Abdullah Hakim Quick – Resistance and Reform – Introduction – Class 1

Abdullah Hakim Quick
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The speakers discuss the challenges faced by Muslims in facing attacks and the need for submission to authority. They stress the importance of protecting faith and the rule of Islam to ensure the safety of others. The speakers also discuss the importance of acceptance of Islam's reform and resistance to evil practices, as well as the need for change and acceptance of change in one's behavior to avoid corruption. They stress the importance of history and acceptance of Islam as a solution to problems, and emphasize the need for measured online activities to avoid unnecessary harm.

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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil
		
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			Alameen Wa usalli wa usallam ala Sayyid al
		
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			-awwalin wa al-akhirin, nabiyyina Muhammadin, wa ala
		
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			alihi wa sahbihi, wa barak wa salam.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the Worlds, and peace and blessings be upon
		
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			our beloved Prophet Muhammad, the Master of the
		
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			First and the Last, his family, his companions,
		
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			and all those who call to his way
		
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			and establish his Sunnah to the Day of
		
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			Judgment.
		
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			As to what follows, As-salamu alaykum wa
		
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			rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we are continuing on with our classes,
		
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			trying to look at important issues that are
		
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			facing the Muslim world today.
		
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			2025 has begun, and Muslims are in a
		
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			very unique, challenging situation.
		
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			Because for some, it appears like the world
		
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			is closing in on us.
		
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			It appears like Islamophobia is rising and becoming
		
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			more and more powerful.
		
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			But for others, it is really part of
		
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			the change that we are going through.
		
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			It's part of the pain that we are
		
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			going through in order to rise back to
		
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			prominence.
		
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			Because when we look at the Muslim world,
		
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			we recognize that Muslims make up over 26
		
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			% of the Earth's population.
		
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			That we have some of the richest people
		
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			on the face of the planet Earth.
		
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			We have mineral wealth.
		
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			We have strategic position.
		
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			We have youth.
		
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			We have everything that is needed in the
		
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			sense of potential for us to be a
		
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			dominating force on Earth.
		
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			But at the same time, there's frustration.
		
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			The wealth is not going, for the most
		
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			part, to feed the poor or to liberate
		
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			the oppressed.
		
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			The scholars, in many cases, argue over trivia.
		
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			And we find many of the so-called
		
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			Muslim countries have become failed states.
		
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			And so, it's like a beautiful vehicle that
		
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			is in the beginning of the race.
		
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			You think it's going to win, but it
		
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			has no fuel.
		
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			There's no gas inside of it.
		
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			So there's something missing on the inside.
		
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			And this question or this challenge, I believe,
		
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			is very central for the future of Islam
		
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			and Muslims.
		
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			One of the issues is how do we
		
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			confront attacks.
		
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			We're under attack.
		
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			There's extreme pressure being applied to us.
		
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			And some people, some of the Muslims, when
		
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			faced with the attacks, they try to hide
		
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			themselves.
		
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			They try to appear like their enemies, to
		
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			dress like them, to talk like them, to
		
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			walk like them.
		
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			But that's not going to work because the
		
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			world has changed now and information now has
		
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			risen.
		
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			You can't hide, ultimately, your identity.
		
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			Other people go to extremes, and that's not
		
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			going to work either.
		
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			And so, one of the key issues where
		
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			there is a heavy debate on different levels,
		
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			even on a scholarly level, is that when
		
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			this attack is on, when we're under attack,
		
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			how do we respond?
		
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			And there's a tendency to stereotype the Muslims.
		
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			One side is that Muslims are militants.
		
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			They're extremely violent.
		
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			But the other stereotype, the other image or
		
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			position now being taken is that we are
		
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			pacifistic people.
		
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			And so there is a scholarly debate going
		
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			on that Islam does not include resistance.
		
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			That anything to do with the political situation,
		
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			the military situation, anything to do with self
		
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			-defense, that's not Muslims.
		
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			That's not really what Islam is.
		
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			But Islam is just a spiritual religion, and
		
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			it's to do with your prayers and your
		
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			fasting, all of your spiritual affairs.
		
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			But when it comes to the politics, when
		
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			it comes to other aspects, that's for the
		
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			politicians.
		
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			And this is a position which is being
		
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			pushed, and scholars are even taking the position
		
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			that if Muslims are oppressed in their own
		
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			countries, that they should hear and obey, that
		
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			they should submit.
		
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			So, in other words, the word Islam means
		
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			submission, but it's submission to the will of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			But they have stretched the term to submission
		
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			to any authority that we find ourselves under.
		
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			And so you have the extremes.
		
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			But when you look at the Sunnah, when
		
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			you look at the life of Prophet Muhammad
		
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			ﷺ, we recognize that Muslims are neither pacifists,
		
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			when I say pacifists it's non-violent people,
		
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			nor are Muslims overly violent, militant people.
		
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			But Islam is set to respond to all
		
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			circumstances.
		
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			Islam is for peacetimes, and Islam is for
		
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			war.
		
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			It's for all situations.
		
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			So we're neither position.
		
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			And you'll find people take these positions and
		
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			get to extremes.
		
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			But really when you look at the Sunnah,
		
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			we recognize that in the Meccan period, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ and his companions, although they were
		
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			extremely oppressed, they were insulted, they were tortured,
		
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			killed, driven out of their lands, they did
		
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			not fight back.
		
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			They were not allowed to respond with any
		
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			violence.
		
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			So you could say it was in a
		
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			sense a type of non-violent resistance during
		
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			that first 13-year period.
		
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			When the transition happened, and the Muslims went
		
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			to Medina, Allah gave them the right to
		
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			defend themselves.
		
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			And so self-defense came in, and when
		
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			they were attacked, they responded to the attack.
		
