Translated by : Ibtehal Ramadan
City : Gaza 
Country : Palestine

 

Praises be to Allah , we praise Him, seek His help  & guidance, we seek refugee from our soul's bad side & deeds with Him  , whoever is rightfully guided by Allah, could never be misguided. & vice versa. I testify that there's no God but Allah; confirming His Divinity & compelling to any polytheist, and that Mohammed , our Prophet
( PBUH)  is Allah's apostle and the master of creatures and human kind. Oh , Allah , as long as there's a life on this earth bless & reveal peace upon him ( the Prophet ) and his folks & companions & descendants and whoever follows him; till the Resurrection Day.

Oh Allah , Teach us what is useful, and but us in the use of this knowledge and increase our knowledge, Oh Allah, Show as right as it is , Direct us to follow it , Grant us the awareness and avoidance of  the injustice , Oh Allah ,Bless us as to be of those who listen carefully to a speech then follow its best , Be Merciful to us as to make us among Your good worshippers . Oh. Allah , Take us away from ignorance darkness and illusions , to the shine of knowledge and science , and from the desires stink to heavens.

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, an intellectual meeting was held at the Arabic cultural centre ; Damascus, discussed the common of heavenly missions and its activation, with participation of Al-Azhar University, the Islamic Universities association, University of Harvard, University of Cairo , University of Ein-Shams and a celebrity of Islamic scholars and Christian scholar in Damascus, as well as Men of intellectual and knowledge, the search diverted into ten pivots , my word was about the spiritual and knowledge aspect, and calling for the nobility morals.

And, as the speech I gave is strongly related to the subject – I promised- to discuss : why – from a Qura'nic and Islamic vision-  had Muslims' reality reached to what we're in ?

So, I'll only handle the subject I talked about in the forum , and next preach I will illustrate the most important highlights.

 

 

 

O respectable brothers, among the exalted mission of prophets and messengers-PBU them- is to build the perfect human, well-connected family and establishing a utopia. But , the corruption flood , in the last period of time , contained many moral plagues; it contained lying, as community; groups and individuals, lies whenever it breaths, it contained also cheat, libertinism, oppression, betrayal, ardor, discrimination, deception, greediness, slyness, vulgarity, miserliness, stinginess, luxury, squander, thinking badly of Allah, hypocrisy, parents impious, neglecting children, eating ill-gotten property, seizing orphan's property oppressively, the phenomenon of hypocrisy; was discussed in detailed in the holy Qura'n and the authentic Sunnah, is the existence of a deficiency in identification between words and believes;  is the belief hypocrisy; which brings a person away from religion, whereas the difference between words and deeds is considered to be practical hypocrisy, which is very common in societies. The mission of moral development is to purify Muslims' life of this.

 

 

We all are searching for happiness, no one had ever trodden this earth, but he searched for happiness and safety, thus the most important reason of happiness is to harmonize between your reality and what you believe in , any crack between  your reality and your believes , between your words and your deeds , between what you do secretly and obviously , between acting in some way in front of people, yet you're totally different at home. So, the harmonic between your reality and what you believe in is a reason of happiness, once you gain this harmony you feel a strong stream of happiness, content and security, when you over come obstacle preventing any contradiction between you and your high values.

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, the pleasure sensuousness doesn't penetrate the heart, it only surrounds it, but the feeling of victory against desires, temptations and interests pressures; does really fill the heart of happiness and tranquility.  

Why was the honorable Prophet-Joseph-Yusif a top of virtue? Because he gained victory against his desire. And if not the Holy prophets were listed under people properties, they wouldn't have been masters of humanity.

They prevailed over themselves, each believer prevails over himself and for the right shall radiate, hence is being bestowed the sweetness of belief-by Allah ; which if lost by a human became miserable even if he owned the whole world, however if he was bestowed the sweetness of belief-by Allah ; he became happy even if lost everything.

 

 

The real happiness, can by no means be brought from the exterior, it's a born beam of light, and it grows up inside the person, and lights up the different aspects of his life, and makes it much valuable , much reasonable and much prepared to development, progress and continuity. This is only pledged to certain circumstances where morality controls and the sound of commitment and straightness is loud, and soul shines in the surroundings.

