Summary: Assalamualaikum!<br> In sha Allahu ta’ala in today’s brief khutba I would like to share with you some reflections from Suratul Jum’a.<br> I chose this Sura on purpose because a lot of times actually most of the times Muslims we come to jum’a over and over again and very few times we get an opportunity to talk about what makes jum’a itself and the prayer, itself, important.<br> And even when we have a conversation about why it is important most of the time we have the conversation in terms of how to make the most of your Friday in terms of the practices of the Messenger Sallellahu Alaihe wa sallam of the morning, the night before, what part of the Quran to recite, how we should try and get to the prayer earlier, all of those other kinds of etiquette of the prayer itself.<br> And that is important but that’s not what I want to share with you today.<br> What I want to share with you today-is the spirit, the wisdom.<br> And really the fundamental strategy of Allah aza auzal in pulling this program inside the Muslim community and making it a permanent feature of the Muslim community.<br> I want to start with a very simple observation.<br> You know, Muslims all over the world, they have halaqa, they have study circles, they have conferences and programs just like what we do here in the United States.<br> And when we do, we have to advertise those programs.<br> We have to make announcements, tell people to come, there is gonna be a program in the evening, there’s gonna be a program on the weekend.<br> Now a days we have to put the facebook page up and twitter and mass e-mail.<br> May be make YouTube videos to get the word out etc.etc<br> Whatever means we can we advertise programs, even if they are religious in nature, we advertise them.<br> Here’s one program every single week on Friday afternoon that you don’t get any e-mail or you don’t get any text message, you don’t have to mark it in your calendar.<br> It doesn’t matter how religious you are or you are not religious at all.<br> May be there are some of you in the audience, you don’t know this place, this masjid or any masjid for that matter except for Friday afternoon.<br> That’s the only time you see this place.<br> But you don’t have to be told.<br> You just come on your own.<br> And that’s something incredible.<br> That the Muslim Ummah all together, it gathers on this day without invitation.<br> Without even reminder.<br> We have been programmed, Subhan Allah, the very knowledgeable of us and not the very knowledgeable of us , the extremely committed and practicing of us and those who are far from deen also a good majority of them as well show up on this day.<br> And you will notice a bigger community gathers and some of them even lost their way even on jumma, you will see them on their Eid prayer, right?<br> You will those people that you don’t see any other time of the year.<br> But regardless I wanna focu on Friday.<br> There is something Allah put inside this day.<br> And this gathering in specific.<br> That’s very important.<br> And you know the Arab spring is not too old now, and it’s something that is still taking place and you guys are hearing in the news all the time.<br> You know one of the scariest times for regimes, was right after jum’a as salah!<br> Because they knew automatically people are gonna be gathered in all the Masajid any way so as they are leaving they are gonna give more momentum to the protest and more people will be out on the streets.<br> So the things that will terrify the regimes, was salatul jum’a!<br> Think about that.<br> Because they knew this is time when the Muslims will show their strength, their numbers, you know!<br> But what is the spirit of this particular day?<br> And this activity itself that gives its power, this communal activity that all of us have the blessing to enjoy week after week after week.<br>
