Abdelrahman Badawy – Reflecting on oppression in the story of Musa AS & Fir’awn
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The speaker discusses the importance of belief and faith in Islam, as it is crucial for revolution and everyone should use their own values to achieve success. They emphasize the need for a certain percentage of delusion to become great and the importance of protecting people's privacy and desire for change. The speaker also emphasizes the need for people to change their positions and use the tool of belief to achieve success. They stress the importance of not begging and not calling out lies, and warn against the " 3% rule" and the " glasses of the people" of the world. They also discuss the use of people being subordinate and the "vanity of the numbers game" of the world.
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We ask Allah to bless this gathering and
to grant us knowledge that will benefit us,
Ameen, and to renew our intentions.
So,
let's we said we're going to give an
overview of the story of Musa
and in the future weeks I want to
get into
after the flood
of the Red Sea, of course. And after
What happens after? What happens after
Firaun was destroyed? Does that mean that's it?
The the believers were victorious and they had
a wonderful life after that? It wasn't the
case. There's big test and then there's smaller
test
and there's things that Allah
puts us through in order to
Allah says in the Quran, to filter out
the pure from the corrupt and the filthy.
So even amongst the believers and amongst the
victorious nations, not everybody has their hearts aligned
and hearts on the right page. Not everybody
means well. Some people are agenda driven, personal
interest driven. Allah always clears those people out
through a series of filters and we'll talk
about those for the next few weeks Insha'Allah.
So
the story of Prophet Musa Alaihi Wasallam.
He was born into
a people
they were ruled by a tyrant by the
name of?
Right? Pharoah. And he pharaoh is mentioned again
in all the scriptures. He was an oppressive
ruler of Egypt. He enslaved Bani Israel, the
people of Musa Alaihi Salam where Bani Israel,
the children of Yaqub alaihis salam, you know,
the descendants of him, of Yaqub alaihis salam,
which modern day they're the Jews. The Jews,
they were the believers at the time. They
were the people who were still holding on
to what was left of the book, and
of Tawhid, and of worshiping Allah, and so
on. Fir'aun didn't like any of that. He
wanted to be worshipped himself. He wanted people
to be subjugated.
So he lived that way, he enslaved them,
he put them through trial and test.
Those of them who earned money, they made
low wages. So they were the lower class
of society and it was very easy to
take advantage of them because
he just had the money and the wealth
and the ability. So he took advantage.
This
went on for quite a while. And when
I was younger I used to hear this
part.
You
know, you've enslaved the people of Israel. I
always wondered why didn't they just rise up?
You guys ever had that question?
And he said he killed their sons and
he left their daughters.
So he's killing children, why didn't people just
rise up? What do you think? What's the
answer to that question?
Have you ever thought of that when you
read these stories in the Quran or read
stories of the past?
So what are your thoughts?
Yeah.
They couldn't, so why not?
They weren't strong enough. So
what changed when Musa alaihi wasalam showed up?
Because he stood up.
They didn't have a leader.
That's one factor. Very good. What are some
other thoughts? Well, how about that? This is
a good discussion question. I want you guys
to get into groups of 4, introduce each
other, introduce yourselves if you don't know each
other, and just for a few minutes, discuss
this question. These people were enslaved for for
decades or generations. These people had a very
difficult time. Generation is born into that difficulty.
They were in the lower class of society.
There was no upward mobility. Why didn't they
just rise up? Alright. Let's do 3 minutes,
chat with your your, neighbors about this.
Alright.
Just because of a lack of time, I'm
sorry. Usually, I like you to chat more.
Let's get back in business.
What is brothers,
Bismillah.
Thank you. So
we have about something like 30 minutes left
at most for this session, so I want
us to really cover some ground. What are
what are some reasons they didn't rise up?
We said there's lack of a leader. They
were too weak. What else? So how does
a nation that is oppressed constantly and they're
enslaved and they get low wages and there's
no upward mobility, there's no room to climb,
don't don't you expect that they're just gonna
be weak forever? Every generation is born into
the slavery, so this is weak and weak
and weak. So where's the what chance do
they ever climb? Yes.
Thank you. This is if you're writing down,
this is essential.
You need to have belief.
You need to believe in something bigger than
yourself. And this is 100% true even for
us today.