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			And so self-defense was another level.
		
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			Then it reached a point where Muslims were
		
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			commanded by the Creator to fight against evil
		
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			and oppression anywhere it is.
		
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			And that's the highest stage.
		
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			So Muslims were not fighting defensive wars, not
		
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			offensive wars.
		
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			It was a combination.
		
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			It's whatever the circumstance requires.
		
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			And so we shouldn't be confused when stereotypes
		
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			are being given to us, and they say
		
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			the militant Muslims, and then they use this
		
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			word Islamist.
		
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			So this is a strange term.
		
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			Because in English, if you say somebody who
		
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			studies chemistry is a chemist, or somebody who's
		
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			into biology, biologist.
		
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			So now in English, Islamist is supposed to
		
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			mean, although it's a made-up word, it's
		
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			supposed to mean somebody who practices Islam.
		
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			But when you say, or when a news
		
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			reporter describes this individual as an Islamist, negative
		
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			connotations come up.
		
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			That means he's intolerant, violent, anti-civilization.
		
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			If it's a male, he oppresses women.
		
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			It's an Islamist.
		
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			So this is a total misnomer.
		
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			And even one leader used the word Islamist.
		
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			That was a new one.
		
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			And so these are made-up terms, and
		
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			we cannot be fooled or led astray by
		
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			some of these false terminologies.
		
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			And so we want to look at the
		
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			issue of resistance, reform and resistance within our
		
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			society, and to see how some of the
		
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			great scholars of Islam and leaders of Islam
		
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			teach us.
		
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			They responded to oppression.
		
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			Did they hide?
		
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			Did they imitate the enemy?
		
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			Did they try to buy them out?
		
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			How did they respond?
		
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			And so we want to look at these
		
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			two terms.
		
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			And the first term is resistance.
		
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			And one of the terms in Arabic, muqawwama.
		
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			Muqawwama is a term, you don't hear that
		
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			normally being used, but muqawwama means to resist.
		
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			That means you physically resist, you fight back.
		
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			And it refers to an active struggle against
		
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			injustice.
		
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			So any way you find oppression, or any
		
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			force that's undermining or trying to destroy Islam,
		
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			then you actively are involved in fighting against
		
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			it.
		
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			So you could say in a sense that
		
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			muqawwama is the term jihad.
		
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			But jihad again is a term, jihad only
		
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			means struggle.
		
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			And I remember being on a dais platform
		
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			with one scholar, and he said to the
		
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			people who had the wrong understanding of Islam,
		
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			he said, if you can see the word
		
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			jihad, if you can bring me any verse
		
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			in the Quran, or any authenticated hadith of
		
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			Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, where jihad
		
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			equals holy war, I will give you $1
		
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			,000, 10 $100 US bills, 10 of them,
		
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			cash, nobody could find it, and you cannot
		
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			find it.
		
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			Because that's not what jihad means, jihad means
		
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			struggle.
		
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			Okay, you're resisting evil, however you can resist.
		
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			And so muqawwama is another way of seeing
		
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			this as well.
		
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			Because resistance could be, again, non-violent resistance,
		
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			that's a form of muqawwama.
		
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			So that means you're going to speak the
		
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			truth against evil, the evil is there, you
		
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			speak the truth against it.
		
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			It could mean protest, which are basically peaceful.
		
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			It can even mean intellectual discourse, so that
		
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			means that you intellectually struggle against them.
		
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			In London they have what is called Speaker's
		
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			Corner.
		
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			We don't have one, but Dundas and Yonge
		
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			Street, people go there and debate, but the
		
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			British have an active place where you can
		
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			come and debate.
		
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			And so Muslims go out there, and they
		
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			literally are involved in a struggle at Speaker's
		
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			Corner.
		
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			And that can be a form of muqawwama.
		
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			The one that is more famous, though, is
		
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			the armed resistance.
		
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			But that armed resistance is to protect faith,
		
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			it's to protect lives, it's to protect the
		
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			sovereignty, the rule of Islam, and there are
		
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			certain guidelines when it comes to muqawwama.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, when he sent his companions
		
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			out, he told them that you should not
		
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			be destroying synagogues or churches, temples, you should
		
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			not kill monks and priests, you should not
		
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			burn people's crops, you should not fight and
		
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			kill non-combatants.
		
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			So there's rules of engagement, that's what they
		
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			say today.
		
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			There are Islamic rules of engagement in dealing
		
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			with muqawwama, but we should be unashamed to
		
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			say it clearly, that muqawwama is part of
		
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			our faith.
		
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			And this is the confusion that many people
		
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			get in.
		
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			Maybe out of fear, they say, no, no,
		
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			no, we only fight defensive war.
		
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			That's not Muslims.
		
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			No, that's not the reality.
		
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			We have the right to defend ourselves.
		
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			And any human being has the right, even
		
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			under United Nations international universal law, we have
		
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			the right of self-defense.
		
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			Okay, so we should not be ashamed to
		
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			talk about this resistance.
		
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			Now, some people might say, okay, where's your
		
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			proof?
		
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			How do you get this?
		
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			But Allah ﷻ has said very clearly to
		
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			us, إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرْ بِالْعَدْلِ Allah commands you
		
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			with justice.
		
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			Okay, so your resistance is supposed to be,
		
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			it's part of our faith, right, where we
		
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			are acting to establish justice and to repel
		
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			injustice wherever we find it.
		
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			Okay, and also part of our faith, which
		
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			is very clear, and that is to call
		
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			to the good and forbid evil.
		
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			And the Qur'an in Surah Ali Imran
		
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			verse 110 tells us, كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةً أُخْرَجَتْ
		
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			لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنَ الْمُنْكَىٰ
		
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			وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ These are three repeated verses that
		
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			you are the best nation produced for mankind.
		
