Ali Ataie – Trump, Muslims & Theological Thoughts on the 2016 Presidential Election
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Due to the recent,
presidential election,
many Muslims in our community are in a
state of
tension and fear, anxiety,
and even panic.
There's,
an increase in in hate crimes.
People are being attacked. People are being harassed.
Children are being,
bullied in school.
As many of you may know, recently a
Trump surrogate,
invoked the internment
of Japanese Americans
as a precedent,
for an American Muslim registry.
There's a few things I just wanna say
about this.
I wanna make 5 points from a theological
perspective. I'm not gonna talk about politics.
From a theological perspective.
Five things I want to say. Number 1,
I want to say that we have to
know,
not just believe,
we have to know that everything is happening
according to the Qadr of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Everything is happening according to the Qadr, the
decree, the preordainment,
the divine apportionment of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Mean Azalea
from pre eternality.
No one can change the
other.
No one can alter it. No one, can
thwart it.
We have to know that. I know that
I'm standing in MCC right now. I don't
believe it. I know it.
We have to know everything is going according
to the
of Allah. Whatever is happening is happening because
Allah
wants it to happen.
Everything everything
is from Allah
There are no exceptions.
And as Muslims, we take solace in that.
We take solace in our belief in Qadr.
Because we know that Allah
He loves the believers.
He loves the believers, and we're believers.
Allah
begins his with Bismillah Ar Rahman Ar Rahim
in the name of Allah, Ar Rahman.
Ar Rahman denotes a universal type of love.
The infinitely
compassionate. Allah
shows mercy to the people in the dunya,
whether they're kafir or Muslim.
Al Raheem,
the intimately loving. This is for the believers.
So if we don't see the greater wisdom
in things, we should be patient.
We should be patient. This is why the
prophet
he used to say, Alhamdulillah
praise be to Allah
in every state. He said,
He said, how wondrous is the affair of
the believer.
Everything that happens to the to the believer
is good.
When we're in a state of ease, when
the believer is in a state of ease,
he couples that with Shukr, with gratitude to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because Allah
says in the Quran, in a conditional statement,
which has a lot of emphasis in it.
If you are grateful indeed, I will increase
you.
And if the Muslim, the movement is in
a state of hardship or museba,
a calamity or tribulation, he couples that with
patience to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And Allah says in the Quran, Allah is
with the patient. So number 1,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is totally in charge
of everything.
He's totally in charge. Sometimes in the Quran,
Allah
he asks us questions.
Right? Some some of them are rhetorical questions.
It's. The purpose of a rhetorical question is
to remind us remind us of something in
a very powerful way. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says Who is in total control
of the entire affair?
Who is in total control? Who has Tazbir?
Who has total dominance over everything?
Who? Me?
You? USA?
UN? Who?
Only Allah
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has total dominance
over everything, the entire affair. That's number 1.
We should know that.
That everything is going according to the talat
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and everything is
going according to what Allah wants. Allah will
get.
Allah does what He wills.
Number 2. We need to fear Allah alone.
When the Mujahedeen
came back from the Sahaba, from Hazwah Uhud,
and they suffered heavy suffered heavy casualties
during this Hazrat.
And even the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he sustained,
injuries to his blessed face, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. He had a ruptured lip, a cut
tooth, he had
lacerations on his cheek. Blood is flowing from
his blessed face.
And
the Sahaba came back to Madinah. And the
Munatheti,
they said to them,
They said to the Sahaba, indeed, the people
are gathering against you. They're conspiring against you.
So be afraid of them.
Be afraid of them.
What was happening in the hearts of the
Sahaba, Allah
He tells us,
It only increased their faith their faith. It
only increased their iman. And Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And they said Allah
is sufficient for us. He is the best
disposer of affairs. The prophet said,
Speak the truth even if it's bitter,
and don't be afraid
of those who find fault with you. Don't
be afraid of the reproaches of human beings.
They're only human beings.
