Dilly Hussain – What can we do for Uyghur Muslims Purley Mosque
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My dear brothers and sisters, respected elders.
Let me first begin by saying a big
to
early Masjid and Khaleel Institute
for inviting me
to deliver this talk 3 years afterwards for
the part 2.
And I do remember when Muhammad's face in
the last event. I even remember 1 or
2 others that seemed very familiar.
And I want to obviously
reiterate and reemphasize,
the comments made by,
Omar al Imam,
Ababa Shamir,
Sheikh, Surman Ghani
regarding the issue of Palestine, the issue of
the orphans of this Omar and so forth.
Brothers and sisters, this
talk
about the situation of our brothers and sisters
fundamentally falls as part of the wider situation
of the.
The situation which the Muslim majority world finds
itself in from as far east as Indonesia,
as west as Morocco,
as north as the caucus, and as south
as Tanzania.
It falls as part of the
dire,
humiliating,
situation
that the Muslims find themselves, whether that be
famine or poverty or war or occupation,
and the case of the Uyghurs,
a cultural genocide.
Before I go into the crux of today's
talk, which is what can you do,
I want to just highlight that today's conversation
that's why I'm calling it. Today's conversation is
I want some interaction from the jama'a, from
the congregation.
I want to hear from you. I want
to learn from you.
I wanna share some of my ideas, and
I wanna hear some of your ideas as
well.
But before we get into that, Sheikh Ghani
mentioned something very important
is that we do talk about Palestine and
Must Al Aqsa a lot, and it comes
as no surprise because the sanctity of the
holy mosque,
because of its many references in the Quran
and the prophetic traditions,
because of the long history that region has
with regards to the and beyond the prophet
and beyond the Allah
peace and blessings be upon them all. It
comes as no surprise that Palestine and Syria
will always remain close to our hearts because
of the overt and explicit
references in our scriptures
of these lands.
But if I was to say to you,
who took Islam to Pakistan?
Can someone tell me how did Islam reach
Pakistan?
Who is the figure
that took Islam into sin?
Mohammed bin Qasim. Mohammed bin Qasim.
Yes.
Who is it generally understood took Islam to
the Bengal region, specifically Silat?
Yes.
We can tell you Ertugrul Ghazi did this
in Anatolia.
Under Amr bin Aasul Khaled bin Walid, this
land was that will be pleased.
This land was conquered.
We can cite many examples of Islamic figures
who took
Islam to these regions that we know very
well.
But if I was to say to you,
who is Sultan Boker ul Khan of the
Khalakanid
Khanate?
Does anyone know?
Nor did I 4, 5 years ago.
Sultan Baghrir Khan was the first,
Uyghur,
sultan of a non Muslim dynasty to have
accepted Islam
in the 10th century common era.
For us to feel,
to empathize, to connect
with any people's history,
especially when it's one of Muslims of another
region,
It is important that we connect with their
heritage and their history in the way that
we do with Palestinians,
in the way that we do with the
Kashmiris,
in the way that we do with the
Rohingya,
in the way that we do with the
Iraqis, in the way that we do with
the Afghans, in the way that we do
with very commonly do with
other oppressed groups of Muslims or where
there are problems in specific lands and regions.
So I guess that's the first thing I
want to emphasize and reiterate
to the congregation here today and brothers and
sisters who will watch this talk online is
to learn about history.
Yes. We all know that we are one.
We know that there is no differentiation between
a black man and a white man except
for in good deeds and piety.
We know the very numerous references
to Islamic brotherhood in the Quran and sunnah.
But a part of that connectivity
is to understand the heritage and the history,
especially the Islamic heritage and the history of
the Uyghur people.
Another
point has to be made
is that when we look at the Palestinian
issue and the reason why we are going
to be referring to other areas in this
talk about the Uyghurs is because it's we
can draw lessons from how we are when
it comes to certain groups or certain regions
where Muslims are being oppressed and then try
compare it to the difference of how we
are perhaps to the Uighur
situation.
Palestinians,
for the best part of 60, 70 years,
have had the UMMA support,
have had the neighbors' foot. Forget about the
governments and the regimes. The UMMA
itself has supported
Palestine with its duas, with its
money, with its charity.
And the same could be said about Kashmir
because we have so many brothers and sisters
from Pakistan
or were from Azarjan or Kashmir, and we
know that charity has gone to that occupied
land.
And the same can be said about other
parts
of the Muslim world where we have
communities of these people here
to teach us, to educate us, to raise
awareness.
And because we have communities,
Afghan communities,
Bangladeshi communities, that's why we're aware of what's
happening in the Rohingya.
We're aware of what's happening with the Kashmir
because there's a strong Pakistani community here.
We know of the situation of the Muslims
of India because there's a big subcontinental
Muslim community here.
We know about the Palestinian issue because there's
a large Arab diaspora communities here in the
UK and in the west.
