Muslims being Racists! by Shaykh Zahir Mahmood

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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.