Do what you think is right.
Follow the Quran and sunnah. Follow our master,
Muhammad, Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Make no apologies.
As soon as time tested, his mujara,
this is our tradition.
He's the best of creation.
We should know that.
The prophet
told Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, if all
of humanity gather together to benefit you with
something, they would not be able to benefit
you 1 iota unless Allah determined it for
you. And if all of humanity gather together
to harm you with something, they could not
harm you 1 iota.
1 iota unless Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala determined
it against you. Who is Allah
He is the one that in his hand
and his power is the dominion of everything.
Everything. This is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So this is point number 2.
Fear
Allah alone. Number 3.
We have to understand
the nature of the dunya.
The nature of the dunya is ebb and
flow.
It's high and
low. It's good and bad.
Allah
says those are days of varying conditions
that we alternate amongst the people.
Fitna is part and parcel of the dunya.
Fitna in pre Islamic times meant an oven.
An oven was called a fitna. You put
a blade in the oven to purify it.
It's just the taste. It's just the touch
of it. When there's fitna amongst us, we
should come out better, purified.
But many of us don't have spiritual discipline,
so it burns us.
And then we we turn to despair.
We become despondent. We start we start thinking
ill of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The word dunya itself means a low place.
That's what the word literally means, a low
place. Some of the even
say that * is a step above
the dunya in some respects.
Because in *, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
remembered.
In *, people remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The people of * are obsessed with Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah tells us in the
Quran, they cry out, Rubana
Return us back again so that we might
work righteousness.
Now we're convinced.
Now we're convinced.
Ibn Abbas, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he said, remember
3 things when a Waseeba afflicts you. When
a calamity or disaster afflicts you, remember 3
things, that it wasn't a worldly affair. It
does not touch your akhir.
It's in a worldly affair. And he said,
this is in and of itself a nirma
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. A blessing, a
rahmah, a mercy from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And then he says, remember, it could've been
worse.
It could've been worse. What are we complaining
about? Look around the world. Syria, Palestine,
Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Whole
families taken out. Whole families
in one fell swoop.
Think about our history. Mongol invasions,
crusades,
Spanish inquisition.
It could have been worse.
And then he says number 3, it happened
in the dunya and not the akhirah.
It happened in the dunya. This is a
Ni'amah that it happened in the dunya.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us about the
believers.
Allah
says that the believers, when a disaster of
Musiba touches them, they say,
Verily,
we belong to God.
This is the best translation that we are
from God.
The lamb of ownership.
Verily, Allah owns us.
Allah owns us. We don't own anything.
Allah can do whatever he wants with us.
Allah created us.
Literally, we belong to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allah owns us.
And we are to him. We are going
towards him returners. This is an an active
participle. Allah doesn't use a verb here which
can have a future aspect.
We are on Raji Road right now. We
are returning to Allah. The is in fact
transcends,
tense.
We've been dying since the day we were
born.
We are in a state of to Allah
since the time we were created.
This is this is something we should know.
Then Allah says,
Those are the ones that have the salawat,
the blessings and the mercy of Allah upon
them. They are the kinder ones.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us
Indeed. Indeed.
There's so much emphasis in the Arabic here.
So much emphasis. Indeed. Indeed. You will indeed
hear a lot
from.
Jews and Christians are people who believe in
another scripture and from.
This is all of humanity.
The Quran does not affirm atheism. If you
believe the universe created itself or is pre
eternal in the past, this is shit. Everyone's
in
That you'll indeed hear a lot from Ahlum
Ki Taab and those who had partnered with
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And then, Gadhira, a
lot of white noise. Things that are going
to grieve you. Things that are going to,
disturb you. You're gonna be disturbed by what
they say.
But the solution is what?
To have patience, sabr and taqwa to guard
against evil, to con to have self restraint,
and that will be the determining factor in
all affairs. Your and taqwa will benefit you
at the end of the day.
This is how we should respond with and
taqwa.