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			Why?
		
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			You enjoin what is right and you forbid
		
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			what is wrong and you believe in Allah.
		
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			So, it's a process that we're doing.
		
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			Okay, so that's just a definition of the
		
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			first resistance.
		
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			Okay, that's the first term.
		
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			And we will be looking at this as
		
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			we go along in the course, just, you
		
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			know, touching the surface, bringing a few famous
		
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			scholars and how they resisted and the different
		
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			ways that they resisted.
		
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			The second term is reform.
		
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			And reform is also a term in English
		
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			which can be misunderstood.
		
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			For instance, with the Jewish people now, they
		
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			say that there are orthodox Jews, which means
		
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			somebody who is supposedly following their laws, the
		
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			Talmud, and the men will wear the black
		
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			clothing and the women, you know, shave their
		
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			heads and wear a wig, you know, and
		
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			whatnot.
		
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			This is the orthodox Jews.
		
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			But they also have what is called reform
		
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			Jews.
		
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			So, the reform Jew is supposed to be
		
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			somebody who is Jewish but they've changed the
		
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			religion.
		
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			So, they have changed the religion in order
		
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			to meet the times.
		
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			Okay, this is not what we mean because
		
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			reform has a lot of different definitions.
		
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			But for us, it is a process of
		
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			renewing and improving society.
		
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			So, you're bringing back the society to the
		
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			Quranic values.
		
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			Right, of justice, equity, and spirituality.
		
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			So, this is a type of revival.
		
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			It's a revival, okay?
		
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			But reform, again, the best definition for this,
		
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			or the clear Arabic word is islah.
		
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			Islah.
		
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			So, that is with a sad.
		
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			Right, saluha, islah.
		
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			And so, which means like to repair something
		
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			or to correct it, right?
		
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			And so, reform is proactive.
		
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			Okay, it's proactive because it's supposed to prevent
		
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			moral and societal decay.
		
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			Okay, so islah prevents decay.
		
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			When you're repairing a society, you're getting it
		
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			together.
		
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			But it's reactive in a sense that it
		
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			does react to existing issues.
		
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			So, when issues now come up, the reform,
		
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			the islah, will react to these things and
		
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			deal with it, okay?
		
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			Now, sometimes the word islah is connected with
		
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			tajdeed.
		
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			Or sometimes they're used in the place of
		
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			each other.
		
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			And the tajdeed is a renewal or a
		
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			revival.
		
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			Because jadeed means new in Arabic.
		
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			So, tajdeed is to make something new.
		
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			Revival is also a term used for that
		
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			as well.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said in a hadith
		
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			that indeed Allah will send for this ummah,
		
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			إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْعَثُ فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ
		
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			كُلِّ قَرْنٍ مَن يُجَدِّدْ لَهَا الدِّينُ That Allah
		
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			ﷻ will send for this ummah at the
		
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			head of every hundred years.
		
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			Okay, qarun is being used.
		
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			Allah will send someone who will renew the
		
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			faith.
		
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			This is called tajdeed.
		
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			And the person who does that is called
		
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			mujaddid.
		
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			Okay, mujaddid.
		
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			Another hadith, عَلَى رَأْسِ كُلِّ قَرْنٍ مُجَدِّدْ At
		
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			the head of every century is a mujaddid.
		
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			Qarun can mean a hundred years or it
		
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			could mean a generation.
		
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			So, there's somebody or sometimes the tajdeed could
		
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			be done by a group of people.
		
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			It could be done by a movement.
		
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			And some scholars have tried to look at
		
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			the mujaddids.
		
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			Who could be the mujaddids of each Islamic
		
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			century?
		
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			And there are a number of people because
		
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			a mujaddid is not necessarily somebody who's a
		
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			military leader.
		
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			So, the mujaddid is renewing the faith.
		
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			This is islah.
		
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			You see, it's a repair.
		
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			It's a reform.
		
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			So, these are the two terms that we're
		
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			really looking at.
		
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			We're looking at this, you know, how Islam
		
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			has been reformed over the centuries and how
		
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			it has been, how resistance has come.
		
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			And this is really crucial for us today
		
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			because the Muslim world is in need of
		
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			islah.
		
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			It is in need of reform.
		
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			It's for us to repair it because it's
		
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			broken in many cases.
		
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			Also, it's in need of resistance.
		
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			Active resistance.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, over the past few months with
		
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			the situation in Palestine becoming so crucial and
		
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			right in front of our eyes, although we
		
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			already had Kashmir, the Rohingyas, Sudan, we had
		
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			a lot of situations, but this one was
		
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			live.
		
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			And so, it has produced active resistance.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So, when you look at islah, what will
		
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			the islah do for the Muslim world?
		
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			Okay?
		
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			We're 26% of the Earth's population.
		
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			Billions of Muslims.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			But the islah will preserve justice, morality, and
		
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			it will help us to preserve our Islamic
		
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			values because we're in danger now.
		
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			The values are being lost to the next
		
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			generation.
		
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			Also, it brings forth dynamism.
		
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			You're repairing somebody.
		
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			It's like somebody's playing sports and they play,
		
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			you know, soccer or they play football and
		
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			they're a little tired and they're wounded, so
		
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			the doctor now repairs that person, right, and
		
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			gets them ready for the next game.
		
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			Okay, so an islah can actually do that
		
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			as well.
		
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			So, this is a really important term now,
		
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			right?
		
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			This is a really important term.
		
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			And it is the essence of the verses
		
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			that we saw in Ali Imran of enjoining
		
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			to the good and forbidding evil.
		
