Al-Furqan Media Foundation presents – exclusive coverage of the Jumm’ah sermon and prayer in the Grand Masjid of Mosul City – 6th Ramadan 1435
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As-salamu ‘Alaykum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh – Peace be upon you and Allah’s Mercy and Blessings
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
I bear witness that there is no God but Allah. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Hasten to worship (salat). Hasten to worship (salat).
Hasten to success. Hasten to success.
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
There is no God but Allah
All praise is due to Allah, we praise Him; we seek His help and forgiveness and we seek refuge in Allah from the evils within ourselves and consequences of our evil deeds. Whosoever Allah guides none can lead astray and whosoever Allah leads astray none can guide and I bear witness that there is no God but Allah Alone and that He has no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.
Allah’s blessings upon him and his family and companions, and His thorough peace be upon them
O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims [3:102]
O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. He will [then] amend for you your deeds and forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great attainment. [33:70-71]
As to what follows,
Verily the most truthful of speech is the Book of Allah and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad ﷺ and the worst affairs are newly invented matters. Every newly invented matter is a bid’ah (religious innovation), and every bid’ah is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Hellfire.
O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous, a limited number of days [2:183-184]
The month of Ramadhan in which was revealed the Qur'an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever witnesses the month, let him fast it [2:185]
O Muslims, verily the occurrence of Ramadhan is a great blessing and bounty from Allah the Most High
A month which its beginning is Mercy, its middle is forgiveness and its end is salvation from Hellfire
A month which whoever fasts it out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven
And whoever establishes prayers during its nights out of sincere faith, and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven.
Abu Huraira narrated that Allah's Messenger said: "Whoever observes fasts during the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith, and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven and whoever establishes prayers during the nights of Ramadan faithfully out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's rewards all his past sins will be forgiven.
A month, upon its entrance, the doors of Paradise open, the doors of Fire are shut and the devils are chained.
A month in which it is a night which is better than a thousand nights, who is deprived of it verily is deprived of all good.
The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [97:3-5]
A month in it are people whom Allah saves from hellfire, and that is in each night.
A month in which the market of Jihad is established; for the Messenger of Allah ﷺused to assign in it the army generals and prepare the army groups to fight the enemies of Allah and to establish Jihad against the Mushrikin (polytheists).
So grasp the opportunity in this blessed month O servants of Allah in Allah’s obedience; for in it the rewards are multiplied.
So for this let the competitors compete [83:26]
O Muslims, verily Allah, Blessed and High be He, has created us so we believe in Him alone, worship Him and establish His Religion. Allah the most High says: And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me [51:56]. And He ordered us, Blessed and Exalted be He, to fight His enemies and set out in Jihad in His cause, in order to achieve that and establish the Religion.
Allah the Most High says: Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you [21:26] and He the Most High says: And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah [8:39]
O people, verily the Religion of Allah, Blessed and High be He, will not to be established and this purpose for which Allah has created us will not be attained except by ruling by the Law of Allah and legislating to it and establishing the limits (of Allah). This verily will not be except by battle and authority.
Allah the Most High says: We have already sent Our messengers with clear evidences and sent down with them the Scripture and the balance that the people may maintain [their affairs] in justice. And We sent down iron, wherein is great military might and benefits for the people, and so that Allah may make evident those who support Him and His messengers unseen. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might. [52:75]
Verily this is the principle or Religion; a Book that guides and a sword that aids victory.
Verily your brothers the Mujahidin, Allah Blessed and High be He, has favoured them with victory and conquest. And he established for them after long years of Jihad and patience, and meeting in combat with the enemies of Allah, he granted them success, empowered them in order to fulfil their purpose. Verily they hastened to announce the Caliphate and appointing a leader, and this is an obligation upon Muslims. An obligation which has been made lost for centuries and was absent upon earth’s existence, and so many Muslims were ignorant of it.
And those who commit sin; where Muslims are sinning by abandoning and neglecting it, for verily they have to always strive to establish it and here now they have established it, praise and favour is due to Allah.
Verily I am in a trial by this great matter. I am in trial by this trust, a heavy-weighted trust. And so I was put in authority over you, and I am not the best of you nor am I better than you.
If you see me upon truth then support me and if you see me upon falsehood then advise me and guide me and obey me as long as I obey Allah in you. Verily if I disobey Him then obey me not.