To illustrate: if there's a hundred electrical device in a certain house, where there's no electricity, is there any value of these device? Non, it's not more than heaps of metal overloading the house, while if electricity is connected to the house; that's to say belief is moving in one's soul; the marriage is meaningful as well as bringing up children, working, going on picnics,…etc.

 

  

 

Oh respectable brothers, the psychological, moral base in any community carries on loads resulted from the nature of materialistic and sociable life, and from nation deterioration in different life aspects.

 

This base enables people to holding on through difficult circumstances, and we're facing difficult circumstances- without degrading or deviation, so when people face a bad and severe economic situation , their moral base pushes them to relief the poor and feed the hungry, and to be patient towards the insolvent debtor, beside the personal cling, and not submission to the difficult circumstances needs, so you find the right Muslim refrain from earning unlawful money; when he's too poor and in desperate need to a penny , depending on his values and belief resistance against decay reasons.

This moral base is the enormous out-standing account , nations depend on while rehabilitating many kinds of defects.

Thus, we realize the size of crime committed against this nation , when was pushed by its enemies; on the working  and theoretical level; to consider morals and psychological values as inferior rank of its interests, and when people faced the harsh circumstances of living and lack of demands; they didn't find a support of honorable morals to relay on while holding out against temptations and various causes of degeneration.

 

Oh respectable brothers, we should be sure that the best social systems when putting the most strict penalties can't correct the defect, just as happening in some growing countries; legislating extremely severe penalties in order to correct defects, maybe under a good intention; but the best social system – under no circumstances will correct defects, neither will it fill the gap occurred by soul shriveling, weak belief and values degeneration. So, the severe penalties do not establish a community , but only protect it. No matter how perfect are the regulations, the human will over take it, we must be certain that the shoveling current of desires and whims; in its highest level now, can only be defeated by a belief current flowing out of human feelings. As the job of mind is thinking, directing to paths and methods, and finding suitable tolls for working, analyzing, meditation , but the strong belief is the only cause which makes you move, walk, obey, forbid, and commit; it support you by the shining energy to move towards right, good deeds, and to reining your desires, so it's only the strong belief and the account of intimate feelings we gain because of connection to Allah, many youth who were shoveled by the current of sex, pornography, profligacy, weren't in need for a proof of virtue credit, they were in need to some senses which pour over their hearts because of the sweet taste of true worshipping to Allah, and the true feeling of Allah's company , and His observing them closely.

 

When the technical progress reaches its extreme level , and a human feels stuffed from remote control devices and any other thing makes life having no challenges; then and only then the soul is filled by old new longings beyond materiality.

I repeated many times that while the inauguration of the first bridge , of Istanbul, which links Asia to Africa, and is used now by more than 400 thousand car daily; during this inauguration, the designer engineer; among the 5 best engineers in the world, threw himself in the Bosporus and committed suicide, they went to his room at the hotel to find a peace of paper on which he wrote: " I tasted every thing in this life, and found it tasteless, so I wanted to taste death."

If only he recognized Allah, connected to Him, and considered  his working a worshipping , and seeks for the Resurrection Day; he would have been among the happiest people ever.

Oh respectable brothers, there's such a gab in the soul ; can't be filled by money, nor by authority , position , prestige, desires; it can only be filled by believing in Allah- the Al-Mighty.

Oh respectable brothers, we're looking forward to a tent of mercy, in which there's no killing , people do no longer bear the scenes of blood , arresting, oppression and torture, they just wish to live in a tent of mercy, a house of mud has honesty ; we're sick of lies.

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, When a human feels stuffed from remote control devices and any other thing makes life having no challenges; then and only then the soul is filled by old new longings beyond materiality. It's longing to something else than mansions, recent cars, beautiful wife, parties, hotels, traveling or tourism, he needs a connection with Allah, a tranquility in his heart, an obedience to Allah, a repentance to Him, an approach, he needs to feel that he's loved by Allah, that his chart is ascending, to consider death a transition point from the narrowness of this life to the width of the other life, from the confusion to the conscious, from life troubles to the Paradise heaven bliss.

Oh respectable brothers, we're in a desperate need to a world of sympathy , of sacrificing some profits to achieve community  sustainability. I'm really proud of this town, because of its generous offer, and its inhabitants in a continuous search for good deeds; which is among Allah's grace.

