 الحمد لله ثم الحمد لله نحمده ونسائره ونسالفره ونعود بله من شرور نفسنا ومن سيات عمالنا ما يهده لا فلا مدلله وما يدل فلا حاديله ونشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شده ونشد أن سينا محمد العبده ورسوله وصفيه وخليله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليذهيه وعالدين كله وكفى بالله شهده ونشد أن آدم خليفة الله وأن نوح رجل الله وأن إبراهيب خليل الله وأن موسى كريب الله وأن عيسة بلمريم روح الله وكلماته سلوات الله وسلامه عليه مجمعين وما يدينهم من نديين والرسالين قال الله تعالى في كتابه رزيز قال دعوه بالله من الشيطان الرجيم يا أيها الناس اتك ربكم ربي خلقكم بنفسه واحدة وخلق منه زوجها وبات منكم رجال كثيرا ونساء واتك الله الذي تساءر به ورحام إن الله كلعلك رقيبة يا أيها النادين آمرت الله حقا تقاته ورتبوتنا إلا وأنتوا مسلمون يا أيها النادين آملوا اتك الله وقول قولا السديدة يسلش لكم عمالكم ويكفل لكم ضلوبكم والما يقضع إله ومصوله وفقف ثلاثة وفوظة العديد ونبدأ my respected elders my brothers and my sisters in faith and humanity praising and thanking Allah the creator of all that is الله سبحانه وتعالى the sustainer of all that is الله سبحانه وتعالى the one who has given everything and everyone their balance and their equilibrium and their guidance he is the one سبحانه وتعالى who we declare that there is nothing worth worship of him and that our leader our master our beloved guide and teacher محمد may God bless his beautiful soul his spirit grant him peace is his last and final prophet last and final messenger to all human beings the black of them and the white of them the brown of them and the yellow of them and the red of them and we declare that whoever Allah Ta'ala guides none can be restrained whoever Allah allows to go straight none can guide and we bear witness that Adam is the vice-gerent of God and that Noah was the one rescued by God that Moses is the one that God spoke directly to and that Abraham is the intimate beloved friend of God and that Jesus the son of the blessed Mary is the spirit the created spirit of God and a word from him الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran oh humanity indeed we created you from a single soul from the two of them and from it created its mate and from the two of them dispersed multitudes of men and women be reverent of Allah be reverent of God be conscious of God and the wounds that bore you indeed Allah sees all that you do oh you who have faith be conscious of God be reverent of God as he should be shown reverence oh you who have embodied faith be conscious of God and speak truthfully speak honestly and if you do this Allah will forgive your sins and rectify all your affairs الله سبحانه وتعالى سبحانه وتعالى أصبحت الله my dear respected elders brothers and sisters today I want to talk about going back to basics going back to the ko'a'id the principles of this beautiful this perfect this complete deal this way of life the principles of good and evil the foundations of good and evil Allah gives them to us in the Qur'an and I want us to just take a few minutes in this Jumu'a to remind ourselves and to reflect on the meanings this is the ayah that most of the khatibs most of the preachers in the khutbah with but today I want us to make the khutbah about the ayah that most khatibs in the khutbah with we have a checkered history as Muslims we have times in our history that were very glorious very moments of the manifestation of what's best in the human soul what's best in the human mind what's best in our character but then we also have moments in our history that are very tragic very sad sometimes we like to whitewash and skip over this history unfortunately we should not we should be honest we should be authentic we should not just be concerned with the authenticity of hadith we should be concerned with the authenticity of our history and the authenticity of ourselves we should be authentic human beings and one step towards becoming an authentic person is facing your past facing your history and we had a time in our history when unfortunately during the khutbah the government required that the family of the Prophet Muhammad be maland be insulted be cursed until the great leader the great sultan أمان بن عبد العزيز changed this practice he changed this practice because he knew that it was not a practice that was from the Qur'an or the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ which calls us to honor the family of the Prophet ﷺ see this is what happened when government in religion when government uses religion for its own needs and he decreed and he made this institutional change that at the end of the khutbah the Imam should say rather بادعود بالله من الشيطان ونرجين إن الله يعمل بالأدن والسان ويتائذ الغرباء وينه على الفاشاء والمنقل والبقل يعيدكم لعلكم تذكرون indeed الله يمكس الله يجد حقا وحكا وانقل ومنعن ومنعن مع الناس وإن يمكس وإن تبدأ لاترأس ونهي ونهي وانتبع وإن نجحك ونهي ويحصل وحصلت على مصر أمة ومصر الناس في خبسة هذه الآية من صورة نحل وحصلت على شرطة نحل الآن قبل هذه الآية والآية 89 الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول ونزل عليك الكتاب تبيانا لكل شيء ونسأل على أن تقوم بسرطة ونسأل على كل شيء ونسأل على أن هذه الآية تقوم بسرطة ونسأل على أن تقوم بسرطة ونسأل على أندي حف~! لن تكون wishes ونسأل على أن أعمل أن كل شيء س الأID�Next الله يقول ونزل عليك الكتاب تبيانا لكل شيء ونسأل على أن تقوم بسرطة او اي شيء. و في العالم الثالث يجب عليكم الجميع for a happy life. الجميع for success. الجميع for a family, for a neighborhood, for a city, for a country, even a civilization to be successful by anyone's standard, not just according to the measures of religious people, by anyone's standard. And Allah SWT also gives in the same the principles that lead to the destruction that lead to the atrophy and deterioration of families and neighborhoods and nations and civilizations. There are three principles that are the foundations of all good. And three principles that are the foundation of all evil. These are the first is justice. And this beautiful word is of course one of the names of Allah is one of Allah's beautiful names. These names that