The following are
excerpts from a sermon given by
Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, which aired
on Al-Nas TV on December 29, 2009.
Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub:
The nation of Islam is here to stay. We should make this notion grow
within our hearts. Our nation was not created to fulfill a role and
then disappear, like the nations before us, which were created to exist
for a while, only to be annihilated. No, no. The nation of Islam was
created to remain to the end of time, strong and dominant.
[...]
Our nation will never
die. It will not be annihilated. We have seen our nation undergoing
worse events then those we witness today. We ache the disintegration,
the loss, and the eradication of Iraq, but Iraq has undergone crises
that made the Euphrates River flow red with blood, and another time,
flow black with ink, because of the books of the Baghdad Library, which
were thrown into it.
[...]
We have witnessed the
racial cleansing in Bosnia and in Kosovo. Despite this, the Muslim race
has been cleansed of the filthy blood of polytheism and the polytheists.
[...]
The Jews are our enemies.
Allah will annihilate them at our hands. This is something we know for
certain. We know this for certain – not because I say so, but because
Allah said so. “You shall find that the people strongest in enmity
to the believers are the Jews and the polytheists.”
[...]
For the Islamic nation,
the Al-Aqsa Mosque is like a banner on the battlefield. I have read
the works of many preachers and scholars, who said that if you wanted
to discern the state of the nation at any given time, you should look
at Al-Aqsa. The state of Al-Aqsa reflects the state of the nation. Whenever
the nation was strong and its banner was flying high, Al-Aqsa was in
the hands of the Muslims. But whenever the nation went through a period
of weakness and collapse, Al-Aqsa was in the hands of non-Muslims.
[...]
Today, the nation –
its young, its elderly, its men, its women, and its children – are
prepared to be martyred at the gates of Al-Aqsa... The nation in its
entirety.
