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My brothers and sisters, ideology can be combated only with ideology. Since we have a lot of my brothers and sisters from Egypt, Egypt for centuries was an idol worshiping society, just like India and unlike the Quraysh in Arabia. Unlike because in India and Egypt, idol worship was developed to a point where there was an elaborate mythology. There were gods and goddesses, there were priests for each class, and there was an entire hierarchy of priests. There were stories, there were books, there were teaching schools. With the atoms, that was not the case. They used to worship idols, but for them the very famous story of Sayyidna Yawar Malik Khattar Wodeelanui, he said, I didn’t have an idol, so I took some dates, I made the idol, I worshipped it, I got hungry, I ate the idol. No, Hindu does that. No Egyptian did that. So, there was a big difference. Now, what happened to Egyptian idol worship and the Egyptian religious? Where is it? Today, it’s a tourism thing, right? You go and see the temples. I remember I went, and as I went in a boat, as we got off the boat, there was this guy there, he’s telling me, Shaif, this is the god of fire, and this is the god of, I said, what? Then he suddenly looked at me, said, no, no, it’s not philosophy. No, no, I didn’t mean that. So, but he got used to that. That’s what he got used to telling the tourist guy, to telling tourists. So, he’s telling me, the god of this, god of this, god of this. I said, excuse me, you are a Muslim, don’t talk like this. I mean, just say it what it is. Point I’m making here is ideology is defeated only by ideology. It was not the army of Amar-e-Malik, the last Wodeelanui, which conquered Egypt, it was the ideology of Islam which conquered Egypt. To the extent where the Egyptians today, they speak Arabic, it’s not their language. The language of Egypt is not Arabic, but today they speak Arabic, and today they worship Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, Alhamdulillah. Some of the best, Allah has given different things to different people of this religion. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala gave the voice to Egypt. The Korah are from Egypt, subhanAllah. The Muhaddithun are from my country, from India and Pakistan, that area. Great Muhaddithin, and so forth. So, ideology. The reason I’m saying this and I’m giving you this example is, today’s ideology, and this is a global ideology, America is the, is the markers of this, but it’s a global ideology. And that ideology is the ideology of commercialism. Do this as an experiment. Randomly ask any group of people to name for you three role models, three icons. I will guarantee you, they will name for you three businessmen. And also I will guarantee you, they will be three white men, right. Try this. In your college, may ask, ask students. Three, I did this in our masjid, and we had the same, same, same story. I told, this is a masjid for God’s sake. Nobody says Abubakar and Omar and Osman and Hali, Radhe-i-al-anum, Ajmaeen. Nobody, Jeb Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or Warren Buffett. Why? Think about this. Forget about the Islamic great people and, and so forth. Leave that. How come they don’t name three scientists? How come they don’t name three musicians, right? I’m not talking about music, ha-la-ha. I’m saying in this country and in this world, music is, how come they don’t name three musicians? How come they don’t make, they don’t name three film, filmmakers? Steven Spielberg, they know, they see the films, they’ll never, they’ll never mention his name as an icon. How come they don’t mention anybody except three business people? Because this is the ideology. This is the ideology. Take yourself back in the time of the Sahaba, Ridwanullah-i-Alaihi-majmaeen. Ask people to name three icons. Who would they have named? Even though Abdurahman-i-Minaf, Radhe-i-al-anum was one of the biggest, wealthiest businessmen in history, even though Osman-i-Minafman, Radhe-i-al-anum was one of the biggest and, and, and most wealthy businessmen, even if they named them, which itself I would have doubt, they would have, there are other people they would have named, but even if they named them, it would not be because they were businessmen, they had money. They would be for their piety, for their commitment to Islam, for their, for their, you know, issue as, as people in Islam, not because of business, not because of money, because the ideology was different. Today’s ideology is commercialism. Now commercialism, you might say, well, so what’s so bad about the ideology? I’ll tell you what’s bad about the ideology. And that will also explain to you why people seem to be against Islam. They’re not against Islam. There’s another, another big thing, you know, people are, they’re not against Islam. They are against that part of Islamic ideology which Islam preaches. Nobody’s against Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala as one God. They don’t care. You worship one God, you worship this, this Mike, you worship 10,000 gods, it makes 21st of them. What does it matter? You don’t eat pork, no problem. You eat pork, no problem. You drink alcohol, no problem. Don’t drink alcohol, no problem. None of that is a problem for them. Their problem is that Islam and Islamic ideology hits at the core of commercialism. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala with commercialism is based on one single overriding principle. And that principle is that whatever I want is right. Whatever I want, no matter what it is, my lifestyle choice, my food choice, my work choice, right, who I want to be with, not be with, all of this, just it is right because I want it. No, there is no other reason. My nafs is my God. This is very good for commerce because this is the way commercialism influences you to buy more and more and more and more and more. And that starts with the destruction of the family because the number one thing that must be destroyed if somebody wants to follow his nafs is a sense of responsibility and accountability. Three problems. If you have a sense of responsibility, I have to take care of these kids, what will happen to them? You will not buy. You will not indulge yourself in all kinds of wasteful activities because you will say, no, no, no, my money is there, I have to save the money because the children are there. But somebody says, I don’t care, children, let them go somewhere. Not a problem. Let the state take care of them or something. I want to go have a holiday, I have a holiday. That’s good for commercialism. Islam hits at the root of that and the root of that is that we are accountable to Allah. Think about what the Quraish fought Rasoolullah s.a.w. about the most. I mentioned that in my Seerah lecture. The biggest fight of the Quraish was what? Accountability to Allah. The translation of this is Allah s.w.t is saying that they say that we will die and be disintegrated in the earth and then we will be resurrected again to be held accountable. Allah s.w.t says, They are denying the meeting of their Rabb. They are denying the meeting with their Rabb. Say that Malakul Mawth has been placed on you with this job of taking your soul and bringing you back to your Rabb. The core is accountability. About this feeling of my nafs, whatever I want is the best. Allah s.w.t, see the beauty of the Quran. Allah s.w.t made it very clear. Allah s.w.t said, Allah s.w.t said in Surah Al-Furqan, Have you not seen those who have taken their nafs, their hawa, their desires as their ila, as their God? They are worshipping. They are not ibadullah. They are ibadullah nafs. And Allah said, this is shirk. Allah says this is shirk. They are worshipping their nafs. And on top of that Allah s.w.t, are you going to intercede for them? Meaning what? Don’t intercede for them. Allah is denying the intercession and the shafaat of Rasulullah s.w.t for those who worship their nafs. That is the problem that people have with Islam. Nothing to do with the ideology. Nothing to do with the theology of Islam. It is to do with this one part of that theology which is accountability to Allah s.w.t. One day I will die, I will stand before Allah, I have to answer. And that is the reason why these schools are so important. That is why the maqtabs are so important. Because these kids, if you want your child to grow into a responsible Muslim, feeling accountable to Allah, it has to start at age 2 and age 3 and age 4 and age 5. It won’t happen at age 20, believe me. It will not happen. You can talk till the cows come home to college, college students, and you call professors here. You call professors here. Nothing will happen. What is there is there. College. Maybe one, you know. I said, I forgot. How did it come? So that kind of person, one person you might be able to, majority of them makes no difference to you. You can talk till you die. What they said is said. Finished. You have to start. It is a war, believe me. Treat it like a war. It is an emergency situation. The house is already on fire. You are not preventing a fire. You are trying to put out a fire. Fire is set. Fire is already set. You can’t stop it. But you can prevent yourself from burning in it. And that comes from this primary education. Again, no high schools, no colleges. Primary education, which begins with Bhagati. The Adama of Allah, the Azmat of Allah, the Khushu and the Khashi’at of Allah must come in the heart. The Hub and the Muhabbat of Rasulullah must come in the heart. And this feeling of saying, I am accountable to Allah, this has to come in the heart. Modern education does not create maturity. This is another big problem that we have. I’ve been in the field of education for 40 years and other places. Modern education delays childhood. It does not bring out majority. It delays the child. The child remains much longer than he should be a child. We tell this story very easily. Muhammad bin Khasim was leading an army at age 17. Right? Okay. Ask how? How? You are 17 years old. You can’t let him out on the street for, you know, 24 hours without dying of anxiety. And this was a man leading an army. How? It’s not magic. There was something in the parenting. There was something in how Muhammad bin Khasim was raised. And he was not unique. That is the beauty. He was not unique. That generation was like that. He’s not only one. Tarag means, yeah, 21 years old. Here, 21 years old, without his mother, he cannot, he does not know how to cook his food. If his mother is not putting parathas on the table, he’s half dead. 21 years old, Tarag means, yeah, conquers pain. It’s not a question of leading the army because somebody appointed. Leading the army, especially those kinds of medieval armies, was pure personal leadership. The soldier had to feel the confidence in you to follow you. It didn’t matter whether you had a crown on your head or somebody appointed you. Makes no difference. You had to prove your personal leadership quality in the field. Then the soldiers respected you. Then the soldiers followed you. They didn’t follow you just like that. So, I want to keep this brief. I don’t want to take a long time here. We can talk about this. If you have the time, come and sit. I’m here in Nethaka. This is all good stuff to talk about. We’ll talk in detail. But the point I want to make is, please support this education. Support