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			So, this is the term islah.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And with the word, with reform and resistance,
		
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			how this comes in our literature, because some
		
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			people will say, okay, things are going to
		
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			happen to us.
		
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			No, we're Muslims.
		
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			Just make dhikr and it will go away.
		
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			Just pray.
		
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			Just pray.
		
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			Just put on your clothes.
		
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			But the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			that afdal al-jihad, the best jihad, is
		
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			kalimat al-haq amam al-sultan al-jahir,
		
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			that if you speak a word of truth
		
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			before a tyrant ruler, that is the best
		
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			jihad.
		
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			And if you think about that, that's not
		
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			a weapon, that's not a bomb.
		
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			That's the truth.
		
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			You stand in front of a tyrant and
		
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			you speak the truth.
		
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			And that spirit is rising with this generation
		
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			of Muslims, the younger generation, alhamdulillah, that this
		
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			is rising now.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And again, this is the essence of bringing
		
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			about your reform and your resistance.
		
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			But somebody will say, well, no.
		
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			What did the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			directly say when we're confronted with evil?
		
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			And so this is a hadith that people
		
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			tend to try to forget, but it's very
		
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			clear that the Prophet peace be upon him
		
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			said, man ra'a minkum munkaran fal yughayirhu
		
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			biyadi.
		
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			Whoever among you sees evil, let him change
		
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			it with his hand.
		
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			And if he's unable, then with his tongue.
		
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			And if he's unable to do that, then
		
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			change it or feel it in his heart.
		
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			That's the weakest form of faith.
		
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			So these are like the three levels.
		
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			And you can judge your actions based on
		
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			these three levels.
		
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			And evil happens, whether it's to you personally,
		
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			to your family, to your society, to Islam
		
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			in general, to the Muslim ummah.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			The best thing to do, change it with
		
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			your hands.
		
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			That's muqawwama, right?
		
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			Active resistance.
		
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			Change it.
		
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			There's an elderly woman crossing the street and
		
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			some young ruffians come along and they start
		
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			shouting at her and they're trying to grab
		
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			her pocketbook away.
		
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			And you're there.
		
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			What can you do?
		
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			Especially if it's a young Muslim who's supposed
		
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			to be a young man, he's supposed to
		
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			be strong.
		
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			What do you do?
		
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			The best thing would be to do is
		
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			to go over there and stop them.
		
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			But not everybody's capable of doing that, especially
		
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			today with weapons and you know, whatnot.
		
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			So at least you could say something.
		
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			That's the least you can do.
		
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			You can shout.
		
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			You can call 911.
		
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			You can call somebody else.
		
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			You could do something.
		
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			And the worst possible thing is to just
		
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			hate it in your heart.
		
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			And that's what's happening in Toronto.
		
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			I remember in New York City, this is
		
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			what used to happen.
		
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			Somebody would get robbed in broad daylight and
		
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			the other people look at it and they
		
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			say, well, this is New York.
		
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			I mean, what can we do?
		
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			So Toronto's becoming like that now too in
		
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			the malls and the different areas.
		
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			People just seeing this and just walking away.
		
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			Whereas if you were in Toronto in the
		
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			early, you know, even back in the 70s,
		
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			60s or 70s to see, you know, violence
		
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			and open robberies and things did not happen
		
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			very often in the major cities.
		
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			So these are three levels, right?
		
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			Again, resistance.
		
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			You need proof because if you are discussing
		
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			this, you're going to have somebody who's saying,
		
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			if you're really Islamic, you should not be
		
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			resisting.
		
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			You should not go in a demonstration, even
		
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			what they call civil resistance, where you block
		
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			traffic.
		
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			Okay, where you boycott.
		
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			They say you're not supposed to do that.
		
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			Just leave it to Allah.
		
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			If there's a Muslim leader who's oppressing his
		
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			people, leave him alone.
		
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			They're going to try to bring you this.
		
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			Here's your proofs.
		
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			We need this.
		
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			This is a very important issue, very serious
		
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			issue.
		
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			And so the Qur'anic principles.
		
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			Again, people will want to know what are
		
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			the principles in terms of our resistance, our
		
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			reform, you know, what does the Qur'an
		
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			say about this?
		
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			Okay, you quoted from the Prophet, right?
		
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			But what does the Qur'an say about
		
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			it?
		
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			It is number one in terms of justice.
		
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			One of the key elements in Islamic society
		
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			is justice.
		
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			If there's no justice, there really is no
		
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			Islamic society.
		
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			Okay, and the Qur'an is saying in
		
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			Surah An-Nisa, it is telling us very
		
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			clearly, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْتِ
		
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			شُهَدَاءَ اللَّهِ It says, O you who believe,
		
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			be persistently standing firm in justice.
		
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			You have to do this.
		
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			You see in the term it's being used,
		
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			قَوَّامِينَ You see, قَوَّامَ مُقَاوَمَ You see it?
		
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			So the word مُقَاوَمَ comes directly out of
		
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			this.
		
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			مُقَاوَمَ Right, so be actively involved in resistance
		
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			and in establishing justice.
		
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			Secondly is the empowerment of oppressed people.
		
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			This is part of our religion.
		
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			It's not just to pray and to fast.
		
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			And Allah even tells us in Surah Al
		
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			-Qasas, وَنُرِيدُ أَنَّ مُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ أَسْتُدْعِفُوا فِي
		
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			الْأَرْضِ وَنَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّا وَنَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوَارِثِينَ Allah says, And
		
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			we wanted to confer favor upon those who
		
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			were oppressed in the land and make them
		
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			leaders and make them inheritors.
		
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			So it is part of Allah's will for
		
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			the oppressed people to rise up.
		
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			This is not just a Marxist-Leninist socialist
		
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			concept, right?
		
