Abdullah Hakim Quick – Truth And Today’S Genocide
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My respected brothers and sisters,
our respected and esteemed elders,
children,
Let me begin by once again welcoming you
to the Islamic Institute of Toronto.
And also a special welcome, we've got a
couple of individuals,
more than individuals, who are joining us today.
We have one
brother from Trinidad who is visiting us, and,
also, a special welcome to an entire family
who have migrated to Canada from Qatar. We'd
like to welcome them to the Islamic Institute
of Toronto,
and, we hope, inshallah,
that, this institution can be beneficial to them
and their families.
Brothers and sisters, this might be a bit
of, old news, but, many of you probably
have heard that, brother Parvez Naseem, who is
a well accomplished leader within the Muslim community,
an entrepreneur,
a pioneer in many respect,
passed away.
We
ask to once again forgive him and to
raise him from amongst the righteous
and to grant him giant Janatul Firdaus.
The janazah was held last, Friday, and, we
wanna pay tribute to him and his family.
And we ask
Allah to forgive them and give them the
patience
to be able to deal with this situation.
And we're also gonna ask you to make
dua for, for our our dear brother. There
are also a number of individuals within our
community that is ill.
And, again, inshallah, we ask that you pray
for them. Many of them are regulars at
IIT,
but because of their illness, they're not here
with us. We ask Allah to grant them,
shifa.
Brothers and sisters, as you know,
Hajj is coming up soon. And IIT, we've
got a couple of sessions dealing with Hajj.
One session occurred on May 6th. The the
next session is scheduled for May 13th with
Sheikh Abdul Hamid. So those those of you
who are planning to go to Hajj or
would like to learn more about Hajj, you're
encouraged to attend these sessions.
By the way, I'm gonna ask the volunteers
who are doing the line collection to kindly
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This is one of the most significant day
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saying,
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as well. I wanna also mention to you
that, registration for the Islamic summer camp is
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We have both the regular camp, which is,
for ages 5 to 12, and we also
have the youth leadership camp, which will run
concurrently.
So if you haven't registered, spaces are very
limited. So please go to islam.ca
and register,
for the for the camp.
And, I was asked to,
to make a special announcement and to emphasize
that tomorrow we are having our 3rd annual
business expo.
So the business expo is being held tomorrow,
Insha'Allah. And, we
have over 80 vendors.
Food vendor, all kinds of of services,
will be offered tomorrow, a variety of services.
So I encourage you to please attend. Admission
is free.
The expo opens at 12 o'clock and will
run until 7, Insha'Allah.
This is an expo that is organized by
our young people.
So, please,
patronage,
is required to to to demonstrate,
the support,
that we have for them. So I'm gonna
ask you, brothers and sisters, please make a
special effort to attend the expo tomorrow, Insha'Allah,
beginning at, 12 noon. And,
last but not least, as you as you
know, there is a convention coming up from
MAC, the Muslim Association of Canada,
and that convention is scheduled from May 16th
to 18th
at the at the, convention center Metro Convention
Center. So, again, please register if you're able.
There's no planning on.
Just give us a few minutes. We're waiting
for the microphone to get set up.
Long line, Kebal. Long line, Kebal.
Long line cabote. Long line cabote.
Long.
All praise are due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds,
and surely the best reward
is for those who have taqwa,
and surely there is no animosity
except for the oppressor.
And I bear witness that Allah is 1
and has no partners
and that Mohammed the son of Abdullah
is his servant,
his last messenger.
May Allah always
constantly
send peace and blessings to Muhammad,
to his family and his companions, and all
those
who call to his way
and establish his sunnah to the day of
judgment.
As to what follows, I begin by
the reminder of the importance of taqwa,
and that is critical for us now
and it will continue
into our lives,
the consciousness of Allah.
And Allah
has revealed
in his mighty book
in Surat Al An'am verse 21,
and who is more unjust
than one who invents a lie against Allah
or denies his science?
Surely, the wrongdoers
will never be successful.
And so Allah gives us a divine use
of the verb, valama,
and that is to oppress, to do evil,
to do wrong.
And we have heard and we repeat that
that there is no animosity
except against
the Dalim,
against the oppressor.
But this verse takes it a step deeper,
and it goes to another form of the
noun and it's wamenavlam,
and who is more oppressive.
