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How Palestine Exposes Hypocrisy | Khutbah
Hypocrisy and injustice have plagued the lives of the Palestinian people for decades. Through their enduring struggle, we find profound lessons that can be applied to our own lives.
Join Dr. Omar Suleiman as he explores how to recognize and combat hypocrisy within ourselves, drawing inspiration from the unwavering resilience of the Palestinian people.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. We seek forgiveness and guidance from Allah, and we believe in Him, and we trust in Him, and we seek refuge in Allah, the Great, from the evil of our souls and from the evil of our actions. Whoever Allah guides, there is no misguidance for him, and whoever He misguides, there is no guide for him. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone, and no partner for Him. To Him belongs sovereignty and praise. He gives life and causes death, and He is Ever-Living, Never-Dying. In His hand is all good, and He has power over all things. I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant, His Messenger, His Chosen One, and His Friend. I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant, His Messenger, His Chosen One, and His Friend. He has fulfilled the trust, and has conveyed the message, and has advised the Ummah, and has lifted up the clouds, and has left us on the white pilgrimage. Its night is like its day. Nothing escapes it but destruction. So upon Him is the best prayer, and the best submission. And upon His family, and His companions, and those who wait for His sunnah until the Day of Judgment. Allahumma, make us of them, and of those who believe, and do righteous deeds, and associate with the truth, and associate with patience. I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant, His Messenger, His Chosen One, and His Friend. I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant, His Messenger, His Chosen One, and associate with patience. He has commanded us to do the righteous, and said, O ye who believe! fear Allah as He should be feared, and die not except as Muslims. O ye who believe! fear your Lord, Who has created you from one soul, and has created from it a wife, and has produced from it many men and women. And fear Allah, in Whom you ask for help and mercy. Verily, Allah watches over you. O ye who believe! fear Allah, and say the righteous word. Allahumma, wa min kulli ajadid, yuslih lakum a'malakum, wiyaghfir lakum dhunubakum, wa min yuta'il laha wa rasoolahu faqad faaza fawzan azeema thumma ma ba'd. We begin by praising Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped, or unconditionally obeyed, except for Him. And we bear witness that Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wasallam 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. And we ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen.
Dear brothers and sisters, betrayal is one of the most difficult things that we will deal with in our lives. And there are numerous forms of betrayal that we will face. And may Allah protect us from ever being of the betraying, and reward us when we are of the betrayed. Allahumma ameen. It was difficult for the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam in Makkah, when people that had said to him that he was the most precious of human beings to them, turned their backs on him on Safa, when he called to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala for the first time. It was difficult when those who he used to break bread with, were now trying to forbid bread from reaching the home of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam during the boycott. It was difficult when heads of tribes came from other places, and made a mockery of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam by saying, send us your best men to teach us Islam, and then murdered them when they got there. It was difficult upon the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam to deal with, in the most beautiful society of Medina, al-munafiqun, hypocrites, that over time made their hypocrisy well known. There's a very particular element of this that relates to the moment at hand. I think that as many of us watch what is unfolding right now in Palestine and in Gaza, may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala give victory to our brothers and sisters in Palestine, liberate them, support them in their time of difficulty, and all of our brothers and sisters who are oppressed around the world. And may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala deal with their oppressors. Allahumma ameen. There is something that I think all of us sense around that emotion. And it's of different layers. There is the betrayal that we feel of the Muslim world to Palestine.