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			And this is what fooled a lot of
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Because when the kings were dominating the Muslim
		
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			world in the 20th century and the socialist
		
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			countries were overthrowing, they said, okay, we need
		
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			Islamic socialism because your Islam puts you to
		
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			sleep.
		
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			Your leaders, your imams, they're telling you just
		
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			stay under the king.
		
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			So if you become a socialist, we'll teach
		
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			you resistance.
		
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			No, they didn't understand the message of Islam
		
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			because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's will is
		
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			to liberate the oppressed people.
		
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			It is part of our faith.
		
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			You'll also see very clearly in terms of
		
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			reforming that this reform, it actually begins within
		
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			ourselves.
		
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			And this is another extremely important concept, especially
		
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			looking at the condition of the Muslim world
		
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			today.
		
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			Because the Prophet ﷺ spoke about that the
		
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			day would come when our numbers would be
		
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			large and we would be like a sail.
		
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			We'd be like the foam on the water
		
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			sticks, pushed to the right, pushed to the
		
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			left.
		
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			No real strength.
		
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			And that's what's happening.
		
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			People are crying, crying for help, crying for
		
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			a leader, crying for change.
		
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			And Allah said in Surah Ar-Ra'd, verse
		
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			11, Allah will not change the condition of
		
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			a people until they change that which is
		
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			in themselves.
		
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			No change is going to come about.
		
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			It's got to start inside of ourselves.
		
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			So if people are still being corrupt, they're
		
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			following the corrupt Western habits, putting them into
		
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			their country and thinking that they're going to
		
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			be successful.
		
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			No, they will continue to be slaves because
		
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			they didn't change themselves.
		
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			So our revolution, in a sense, that islah,
		
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			it begins on the inside.
		
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			And also another theme, again, for our Quranic
		
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			understanding of reform and resistance, and that is
		
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			that we're supposed to condemn corruption wherever it
		
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			is.
		
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			And Allah tells us, وَلَا تَعَثُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ
		
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			مُفْسِدِينَ Allah says, do not commit abuse on
		
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			the earth spreading corruption.
		
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			So part of the duty of the Muslims
		
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			is to fight corruption wherever it is.
		
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			So these are all those issues, Quran, this
		
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			is just the tip of the iceberg.
		
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			There's so much in the Quran, so much
		
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			in the sayings of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And looking at his life, seerah, which is
		
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			also very important for us constantly to refer
		
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			to.
		
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			You'll see in the Meccan period, that the
		
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			Muslims could not fight with weapons, but there
		
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			was resistance.
		
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			It was a muqawwama.
		
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			They resisted idolatry.
		
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			They refused to bow down to the idols.
		
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			Right?
		
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			They resisted tribalism.
		
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			And that was the thing that Quraish hated
		
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			about the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			When they used to see him, they said,
		
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			here comes Muhammad with these slaves, with these
		
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			poor people.
		
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			And slaves are not just black too, by
		
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			the way, right?
		
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			They could be Arabs, they could be European
		
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			types, Persian.
		
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			They were the underclass.
		
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			But here he is with these poor people,
		
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			these slaves.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			He's Quraish.
		
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			What is he doing with them?
		
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			So it's resistance.
		
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			So they resisted this by practicing Islam, and
		
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			then they took the corruption out of their
		
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			lives.
		
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			They stopped being corrupt.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And the essence of that call was the
		
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			corruption in belief, that they called to the
		
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			oneness of God.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So this was a form of resistance.
		
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			And you could see it really displayed when
		
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			Bilal r.a. is being tortured.
		
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			And then he's saying, you know, Ahadun Ahad.
		
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			His response to having rocks put on his
		
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			chest, hot rocks.
		
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			He's saying Ahad, one.
		
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			One God.
		
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			That's resistance.
		
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			You see?
		
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			That's monotheistic resistance.
		
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			And so they stopped all these bad habits.
		
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			Killing their children, especially the female children.
		
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			Being oppressors.
		
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			This class divide.
		
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			Rich and the poor.
		
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			They resisted in their lifestyle.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			But in Medina, it had a combination of
		
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			the two.
		
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			So when they came in at first, you
		
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			can see Islah.
		
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			So the Prophet s.a.w. is reforming
		
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			the society.
		
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			Remember what reform does.
		
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			It prepares you for something.
		
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			What is the greatest form of, one of
		
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			the greatest forms of Islah?
		
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			It was the constitution of Medina.
		
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			One of the first acts that was being
		
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			done is that principles were established of governance.
		
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			How religions could coexist.
		
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			Mutual rights.
		
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			It was established in the Medina period under
		
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			this constitution, which is a series of edicts.
		
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			It wasn't a constitution like we have today
		
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			in one piece of paper in a book.
		
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			But you could say that it is the
		
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			principles which were established and eventually written down.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So that was Islah.
		
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			So he prepared the society.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He brought together the believers and made them
		
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			close to each other.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			He brought close people of other faiths.
		
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			Jewish people were not forced to accept Islam.
		
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			They could still follow the Torah and be
		
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			part of the city.
		
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			Even Arabs who had traditional Arab religion.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			They were allowed to live in the city
		
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			under this constitution.
		
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			So that is Islah.
		
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			He's repairing the society.
		
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			Now the attack comes.
		
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			And then Muqawama.
		
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			And the first great Muqawama, of course, was
		
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			the Battle of Badr.
		
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			And that is where the Muslims were.
		
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			They originally went to get the caravan of
		
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			their goods, which was stolen by Abu Sufyan.
		
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			And then it turned out that Mecca sent
		
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			a thousand warriors against 313 Muslims.
		
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			And so they didn't go back.
		
