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How the Plot of Israel Will Backfire | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
What does our faith teach us about standing against oppression, even when the oppressor seems invincible? And how do we hold onto clarity, conviction, and courage in a world shaped by propaganda and power? From decades of displacement and destruction to the brewing tensions with Iran and other regional powers, Dr. Omar Suleiman covers Israel's brutality.
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
We begin by praising Allah and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for Him. And we bear witness that Muhammad is His final messenger.
We ask Allah to send His peace and blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him, and those that follow in his blessed path until the Day of Judgment. We ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen.
Dear brothers and sisters, I just returned from Hajj literally a few hours ago. And the khutbah that I had in mind is not the one that I'm going to give to you today, because as many of you have been following the news,
the Zionist regime of Israel has spread its warfare across the region. We ask Allah to foil its plans.
We ask Allah to have mercy on all of its victims. We ask Allah to allow the plots of the oppressor to backfire on the oppressor. Allahumma ameen.
But I'm going to start with something before getting into the news that spurred the khutbah that I intend to give. It's something I was reading that's actually very related.
You know, SubhanAllah, as you're witnessing the world unfold the way that it does,
you recognize that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala inspires a different reading of some of the ayat that you used to quickly read across. And that has been the case for the last two years.
Different episodes of the seerah that have a different lens. And as we said, you know, may Allah have mercy on the victims, the believers, the Muslims,
those that have been oppressed by all oppressors in fact, wherever they are. Because they certainly have to look to the Qur'an for a deeper source of inspiration
than those of us who have felt the pain of witnessing what they have been going through and trying to gain our own perspective as to what we can do for them.
But I was reading through Siyar A'lam An-Nubala, the stories from Imam Al-Dhahabi, and I was ironically preparing on the flight home for my next lecture in the first,
which would be about Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه), and his rising up against the oppressor of his day. And one of the things that Imam Al-Dhahabi, may Allah have mercy on him, does is he covers very complicated figures.
As he covers Islamic history. And I came across one of these complicated figures. He was from Al-Dawla Al-Abbasiya, he was from the Abbasid period. His name is Abu Ja'far Al-Zayyat.
And his name Al-Zayyat comes from his father who was an oil merchant. And Al-Dhahabi, may Allah have mercy on him, covers this complicated figure
that exists about 300 or so years after the Prophet (ﷺ), who was a wazir, he was a minister. And he says that this was a man who was a poet, he was an expert in literature,
he was an inventor, he was someone that put forth many contributions in terms of the sciences of the day and was widely respected for that.
But just like other complicated figures, there was a harm that matched the benefit, and some would argue that outweighed it. He applied his brilliance in the politics of the day,
and he was a contemporary, by the way, of Imam Ahmed, may Allah have mercy on him, one of those who held on to the false belief of the creation of the Qur'an. He used his brilliance to create torture devices.
And so he invented what was the equivalent that I would best describe to a gas chamber today, a tannur, sahib al-tannur, they called him the maker of the oven,
where he created a torture device where people would be burnt to death, they would be burnt alive, and the Prophet (ﷺ), of course, said do not punish with the punishment of Allah,
that burning someone is never justified, it's an evil doing. But he created a torture chamber where heat would be put into that chamber, fire would be brought into it, and there was a whole mechanism
as to making sure that the person died a very slow death in that torment. And he took a lot of great pride in creating that device. And he used to say about himself something very interesting.
He said, wallahi ma rahimtu ahadan qat, he said I never showed mercy to any human being in my life. And listen to what he said, ar-rahmatu khawarun fit tabi' yaani da'afun fit tabi'
that mercy is a weakness in a personality, the opposite of what we learn from our Prophet (ﷺ), ar-rahimun yarhamuhum ar-rahman, that the most merciful shows mercy to them,
irhamu man fil ard, yarhamukum man fil sama'a, show mercy to those on earth, and the most merciful in the heavens will show mercy to you. So he said, rahma is a weakness, mercy is a weakness.
And this, of course, is a logic of a tyrant or the tool of a tyrant, that you can't let your human emotions come in the way of how you deal with human beings,
because otherwise you won't be able to control them and torture them. There has to be a level of, you know, killing your own sense of humanity in order to manage human subjects in a certain way.