In other words, the worst oppressor
is the one
who invents a lie
against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
or the one who denies
the signs of Allah.
And surely they will never be successful.
And so historically,
after the revelations,
people have tried to change the book.
They have distorted
revelation.
They have covered up realities,
covered up what was happening
right in front
of people's eyes.
And this emphasizes
the importance
of truth.
Huwatalhaq,
the power of truth.
Because truth is the basis of justice.
Truth is the basis of peace. It is
the basis
of civilization.
And Allah Azzawajal
in speaking about Al Haqq,
told the prophet
that he should announce
to the people as he was coming with
the message of Tawhid,
and it is found in Suratul Isra verse
81, Kulja al Haq was Zahhakalbatil
that you should say, O Muhammad, the truth
has come
and falsehood
has vanished.
Surely falsehood
is ever bound
to vanish.
Isa Alaihi
Salam, in what was
or what is left of the Injeel.
Esau was reported to have said in John
831
to 32,
and it is quoted as saying,
to the Jews who had believed in him,
Jesus said,
if you hold to my teachings,
you are really my disciples.
Then you will know the truth
and the truth
will set you free.
And so truth
has been a key part of the message
of all of those who have come representing
Allah Azza wa Jal.
Amir al Muqmeenin Ali ibn Abi Talib
was quoted to have said, the world is
darkness,
knowledge is light,
but knowledge without truth
is a mere
shadow.
Knowledge without truth,
it's only a shadow.
Ali radhiallahuhan was reported to have said also,
verily truth and falsehood
are not known by the statures of men.
Know the truth
and you will recognize
its people.
Know falsehood
and you will recognize
the ones who bring it.
And so truth
is a critical
aspect
of justice
and our existence as Muslims.
And why is that so important today?
Why are we seeing reactions happening around the
world
with the genocide going on in Philistine bi'iadubillah?
What did the students uncover?
Why is it that governments
around the world are reacting against their students?
Their brightest intellectuals
crushing them on campuses,
destroying them.
What did the students uncover?
They uncovered
one of the most important truths
to our understanding
about what is happening here today.
That is that Western civilization
in the current world order
is based
on the genocide
of indigenous people
and the enslavement of African people.
And especially here in the Americas,
it could be said
that the modern
Americas, the empires
from Canada all the way to the South
are built upon the graves of indigenous people
and the backs of enslaved
African people.
And so one of the greatest
cover ups,
one of the greatest cover ups,
and this concept of cover up is important
because
if you don't know the truth,
you can't benefit from the truth.
One of the greatest cover ups
is the genocide
of native people in the Americas.
55 to 65000000
people
were killed in these lands
and died
of either being murdered
or by disease
brought by the European settlers.
So what is this word genocide?
What has been uncovered by the students on
campus?
It was already known by historians.
It was already known by people who had
suffered,
but the masses of the people were not
aware of this.
Even so called educated people. Genocide
comes from the Greek word
genos,
which means a race or a people,
and the Latin suffix credo
added to it becomes genocide.
That suffix means to kill.
So genocide means to kill
a group,
a people,
a race.
Usually when genocide is mentioned,
they will say the Holocaust.
They will say Rwanda,
they will say Cambodia,
and no doubts these are genocides,
but they covered something up,
which is now coming to the surface and
that is
colonial
genocide.
It is colonial genocide,
which is the basis to the society that
we are living in today and benefiting from.
Colonial genocide
can be described as any genocidal
social practice
related to the destruction of a human group
since the late 15th century,
especially those involving Europeans
and European
settlers.
Settler
colonial
genocide.
You don't see it mentioned.
Why are they covering it up?
And why is it important today?
A few examples of settler colonial genocide,
and there are so many.
But to show you how far reaching this
is,
the Taino genocide,
which was done by the Spanish
between 1492
and 1514
in the island of Hispaniola,
which is now Dominican Republic and Haiti,
this is the native population that lived there.
The whole population
was destroyed.
Some take a little back and they say
96%
of the population of Taino people
who lived in the Caribbean in that region
were killed,
were destroyed by the Spanish.
The Black War,
a genocide done by the British in Tasmania.
This is below Australia.
In 18/30,
the total
population
of Tasmania
was exterminated.
Every single man, woman, and child
gone.