That's not necessarily the case with the Uyghurs.
And the Uyghurs find themselves in, I would
go as far as to say, in perhaps
one of the most difficult
one of the most unthinkable
difficulties
that I would say is perhaps
in that shines out not shines out, that
stands out
in Islamic history in terms of the level
of oppression that they are facing.
They find themselves to be oppressed by a
country or a regime
that has the vast majority of the Muslim
world enslaved economically.
So even if there were
Muslim politicians in the Muslim world or political
parties or figures that wanted to even wanted
to speak out a word against China,
economic
policies and financial enslavement
is keeping them censored.
This is the unique
political situation that we will find themselves in.
But before we go into the crux of
solutions
and meaningful
actions
that we can do
in aid of our brothers and sisters in
occupied is Turkestan, I want to ask,
you all
if you can put your hands up.
I know Sheikh said Xinjiang.
What is the
the Turkic word
of the land of Xinjiang?
What is the the word which the Uighurs
refer to when referring to their land?
I think
pardon? East Turkestan. Yes.
East Turkestan
is what is
referred to as common day Xinjiang profit province.
Xinjiang
in,
in Cantonese actually means
the new province,
and this is an occupational
term. This is a
term that was used
and is referred to by the Chinese regime
when referring to occupied East Turkestan.
So, therefore, one of the ways in which
we can remain consistent and supportive of our
brothers and sisters is to use the correct
language.
When whenever we refer to even cities of
the entity of Israel, we'll say occupied Palestine.
It's normal in our language.
It's very rare to hear someone say Kashmir
in India. You will always hear occupied India
under occupied Kashmir. You'll never even hear India
administered Kashmir. You'll always hear occupied Kashmir.
And the same applies to other places. So
let's begin by referring to us occupied Uzbekistan.
What are the Uyghurs ethnically?
Are they Persians? Are they Arabs?
Turkish. Yes. They are they are of the
Turkic people.
In fact, one would say that they are
perhaps,
from from a gene point of view, are
perhaps the most closest
to the early Turks that came from what
was modern day Mongolia and Central Asia.
So they are a Turkic people.
Their land is called East Turkestan.
They have been Muslim for around a 1000
years,
and they had flourishing
civilization,
sultanates,
Khanates.
They had famous Islamic scholars
and in this
land, especially under what was referred to as
Mumbulistan
in the latter medieval period.
The Uyghurs have a rich Islamic
history and heritage
just like the people of South Asia do,
just like the people of the Leibor and
Ashand do, just like the people of the
Arabian Peninsula do, just like the people in
North Africa, West Africa do. They are no
different to the rest of the Oman having
a rich Islamic heritage.
So it's important that we connect with them.
Brothers and sisters, when I was here 3
years ago,
I gave a a talk which is about
an hour, hour and a half about the
history of the Uighur people,
a bit about how they came to Islam
and how they found themselves in the situation
that they find themselves in today.
The occupation of East Turkestan
or what the Chinese refer to or what
the world refers to as Xinjiang province,
is in northwest China.
It has been occupied
since 1949
by the Chinese Communist Party.
At first,
there were many attempts over the course of
50 years 40 to 50 years for the
Uyghurs
to
try get their rights
and justice
by engaging in
civic engagement, be it protests,
be it political lobbying,
be it engaging with whatever
apparatus that was available for them,
whether it's through via human rights groups. They
have exhausted all those things. And what we've
seen from 1950
to 2000, that 50 years, is endless examples
endless examples of massacres,
of the killing of unarmed protesters,
of students,
of farmers,
of scholars,
men and women, young and old.
And the argument
for the best part of 50 years were
that these Uyghurs,
they are separatists.
They want their own state. They want to
make China weaker.
They are not for the national unity for
the for the greater betterment of the Chinese
state. That's what the argument was to begin
with for about 50 years.
Then after 9/11,
China jumped onto the war on terror propaganda.
Now it was no longer about Uyghur nationalist
or Uyghur separatists. Now it's to do with
Uyghur Islamists
or
Uyghur
extremists who do not believe in Chinese values
and beliefs,
who had their own identity,
who dress differently,
who eat differently, who pray differently, who live
differently, who marry differently.
They want to implement their way of life
on the rest of China. This was the
propaganda
of the Chinese regimes
from 911,
and they are no different to other regimes
around the world.
The propaganda
against Islam and Muslims post
911 during the war on terror has been
more or less the same all around the
world. They just differ in their manifestation. They
differ in their implementation of laws. They differ
in how they choose to oppress Muslims.
Brothers and sisters,
what I'm about to share with you
in terms of what
our Uyghur brothers and sisters are experiencing
will be very difficult to fathom.
But to bring it home
to bring it home,
I want you to think
of someone beloved to you,
a parent,
your child,
your spouse,
your sister, your brother, your grandparents.