When you speak about Palestine for example and
the khutbah, there's always And I experienced this
yesterday. There's always a few people that come
to you after salah
without
any exception. There's the people who are so
hopeful and say, Jazakam Khayr, this really made
me feel like insha'Allah, there's good on the
horizon. And there's always someone which happened to
me yesterday who says like, Come on man,
we've been saying this for decades.
And I don't blame this person. It's a
person who has been dealing with it and
has gotten false hope so many times that
they say like, I don't want to be
fooled again. I don't wanna, you know, get
hurt again and just think that this is
the one that, you know, we finally get
success and then nothing happens,
in 2 weeks or a month. Everyone's emotion
dies down, no more protests and nobody cares
anymore. And he's like, I'm not gonna have
hope again.
This is what they want. They want your
spirit to be completely broken.
So don't allow that. Allah says in the
Quran that Yaqub which is Israel himself, Yaqub
the prophet, He said,
He said, Nobody gives up hope in Allah
except a disbelieving people.
It is forbidden, it is haram to give
up hope in Allah.
When you give up when you despair and
you say, You give up hope that Allah
will grant you victory. What you're saying is
Allah is not able to do it.
Allah is not capable of handling some of
His creation. Allah is fully capable, you're just
blind to Allah's plan. You're just hasty.
As the prophet
said.
He said, The people before you went through
much worse and they were better than you.
Do you think that you're absolved of that?
Do you think that you won't you don't
have to go through that? No.
It's one of the tests of this dunya.
So it's haram to lose hope in Allah.
But belief and this is an expression I
don't know
to what extent it applies here,
but it is an interesting
expression. It's about
you have to have a certain percentage of
delusion to become great.
You have to be deluded enough to think
it can happen.
Because the people who consider themselves too realistic,
they just they limit themselves. And they say,
this is as far as I think I
can go. So that is as far as
they go. So you have to see further.
And that's why Revolution has a lot of
ingredients. One of which is
older people who've been through it, who can
pass on experience and knowledge and so on.
And the second one there's many ingredients. The
second ingredient is enough young people
who are naive.
They haven't been subjugated,
they haven't felt the whip, They haven't felt
the jail. They haven't they weren't alive when
the hammer came down. So there's a level
of naivete. Right? They're naive. True or false?
They haven't they haven't felt how bad it
can get, so don't fear it because they
don't know what to fear.
But that's also an ingredient that's needed for
revolution.
So everybody plays a role and Allah puts
all the pieces together as He wishes
What's another thing that another reason why they
didn't just rise up brothers and sisters sisters
rather?
Say again?
Fears. Is that what you're saying? Who's speaking?
Oh, okay. Fears. Well, yeah, fear. Right? The
people had,
felt the the subjugation, and obviously the tactics
of the oppressor is they have all these
kind of rules and all these kind of
punishments to intimidate and to prevent anybody from
speaking up. Alright? So yes.
Why not?
Well, they were. This is Bani Israel. This
is the believers of the time. They had
belief, but belief comes and goes, and it
goes up and down in our ummaz history
as well. Like a 100 years ago, the
past 100 years
all the years that we've been alive and
then another
80, the the these years, our ummah still
has belief. We still believe in Jannah, we
believe in Shahada, we believe, but Iman was
at an all time low, like very low.
Right? So belief is there or the the
remnants of belief and the prophecies are there,
but it's about
how much are people holding on to it.
And that's why
The scholars have said this throughout the ages,
the end of or the last generations of
this ummah will not be
granted victory except
through the same means that granted the first
people victory. It's the only way. The same
recipe applies. Until you get back to your
deen, as the prophet very clearly said, Victory
is not coming, success will not come.
Allah does not change what is within the
people until they change what
is within themselves.
It's right there in the Quran, you will
never change it, and you can do whatever
you want.
Until
that ingredient is achieved, there will be no
victory for this ummah, and that's that.
You can do whatever you can say whatever
you like. It will not happen, and you're
gonna see it. And we've seen it. I
mean, how many more times do you have
to see it? Right? Alright. So there's so
much discussion about this part, but, you know,
it's gonna definitely stop us from continuing the
story. But what are the ingredients of success?
