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The Tragedy of Apathy

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Woman Reveals Her Father Reportedly Committed Suicide Because She Married A Black Man

Allah states: “And don’t be led to Destruction, via your own Hands.”…”And never let your hatred, against any People, prevent you from behaving justly.”
(Noble-Qur’ān: Chpt.2, V.195; Chpt.5, V.8)

Muhammad (Peace be upon them) stated that there’re 4-Sifāt/Characteristics of al-Jāhiliyyah/Ignorance which their Nation will never abandon. Literally, 2/4 of Those-Sifāt have to do with al-`Asabiyyah/Xenophobia. Muhammad had specified which Sifāt/Manifestations of al-`Asabiyyah they meant. They were pertaining to those whom brag about their own Ansāb/Genealogies & clown-on the Ansāb of Others.
(Muslim)

Like I always tell People: Apathy is worse than Ignorance.

The Aforementioned-Pic, detailing that a Person committed Suicide, for no other Reason than their Child being with a Fellow-Human of Another-Ethnicity. This is not only tragic, but also equally shameful, pathetic, etc. & displays clearly how far someone is willing to go to manifest whatever `Udwān/Gullah (Animosity/Disdain) they harbor against any other Human-Being. This is precisely how far-off the Rails Certain-Persons allow al-`Asabiyyah to take&lead them.

Let me make something very clear, before I continue any further:

a. I’m not happy, nor joyed that This-Person committed Suicide.

b. I don’t think/feel that this is in any Way “funny/amusing”, nor do I ever take the Subject of Suicide lightly.

c. Suicide is a Subject to always be taken seriously.

http://www.garethbryant.wordpress.com/2022/07/04/mockingpainandsuffering/

http://www.garethbryant.wordpress.com/2023/01/16/selfquitting/

However, one must definitely admit-Committing Suicide only because they don’t want their Child to be with someone, of Another-Ethnicity, is Sucka-Shit. It truly displays how apathetic, shallow, etc. someone is to do this. I mean, killing one’s Self holistically is bad enough. But, to use al-`Asabiyyah as a Pseudo-Justification…This-Person is a Bozo. Killing themselves literally has shattered & ruined their Family, I’m sure of it. And, their Relatives must deal with the Trauma associated with their Actions as long as they live. They literally robbed their Potential/Future-Grandchildren of the Opportunity to have a Grandparent. They robbed their Children the Opportunity to have More-Time with their Father, they robbed their Spouse of the Relationship which they built together, etc. all over one’s Ethnocentric/Xenophobic-Egotism.

Just imagine you’ve someone close to you, a Friend, Relative, etc. & they’d rather be dead, as opposed to seeing you with someone exclusively because they’re a Different-Ethnicity than you. Also, now, how’s the Other-Person supposed to do with that?!!! As per the Pic itself: This-Person has literally been blamed/faulted, for causing their Relative to commit Suicide.

Furthermore, the Irony is that This-Person’s Father committing Suicide: what did it prove…nothing, what did it accomplish…nothing, was it supposed to “prevent” their Daughter from having the Man they’re with put them Face-Down/Ass-Up…no. They not only had 0-Entitlenent/Justification to take/destroy their own Life, but also whike they dead their Daughter is still getting fucked by the Person they unjustly despise. Make that Goofy-Shit make Sense.

Realistically, the Worst-Part of it all, for them, is that they died upon other than al-Islām. And, because of that: they can’t even have anyone ask Allah to mercify&forgive them of their Zhulm/Oppression against themselves. Let us, as Muslims, take an `Ibrah/Lesson via This-Scenario: a. Die upon al-Islām/Submission, as a Muslim…b. Die in a State of at-Tā`ah/Obedience to Allah.

Gareth Bryant

The Time we think we have

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This was a Khutbah which I did on Jumād-ith-Thānī 13th, 1444, A.H./January 6th, 2023, C.E. The Topic/Subject was about al-Mawt/Death. Originally, my Khutbah-Niyyah/Motive was different. But, then, on my Way to a Masjid/Mosque via Uber: I saw Several-Cemetaries & then a Mobile Funeral-Procession. Upon seeing this: I immediately switched my Khutbah-Subject/Topic.

I gave This-Khutbah titled “The Tadhkirah/Reminder of al-Mawt/Death on Shawwāl 15th, 1444, A.H./May 5th, 2023, C.E.

https://fb.watch/klZ2Ml30cR/?mibextid=Nif5oz

I truly believe that Allah caused me to see what I’ve aforementioned, in order to introspect/reflect upon my own Mortality & to remind Others of their own Mortality. It was a Necessary-Sense of Eerie-Urgency, for me to give a Khutbah about Death. The Reason how/why is because it’s a Bitter-Subject…no one actually wants to demise. Even at the Time-Of-Death, People want to live. Even those whom’re Suicidal: they don’t want to die, but rather they want their Suffering to die.

Death is something which Most-Persons aren’t comfortable addressing, because honestly most of us don’t take interest in preparing for Death. There’s a Particular-Flaw via Humanity, which Allah has embedded within our Fitrah/Nature: each of us actually subconsciously think/feel we’re going to dwell via ad-Dunyā/the Mundane forever, in spite of the Fact that Death occurs all the Time & People die everyday. We never want to recognize/accept the Reality that we’ll all face the Fate-Of-Death, until it’s our Turn. But, by then it’s too late.

Also, after Death: we’ll exist via a Realm known as al-Barzakh. Barzakh actually means “Border”, “Barrier”, etc. The Barzakh separates the Living from the Dead. It lies between ad-Dunyā/the Mundane & al-Ākhirah/the Hereafter. Then, via Yawm-il-Qiyāmah/the Day-Of-Standing: we’ll be resurrected & made to attend the Court-Of-Allah, in which They’ll judge all amongst al-Jinn/Fire-Beings as well as al-Ins/Human-Beings, as per what we used to do.

Gareth Bryant