 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين الحمد لله الذي يُجيبُ نِحِينَ أُنَا دِيه ويَسْتُرَ عليَّ كل عورةَ وَأَنَا عْصِيهَ وَيُعَظْظِمُ النِّعمَةَ عليَّ فَلَا أُجَازِيهِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنُسَبِّحُهُ وَنُقَدِّسُهُ على ألائه ونعمائه ونشهدُ الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له إلاها واحداً أحداً فرداً صمداً قيوماً نُغْمِنُ له بالربوبية ونُقرُ له بالعبودية من يهدِ الله فهو المُهتَدِ ومن يُضلِل فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًا مُرْشِدَةً ونشهدُ أنَّ سيدنا محمدًا عبدُه ورسولُه أرسله بالهُدى ودين الحق ليُضِيرَهُ على الدين كله اللهم صلِّ وسلِّم وبارك وترحم على محمدٍ وآلِ محمدٍ كأفضل ما صلَّيتَ وسلَّمتَ وباركتَ وترحمتَ على إبراهيمة وآلِ إبراهيمة في العالمين إنك حميدٌ مجيد وصلِّ اللهم وسلِّم على جميع الأنبياء والمرسلين والأوصياء والصدِّقين والشهداء والصالحين وعطرة نبيك الطيبين الطاهرين والصفوة المنتجبة من أصحابه الميامين ومن تبعهم بإحسانٍ وإيمانٍ إلى يوم الدين إباد الله أوصيكم وأوصي نفسي بتقوى الله ولزومي أمره أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل يا أيها الناس قد جاءكم الحق من ربكم فمن احتدى فإنما يحتدي لنفسه ومن ظل فإنما يضل عليها وما أنا عليكم بوكيل صدق الله العلي العظيم الكثير من المجموعة ومجموعة ومجموعة أعتقد أن الشريعة الإسلامية لدي أسلاميك five main objectives and goals one of these five goals of shari'a is the freedom of religion which has been embedded in the Holy Quran and also the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the imams and freedom of religion means it has two branches one is the freedom of belief and beside the freedom of belief it has a freedom of worship so you are free in choosing your own belief choosing your own ideological system or creed and second you have the freedom to practice that type of creed or faith or whatever you want to call it and we see in the Holy Quran there are strong indications to reaffirm this meaning to reaffirm the freedom of religion one of the verses in the Quran this is in surah tunus Allah says to the prophets tell the people and us all the people believers and non believers the truth has came from your Lord to you فمن احتدى فإنما يحتدي لنفسه the one who is guided he is being guided to his own benefit ومن ظل and the one who does not want to be guided فإنما يضل عليها again he is becoming misguided to the harm of his own self يضل عليها against himself وما أنا عليكم بوكيل I am not wakil upon you what is wakil here in this context وكيل it means I am not set upon you to dictate to you or to arrange your life for you Allah did not put me here as a controller so I can control your life or dictate to you what to do or what not to do I am a messenger of God I tell you what is good and what is bad and I leave the choice for you in another verse Allah says فذكر إنما أنت مذكر لست عليهم بمصيط your job is to remind them to stimulate their brain and encourage them to believe in God give them encouragement and inspiration but you are not a controller لست عليهم بمصيط in another verse Allah says فإن أعرضوا and this is in Surah Tashura chapter 42 if they reject you if they turn away from you فإن أعرضوا إعراض when you turn your face to the other direction when they reject you and turn away from you فما أرسلناك عليهم حفيظة we sent you not as caretaker or a guard or a keeper حفيظ your job is not a keeper or a gatekeeper or a guard upon them if they want this is their freedom this is their choice إلا البلاغ indeed your job is balagh to convey the message to convey the message you are not a controller Allah says faith is the matter of the heart and it should be left free for us it should be left without coercion without using force you cannot force your heart to love something or to dislike something else this is the matter of the heart the heart has to have conviction first and understanding once the heart loves something has the conviction that this is good for me he will do it he will follow it your job is to inspire to guide to teach to encourage this is your job but you are not a police you should not use force against people tell them what is good and what is bad today we see in societies in some Muslim societies where religion is being politically manipulated when religion is being dominated by the government and one religion is being enforced enforced upon people by force by penalties by punishment these societies people would not become truly religious because they don't have a freedom of choice in some countries that when you have to pray and you have no other choice then that prayers loses its value because that prayers is being enforced upon you this is not a matter of choice this is not your choice now it becomes something like a political duty you have to pray you have no choice the hijab is the same people are going to run away from hijab and we see that with our own eyes we don't have to read it in the books you see it you see it all over go to countries where hijab is not enforced by the government you see women they like the hijab and their hijab is much better than countries where hijab is being enforced see it go to the middle east and you will see that yourself Allah SWT says yes tell the people what is good and what is bad well take them from you in a muslim society in a muslim country we need أمر بالمعروف أنهي عن المنكر definitely we need that well take them from you أمة يدعونا إلى الخير ويأمرونا بالمعروف وينهونا عن المنكر let it be among you a group of people scholars leaders activists who call people to practice goodness and one of the goodness is the hijab one of the goodness is the prayers one of the goodness is the Islamic عفة chastity and dignity staying away from alcohol staying away from corruption but then invite them إنما أنت مذكر a reminder conveyer you convey the message لست عليهم بمصيطة you cannot force them الله سبحانه وتعالى says in Surah Al-Baqarah قد تبين الرشد من الغي فمن يكفر بالطغوط ويؤمن بالله فقد استمسك بالعروتل وثقا before that he says لا إكراه في الدين قد تبين الرشد من الغي do not use coercion إكراه means coercion you are forcing your son to pray you tell him you are left with no choice if you don't pray you starve to death I don't give you money I don't give you shelter no food what sort of prayers is this these prayers has no meaning the prayers and the worshipping and the Ibadah becomes meaningful when you have a choice when you have a choice and when you understand the value of the prayers we have to teach our children the value of the prayers that what happens if you don't pray you have to tell him you have to tell him what is the difference between someone who establishes the prayers and respect the prayers and the prayers for him or her is a priority and someone who is careless about the prayers we have to tell them the difference and we have to let them choose they have it's a matter of choice it's a matter of faith Allah says leave faith away from dominance give a freedom not only freedom to Muslims give a freedom to non-Muslims they want to worship the way they want وَلَوْ لَا دَفْعُ اللَّهِ النَّاسَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضَ I always say to our Christian friends I read this verse for them how God protects synagogue how God protects churches and temples places of worship they are protected under the Islamic law in an Islamic society in an Islamic community a place of worship that belongs to others is protected it has immunity it should be safeguarded protected against any aggression today a mosque in Houston Texas went in a flame was destroyed Masjid Quba in Texas in Houston few hours before that a Shia Masjid in Peshawar was attacked and 20 people were killed during Friday prayers so it happens in non-Muslims non-Muslim crazy people who attack the Muslim worshippers some Muslim crazy people in some Muslim countries some Muslim radicals and violent extremists in the name of Islam in the name of Quran they killed the worshippers on a Friday during Friday prayers 20 people were killed 40 were wounded today in Peshawar and last week the same again in Pakistan another attack on a Shia sometimes here the Muslims they care they call for the protection of the Muslim community in America but they don't call for the protection of the Muslims in Pakistan in Afghanistan this is double standard whether the attack happens on a mosque in America or outside America it's a crime whether an attack happens on a church in America or outside America it's a crime again Allah says a church has a protection in Islam the same way you protect your mosque if you see an attack happening on a church you have to defend the church you defend the synagogue you have a duty religious duty these are places of worship even if we do not agree with them even if we do not agree with their ideology with their religion but because they adopted this place as their church their synagogue it is protected in Islam people of book during the Muslim times there were many places of worship that belong to non-Muslims Christians and Jews in Medina in Iraq in Syria in other places in Yemen and they had freedom of religion they had freedom of religion at a time in Medina when the Prophet was the leader there were three communities there were Muslims there were Jews and there were Christians the same thing in other cities they lived side by side Allah guarantees for them the freedom of worship guarantees that for the non-Muslims and also for the Muslims He tells them you have the freedom of choice choose your religion do not be coerced do not be misled choose your religion we gave you life and brain and reason and the ability to distinguish between good and bad now we want you to make the choice look at your children here in America where there is no coercion you don't force them to pray you teach them look at how religious they become genuinely religious but go to other places people are not religious people pray because they have to pray in some countries if you don't pray you lose your job what's the value of these prayers the prayers that is made for dollars not for Allah is worthless does not bear fruits does not have any fruits and because of these such type of prayers we have wars today in Muslim countries people are fighting each other because they did not honor the value of their prayers their prayers became mechanical not spiritual does not touch their hearts it touches only their limbs not their hearts the forehead when it goes on on the ground this is a physical gesture not spiritual while the sujud it must be spiritual if we understand if we only understand the value of sujud the meaning of sujud the meaning of submission to Allah we submit our entire entity to Allah we go back to him we tell him you are the leader I put my head on the ground for no one except you for no one this is the highest spiritual and ethical meaning that we have in our prayers other religions they kneel down but we do something further for Allah Allah deserves more than kneeling down you do sujud for Allah complete surrenderance complete submission to him if only we know the meaning of that it will change our life the problem it is not changing the life of the Muslims and in some countries they are worse because they don't understand the meaning of their prayers because their parents they taught them and sometimes their mashayikh now in some of these radical communities they forced them to be religious they did not have the choice freedom of choice to choose their religion they were forced they were misled because they became meaningless for them rather than becoming meaningful after the prayers immediately they resort to bombing to shelling we have brother Ammar al-Khidr here he is not here he came last night from Syria yesterday he lost his first cousin in the shelling of those radicals and extremists of his town in Syria his young cousin died was killed in Syria yesterday because of the shelling of those indiscriminate shelling of those so called Muslims who want to establish the Islamic Khilafa the Islamic rule who want to implement the Quran and then they wreak havoc they kill women children infants they destroy the entire country in the name of Islam because they did not teach them the freedom of choice they were forced from their childhood don't think that extremism is the product of one night or two nights no no no it begins when they are children they had no choice they were very strict with them this is haram don't do this haram haram haram haram day and night this is haram this is haram but murdering innocent people is halal when it comes to murder it's wajib أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خسر إلا الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصب وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين نحمده ونسبحه ونقدسه على آلائه ونعمائه ونشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأن سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليغيره على الدين كله اللهم صلي وسلم وبارك وترحم على محمد وآل محمد كأفضل ما صليت وسلمت وبارك وترحمت على إبراهيم وآل إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد المجيد وصلى الله وسلم على خلفاء نبيك وأوصيائه وأهل بيته وأحبته علياً أمير المؤمنين وقائد الغر المحجلين وعلى البضعة الطاهرة فاطمة الزهراء سيدة نساء العالمين وعلى سبطي نبي الرحمة وسيد شباب أهل الجنة وعلى حسن والحسين عليهم السلام وعلى علي ابن الحسين ومحمد ابن علي وجعفر ابن محمد وموسى ابن جعفر وعلى ابن موسى ومحمد ابن علي وعلى ابن محمد وحسن ابن علي والخلف الهادي المهدي أجل الله تعالى فرجه وسهل مخرجه إباد الله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولا تقتلوا النفس التي حرم الله إلا بالحق ومن قتل مظلوما فقد جعلنا لوليه سلطانا فلا يسرف في القتل إنه كان منصورا صدق الله العلي العظيم المسلم في أماركا ومولويد كانت تشغيلين دلوقت من مجموعة ومجموعة من ثلاثة مجموعة مسلمة في نوركارلين نتكلم مع أمانهم مجموعة مجموعة أخوة أخوة في أرنج كونتي ياسر بركات وقالت من دلوقت عندما سأرد الأخبار وكنت أتكلم عنه وكانت في مجموعة هو أخوة جيدة من المجموعة سورية ثلاثة ضياء بركات وخبئة يسر أبو صالحة مجموعة يبين بشكل برامس يعملون ويعملون بالإرادة ويعملون في المفتوح ويعملون للرفجي ويعملون نحن كبابهم يسرون أبو صالحة ويعملون لكن للجميع المسلمين العالمية و كما قلتنا last night they are considered شهيد إن شاء الله and martyrs because they were the seekers of knowledge and Allah says the one who on his way to receive knowledge dies he will get the reward the thawab of the شهيد إن شاء الله and also we mourned a non-muslim lady from Arizona Kayla Miller who was also murdered in Syria by ISIS her family lost her also she dedicated her life she was very young she decided to travel to Syria though she was forewarned by her family and her friends not to go because of the dangerous situation there but she decided to go ahead so she can provide something for the refugees for those who have been affected by the war there and she ultimately lost her life we ask Allah to bestow his mercy on her and patience and forbearance on her family also we give condolences to the family of Al-Khidr especially to our brother Ammar and his brother Muhammad for losing their cousin yesterday again in a terrorist act in Syria when they were shelling their city Bousra Sham and their cousin died their cousin is Yunus Haider Al-Khidr also we mourned the tragic loss of the worshippers today in the mosque in Peshawar in Pakistan when they were participating in Salat al-Jumu'a Friday prayers and then Taliban claims the responsibility someone goes inside the masjid pretending to be one of the worshippers and then he detonate himself he kills himself and he kills almost 20 people and he wanted more than 40 of them 40 worshippers on a day of peace the day of a Friday the day of togetherness the day of unity the day where we a day of reflection where we need to get together and reflect on our life it becomes a day of mayhem and a tragedy and bloodshed unfortunately what we learn we learn a lot from these tragedies that is happening nowadays we learn a lot what is the solution how can we stop that those three young people who are studying to be leaders in their communities and servants who serve Islam and they serve America and serve the humanity how can we stop that it all goes down to something called ignorance whether those who are killed in America by a non-muslim terrorist or those who are killed in Pakistan and Syria and Afghanistan and Iraq and Yemen and Egypt and elsewhere you name it the victims who are killed on a daily basis on a daily basis again because of ignorance because of a culture called hate culture hate how can a person goes inside a masjid and he knows there are innocent worshippers among them children among them women among them elderly and then he kills now I understand when there is a battlefield people are in combat but when someone who is in the masjid or a hospital or a school or a marketplace how can something go there someone goes there and then he kills this is because of the culture of hate culture of prejudice culture of misunderstanding and ignorance when people do not use their hearts meaning their brains لهم قلوبا لا يعقلون بها we have given them brains they don't use their brains ولهم اعيون لا يبصرون بها neither they see with their eyes ولهم آذان لا يسمعون بها they chose not to hear with their ears this is the result the result is bigotry racism, ignorance intolerance hate we have to change this Allah says I want I sent you to this earth to recognize each other to respect each other not to use violence we have given you a powerful tool called the brain عقل why don't you use your عقل why do you have to use bullets and guns you have عقل you have logic you have reason try to dialogue and speak with each other and one of the solutions in America for our crisis and I am telling you you heard in the news today what happened to this mosque in Houston which is still in flames it could happen to our mosque don't be shocked or surprised if you hear a mosque here in Orange County is under attack don't be shocked but not now don't worry now don't run away don't worry how do we combat that how do we counter it I believe what is happening now the fighting among the Muslims especially what ISIS is doing in Syria and Iraq the kidnapping the killing and also movies like The American Sniper and articles and some policymakers lawmakers in his interview when he in flames Islamophobia he in flames anti Islamic sentiment or a filmmaker or a journalist this is the result we see the result in a burned mosque in an attack on young people who are sitting in their apartments in their apartments they hurt no one in their heart they have love for others and someone comes and breaks in and he kills them execution style we have to counter these a bad movie with a good movie I know when happens when things like this happen we say we pray we weep but this is not enough Allah says do something I am with you you have to do something Muslims are not doing enough to attack themselves here in America we do not have enough civic engagement we the Muslims be it Iraqi Lebanese Syrian Egyptian Pakistani Afghani whatever we are busy with our weddings we have weddings here we have celebration here we have birthday party here we don't know what's happening in America we don't have time even to listen to the news we don't have time to contact the editor and tell him what you wrote is wrong this is not Islam we don't have time to call the CNN and tell them listen you have to you have to report on this incident we don't have time for that all what we care about the income to take care about my children to have a house and to go about my own entertainment we are not part of the American society how can we protect Islam in America we are aliens truly we are aliens coming from another planet we have to be engaged sometimes I see some functions taking place by some Islamic organizations like M-PAC and others and when you go only two or three people of the community are there the rest are absent as if this is not their land as if this is not their future we have to be engaged this is the way to protect Islam through enlightenment through education through reaching out to churches and people here and telling them what you see by ISIS القاعدة بوكو حرام طالبان this is not the true Islam the true Islam is different the true Islam is based on compassion forgiveness love togetherness we have to present Islam to them we have a long journey I am telling you when this incident took place in Chapel Hill some parents they said we are not going to send our kids to schools is this a solution you don't send your son your daughter to the school for how long two weeks three weeks three months and then after that do you pack and go back to the Middle East this is your land this is not the solution the solution is to be engaged to bear the responsibility each one of us has a responsibility and we can do according to our استطاع ability some of you are good at public speaking some of you are good at writing some of you are good at making money الحمد لله I can see so those who make money they give to those who are activists let's help with our brain with our logic with our money with our time with our self to protect Islam الله brought us to this country for a reason for a reason الله wants you to defend Islam in America here he does not want us to carry a gun and go and fight in Syria he says this is your jihad your jihad is to enlighten people about Islam to tell them about the true Islam this is your jihad here and he want us to work insha'Allah we live up to this responsibility insha'Allah الله مغفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع اللهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات إنك مجيب الدعوات إنك غافر الخطيئات الله موحد كلمة المسلمين على الخير والبر والصلاح والتقوى يا أرحم الراحمين وعجل في فرج قائدنا وإمامنا صاحب العصري والزمان وإلى أرواح الشهداء للمسلمين منهم المسلمين اللذي أخبرتهم أولا والشهداء وإشاور الفاتحة مع الصلاة على محمد وعلي محمد