Allah tells us in the Quran, there's no
surprise. This is a dunya.
So much emphasis
in this verb, this fear in Arabic.
Indeed indeed we will test you with something
of fear.
We're going to feel some fear. And
hunger.
And loss of wealth and loss of persons.
And the losses of the fruits of our
labor.
But give glad tidings to those who are
patient. Did you know that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala? Did you know that there's a hadith
that says that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala test
those whom he loves because he loves to
hear their supplications?
Did you know the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam?
He buried 6 of his 7 children.
The prophet himself, Habibullah,
the best created entity,
the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He buried 6 of his 7 children. So
people one child dies, they never recover.
Never recover.
This is Allah's kabeem sallallahu alaihi wasallam. This
dunya is a flash
in the grand scheme of things.
How many years we're going to live? The
prophet
said that reaping of my ummah The reaping
of my ummah is baynus sateemus sabireen.
It's between 6070.
Most of the people of the ummah of
the prophet
will pass away between 6070.
What is that compared to infinity? It's nothing.
It's a flash.
Number 4.
We must continue to strive for justice.
And continue to engage
and serve people.
Allah
says, you are the best nation sent forth,
In order to serve the people,
our greatness
is in our ability to serve humanity.
Right? And we strive for justice.
But we have to know that we may
never see it in the dunya.
We may we never say we may never
see justice in the dunya. Where is it
written that we're going to actualize perfect justice?
Where is it written that things have to
get better for us? The prophet said
in a hadith, he says end of times
have come should come upon you and you're
planting a seed, finish planting the seed. Think
about this. Hadith, Hadith from the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. Planting a seed, it's the end
of time. You're never going to see the
tree. That doesn't matter. We have to keep
striving.
Muslim is an active participle. We have to
keep working towards justice.
Keep serving humanity. This is our duty as
Muslimen.
However, we cannot put all of our eggs
in one basket. If you put all of
your eggs in the basket of the dunya,
you will be disappointed.
I guarantee you. You're going to be disappointed.
We're getting too comfortable a little bit in
our dunya.
We're gonna be shaken. This is the nature
of the dunya. That's why we believe in
something called Yom Al Tayama,
the day of rising. Yom Al Hashar, Yom
Adeem, Al Qariyah, Al Waqiya, Al Haqfa.
There's a day of judgment which Allah
will not deal with anyone even with the
slightest bit of injustice.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not unjust. The
weight of an atom.
No one's getting away with everything with anything.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
the fill of the earth and gold.
Listen. The fill of the earth and gold
will never be accepted from them as ransom
for their
souls.
The fill of the earth and gold. No.
Get out of * free card. No one
is getting away
with anything. You can't bribe
the judge on the Yomal Qayyama.
The prophet
Every relationship is cut off on the Yomul
Qiyamah
except people who are related to me.
How how do we become related to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? If we're not
ahadid bay, how do we become beloved? How
do we become related to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam? By loving the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. By loving his family. By
loving those who were beloved to the to
Allah's Messenger.
This is how we become adopted as it
were into the Ahid Bayt. Think about Salman
and Farisi,
Radiallahu Talal Anhu,
who came into Medina and the Sahaba were
fighting over him.
Which group is he from?
The the Muajdi, they said he's a Muajid.
He made Bijra. He's from us. The Ansars
said he's from us. He became Muslim in
Madinatul Munawara.
What did the prophet
say about Salman al Farsi?
Salman the Persian.
Salman is from us, the people of the
house,
an honorary member of the Ahlul Baytul Rasulullah
alaihi alaihi wasalam.
We don't want to be cut off on
the yomul tiyama. We want to have strong
ties, strong relationship to the prophet Muhammad
What does Allah
say in the Quran Quran about these the
plight of the believers on the Yomat Ki'ama?
Allah
Allah says those who believed and worked righteousness,
the infinitely
compassionate
will bestow love upon them.
