Ali Ataie – Unique & Superior Islam As a Way of Life
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So he says, it is he, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, who sent his messenger, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
with guidance,
and the religion of truth, prevailing it, making
it prevailed over all others
to the dismay of those who associate
with Allah
This verse is a, prophecy
that is currently,
coming true.
It seems like in a few years, we
will be the last traditional dean,
standing as it were.
Now we believe as Muslims that Islam, so
this religion that was brought to us by
the prophet Muhammad is
deen of Haq, the truth.
This is not to say that other religions,
don't contain elements of truth.
Of course, they do.
The Quran is a confirmation, a
of, let's say, biblical tradition,
but it's also a corrective.
The Quran is Al Furqan, the standard of
truth.
The Quran is, Muhammed alayhi and the overseer
of the previous, scriptures.
So we we definitely have in common a
lot in common with other religions, but there
are also crucial differences.
And it's these differences that actually make our
deen unique.
It's these differences that make our game superior,
and I don't say that in an arrogant
way.
It's just simply true. Our dean is superior.
And if we didn't believe that, then we
probably wouldn't be here.
And I made a conscious choice as an
adult to be a Muslim,
to follow Islam because I believe it is,
objectively
better than other religions
and objectively better than, atheism.
So it's like in the Quran, when Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is ordering the
prophets of Allahuhi Salam to say,
I'm a human being like you.
The prophet
is a human being like everybody else.
But revelation
comes to me.
So this quality makes him unique.
This difference makes him superior.
He's a messenger of God and not just
a messenger of God, the last and final
and greatest messenger of God, and this is
part of our basic
as Muslims.
Word akhida comes from a root meaning to
bind to something. So these are beliefs that
we are bound to
or beliefs that bind us.
So we are bound to the belief that
the prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, is the
last final
and greatest messenger of God. He
He said in the I am a master
of the children of Adam, and I do
not boast. This is not a boast. He's
not bragging.
It is mustahil for a prophet to commit
kitman or to conceal something that Allah
has ordered him to
convey. This is simply the
truth, and we have confidence in this. The
the word faith, unfortunately, has been tarnished by
new atheism.
People like Richard Dawkins. Right? They they say
that faith means belief without evidence.
So I like to use the word confidence.
What does what does the word confidence mean?
The Latin, con with faith, it just means
faith,
but doesn't carry the baggage, the word faith,
so we believe in the prophet sallam alaihi
wasalam.
We have confidence
in the prophet, sama,
precisely
because of evidence.
In the Quran, he is called al Begina.
The evidence.
That he is the evidence.
So it's easy to say and sometimes it's
very tempting to say that all religions are
essentially the same and that these differences don't
really matter,
but that is a misrepresentation
of Islam as well as these other religions
that's doing a disservice to humanity.
These differences matter
and they are important.
I personally know a guy who identifies
as a pro choice Catholic.
Pro choice, by the way, is a circumlocution.
It's a euphemism.
It's a way of saying pro abortionist
and that is also a circumlocution.
That's mean
pro abortionist means pro death, pro murder.
Pro choice Catholic is essentially an oxymoron.
It's like jumbo shrimp.
So I said to him, but the magisterium,
the tradition and binding teaching authority of the
Roman Catholic church is against abortion.
He said, I don't care.
And I say, well, can can you be
a Unitarian
Catholic?
And he said, no.
And I said, well, what's the difference? As
long as we're picking and choosing.
So details matter. Definitions matter. The word definition
is from
in
Latin,
meaning concerning its end, concerning its parameter. A
definition delimits something. In Arabic, it's called the,
a bound or a parameter.
If words don't have definitions, then they become
meaningless.
Or if definitions are constantly changing, they become
meaningless.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam said,
He said that towards the very end of
time,
right, towards the very end of time, nothing
will remain of this religion except its name.
It's going to become a name without a
reality
or an essence. In other words, people will
say they're Muslim,
but they have nothing to do with Islam.
You know, like I'm a non binary Muslim
who believes in reincarnation
and practices an alternate lifestyle.
You know what I mean?
You can't define me,
but Allah and his messenger and the Ijma'a
have defined Islam.
Sacred texts
that are clear, unambiguous,
unequivocal,
have defined our religion. If these texts mean
whatever we want,
then they mean nothing.
Islam has a normative
definition.
And if you breach that definition,
you are not Muslim.
It's that simple.
There are millions of people in the world
right now in major existential
crisis,
in major theological crisis, in moral crisis, it's
a total jungle out there.
There are millions of people in the world
right now whose entire world view
has been turned on its head by the
current Zeitgeist,
the current spirit of the age, by this
pervasive
and pernicious culture
that makes them question their own common sense,
their own intuition.
So common sense,
fundamental principles of being,
language,
meaning,
definitions,
objective truth, all of this is being challenged.
You can spend a $100,000
on a college education
and you walk out of that college
saying to yourself, are there more than 2
genders?
You've lost your common sense.
You got took that's getting robbed.
That's called grand larceny.
This new generation of children are steeped in
nihilism.
This idea that ultimately there is no objective
meaning
to life,
that you can give your life any meaning
you want.
Existence,
precedes
essence, they say. This is from Sartre. This
is a French,
philosopher. In his, consort,
Simone de Beauvoir, one of the founders of,
feminism,
she said, quote, one is not born, but
rather becomes a woman.
No one's born a woman.
A rejection
of human nature, of human essence.
This is called existentialism.
That you can make your own reality.
It's all about you.
So a traditional theocentric
life, a life centered around God, is being
replaced with an essentially egocentric
life. With the ego in the center, the
nafs is a very subtle type of shirk.
It's called idolatry, worship of the ego, and
this happens when people impute
the unique nature of god
upon themselves.
Allah
in the Quran, he says,
Have you seen the one who takes his
ego as his god?
This is all related to this revolt against
normativity
and this movement toward queer identity. What does
queer mean? It means unique.
It means different.
It means special. It means individual.
You can't define me,
my identity, my gender. I am the undefinable.
I decide what I am. I am whatever
I want to be.
There's nothing like me whatsoever.
All of you have to bow down to
my ego.
If I decide that I am a 75
year old Asian woman,
all of you have to submit to my
ego
because
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes the Urul Alba,
the people of essential understanding
in the Quran. What did they say?
These are the people of lub, essential understanding.
You did not create this for nothing in
vain.
Glory be to
you. Save us from the punishment of the
fire. The central message here is that existence
has objective
meaning.
Your life has objective meaning
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Even if you're
not on social media,
even if you don't have any friends,
even if 2 people in the world don't
know your name, you mean something
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala suffices us. We must
not let this world deceive us. The only
opinion that matters is the opinion of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So chaos is everywhere.
You have moral, existential,
theological, social chaos.
Of course, chaos is the opposite of cosmos,
meaning order, so disorder is everywhere.
So people should know that Islam has something
unique
and elegant and beautiful
and reasonable to offer them.