What are the ingredients of people to rise
up? You and me, we have an advantage
and a gift
that we are not grateful enough for.
It's that as Americans
it is ingrained in our head from birth,
from all the books that we read, fiction
as well as non fiction, all the movies
that we watch, fiction, nonfiction,
all the stories we hear about heroes, it's
always the same. You deserve freedom. It's your
god given right. You better fight for it.
If you don't fight for it, they'll they'll
just, you know, bring the hammer down harder.
This is a message that's ingrained in every
American spirit all their life. True or false?
Right?
Think of every fiction you've played, you've watched,
every game you've played, every book you've read,
every hero that America holds dear, it's always
the same, fighting for freedom, belief that you
will get it, and demanding that you'll get
it, and willingness to sacrifice for it.
Don't be naive and think that the whole
world is taught the same thing.
Your cousins back home in your ethnic homeland
and many others, no they're subjugated from birth.
Many of them are told, Just be quiet
and don't make too much trouble, don't make
too much noise because we can't afford to
get in trouble.
This is this is not I'm not trying
to blame them or accuse them or put
them down, you know, they have it tough.
But they've been in such a tough situation
their whole life. They've seen the hammer come
down that they they just they have to
protect their kids by telling them this.
Because they've seen people get their heads chopped
off wholesale, 50,000 people thrown in jail, 100,000
people killed. You know, they've seen this. And
1 generation ago, not too long ago, we
have the luxury
and the gift and the nirma
of security and safety and the freedom of
speech and ingraining in our hearts the desire
for revolution, the willingness to sacrifice for freedom.
So thank Allah for your blessings and be
grateful because even
the heart that you have, the willingness that
you have, that's a gift from Allah too.
You didn't get a choice of where to
be born. Right?
You didn't get a choice what kind of
passport you have. These are all gifts that
Allah gave you. The freedom you have, also
the power
that we have that others don't, that also
gives you courage.
Which, subhanAllah,
is right in Prophet Musa's story. Where was
Prophet Musa raised?
In Egypt. But where? Did he In his
house or somebody else's house?
Firaun's house. He was raised as the son
of Firaun.
All the elites He was elite. He grew
up as an elite person.
All the tools, all the citizenship basically.
He had a certain power that let his
voice go significantly. His brother Harun,
he has a brother, his actual brother. He
was born in his parents house and he
lived with Bani Israel. He did Harun alaihis
salam, he became a prophet later. But before
that Musa was living there, and Harun was
living
in poverty
and the difficult situations of Bani Israel, but
they were brothers.
But now this one has citizenship of that
time, and Musa used it and used the
voice that Allah granted him. He used the
tools that he had. Harun did not have
the same tool. And you know Musa alaihis
salam had a stutter, you know,
he didn't speak very well, he had a
speech impediment.
And yet Allah still obligated him to do
the best you can.
When he made du'a, when Allah commanded him,
go speak to Firaun and preach to the
people, and demand that he lets
your people go. He said, Oh Allah, I
have a speech impediment, I'm not the best
speaker.
Allah said, Do the best that you can.
And then he made duaa, can you Oh
Allah, can you send Harun, my brother with
me?
So,
he speaks better than I do. Can you
bring him along with me for this journey?
And Allah says,
I have granted you your request, O Musa.
It's one of the most beautiful the scholars
say the best dua a brother has ever
made for his brother. Because he made dua,
O Allah send haroon with me and Allah
accepted it. So Allah made his brother a
prophet through his dua.
So the he he he really, helped his
brother in the best way you could possibly
do.
But he also knew his limitations.
He said, Oh Allah, I don't speak the
best.
He said it means like, Oh Allah, untie
the knot from my tongue so I can
speak better. But he said also send me,
harun with me so he can serve help
serve in this, in this endeavor inshallah. Anyway,
this is just parts of, Prophet Musa story.
So there's so many ingredients and factors that
go into a subjugated people
getting victory eventually. Yes, people who are subjugated,
they're not really getting stronger every generation, at
least visibly.
However there's one other ingredient that is not
in our hands, is that
the law that Allah has put
you will never find a change in this
law, is that the people at the top
get weaker generation after another.
We talked before that every empire has 3
stages, right? You have the rise,
the peak, and then the fall.
