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The People's Speech 2013

675 views · Published 30 December 2013 · 5:06 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Islam Channel · 2013 · News & Politics

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barkatuhu,

2013, a year of plenty entwined with a year of little, escalating wars amidst moments of tranquility. 

A year with affairs of hope entangled with those of fear, that of ease engulfed with despair and that of relief seeped in trials.

But it is through hardship we understand ease and it is after the darkest hour dawn brings light.
 
The strength of the hungry in Syria, the might of women in the midst of battle, the power of the young awaiting help and those in search of their ease.

Friendships develop across seas as we draw courage to lift above our struggles. Typhoon Haiyyan swept through, before our very eyes, but all that happens is the will of Allah and in him we trust.


Remembering those close to us in our everyday lives as well as those afar.

An intensifying battle continues in Syria, one with players far and wide. 6 million have fled their homes, 3 million have left the country and over a hundred thousand have left this world.

Continuing to gather, discussions seem to have no end. The plight of the Syrian people plunges further as the world watches on. Egyptians in masjids and on the ground we are with you.

Injustices in front of our eyes,
Religious leaders incarcerated Abdul Qader Mollah hung.
Injustice; 65 years we have been waiting, 65 years of occupied lands. Palestine the land of the stateless. The plight of Muslims continues far and wide.The stateless, the neglected, the Rohingya.

Religion preaches with justice, justice without political motive.
Infrastructure in developing nations, incentives to grow, over one thousand lives were lost in Bangladesh, the biggest industrial disaster in modern times.The rana plaza factory collapse was no isolated incident. There must be responsibility with growth, the garments on your back, from where did they arrive?
have you knowledge of your thread?
 
So many families missing their loved ones. Our brothers awaiting trial imprisoned with no charge, you are not alone in your fight.

Incarceration, war and duties to uphold, our reason our covenant with Allah. The reason for our veil.

As Allah says in Surah al Ahzhab verse 59

"oh prophet, tell your wives, your daughters, and women believers to place a veil over them so as to be recognized and not insulted: God is most forgiving, most merciful."

You were made to be recognised, so stand firm on your ground, because you are the most dignified. Rest assured of your success and have confidence in Allah.
 
Find hope in all of your adversities and remind each other of the words of Allah.
Make your efforts to excel because that is what you have been placed here to do, success is from Allah and with Allah, remembering that this is but a fleeting world.

So as is said by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (rahimullah)

"As people are content with the world, so you should be content with Allah. As they are delighted by the world, so you should be delighted with Allah. As they are intimate with their loved ones, so you should seek intimacy with Allāh. As they desire to know their kings and their leaders, and to draw near to them in order for honour and status to be conferred on them, so you should come to know Allah and seek His love: this will lead to the utmost honour and distinction.

Leave the world to those who hanker after it, as they leave the Afterlife to its seekers and be in this world as the bee: it eats only good, produces only good, and when it rests upon anything it neither ruins it nor deflowers it."

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