"Sidrat al-Muntaha: the known unknown" Friday prayer with Imam Asi 5-25-2018

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\"I'd like to begin this Khutbah with a parathetical remark. The recording of this Khutbah is done in the street. And if we were located inside of a building, the tone and the volume of my voice would not be what it is. It's just that experience forces me to speak in a louder voice than would be the case if we were inside of a building. And sometimes it's difficult to listen to a person giving a Khutbah with a roaring voice. But that's the conditions that Allah Subhana wa ta alla has calculated for us.\"

\"This is the second Jumaa in the month of Ramadan. And the last Jumaa in the month of Ramadan is the day in which Muslims if they are conscious of the world, if they are conscious of Allah Subhana hu wa ta alla commerate The Day of Al-Quds and because this year, the last Friday in the Month of Ramadan, as is the case or has been the case in all previous years, that Friday is going to be the Eid for many Muslims and the following day Saturday is going to be the Eid for some Muslims so to avoid a conflict of when the last Jumaa is, as a precautionary choice, The Day of Al-Quds will be on the solar calendar -- the 8th of June, that's two Jumaas not the next Jumaa but the Jumaa after, that's when The Day of Al-Quds will be observed by conscientious and involved Muslims. Of course other Muslims they are living somewhere on another planet and our Salat to Allah Sub hana wa ta alla, our dua is that Allah guide those who are tardy to joining the real world.\"

\"As has been the case in the previous Khutbahs, we don't observe the day of Al-Quds or any other day on the Islamic calendar as just one day during the year; When it comes we are all worked up and then when it leaves we receed, we go back to the material gravity of this world. No, we're not that type. And because of that we've been speaking about Jerusalem Al-Quds, we've been speaking about Palestinians, the refugees, the displaced, the homeless, the Stateless, the oppressed for all of these weeks. And we will continue on this journey of some type of knowledge and enlightenment so that when we approach an event and then when we leave that event, we do so with consistency and with principle, not just reacting, not just occasional Muslims.\"

\"....Where did Allah's Prophet see him? It's a place called Sidratel Muntaha. What is Sidrat Al-Muntaha? Sidra is a type of tree. Al-Muntaha means, where infinity...if you can, if you can work your minds on this, where infinity recycles into another reality. This is mind challenging and reading these Ayat, we thank Allah Subhana wa ta alla that He has addressed our minds and cautioned us that even though there's a large premium placed on the human faculty of thinking, this faculty of thinking cannot comprehend everything. We CAN'T! And this is one of those areas, this is one of those times that our mind stands still. Sidrat Al-Muntaha; That's where all the knowledge of humans and al-Jinn and the Angels - All of their knowledge STOPS! Our knowledge cannot go beyond that. The Prophet of Allah Subhana wa ta alla reached that particular, if we want to call it \"area\", that particular area. Sidrat Al-Muntaha! It's as if Allah is saying, This is where infinity grows. Once again it challenges because we don't know, we say infinity but we refer our mind to our imagination. That's how we can sort of get a grip of what infinity means.                    وَلَقَدۡ رَءَاهُ نَزۡلَةً أُخۡرَىٰ    عِندَ سِدۡرَةِ ٱلۡمُنتَهَىٰ     عِندَهَا جَنَّةُ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰٓ  There is where the eternal residence of Paradise commences.\" 

\"...So Allah Subhana wa ta alla is helping us understand the eventual compensation of those who worked for it in this life.\"

\"...and there on our Prophet became a Muhajir. It's, It's...It's a shame that today's Muslims when among us we have displaced people we call refugees. We don't have enough Islamic knowledge to say they are Muhajirs! meaning they temporarily left, forced to leave their place of origin, resettled somewhere and then became part and parcel of the place they resettled. The people in Al-Medina when the Prophet and the other Muslim expellies, when they were forced out of Mecca they weren't told you have to remain a Muhajir, you're not part of us...just like what happens in today's world; Muslims who are refugees from Palestine or from Myanmar. By the way, the Muslims in Myanmar who in the course of the past year were SLAUGHTERED!!! POLICIES of GENOCIDE applied to them. Their women RAPED!!! Now many of these women, I dare say in the 1,000s, their babies are going to be born, NOW, this month, in Ramadan...Babies...Illegitimate! because they were RAPED by SAVAGES!!! When the Muslims were displaced from Mecca, they were not treated like UNWANTED BEINGS. Today when Muslims are displaced, they are treated like UNWANTED BEINGS. So there's a difference between those who understood Allah and His Prophet at that time and those who understand Allah and His Prophet according to Saudi propaganda and the rest of the financial and power establishments in the world.\"

\"...And I'm going to quote what he said, what the President of Turkey said in the Pro-Palestinian demonstration last week. He said, \"Al-Quds is not just any city. Rather, it is a symbol and a test and a Kiblah so if we are not capable of protecting our first Kiblah, then we cannot with confidence anticipate a future in which we can preserve our last Kiblah\" meaning al-Haram Mecca Al Kaaba. These are strong words!! We wish that these Arabians who are ruling had the courage to make such statements. None of them!! NONE OF THEM!!! have made such forceful statements in support of those who have been displaced from the Holy Land. Of all people!\"

\"...And for the other types of Muslims we say, at least there are some who are NOT Muslims who have more spines, a spinebone, a backbone in them to say the TRUTH and not be SILENT when Muslims are being killed, shot at, tortured, maimed, injured, displaced all over the place!!! So what did the Senator say?.....\"

\"When you hear something like, by the way the Senator is Rand Paul. When you hear something like that, you say, Where...Where did the manhood of Muslims GO? WHAT HAPPENED??!\" 

Imam Asi (\"Sidrat al-Muntaha: the known unknown\" Friday prayer 5-25-2018)