No empire in history has ever avoided any
of these stages.
Or
more specifically the last stage, the fall.
Once you reach the top, what goes up
must come down. It's Allah's nature, Allah's law
in nature. This happens to every living being,
every creation, everything except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The living who will never die. The one
who is always all powerful, all knowing, and
can never be challenged.
So that's an ingredient that is not in
your hands, but it's something that is also
another ingredient revolution and and and, and the
flipping of the script where
luxury and ease and and, you know, indulgence,
it just makes the people weak. It's that
simple. You You can only survive on that
for long. Right? For for so long. There's
the expression, of course, you've heard it a
1000000 times, which is,
what is it? Strong men create good times,
good times create weak men, and then weak
men create bad times, and then bad times
create strong men again, and then the cycle
continues. So that's always how it works
and you will not find a change in
any
civilization, Muslim or otherwise.
Another ingredient that is needed is that enough
people amongst the subjugated people, enough of them
need to be fed up.
Enough of them need to be frustrated.
If there's just enough
crumbs coming down to them that it gives
them
enough of a comfortable life not a comfortable
comfortable enough life that is not worth rocking
the boat, then they're gonna say, Please man,
don't make any trouble because we don't need
to.
And that's what the people told Musa alaihis
salam. They said, we were harmed before you
came to us and we were harmed after
you came to us, which we'll talk about
later, ungrateful people.
That's gonna come up in this series for
sure. People who are not worthy of revolution
and that's why Allah did not give it
to them. They said, well, you know, we
were we lived a miserable life,
but you came and we're still struggling, and
we're not willing to put in the sacrifice
to rip off the band aid. So they're
just Allah said, Okay, you're not worthy, you
don't get it. And then it was delayed
another generation.
So enough people need to be fed up.
Here's a question, when I say enough people
need to be fed up to be willing
to risk
the status quo to get to rise up
against oppression,
how much is enough people, percentage wise? Yeah.
Alright. So don't don't say it.
What's how much is enough?
0% of people, a 100% of people,
and of the subjugated people that is or
of all of the civilization. What's a good
percentage?
70%. So you need of the subjugated people
or of everybody,
including the ruling class and the middle class
and so on. Right?
So of the subjugated people. Okay. Good. 70%.
What's another number, sisters?
How many of them need to be fed
up for a revolution to work? It's one
of the ingredients. By the way this is
not an exact science, you don't have to
have an exact number. But it's just thoughts
and studies that they've done throughout history and
observing civilizations and and, you know, collecting data.
So there's just different thoughts. There's no one
answer, but there's a few ideas that people
researchers have had. What's the number or what
do you think it could be?
So of the subjugated people, the oppressed people,
something like 85% of them need to be
fed up and ready for revolution. Alright? What
else?
50%.
10%. 10%.
60, 95. So everybody has to be on
board.
30%.
Just yourself. Well, I mean,
I I I'm that's, may maybe more of
a I want, like, a more, like, a
data driven answer as opposed to like, just
yourself, of course. You should be, like,
you are only responsible for yourself, but, obviously,
we're talking about ingredients that are needed for
it to work. Right? Because people rise up
and then they get jailed or they get
silenced or they get assassinated or they get
character assassinated, which is the more modern
tool that they use. They've realized throughout history
that when they assassinate people, they make them
a bigger hero than they were. So they've
stopped for the most part. They don't stop.
But
they weigh their odds. They don't always assassinate.
They will character assassinate either through invented lies
or rumors, or they put them in a
position that compromises their moral personal morality, and
then they say, look, this is your leader,
and they sort of get them off the
grid. Yes.
Over 50% of the non subjugated people of
all of society. Alright. So throw me some
numbers on all of society. How because you
you can't be the subjugated people alone who
bring it you know, you need to convince
some of the middle class etcetera to get
on board. Throw me numbers of of the
whole society. What percentage of all of society
Just throw it out. Throw the numbers out.
50%.
Throw them out. 25?
1%?
Interesting. What else? 5. 5?
How much? 20?
20. So there okay. So
there's a lot of studies on this, nothing
is conclusive, nobody can get a magic number.
But one number that was very interesting to
me was of all of society, not just
the subjugated people, what percentage of all of
society needs to be fed up enough for
a revolution? And the number was 3%.