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			They didn't say, well, let's go back to
		
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			the masjid and do dhikr.
		
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			Let's just pray to Allah.
		
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			No.
		
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			They resisted.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, he's changing from Islah
		
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			to Muqawama.
		
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			So if you go to the seerah, it's
		
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			interesting.
		
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			Because he actually sat with the people and
		
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			he said, I didn't bring you for this.
		
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			Are you with me now?
		
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			Quraysh is in front of us.
		
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			Are you ready to go from this Islah
		
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			to Muqawama?
		
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			And so they said, we will follow you
		
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			to the end of the earth.
		
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			So we took what is called bay'ah.
		
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			Bay'ah is an oath.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			All of us take a bay'ah.
		
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			When you make your shahada, you're making an
		
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			oath to Allah, an oath to the last
		
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			messenger.
		
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			Constantly we're making it.
		
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			This is something else now.
		
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			He made them take a bay'ah that
		
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			they would go to the next stage.
		
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			You see?
		
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			So the Islah led into the Muqawama.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			That's part of the process of the establishment
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			And it's that interconnectedness between the two.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			And within his sayings, you can see how
		
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			he's changing their attitudes.
		
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			You know, Sayyid al Qawm Khadimuhum, the leader
		
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			of a people, is their servant.
		
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			That's your leader.
		
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			Changes the concept of leadership.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So this is totally different now.
		
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			And then he tells them, whoever defends his
		
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			wealth and is killed is a shaheed, is
		
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			a mara.
		
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			Even if you're defending your family, defending your
		
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			wealth, you're shaheed.
		
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			See, so this is now motivation to resist.
		
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			And this is something that Muslims throughout the
		
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			world are waking up to.
		
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			Unfortunately, this oppression which is being applied to
		
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			us, it's a wake-up call.
		
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			Again, it's happened to us historically and it's
		
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			happening now.
		
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			We're waking up.
		
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			It's like a sleeping giant waking up.
		
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			And so in this introductory session, because we
		
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			have been studied, many of you have been
		
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			students in this class following what we've shown
		
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			from the Khulafa Rashidin, rightly guided caliphs to
		
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			the Umayyads, to the Abbasids, to the Seljuks,
		
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			to the Ottomans.
		
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			You've seen the history and whatnot.
		
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			And so there is a context to muqawwama.
		
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			There's a context to islah, where you're repairing
		
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			your society, but there's also something else that
		
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			happens to us.
		
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			See, that's what's happening to us now.
		
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			We're in a context.
		
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			But if you go back in time, you
		
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			see the transition from the rightly guided caliphs
		
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			to the dynasties.
		
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			So you had the Umayyads and you had
		
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			the Abbasids.
		
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			And so the leaders, it became more centralized
		
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			in families.
		
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			And so this brought about some corruption.
		
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			It gave absolute power to people who were
		
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			not necessarily ready for this.
		
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			And so because of that context, and we'll
		
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			be looking at this, there was resistance.
		
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			The muqawwama had to come.
		
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			There's a form of islah, but there had
		
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			to be resistance.
		
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			Another context, which is obvious, is when the
		
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			Mongols invaded the Muslim world.
		
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			Something had to be done.
		
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			And we studied before how the Mongols had
		
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			destroyed Baghdad, how they were ruining the Muslim
		
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			world and the Mamluks of Egypt, who were
		
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			originally from Central Asia.
		
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			They were mercenary slaves.
		
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			They took over Egypt and they resisted the
		
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			Mongols face-to-face.
		
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			In Ain Jalut, this was muqawwama.
		
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			They faced them right on.
		
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			When the Crusaders came in waves, destroyed Jerusalem,
		
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			killed thousands of people, ruined the land, corrupted
		
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			the land, there was active resistance.
		
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			Again, go back in time, look at the
		
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			great family of the Zengi.
		
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			Imaduddin Zengi and Nuruddin Zengi.
		
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			May Allah have mercy on them.
		
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			They were Turkish leaders and they dedicated their
		
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			life to resist the Crusaders.
		
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			And out of their leadership and the unity
		
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			with the Ayyubid clan came Sultan Salahuddin Al
		
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			Ayyubi.
		
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			He was the great sultan who defeated the
		
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			Crusaders.
		
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			And this muqawwama continued.
		
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			It continued on until the Crusaders were driven
		
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			out from the lands of Islam.
		
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			There were also social challenges that brought about
		
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			this need for islah or the need for
		
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			muqawwama.
		
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			What were these?
		
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			They were economic disparities between the elites, the
		
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			rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, injustice happening
		
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			in the land.
		
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			Also, materialism coming in, people leaving the religion.
		
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			So because of these social challenges, it comes.
		
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			The next is religious challenges.
		
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			And I'm using that religious in the sense
		
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			it's aqidah and faith.
		
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			When the Sunni-Shia divide happened, an extreme
		
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			group started to come.
		
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			And we've studied some of these groups, the
		
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			Hashashin, the Ismaili groups, extreme groups.
		
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			So there was a need to resist when
		
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			the Khawarij movements came that broke away from
		
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			the Khalifa Ali and then later on caused
		
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			confusion.
		
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			And so this decline that happened religiously in
		
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			a sense, we were being attacked not just
		
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			militarily, but we were also attacked in terms
		
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			of our faith.
		
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			So that brought about the context for the
		
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			islah and the context for the muqawwama.
		
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			And it's important for us to understand that
		
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			in the essence of our study, looking at
		
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			this, is to reflect on today.
		
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			Today.
		
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			What is our situation?
		
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			This hadith is one of the traditions which
		
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			is so important to me and to those
		
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			who are trying to apply Islam to today.
		
