First Khutbah – Main Points
يا قوم ادخلوا الأرض المقدسة التي كتب الله لكم ولا ترتدوا على أدباركم فتنقلبوا خسرين
قالوا يا موسى إن فيها قوما جابرين وإنا لن ندخلها حتى يخرجوا منها فإن يخرجوا منها فإنا داخلون
قال رجلان من الذين يخافون أنعم الله عليهما ادخلوا عليهم الباب فإذا دخلتموه فإنكم غالبون – وعلى الله فتوكلوا إن كنتم مومنين
“[Moses] said: ‘O’ my people! Enter the Holy City which God has ordained for you and do not turn your back on your tracks. If you do you will be made the losers’.
[His people] said: ‘O’ Moses! But there are powerful people in that city and we will never go in until they leave. If they leave then we will certainly go in’.
Two men amongst them who feared God said: ‘Enter upon them by way of the gate. If you do so you will be victorious’. And upon God you should rely if you are believers.” [Q: 5: 21-23]
What does it mean to rely upon God? Is tawakkul an individual endeavor or can it also have communal aspects as well? (continue reading here…)
إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعينه و نستغفروه و فيه نتوآل، و نعوذ به من شرور أنفسنا و سيئات
أعمالنا،
فمن يهده الله فلا مضل له، و من يضلله فلا هادي له،
و نشهد أن لا إله إلا الله، وحده لا شريك له، رب الأرباب و مسبب الأسباب، فاطر السموات
السبع، خالق آل شيئ،
و نشهد أن محمدا، النبي الأمي، عبده و رسوله، خطم الأنبياء و أشرف المرسلين، صلى الله
عليه و على آله و أزواجه و أصحابه و أنصاره و ذرياته و سلم. إن الله و ملائكته يصلون على
النبي، يا أيها الذين ءامنوا صلوا عليه و سلموا تسليما، و بعد
Verily all praise belongs to God ‐ thus we praise Him, seek His aid, repent our sins to Him and in Him do we place our trust. We seek protection in Him from the evil whisperings of our own souls as well as from
blameworthy actions and deeds.
For the one God has chosen to guide, there is no misguider for him. And as for one whom God has
misguided, there is no guidance. And we bear testimony that there is no god but God, Allah, One is He,
with no partner, Lord of lords, Causer of all causes, the Fashioner of the Seven Heavens, Creator of all
that is. We also bear witness that Muhammad, the Unlettered Prophet, is His slave and messenger, Seal
of the Prophets and most noble of the Messengers. May God send peace and blessings upon him, his
family, his wives, his companions, his helpers, and his progeny. Surely God and His Angels send blessings
upon the Prophet therefore O’ you who believe!, send prayers and blessings upon him abundantly.
Dear respected brothers and sisters in Islam, I greet you today with the greeting of Paradise,
“as‐Salaamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu”.
First Khutbah – Main Points
In today’s world, where the Sacred is hardly ever mentioned in the public space, people have lost any
connection or notion of knowledge either being sacred, or in the case of Muslims, leading to the Sacred,
as one of Allah’s Beautiful Ninety‐nine names is al‐Qudduws [The Holy]. This detachment from knowledge being
sacred has caused the modern world to suffer from a number of maladies, from schizophrenia to
megalomania. With the first, we see its symptoms everywhere: emotionally stunted; social isolation
[we have to resort to online “social networking” web sites to know one another]; disorganized speech,
in which much is connoted [ دلالة – “care”, “standard of living”, “welfare”] yet very little is denoted
[ إشارة] – welfare for who? What does a ‘standard of living’ look like? What type of care and for who?],
and disorganized behavior [one can even say in the absence of man’s recognition of tawhīd, he
becomes both more fractured socially, where all attempts to repair such fractures aim to make tawhīd
by his own hands]. In summary, this state can be described as the simultaneity of contradictory and/or
incompatible elements. (continue reading here…)