3%.
And it was insane. And they had their
research to back it up, and they have
their data, they had their their studies of
previous societies or whatever,
we all tend to think that because democracy
is 51% and you have to have majority,
This is something that has always been and
will always be is that the vast majority
of people
don't care.
They will go with the flow wherever it
leads.
And they will convince themselves that this is
what I actually believe.
It is what it is.
And
you all all it requires for a significant
change is that 3%. Now obviously, other studies
have got different numbers, but nowhere near what
we think. 50, 60, 70, not even close.
And I think I I haven't studied them
all or looked at them all, but I
don't I haven't seen those numbers. And some
of you guys are in these fields more
than like in way more than myself. So
I would like I would love for you
to do your research and come back with
your findings. And tell me and correct me
if I'm wrong. Also tell us add some
more info to this. And this how does
this make you feel when you hear the
number 3%.
Good or bad?
Good. It's extremely hopeful.
Extremely hopeful.
Because it's like, wait, In our head, we
thought, oh my god. We it's such a
huge hill to climb. I gotta convince a
100%.
No nation or no people have ever gotten
freedom
by appealing to the empathy and compassion of
their oppressors.
It
does it's they're gonna say, oh wait, you've
convinced me. Yeah, I have been harming you
all this time.
Alright. I'm done. I won't do it.
Never.
Never. It's still a tool exposing the the
lies, exposing the hypocrisy. A brother,
it it went it was a post that
went around, I just can't keep track of
all of them. There was a Muslim guy
and it really went viral. And brothers were
sharing it with me. They were saying, like,
you guys are just out there begging. You
just gotta keep keep telling them that they're
lying. What do you you look pathetic. Yeah.
May Allah guide them. You know? I don't
know what what this kind of mentality.
Some people out there, all they do is
poke holes in momentum even though, you know,
may Allah forgive them because it's a major
sin to do that. But anyhow, this guy
was on TikTok saying, oh, you guys are
just out there begging all the time. You're
always trying to appeal to these people. You'll
never convince them. Stop being pathetic. You know,
just get your own strength up. First of
all, there's always a 100 tools.
And exposing the lies of the hypocrites is
not begging,
you're exposing them, you're using your voice. They
love, they dream of your silence. Wallahi they
do. That's how they were able to That's
how every generation has been able to oppress
for so many years. If you look at
the seerah of the Prophet
when they boycotted the Prophet Muhammad
and the Muslims and even his family for
3 years to the point where Sahaba were
just eating leaves to survive and they were
getting almost no nutrition whatsoever.
People
have lost all their weight.
Some of the kuffar of Quraysh, they had
dignity and integrity. And they said, How much
longer we can do this? We're gonna leave
them to die? I didn't sign on for
this. I don't like these Muslims. I don't
appreciate what they're preaching, but I didn't I
don't know. I'm not ready to genocide. That's
not my like I don't I didn't sign
on for this. So there it appeals to
integrity. But as long as it's out out
of sight, out of mind,
you can just go on with it because
not enough people are hearing it and not
enough people care.
But there are there's a there's a level,
there's a limit of how far, evil people
can go where people say I'm not on
board with this. So part of it is
you're not begging, you're raising awareness. I hate
when people characterize it like that. We're not
in the street when you're when you're when
you're protesting, you're not begging anybody. You're a
human you're an American citizen.
These politicians work for you.
You pay their salaries. You're demanding from your
employee. You better listen to what I have
to say.
When you refuse to buy at Starbucks,
when you refuse to buy at McDonald's or
any or Coca Cola or any of these
companies, you're saying,
I understand. I'm not fool anymore. I understand
that money is power. And I understand that
you guys are the biggest companies out there.
You have 1,000,000,000 upon 1,000,000,000 of dollars, and
you use it to harm us and to
oppress us. Well, no more.
I'm gonna vote with my dollar. Nobody has
a right to demand where I spend my
money. I do that.
So I'm I'm a little bit wiser now.
Sure, people will laugh at you and say,
Ah, it's a dollar at a time. They
probably make a few dollars profit from you
every year.
So how many people in this room? That's
a few dollars per person. How many Muslims
in the world? 2,000,000,000 that's a few dollars
per person.
