Friday Sermon by dr Rashad Khalifa Universal Unity Through Devotion to GOD Alone GOD is Close to
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0:13 Each soul joined in a community of worship.
0:18 One God.
0:20 LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH (There in no god but One God)
0:33 All equal before God, all united in this place of prayer.
0:39 Each individual soul joined in community of worship.
0:44 One God.
0:46 LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH (There in no god but One God)
0:57 ALLAH-O AKBAR (God is great)
1:04 WA ASHHADU AN LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH, WAHDAHU LA SHAREEKA LAH.
1:07 Praise be to God and I bear witness that there's only One God. Allah.
1:17 Looks like the rain is delaying a number of people,
1:19 so, I'm gonna start with the less important subjects
1:22 and keep the important subjects to the second KUTHBA.
1:27 In this KUTHBA, I wanna talk about the subject for the Muslim Perspective that we will be preparing
1:32 IN SHAA ALLAH, in the next few days. One important subject is...
1:41 I don't know if it's a new idea,
1:43 but it's an idea called Universal Unity.
1:46 And I'm abbreviating it
1:48 U & U, Universal Unity through devotion to God alone.
1:55 The idea is that the Protestants are fighting the Catholics in Ireland.
2:01 The Jews are fighting the Muslims in the Middle East.
2:05 The Hindus are fighting the Sikhs in India.
2:08 The Sunnis and Shias are fighting each other in Iran and Iraq.
2:15 And there is one thing in common among all those people.
2:21 The Protestants, the Catholics, the Hindus, the Sikhs, the Muslims, the Sunnis, the Shias,
2:27 this one common bond is belief in God.
2:31 They all believe in God.
2:34 So, it dawned on me that if we rise above the human
2:37 factors.
2:38 If the human race rises above the human factors
2:44 such as Jesus, Mary, Muhammad, the saints and so on,
2:49 they will be united.
2:50 There'd be no reason to be different.
2:54 The reason the Sunnis are fighting the Shias is because they reverence different imams,
3:00 human factors.
3:03 The reason the Protestants are fighting the Catholics is
3:06 Martin Luther, a human factor.
3:09 The reason, the Mormons are Mormons is Joseph Smith and so on.
3:16 So, it is these human factors, Muhammad, Jesus, Mary, Joseph Smith
3:21 and so on that cause the differences.
3:25 If we focus on the one common linkage that is belief in God,
3:32 we will have One objective to love,
3:35 One objective to worship,
3:39 One and the same.
3:41 So, this is why I called it Universal Unity.
3:44 I finished a video program a couple of days ago.
3:49 I mean, the shooting of it
3:51 and be editing it in the next two weeks.
3:53 And IN SHAA ALLAH would be showing it in Washington DC and New York, Boston, Cincinnati,
4:00 San Francisco, Los Angeles, the major centers,
4:04 and Chicago.
4:06 We got Chicago also.
4:09 So, the program will emphasize these points of differences and the one point of unity.
4:18 And I will be asking them to get together with us in promoting Universal Unity.
4:26 A complete name is Universal Unity through Devotion to God Alone.
4:32 And by the way, we're going to change this sign out there.
4:39 While studying this subject,
4:42 I realized that you can submit to somebody while hating his guts.
4:47 So, submission is not really a good word.
4:50 Devotion is a positive word.
4:53 So, we're going to change the sign and make it, Happiness is Devotion to God Alone.
4:59 This is a product of this Universal Unity idea.
5:06 This is one subject,
5:08 and I'm gonna put this in the Muslim Perspective on the back page.
5:12 On the front page, I'm going to talk about Polygamy which is a very popular subject.
5:19 I had a called from New York, Shaheed Ahmad, most of you knew her.
5:22 And they're having a big problem with New York Muslims abusing the law,
5:28 God's law polygamy.
5:32 So, I want to start off by saying that we have laws,
5:36 Divine laws in the Quran.
5:37 Polygamy is one of them.
5:38 It is God's law.
5:39 It is allowed.
5:41 But I want to say that when we abuse God's law,
5:46 any of God's laws, the retribution is really not worth it.
5:50 The retribution is severe.
5:55 We can't cheat ourselves and justify things for ourselves.
6:00 But when we look at the subject of polygamy, our example
6:05 is the Prophet Muhammad.
6:09 Sometimes they accuse us that we do not follow the example of the prophet and this is a
6:12 lie.
6:13 But our example here, a perfect example, is Prophet Muhammad.
6:17 He had one wife until she died for 25 years.
6:22 He had one wife.
6:24 All his youth, from the age of 25 to 50,
6:30 he had only one wife.
6:31 He had all his children from her, except one.
