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New Year, Same You; Proudly Wear Your Muslim Identity - Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi

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Channel: Jaffari Community Centre · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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- Approaching New Year's Eve and the attached culture of new year resolutions to better oneself 
- The suggestion to make a commitment to be proud of our Muslim identity. Let us not shy away from saying that “I am a Muslim.”
Muslims are different from others. Although they share many universal values with other faiths and communities, BUT they are also different – and proud of their religious identity.
- Prophet Muḥammad came with a distinct way of doing things, especially the act of worshipping God. He didn’t say that let us just do what the communities of by fellow previous prophets do.
- The weekly day of prayer was not Saturday as observed by the Jewish community nor was it Sunday as observed by the Christian community. Islam introduced Friday as its holy day of the week. 
- The jamā‘at prayers was already practiced in Masjid-un-Nabi but there was no method of announcing the time of prayer. some suggested they use the bell like the Christian church; others suggested they use the trumpet as used by the Jews; and yet another group suggested that they lit a fire as used by the Zoroastrians. The Prophet didn’t like these ideas – he wanted a distinctive Muslim way of announcing the call for prayer. Jibra’īl came with adhān.
- The issue of maintaining our distinct identity can also be seen in the issue of qiblah – the direction we face when we say the prayers.
- Let us be proud of our faith, and respect the right of each community to practice their faith in its own ways.



MP3: https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Jaffari/Fridays/FridayKhutba_Rizvi_2018-12-28_12-55-22.mp3

Friday Juma Khutba 
Recited By: Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi
Date: 28 December 2018

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