Would will bestow love upon them. Allah
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from
them.
Number 5, the last point. Take solace in
the Quran.
Read the Quran.
We need to read the Quran. Understand the
Quran. There are there are various sur in
the Quran called the surah of tasiliyah,
the surah of consolation.
These were revealed to the prophet Muhammad
during a very,
difficult time in Mecca
to console his heart.
Allah says Do we just read the surah
and, oh, it's about some historical event? I'm
gonna have to the elephant.
What does Allah say to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam? And that is a rhetorical
question. It's Tiffam Taqrib.
Didn't you see? He did not see the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam was that was the
year he was born.
Don't you know the significance
of what your lord did to the people
of the elephant?
Don't you understand his significance? Allah is telling
the prophet that
I was protecting you before you were even
born, and I'm gonna continue to protect you.
So be patient as to the coming of
the command of my Lord. There that you
are in our fortress.
We are protecting you. We've always taken care
of you.
In, I'll tell you that kind of kulfo.
When the
were making fun of him,
This one wushrike said about the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi, said he's out there. He's cut off.
His sons died making fun of him because
his male children did not survive.
Allah
says, indeed, we have already given you and
the verb is in the past tense as
a sense of guarantee.
Why? To console the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. What is Kalfar? Nahrun Fajannah,
a river in paradise. But also Fatima Zahra
and the great lineage that comes from her,
alaihis salaam.
This is kawthar to console the heart of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So continue to pray and sacrifice to your
lord.
Be principled. You have to continue to work.
You can't sit back and, oh, woe is
me. We have to continue to work.
The one who despises you, he is cut
off.
Allah says
Allah takes an oath, awesome, by the morning
light and the night when it is still.
Your lord has not forsaken you nor is
he displeased with you.
And you should know that the afterlife is
better than the present. He's telling the prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
What comes later is better than the present.
Some say Mecca is better than Medina.
Some say Al Aqirah is better than the
dunya.
Now Allah uses
a a future tense verb.
Allah will eventually give you something. And immediately,
you will be pleased by it. And the
automa say, this is the Shafa'ah,
but a future tense. And this is gonna
take some time.
You have to be patient. So for your
Atika,
in the future.
And then
Allah reminds the prophet
of of past blessings in the form of
rhetorical questions
to console his Taarb
Did he not find you an orphan and
give you shelter?
And found you searching
for the truth and gave you the sharia,
gave you the
And found you cow down with family responsibilities,
and he gave you independence in the form
of the tanzil and Khadija tul Kubra alayhis
salam.
SubhanAllah.
This is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala consoles
his kabeed, salallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
This is during a time when people were
cursing the Muslims in in Mecca.
They were persecuting the Muslims. Allah says in
the prophet, we
have exalted your dhikr. People are saying things
about you. These people, they're saying something about
you. Your name is written on the arsh.
On the arsh.
Muhammadur Rasulullah.
Your name is written on the awra, the
leaves of paradise.
Your your your name is written on the
gates of the abwab of Jannah.
So in the man Ursula Yusra.
In the man Ursula Yusra,
with every difficulty there is an ease.
With every difficulty there are 2 eases. This
is how we understand these 2 aya. Why
does Allah repeat himself here? Imagine somebody who's
going through hard times, you say, it's okay.
It's okay. Don't worry. Don't worry.
It'll be okay. It'll be okay.
And then again, there's action. Don't sit back
and all woe is me. When you're done
with your present task, continue to labor hard.
Keep
going.
And turn all of your hope to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
All of your hope. The prophet
will go out. He he make the dua.
People throw stuff on him. Abuse him. Insult
him. Have you had someone throw something on
you?
The vast majority of us? No. Anyone
insult you in your life? Maybe.
But this was a daily ritual
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam. They threw
something on him. He went home. He lied
down on the ground. He folded himself in
his mantle.
Jafar alayhis salam descends immediately.
Oh, you who are enveloped in a mantle.