So he created this torture device, and to not drag the story on, as time went on, he found himself falling out of favor with the ruler of the time,
and he found himself being put in the same torture chamber that he created by the khalifa. And as he was thrown into that torture chamber to be burnt alive until he would die,
he ironically screamed out, irhamuni, irhamuni, show mercy to me, show mercy to me. And the khalifa mocked him and said, ar-rahmatu khawarun fil taba'a,
mercy is a weakness in your personality, mercy is a weakness to your nature. Why do I start with this story? The verse that comes to mind,
wa la yahiqu, that verily the makr, wa la yahiqu al makr al sayyi'u illa bi ahli. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,
that verily the evil plot only comes back to engulf the one who made it. wa la yahiqu al makr al sayyi'u illa bi ahlihi. The evil plot will only harm the one who created the plot.
In Surah Fatir, istikbaran, Allah Azawajal mentions the arrogance of those who plotted against the Prophet (ﷺ), and al makr al sayyi' and the evil plans that they all cooked up
to try to hurt the Prophet (ﷺ). wa la yahiqu al makr al sayyi'u illa bi ahlihi. But verily an evil plan only harms the one who makes that plan in the first place.
I want to stop with this verse for a bit, and let's take the personal lesson first. That if you are someone who seeks to harm someone else,
and you find yourself in a situation where you can come up with a plot and a plan to make yourself immune to any consequences, or so you think,
and you put your brother or your sister in a terrible situation, that know that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will cause you to suffer
in the exact same way that you caused your brother or your sister to suffer, and it may be that the infrastructure, the plot that you are putting together, will actually come back to engulf you.
If you are a victim of someone else who plots against you, after many days and nights, or perhaps weeks or months, or perhaps years, of suffering at the hands of someone who puts forth a miserable plot
to make your life miserable, know that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will cause that person to be ensnared, engulfed by that very same plot at some point. It is a promise of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
wa makaru wa makara Allah, wa Allahu khayru al makireen. They plot, and Allah plots, and Allah is the best of plotters. It is a promise. And makr has the element of surprise to it.
There is an element of taking someone when they're not paying attention. They've left that front vulnerable to themselves, and being caught into it. And so there's a very personal lesson to take from this.
But now you come to the issue of the day. I want you to pay attention to what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is saying to us. That there is a promise that Allah's victory is near.
Nasrullahi qareeb. Allah Azawajal makes that promise. There is a promise, inna Allah yudafi'u 'ani allatheena aamanu, that Allah Azawajal will defend those who believe. We've talked about that promise in great detail.
There is a promise, innahum yaqiduna qayda wa aqidu qayda, that they plan and I plan. Wamaqaru wa maqar Allah. That they plot and Allah Azawajal plots. And that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala's plot is always greater.
And that Allah Azawajal is the greatest plotter against them. All of these are promises. But when Allah Azawajal says, wa la yahiqu,
that verily it will not come to harm someone in the ultimate sense. Except for those bi ahlihi, except for those who put forth the plot together,
pay very close attention to what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is saying to us. That when a tyrant feels invincible, when a tyrant feels like they have the devices and the tools
to be able to penetrate, and to be able to create harm in multiple ways, and does not see a pathway to accountability, that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is telling you
that they will ensnare themselves in the same way that I mentioned, as Zayat ensnaring himself. That they will actually be creating the infrastructure and the plan and the plot
that will lead to their ruin and their destruction. And that is as much a promise of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala as anything else. That Allah Azawajal has already promised. And SubhanAllah as you're watching,
the Polish terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu, speak with such pride. And that snickery, and that joy, and that glee, that we figured something out,
and the Mossad is able to build an entire secret drone base in another country, without anyone paying attention. As you watch that sense of invincibility, wallahi this ayah just kept coming to my head.
Because how much is Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala sowing, within what they are building of their plot, that is beyond their sight, of his maqr over their maqr, of his plot over their plot.
How much is being devised on the inside of what they are devising that they cannot see in a divine sense. That will eventually come to haunt them.
