Foreign Is Foreign Is Is Barely all the praise and most certainly all of the glorification and all of the magnification it is due to allah in allah alone and i publicly i inwardly and i outwardly attest my dear brothers my dear brothers today being like to allah we’re going to talk about something that definitely we
Need to remind you but first we want to look and see how the people here in the west how they look at this subject and then we’re going to come back and show up to allah with allah and his messengers allah said concerning it we’re talking about pi kappa alpha alpha pi
Alpha tau kappa epson sigma nu delta g nu these are fraternities that are in what is known as the ivy league schools in america if you want to reach a certain pedigree a certain level of ascendancy in society in the universities you have to join what is known as a fraternity
And for the women it’s called a sorority so for many of the muslims they don’t know about this yeah the topic for today being elijah is the last institution the fraternity of brotherhood what is a fraternity f athletic it is a group of people that share a common interest it is a state
Or a feeling of friendship and support my dear brothers and even now the muslims even though it’s from our religion now there’s a muslim group called alpha lambda a muslim fraternity yeah which should have been established and has been established since the time of muhammad without doubt the believers there are only brothers
Of one to another so make peace in harmony reconciliation between you and your brothers and have the consciousness of allah so that you may be of those that he shows mercy to yahuwah good friendships are hard to come by good friendships yeah they’re hard to come by loyalty offline it is rare these
Days because friends are supposed to be part of our family brothers but the question comes what is my brother he does not want islam with me the topic i’ve learned for those in arabic for the arabic brothers here it is based upon the book that i have here called nemato
The importance of brotherhood the mannerisms of brotherhood and the rights of brotherhood and as allah a person is with those that they love and the person went on to say you will not truly be believers you will truly not be believers until you love one another and we’re finding my dear brothers
I myself being a person who left christianity and i came into islam i’ve met many brothers over the years some i have a great relationship with but over the years i’ve lost contact with some brothers or some brothers they haven’t become brotherly towards me yet when and this is something that i take
Extremely serious brothers as before i became muslim i played semi-professional hockey and since the time i was six years old i was taught the concept of teamwork take one for the team be a part of the team as long as the team wins we win so if
You have to go and block the shot if you have to die for the ball if you have to take a penalty do whatever to make the team win but do not come together on sin and transgression my dear brothers the believing men and the believing women
They are the protectors and friends one to another so the condition here we find yahuwah is iman and over the years my dear brothers some brothers they’ve changed our relationships have changed our behaviors have changed and this has become strange that brothers they don’t give salam to one another these days
And as my brother is sitting here in a row i used to tell him about it here for years and he has witnessed it himself when you say to a muslim and the muslim has the nerve to say alhamdulillah we have seen this and it is upon the muslim to return the salam
Chapter 4 verse 86 for those who don’t know maybe you might want to not initiate the salam even though the best of us are those who initiate the salam but it is fought upon the individual yeah if your brother gives you the salaam it means peace and serenity that you’re
Making a dual for him my dear brothers i come from a pretty deep jahalia not as deep as my cousins but in the old days if you step on my foot if i have the new michael jordans on my foot and you stepped on my shoe before i
Became muslim i might punch you in the mouth but now in islam to have a brother these days yahuwah not give you the salami put some hat in our hearts we have to try to kill this and try to be brothers sincerely for allah subhanahu wa to allah
Well call allah these are the words of allah brothers these are not my words hold firmly hold firmly to the rope of allah some scholars say that means the deen some say it means the quran some say it means the quran and the sunnah there’s no difference of an opinion it’s
All the same thing islam all together and do not become separated and divided and remember the favor remember the favor the nutmeg of allah upon you when you were enemies in the past and he brought you hearts together and you become brothers by his faith now before i became muslim
There were some guys in the street that if i see them i’m walking down and what we call in my culture with a mug face walking the streets like this i see some people i don’t like i i give them what they call a screw face we call it in my culture
And then some of those people they embrace the slam it is not permissible for me to give them people any more screw face i have to have a wedge that is smiling and have to be salam or alaikum you’re muslim alhamdulillah but what about the muslim who is born with islamic man
And he has horrible character with the muslims bad idea bad behavior bad mannerisms this is something brothers all of us we need to work on and i’m going to shut down i’m going to make it my responsibility to go back today and to look in the mirror and see
If i need to make some changes which i know i do yeah sometimes i’m a little rough around the edges yeah when i grew up playing semi-professional hockey so i’m used to being checked and moved around yeah that’s how we ball out as they say so for us
We have to take the positive things in our religion and we need to try to be better muslims foreign brothers this is our last culture right here holding up a book in my head this is our last culture and the scholars of islam they wrote books on topics to help you practice islam
This book the hope i’m not finished yet only three pages i’m reading from this book and there’s been a reminder for myself before you brothers reading what the chef wrote in his book there are books written on topics but who even reads the book of allah that’s on the shelf
Let alone have the extra time to read about brotherhood which is something which is so important for us my dear brothers we cannot exist in this world without being brothers that we really love each other and we really care about each other and we’re really concerned about one another something brothers that touched
My heart my heart quivered tears shed in my eyes the other day as a brother that i know in toledo ohio i met him back in 1992 he passed away rahimahullah one brother that i know from amongst the new converts who became my big brother islam he accepted islam long before me
Who used to do dawah in the prisons of ohio who used to cross the country he used to go to all types of seminars going back from nineteen eighties when the brother passed away at the age of sixty and why do i tell this to the brothers because another good friend of ours