 

 

People of high ethics today are tomorrow's leaders, Islam teaches us- listen carefully- that a trend could be corrected before  colliding with the abyss's bottom. It also teaches us the possibility to change from loss into profit; before the account is empty; only if we listen to the call of our nature deep inside us, and control over some body needs to revive our souls, and think deeply of what is coming, we should say that : the determination frame of this process is ethics ( morals), in other words: what is the our providing authority  in judging a manner; being good or bad ? and what is the responsible authority to award or punish a certain    manner; the providing authority in judging manners, and responsible authority in awarding or punishing in the Western World, and we followed it, and if they entered a lizard burrow , we'll entered it.

 

 

 

The reference frame for ethics in the western world was turned from being spiritual into intellectual, this intellectual ;far from the spiritual, leads to a very dangerous concept; ethics rationalism, which paving the way to make depravities into virtues using mind. In each period of time, a country legalizes homosexuality , that's why ambassadors attend receptions with their homosexual partner, and other ministers declare being queer, thus intellectual changes a common behavior into legislation.

Oh respectable brothers, for instance, the economical development is an idol ; worshipped without Allah, and all kinds of sacrifices are offered to this idol; it is no doubt that we make every effort in order to revive new ethics fulfill the conditions of living in a very complicated period of time, simultaneously, it's based on the Islamic values and concepts; however the distinct progress in ethics; maybe in need to achieving a political and a civil progress; as underdevelopment prevents original ethics creation.

    

 

It's very obvious that the secular culture, and many other cultures; imposed on us  have nearly totally neglected the ethics side, which is a result of a positivist philosophy impact; which made the materialistic science a goal of every progress, resulted that this materialistic science, is a knowledge, ethics, literacy and values, and the original Islamic morals is described as restraints due to ignorance, idle traditions, and a person is charged of weakness because of his high morals, or that you stick to these morals because of your weakness; and that Muslims' morality prevented their comprehension modern civilization, and according to secular currents; morals indicates a person's silliness and simple formation , and doubt his situation, or even accuse him of any offence.

 

   

 

Oh respectable brothers, as a result of many authors' ruling out moralities ; and mal planning , and bad living conditions for many people ; many moral diseases prevailed in our communities, such as:

 

 

 

 

Many people , nowadays, live without high goals, ensuring his needs is his only concern, owning a small house is  a great victory in this fierce battle of life, the verse which caused a person to be put in jail in the regime of Khalifa Omar; became now everyone's motto :

Leave noble deeds, do never pursue any to gain, and just sit down, you have your food and drink available.

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Ensuring a hose, a beautiful wife, an income, desires and indulging in pleasures; become all human goals and limitations.

Oh respectable brothers, a man is similar to a wild animal living in a zoo; not only is he isolated from his natural environment; but also, isolated from his self depth, his identity, the reason of his being, the purpose of his being, life is limited only to food, drinks and keeping awake after midnights watching series; broadcasting many new pornographic values as it seem, but it contains infidelity.

 

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, most of people suffer from a weak feeling of duty; which exceed a personal or individual interest, to reflect the exalted of a human or his ability to commit towards others or sacrifice for the sake of others. There's a personal commitment , and infrequently a social or group commitment, you may infrequently find a person really concerns for Muslims' worries, while most Muslims are watching what happens in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Lebanon during war; and on the same receptions are held at hotels; as if we have no slight relation to the current circumstances. So the commitment to the community is finished and replaced only by the personal commitment, this bitter fact must push us to excel not desperation.

 

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, on the civilization level; there's an other group of Muslims suffers from shriveling of teamwork, they tend to self-isolation, withdrawal  and confining themselves, each says: I've no relation, it's non of my business, this is a disease, withdrawal is the disease of negativity, speculation without working is a disease itself, the negative admiration of Islam is also a disease.

 

 

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, there are several bad habits related to work and consumption, many people have contempt view for creative work, and there's a great eager to buying estates, and cars, luxurious and extravagance expenses burdening the nation's sources ; every economic activity is either touristic, or restaurants, hotels, resorts…etc.

But no strategic industry to strengthen our situation, and give us a decision freedom ; which we're too far from.