Why is it that power does not assemble to uplift our brothers and sisters? Why is it that there isn't more mobilization beyond grando statements that are given in pointless forums? Where is the actual means of support to our brothers and sisters? At some point you have to not only use diplomacy in a way that benefits your own nation, your own country, but at some point you have to use the resources that you have to support your brothers and sisters. At what point do companies pull their American ambassador? Because we have a president here who has given a blank check to genocide. At what point do they cut gas lines and oil lines? At what point do they mobilize for our brothers and sisters that are oppressed and speak of them as their own instead of mobilizing to shut gates and to ensure just like those who hate them openly that they never end up in their lands? At what point? And then there is the betrayal that's felt at a local level. Some of you have friends and maybe even family members that you see online all of a sudden and they are posting things that absolutely devastate you. You can't believe that this person that you've had lunch with, that you've spent a lot of time with, that seemed like someone who was such a nice person, who cared so much about your feeling welcomed as a Muslim in this country, posting so openly about their disdain for the Palestinian people and their disregard for the children of Palestine. There is betrayal from your workplace. Everyone that championed free speech has suddenly become a McCarthyist. All of the terms that were used to say that students should have the freedom to study,
learn and write and organize and all of the protections that are supposed to exist for employees and workers, staff, when it comes to holding moral positions, all of that goes out the window and there is a sense of betrayal. Where did that come from? I didn't see that coming. There is even a sense of betrayal perhaps that many of us have been feeling, a little sick to our stomach, that those who hold political office in our country use our money to kill our brothers and sisters. And it seems like no matter how loud the streets become, the more deaf the halls of Congress become, writing bigger checks for the genocide and for the massacre. And there is betrayal, a feeling of betrayal. And I wanted to speak to this in a Madani context for a moment, particularly when it comes to the verses of Nifaq, because one of the things, fa'atabiru, that we should take lesson from as we see things unfolding around us, is that we don't have the signs of the same people that we despise. And so if other people have double standards, we try to be consistent. If other people lack ethics, we try to hold on to our ethics. Where other people become cruel, we insist on what our Prophet ﷺ has given us of a consistent system of justice and mercy. Where other people fail, we try to live up to the standard that Allah ﷻ has given to us. And so as you see this all playing out, you want to ask yourself, do I have signs of the same hypocrisy that I see around me? If the people around me are incapable of being inconsistent, am I inconsistent? And I want us to actually look at the early ayat of Medina that spoke about the way that hypocrisy developed in that society. Because hypocrisy in Medina was a bit different.
Ibn Abbas ﷺ says that people would pretend to be Muslim in Medina so that they could benefit from all of the benefits that comes with being a Muslim, while at the same time seeking to undermine every single opportunity that was presented to them. That also meant, by the way, and this is really human if you think about it, subhanAllah, that there were people, as Ibn Abbas ﷺ said, that married from the righteous Muslims. Imagine waking up two, three years later and finding out that your spouse is a munafiq. How difficult is that to be a pious person who embraced the Prophet ﷺ with all your heart and soul, and then you find out that this person that you've been with actually never intended to join the ranks of the Prophet ﷺ, but was riding the benefits including of being with you, and now they're showing their true colors. This happened in the time of the Prophet ﷺ. It was devastating, and it was a test of faith for people as well. SubhanAllah, how devastating. Now how do we start to see the signs of the munafiqeen unfold? There are two times that the ulama mention that the munafiqoon show themselves, that the masks fall. There's been a lot of usage of that terminology, the masks have fallen of the so-called defenders of free speech, the so-called defenders of human rights, the so-called defenders of Islam. The masks have fallen. There are two times that the masks fall, and I want us to deeply interrogate ourselves and ask ourselves if we show signs of this in our own hearts. في وقت الشدة وفي وقت الفتنة In two times. In a time of deep hardship, and in a time of fitna, and a time of chaos, tribulation. Now what's the difference between those two things? What you notice about how Allah speaks to the munafiqoon