these makatips. Support this kind of primary education that is happening in the Masjid. Because if you lose your language, you lose your culture, you lose your history, and you lose your identity. It’s gone. And that is the actual war. The war today is on your identity as a Muslim. People want you to assimilate in the dominant culture. I’m not saying everything is bad. There’s some wonderful, wonderful, beautiful things about this culture. Alhamdulillah. By Allah, these are people who are honest. Their integrity is far superior to our integrity. May Allah have mercy on us. They are hardworking people. Why do we come to live in this country? Because the quality of life is far superior to the quality of life in our countries. Why? Because people take care of the country. People are prepared to pay to have a clean place. I came here maybe two weeks ago in the snow, and this whole place was, the sidewalks, everything was piled with snow and so on. Today I come, you can eat off the sidewalk. It’s so clean. Somebody is doing it. It’s not magic. So, a lot of beautiful things. But at the same time, please understand this. The core of it goes directly against Islam. Against accountability. And you have to deal with that in the… So, learn the language, learn the culture, learn the history, because those are our roots. It’s like a beautiful tree. Kill the roots, that tree will fall. It won’t fall instantly. The branches, you won’t just sort of, you know, turn instantly into yellow and all the leaves. No, no, no. It will stand there for some time. It will still look green. Until one day, there is a strong wind, gone. And then you are wondering, what happened? That’s a beautiful tree. Yeah. When there were termites, and they were eating the roots. And the roots were gone. Those roots are our, is our culture. It’s our language. It’s our history. Both personal history, meaning your own family and so on, and the history of Islam. Because for us, for Muslims, our history is the history of Islam. Our ancestors are the Sahaba of Rasulullah. Not by our Nasal, but because of our history, because we are Muslim. And also there is our personal history. You know, who was your father, who was your grandfather, what did they do, and so on and so forth. You lose the language, your children lose the language, they have lost connection with their grandparents. Number one, gone. For most of us. Even though any of our grandparents age, the people, they speak English, but they are not comfortable with it, and you know, they don’t. So, connection gone. Connection gone with grandparents means connection gone with your personal identity and history. Then you are floating in the air. You have no identity. Anyone can take you. Anyone can turn you into anything they want. So, very, very, very important. Please support these schools as a matter of priority, not spare time. Spend your time here. Put the money down where it is needed without any reservations. Because whether we like it or not, like what Savir was saying yesterday. We live here in this country. We will continue to live here in this country. People will continue to come and live here in this country or in the West. If you want to still retain your Islam, if you want to still retain your identity, then you better make sure that you have the ways to do that in this country. There is no sense in saying, please go back to your… No, there is no go back. You come here, you come back, this is your country. Your country is not Egypt or India or Sudan or something. Your country is America. You are American. Even if you are not American, your children are American. Their children are American, they don’t know Sudan. You take them to India, they will come back in one week. You take them to Egypt, they will come back in two days. So, forget that. Their country is this country. And if you still want them to be Muslim, to live and walk and talk like Muslims and to take forward this deen to their generations, you better take care of it now. It is not going to happen when they are in their teens. Take care of it now. Make sure you bring them here, come with them. Masha Allah, I am very very happy whenever I come here to see. So many parents with their children in the masjid. Masha Allah, some people are doing etheka, some people are sitting here and doing that. Sometimes Mr. Anas tells me, you will have no peace. I say, I love this noise. Let them make as much noise as they want. I don’t care. I can sleep on a railway station. It makes no difference to me. When I want to sleep, I sleep. My only thing I say is when salaah is going on, then don’t let them run wild because you need to teach them the adab of salaah. So, when salaah is going on, call them, let them stand next to you. Otherwise, what’s the point? You come to the masjid and you don’t learn the adab of the masjid. That’s not good. But after now salaah is over, let them run as far as I am concerned. Make as much noise as you want. No problem at all. But salaah times, make it a rule. Salaah times, no running around, no matter how small or large you are. You come and you stand with your mom, you stand with your dad. Learn the adab of the masjid. It’s very, very important. But when salaah is over, I am the one who has no problem. Play as much as you want. Absolutely no problem. So may Allah bless you, may Allah protect you, may Allah use you to be the people who protect his deen. May Allah make you the people who will pass on this deen as beautifully as we received it to our generations and from them to other generations thereafter. And may Allah bless the Prophet, his family and his companions. May Allah bless them all.
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