Muslims being Racists! by Shaykh Zahir Mahmood

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim... enjoy. :)

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The Prophet Rasulullah s.a.w. dealt with these issues of RACISM 1400 years ago, when Abu Dhar r.a. said to Bilal "You son of a BLACK WOMAN!" Bilal r.a. was insulted and he went to the Prophet s.a.w. and told him "Oh Messenger of Allah, this is what Abu Dhar has said to me!"
He told Bilal to call Abu Dharr.

Rasulullah s.a.w. told him "O' Abu Dharr, you are a man who still has the traits of IGNORANCE in him! The pre-Islamic traits!" Then the Prophet s.a.w. has said something really profound.
"O Abu Dharr, I, Muhammad.. I am equally the son of a Black woman as I am the son of the White woman!"
Because the Rasulullah s.a.w. was breast fed by a black woman. The Prophet dealt with the issues of racism during his time and you see how deeply they entrenched in us today.We don't need any interference from America or anybody else to destroy us, disunite us.

We do a good job ourselves.

You look at the Somalian issue before clans-chopping off-clans. Why? Because they gave preference to their clans over the 'La Illah Ha Illallah'.

You look at the issue in Sudan. There's an issue of race. You look at the issue of Pakistan. Karachi wants to break away, Balochistan wants to break away, parts if Sarhad wants to break away, and the Kashmiris are speaking more about breaking away from Pakistan than to actually liberating Maqbooza Kashmir.

Why? Because we brought ourselves into this. Because we brought ourselves into this jahiliyyah.

What will you end up with? I'll tell you what will you end up with.. You'll end up with Bahrain and Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ra's al Khaymah that you spit from one side and you reach to the other. They have NO Power and many of us call to the call of jahiliyyah.

The Prophet s.a.w. said to Abu Dharr "O Abu Dharr, you are a man who is calling to the call of Jahiliyyah" and in another narration Rasulullah s.a.w. said, "Listen to this. Whoever answers to the call of Jahiliyyah, he will be in the fire of Jahannam!" and the Sahabah said "Even if he Prays and Fasts???" Rasulullah replied the same "EVEN IF HE PRAYS AND FASTS!"

Because before Islam, RACISM was deeply entrenched in the Arabs. But after Islam, it was REMOVED.

You know, many of us are slaves to people's skin. We get over-awed by the color of one's skin. 

IS THAT HOW SHALLOW MUSLIMS HAVE BECOME?

You go look into the rich, the gulf countries, you have - two men of equal education. One is white and the other is a darker complexion.. And the white person will get double wages than the one with the darker complexion. WHY?!! Because they're in awe of a man's 'chamree'.. They are in awe of a man's skin color. That's the REALITY.

This is what the Prophet s.a.w. came to remove and by Allah, we break the ummah. How often do you hear about youngsters? Bengalis fight against Pakistanis, Pakistanis fighting against Somalians. Where did you get this from?! WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?

We generalise when we speak about Bengalis, we say
"Bengalis are all like this.."
"Somalians are all like this.."
"Pakistanis are all like this.."
Have you ever seen a Pakistani and a Bengali arguing???

The Bengalis defending everything about Bangladesh and the Pakistanis defending Pakistan. When the Bengali goes home, he's from Syhlet, he's cussing the people of Dhaka!

You have a Pakistani defending about Pakistan and when he goes home, the Kashmiri saying "All these Punjabis are like this.."
The Punjabis are saying "All these Pathans are like this.."

IT NEVER ENDS

And then when it gets closer to home, you divide more. Then you divide on other issues. "Yaar, all these Rajeh are like this.." "and all these Gujars are like this.."

WHAT ARE YOU DOING???

Wallahi, Allah will not ask you this, when you go to your grave - "Did you come from Pakistan? Bangladesh or Saudi Arabia?"
But HE will ask you - "Did you DIVIDE the ummah by your words???"

I say this with no exaggeration.. I fear [this talk is about Bilal r.a.] if Bilal was here today, I fear that there would be Muslims being RACIST TOWARDS HIM! Because it is so inherent to us. You have these huge masjids called Masjidil Bilal r.a. and Bilal himself came today, he couldn't even be a committee member. Because he didn't come from the RIGHT PLACE. He's not the RIGHT SKIN. And the Prophet s.a.w. said "He's not among us, who fights for NATIONALISM!"

This is so inherent within us and we divivde the ummah. In today's society, you know seriously, how often do you see? They can't fight somebody from.the some 'brothery', from the same clan. So the sister becomes a 40 year old and she's never married. What dhulm could be greater than that? You deprived her of her youth just because you couldn't find, if you found somebody 'naik', somebody 'pious', somebody of virtue. Rasulullah s.a.w. said you "You should marry." Just because you couldn't find somebody of the same clan, you deprived a person of having a life, having a partner. This is what the qawmiyya has done to the Muslims and this is something we need to break out of.