And by Islam, I don't mean submission in
some sort of
broad sense. So I'm not talking about Islam
like with a tanween or Islam with a
lowercase
I.
Everything is in a state of Islam
whether they like it or not,
whether they know it or not.
Everything is submitted
to the of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the
decorative will of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
what I'm talking about is Al Islam,
the message brought to us specifically by the
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
This is his preferential will. So a Muslim,
capital m,
strives to do those things
that are pleasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And how do we know his preferential will?
He tells us in his prescriptive will, in
other words, his his
and Allah
says in his
that the Quran is
The Quran is a healing, a cure
for for what is in the hearts of
humanity
and people are afflicted everywhere
with spiritual maladies
and in many cases, they don't even realize
that they have these diseases.
There's doubt and hypocrisy.
There's arrogance. There's vanity and heedlessness.
We ask them also
to cure us of all such diseases.
I usually have problems with microphones.
So watering down our religious beliefs unnecessarily
or attempting to combine somehow
to equalize all of these religions. It compromises
our distinctiveness
as a religion.
It compromises the Quran's distinctiveness as a scripture,
as a unique book of healing. There is
something very special
about Islam. There is something special about the
Quran.
There's something special and unique about the prophet
Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam, and we should make
no apologies about this.
This is the truth.
However, we must also show humility before Allah
Subhanahu
Wa Salam said,
And this is a this is a spiritual
principle.
It's not a mathematical principle or a biological
principle.
A spiritual principle, a spiritual law. If we
are humble before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Allah will raise us. But if we are
arrogant, Allah will demaze and humiliate us.
Almost the exact statement is attributed to Risa,
alaihi salaam, in the new testament.
The Christians, they have these spiritual laws. People
who believe in ultimate accountability,
they have these spiritual laws.
But people who love the dunya and cling
to the dunya,
this ephemeral and perishing world, they follow other
principles
like just do you
or do what thou wilt
or live your truth.
Right?
There's a philosopher named named David Burlinski
who wrote a book called The Devil's Delusion.
This is the seminal refutation of Dawkins, the
dot delusion. I highly recommend it. And he
quotes a French philosopher in this book, and
he says, this this philosopher says, imagine you
have a magic button, this magic button. If
you press this button, all of the riches
of the entire world will come into your
possession immediately.
It's like a genie.
Right?
But there's one catch. If you press this
button, one human being somewhere in the world
will fall down dead.
So he says, to whom will you entrust
this button?
An atheist
who doesn't believe in god,
who doesn't believe in ultimate accountability,
who believes that if he can get away
with it, then he's gonna get away with
it. Or a theist who believes in God,
who believes in ultimate accountability on the Omar
Qiyamah.
Who would you entrust the button to? A
theist.
There are people who demand absolute bodily autonomy.
What does autonomy mean?
It means self rule.
I can do whatever I want with my
body, my body, my choice.
Good luck with
that.
We don't read Quran.
Quran. Indeed, we, Linda, Lamb of Tamid, we
belong to Allah. We don't own anything. I
don't own my body.
I don't I don't own my wealth. I
don't own my family.
I own nothing. Allah
is madic and madic.
He is king and owner.
Allah
says
When that innocent little
beautiful baby girl
will be asked on the young Piama for
which crime she was killed. Can you imagine?
This is proven the majority of children killed
by their parents are girls.
No one wants to talk about this war
on women.
This is a global war on women.
The other front of the war on women,
there are multiple fronts,
is when men appropriate the gender of women.
When men think they can become women,
like some sort of gender blackface.
When womanhood becomes
mockingly
performative.
When womanhood becomes a gender minstrel show,
this will systematically
erase
that which makes
real women
unique,
distinct,
and precious.
While they said, this
is in the Quran. The male is not
like the female.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam recognized
this perennial problem in human society
that people who don't believe
Testing.
Oh, I go.
Everyone okay? Yes. Nobody's triggered?
The prophet recognized
this perennial problem in human society that people
who don't believe in ultimate accountability
will will oppress
those who are physically weaker.
That's the love of the jungle.
We don't follow the law of the jungle.
We follow the laws of revelation.
This is why he says,
The prophet said, whoever has 3 daughters and
shelters them and has compassion towards them and
protects and takes care of them,
I guarantee paradise.
Somebody said, what about only 2 daughters?
Even if 2.
And some of the people thought that if
they if they had said to him, what
about 1 daughter? He would have said even
1.
Notice he did not stop and shelters them.
Shelters them, has compassion towards them, protects them,
takes care of them. This is what a
man does.
A man protects,
shelters, and has compassion towards women.
He doesn't become a woman.
This is a perversion,
an inversion.
This is inherently disorder.
The prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam is addressed
by the law
in the Quran
with the following
words.
It is part of the incredible mercy of
your lord that you deal gently with them.
If you are harsh or hard hearted, you
would have seen people flee from your very
presence.
The prophet
was gentle. He was a gentleman. This is
a beautiful word in English, gentleman.
The prophet
said whoever is deprived of gentleness is deprived
of good. That doesn't mean a feminine
man. Don't get the wrong idea.
It means a truly masculine
man. A truly masculine man is gentle
yet formidable and fierce
if need be.
The prophet,
and those who are with them
are strict against hostile unbelievers, but merciful amongst
each other.
Oh, you who believe, if you turn back
to their religion, then Allah being
that he loves them and they love him,
lowly with the believers, but they have a
'Isa.
The the unbelievers look at them and they
start troubling because the Muslims have a isa.
They have honor. They have dignity. They're formidable
in the eyes of the unbelievers,
and they strive and struggle in the path
of Allah
So confidence, discipline,
stoicism,
strength, ambition, these are masculine qualities that men
should never apologize
for having.
These are qualities of Muhammad
and the best generation is his generation.
Sometimes men must be violent.
It's necessary,
but it must be tempered
for the sake of good,
not evil.
The solution is not to feminize men. Then
who's gonna take care of the violent men?
Violence
is necessary to create peace and check oppression.
And here's another thing, dawah is for non
Muslims
and nasiha is for Muslims.
But nowadays, as one of my teachers said,
now we have to make dawah to Muslims
because for many of them, their fundamental Aqidah
is not sound.
20 years ago, 10 years ago,
there were liberal Muslims. They practiced Islam with
a liberal flavor.
But today, many Muslims are actually practicing liberalism
with an Islamic flavor.
There's a Muslim who gave a khutba at
a Catholic university, and in this khutba, in
passing, he mentioned that abortion is haram.
The MSA tried to get him kicked out
of school.
The MSA,
Muslim students in a Catholic university are trying
to kick this Khatib out of the university.
Recently, a very influential person
with a very huge social media following became
Muslim.
However, he's a man who was perceived as
a threat
to feminism,
the whole feminist project.
Now check this out. There was a Muslim
sister who tweeted that if he is welcomed
as a Muslim,
she will leave Islam.
She'll apostate and leave Islam. And she said,
and I will deal with Allah
on the day of judgment.
Why?
How could you possibly say this?
Why would someone taking Shahada threaten her Islam?
