Khutba — Summary, Transcript & Q&A
Summary
A Jumu'ah khutba full of passion: eighteen minutes of praise for the Prophet ﷺ — “the sun never set on his name,” “every second of the day someone is living his sunnah” — and the proof is stories, not arguments: a teenage conqueror the Hindus made idols of, a writer who studied him and ended up convinced, a bedouin met with a shawl, a boy who chose him over his own father.
The tone is warm, punchy and personal — the speaker gets emotional about the Prophet, remembers the chair his father sat on in a wudu khana, and leaves the congregation with a dare: research whether any other man's every action is still being copied, then come to the Seerah conference on August 29th. It's less a sermon about God than a love letter to a man.
Opinion
Here's the thing: this khutba is doing the same thing Christians did with Jesus. It starts with a little admiration, and before you know it the man is bigger than life — glorified, larger than life, honestly borderline worship. You can see it in the khutba: "the sun never set on his name," counting the Prophet's 17 white hairs like they're holy relics, telling stories like they're history — the teenager the Hindus made idols of, the writer who studied him and ended up convinced. And here's the funny part: the khutba makes fun of Christians for not even looking like Jesus — but it's running the exact same machine itself, right in the same room. And under all that heat? No Quran, no talk about Allah. Eighteen minutes, and God barely shows up. In the end it's all love for one man — a love letter, not a sermon.
Full Transcript
women he took advantage of and a letter or one of the women all the way to the court of Hajjaj bin Yusuf and she said the 'idda after the death is twenty months the honor is being looted over there is there no one that's going to come in defense and Hajjaj had the nephew at that time who was in the court 17 year old boy Muhammad bin Qasim he says I will take an army and I will defend the honor of these women. So he takes an army of 6,000 people against the 30, 40,000 army of Raja Zahir. He crosses the desert, incredible difficult journey. He's not taking a flight from BFW airport. He's going he 17.
Yeah, yall are still tonight. My guys they're running on as they're running up to 6000 he arrives there when he gets in front of Raja Daiy's uh palace and fortress he sees that he's got elephants there and they're not used to seeing elephants like this but this muhammad bin qasim 17 or teenager he goes and he fights valiantly he conquers he defeats raja daiy a few years later he is killed by Hajajat himself. Different story. But you know what the interesting thing about him is he was so impressionable to the Hindus there. And in Islamic history the pictures of people is forbidden.
And you have pictures of individuals but there's like that's not really how they look like. So whenever you see Isa al-Salam he's got long hair, light skin on here, light skin, six pack. Maybe he looked like that or not, but probably a little more brownner. Salahuddin Ayubi, you see his picture, Salahuddin Rumi, you know real pictures. Historically the prince whose picture is most likely to be that man is Muhammad bin Qasim.
Why? It's interesting because the man was seventeen-year-old youngster and truly a youngster incredibly charismatic influential just honest righteous good man the hindus began calling him an avatar not the blue avatars avatars like their holy incarnation and they began making idols and statues of him and putting it inside their mandirs and their temples so they began either liking this man and literally started making idols and that's why his pictures ramped so when people see somebody that is remarkable they start making iconic pictures of them they name kids after them i had a friend he named his son after one of his friends because he was a great man but asurullah sar has something different there are people right now that are entering the masjid with their right foot because he did there are millions of people right now drinking water with their right hand because he did with their right hand because he did. There's millions of people sleeping on their right side because he did. There's millions of people taking eating with their hand because he did. There's millions of people standing and drinking zumzum because he did.
There's millions of people going to makkah because he did. He wasn't just a man a blip in history. He became so influential his existence became so magnifying and gravitational to us that people want to be like his man. that the people want to be like this man. No other man is like this.
Look at your own life. How many things do you do just because of Professor Anselm's identity? Now what do you think of your father and your mother? You know, I this is going to sound very cheesy, but I'll give an example. I was a I was nine year, I was uh 11 years old when I went to study in England.
I was a small kid. First time really far away from my parents. No family on England in England. So I would cry all the time and I missed my parents. And my father came one time to visit me.
When he came to visit, he came for just maybe a day or so. He had to do wudu, so there was a wudu khana and he sat on the fourth chair of the wudu khana. chair of the widow fund. And after he left, that was the only chair I sat in the widow fund. The one aspect of my father I could bring in, but besides that, do I dress like him?
Do I talk like him? Do I act like him? But no, I just remember few things. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi was that I found the contrast is a man who the entire planet, millions of people the planet millions of people adopt exactly what his lifestyle is like i was talking about england in fact in respect the british comptroller inshallah today i flown to nice comptroller you know this is first class the first row is first class the second row is business class third row is economy those are the is economy those is a free money economy fourth is main cabinet extra fifth honors economy so this is the most rewarding spots to sit us closest to the front row. I was talking about England.