we call upon Allah SWT to connect the hearts to الله. That's why we are here to connect our hearts in this world with our Creator. So that when we are in the نشجد or when we are at our businesses or at our jobs or in our homes or when we're on the playgrounds, our hearts are constantly connected with Allah SWT so that we can be like the companions who it was said about them. Their feet were on the earth while their hearts were connected to the Hereafter. These are the kind of people we want to be. People that are practical and pragmatic. People that are rational but our hearts are connected to a place that is beyond the physical. That is beyond the rational even. The human being brings together these two different dimensions. And this is what qualifies us to be the خليفة of الله. Allah says to the angels I'm placing in the earth a خليفة because Allah did not say it's creating from the earth. He's placing in the earth because you human being your essence is not from this earth. Your essence is not from this earth. Your body is not your essence. Your body is from this earth. But that's not the essence of who you are. Your essence is the روح that Allah created that responded بلا indeed when Allah asked ألسطو بيربكون. That is who you are. That is who you were before your mother gave birth to you. Before you were African American. Before you were Pakistani or Arab or Malay or Syrian or British or French or Chinese. You were a spirit and the spirit has no ethnicity. The spirit has no color. The spirit has no gender. The spirit transcends gender. The spirit does not get old. The spirit does not get sad or angry. That's why the more we're connected to our spiritual self the more happy you become. The more content you become. The more patient you become. The more giving you become and the more forgiving you become. And these principles of Allah سبحانه وتعالى are mentioned in the 90 آية العدن العدانة والإحسان والإتاق مادرايشن جسدس spiritual beauty and liberal arts and generosity are meant to bring the body and the mind of a human being back in the mind and with the spirit. And with your body and your mind and your soul when the jesset and the nafs and the qalb and the akalb the intellect are in line with the spirit you have happiness, you have harmony, you have safety, you have security, you have growth, you have life, you have prosperity, you have elevation and you have transcendence. One day he said in حديث that's narrated by Imam Al-Wahidi who has a well-known book on the أسباب النظور the history of revelation. He gives us about 600 or more آيات and when the context in the life of the Prophet ﷺ and when these آيات were revealed. He says one day he was in Makkah and he was sitting in the courtyard of his blessed house he had not become Muslim yet he was walking back this was in Makkah the Muslims were very few even after 13 years in Makkah the numbers of the Muslims according to our historians didn't exceed 200 would you call that success 13 years just over 100 followers in the eyes of Allah that was success because those محاجرون those محاجرون who first made Hijrah to East Africa twice and then made Hijrah to Yathud that became Madinah النبي. Madinah النبي ﷺ they were the seeds they were the seeds that Allah ﷺ crafted in order to plant the tree of Islam in Madinah and it is that tree of Islam that we are all the fruit of today just between 100 and 200 seeds that was success it is not about quantity for quality that is what's most important so he smiled at the Prophet ﷺ he smiled again and the Messenger ﷺ responded and I touched his would you not sit down and they began to talk and while they were talking the Prophet ﷺ all of a sudden looked up at the heavens for a while. عثمان إبنى درون رودي الله وعيه زق مصنيات he sees this he looks up at the heavens ﷺ and then he looks down to the right and then he turns away from عثمان and he starts talking as if he's trying to understand something and then he looks back up at the heavens again and he fixes his gaze on the heavens and then he continues talking to عثمان عثمان is he was looking at what's going on he says محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم you did something today I've never seen you do before the Prophet ﷺ as if he was oblivious to عثمان even being there he says what did you see me do he said what did you see me do and then he described so you look up at the heavens and so you look down to the right and so you turn away and he said جبريد جبريد came to me while you were sitting there look at how the Prophet ﷺ was absorbed and receiving وحي was not a small thing it's a difficult thing it's something that takes you that took him ﷺ beyond this world you know what I mean he did not see جبريد عليه السلام on some occasions the companions saw جبريد عليه السلام as we know and then he said and what did the angel say to you and he recited the verse تذكرون and of course what they called said إذا هيم إذا هيم الاستقر الإيمان في قلبي he said at that instant when the Messenger ﷺ recited that he said إيمان settled in my heart إستقر الإيمان في قلبي إيمان took up residence إستقر it means to take up residence somewhere إيمان took up residence in my heart you see إيمان must come into our hearts إسلام is something that we must enter into you enter into surrender into submission into peace entirely not half part of you don't do this dean half baked for your own sake not for the benefit of Allah Allah does not need us to worship him entering to Islam completely for your own benefit for the benefit of your family of your community of your country ولا تتبعوا خطوما تشانتي and don't follow the footsteps of the devil and then he said و أحببت محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he said at that moment إستقر إيمان في قلبي و أحببت محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم at that moment إيمان took up residence إيمان مهدت إلى my heart إيمان is to move into your heart and that is a gift from Allah to Allah إسلام the practice of this dean is a preparation for إيمان