There're many moral diseases regarding people relations , breaking up with relatives, antipathy with relatives and neighbors, great envious, monopolization, to isolate oneself with common  and public resources, problems at crowds, lack of sources, retreat of moral up rising, weak conscious towards great goals; which will generate much psychological crisis as well as much moral diseases.

 

 

 

Oh respectable brothers, nearly half people are diagnosed with schizophrenia , half of women in this country have no husbands, the percentage of divorce was .015% , then it increased to reach 0.15%, and the recent statistics indicates that it reached 50% ,so fifty marriage out of every hundred ends by divorce; due to weak commitment, eager for money, seeking instant pleasure, and totally neglecting the other life.

 

 

The moral degeneration is mostly an echo of community crisis, crime maybe common as a result of economical straits, or a tight inhibition, or existence of some social celebrities indulge in luxury and extravagance, all of this push us to a satisfaction of the importance of not isolating ourselves from curing moral matters to curing other problems. We should direct our attention to another fact related to moral ; each nation has a ladder of values; on which it sorts its values according to two things; its concepts and its needs. As the circumstances of living in desert and nomads pushed pagan Arabs to consider bravery and generosity in the top of their value ladder; but when Islam appeared , it didn't picked these two values out of its value ladder; rather  Islam changed its rank in the new formation; where pious became the most importance criterion in indicating grace and priority. And according to recent industrial communities; there's a strong tendency to consider accuracy, perfection ,efficiency, achievement, skill   and success the top of their value ladder.

 

Nowadays, we're in desperate need to finding an access to moral development , based on granting some standard values and morals new meanings, or special interests for some of its significant; in order to lighten the intensity of underdevelopment invading a Muslim's life.

piety in our modern lives needs terminology enrichment to handle some civilized obligations; hurrying up to work, work perfection, work development, time saving, time management, institutional work, strengthening the concept of team work, commitment to dates, good behavior at public places, consumption rationalization ; all of those are original values in our religion to which we should be completely committed, and to list it under piety.

 

 

through education and good advice, we can make a Muslim feels the sweetness of belief and commitment through fulfilling such deeds; a time requirement, the same feeling he touches when he put alms to poor people, or when he pray lately at night while people are sleeping. Thus, psychological and moral renovation is not deleting morals and replacing other morals; it's a widening of some moral concepts significances, and give it more importance on the general moral level.

Oh, respectable brothers, every nation depends on certain concepts to control society, and to prefer a possible to another possible, and there's no nation plans to make its reality a battle with its concepts; our Islamic nation listed the best and unique examples. We greatly recognize the great amount of difficulties facing whoever wants to achieve an excellent  moral advance in the crisis environment, but we should mention some concepts , conditions and techniques which- we believe- have an impact in psychological and moral level improvement for our nation.

Oh, respectable brothers, watch yourselves before being called to account, Weigh your deeds before it shall be weight against you. And be aware that Death Angel had passed us to others , and will passed others to us , so we should be aware. A wise man who condemn himself and work for the afterlife . The powerless follows his fancy and makes wishes for Allah. And Praise be to Allah , Lord of Alamin.

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And Praise be to Allah , Lord of Alamin, I certify that there's no God but Allah    Master of good ones, I certify that Mohammed is Allah's slave & Messenger the one of great morals, Blessings  and peaces be of Allah upon him and his neat companions and folks.

 

 

Oh, brothers, the Islamic nation today is trying to launch to wide horizons, so in order to achieve this it has to renovate the concepts of the first launch , which was sparkled by the Holy Prophet-PBUH- and the good ascendants, in the first centuries of Islam, which in fact needs knights, heralds and special kinds of scholars, although we need a great number , but their  moral  and descriptive classifications is more important than their number; as the honorable companions of the holy prophet- PBUH- received a distinguish  and intensive  cultivation; didn't exceed few thousands; but their particular features and morals; made them the unique example to carry on an enormous high construction, and we still quoting from the blessings of this example.

  

 

Among the features of the person who wants to renovate the morals of this nation ; is to go back to original resources, as it must sparkle in our souls what the prophet- PBUH- sparkled in his companions.

