Saudi Shaykh al-Sudays Friday Sermon: "Jewish aggressors...criminal
Zionists...supported by...worshippers of the Cross"

GMP20020602000062 Middle East--FBIS Report in Arabic 31 May 02
[FBIS Report]
[With thanks to MewNews]
Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TV1 in Arabic, official television
station of the Saudi Government, 31 May 2002 at 0926 GMT carries a live
sermon from the holy mosque in Mecca:

Shaykh Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, preacher and imam of the mosque,
delivers the sermon, which he devotes to the "sublimity" of the Islamic
religion, emphasizing the worship of God and following of the sunna
[prophet's traditions]. He says that when sedition befalls a nation and
right is confused with falsehood, the worship of God becomes the only guide
to the right path. The nation, he adds, is in dire need today of this
worship so it can achieve victory.

"We mustn't forget," the imam says, "that we are a nation of a pure
faith and creed and a sublime world message and reminding people of it is
the topic of this and every hour until the Day of Judgment." This faith and
the sunna is the best educator for the nation and the coming generations,
but the important thing is to translate the faith into precise application
of all that the prophet brought, he adds.

The imam says: "The nation has never been in such a dire need to follow
the example of the prophet in this age of tribulations, sedition, open
challenges, and mean plotting by the enemies of Islam. I mean especially
those whom God cursed, got angry with, and turned into monkeys, pigs, and
tyrant worshippers among the Jewish aggressors and criminal Zionists. Their
course is supported by the advocates of credit and worshippers of the Cross,
as well as by those who are infatuated with them and influenced by their
rotten ideas and poisonous culture among the advocates of secularism and
westernization."

The imam urges Muslims to read and seek guidance from the sunna. He
says Muslims need to strictly observe these traditions, change their stands
on their basis, and thus strengthen their faith. He urges Muslims to show
their love for the prophet by applying his traditions.

Having cited anecdotes illustrating the prophet's "noble deeds and
manners," the imam says: "Let the whole of mankind know these bright pages
on the mercy of Islam and the prophet of Islam and peace, may the peace and
blessings of God be upon him. Let those who stand behind the biased
campaigns against Islam, the prophet of Islam, and the people of Islam, know
the noble deeds, virtues, and merits of Islam and the wide gap between its
sublimity and their fake globalization that wastes human values and ideals."

The imam then says: "If in these critical circumstances the nation is
speaking about the noble deeds of the prophet, may the peace and blessings
of God be upon him, how can it cherish such good talk when Muslim holy
places are violated by aggressor Jews, the enemies of Islam? Here they
are escalating their aggression and terrorism and fanning the fire of
sedition in an arrogant and reckless manner within the sight and hearing of
the world. They are challenging Muslim feelings in the third holiest mosque,
may God make us witness its liberation from the usurper Jews and keep it
lofty until the Day of Judgment."

The imam continues: "How also can it cherish such good talk when the
enemies of Muslims among the atheists insist on their arrogance and
aggression against our people and sanctities in struggler Chechnya? And, how
can it cherish such good talk when the idol-worshipping Hindus indulge in
their open hatred against our brothers and sanctities in Muslim Kashmir,
threatening an imminent danger and a fierce war in the whole Indian
sub-continent? This calls for self-restraint and listening to the language
of dialogue and the voice of reason and logic and restoring rights to their
owners."

The imam reiterates: "The nation is in dire need in these decisive
moments of its history to truly adhere to its religion and the traditions of
its prophet, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him, in love,
accord, solidarity, tolerance, and ease. It is in this way that unity would
be achieved under the Koran and sunna by understanding our predecessors, God
have mercy on them."

The imam continues with the same theme in the second part of the
sermon. He says that the nation is in dire need today to unite on the path
of the Koran and the sunna so that there would be a concerted effort to
achieve the great objective of peace. Every Muslim everywhere has a duty to
follow this course so that Islam would lead again, He adds.

The imam concludes with a prayer to God to support Islam and Muslims,
humble infidelity and infidels, destroy the enemies of religion, and make
this and other Muslim countries peaceful and stable. He goes on: "O God,
support our brother Mujahidin for your sake and the oppressed everywhere. O
God, support them in Palestine, Kashmir, and Chechnya. O God, we ask you to
support our Palestinian brothers in Palestine against the aggressor Jews and
usurper Zionists. O God, the Jews have tyrannized, terrorized, and indulged
in tyranny and corruption. O God, deal with them for they are within your
power."