Stand up.
Stand up and go back and warn the
people.
No time for rest. This is prophecy.
And mad your Lord.
Clean your clothes. Get up. Dust yourself up.
Go back. This is what you have to
do.
And be principled. This is assertive non violence.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in Mecca,
he practiced assertive
non violence.
Martin Luther King said there's a difference between
passive nonviolence
and assertive nonviolence.
Passive nonviolence is being a doormat.
Assertive nonviolence
is speaking truth to power, being principle,
following your tradition, but not being violent in
any way.
No way. The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam,
he did not authorize any he's not he
has no political power in Mecca.
In Medina, he's the Sultan of the city.
He has to protect the city.
We are living in the Meccan faith.
We need to be principled people. Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala tells the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Keep your clothes clean and shun their idols.
Shun their idols.
Here in the first place. It doesn't matter.
Continue to shun their idols.
Don't expect anything back from them. No type
of increase. No reward for what you're doing.
And be patient with your Lord.
Take solace in the Quran. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the prophet Muhammad,
tell them, oh, my servants. My servants who
do what? Pray, fast, what?
Who have already corrupted themselves.
The prohibitive la.
Do not. You shall not. It is forbidden
for you to be in the state
of despair
from the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala forgives all sins.
Allah is oft forgiving,
intimately loving.
It is as haram.
It is haram to be in a state
of punut, in a state of despair of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's mercy, as much as
it is haram to drink alcohol or eat
pork.
As much haram.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will never fail us.
Human beings will fail us. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and His Messenger will never fail us.
We have hope in Allah. One of my
teachers said hopelessness is a bigah. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was a hopeful person because
he knew his Lord.
Some say this hadith, there's weakness in it.
Sound in
it. Whoever knows his himself, whoever knows himself
knows his lord. But 'arima means to know.
Arafa means to recognize,
recognition.
Whoever remembers who he is, you'll remember his
Lord. Remember who you are.
Who were we? We were with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Yes. We bear witness. This is our origin.
And we're going back to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is an
example of for those who have hope in
Allah.
For those who have hope, Raja.
You have the messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi
Wa Salam a beautiful pattern of conduct.
For anyone who has hope in Allah
and in the last day and remembers Allah
with much zikr, the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
said wear the 2 sandals of khuf and
raja, of fear and hope.
Be between fear and hope. Not so much
hope that you become,
you start leaving good action.
Right? You become lazy. Not so much fear
that you fall into a state of despair.
But nowadays,
because
people don't have nullify of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. They'll study theology.
It it tends to be fire and brimstone,
doom and gloom. The Ulema nowadays say, lean,
give some give some weight on the side
of hope.
A little more weight on the side of
hope. Give people hope.
Give people hope. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam
told Muayd al Najibah when he went to
Yemen. He said, give people glad tidings.
Don't make them afraid.
Show them mercy. Don't cause them to run
away from you.
Imam al Azadi one time was robbed by
a brigand. We know the story.
The man who robbed him stole his books.
Imam Al Ghazali said, don't steal my books,
that's my knowledge. And the brigand says, what
type of knowledge is this that the likes
of me can steal it from you? Imam
Al Ghazali, from then on, he memorized all
of his knowledge.
And sometime during the course of the conversation,
it came out that the brigand was fasting.
And Imam Al Fazali said to him, you're
fasting and you're robbing me? And the brigand
said, I did not want to shut off
or close all the doors of mercy from
to my Lord. I wanted to keep one
door of mercy, a glimmer of hope alive.
I wanted to keep a glimmer of hope
alive.
And some of the uran must say years
later years later, Muhammad al Zahri is in
Mecca, and he's circumventing
the the Baytullah. And he looked he saw
a man clinging to the Kiswah of the
Kaaba with tears running down his face, and
this was the brigand. Maybe he read his
nose.
He read the books of Imam Khazal.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam says in a hadith.