They say the sun never set. The sun never set on the British Empire in the 1920s. I say that the sun never sets. The sun never set on the name of Muhammad Mustafa sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Waro min.
Right now is Jumaa here. And we say ashhadu an Muhammadar rasulullah. Ashhadu an Muhammadur Rasulullah wa taqdisain. At the same time, right now in Tokyo, Japan, it's Fajr Salah. And someone is say, Ashhadu Allah ilahe illallah wa ashhadu Muhammadur Rasul.
And while I'm talking to you, it's Fajr in Japan. It is Asr in São Paulo, Brazil. And while this is happening, it is Maghrib in Ghana. And while this is happening, it is Isha in Mecca, Makkah. in back and cover.
At the same moment every second of the day there are people replicating this man. Why? What's unique about him that makes everybody want to be like Oslobaf? There is no paranormal history. None, none.
Go search it, go research it. When people tell us that America is a Christian country, and we are Judeo Christian values. Go back to your country. I tell them I look like Jesus and my mother looks like Mary. We look more like Jesus and Mary than any of you even more than your priest does.
Your priest is a woman. She definitely does not look like Jesus. We look closer in in sorry some but they don't have these replications like we do. we are the only faith in the religion where we replicate every element of our lives to look like rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam now tell me this man why did he do what he did i was in if you've been to spain there is a place called alhambra palace and in alhambra palace if you've been there you end up walking past and a modern past statue. It's a really big statue.
And then when you go inside the palace, there's actually a room that says here is where Washington Irving stayed. Washington Irving is the man who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. If you're familiar, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He's also the man that Irving is named after. Washington Irving.
Washington Air. And he also when he went to Alhambra Palace afterwards, he wrote a 600-page biography on the little mosque architecture. He was Rasulullah. Ironically, not as a big masjid in the city that is named after him. And in there at the end he writes what was the model of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he writes about the life of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And he questions it. He says this man wasn't a liar. This man lost too much in his life. You see, the whole life of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is full of loss.
He never gained anything. First 13 years he's boycotted. His wife dies, uncle dies, kids die. He loses a son after son. Most people will quit.
You know when you go through problems in your life, you need to reset. You're like I can't handle it, you know, I can't go to school anymore. I can't concentrate on work because things at home aren't well. I can't concentrate here because I'm having problems over there. Rasulullah saw some life was full.
Rasul Bakhsar is some like a sculptor. Despite all the issues, he doesn't waver in his mission. He stays consistent. He stays impressionable and he leaves an impact in 23 years, naming one policy that he built. You know when they would enter to see Rasul Bakhsar set up?
to sit in the mosque at a time where they would go they would walk into the masjid and people would be sitting down on the floor and a man would come and say hey you come Muhammad hey which one is Muhammad there's a had a رجل الابيض المتكئ you see that white man sitting against the wall just in Trump no throne no riches no money no fame no image fame Trump goes and puts his name on everything. If he wants he even put on the court of go. So that you can see him five times a day, three times, I don't know, five times, I don't know, five times. Two times a day, what time money? People put their names at their work.
He didn't do that. Alexander the Great named twenty cities after him. Alexandria and Alexandria in Egypt named after him. The pharaohs are some didn't do this. What was his motive?
And I need you with this question. Why did he do what he did? What did he get out of it? What was his motivation from a secular perspective? Now, I want to go through some personality of the Sylvester.
What kind of manner? No matter this is a special question. You ever been in a masjid and the kids are making noise in the back? It happens in the arcades I heard about. I'm not going to name which masjid it is, but is a masjid close to us?
I heard that aunties have a sign that say stay quiet. I don't know if this center ever been the women's side, but this is aqeedo wala I heard. They always say stay quiet, don't make noise. Somebody drop something, but a clean it up. Your kid is dirtying the majish.
It's not how you are. Okay? Any measure of basulwas sauce, any measure of darudar, any measure of darudar basulwas sauce. A man comes in, bedouin. Back in the navy in our bathrooms in the masjid.
He gets at the wash area. He comes inside, is wearing that ihram lungi. Looks around, sees some guys praying in that corner. Someone doing Quran over there. Oh, that corner is empty.
He goes, opens his lungi, and he starts urinating. in the masjid. I imagine he's sitting in the masjid and somebody comes here, or not, a homeless person comes here and starts urinating. Everybody's going to jump on him. Everybody's going to hit him, throwing out, "What are you doing?
