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my beloved brothers and sisters
on the globe several incidents have
occurred
that make it necessary for us to speak
about them and to guide the muslims in
their regard
one of these was the siege that happened
in
sydney australia and the other
was the massacre of school children in
peshawar pakistan
and it's important for us to know that
as muslims we don't understand
what part of islam these people are
following
in fact we don't even understand what
islam
they are following because islam is a
totally different religion
from what these people are practicing
islam does not teach the killing of
innocent people
it does not teach the killing of
children and women
and in fact muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
when he was entering
in the year known as at the victory of
makkah
he made it quite clear that those who
put their weapon
down as well shall not be touched and
harmed these are innocent people
also he makes clear mention of not only
the prohibition of hurting or harming
women children the elderly those who are
in their homes those who are in the
churches
but he even speaks about the destruction
of trees
and infrastructure so those who destroy
infrastructure are not following islam
those who want to destroy the ecosystem
are not following islam
those who want to harm women children
the elderly and those who are in the
masajid
and those who are not at war with them
innocent people
they are not following islam and this is
why it's important for us to speak about
this
because as frustrated as we might be
because of what might be happening on
muslim lands
it does not give us the right to go out
and hurt people
who are not at all involved may allah
bless us and may he protect us the first
issue i want to address is the issue of
hostage taking in islam
what has happened and what is happening
if you take a careful look
someone has a problem with a certain
nationality
and they decide to pick up anyone of the
same nationality
and kill him off or use him as a hostage
which part of islam teaches that which
hadith
or which quranic verse teaches that when
a person is innocent
not at all involved there are people
whether they are in iraq
whether they are in syria whether they
are in other places
some of them have gone forth in order to
assist
humanitarian crisis we all know about
there are people who have gone to help
and they have gone
under the flag of well-known islamic
organizations as well
and after a while the man is taken and
after a while
just because of his nationality he is
then made a big
issue off and an issue of hostage and so
on
and after a while he is executed in the
name of islam
you and i are not involved you and i
condemn that and we do not condone it at
all
so this barbaric system is definitely
un-islamic
if you take a look at the islam we have
we have been following
since we were born we have known of a
peaceful islam we live with the muslims
with the non-muslims the people of the
book
the jews and the christians and the
others the hindus people who don't even
have a faith
where have we ever had dispute with them
in terms of living in life and their
freedom the reality is as muslim
no we don't if you have a problem with
someone you may report them to the
authorities
and then it will be handled by the
courts you will either get justice at
the courts or
sometimes maybe the courts may find
someone
that you believe is guilty innocent in
that case
you leave it for the day of judgment
when allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will be
the judge
but you do not take it into your own
hands to say now because the court has
found this person innocent
and according to me the person is guilty
let me harm them
let me kill them let me hurt them let me
rob from them
that is absolutely incorrect and it is
un-islamic
if you take a careful look at pakistan
and what happened in pakistan just two
days ago
where more than a hundred little
children were killed
for what what was the purpose why
so someone might argue that oh these
were the children of military men
that is no justification what so all
or what it you know whatsoever these are
innocent children
the whole globe acknowledges they are
innocent yes they are there are others
who have pillaged and slaughtered our
own children we know but two wrongs do
not make a right
remember this someone sometimes might
want to think
and try and justify to say you know they
are bombing us every day
they are killing our children every day
they are doing this on a daily basis
with unmanned aircraft and various other
things
my brother my sister we understand we
are painting we are hurting we are
bleeding
we want to solve the problem we are
trying to sort things out but at the
same time
it does not give us the right and it
does not justify
the killing of innocent children if
someone has murdered someone else
subhanallah
it does not give us the right to murder
a third party altogether may allah
protect us
and may allah grant us guidance and ease
it's important we understand this
the world is bleeding today and people
are blaming the muslims
because from amongst us some are being
brainwashed brainwashed by what
they do not understand verses of the
quran they don't
understand the asbabun nuzu or the
reasons of revelation of the verses of
the quran
they don't understand the ability or
they don't understand
how to extract rules and regulations
from verses of the quran
they read something someone shows them
something and next thing
they are prepared to give up their lives
may allah grant us an understanding
we should be giving up our lives
striving to earn the
the pleasure of allah through obedience
through salah look at muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he went
look at his example they beat him up
personally
physically he was bleeding and the
angels
came to him to say if you want we can
crush these people between the mountains
what did he say he said i am sent as a
mercy
we don't want that to happen if they
don't accept perhaps
their children will accept patience
sabar so it's important for us to know
this
rasulullah sallam was patient he made a
dua for them a beautiful dua
he took he took the knock meaning they
he did not make a bad dua
against them and at the same time he
made a good dua oh allah if these people
are not accepting at least from their
progeny from their offspring from their
children
let people accept the deen in a few
years time there was
a victory in that region today take a
look at life
and tell me how many non-muslims there
are there
why there was patience there was a lot
of forbearance
there was a system of da'wah people have
lost the plot and we think that the
non-muslims are our enemies
the minute we think that automatically
we will not be able to call them towards
islam
and they will get the wrong image of
islam my brothers and sisters islam
it means peace it stands for peace it
promotes peace it teaches peace
and everything that you will achieve is
peace in this world peace
in the next peace in your grave peace
with your children peace in your
environment peace
that is islam anything that destroys
that in any way
is not islam remember this
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