I am not to promise you as how the kings and rulers promise their followers and their citizens from luxury, prosperity, security and wealth but instead I promise you by what Allah, Blessed and High be He, has promised His believing servants:
Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient [25:55]
Allah the Most High said: So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are believers [3:139]
And He the Most High said: If Allah should aid you, no one can overcome you [3:160]
And He the Most High said: And incumbent upon Us was support of the believers [30:47]
And He the Most High said: And to Allah belongs [all] honor, and to His Messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites do not know [63:8]
This is what Allah has promised, for verily if you desire what He has promised then fear Allah and obey Him.
Fear Allah the Great in every matter and on all circumstances and impose the truth and hold fast to it in that which you love and which you hate.
And if you desire what Allah has promised then set out in Jihad in His cause and encourage the believers and be patient upon that hardship. Verily if you were to know what is in Jihad from reward, respect, dignity and honour in this life and the hereafter, then none of you would have stayed or remained behind from Jihad. For it is the transaction which Allah has directed and saved by it from the severest of punishments and followed with it honour in both lives (this life and the hereafter).
You believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is best for you, if you should know He will forgive for you your sins and admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow and pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence. That is the great attainment. And another that you love - victory from Allah and an imminent conquest; and give good tidings to the believers. [61:11-13]
I say these words of mine and I ask Allah for forgiveness for me and you. Ask Allah and you are certain of being answered.
Praise due to Allah as He should be praised and peace and blessings upon whom no prophet is after, and upon his family, his companions, his party and his soldiers and who follows them in righteousness to the Day of Meeting and Recompense.
There is no God but Allah, alone with no partner. He has fulfilled His Promise, made His slave victorious, and He Alone defeated the clans
There is no God but Allah, alone with no partner, to Whom we are sincere in devotion even though the unbelievers should hate it
O servants of Allah, establish your Religion and fear Allah as He should be feared, verily he will grant you honour in this life and the hereafter .
If you desire security, then fear Allah.
If you desire provision, then fear Allah.
If you desire a noble life, then fear Allah and set out in Jihad in His cause
We ask Allah the Great, Lord of the Great Throne, that He unifies your word, and makes terms of settlement between you and that He guides you to the good that He loves and accepts.
O Allah grant honour to Islam and to the Muslims and dishonour polytheism and the polytheists and grant victory to Your servants the Mujahidin the Monotheists in the Eastern ends and the Western ones
O Allah plant firm their feet and make firm their hearts and be to them A Supporter and Helper
O Allah guide their throwing and guide their opinions
O Allah prepare for them from their affairs right guidance and make for them from Your good aid an assistance
O Allah turner of the hearts, set firm our hearts upon your religion
O Allah who turns the hearts, turn our hearts towards Your obedience
O Allah purify our hearts from hypocrisy and our acts from deception (awaiting admiration) and our tongues from lies and our eyes from betrayal
O Allah we ask You sincere belief and a humble submissive heart and acts which are accepted
O Allah we ask pardon and health, and everlasting convalescence in religion and life
O Allah make this gathering of ours a gathering of mercy and our dispersion after it a blessed safeguarded dispersion and do not make within us and amongst us an unhappy or deprived person
And the last of our supplication is all praise is to Allah Lord of the worlds and Allah’s peace and blessings upon our prophet Muhammad and establish prayer
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
Hasten to worship (salat), hasten to success
Prayer has started, Prayer has started
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, there is no God but Allah
Straighten your rows and align them, stand up straight, keep the shoulders in line with another, do not leave gaps for the devil. Straighten your rows for it is part of perfecting the prayer. Straighten them straighten them
Allah is the greatest
[All] praise is [due] to Allah, Lord of the worlds, the Most Benevolent, the Ever-Merciful. Sovereign of the Day of Recompense. It is You we worship and You we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path. The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.
Amin
And obey Allah and the Messenger that you may obtain mercy, And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous, Who spend [in the cause of Allah] during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people - and Allah loves the doers of good; And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allah? - and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know. Those - their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow [in Paradise], wherein they will abide eternally; and excellent is the reward of the [righteous] workers.
Al-Imran, verses 132 to 136
Allah is the greatest
Allah is hearing to those who praise Him
Allah is the greatest
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