By Aboo Khadeejah 'Abdul-Waahid

Review:

A profound khutbah from the seminar in Philadelphia, USA (Dec/02). Our noble brother, Aboo Khadeejah, speaks in regard to destruction, oppression, distress and disunity of the ummah. Explaining its causes and providing light upon its remedies.

In explanation of this oft discussed yet seldom understood topic, Aboo Khadeejah states,

Imaam Maalik (rahimahullaah) said, ‘The later part of this ummah will not be rectified except by that which rectified its earliest part’.

So that which rectifies in the time of the sahaabah is the same thing that will rectify today! It is not anything different; it is not by entering into democracy, and entering into the houses of parliament, and entering into the senate houses and entering into elections. This is not from the forms of revival; it is not another form of revival, as some of the so-called people who claim salafiyyah for themselves, as they say, ‘the way to rectify the ummah is to set up jam’iyyaat (societies) and jamaa’aat (groups)’. Each jam’iyyah and jama’aah has its own ameer (leader), so they elect an ameer, then they give the bay’ah (pledge of allegiance) to the ameer. They say ‘this ameer, he knows the affair of the ummah, so we will refer back to him for all our..’, so instead of going back to the ruler, instead of using the state or Islaamic nation. Instead they say, ‘we have a group, we have a jam’iyyah or we have a jama’aah, our jama’aah has a leader’, this ameer is like a mini ameerul-mu’mineen. All of these methodologies oppose the sunnah of the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) because all of them are newly invented ideologies, because this part of the ummah that we are living in today will not be rectified except by that which rectified the earliest part.

The Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, ‘When you start taking part in illegal transactions that involve a type of interest, and you hold onto the tails of cattle and you become satisfied with cultivation and you abandon jihaad, then the humiliation of Allaah will descend upon you.’

The humiliation of whom? The Jews? The Free Masons? The United Nations? The Hindus? The Russians? Upon you will come the humiliation of Allaah! And Allaah will not remove the humiliation until you return back to your religion. Allaah’s Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) didn’t say, ‘up until you return back to the jihad on the battlefields?’ Allaah’s Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) didn’t say, ‘up until you return back to the worship of the idols or the graves’. He (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) did not say, ‘up until you go and start blowing up buildings and taking part in terrorism and uniting with the kuffar and accepting the Jews and Christians as your brothers.’ He (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) did not day this! He (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said ‘when you abandon jihaad, when you hold on to the tails of cattle, when you become satisfied with cultivation. Then the humiliation of Allaah will descend. This is Allaah’s humiliation we are suffering today.

Do you think the Jews have any power over the will of Allaah? Do you think the Americans have any power over the will of Allaah? Do you believe they are the ones who control the earth? For if you were to listen to the takfeerees and these tahreerees and these political activists, you would think by the way they speak, you would think that Allaah no longer controls the earth and that the Americans and the Jews control the earth. So they make you leave the tawaakil (reliance) of Allaah and they make you believe that all the plots and plans and the control of the earth is in the hands of the kuffar,  as if Allaah doesn’t control it anymore! This humiliation that you are suffering and we are suffering as an ummah, our women being raped, our brothers being killed, all of this is from the humiliation of Allaah and Allaah will not remove this humiliation upon until we return back to the religion.