Who is his best friend who at that time was asked to come to the janaza and to make a little speech and that speech was filmed and it was sent to me and the brother was reminding the brothers about death and the end of good deeds and the
End of your life and what have you left and the brother when he was given a really nice talk you could tell that he was speaking from his heart yeah the brother actually moved back like this and he just stopped for a minute because it went in his head that his best friend
Has now been lowered into the ground he cannot stay salam to him he cannot drink a coffee with him he cannot visit with him he can do nothing no more with his best friend and the brother he started to cry while he was giving that lecture
It hit me deep in my heart because that’s a brother i’ve been friends with since 1993. i talked to that brother every couple weeks he’s one of my elders and to see him in pain watching a good friend of his go down in the ground it hurt him so much
But his children are there his grandchildren were there yet there’s some good that the brother left and yet while we should be moved when the muslim dies especially if he is known as what is known as a righteous man yahweh i’m gonna die i keep saying this on the member you’re Or the muslims are like a single body if the eye is affected then the whole body is afflicted affected if the head is affected or afflicted then the whole body is afflicted my dear brothers if any of our brothers or sisters from this masjid or any brothers we know
If there’s some pain if there’s some suffering we would not be true brothers if we did not feel some of their pain and i think yeah why this is our problem as an ummah is that unfortunately and as a new muslim i want to know brothers
Do we really care about the muslims from other parts of the world this is something that i need to identify with i’m encouraging the brothers that when you hear of some muslims suffering and not your home country but another country and look around you brothers this machine is one of the most
Beautiful matches where you see there’s so much diversity get to know one of the brothers that’s not from your combs not from your tribe and become his friend and maybe take him for a coffee or a sandwich and get to know your brothers and i can remember yeah one of the more
Famous meshes in the city of toronto there was a brother who used to come to a particular masjid and i’m not going to mention the background of the people but this particular brother rahima hola he used to come and used to pray right beside them every single day for a fajr
And then there was a janazah and the brothers were saying hey how come there was a big janazah who was this guy they said don’t you know brother ahmed passed away he said brother ahmed who’s that we’ve never heard of him before who are you talking about
Brother ahmed brothers that used to pray in the same front row as his brother did not know the name of the brother that was praying fudger with him can you imagine this because he’s not from their cold he doesn’t speak your language you don’t know his name and you pray behind him
For fudger this is a shame in the man the believers our brothers my dear brothers we want to just remind the brothers of a hadith that if you look at it yahweh the process he gave us gems of wisdom he gave us some stuff that if we were to implement it
And we were to practice it and we were to inculcate it and we were to adapt it to our modality we would have good brotherhood but unfortunately it seems as though the muslims are bored of reading the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam let alone if we spend any time reading
Any of the quran we become very lazy mashallah maybe some of us will read the quran every day that’s good but what about the swarm how are you going to learn about behavior except through living the life of the process which the scholars of islam have written down his whole life
My dear brothers have said on this member before that if we as muslims don’t protect our deen if we don’t care about our deen if we don’t preserve our deen you it will amaze you how big the library is in toronto and at university of toronto and mcgill university
The non-muslims have preserved our sources yahweh they even have mahdi tats they have manuscripts written from the scholars you can go and you can see it will amaze you the non-muslims come together they go to book fairs and they bring all the books of the scholars for anybody who wants to research and
It’s usually a non-muslim that’s researching not a muslim there is no idea yes man this is something that we should have i don’t want to just shout to allah any day with a reminder for myself and i’m trying to work on myself brothers i’m asking your brothers to make dua for
Me to become a better muslim to get closer to allah as i sometimes i fall off the path yeah sometimes i go astray but i want guidance from myself and you should want guidance for yourself and we should know that sometimes we slip as the devil is trying
Planning day and night for us to fall into his traps and he’s sworn enmity and war against the son of banu adam the process i want to say do not hate each other do not envy one another do not turn away from one another but rather so these things are basically haram
But rather be servants of allah this is the meaning of life be abdullah and brothers it is not lawful for another muslim to boycott his brother for more than three days brothers now there are some muslims who’ve robbed they’ve stolen they’ve cheated they’ve boycotted they’ve abused other muslims and now the
Question comes yeah why can you have hatred in your heart for your brother is that possible and as i was reading in this book i came across a hadith and one of the things about the scholars which is something that we don’t have the ability to look at things they look at things
Another they look at it from another point of view that the common muslim like me and you we wouldn’t understand and the sheikh he talked about the author that from the strongest handhold the chef he ran to say author is that you have love and loyalty and hatred or disavowment and enmity
Loving for allah and hating for allah so if i see the muslim rob and steal as a cat box i can’t love that action if i see a muslim beat up his wife i can’t love that action if i see a muslim beat up or even kill people as a muslim unfortunately when
They killed a cop the other day muslim took a car and killed a cop the other day we can’t love that we have to hate that for allah but it’s everything is in balance my dear brothers everything is in balance in our religion so i say to my dear brothers just know
That the information that we read today my dear brothers i only read about three pages of this book talking about brother only three pages in earth three pages that’s it let’s just work with the three pages that we have from this book and let’s try to become a better brother
I know what because of the code nobody’s hugging or kissing or i don’t want to be kissed because in my culture i don’t like being kissed by men but shaking your hands and your brother will get your sins away brothers and praying for our brothers and i
Hospitalized with y’all to make me a better brother to you and you a better brother to me and us better brothers to the rest of our brothers so we need to work on ourselves my dear brothers if we do that then allah would be pleased with us yahuwah because the believers they’re brothers
So make reconciliation between you and your brothers i am
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