Yasir Qadhi | Khutbah: O Bilaad al-Shaam! You are in Our Hearts!
[The following is the transcript from the video khutbah of Shaykh Yasir Qadhi on the Syrian crisis. The transcript includes slight modifications for the sake of readability and clarity.] Part 1 My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, one of the very few lands that our Prophet has mentioned in numerous traditions, and in fact even before him, Allāh has mentioned by reference in the Qur'ān is the land of Shām, which is now the land of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Filistīne. This land clearly our tradition, our religion has emphasized it like no other land after the land of Ḥijāz. There is no question that Mecca and Madīnah, the land of Ḥijāz, is the most sacred land on earth, but after the Ḥijāz comes the land of Syria. Allāh Himself praises it in the Qur'ān in the beginning of Sūrat'l-Isrā' when He says, “masjid'l-Aqṣa, the land that We have blessed around it.” Allāh says that masjid'l-Aqṣa is holy, and not just the masjid but the land around the