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			And this is that the Prophet ﷺ said,
		
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			إِنَّ الْإِسْلَامَ بَدَأَ غَرِيبًا وَسَيَعُودُ غَرِيبًا فَطُوبًا لِلْغُرَبَةِ
		
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			Verily, Islam began strange and it will return
		
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			to being strange.
		
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			So glad tidings to the strangers.
		
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			And they asked, وَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا
		
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			الْغُرَبَةِ Who are the strangers, O Messenger of
		
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			Allah?
		
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			And he said, أَلَّذِينَ يُسْلِحُونَ عِندَ فَسَادِ النَّاسِ
		
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			They are those who repair and rectify society
		
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			when the people have become corrupt.
		
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			Listen to the Arabic, أَلَّذِينَ يُسْلِحُونَ That's إِسْلَاح
		
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			You see?
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:10
			He said, the غُرَبَة The strange ones at
		
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			the end of time would be those who
		
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			repair.
		
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			They repair themselves, they rectify society when people
		
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			have become corrupted.
		
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			And صدق رسول الله ﷺ We're living right
		
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			in the middle of it.
		
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			Okay, this is the time of the غُرَبَة
		
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			of the strange ones.
		
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			And إِسْلَاح is right there in the middle
		
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			of it.
		
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			Resistance, however we can apply it.
		
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			You have your different levels of applying it.
		
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			We want to look at some of the
		
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			great leaders and scholars We'll go to the
		
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			past a little bit and look at some
		
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			of the scholars then.
		
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			One of the famous ones we might look
		
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			at because he was very interesting Shaykh al
		
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			-Islam ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله was a great
		
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			person who did إِسْلَاح and مقاومة So we
		
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			want to look at that.
		
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			And then we will look at some of
		
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			the leaders who are not the ones we
		
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			took in our previous classes, the famous ones
		
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			but ones who led resistance movements even up
		
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			until the 19th, 20th century.
		
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			We want to look at a couple of
		
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			these leaders who led resistance movements so you
		
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			can see how Islam in a living sense
		
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			can be the solution to the problems that
		
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			Muslims are facing.
		
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			So I want to end at this point
		
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			the basic class and open up the floor
		
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			for any questions that anybody may have for
		
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			this introductory period in dealing with reform and
		
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			resistance.
		
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			So the floor is open for any questions
		
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			that anybody may have concerning this.
		
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			The floor is open.
		
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			This is a constant theme that has struck
		
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			Muslims and there is a well orchestrated effort.
		
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			Millions of dollars being spent for Muslims not
		
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			to do Islah and Muqawama.
		
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			And the people who do it they are
		
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			the ones who are being labeled the Islamists
		
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			and the so called troublemakers.
		
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			You see why.
		
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			They say how can you talk political Islam?
		
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			Right?
		
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			That's how they are trying to separate Muslims,
		
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			divide and conquer and confuse the younger generation.
		
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			But Alhamdulillah just by the resistance of the
		
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			Palestinian people themselves in public it has shown
		
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			what resistance is and even to show some
		
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			victories even though there is so much confusion
		
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			and trouble surrounding it but you can still
		
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			see what even a small group of people
		
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			almost helpless can do in the face of
		
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			a well orchestrated and well funded evil.
		
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			So this question was put in front of
		
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			one of the living scholars now Sheikh Mohammed
		
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			Hassan Adidu who is from Mauritania.
		
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			He is considered to be one of the
		
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			strongest scholars in the Muslim world right now.
		
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			And they put this to him.
		
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			And he said that these traditions concerning the
		
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			Muslim leaders and that you should not resist
		
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			the Muslim leaders.
		
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			Our present day leaders do not qualify for
		
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			that Hadith.
		
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			They are not Muslim leaders.
		
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			Think about the buffoons and clowns who are
		
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			leading these so called Muslim countries.
		
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			Very few of them maybe some have a
		
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			little bit of Deen.
		
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			So this Hadith is that this person is
		
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			a practicing Muslim leader.
		
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			This is why Saddam Hussein when he was
		
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			ruling Iraq and he wanted to keep the
		
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			people down.
		
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			And this is what some tyrants do.
		
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			He used to go to Juma and they
		
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			would film him at Juma and he would
		
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			sit in the Juma and make his Salat.
		
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			Right, because some of the Hadith is saying
		
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			as long as he is making Salat, don't
		
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			resist.
		
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			You see, so he would make Salat on
		
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			the TV.
		
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			Thinking that that is going to fool the
		
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			poor people.
		
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			He said no, we can't resist because he
		
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			just made Salat.
		
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			But he was torturing the people, killing the
		
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			people.
		
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			Like Bashar al-Assad too.
		
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			He will make Salat.
		
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			Okay, so the fact that Bashar al-Assad
		
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			was making Salat that means we don't resist
		
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			him.
		
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			No.
		
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			No.
		
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			He does not qualify for the Hadith.
		
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			If you have somebody who he is practicing
		
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			Islam but he is an intolerant kind of
		
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			person and whatever but he is still basically
		
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			allowing prayer to be there in society then
		
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			if you overthrow that then it can become
		
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			worse.
		
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			But Sheikh Muhammad al-Hassan his answer to
		
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			them was show me the leader who actually
		
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			qualifies for that Hadith.
		
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			They don't even qualify.
		
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			And if there is one then we will
		
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			give him nasiha.
		
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			We will give him advice.
		
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			We will do non-violent muqawama.
		
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			We will resist.
		
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			But that's being used by the scholars of
		
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			the Sultan, of the rulers in order to
		
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			suppress resistance.
		
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			So they use that to suppress resistance.
		
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			At the same time you will see some
		
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			of the people saying don't resist and whatever
		
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			but then you will see their leaders having
		
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			concerts and discotheques and having raves and alcohol
		
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			and all this thing and they don't say
		
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			anything.
		