or to the growing signs of nifaq in the early community, as they start to become more self-revealing over time is, يَا هُوَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَا تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ كَبُرَ مَقَةً عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ You have a lot of people that gave grand statements but did absolutely nothing. You have the stories of the likes of Anas ibn Malik r.a and his uncle Anas ibn Nadir who missed badr and said, if Allah gives me another chance, Allah's gonna see what I'm going to do. مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلَ You have people that made promises to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they fulfilled their promises when the time came. They didn't flee when the hardship actually came around. They didn't make grandstanding statements. They made sincere supplications to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that, ya Allah, if you put me in a position, if you test me, you will see that I'm sincere to you. And you had others that made all sorts of excuses. And when the time of hardship came, they suddenly made excuses and they started to disappear. The more difficult circumstances got, the more, you know, I think my back is hurting right now. You know, I think I've got to go tend to my garden. Wealth is a little bit hard. I've got some trade that is going on here and there. So, ya Rasulullah, I don't have anything to give you right now. InshaAllah one day. The more that the excuses start to pile up and they start to shrink. ففي وقت الشدة, in the time of hardship, they disappear. And in the process of disappearing, they poison the ranks. إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الَّذِينَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِهِ صَفًّا كَأَنَّهُمْ بُنْيَانٌ مَرْسُوسٌ Allah talks about those striving as one unit. And the most observable traits of a hypocrite is that a hypocrite not only fails to put forth a meaningful effort of their own,
but they spoil the meaningful efforts of others. So, I don't want to be the one that's left out. It's sort of like how Shaytan wants to take people to hellfire with him. I don't want to be the only one. And so they not only make excuses to always disappear in hard times, but they find ways to poison the ranks. Cast doubt, cast division, cast dissension. And so they disappear. But at the time of fitna, when it comes time where there is a slander of our mother Aisha r.a or something really juicy is going on in the community that causes great chaos, mashallah, they rush to it. Suddenly, their mouths don't stop running. Suddenly, they are super involved. Suddenly, they're at every single salah. Suddenly, they are always present. Front of the line. Always have an opinion. Always have something to do. Always have something to say. And so when it comes to times of hardship, they're nowhere to be found. When it comes to times of fitna, they are the ones that are generating the fitna and making sure that the fire of it stays alive. They belittle the efforts of others when others try to do for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not putting forth any effort of their own. And then they show up to criticize and to blast every single effort for the sake of Allah as being insufficient, as being insincere, as a mask of their own. You know, in American discourse, they call it gaslighting, right? We're being gaslit by the president of the United States on a consistent basis. Mashallah, an initiative against Islamophobia, you know, being launched. Gaslighting from the highest office in the United States. The munafiqun, at the time of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, would put forth grand statements, consider this, consider that, deflections, distractions,
all so that they could escape being present in the hard times of the ummah. Why am I bringing this forth here for us? Allah azza wa jal knows how deep the pain of our brothers and sisters in Palestine is, but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also has placed in them a miracle that when we watch them undergo the worst forms of cruelty and their humanity completely diminished in our ranks, somehow, they still keep going. Somehow, they persevere. Food, drink, support, لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَذَ لَهُمْ وَلَا مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ They are not harmed by those who betray them, nor by those who oppose them. Because they are self-fulfilled in a mission of siddq with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They have a relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that is different. And where I want you to actually look at yourself in a moment where we feel paralyzed, where we feel sometimes a sense of despair. What can we do? We're all sick of seeing children dead on our screens. Jum'ah might be the longest period that you take from seeing Palestinian babies pulled from the rubble. We're all tired of it. What can I do? اتقوا الله ما استطعتم Fear Allah as much as you can. Do the best that you can وكن صادق مع الله and be truthful with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'm doing my best. Our ummah is in hard times. I'm doing my best. I'm trying my best. I'm going to endure the inconveniences that come with being on the right side of this.