And how many non muslims have signed on
for these boycotts? That's a few dollars per
person.
Everyone wants to poke holes in the momentum.
These are shayateen. Allah describes them in Surat
Al Tawbah, Allah describes them in many parts
of the Quran that these are the devils.
And you'll see in Surah Al Baqarah which
we're gonna get to, King Saul, Talut, Allah
put a few filtration processes there because Allah
did not want the people who would just
weaken us. Even though they're added numbers, they
are weakness.
It's a paradox. Numbers go up, weakness goes
up. So when numbers go down you get
rid of the garbage people, and actually your
strength went up.
This is repeated in the Quran, and the
two examples I've given you is Surat Baqarah,
Surat Ba Tauba, but we're gonna go into
detail about these because that's similar to where
we're at now as an ummah.
So don't let anybody poke holes in your
momentum.
Don't let anybody the prophet said, do not
look down on any good deed even if
it is to smile in the face of
your brother or your sister. He said, don't
look down on that. You don't know how
far a smile travels. Wallahi, a smile can
travel around the whole world.
You smile to one person, they smile to
another person, they were in a good mood,
they go home to their kids and their
their family, and their family is happy because
they're happy, and then they pass it on
tomorrow. And then your smile could your smile
to somebody who was, who needed it at
the time can travel the whole world without
you noticing. And similarly, your frown and your
negative negativity
and you're you're poking holes in the momentum
can can deflate a 1,000 people because you
were,
you were you started that. And good luck
with the on the day of judgement. Good
luck with the sayyat, this brother who made
this video 100 of 1000 of views, if
not millions at this point.
May Allah guide him to make tawba because
it's really pathetic.
If you don't have the energy yourself, if
you're,
despairing yourself, if you believe we're all a
failure, then just keep it yourself. At least
limit your sin.
The Prophet
said, Whoever says the people are ruined, he
is the most ruined of all.
Because it's a mentality, right? And it's not
it's self fulfilling.
Anyhow,
there's so many different factors, but I don't
wanna rest on this too long. But I
really want you for those who are interested
for the whoever this number sparked something in
your heart, I really want you to go
look it up. 3%.
I think they call it the the 3%
rule. There's obviously other studies that have different
figures, but they're all,
very low. Single digits, this, that, like, very
low compared to what we would would have
thought. So it gives you hope and you
don't have to convince anybody
everybody rather. I will say this, you will
never convince everybody. The Prophet Muhammad
was walking with them and Abu Jahl, his
own uncle was not convinced, right? And he
died on kufr. His own uncle Abu Talib
who was a good man was not convinced.
There was many people So the idea of
like man, I'm so frustrated,
how many more times do I have to
prove to them that they're murdering innocent people?
Why aren't they coming around? Some people will
never come around. But you're not begging.
Allah says, You're almost gonna kill yourself with
grief chasing after them because they don't believe
in this message.
Allah says, Don't do that. You're here to
present with dignity and integrity and your chest
out and your head held high. You're offering
them value, you're not begging them for anything.
If they don't accept the message that they're
lost because Allah's victory is coming regardless.
If they don't wanna accept it, good. They're
gonna get washed away with the garbage. And
you're gonna be, inshaAllah ta'ala, if Allah grants
you that honor, you're gonna rise to the
top in this dunya and especially and more
importantly in the iqra.
So you're not change your mentality
if you need to. We're not begging anybody
for anything. We're presenting the facts and we're
going to dominate the narrative.
I'm here to to call out your lies
every single time. I'm here to tell you
that it's not if you assassinate me or
character assassinate or censor me or ban me.
There's thousands of other people who are on
the same page, who are not gonna be
quiet. And it's enough silence and it's enough
poking holes in the momentum and it's enough,
you know, hamstringing our efforts.
Everybody has to say, I'm not begging you
to change the narrative. I'm demanding that you
do. And if you don't, which they probably
won't, I'm going to override your narrative.
I'm going to every time you spread a
lie,
one person spreads a lie, there's a 1,000
people calling out that lie, and we're not
going to lose it doesn't cost much guys
to call out the lies. Right?
So at the very least, keep your voice
there. People are voiceless.
And many I lived in the Middle East
for for the better part of 8 years.
People can't talk.