entering into the heart taking up residence in our hearts and in that entrance of إيمان into the heart is the prelude for the محبب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم for the love of the messenger of God صلى الله عليه وسلم that is what made the صحابة صحابة it is what made the companions companions و أنا ساير و أنا ستفر و أنا عول دلائه و الشقورة الفوسية و المسيئة أنت عمالنا أشدونا إلا الله و أحضه لأشجعك و أشدونا سيدنا محمد عبد و أسر so in conclusion my beloved brothers and sisters my beloved elders إسلام revolves around these three principles success for any human being even if you're not muslim revolves around these three principles and it is our commitment to fairness and moderation we don't go towards the frauds and we don't go towards the threats we don't go through extremism in practice or extremism in laxity and the thing about extremist is that no extremist thinks they're extreme every extremist believes they're moderate but how do you know if someone's an extremist how do you know if you're an extremist extremist when we look at the laxity we look at the objectives of sacred law when the way you are practicing islam leads the people leaving islam you're an extremist and we have some communities that are like that we have some misogyny that are like that we have some islamic centers and islamic schools that are like that that people they're driving people away from this you are an extremist with the way you're practicing islam in dangerous life or in dangerous the well-being of others these are very very empirical you can measure this you're an extremist in the way you practice islam causes the wealth of others the proper does harm or damage to the property of others or to the mental stability of others or to the lineage and to the family stability of others or to the reputation of others because these مقاصد are a human right they're a human right so we and we seek to establish justice this is what we just talked about out there is that we establish justice beginning with our own selves that you start being just with your own body with your own mind and your own soul and then you bring justice into your family you can't be just the prophet he said that we should even show justice between our children if you kiss one kiss the others you can't demand justice from your president or your king or your manager or the ceo and then you're not just in your own house there has to be a correlation justice he said i am for truth no matter who says it i don't care who says it if it's true i accept i don't care if they're black or white i don't care if they're muslim or atheist i don't care what they call themselves what jama'a or what minhaj or what manha they follow if they're speaking the truth we have to accept and he said that i am for justice no matter who it is for or against i'm not impartial i'm not partial to people that look like me or that pray like me or we enact exact justice on the poor but we need the rich who can get the good boys and find the loopholes it's not justice we need to establish justice a lot commands to justice a lot commands the prophets to justice in fact our scholars say and will end here with these two points that a country a civilization that is just will have longevity even if it is not muslim it will be prosperous even if it is not muslim but a country that is corrupt a country that is full of graph and bribery and under the table deals things decisions being made in smoke filled rooms will be will be short lived this is a principle a cosmic divine principle and that's why you see the countries in the world that are the most just you see in our world today most countries have a mixture this is our lord knows best if there's any country that's completely just maybe there are a few we hope but you know that the countries that are the most fair that treat their citizens the most fairly the most just those in the countries where there's the most safety the most security and the most prospered and the countries that are the most corrupt is this where this is where you see the most insecurity this is where you see the most death and disease lastly lastly the scholars are commentators say that justice relates to giving rights giving rights to those to whom rights are due and there are two beings two types of beings to which we owe rights there's the creator and the creation so justice is not only about human rights which is what the which is the narrative the discourse that we hear but justice is also about the divine right and allah's right is that we believe in him without any partner and that we worship him without any partner and that we call on him and that we recognize that he is the everlasting eternal and that he سبحانه وتعالى has absolute control over this dunya and everything and everyone in it and so my dear beloved muslims do not despair we may have a new leader this year or that year the seasons may change the climate may change but there's only one الله سبحانه وتعالى and as long as your heart is connected to allah and as long as you are open to allah's guidance we will always know what right course of action to take what just course of action to take and what compassionate course of action to take in service to allah and in service to all human beings الله ما احسن عاكبة نفل قمول كلها وجنة من خز الجنة وعذاب آفرة إن الله وملائكته يصلول على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليمان الله وصلي على سينا محمد وعلى آر سينا محمد كما صليت على سينا إبراهيم وعلى آر سينا إبراهيم وبارك على سينا محمد وعلى أرسي على سينا محمد كما برقت على سينا إبراهيم وعلى أرسي على غير العالم إ기�لك الحمد للنجين الله احضر علي مصحد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم الله انا ووافقنا رقما، تطalı وتولطاه الله بالهواء عن حق ق實 Washnak أو一帶 و делا و لاسوما جاما الله يؤكد أنه على رأной التووفى يخب language يخبان هذه rights to allah إن الله يعمل بالعدي والإحسان ويتاذ القربة وينهى عن الفحشة وذنك والذنك يعيدكم لعلكم تذكرون ولا ذكروا الله أكبر والله يعلموا ما تصنعون أكيم السلام