The reason is because it seems like, I
hope not, but it seems like her religion
is not Islam
with a dash of feminism.
It is feminism
with a dash of Islam.
Hind bin Turikba, who bit into the liver
of Hamza
and Hamza was beloved to the prophet cannibalized
someone who was the Habib of Allah's Habib.
She came to the prophet at
the Fathamecca,
and she was veiled, and she said praise
be to the one who made his religion
victorious. He said, man ant. He said, hind
ben gukla. He said, marhaba.
Welcome to the religion.
No one can turn away someone from the
religion.
Nobody can do this. This has nothing to
do with you.
Surahaun,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told Musa alaihi
salaam, speak
a gentle word of Firaun,
the butcher of Badi Israeli,
he might become Muslim, and if he became
Muslim, those Israelites have to embrace him as
their brother
and not talk about his past sins.
Imagine party b becomes Muslim.
Right? This is someone, basically a * star,
who brags about kicking men
into hotel rooms on the pretext of *
and then pulls out a gun and robs
them.
And she's going on podcast and and and
and and, oh, she's so empowered.
Right?
If this person becomes Muslim,
we have to
welcome her with open arms
as a sister in the faith
and not mention any of those things.
We don't own this religion.
We have no say in whom Allah
guides.
Allah
tells the prophet
You cannot guide
all those whom you love,
but Allah guides, It
is not up to you to guide people.
You have no say in this affair.
That's the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam. Nowadays,
we have many challenges,
theologically speaking.
So as a humble man who's trying to
be true to our tradition, to our scripture,
to our prophet, to our scholastic community, we
have many challenges.
Of course, there is a phenomenon of postmodernism,
this idea
that we are living in a post truth
society.
There's no real truth.
There's no real morality.
Right?
Another challenge that is more insidious,
seemingly meaning seeming seemingly harmful, what,
harmful nonetheless, is a philosophy called perennialism,
which has permeated various quarters of Western academia.
This idea that all major religions are theologically
valid,
that Christianity and Islam are both theologically valid,
or that theological differences between these two religions
are reducible to mere semantics.
In other words, trinity
or to heed, it doesn't matter.
Right?
Aquinas and Ghazali, they're saying basically the same
thing.
Augustine and Hypotania, they're saying the same thing.
You know?
This is false. This is false logically. This
is false scripturally.
Why do people go there?
It makes them feel good.
It's all about feeling.
It's true that both religions are attempting to
describe the same metaphysical reality,
but the meanings of their respective ways of
theologizing
are clearly at odds. The Quran has a
clear polemic against Christianity.
You cannot deny it.
Very interesting. Allah
says don't say 3, and he leaves it
at 3 because there were Christians who said
3 gods.
There's an ontological hierarchy.
There are Christians who said,
3 persons and 1 god in the hypostatic
hierarchy.
There are Christians who say 1 person, 1
god, but 3 modalities.
These are called the modalists,
There are Christians who say the trinity is
father, son, holy spirit. There are Christians who
say father, son, mother.
So both theologies cannot be true at the
same time. This is a violation
of a fundamental
a priori
law of being called the principle of contradiction.
Either Isa Alaihi Salam is god or he's
not. It cannot be both.
Either the lights are on or they're off.
Either it's raining or it's not. There's no
third option.
Principle of the excluded middle.
Is either god or he's not. No third
option. Either Islam is correct or Christianity is
correct.
Both can logically be wrong, but both cannot
be right.
If you read the Quran, it's very clear
that there are things that the Christians got
right.
There are also things that they got wrong,
and this is a really important point. The
Quran is a theologically
judgmental
book.
A theologically and morally
judgmental book. Even if our society considers it
politically
incorrect or unwoke
to pass judgment
on another person's religion or worldview.
This does not change the reality that there
is truth and falsehood,
that the Quran purports to reveal the truth.
That was a very, eye opening documentary film
that was recently made by a conservative commentator,
a Catholic
named, Matt Walsh. It's called What is a
Woman? Maybe you've heard of this.
I highly recommend watching it. It actually blew
my mind a little bit.
So he interviews several people,
but one of them was a college professor
of women and gender sexuality studies,
PhD, a self proclaimed
social scientist.
He asked the professor the question, what is
a woman?
And the professor with his PhD
cannot answer the question without saying the word
woman.
A woman is a woman.
If he says that a woman is a
human being with 2 x chromosomes,
then he would be marginalizing
transgender women, also known as men,
who have x y chromosomes.
Then the professor gets frustrated
and says, why are you asking?
And Walsh says, I'm interested in getting to
the truth.
And upon hearing the words the truth,
the professor has a visceral reaction,
and he says, I'm uncomfortable.
You're condescending
and rude.
They can't stand the word truth.
Very interesting.
Why?
Why does the word truth trigger, to use
their term, these people?
Do you know why?
Because Allah
is the truth.
This is an aversion to God.
Academia is becoming fundamentally
anti theistic.
At first, academia was theistic, like Harvard, Yale,
Georgetown.
These started as Christian Seminaries.
Education used to be sought for the sake
of God.
Then academia became atheistic.
There is no God. And if you believe
in God, that's your business, just keep it
out of here.
And now academia has become anti theistic.
Theistic,
atheistic,
anti theistic. What does anti theistic mean? 2
things. Number 1, the belief in god and
practice of religion religion need to go,
need to throw it away.
Or if you insist on believing in god
and in traditional religion,
then you must change your beliefs for the
sake of hurt feelings.
Otherwise,
you are a patriarchal,
misogynist,
homophobic,
patriot.
So Satan is not an atheist.
Shaitan
knows
that god exists.
So he says to the human being, disbelieve.
And when he disbelieves,
shaytan says to the human being, I disavow
you. I fear Allah, the Lord of the
world. Satan is an anti theist.
He wants us to disobey Allah
disobey the
prophet
The Quran quotes him,
Because you led me astray, look at the
satanic mentality,
self victimization
versus the Adamic mentality.
What does Adam and Eve say?
Oh, our Lord, forgive us.
Personal
responsibility. The Adamic mentality, personal responsibility.
The satanic mentality, self victimization.
Because you led me astray, I will lie
and wait for them
on your straight path. In other words,
I will attack the people of your deen.
I will assault Muslims
and make them go crooked.
The irony is that people who tend to
stress tolerance the most
tend to be the most intolerant
to intolerance.
It's quite ironic.
It's like someone who says, be nice, you
idiot.
I had to take graduate school seminars for
PhD. I would say most of them it
was a total waste of time, a 99%
of waste of time.
You're sitting in a classroom with other people
and just venting with no knowledge. And the
professor would give us a topic, we have
just debate with debate on this topic. So
I remember one topic. It was about a
rite of passage in a certain country for
young boys.
Okay? And I and I said, I believe
that's child abuse.
That's what I
said. And this very woke student jumped all
over me.
How dare you make a judgment
about another culture?
How can you be so intolerant
of someone else's belief?
I said, yeah.
How can you be so intolerant of my
belief?