You know, most of you guys come from
ethnic, you know, your ethnic homeland. People can't
talk or they get arrested or they get
thrown in jail or attacked or this or
that. You they can't. So they they have
to. They're voiceless.
You don't have that fear.
So why don't you And besides,
another layer is our oppressed brothers and sisters
who get their internet cut off and their
electricity cut off, and they genuinely can't talk
or they get killed, may Allah eat them.
So you're the one of the few with
a voice and you're choosing to be voiceless,
that's really pathetic.
And if you want motivation, look at Musa
Do you see a parallel between Musa and
yourself?
He was from a subjugated people, true or
false?
But was he personally subjugated
growing up? He was raised elite, he had
the citizenship,
he had that blue passport,
just like you. And his own brother did
not.
Just like you, your own cousins back home,
they do not have niyal they can't speak
freely, They can't travel the world. Me and
you too you could literally, after this holocaust,
you could grab a passport and get on
a plane. Hey, what's the next one out
of JFK? Legally, you just you can do
that. When I lived in Saudi, you can't
do that. You have to take an exit
visa to leave and go it's a 2,
3 day process.
Get permission to leave the country.
So the freedoms that you have, and the
freedom to speak, and the freedom to have
a speech like this, and to go post
and say whatever, and then sleep soundly at
night, it's a nirma, it's a gift. So
channel the energy of prophet Musa alaihis salaam.
He had a speech impediment. He had a
physical genuine excuse not to, you know, get
up on stage and speak. But Allah did
not excuse him. Allah said, I'll help you
with that and I'll send your brother to
aid you, but
you still have to do it.
And he said And he Musa alaihis salam
and Haroon alaihis salam, they said, Oh Allah
we're afraid. What if he attacks us? What
if he harms us? Allah says,
go and I will help you and I'll
aid you. I will make sure that you're
not harmed in
this. Right? So research this number, the 3%,
and see what conclusions you come up to.
And hopefully, it's enough to have sparked hope
in you that, hey. Listen. The climb the
mountain that we need to climb is not
that high. We still need to climb.
Lazy people are gonna get filtered out. Impatient
people are gonna get filtered out.
This loyal people are gonna get filtered out.
People who don't don't have enough iman or
willingness
for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are going to
get filtered out. And that is the sign
of Allah and that is the pattern of
Allah and you will not find any change
in the pattern of Allah.
Alright.
So
we have a few more minutes.
Let's try to cover this next section.
So the people were subjugated,
and then So what How did Musa
come to be raised in the house of
Firaoun?
Firaun through several different means
he feared that Bani Israel, the subjugated people
would one day rise up against him.
These were several different means just like the
the the advisers telling him that, hey, these
people are growing in number. That's one way
that strength grows. And
and,
they're gonna overthrow you eventually. Also, he was
advised,
by some advisors. He he also different narrations
say, different people saw a dream. He saw
a dream that this a young man, a
boy will be born to Bani Israel from
the subjugated people. He will rise up, and
he will be the leader of the people
who take you out. So he panicked, he
asked his advisors what to do. They said,
Well just kill all the boys who are
born in that generation,
in those people. So they said he's a
great idea because these people have no heart
and no soul. They don't mind killing babies
as you see today. So
he just went and started killing the babies.
The males, you know, they killed the the
the boys that were born and they left
the females because they they said this would
limit the strength, that was the logic, and
so on and so forth. They did this
for a while and then his adviser said,
wait a second.
If we do the math correctly, this is
not gonna work out because you can't just
kill all the males because then the next
there's no next generation. And we need these
people. They're they're our working class. They are
you know, they they do the free labor
and the cheap labor.
So they didn't appeal to him to stop
the killing out of mercy and humanity and
empathy.
It was out of what?
It was greed and self interest, and that
is exactly how they operate today.
You think that the laws that come in
the UN and all these is just out
of mercy for the the the weaker countries
get mercy from the richer countries and the
stronger ones? It's strictly a numbers game. What's
in our best interest and our benefit? Go
look at what's happening in the Congo. Go
look at what's happening in
so many places around the world. All they
care about is their bottom line. Your life
means nothing to them. And if these past
this past month did not prove that to
you, I don't know what will. If these
people that are showing up in the videos,
counter protesting the Palestine protests, and saying the
most vile,
murderous things and getting away with it. And
they go they keep their job and they
and they, you know, they don't have to
fear.