That will eventually cause them to be engulfed by their own tyranny. And the scholars talk about this from a historical sense. That Allah Azza wa Jal does not let a tyrant,
ever ride their plot high for more than a qarn, for more than a century. Some of the scholars mention the 60 to 70 years, or a 100 years. And you think about it. That the plot always comes back to backfire.
The two greatest tyrants that the Muslim world knew, were the Crusaders and the Mongols. And the Crusaders pillaged Jerusalem. With the goal of eliminating the light of Islam once and for all,
so that it would never be there again. And I want to say that it is important for you, O Muslims as you attend Jum'ah, to feel every bit of the weight and the pain
of the fact that Masjid Al-Aqsa is closed. May Allah Azza wa Jal liberate it. Masjid Al-Aqsa has been shut down. May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala liberate it.
Allahumma Ameen. I want that weight to be felt, by each and every single one of us. That there is not a single Musalli, that is being allowed in the first place, that the Prophet (ﷺ) ever faced for Salah,
at this moment. And the arrogance of your oppressor. The Crusaders thought, that by pillaging and by destroying and by uprooting every semblance that they could of Islam in Jerusalem,
that they would ensure that it never came back. In the process of that, the darkness that they put forth, and the historic footprint of that darkness, actually backfired,
because Salahuddin Al-Ayubi, Rahimahullah Ta'ala, did not just reconquer Jerusalem, but the light that Salahuddin, Rahimahullah, brought back to Jerusalem. The standards that he upheld,
the way that he carried himself, the way that he refused to be tainted by their darkness, and become dark in the standards that they put forth like them. The way that Salahuddin, Rahimahullah,
entered into Jerusalem, not only ensured the return of Islam to Jerusalem, but it ensured that we're still talking about it, over almost a thousand years later. They lost the plot.
They became a historical blueprint of evil. And Salahuddin, Rahimahullah Ta'ala, became the manifest blueprint of good. It was right within a hundred years, within a qarn,
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala foiled those plans of theirs. And if you were to say to the crusaders, 50 or 60 or 70 or 77 years in to their oppression,
that there was even the slightest chance that that would happen, they would mock you. They'd call you a lunatic. But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was carefully plotting as they were plotting.
And they would be taken by the same infrastructure that they created, in the same way that the Mongols. It didn't even take a hundred years for someone from the offspring, a grandson of Genghis Khan,
to actually embrace Islam, which is unheard of. The colonizer embracing the religion of the colonized. And suddenly, these people became students of the same structures that they destroyed.
The same structures that they destroyed. The Mongol Empire, after wreaking havoc on the Muslim world, it wasn't a hundred years. Within the same qarn, within that same 100 years that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
turned it all around. And if you were to say to someone, within 30 or 40 years, that that makr, that that plot, that that plan, would result in this,
no one would have believed you. In fact, even a Muslim would have looked at you and said, the Mongols embracing Islam? They just finished stacking the skulls of the Muslims
and destroying another thousand set of books and masajid. The Mongols embracing Islam? Are you serious? How does that happen? How does it all turn around? وَلَا يَحِيقُ الْمَكْرُ السَيِّئُ إِلَّا بِأَهْلِهِ
That an evil plan always comes back to haunt only those who initiated it. That in the process of that plot, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala plots something from within
that the plotter cannot see, but the plotter will one day feel. In one of the narrations in Hafidh ibn Kathir, his tafsir of this verse in Surah Fatir, there's a narration,
athar, that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, إِيَّاكَ وَالْمَكْرُ السَّيِّئُ Beware of plotting evil. And that is indeed, first and foremost, a warning at a personal level for each and every single one of us.