And she didn't get the irony.
So everyone
is to a certain degree intolerant.
There are no exceptions.
For many people on the left, like extreme
liberals and many Muslims feel like they need
to support them for some reason,
many of them,
is not good enough,
is not nearly good enough for them.
They want more than tolerance.
They even want more than acceptance.
They want to be celebrated.
They don't wanna be ignored.
Ignorance
is just tolerance. Do whatever you want. They
don't want your thumbs up from a distance
or, you know, one of these. Like, okay.
I accept you. No. They want you to
march in their parade.
They want you to join the circus,
and Muslim politicians in America do exactly that.
I'm sorry to say it. They join the
circus.
Everyone knows. You never join the circus.
When the circus comes to town,
you look at it,
you are amazed by it,
and then you go back to work.
Well, you might say, well, who cares?
Well, the problem is that extreme liberals dominate
academia, social media, the entertainment industry,
and the government absolutely capitulates to that. It's
a grooming process.
Why rainbows and unicorns?
Why are these their symbols?
Why not,
trees and donkeys?
Anything else.
One reason is they want to attract children,
and one of my teachers said the rainbow
is actually a symbol of God's covenant with
humanity,
that he would never flood the earth or
destroy the earth again.
So they they chose the rainbow as a
way of mocking God as if to say,
you can't destroy us. We're protected by the
rainbow.
What are you gonna do to us?
Why buzz light year?
It's grooming.
You Now years ago, you sat down with
your kids
and you watched Toy Story.
Right?
Nice movie. And then a few years later,
hey, kids. There's a sequel. Let's go. Yay.
Few years later, hey,
Toy Story 3. Let's go watch it in
the movies. Alright.
Let's buy some popcorn. Beautiful.
Let's buy the toys and the t shirts.
But a few years later, look, a prequel.
At this point, your kids love the whole
franchise.
It's been part of their lives for years.
Let's go watch the prequel.
Bam. Homosexual
love scene.
This is ideological
warfare.
The brother must say that you're either
calling to be something or you are being
called to something.
That's it. Two options.
Pick an option.
Personal feelings
do not change objective facts about reality.
2 +2 is 4. An adult human male
is a man.
An adult human female is a woman.
Truth is truth. Falsehood is falsehood.
With the coming of our master, Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
the Quran
says
The truth
has come, not a relative truth
or your truth in my truth.
The truth has come, and falsehood has vanished.
Indeed, falsehood is ever vanishing.
The prophet
repeated this ayah when he was smashing the
idols of the Kaaba
in imitation of his forefather, the great iconoclastic,
our master Ibrahim alayhi salaam.
But according to Imam al Razi in, Imam
al Tabari, this ayah refers more, generally
to the coming of the Quran and the
establishment of Al Islam,
that Islam is the truth in the sense
that it is the deen of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala who is the ultimate truth.
So for my remaining time, inshallah,
I'd like to look at a few passages
from Surat Ibrahim, alayhis salaam, and just give
you a way for you
to
stop talking.
This is found in Surah 26 verses 75
to 89. It has 2 sections,
and both sections are essentially didactic, meaning Allah
through our master Ibrahim Alaihi Salam is teaching
us something.
So at the highest level, Allah is teaching
us about himself.
He's teaching us theology,
which is the most noble of sciences
because subject matter is the greatest entity in
existence,
Allah
Theology is.
So the first section, Ibrahim alayhi salaam is
speaking to his people about Allah.
His people were the ancient Chaldeans who worshiped
a pantheon of gods. They were Mushidiki,
Polytheists.
In the second section, Ibrahim Alaihi Islam is
speaking directly to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in the form of supplication, a du'a, which
you will see how Ibrahim alayhis salam's speech
is transhistorical.
In other words, how his speech is absolutely
relevant for us today. It is timeless.
So a speech begins with,
Have you really considered what you worship? You
and your ancestors.
They're enemies to me except the lord of
the world. And I'm a say here that
these verses are one of the strongest proofs
against theological taqlid
and for istidlaal.
So taqlid is blind conformance or uncritical faith.
It is following someone without
due inquiry. It is belief without evidence.
To plead in matters of creed or theology
is unacceptable.
You have to be convinced.
You have to actually believe what you claim
to believe,
and you should be able to explain your
beliefs
even if it's just at a basic level.
You don't have to be a theologian,
but you have to know something.
If you're praying because your father prays and
then your father dies and you stop praying,
there's a problem.
We should be able to explain if only
to ourselves
that god exists and that he is one.
We should be able to explain
why we believe in the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, why the Quran is the word of
god. We can use rational, historical, linguistic, and
scriptural proofs.
We believe because it is rational. Belief in
God is rational. All of God's commandments are
rational.
Disbelief in God
is a type of idiocy. Then Imam Al
Ghazali said we should never refer to atheists
as intelligent.
It is a type of stupidity.
In the same Surah, Surah, Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala says,
Their messengers said to them, do you have
doubt about Allah,
the creator, the originator of the heavens and
the earth? Do you really doubt that? The
Quran doesn't even entertain
atheism. There are no atheists.
Everyone worship something.
Who created this phone?
Did it create itself?
No.
Who created this car out here? Did it
create itself?
No. Who created this building? Did it create
itself? No. Who created this universe?
Did it create itself? Yes. You're an idiot.
Then Ibrahim alaihi salam said,
the one who created me and guides me.
Now he begins his theological monologue. Allah is
the creator. He is the only creator in
reality
because logic tells us there can only be
one creator.
To ask the question, who created the creator,
is nonsense.
Why? Because by definition, the creator is uncreated.
If the creator was created, then he's not
the creator.
If there was no beginning of the universe,
if there was no creation x
from nothing, then we are stuck in infinite
regress,
which is repugnant to the intellect. If the
universe is infinite in the past, we would
never get to today because you cannot traverse
infinitude,
an actual infinite number of events.
As one of my teachers said, imagine you're
standing in a line and there's a let's
say I'm standing in a line full of
men. There's a man There's a man in
front of me, and I say to this
man, hey, brother. Can I give you a
hug?
And this brother tells me, you have to
ask the brother behind you.
So I turn around and say, hey. Can
I give this guy a hug? And then
he says, ask the guy behind me.
Can I give him a hug? Ask the
guy behind me. Can I give him a
hug? Can I give him a hug? And
this goes on ad infinitum.
Would I ever give the brother a hug?
Never.
You cannot traverse an actual infinite number of
events.
Infinite regress
dies at the door of the eternal.
This is the only solution.
It is intelligent
to believe in one creator
who created from nothing.
Space, time, and and matter came into being.
So this creator is necessarily spaceless, timeless, and
immaterial.
He must be also extremely powerful because he
brought all these things into being from nothing.
He must be also highly intelligent.
He must be also personal because he chose
to create rather than not. So we have
6 attributes of god that are immediately known
to the intellect, just the. You don't need
the knuckle here.
Just the. And,
he guides me, emphasis on.
The verb isn't perfect. He alone guides me.