Because I don't want to be a hypocrite. I don't want to be someone who disappears in the time of hardship. I have a role to play. I have something to say. When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and I'll end with this, when he said من رأى منكم منكر Whoever amongst you sees an evil, let them change it with their hand. And if they can't do so, فَبِلِسَانِهِ then with their tongue. And if they can't do so, فَبِقَلْبِهِ then at least hate it in your heart. That is the lowest of iman. You know what, for many Muslims that live around the world right now, that is the only iman they can have right now on this issue. It's true. For many Muslims in Muslim countries, where the protest for Palestine used to be large, where the voice for Palestine used to roar, now the only thing they can do is hold it here but it burns them. And no one can interfere with your du'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at night when you make tahajjud. No one can cut your connection to Allah at night. Just like no one can cut their connection in Gaza to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. No one can cut that. But that's all that they've got. As they can hate it in their hearts. They're brothers and sisters. Maybe we can do a little bit more. Maybe we can speak up. Maybe we can continue to hate it in our hearts, this munkar, this evil, and to be present with our ummah in its difficult time and to not disappear. But it's easy for us to sit back and to forward what that means about this hypocrite and that hypocrite. Do you see what they've done? And do you see what that person has done? To say this person is this and this person is that. And this effort is worthless and this effort is worthless. It's far more difficult to be in a constant state of self-scrutiny and to say, Ya Allah, ihdina al-sirata al-mustaqeem. Guide me to the straight path on an individual level. I don't want to be a munafiq
in my relationship as it relates to you. lima taqooruna ma la taf'aloon. I don't want people to think I'm a better Muslim than I actually am in my private life. I want to actually be sadiq with you, truthful in that relationship to you. And then when it comes to this ummah, the ummah has a fever right now. The ummah is in pain right now. Be present, dear brothers and sisters. Do not divide the ranks. Do not cause dissension. Do not cause fitna. Do not poison. And do your part. And ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to expand your part and to show you your next step along the way. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide our hearts, guide our tongues, guide our actions to ways that are pleasing to Him, that are sincere, that are in accordance with the sunnah of our beloved messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that bring sakinah, tranquility to the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow this catastrophe to be a means by which the catastrophe of distance from Him at the collective and individual level is removed from us altogether. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give victory to our brothers and sisters. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help our brothers and sisters who have been oppressed in all parts of the world, those that are mentioned and those that are forgotten. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make their feet firm and protect them from above them and protect them from their right and protect them from their left and from in front of them and behind them. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala pour patience upon them. رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْهِمْ صَبْرًا وَثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَهُمْ وَانْصُرْهُمْ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ اللهم آمين وقولوا قولي هذا واستغفروا عليكم ورسالة المسلمين فاستغفروا إنه غفور
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على رسوله الكريم وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا إِنَّكَ أَنتَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ وَتُوبَ عَلَيْنَا إِنَّكَ أَنتَ تَوَّابٌ رُّحِيمٌ اللهم تقبل منا إنك أنت السميع العليم وتوب علينا يا مولانا إنك أنت التواب الرحيم اللهم اغفر المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأموات إنك سميع قريب مجيب دعوات اللهم اغفر لنا وارحمنا واعفو عنا ولا تعذبنا ربنا ظلمنا أنفسنا وإن لم تغفر لنا وترحمنا لنكوننا من الخاسرين اللهم إنك عفو كريم تحب العفو فاعفو عنا اللهم اغفر لوالدين رب رحمهما كما ربونا استغارا ربنا هب لنا من أزواجنا وذرياتنا قرة أعين واجعلنا للمتقين إماما اللهم انصر إخوانا المستضعفين في مشارك الأرض ومغاربها اللهم كني إخواننا في فلسطين اللهم كن لهم عونا ونصيرا اللهم عليك بعدوك وعدوهم يا عزيز جبار اللهم أهلك الظالمين بالظالمين واخرجنا أخواننا من بينهم سالمين عباد الله أن الله يأمر بالعالي والإحسان وإيطاذ القربة وينهى عن الفحشاء اللهم كني إخواننا في فلسطين اللهم عليك بعدوك عدوهم يا عزيز جبار يعظكم لعلكم تذكرون فاذكروا الله يذكركم وأشكروه عن النعماء يزد لكم ولذكروا الله أكبر والله يعلم ما تصنعون وأقيم الصلاة
وحيا على الفلاح قد قامت الصلاة قد قامت الصلاة الله أكبر الله أكبر لا إله إلا الله الله أكبر الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين إهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين
سبح اسم ربك الأعلى الذي خلق فسوى والذي قدر فهدى والذي أخرج المرعى فاجعله غثاء أحوى سنقرئك فلا تنسى إلا ما شاء الله إنه يعلم الجهر وما يخفى ونيسرك لليسرى فذكر إن نفعت الذكرا سيذكر من يخشى ويتجنبها الأشقى الذي يصنى النار الكبرى ثم لا يموت فيها ولا يحيا قد أفلح من تزكى وذكر اسم ربه فصلى بل تؤثرون الحياة الدنيا والآخرة خير وأبقى إن هذا لفي الصحف الأولى صحف إبراهيم وموسى سمع الله نيماً حميداً الله أكبر
الله أكبر الحمد لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك يوم الدين إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين اهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِدِ كَيْفَ خُنِقَتْ وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرْ لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُسَيْطِرٍ إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّى وَكَفَرْ فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرْ إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ Allah
سَمِعَ اللَّهُ لِمَنْ حَمِيدَهُ Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah
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