Beware of plotting evil. Because the Prophet (ﷺ) says, وَلَا يَحِيقُ الْمَكْرُ السَّيِّئُ إِلَّا بِأَهْلِهِ That verily an evil plan will only come back to backfire
against the one who plots it in the first place. But then he says in this athar, that they have from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, وَلَهُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ طَالِبُ
That Allah Azawajal will send someone to pursue them or that Allah will pursue them in the process. What does this mean dear brothers and sisters? First and foremost, we do not operate within the confines of this dunya. Allah Azawajal mentions,
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا فَلَهُمَ عَذَابُ جَهْنَمٍ وَلَهُمَ عَذَابُ الْحَرِيقِ That verily those who burn the believers, they will have the punishment of being burned as well. Whether that's in this life or the next,
that's beyond us. But what that also means, is that when you see an evil plot extending itself, and when you start to see the pathways
of overcoming that plot close, that's where you renew your trust in Allah SWT. Your trust is not in the military of any country,
your trust is not in the defense of any country, your trust is not in the mechanics or the tools or the supports of anything else, your trust is in Allah SWT who is the maker of all means
and the reason for all reasons. Your trust is in Allah SWT, the controller of all outcomes. You renew that trust in Allah SWT, but, and there is a big but here,
there is no reason for you in any way to feel better about yourself when renewing your trust in Allah SWT. These promises and these ayahs
are not meant to instill complacency in us. These promises and these ayahs are not meant to say to us to take a back seat now, and to say, Allah SWT do what He does.
It's first and foremost that you renew your yaqeen, you renew your certainty. That certainty and the promise of Allah was in 2021, it was in 2023, it's in 2025, it was in 1948, it was in 1967,
it will still be around. That they will create or be the authors of their own destruction in the divine decree of Allah SWT. And we believe that.
But you come back to yourself, dear brothers and sisters, and you renew your own effort. You renew your own movement. You renew everything that you said
that you would do when it all first started. I don't want to hear anyone talking about ghaza fatigue. It's pathetic. I can tell you, by the way, in hajj, that you could hear the people making their du'a in tawaf,
and you could hear them making du'a over the microphones in arafah. And when anyone would get to the word ghaza, their voices would break, and their tears would flow.
There is no such thing as ghaza fatigue. If our brothers and sisters are living it, then we have to keep at it. It's as simple as that. But I just want you to couch yourself
in this ayah for a moment. That that makr, that plot that is being extended, has holes in it that we cannot see, nor can they.
وَلَهُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ طَالِبٍ And even if history doesn't catch up to them, Allah SWT will catch up to them. And even if it's not in this dunya, it will be in the akhira.
And even if it's not in our lifetimes, then it will happen. And that trust has to be renewed in Allah. But don't you dare take a backseat right now. This is a time to increase,
not a time to fall into despair. This is a time to renew our intentions, to renew our trust, to renew our efforts. Not a time to take a backseat. May Allah SWT show us
in what is happening with our brothers and sisters, a miracle. May Allah SWT allow us to witness the victory of the innocent, the victory of those who have been oppressed. May Allah SWT allow us to see
the falling apart of the plot of the oppressors. May Allah SWT allow us to see them author their own doom. May Allah SWT allow us to see them in pain, as they have caused pain to our brothers and sisters.
May Allah SWT renew us and push us and guide us to what we can be doing for the oppressed, for the innocent, for those who are struggling. May Allah SWT not let us become oppressors
in the process of fighting for the oppressed. And may Allah SWT not allow us to be of the complacent or the comfortable or the sinful in this all. May Allah SWT be with our brothers and sisters all over the world.
May Allah SWT liberate Al-Aqsa. May Allah SWT as He gathered us in this masjid to pray Salatul Jumu'ah. May Allah SWT gather us in Masjid Al-Aqsa while it is liberated to pray. Allahumma ameen.
أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم ورسالة المسلمين فاستغفروه إنه الغفور الرحيم


































































































































































































































































