He continues to guide me.
So Allah
is the majestic, all powerful, timeless creator, but
he is also in some sense intimate,
personal,
close to his creation. He is Purim. He
shows us the way. He's not some impersonal,
distant, or removed god. He's not the god
of the Greek philosophers.
He's personal.
When my servants ask you concerning me, say
I'm close to them.
I answer the supplicant when he calls upon
me.
We created a human being, and we know
what his soul suggests to himself. We are
closer to him than his jugular vein.
He is with you wherever you are. Allah
is
with respect to what we do
all seeing.
It's amazing.
He continues. The one who feeds me and
gives me the drink. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the ultimate source of life,
the old ultimate sustainer of our existence.
And when I'm sick, he heals me.
And sicknesses are of 2 types. 1 is
psychosomatic,
mind, body, and the other is spiritual.
Muhammad al Sadiq, he said when I am
sick to this city, he heals me with
repentance.
The Quran says about Ibrahim alaihis salam,
and then he cast a glance towards the
stars and he said, I'm sick. Ibn Kathir,
he said the idolatry of his people made
his heart feel sick. This was out of
his compassion
that he loved his people and did not
wanna see their disruption.
And the prophet
was the same way, and we should be
the same way.
Perhaps you might worry yourself to death over
them if they don't believe in this message.
Kufur
might make us sick to our stomachs,
but we have to trust and submit to
Allah
The one who causes me to die then
causes me to live.
Then he says,
and the one who I hope will forgive
my sins on the day of judgment.
And Mujahid said that this could be a
reference to Surah Subhanahu Wa'ala 3 when Ibrahim
Ariasulam quote, unquote lied to his people about
the largest item destroying the smaller ones. But
other ulama, they say, this is not actually
a lie because his intention was not deception.
His intention was to demonstrate an absurdity in
their belief
that Ibrahim alaihi wasalam is demonstrating the dangers
and follies of theological tafleid.
If you ask your average
Christian, why do you believe in the doctrine
of the trinity?
They'll probably say it's in the Bible. It's
just a knee jerk reaction.
And as Muslims, we have to have enough
knowledge to follow-up
with the answer with the with the question
of where.
Show me where the Bible teaches the explicit
doctrine of the trinity.
Produce book, chapter, and verse.
And after finding nothing in the Bible, many
Christians come to the realization
that the only reason they believed in the
trinity was because of theological tafni, blind imitation
of their leaders.
They were told to believe that god was
3
without seeing the evidence.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the context
of Christianity,
O people in the book, do not exaggerate
in your religion beyond the truth, and do
not follow the desires and caprices
of a people who went astray and that
and thus let many others astray and continue
to stray from the right path. Dolaal is
mentioned
3 times.
The Christian leaders who invented the trinity
went astray,
Then with their theology, they led 1,000,000 more
astray
than the Christians at the time of the
prophet and
today rejected him
because he did not teach the trinity
and thus they continue to go astray
compounded.
But
the Quran wants to ask the Christians as
well,
have you really considered what you worship?
The same question Ibrahim alayhi salam asked his
people.
And like the people of Ibrahim alayhi salam,
the Christians in principle worship Allah, the god
of Abraham, but they need correction.
Oh my lord, grant me a judgment process
and bind me to the righteous.
This begins the second section of the Abrahamic
Manuwah, his supplication
to Allah
It's still didactic. He's teaching us theology through
du'am.
He says.
The
denotes the personal deity.
The is the one who takes care of
you, loves
you, sustains you, protects you.
Grant me. Allah is alwaha,
the one who gives us things even though
we are undeserving.
Give me a shukm,
shukmam,
a judgment process
by which I might recognize the truth.
In other words, a strong sense of discernment.
All of us are born with a conscience.
Conscience means with knowledge. We all have the
ability to intuit to a certain extent
what is good, bad,
beneficial, harmful, what is beautiful, ugly, we have
this naturally. We are not a tabula rasa.
We're not a clean slate, so it seems.
This is what Socrates wanted to bring to
the surface
through the dialectic,
but they didn't have Wahi.
These truths are in us. We already know
these things. The blessing of this Ummah is
that we have the Quran. We have Wahi.
We and the one of the names of
the Quran is adzikil,
the reminder.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us these things
clearly and they are in conformance with our
fitra,
with our nature.
However, a lack of revelation
or bad education
or sin or disobedience
or shaitan can delude us and deceive us
even to the point where the bad is
seen as good,
the ugly is beautiful,
and the harmful is healthy.
And some of the urama say even our
fitrah can change due to bad socialization,
and this is happening today all of our
society.
So we need reminders.
Today, we have people who weigh £400
with purple hair, covered in tattoos from head
to toe, and think that is beautiful.
It's a total inversion.
We ask Allah
grant us a sustained and sharp process of
judgment
by which we might,
see the reality
behind the form.
And in this vein, the prophet, salallahu alayhi,
is not supplicated. Beautiful dua.
Oh, Allah, show me the truth as truth
and give me the the ability to follow
it.
And show me the falsehood as falsehood
and give me the ability to shun it.
Those who prefer the life of this world
over the hereafter
and who turn from the way of god,
from
the
to seek to make it crooked,
this day who are far astray,
Those who prefer this fleeting life of 60
to 70 years
over the abode of permanence
are not being rational.
That is unintelligent,
irrational thinking, putting all your eggs in the
basket of the dunya is irrational.
When you know, and everybody knows this, that
the specter of death lurks behind every corner,
you don't know when you're going to die.
You die later tonight
or before that.
You can go at any time. We know
this.
Whatever see whatever shape you're given, it is
only the enjoyment of this life and this
world and its ornament, but that which is
with Allah is better and more lasting. Will
you not use your intellect?
Will you not be reasonable?
Our master, Jesus, peace be upon, has reported
to us, said, what does it profit a
man to gain the world but lose his
soul?
Our master Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
The intelligent one is the one who subdues
his lower self and works for that which
comes after death, while the unintelligent one is
the one who has who has put his
lower self in pursuance of its desires
and has vain hopes
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Such a person leads a hedonistic and selfish
lifestyle
against his better judgment and expects Allah to
forgive him. That's not intelligent.
That's not reasonable.
This deen, this religion is an intelligent deen.
It's a thinking person's religion.
A wise man once said, would you rather
hold a handful of dirt for several hours
or a piece of gold for a moment?
And the answer
is, I don't want dirt, a piece of
gold for a moment.
And he continued, yet there are people who
would rather hold dirt
for a
moment than gold forever.
There was a study conducted,
children years ago by a Stanford professor. It
There's a study on delayed gratification,
and they found that children who prefer to
have 2 cookies
later
rather than one cookie now
we're generally more intelligent and successful later in
life.
Self control, discipline, patience, these are markers of
success in both worlds.
This world is a shadow of the next
world.
Why would someone prefer this fleeting life over
the hereafter?
It's because they have doubt about the hereafter
in their hearts.
