Summary: WHEN WILL YOU SUBMIT?<br> <br> I first of all ask Allah (swt) to give me strength and clarity to deliver a message that is beneficial and its something that remains in the hearts and minds of myself included and all the Muslims because the subject that I have chose that I have chosen to share with you today is of really a paramount importance and typically what I like to do in Khutbah is to focus on some portion of Allah's words. And the portion I have selected for you today is the 54th ayah of Surah-An Nisa. Surah Nisa happens to be the surah as early Madni by most accounts. And includes in it many instructions for Muslims and how to set up themselves as a community. So some of the foundations or principles for Muslim community to be established in Madina in the life of Madina. And in it it also has principles for us of how to go beyond the community and really truly become a nation. So you know there is this idea of us the smallest unit of humanity being an individual and beyond that being a family and beyond that being a neighbourhood and beyond that being a community and even beyond that being a nation. And so these stepping stones that lead us to become a solidify nation, an ummah. And Allah mentions these ayahs in these injunctions in one after the other in this surah . So of them having to do with divorce law, others having to do with fighting in the path of Allah, spending in the path of Allah. And you find a very interesting contrast. You find Allah talking to two groups of people. One group of people that is refusing to accept Islam. And another group of people who have accepted Islam on the outside but have walked away on Islam from the inside, the Munafiqoon. And there are different kinds of hypocrites, there are those who never really believe to begin with and it was a fasad to begin with<br> <br> وَقَد دَّخَلُوا بِالْكُفْرِ وَهُمْ قَدْ خَرَجُوا بِهِ<br> <br> Right? They never had to begin with. On the other hand there are those who may have come with good will they actually thought Islam has something good to offer and they accepted it thinking it is the truth its convincing and its a beautiful thing. But when it came to its instructions and injunctions and its demands they said I love Islam but this is getting a little too much. This is a lot to ask of a person. They were not like a lot of these people who came in to Islam a good number of them were not like the Sahaba of Makkah. You know when you come into Islam in Makkah, it is not a bed of roses to begin with. They already know if I become a Muslim now, well all the Muslims I know are being cursed at, tortured, beaten up, made fun of. They are getting kicked out from their families home. So if I join these people then I guess that's coming in my future too. There is no added advantages in becoming a Muslim in the worldly sense, not in Makkah anyway. When Prophet(saw) migrates to Madina, the Muslims are to begin with a strong community. Significantly stronger when they were in Makkah. And now if you become a Muslim the challenges are not the same as the challenges were in Makkah for the Muslim who become in Makkah that is, they are not the same. So a lot of times people would jump into Islam not realizing the consequences. What they are getting themselves into. This Deen is not an easy thing. This is not something you can take casually. It really is a change of course of your entire life. So Allah in these ayaat talks specifically there is an entire passage dedicated to a discussion for the Munafiqoon, for the hypocrites. And the hypocrites would walk away from Islam in 2 ways. And this is important. One is obviously leaving Islam altogether, رِدَّ , outright you become Muslim and everybody knows you are no longer Muslim, you have become a Kaafir again. But there is another form of turning away from Deen and that is from outside you say you profess to be from the Muslims because that has social consequences if you walk away from Islam outr...