That Allah
divided his mercy into 100 equal parts,
And he kept 99 reserved for him to
show his ibad on the yomul qiyama.
And then 1 out of 100 parts he
sent down to creation.
To all of creation.
Every time a mother kisses and hugs her
child, it is from that portion. 1 100th.
1%.
Every time a father kiss a father kisses
and hugs his child,
it's for that 1%.
Every time a animal cares and protects its
young. Every single time a created entity
shows any type of mercy, kindness, or compassion,
it is one part out of 100 parts
of Allah's mercy. 1%.
How much do you love your children?
You will willingly give your life to save
your child. That's not even near a fraction
of 1%
of the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And in reality, the mercy of Allah is
infinite.
He said that on the day of judgment,
Muslims will come with,
transgressions,
the likes of mountains,
and Allah
will forgive them. In the Hadith of Jimbidi,
Anas ibn Malik relates
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi ahi wasallam said,
Hadith Putsi, an extra Quranic utterance, a sacred
hadith that Allah says, You Ibna Adam,
oh child of Adam. It's it's not Bani
Adam. It's very,
personal.
Allah
is speaking to each and every one of
us.
Oh, child of Adam.
Beautiful hadith.
He said the prophet
said that Allah said, oh, son of Adam,
oh, child of Adam, oh, daughter of Adam,
as long as you keep calling on me
and have hope in me, I will forgive
you, and I don't mind.
And I don't mind.
Keep having hope.
Keep calling on me. Life is short. It's
gonna be over. Remember y two k?
I remember like yesterday. I remember kindergarten like
yesterday.
This is okay. I grew up in this
I was I grew up in San Ramon
in the 19 eighties. This is where I
was raised. I'm not coming from some foreign
country and telling you to be patient.
I grew up in the in the,
Iran Contra days, the hostages crisis.
And in San Ramon, very different than today.
Very, very different. My sister and I, I
think, were the only Middle Easterners in the
entire school, our elementary school. 1 or 2
African Americans, 2 or 3 Asians, everyone else,
the overwhelming majority were white.
Christian.
You know? So, you know,
bullying is a is was part of our
reality.
But the important thing is the important thing
is to understand,
to see the wisdom behind certain things.
That caused me to ask deeper questions in
my life. Why are these people bullying me?
Why are they picking on me for something
I had no control over? This is how
God made me. Who is God?
So it sparked in me a transcendental
curiosity
that wouldn't have been there. This is when
I was 7, 8, 9 years old thinking
about these things.
So if the wisdom escapes us, be patient.
Do the best you can to protect yourself.
Life is short. Have hope in Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
One more thing I wanted to mention,
former state representative
Mike Honda, a Japanese American,
born in 1941.
He was forced into a concentration camp when
he was a child with his parents in
Colorado. Inshallah, this will never happen in America,
it's gonna happen in a very different place.
But the point is, that something he remembers
quite vividly from his childhood is that people
were calling us pagans.
Remembers that word, pagans.
And more and more we are seeing this,
people calling Muslims pagans. The idea that Muslims
worship a different God. That we have nothing
to do with Judeo Christianity.
The very effective method of pseudo speciation. They
make us look like less than human.
Right? So we have to spread the news.
In principle
In principle, we worship the same God. It's
the God of Ibrahim alayhi sallam. This is
the Allah. This is Allah. This is who
we worship. We have different ways of conceptualizing
God, different ways of theologizing.
So I recommend people I did a a
lecture. You can find it on zetuna.edu. You
can probably find it on YouTube. Is Allah
God? Watch it with your family inshallah ta'ala.
Is Allah God? Or go over the names
of God in Arabic and Hebrew, Arabic, and
Syria.
And demonstrate
how not only is Allah God etymologically but
the concept of God,
the personality of God is consistent with the
Judeo Christian
god.
Insha'Allah. So Insha'Allah, this is something that's becoming
a major fitna,
you know,
in our schools especially.