But rather than try to alleviate their doubts
with serious and sincere study,
they take the lazy way out
and follow their, their caprice, their desires, their
lust, their feelings,
and their feelings rule them. And then out
of spite for those who engage the way
of god, the Sadeel of Allah, which he
must use, he says is al Islam,
out of spite for those who practice Islam,
they seek to change Islam
through lies, deviation, and falsehood.
So as I mentioned, the people of knowledge
say that you're either
calling to something or being called. And right
now in our society, we have people, deviance,
openly saying
to traditional
people,
we will convert your children.
This is what they're saying openly now.
No more hidden agendas, no conspiracy theories.
They want to convert our children into accepting
their deviant lifestyles
and perverted philosophies.
But in order to do this,
they need Muslims
to forsake their tradition
and accept the current zeitgeist.
They need us to accept this highly intolerant
and coercive liberalism, this what is it called
now? The liberal world order
that has now openly declared
ideological
warfare on traditional religion. It's open. This is
their project. They're they're broadcasting it now.
Why do they need Muslims?
It's because we are gradually becoming the last
line of defense
when it comes to traditional religion in the
world. We're all that's left.
We are the ummah of the prophet Muhammad,
and
we've been entrusted with the middah of Ibrahim
alaihis salam, and we must never allow ourselves
to become bullied or intimidated.
Be upright as you have been commanded. The
prophet
said, this ayat turned my hair gray.
He had a few hairs
in his temples.
They asked him, what has made your hair
gray? He
said,
Be strong,
resolute,
stand up straight. A companion came to the
prophet
The prophet said,
throw my stuff in.
That's it.
Say, I believe in our heart and be
upright upon this.
There's not nothing
secret.
Stand up. Warn people about their behavior.
Say Allahu Akbar.
Purify yourself,
shun their defilements and idolatry,
don't expect anything from them. It's okay. You
don't need to become allies with them for
what?
You need to sell sell the deen for
what?
For a miserable price? That's what Badi Israel
did.
For what?
No. Hasidullah.
Allah
is enough. This life is too short to
be a salah. It's way too short.
So this is our project. We have this
diploma.
We're the last line of defense because the
Jews no longer believe
in traditional theology, Maimonides' 13 principles of faith.
No. The historical critical method has destroyed the
Torah.
Most Jews are non practicing.
They go to the synagogue for, social purposes,
and most Jews are actually reformed Jews where
they can eat whatever they want, and their
Sharia is optional, and many of them don't
even believe in god.
I went to a reformed synagogue.
The rabbi was an atheist,
and they were having breakfast, serving pork.
And I said, Subhanallah, this is a this
is a synagogue. They said, yes. They said,
you want some of this bacon? I said,
no, I don't need bacon. And then I'm
sitting with some of the lady the Jewish
lady, she said, you're more Jewish than our
rabbi.
I said, Subhanallah.
The pope of the Roman Catholic church
saying some strange things.
You know? He's constantly offending his traditional and
conservative followers.
This is a leader of more than a
1000000000 Catholics
talking about is there really a * and,
it's okay, civil unions and
something strange going on with this guy.
Most Christian churches in the West have actually
let the woke surface through their doors.
They've capitulated
to the same coercive liberalism that has overrun
the academy
like a scourge. They succumb to the mob
that claimed that their beliefs
are not only offensive, but violence.
Your beliefs are violent, they said, the mob
said. And they bowed down to the mob.
Yes.
Yes.
So follow on that. I mean, yes.
And they let the circus
in. And once you let the circus in,
as I say, once you let the circus
in, sooner or later, the clowns will run
the show.
This is why I can't even go to
a church anymore. I used to do a
lot of interfaith dialogue.
I can't go anymore,
because it's all the circus.
Amazingly, during this time, people in the west
continue to convert to Islam.
It's not surprising. It makes sense.
Islam is a religion of human fitra. It
appeals to our natural disposition.
People naturally love monotheism. They're attracted to the
simplicity of Muslim worship,
bowing and prostrating without icons, no statues. They're
attracted to the prophet
who was respectful to others yet uncompromising
when it came to his principles.
They respect that.
They're attracted to him because he's a gentleman.
They see that. He's a real man.
They're attracted to how Islam recognizes the difference
and uniqueness
of men and women. They're not equal. Sorry.
They are equal, but not identical.
They're equal, but not identical.
They're compliments,
not rivals,
not antagonists.
Go to now and take a class at
UC Berkeley Gender Studies.
They say * marriage is *. This is
what you're teaching. Marriage is * because everything's
power dynamics, and a man has visible power
over you.
So anytime they're in intimacy,
it's * de facto. Don't get married.
You're a strong independent woman. What do you
need a man for?
This is what you're teaching women.
People are are tired of this,
and and Islam for them is totally refreshing
in the face of the current zeitgeist.
And there's a place called. It's called culture.
There's a maxim in the sharia.
That which is known through custom or culture
is like that which is legislated through revelation.
But there's a caveat.
Any cultural practice must be circumscribed within the,
the bounds of the Sharia.
It must not violate the revelation,
which is from Allah
There's no,
obedience to creation and disobedience
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And you notice that
children, because they're on the fitrah, children, they
love Allah and his messenger,
And children with terminal cancer never complain
because they accept the other. Go to a
cancer ward full of children.
They're sitting on beds with their bald heads.
They're laughing. They're playing games. They're playing with
their dolls. The parents are sitting there crying,
weeping.
Their children are fine.
They're out of the yard.
But then they go to public schools and
colleges,
and they become exposed to postmodern philosophy
and critical theory and deconstructionism,
atheistic materialism, radical feminism,
poststructuralism,
radical hermeneutics.
This is all nonsense.
Wallahi, it is nonsense.
Go to a museum of modern art
because modern art is the
artistic equivalent of their literature.
Go to the MoMA,
the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
There's a pile of sticks on the ground.
People look at, oh,
amazing.
So what are you looking at? This?
There's one there's the a what body? Like,
a 5 year old took a crayon. It
went like this. And people looking at it.
Oh.
That is amazing.
And I took my head, my daughter went
through it, my wife went through it, and
I went through it on a field trip.
I looked at it.
This is a joke.
Their literature is just like this.
It's all pseudo profound profundity. It's all like
this a highfalutin
language that means nothing. It's nonsense.
They make up these terms that mean nothing.
There's one it's it was blank
blank canvas. People looking up.
So we have these Muslim children going to
this university sitting in these classes,
and this professor talking about the intersectional,
materialistic,
wave of the 4th. I don't I don't
understand this. I must be an idiot. That's
what the Muslim is thinking because I don't
get this. No.
It's nonsense.
Have istiffon.
Get in and get out of that class.
Don't join any clubs. I can't believe it,
I'm saying it. Don't even join the MSA.
I can't believe it, I was the MSA
president
a long time ago
at my college. We used to do
dawah. We used to have debates.
Said,
but their finra takes a hit
when they enter these schools and their common
sense is questionable.