 

The awaiting work sheet features is a strong connection to Allah- the Al-Mighty overwhelms a Muslim's entity, transfers his belief from the intellectual frame  and the heart  belief  to the consciousness frame; which is described in the Hadeeth of favor : "to worship Allah as if you are watching Him."

[ Narrated Muslim reported Omar]

And this will only be achieved by intensive worshipping, as belief is very similar to a shady tree, we should water it more in order to let it grow up and to have long extended branches; its water is worshipping,  نوافل   and praising Allah; which was an obvious feature of the Prophet

S companion- may Allah be pleased with them- and also of the righteous descendants in general. The vivid and shiny belief is the greatest energy we need in the stage of launching, and it has no other substitution.

 

 

 

 

Patience, as the bad reality we're having in our lives is an extract of piling up of many centuries' mistakes; and to get this reality improved well , it needs time and effort; as been stated in the holy Qura'n:

" And we made from among them ( Children of Israel), leaders, giving guidance under Our Command, when they were patient"

[ As-Sajdah :24]

Sometimes despair controls over people because of the long and difficult path, and because of their feeling that improvement is either weak or invisible, however true  mission  carrier as well as scholars do never consider what they crossed from the path, neither what is left , they're totally sink in and controlled by being busy with time obligations and correcting the travel, yet they feel after wards that they only offered a little amount of what is demanded ; but it's only their best efforts, and awaiting Allah's acceptance of their effort.

 

 

Turning away from life desires and interests, even though every Muslim is obliged to have some quantity of this turning away but, the pioneers have another account of this, they're they have the best right to reduce as much as possible of the worldly life's interests; not to the degree of deprivation, and it's of importance people's feeling that this blessed category is distinguished in its life style and its social development standards.

Our nation – in this stage- needs desperately money to establish public utilities, schools, universities, and it needs persons to scientifically and methodologically illustrate  a new way of living, far from luxury,  extravagance and spending money without need or a least feeling of responsibility; as most of people are used to.

 

 

 

 

Sacrifice, generous giving and personal generosity are important features to be available within whoever wants to confront this nation's development  , even though the depth of these meanings in our Islamic culture, and the depth location it has in a Muslim, yet people always look for an example and tangible example, and if concepts could change people's life; Allah won't have sent messengers, neither has revealed books; but Allah's rule required that the status tongue is more intense than speaking tongue, and a tangible thing is easier to be comprehend  and have greater impact than abstract.

 

 

 

Our problem is to be or not to be , our enemies want our astray and impoverishment , corruption and extermination, what's happening around us assures this fact, we must wake up, alert, repent, reconciled with Allah, and returning to our religion's origins, returning to the Qura'n and the Sunnah, to stick to the righteous group of Muslims, to offer some of your time , knowledge, money for the sake of Islam, you should shine by Allah ; then you'll feel Allah's love for you , and that you're in his worshippers' service, this feeling alone brings you happiness in this life and the after world life.

O brothers I'm making this invocation, so repeat Amin…

Oh , Allah , guide us to your path; among whom you guided , and bestow us good health; among whom you bestowed good health, Protect us; among whom you protected, bless us ; among whom you blessed, turn away  from us any evil you've ever destined ,You suppresses only by truth , and you may not be suppressed over, and whoever you protect shan't be disgraced, whoever you showed enmity to, shan't be glorified, Oh, Allah, Blessed be you and high above all, Praises to You for what you judged. We ask your forgiveness , and repent to you  . Oh Allah, guide us to good deeds , as there's no One but You Shall do so, guide us to good morals , as there's no One but You Shall do so. Oh , Allah, make right our religion, being the safe guide of our  lives, make right our present life ,in which we live, make right our other life to which we'll return, grant us this life as supply for good deeds, and make death an ease of any evil thing.

Oh, Allah, our protector and guardian, the lord of Alamin , grant us satisfaction of your permissions ( Halal)from your wrong-doings (Haram), your obedience from disobedient, your grace from any others' grace.

Oh Allah, by your grace and Mercy, raise high your religion and the Word of Truth. And grant victory to Islam, honor Muslims, Disgrace polytheists and polytheism ,Oh, Allah, grant Islamic presidents success to follow your path, You , Allah, have the full ability to do whatever you want , and capable of answer.