You're you're you're disrespecting the mosque." So the Sahaba gathered ready to counsel Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in front of him. Took out his shawl and covered him. done finish after he was done the beards said some water had that area cleaned up then tells the nanny says hey this is a masjid from your name はい you touch the man when he's under a microscope when he's under a microscope that's when you touch He's under a microscope that's what you touch this personality. It's your home. It's the place you love.
The the professor's house is adjacent to the mosque of Neboway. But despite all of that, this man is an individual who doesn't get a break. He sees it. Another man comes to the professor's residence. Another professor says he still have some shawarma this night.
So he grabs it and he pulls it. The office are someone starts getting a red mark over here. He said I have a question for the other question. How can the cube do me? Kini mugda.
These are things that would make most of us offended. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the more you got to know him, the more you ended up loving him. We've all heard the story of Zaynab bint Al-Harith. He was kidnapped as a kid. He was gifted to the officer Arsala at his wedding.
Zaid bin Haritha radiyallahu anh. The Prophet Arasam raised him as a child. And that his father finally found us. This father said, my boy, I've been looking for years for you. Come with me back.
The Prophet Arasam says I need to the boy. This same Zaid radiyallahu anhu says, you are my dad, you're my biological father. But this man is different. I love him, but him I love very different. And the people who met with Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, their personalities changed.
Their life focus changed. Look at Abu Bakr radiyallahu anhu, one policy, one luxury. Umar radiyallahu anhu reigned over 2.2 million square miles. point two million square miles where did the man run his court from come to masjid this is it our masjid is more luxurious than the masjid of umar ibn al-khattab they didn't even have carpet they didn't even have light in the masjid the first time light came in the masjid candle came in the masjid wasn't in the caliph of uthman radiyallahu anhu tabim al-zariba a panchayat no vibes i was just thinking what motivated these I was always thinking what motivated these people. See today you and I we are connected to Islam because of the glitter and the glamour.
Most of us moved to Dallas because the masjids are big. The community is great. The lectures are nice. We have so much Islam in this area. They thrived Islam when there was nothing around.
They believed their Islam is very different. Mine and your Islam is what? Listen to a lecture praise of Hamas and that's it. What was their Islam? They got beat for it.
But what was it? That when Bilal, the Lord has been dragged in the heat. He saying ahad ahad. But was the have to snark. So I leave you.
I leave you with a reflection today. I want you to research this. I want you to go I want you to research this. I want you to go home and I want you to research this. What named Muhammad Waqar Siddiqui?
And is there another man in history that people adopted every action of his and brought it into their lives? What was it about this man that made him so special? He in history, there is no man more recorded than him. I'll end off with this statement. The Sahaba even counted how much white hair the Prophet had.
They said he has 17 strands of white hair here and here. Inshallah at the end of the month, I guess on August 29th, we are going to have the ceila conference. So we're going to talk more into detail about the different parts of the syllabus. You know, when I talk about them that I am on the verge of tears. You know why?
Because I know him better than I know my father. I know his life more than I know my father's life. from my father's life. They told me when you're going to love the person or the woman I'm staying with in the same way as if you know about him. If you know about him.
If you read the sea it all. How can you love the person that you don't know? We expect to choose our life partner and love them. Tell the kid, "Beta, you're marrying your cousin." Jhofta. "But say I can never marry her.
I don't know her. How can I love her?" wait take it how can you love the poverty size learn about the man subhanallahi wa bihamdihi wa alhamdulillahi wa la ilaha illa huwa al-hadir al-qadim wa al-awwal wa al-akhir wa al-basir wa al-sami' wa al-rahim al-rahim alhamdulillah alhamdulillah alali al-waahid al-fadr al-qadeer awwal fa'ta barikun nas wa afdhal fadl kum wa as-salatu ala al-nabiy al-awwal fa inni awwalan abda'u bi amrin qad bada'a Allah ta'ala bi nafsihi thumma sallana انزال على نفسه ثم تنزل ملائكة مفرضات فتنابي قال بعد أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم إن الله وملائكته يصلون على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما اللهم صل على محمد يا عدد من صلى وصام وصلي على محمد يا عدد من قعد وقام وصلي على جميع الصحابة والضايع صل عليه اجمعين اللهم صل اسلاما اللهم انصر الاسلام والمسلمين اللهم اصلح حال المسلمين في كل مكان اللهم احفظ غانا لا سي فلسطين اللهم عدل المسجد الاقصى اللهم عدل المسجد الاقصى اللهم عدل المسجد الاقصى ان الله يأمر بالعدل والاحسان وايتاء ذي القربى وينهى عن الفحشاء والمنكر والبغي لعلكم تذكرون الاقصى لعلكم تذكرون عقد الصلح