6:35 And after Khadija died, he married widows of his friends who had children to give them
6:45 his name.
6:46 He had a couple of political marriages that were actually forced on him.
6:50 Abu Bakar told him "you have to marry my daughter.
6:52 You must marry my daughter."
6:54 So, he married Aisha.
6:56 And they lie, they say that he married Aisha when she was 9.
6:59 Well, even now when a girl is born in a family, they name her, her husband-to-be,
7:07 when she's still 9 hours old.
7:10 She's gonna marry, you know, some cousin.
7:14 So, this is happening now.
7:15 And this is what happened with Aisha.
7:18 But he did not marry her until she was a mature
7:20 woman.
7:21 That was a political marriage.
7:22 Another political marriage was his friend, Omar, who told him
7:26 "you've got to marry my daughter, Hafsa, also." So,
7:28 But his marriages, after Khadija died, were all to
7:33 alleviate sorrow.
7:35 So, here's an important criterion for polygamy is that you alleviate sorrow.
7:40 You do not create sorrow.
7:41 I'm gonna put this in the Perspective.
7:44 So, somebody who wants to use this law has to be very careful not to abuse it.
7:52 And he has to use this criterion.
7:55 "Am I creating sorrow or alleviating sorrow?"
8:00 "Will there be creation of pain or removal of pain?"
8:03 This is one thing.
8:05 "Am I driven by lust,
8:08 or am I driven by charitable feelings?"
8:13 We have... we are very special people. We are people who
8:16 decided to worship God alone and follow His laws.
8:20 And we have to be the harshest on ourselves.
8:24 So, I'm going to write this on the front page of the Muslim Perspective.
8:30 I think these are all the criteria, I could think of.
8:33 But I think, we don't need to say anymore, once we think of the example of
8:38 the Prophet,
8:39 especially that he was living in a society, where polygamy was a way of life.
8:46 Every man had 20, 30 wives.
8:48 200 wives depending on how rich he was.
8:50 There was a way of life in the society.
8:53 In this society, it is not a way of life.
8:56 It is even illegal according to the laws of this country.
9:01 But it is the law is being abused everywhere.
9:04 I hear examples from everywhere in the country by Muslims.
9:10 And they are paying dearly because abusing God's law.
9:16 When you become a Muslim, you know better.
9:18 When you know better, the responsibility is multiplied manifold
9:23 and the retribution is really severe,
9:25 it's not worth it.
9:28 TUBU ILLA ALLAH. Repent.
9:45 ALHAMDULILLAH, WA ASHHADU AN LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH, WAHDAHU LA SHAREEKA LAH.
9:54 The important subject, I want to talk about in this KUTHBA is, I was reading the Bible,
10:02 preparing this book about Jesus.
10:05 And in one place, Jesus tell the people "your problem is that you do not know God."
10:12 And this happens to be the problem right now.
10:19 People do not know God.
10:21 So, I'm going to review with you some scientific facts that you already know.
10:27 Because if we know God, we will understand why every page of the Quran says "God alone,
10:34 worship God alone."
10:36 And will understand the blasphemy of putting human
10:41 creatures anywhere near God.
10:48 We live in something called the solar system.
10:52 And our sun is 93,000,000 miles away.
10:57 93,000,000 miles away.
11:00 This is 93,000 times as much as from here to New York.
11:08 93,000 times, going to New York and coming back.
11:12 93,000 times.
11:14 That is how far the Sun is from us.
11:16 The light of the sun takes 4 minutes to reach us. That's the speed of light.
11:21 93,000,000 miles in 4 minutes.
11:25 The solar system has 12 planets, maybe more,
11:29 but they haven't discovered yet.
11:33 And this, the solar, the sun and the 12 planets surrounded, occupy a distance that goes to
11:39 4,000,000,000 miles.
11:41 Okay 4,000 million of miles.
11:43 This is our solar system.
11:45 Our sun is a star and, in our universe, there are a billion trillion stars.
11:53 This is stated clearly in the Quran
11:55 when God says, in SURA 40, that the creation of the heavens is a lot more difficult than
12:02 the creation of the human being,
12:04 if you can imagine that.
12:06 But see, we have a billion trillion heavenly bodies.
12:09 No, excuse me.
12:10 Only stars, because there are uncountable decillions of other heavenly bodies associated
12:17 with those stars.
12:20 A billion trillion stars in 1,000,000,000 galaxies.
12:25 All these are scientific facts.
12:27 1,000,000,000 galaxies.
12:29 Our galaxy is called the milky way galaxy.
12:32 And our next-door galaxy is 2,000,000 light years
12:37 away.
12:38 That's next door.
12:40 If you live 2,000,000 years and travel at the speed of light,
12:43 doing nothing else, just traveling at the speed of light,
12:47 you will go next door galaxy in 2,000,000 years.