But then eventually,
they get older and wiser with experience,
and then they start to do some real
thinking on their own,
and they realize later,
That these unnatural, deceptive, and irrational philosophies are
making people miserable.
These philosophies turn the world into a godless
battleground where different identity groups
are constantly vying for power.
Everything becomes a struggle for power.
These backward philosophies turn people into mean spirited,
self righteous, cynics.
It bifurcates the world to 2 classes, the
oppressed and the oppressor. And ironically, those are
often labeled as oppressed or actually the oppressors
and vice versa.
And Toba, Shukran, and Tawagwu are thrown out
the window. These are 3 of the greatest
theological virtues.
Tawah, repentance is replaced with living your authentic
self.
You need to just accept yourself.
If you accept yourself
that you make your own rules, no right,
no wrong, no rules for me, I'm free.
Let it go.
This is from Frozen. This is a Disney
movie.
I make my own rules.
I don't answer to anybody.
Therefore, I can never sin. I don't have
to make
Tawba.
Sugar is replaced with self victimization.
I'm a victim, who should I grateful to
who, my dad, this misogynist?
You mean the man who raised you?
The man who loved you, the man who
gave his life like this, like this, he'll
give his life to save your life, that
misogynist,
that guy
who believes in 2 genders,
then Tawagur is replaced with off the charts
narcissism.
Tawagor means humility. What's humility? Are you kidding
me? Humility?
People can't sleep at night.
Wake up at 3 in the morning. Oh,
a new follower.
Hadith and Harib.
Anyway,
the prophet
Towards the end of time, there's gonna be
flagrant habitual liars, impostors who will make statements
that neither you nor your ancestors have ever
heard.
In other words, they're going to say things
that are absolutely irreconcilable
with our faith tradition that no Muslim has
ever heard,
and yet they will justify themselves religiously.
Now this is called radical Bermudez.
Right? This is what our our kids are
exposed to in colleges.
You know, you're gonna take a class intro
to the Quran. Oh, good luck.
What's gonna be your first assignment?
A queer reading of the story of Lot
in the Quran.
The literary method of postmodernism
is called deconstructionism.
That's a term for the note takers.
Deconstructionism. Usually, the sisters say nuts. The boys,
already they memorized them.
Here we go.
Deconstructionism,
what does it mean?
There is no meta narrative.
There is no orthodox
or normative reading of any text.
There's no normal reading. There's no no such
thing as orthodoxy.
Don't let a bunch of oppressive
cisgender, heteronormative
male Ulloa
tell you what these verses mean.
They can mean whatever you want.
You see? They can't change the nus. They
can't change the text of the Quran. If
they could, they would,
but they will butcher the Tasiyyid.
The prophet
said, beware of them, lest they misguide you
or involve you in their fitna.
The prophet said,
honor the scholars. You know those same cisgender,
heteronormative
honor
the scholars.
They are the inheritors of prophets.
Whoever,
whoever
honors them is honoring Allah and his messaging.
During this time, Allahu Akbar, the of this
deen is being discovered by many non Muslims.
Allah is in charge,
and they've noticed
that there is something about Islam that prevents
Muslims from surrendering
their moral truth.
They noticed that there's something about Islam
that prevents Muslims from groveling
and genuflecting
before the mob that we have istifama,
we stand up straight.
Allahu Akbar. People are coming to this deen,
and we say to them,
whoever they are,
Marhaban,
welcome to this religion.
Sorry for going over the time.
That's
the perfect
time.
We have both time question. Yes. For comments?
Yes, sir. I think this question that I
have will probably be applicable to everyone.
How do we respond to individuals
who ask us to use their preferred pronoun,
and that pronoun is not in alignment with
their biology.
Yes.
So I would I would just say I
respectfully decline.
It's against my religion.
We play the religion card. Yeah.
Why not? Right? I'm a Muslim. It's against
my religion.
And if you say it like that, they'll
give you if you say, I prefer
no, they go, oh, this guy's a bigot
because
he he he thought about it. But if
you say if you if you give it
to them like this, it's against my religion.
Right? It's like forcing me to eat pork.
Would you force me to eat pork?
No. Of course not.
Okay?
Don't force me to do something that's against
my religion. That's how we have to frame.
This is my faith. This is my religion,
and I have a first amendment
right this is this country
to practice my religion.
Now according to my religion,
your pronoun
doesn't match
your gender, and I believe there's 2 genders.
Oh, I'm triggered. Well,
too bad.
Too bad.
People need to hear the truth sometimes,
and maybe Allahu ala.
You know, there's a brother in this Masjid
who in high school gave me a hard
check,
and I was angry with him.
And I thought, well, I'm gonna say this,
brother.
And then I just thought about him. He's
right.
Internalize and thought about it. If this person
is reflect reflective,
if he's honest with himself or herself,
them himself. No.
And will benefit in that. Sometimes you need
a a little pinch of truth,
but I would use that language. This is
against my religion. Or sometimes at work, they
make me wear a little flag in June,
like a little rainbow flag. Oh, we're wearing
flags today.
You know, this is against my religion. It's
like forcing me to eat pork. It's like
forcing me to worship an idol.
Exactly like that. Just like that. None of
this
none of the wish washy stuff.
Istifawa means,
you know, you stand up straight, it's to
the point, the prophet,
his speech was very to the point.
No kind of, you know, dillydally, wishy washy.
If they notice a little weakness,
this guy's a bigoted because he has he
has a choice,
and he made a decision. He's not going
to do
it. That means that he is there's there's
a little leeway there.
You know, well, of course. Lately,
we see and saw some
videos
showing that
the the the features.
I think the clowns are here in Wisconsin.
Don't have a bed. Keep the circus out.
Encouraging,
the children
to join during the lunch
place.
Yeah. Some of the clubs.
Yeah. And they tell them not to tell
their parents about it.
So what do we have to do,
actually?
Yeah. I'm not saying as Muslims,
as state people that believe in the Lord,
Christian,
Muslim,
and Jewish
that actually know that, the god has, you
know,
punished,
Saddam Amur
because of what they were doing.
So what should we do now? Because this
is the invasion and the breaking of the
load of ethics of school. Yeah.
It's a model.
Yeah. That's what they do in kindergarten now.
The teacher says, okay, boys. Do you feel
like a girl today? And and maybe it's
it hits the fits a lot. They go
the little boys go,
come on. You almost feels like a girl
today. I feel like a boy today.
And then nobody and then the next day,
okay, boys.
It was like a girl. They actually encourage.
So my advice is pull them out of
a public school. A public school is an
absolute pit of vipers. It's a it's a
it's a * of all.
Public school is just I thought it was
bad when I was in public school. I'm
thinking, like, you know, 19 and eighties, like,
you know, with the Khomeini and Iran and
things like, oh, and Salman Rushdie,
that was paradise.
Because that was just kids kind of, you
know, being bullied, but now the curriculum.
You just have to you have to homeschool
your kids. You have to homeschool them
and,
you know, homeschool them. And then for high
school, you sort of, you know, have
to do a co op or something
and then take your chances in college.