You you lose your job if you say
free Palestine. They can say we're gonna kill
you all and chop off your heads, and
they just go back home.
And they just no arrest. They don't lose
their job. They don't lose their law firm.
It just Yeah. This is the This is
why we speak up and we speak out.
We're not begging, we're demanding. And if if
some, you know, foolish person amongst us says,
oh, come on. You guys gotta be quiet.
He's a fool. Sideline him. He doesn't understand
anything and he's just doing the homework. He's
doing the work of these people. He's literally
becoming their slave
for nothing. He's doing their service. They're saying
please be quiet. He's saying yes, please be
quiet. I agree.
You get it? Don't be anybody's fool,
in the service of shaytan.
So they they came up just pure
barbaric logic, they said, No, no, we can't
just keep killing their male babies. So what's
the solution? They said, Okay, we'll do it
year on year off.
1 year we kill all their babies, the
next year we let them all be born.
So Harun alaihi salaam was born in the
year that
that there was they weren't killing the baby
boys. So he got to live and and
his mom took care of him, and he
was born with Bani Israel. He lived with
Bani Israel in the poor, subjugated environment.
The next year, when Musa alaihi wasalam was
born, it was the year where they killed
the boys. So they go to every household,
they take the boys. So obviously his mother
did not want her son to be killed.
So she said she made du'a to Allah
What's up?
So he made du'a to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and he wanted to find a solution.
So she made du'a to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And of course Allah inspired her and
he sent
her he sent her the message that,
the the inspiration that to to put him
into the river and Allah will take care
of him, Insha'Allah.
Right? I'll end here because
the next part is going to be a
lot more in-depth. But I'll mention this, SubhanAllah,
Who And I hate to use the word
luck because as Muslims we don't believe in
luck. But if you were just looking at
it from a secular perspective, who was luckier?
Harun or Musa alaihis salam? The one that
was born in the year where they're not
killing baby boys or the one that was
born in the year where they do kill
baby boys?
Harun, right? He's lucky, he got born, there's
no damage, they don't soldiers don't come kill
you, you just live your life, nothing happened.
The next year, the boy who was born
during the year where they were killing babies
and he had to go through the turmoil
and got thrown in the river and they
don't know if he's going to survive or
not, he You know, it's terrible luck,
Right? Why did if he was just a
girl, it wouldn't have been a problem either.
But he had to be a boy on
the year where they're killing people.
You get it? So if you look at
it without knowing the patterns of Allah, without
knowing that the the Allah
They plot and they plan and Allah plans
and Allah is the best of planners. If
you're just looking at
it with your limited vision, you say, Come
on, that's terrible. Like he has terrible luck,
life is going terrible for him.
And then even when he got raised with
frown, you think you think it's a consolation
to be raised in the with the elites
if you're away from your family? You think
frown is a good a good person to
be raised with?
So it's not saying, oh, hey. At least
you got money and you got easy life.
Yeah. But I'm not with my I mean,
he obviously got to spend time with his
family, which we'll talk about. But you get
what I'm saying? Like, it's not it's not
a consolation for being,
treated that way. But subhanAllah, Allah has the
plan.
Allah has the plan. One last thing I'll
say is that
Allah could have very easily
just allowed him to be born in the
year where they're not killing babies.
But Allah
wanted to show us that no matter what
they do, if Allah wants this baby to
be born, not only is he gonna be
born,
he's gonna be grow up right under your
nose your entire time, Firaun, right in your
house. What are the chances?
And there's nothing you can do about it.
So
the tyrant can plot, they can plan, they
can kill, they can murder, they can do
whatever they want. If Allah wants something, not
only will Allah will Allah make it happen,
Allah will humiliate the tyrants by saying right
here, right under your nose, and watch it
play out, and let me see what you're
gonna do about it. Nothing.
And
it's exactly the story of Musa, and it
will be exactly the story today. So keep
your hope alive, keep speaking the truth, you're
not begging, you're demanding,
and
make sure that Iman is our number one
ingredient. And don't forget to research the things
that we talked about.
We have a few announcements inshallah.