Anti-Muslim Wars, and Our Duahs

A Call towards Allah and the Unity of Muslims

Today, for my Jalsa Salana speech, I return to a very important subject: the unity of Muslims, and the need to distance ourselves from things that hold no real value, so that we may be guided towards the vast blessings Allah has promised to those who follow His path – in the right way, and with Taqwa (i.e. with the consciousness of the presence of Allah and having an awe-inspiring reverence for Him).

Today, my call is not only to you, my dear followers, but to the entire Ummah of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), and to humanity as a whole.

Gaza: 'Does God See Us?'

 

"Perhaps those outside Gaza are in greater torment, cut off from the spiritual outpouring and mercy that rains down in Gaza."

I attempt to process this vast devastation. I look out at these destroyed homes, the grieving women, widows, orphans, the oppressed, the displaced, the homeless, the hungry, the thirsty, those overpowered by their circumstances, and I ask myself: Does God see them?

I look at the bombed houses, the demolished schools, the burned hospitals, the bulldozed streets, and I ask: Does God see them?

I look at the children trapped under the rubble, while the civil defense men stand helpless before extracting them, as they suffocate and die, and I ask: Does God see them?

I look at those who cannot find their daily bread, those who sleep hungry and wake up hungry; I look at the forcibly displaced, whose bones ache from sleeping on the ground, whose skin has cracked under the burning sun, the bites of mosquitoes, whose muscles are torn from carrying firewood and water buckets, and I ask: Does God see them?

I look at the wounded groaning in pain, without medicine; at those whose limbs have been amputated without anesthesia, unable to move, crying out for medical referrals to restore their hope, and I ask: Does God see them?

The truth is: Yes. God sees all of this.