala we can phase into the marriage side of this as well.
Prophet ﷺ when he said انْصُرْ أَخَاكَ ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا Support your brother whether he's an oppressor or whether he's oppressed.
Can you imagine like you've been Muslim now and you've put aside your tribal differences and the Prophet ﷺ drops the most tribal slogan ever. This is such a tribal slogan. And every culture has it.
Like the Arabs have the, you know, me and my brother against ibn 'ammi against my cousin. They all got these things. And then me and my cousin against the world. We all have these things.
The Prophet ﷺ just drops without context the most tribal slogan ever. انْصُرْ أَخَاكَ ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا Wait a minute. What did you just say?
See تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى by the way is one of the last verses. Surah Al-Ma'idah This is now the community is built. Now move forward. Okay, support one another. You know each other, you love each other. Now move forward. Active progress.
And the Prophet ﷺ says انْصُرْ أَخَاكَ ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ We understand how to support the oppressed. We don't get how to support the oppressor.
He said by stopping him from being an oppressor. Let me tell every single one of you subhanAllah that this affects every single dimension of life. Every single one, you know how?
In-laws. All right. My daughter is married to this person. My son is married to this person. My daughter wronged this person, but she's my daughter.
My son wronged this woman, but that's my son. And so what am I going to do? I got to protect my son. I got to protect my daughter. At the end of the day, we're going to retreat, entrench ourselves back into our sides.
By helping your son or your daughter wrong their spouse, you're actually facilitating a place in hell for them. You're not doing them a favor. You're not helping them. You're making them worse. You're enabling a narcissist.
You're making things worse for them because you're destroying their akhirah. You're destroying their hereafter. Your friends, who when you're sinning, and I'm going to say this like to the youth level too,
you publicize a newfound sin of yours. You do something you shouldn't be doing. Your friend who puts that heart on that status of yours or who congratulates you is your enemy
because that's a person that doesn't care about your hereafter, doesn't care about your akhirah. They'll put you into hell in the name of friendship, in the name of loyalty. I help my brother. I help my sister.
I help my daughter. I help my son. I help my husband. I help my wife. I help the people that I love by holding them back from oppressing because when you're an oppressor, you have to face the consequences in the hereafter.
And I don't want you to face the consequences in the hereafter. And even if that means you're going to be mad at me, I'd rather stand in front of you and say no because I don't want you to go to hell. Not only do I care about the person you're hurting, I don't want you to hurt yourself.
Right? Even if you're going to turn on me, there is a mission, a cause that runs deeper than blood, that runs deeper than friendship.
And the Prophet ﷺ taught us, love your brother, love your sister, love the one that you love, right? As you should.
But love them by bringing them back to the rope of Allah ﷻ. And so if you don't have friends, companions that will check you when you're sinning,
those aren't people that you want to be around. Those aren't people that you want to be around. They make you comfortable, but they're making your hereafter a whole lot less comfortable.
Okay? The same thing is true when we have disputes in the community or we have cliques or cults egg each other on, you know?
I got to support my tribe because this person supported me back then. We got to work together even if I know that he's wrong.
You're just facilitating that person right to hellfire, kicking them right off the rope of Allah ﷻ when it matters most to not drown, when you need salvation most.
May Allah ﷻ allow us to work together and find people around us that have common cause.
And may Allah ﷻ unite us around the Qur'an, around the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ, around the legacy and the values and the tradition of adherence and inspiration that has been given to us through the heroes of our tradition and those that supported them.
May Allah ﷻ allow us to aspire to our higher callings collectively and individually so that we don't drown in our lower desires and our lower passions.
May Allah ﷻ allow us to collectively unite for the people of Gaza. May Allah ﷻ allow us to collectively unite for the people of Sudan.
May Allah ﷻ allow us to collectively unite for every group of people that are struggling in this dunya.
And may Allah ﷻ allow us to collectively unite to call people to good around us and to work towards what is best for them and best for us in this dunya and in the akhirah.
Allahumma ameen. Jazakum Allahu khayran. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.