All these generalisations, why can't you look at people's good virtues? Every qawm(kaum) have pros and cons.. WHY CAN'T YOU LOOK AT THE POSITIVES? And when you see a person next time, judge him by his virtues..by his characters.. Not judge him by where he comes from and that's what believers should be like.
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P.S. This has nothing to do with the current issue going in Malaysia today. I just stumbled upon this video a few days ago and it made me realise that even tend to judge people by the color of their skin. Astagfirullah hal'azzim :'(

Allahumma Solli 'alaa Muhammad.

How Do We Change by Shaykh Zahir Mahmood

Assalama'alaikum,

Here's a talk that I have heard from Shaykh Zahir Mahmood. :)

Umar r.a. saw a man walking with a weak posture... Umar r.a. whipped him! He whipped the man and he said " May Allah destroy you for DO NOT DESTROY THIS DEEN." Muslims are meant to be motivating people.

You know, you're sitting at the shisha lounge..you know at the shisha lounge..
"Bro, I wanna revolutionize the world!"
"Bro we gotta take Palestine over"

It doesn't happen like that! Many of those people, Masha Allah, who are religious.. who pray 5 times salah. But that's as far as they go and somebody has told me and you that 'WE ARE RELIGIOUS'..Somebody has told me and you that because we come to the masjid..because we have a beard..because we have a hijab.. and Alhamdulillah, these are all part of the deen. But somebody has told us that you're practising. Let me tell you

HE'S LIED TO YOU. HE'S LIED TO YOU. So we have in our minds "I'm practising, Bro. I don't need to do anymore" The person has lied to you.

When Shifa Bint Abdullah saw a group of people and these people spoke very softly, they walked with weak posture. She said "Who are these?" She was told that these are the ZUHAAD, the are people of abstinence. These are people who stay away from the Dunya. She replied "I saw Umar Ibn Khattab. I saw Umar Ibn Khattab and when Umar spoke you could HEAR him. When he walked you couldn't KEEP UP with him and when he struck you, you would FEEL it."

She said " By Allah, there was no greater ZAHID than Umar Ibn Khattab."

Why? Because these people had sat with the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. They had seen a man on a mission.A man who was motivated for the sake of Allah S.W.T. The sahabah say that when the messenger of Allah s.a.w. would walk, we would find it impossible to keep up with him because he was a man on a mission. He was a man who was going somewhere. He had an intention and I ask you -

 WHAT'S YOUR MISSION?

WHAT'S YOUR MISSION IN LIFE? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE? WHAT'S YOUR FOCUS IN LIFE? DO YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A FOCUS? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE?

And I am speaking from an Islamic perspective.. and look there are people here who are from different levels and different standards. Every single person should have a focus. So what is your aspiration in life? If there are people here who are not praying then you need to start praying.

But you need to put a system in place, which will allow you to pray, you know you hear brothers, family members saying "OH, Uncle! I'm going to start praying soon." See him 6 months later "Uncle, I'm going to start praying soon." What have you done to start praying? What is stopping you from praying?

Is it the tv? get rid of it. is it the PSP? get rid of it. Is it you friends and your company? Then get rid of them.
(Audience in silence)
Send them a text message "there's some changes I am making in my life and if you don't hear from me again, then you're one of them."
(lols...that was a joke. everyone broke the silence with laughter)

But make a change, make a change if you're praying. How much recitation of the Quran do you do?
How much do you read the Quran? How much dhikr do you do?
How much about the deen of Allah s.a.w. do you learn?
Where do you want to be after a year?

People for business they have a 100 year business plan. You see brothers and sisters who have been practising for 10 to 15 years and they are exactly where they were.

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A story comes to mind, that a group of young men were sitting by the Kaaba. The young men were very pious young men; Mus'ab ibn Zubayr, Urwah ibn Zubayr (Both of them are the sons of Zubayr ibn Awwam r.a.), Abdullah ibn Umar and Abdul Malik ibn Marwan. All four of these were sitting by the Kaaba and they say this is a holy place, so Mus'ab ibn Zubayr says to the rest "DESIRE" "Desire Something."

They say "You start." So he says "I desire to marry the daughter of Hussain r.a., Sukayna and the daughter of Talha ibn Ubaydullah, Fatimah. And I also want to be the governor of Iraq." They say Ameen. 
And a time comes where he marries both of them and becomes the governor of Iraq.

Then they asked Urwah ibn Zubayr r.a. "What do you want to be?" He said "I want to be a muhaddith" and they say "ameen." And the time comes that he also becomes a muhaddith, his dua was accepted.

Then they asked Abdul Malik ibn Marwan "What do you want to be?" He says "I want to be the Khalif" and they all say "Ameen." And a time comes that he becomes the Khalif.


And then they asked Abdullah, son of Umar ibn Khattab, "What do you want to be? Tell us, what do you desire?" He says, "I desire Jannah" and Insha Allah, he attained what he desired for.

But these men didn't just desire, they worked for it. They made an effort for it.