Just go to from a to b, you
know,
don't join any clubs and
and do the best you can in Samoa.
It's difficult, but I I don't suggest going
to public school. What's this is gonna get
up for you. It's what? We are giving
up our rights in the public schools. Yeah.
I mean,
Like I said You can do something different.
Yeah. That you can do. Homeschool the kids.
Do it. Start a co op. You're not
giving up right protecting children. We have some
some You're right. Your children are more important
than these rights to go to a public
school. Public school is not beneficial for them
anyway.
Some states, they started making some, riots and,
wanting to actually, you know, dismiss
the vote of, of education,
which happened in the travel of states, I
think, is the issue. Yeah, Machine. Yeah. So
this is actually one thing we have to
support and we like.
Yeah. I mean, if you if if it's
not feasible to,
you know, do something if there's no other
option, kid has to go to public school,
then,
yeah, you just have to hound these school
boards
and and, you know, ask your children to
be very honest with you with what they're
reading and actually go physically to the library
of these schools and look at some of
these books. He actually displayed these books, my
2 dads, you know, Santa's husband.
It's the other one. This book is gay.
Yeah. They have * pictures inside. This is
for, like, you know, elementary school children.
This is grooming. This is child abuse. Yeah,
man. And I would use that language again
in the school board. I think this is
child abuse, what you're doing to my son
or daughter.
Let them hear this language. Yes.
You know?
And just how
You know, all the parents should show up
in school board meetings. Parents should be always
talking to teachers. What did you teach my
son or daughter? If there's no other option.
That's also difficult to do because people working
are busy.
It's
difficult. Very, very difficult.
And then, you know, the child, he goes
to or she goes to, like, Sunday school,
learns something about the slum, but it's only
once a week.
And, you know, the aunties and uncles are
doing the best they can, but then they
go to university and they listen to this
professor with a double PhD
who says, oh, what is the moon? And
they go, oh, it's so deep.
Man, my this uncle over here in the
masjid, what does what does that guy know?
He can't even speak English properly.
It's actually it's it's it's a fitna of
our time. It's very different very different than
just 10 years ago. It was very, very
different.
All of this seeped in in the nineties.
Right? This was
it comes primarily from Foucault, this
this French philosopher named Foucault, who actually,
was a professor at at Tunis
in the 19 sixties. So So postmodernism is
very, very prevalent even in the Middle East.
And, Noam Chomsky, who's at MIT,
professor of linguistics. He actually said that when
he speaks in the Middle East,
the Muslims actually are are more,
more skeptical about, you know, objective truth
than students in the West.
Like, you'll talk about history, and then the
Muslims in the Muslim majority countries will say,
how do you know what happened? You know,
it's all your perception. There's no such thing
as objective history. This
is everywhere. It's global. This is a global
phenomenon.
And
you
just read Foucault's works. I mean, this guy's
extremely disturbed individual.
Of course, he kinda fell in love with
these sort of pre AIDS San Francisco gay
varsing. He died of AIDS. He was only
sexual. He was a terrorist.
But that's their hero. You go to SBL,
Society of Biblical Literature. Every year, these seminaries,
they have an annual conference. These are bible
students.
You go and just attend one of these
sessions.
They're quoting Foucault and Derrida.
These are the 2 big guys. What? Abraham,
Moses, e Jesus, gospel of Matthew? No. No.
Foucault, Derrida. Foucault, Derrida. Foucault,
Derrida.
1st Kings, Deuteronomy,
Genesis?
No.
These are the prophets.
No. Mhmm.
This is your question?
Our hope is then Allah
This dunya, if you if you depend on
the dunya, your heart will be broken.
The dunya is made to break your heart.
That's what the dunya is made to do.
We can't depend on the dunya. Don't depend
you know, people that don't believe in an
afterlife, they want they want justice in this
world.
They wanna replace God with some sort of
government, and it's happened in the past. And
100 of 1000000 of people died because they
want absolute
radical
egalitarian
laws, and it they don't work
because society is naturally hierarchical.
You can't level all of society.
You can't be just in an absolute sense.
Only Allah is Al Aqib, and on the
day of judgment, we don't want justice
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
No one wants justice. He want Raqwa.
On that day you're not gonna be saying,
no justice. No. No. No. No. We don't
want justice.
That doesn't mean that we don't try to
be just in in the world. Of course
we try to. I doubt it. It's very
important, one of the cardinal virtues.
You know,
justice. But we understand that it's never good.
Absolute justice will never manifest in this world.
It's impossible. It will never manifest. There's always
gonna be injustice.
It's the nature of the world.
That we give
you days of varying fortunes.
We alternate these things amongst the people.
It's
Allah
says, we will test you in this world.
Test you with loss of wealth and loss
of,
fruits of your labor, loss of your of
yourselves.
People are going to die.
What about you to sobbing?
We'll give glad tidings to the patient ones.
This is our our project in this world
is to be patient, and the world goes
by quickly. There's no reason to sell out.
You don't need an ally.
Your only Allah is Allah, his messenger and
the believers. That's all you need.
And Allah is sufficient in reality.
Right? When the when the Mujahedin returned from,
in Medina, he said,
People are gathering against you. Be afraid of
them. What does the
Allah is sufficient.
Is it sufficient as a disposal of affairs?
In the next few years, it's gonna be
very difficult.
It's gonna be very difficult life in,
you know, the next decade or so, 2
decades.
It's gonna get it gonna you know, there's
ebbs and flows, but, generally, it's going like
this.
The
download. Right? So people are gonna be tested
with their.
So we have to have history of aam,
read the Quran,
be acquainted with the book of Allah
Study the sunnah of the prophet
How did he deal with these situ everything's
in the sunnah. How did he deal with
situations?
Read the stories in the Quran. How did
what left to ask people? What what what
was their sin? We have it now. What
about Salud? What about the brother mentioned, Chokol
Malut? What about them? We have them now.
The the largest the new LGBTQIA,
whatever capital of the world now
is no longer San Francisco. You know what
it is?
San Francisco's been eclipsed. Goodbye, Frisco.
Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv
in Israel.
It's 6 miles
from Sodom and Gomorrah.
The largest
parade on earth
passes by the cities of the plains, Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Look at us. What are you going to
do now?
Even Isa, alaihi salam, according to the gospels,
he sent his disciples out and he says,
whoever rejects the gospel,
shake the dust of that city off your
legs, off your feet. The cities of even
the cities of Sodom and and Gomorrah will
fare better on the day of judgment than
those cities.
That means they're all going down. This is
according to Isa alaihi salaam in a Christian
text. Three gospels. Matthew Marmoluki says this.
But you go to a church at random,
you see this is it's like in the
circus.
What happened? Why did you sell out? Where's
your religion?
Allah says in the bottom, let the people
of the gospel judge by what Allah revealed.
Let them judge. We want them to do
that.
We have that in common.
No. They're judged by
they they're.
What feels great?
Whatever feels good, I guess. The age of
human.
Anyway,
I thank everyone.