You cannot find the Tasmanian,
an original Tasmanian on the island today.
The trail of tears
in the USA from 1830
to 1850,
the forced displacement
of the native people over
60,000 people were
displaced,
thousands were killed.
This went on in America. This is called
the Trail of Tears.
We see these things happening. Ethnic cleansing,
pushing people out. Think about Palestine now. Think
about it.
Queensland,
Australia,
Aboriginal genocide,
which took place in 18/40.
Over 50%
of the population
of the original people of Australia were killed.
They estimate 65,
between 65 to a 125000
people
were killed.
California
genocide
in the
USA,
during what is called the Gold Rush
in 1846,
the native tribes of the Yuki and others
were massacred.
80%
of the native indigenous people in that area
of California
were exterminated.
Putumaya
genocide
in Peru,
done by the Spanish
who was looking for Amazonian
rubber.
80 to 86% of the population was killed.
Hidaro and Nama genocide in Namibia.
This is Southern Africa.
It was done by the Germans
in 19
0 4.
60
to 81 percent
of the African population
were exterminated.
The Bosnian
genocide
with the Serbians in the nineties,
they killed over 3% of the Bosnian population.
But some people will say, as we live
in Canada,
the big easy
as they used to say,
What about here?
It is classified
as a genocide,
but the Canadian genocide
is a slow
genocide.
It's cultural.
It's economic.
It's legal,
sometimes
physical.
Duncan Campbell Scott,
the deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs
here in Canada,
in
1913 to 1932,
but in 1920, he is quoted to have
said, this is a Canadian
government official.
Our object is to continue
until there is not a single Indian
in Canada that has not been absorbed into
the body politic.
No more Indians.
It's a slow genocide.
And so what we are seeing today
in the occupied
Palestinian territory,
the ancestral
home of the Palestinian people,
is settler
colonial
genocide.
It is the last experiment.
We but we are seeing it now
in real time.
You couldn't go back to Namibia to see
the Heraros being killed.
You couldn't go to the Taino people in
the Caribbean.
You couldn't go. You couldn't see what happened
to in Peru.
You couldn't see what happened in California
or in the Trail of Tears,
but now we are seeing in living color
the settler colonial
genocide
in its brutal
savage form.
But what can we do?
What can we do?
In the colonies,
the only solution now is resistance.
It's rebellion.
That is the only solution.
Outside the colonies
where we are living here and other parts
of the world and you see it coming,
we need to stand
for the truth.
Stand for the truth.
Speak out.
Demonstrate.
Boycott,
do whatever you possibly can, each individual at
least make du'a,
do something to stand for the truth
in this critical point in time.
The resistance is happening,
and the heroic stance of the Palestinian people,
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give them the
highest part of Jannah,
is changing the narrative.
And now the students,
the last people who you expect
are now opening up the evil box
of colonialism.
We need to support
the student
encampments
and we can directly
support
young Muslim students,
even their Jewish allies
and their other allies who are in the
encampments,
who are taking a stand against
the colonial regimes.
They are asking for transparency.
That's Haqq. They want the truth.
They are asking for halt to the genocide.
They're asking for divestment.
Simple requests,
but it is the essence of the evil
that we have been living in for over
500
years.
And so the truth
cannot
stay
or falsehood cannot stay in the presence of
truth. Kulja al Haqq was zahaq al ba'til.
When truth comes, ba'til will vanish.
Inal ba'tilakana
zahuka.
Falsehood will vanish, it will perish.
And we can only ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
to bring down the falsehood in this world.
We can ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
have mercy on those who are suffering
under the colonial settler regime. We can ask
Allah
to have mercy and protect the children of
the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
We ask
Allah to protect the dignity of the women
of the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. We ask Allah to raise up in
the Muslim world those who will stand
for truth. We ask Allah to get to
take away our ignorant leaders
and to replace them with true Islamic leaders
to take us from darkness into light.
Come forward brothers as much as you can,
make your lines straight,
go shoulder to shoulder.
Fill in the gaps brothers. Come in. Come
right in. Go right to the right to
the other side
and make your line straight.
Alhamdulillahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirabbilahirrahim
A lot of work about.
Assalamu alaykum, brothers and sisters. Once again, if
the
if the
volunteers weren't able to reach you, prior to
this salah.