A Lecture by Suhaib Webb | Transcribed by Fuseina Mohamad
Surat al-Fatiha Series
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When I first became Muslim in 1992, alhamdullilah may Allah accept it from me, in that time when Allah took me from the darkness of being a member of the Bloods to being a member of the sunnis, I went to a masjid. Now, this is not to offend anyone, please don’t take this the wrong way. I went to a masjid and I didn’t know anything, because as a new Muslim really whatever you see, you take. So I walk into the masjid and suddenly this one chacha (uncle) he grabs me and he tells me, “Let’s go pray, my son.”
So I agreed and I went and prayed with these brothers. After the Imam finished the prayer, I heard the adhan (call to prayer) being announced again. I realized there was another jama’ah (group for prayer) in the same masjid. I was surprised, I hadn’t read this in Maududi’s “Towards Understanding Islam.”
I asked if there was something else going on and they told me, “No brother, those are the non-MQM Muslims.”
“MQM? What’s MQM? I know of ABC, CBS, ESPN, MTV. But MQM?”
So they explained, “MQM is a political party founded in Karachi by Altaf Hussain, an ex-taxi driver from Chicago who is seeking to free the people who migrated from India, who have the true right to be in Pakistan, from the yokes of the Punjabi.”
I don’t know what that is. I’m a new Muslim. In this masjid, subhan Allah, they were all praying their five prayers, but because of political differences they had different groups.
So if you were to ask them, “Brother what are you doing?” They would say, “We’re worshipping Allah, we’re praying.” But look at the mu’amalat (behavior). They had two different salah and they didn’t feel ashamed to be doing this in front of a new Muslim. Why? Because their understanding of `ibadah was limited to the fact that they prayed. It is assumed that how we treat each other has no consequence on our worship. This is not correct. It’s not correct at all. I told them, “Well what if I’m a Democrat? Should I have my own salah for Democrats?”





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