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			They don't say anything.
		
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			So if you are going to not physically
		
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			resist the second part is say something.
		
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			You see.
		
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			So there are answers for these things.
		
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			It just needs the right context.
		
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			So what they have done is they have
		
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			taken these Hadiths out of context.
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			Well you know I mean the decisions for
		
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			sanctions and boycotts is something that needs to
		
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			be done by leadership who are studying properly.
		
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			However you know there is there is a
		
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			precedent for this you know and that is
		
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			Ibn Uthal he was one of the leaders
		
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			from the middle of Arabia you know he
		
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			came and he was killing Muslims but then
		
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			he got captured you know Thumama his name
		
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			is Thumama read the story Thumama Ibn Uthal
		
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			okay and Thumama you know accepted Islam and
		
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			it's a long story and then he made
		
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			Umrah because he was going to make Umrah
		
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			for the idols and then he was captured
		
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			and taken to Medina and so he made
		
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			Umrah he was a powerful leader from the
		
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			central part of Arabia and so he said
		
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			I pledge my life to Islam and my
		
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			you know and my goods and everything and
		
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			when he went back to the middle of
		
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			Arabia which at that time was feeding the
		
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			rest of the country he called boycott so
		
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			they stopped all caravans to Mecca and this
		
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			weakened the Quraish seriously and finally the Quraish
		
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			begged the Prophet ﷺ to stop this they
		
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			begged him to stop it okay and his
		
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			way was not to continually punish people although
		
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			they admired Thumama but then he said okay
		
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			Thumama you can stop okay but sanctions and
		
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			boycott it is allowed you know in Islam
		
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			it is a tactic Alhamdulillah they have the
		
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			BDS movement now boycott you know and so
		
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			that's worked already Starbucks has lost billions of
		
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			dollars you know so there's nothing wrong with
		
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			stopping people from drinking Starbucks they can just
		
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			get some Turkish coffee if they want you
		
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			don't have to drink Starbucks so there's literally
		
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			that's one way that we can resist you
		
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			know stop buying products from you know those
		
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			countries that are oppressing our people nothing wrong
		
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			with that this has to be thought out
		
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			well I remember in a I was living
		
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			in Cape Town for a while and there
		
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			was one of these boycotts was happening because
		
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			of whatever so they start boycotting Coca-Cola
		
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			and one of the big Coca-Cola factories
		
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			was you know in the Muslim area okay
		
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			so by boycotting that place shutting it down
		
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			you're also taking the livelihood from the community
		
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			people's jobs so the people said okay if
		
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			you're going to boycott this we're not going
		
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			to be able to eat food so the
		
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			scholars had to say okay no this case
		
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			the tactic wouldn't be right so if it's
		
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			going to cause harm on the people then
		
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			that's not our intention so it has to
		
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			be well thought out and measured but it
		
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			is permissible in Islam to do this so
		
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			Duhamma did it it's been done in the
		
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			time of the Prophet and it is allowed
		
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			I feel
		
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			like that's meaning you could change your Popeye's
		
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			into a different study or it's so confusing
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:42
			especially with the BDS movement it might be
		
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			more difficult to figure out right so this
		
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			is where this is where Muslim leaders and
		
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			scholars themselves have to you know give direction
		
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			and not just because sometimes the BDS movement
		
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			they have other intentions sometimes and this is
		
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			what the problem was you know with some
		
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			of the demonstrations and everything and you know
		
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			you're demonstrating I remember one brother he said
		
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			he was going to demonstrate the Black Lives
		
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			Matter thing and he turned around and the
		
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			people were like trans and stuff the people
		
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			were like they had a total different agenda
		
00:59:22 --> 00:59:24
			and he's a Muslim there in the middle
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:27
			of this thing they switched from that movement
		
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			to another movement their agenda was not dealing
		
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			with black people or dealing with the indigenous
		
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			people it was something else it was dealing
		
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			with their own movement so it is important
		
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			for us to think these things out it's
		
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			really important we
		
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			have bias people are choosing different true right
		
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			it's very hard to just say no one
		
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			feels comfortable saying I don't believe it's
		
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			hard to be like a leader and you
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:45
			know like have a PhD or a Masters
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:48
			in something everybody has their own specialties like
		
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			one thing from the BDS movement that there's
		
01:00:51 --> 01:00:55
			no like I feel like agreement amongst everyone
		
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			is that the way I see the BDS
		
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			movement is that when you look at for
		
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			example the official BDS website they have like
		
01:01:02 --> 01:01:05
			a handful of brands and they say everyone
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:08
			should collectively avoid these brands look for alternatives
		
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10
			for these brands and they have rankings for
		
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			it but then there's also like a collective
		
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			one that people are doing online that's more
		
01:01:16 --> 01:01:18
			of like a DIY one where people are
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:24
			just looking up whatever company they associate with
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:26
			or they want to buy from has any
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:28
			ties to Israel and then they cut it
		
01:01:28 --> 01:01:30
			off completely which I think that there's merit
		
01:01:30 --> 01:01:32
			and there's blessing and benefit in doing it
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:35
			100% but when it's difficult to do
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:38
			things 100% the BDS movement gives you
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:41
			like that basis that's more informed by the
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:43
			total economics of which ones are the ones
		
01:01:43 --> 01:01:45
			that are going to be the most impactful
		
01:01:45 --> 01:01:50
			and see like the biggest results then yeah
		
01:01:50 --> 01:01:53
			it is important that we have a measured
		
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			way so we're going to close the class
		
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			officially now, there may be a question but
		
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			we're going to close the class officially and
		
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			for those who are online have a safe
		
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			journey home wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah