(The following Salatul Jumuah Khutbah was given by Imam W. Deen Mohammed at the Taqwa Islamic Center, 4545 S. Western Blvd., in Chicago, 111., on Jan. 3, 2003.) Dear Believers, Muslims, As-Salaam-Alaikum. With Allahs Name, The Gracious, The Compassionate, Beneficent Benefactor, The Merciful Benefactor and The Merciful Redeemer, we witness that He is One, The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth. That there is no partner with Him in the rule of the Heavens and the Earth; He is G-d Alone. And we witness that Mohammed is His Servant and His Messenger, Prayers and Peace be upon him and what follows of that traditional salutation to the Last Prophet, The Seal of the Prophets, mentioned in the Quran as being the Liberator coming to purify the people and to bring them out of darkness of ignorance, corruption and slavery into the Light of G-ds Truth. In the Quran, Allah says that he, Prophet Mohammed (saw), is the one mentioned in The Torah, the Old Books of the Bible, as the one coming to purify you and take off your back the heavy yoke that weighed you down and to break every bond of slavery. We think of slavery in the physical sense readily, but the worst form of slavery is not the slavery of the physical body. The worst form of enslavement is the enslavement of your soul, when you dont have your soul free for yourself. Your mind and your heart can all be enslaved by the Satan, Shaitan, the enemy of all human beings. He is the enemy of the human family. Allah says of him, Fight the Schemes of Satan. His plots, deceitful tricks plan to defeat you in your purposes, in your best life and in your best hopes for life. Satan is out to defeat you right there, so you will be seen as ridiculous. He loves to make human beings ridiculous. And the ones whom he wants most to bring down and make ridiculous are those who support the Scriptures of G-d, the religious people. He wants to make them look ridiculous. If we understand the Scriptures, the Quran and the Bible which was before the Quran was revealed, about Satans hopes and aspirations, we have to understand that according to these Holy Books and Sacred Scriptures, Satans hope was to finally deceive people in the best places of their religious world the holy sanctuaries, in the most sacred places. Satan had a plan to defeat the Christians in their most sacred beliefs and in their most sacred places. And Satan has a plan to defeat the Muslims in our most sacred places. And Satan has been successful; he has discredited religion and brought religion to be a ridiculous thing in the minds of many decent and intelligent people. They will tolerate religion and wont speak out against it, unless it is with friends like themselves. Then some, like during the spread of Communist ideas in America, openly attacked religion and said religion is the opium of the masses of the people. The masses mean the common people. Opium is a drug, and they meant that religion is nothing but something to drug you. They denied G-d in their ideas and in their planning of their life on this earth. The Communist people did that. They had no place for G-d in their planning. And if you belonged to the Communist order in a Communist society under Community authority, you could not practice your religion. For 70 plus years, Muslims were not allowed to identify themselves publicly under the Communist Party of Russia. It was only when their power broke and they had to change their ideas, that the Muslims could come out openly and begin to identify as Muslims again and to go to the mosques and pray again. Seventy some years is a long time to be locked away from your religion, kept from practicing your religion where others would witness it. The Muslims story is that they would be watched at night. Homes would be looked into, to see if they could catch someone practicing his religion. Muslims would have to stand watch while they prayed at night. They continued to practice their religion secretly, and that is wonderful. Someone would have to watch while the family would be having Islamic Study Lessons. Im sure they had to do it very quietly, sometimes whispering, unable to speak aloud, fearing that some device would pick up their activities. Satan inspired the Communist idea.
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