12:53 There are a billion of those,
12:54 Billion galaxies.
12:57 And we learn from Quran that this...
13:02 Now, by the way, it'll take you something like a hundred billion years to
13:07 just count them,
13:09 not create them,
13:11 just to count the stars.
13:15 They do it scientifically by taking a picture at random of the sky
13:18 and counting
13:19 what's in the picture and then multiplying by the, they calculate the circumference of the
13:24 of the earth and the visible stars.
13:27 This is how they...
13:28 But if you count them, 1, 2,
13:29 and take one second per star to count,
13:32 it will take you a hundred billion years
13:36 day and night without stopping
13:38 just to count them.
13:39 Now, all this we're told in Quran is in the smallest and the innermost of 7 universes.
13:50 So, all this vastness is in the smallest universe.
13:53 Imagine 7 balls inside each other.
13:56 The 2nd universe is bigger.
13:58 The 3rd is bigger than the two.
14:02 The 3rd universe, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th.
14:08 Can you imagine the circumference of the 7th universe?
14:13 How long is it, the circumference?
14:15 There is no number that can describe that.
14:18 We do not have... you know, at the time of the Quran revelation, they didn't count beyond 1,000.
14:25 And now, with our computers we do not have a number that will...
14:31 even if you estimate the differences between the 7 universes and be very conservative,
14:38 you still will not have a number that will describe the circumference of the 7th universe
14:45 in light years or millions of light years.
14:48 Infinity would be the closest and most honest description
14:52 of the circumference of the 7th universe.
14:57 If you go to the edge of our solar system, the earth will be almost invisible.
15:06 You have to use very, very powerful telescopes
15:09 in our solar system.
15:11 If you go to the edge of our galaxy, the earth is absolutely invisible.
15:20 And on this earth walked a man called Jesus or Muhammad.
15:25 So, the people do not know God.
15:27 They are unaware of who God is.
15:31 Because this infinity, the circumference of the 7th universe, were told SURA 39, is held
15:37 within God's right hand.
15:40 This allegorical description, being withheld within God's right hand, is to tell us how big God is,
15:48 how great God is, and who God is.
15:54 Because it is not held within his hands. There's a difference between holding something like this or
15:59 like this inside.
16:01 How much space do you have inside your hand?
16:07 God is great.
16:09 And because of this greatness, God is capable of treating you as if you're the only creature
16:15 in the universe.
16:17 God has that capability and He does.
16:21 He's closer to you personally than your jugular vein.
16:25 God is great.
16:26 We cannot understand or encompass the greatness of God.
16:35 God is capable of treating every ant as if it is the only
16:40 creature in the universe.
16:45 Can you imagine the circulatory system of the ant, the heart of the ant?
16:51 It does have a heart and it beats.
16:55 It's not like our heart but it does have a
16:57 heart.
16:58 It has a circulatory system
17:00 and God controls that as if it is the only creature in the universe.
17:09 So, when God says, in SURAH 53
17:13 "God is the One who makes you happy or miserable.
17:15 God is the One who makes you rich or poor."
17:18 And when we raise the new understanding, which is absolutely essential for you to go to Heaven,
17:26 namely, God is doing everything.
17:30 We need to know who God is to understand and appreciate that statement.
17:34 God is doing everything.
17:38 The only thing we do is choose to be with God or with Satan.
17:42 This is it.
17:44 After that God takes over.
17:46 And God makes you rich or poor, happier or miserable.
17:50 God is doing everything.
17:53 However, misery comes from Satan.
17:56 But in accordance with God's will.
17:59 So, the Ultimate Doer is God.
18:02 And we bring the misery on themselves... on ourselves.
18:07 We choose to put our finger in the fire or not.
18:10 So, when it hurts, it's because we chose to put our finger in the fire.
18:14 And it is God's law that when you put your finger in the fire, it hurts.
18:18 So, we bring the pain on ourselves.
18:22 So, if you have any problem of any kind, you just have to ask yourself
18:29 "why do I have this problem?"
18:31 And you have to dig and find out why and remove the
18:34 reasons.
18:35 You have to be honest with yourself.
18:41 AQEM AL-SALAT.
18:43 ALLAH-O AKBAR, ALLAH-O AKBAR, LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH.
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19:05 (1:1) بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
19:07 (1:2) ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ
19:10 (1:3) ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
19:11 (1:4) مَـٰلِكِ يَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ
19:14 (1:5) إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ
19:16 (1:6) ٱهْدِنَا ٱلصِّرَٰطَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ
19:19 (1:7) صِرَٰطَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا ٱلضَّآلِّينَ
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