I want you when I describe these things,
I want you to think of someone beloved
to you.
The situation of the Uyghurs can be
put into 3 situations.
What is it like in public?
What is it like in private?
And what is it like
in the concentration camps that they have
built, 100 of them, across
the Xinjiang province.
Brothers and sisters in public,
Muslim women are not allowed to wear the
hijab.
Muslims
who are seen working irrespective
of the sector or the industry are not
allowed to fast during Ramadan.
Butchers, oybal butchers,
their knives and their hands are chained
when they have to give meat out to
the people.
Hundreds of mosques have either been demolished, leveled
to the ground, 100, if not 1,000.
The number is not accurate because the amount
of information that's coming out from China because
they don't let any human rights observers go
in.
We don't know the accurate number.
But just from the collation of
video
evidence,
100 of mosques, if not well into the
4 figures,
having even leveled to the ground
or converted to nightclubs and discos
where
non Muslim Chinese people would come in. They'll
consume alcohol. They'll dance.
They may even commit zina in what
was
for over a 1000 years of Masjid,
a place where Allah was worshipped.
For the mosques that haven't been demolished,
if anyone wants to go there, there is
about a 1,000
a 1,000 security vetting processes
before you even go to that masjid. Then
you are not monitored, so people don't even
go to the masjid anymore.
They're they're empty, haunted buildings
because people are scared to go to the
mosque.
They're surveilled.
Fingerprints,
eye scanning,
phone
app, CCTV camera, spies.
If you are caught in possession of the
Quran,
you will be fined.
And we're not talking about a £60 fine,
which
most of us can afford
in terms of our financial situation in the
UK. You will find in the in in
China if you're caught with the Quran
an amount which the average Uyghur cannot pay.
If you are caught with the possession of
the Quran again,
you'll be beaten and put into prison.
And if it happens the 3rd time, you'll
be taken into the concentration camps. We'll get
to the concentration camps in a bit.
What they call reeducational
camps, vocational camps.
In public,
men
cannot have beards to a particular length. Young
men are not even allowed beards.
The elderly can have it just here,
but young men are not allowed to have
beards. They're not allowed to have trousers that
comes above their ankles.
Arabic signage
on restaurants
and eateries all replaced, all removed.
There are spies watching your every move.
Then you've got millions of ethnic Han Chinese
non Muslims that are being brought into
East Turkestan
by the Chinese government
to
demographically
outdo the Uighurs.
Millions of Uighurs have been sent around China
to do free labor, slave labor.
And was there a way, millions of Han
Chinese this happened hasn't happened overnight, by the
way. We're talking about a process of 30
years
where there was well over 50,000,000
in East Turkestan. Once now, there is barely
15.
Some say 20. There are different estimates.
So now even
the land of the Uyghurs cannot be
cannot be
lived in.
That demographically,
that they are trying to bring ethnic Han
Chinese non Muslims into the land of the
Uyghur
while sending them out to concentration camps,
to slave labor factories,
and so forth.
Private life.
Do you know that the Chinese government has
admitted
that they send
agents
to the homes of Uyghurs?
They call it the coupling
policy,
cultural coupling policy.
Does anyone know can anyone guess what this
may entail?
For Mohammed?
Can anyone
explain what
cultural coupling means? We get into dealing with
the wider
Yes.
Chinese agents go into the homes of Muslim
Uyghur Muslims.
And whilst their men are doing slave labor
in factories or their reeducation
camps,
they live in the homes with the women
folk,
with daughters
and mothers,
elderly women.
They make videos of it, and they post
it on their social media
about how beautiful Uyghur women are,
how well built they are for reproduction,
how great cooks they are,
how well they age.
They were to this.
The The Chinese government has said, yes. We
send agents out because we believe this community
has an extremism problem.
We believe this community
or there are segments within this community that
are not truly Chinese.
They are not committed to China.
So, therefore, we need to go into their
homes and teach them the Chinese way.
So now we have
strange
men in the homes of Muslims in the
tens of 1,000
* our sisters
and our mothers.
And then you have
to serve
the stranger's food.
What do you expect that they expect to
serve?
Wine,
alcohol,
pork,
meat that has been slaughtered in another way
besides halal.
This is what they had to serve
the estrangement,
who are Chinese agents,
part of the state apparatus.
What does refusal
mean? Refusal could mean death.
Refusal could mean gang *. Refusal could mean
your children are taken away to state orphanages.
Raffiso could mean the death of your men
folk in a camp.
That's private and public life
in Eastern Vista, in occupied Eastern Vista.
And then we have the camps.
Thousands of camps, which the Chinese government has
said are reeducational
camps to reeducate
these Uyghurs.
And by the way, it's not just Uyghurs.
The vast majority are Uyghurs Muslims, but there
are Kazakh Muslims,
Krieg Muslims,
and even the ethnically
the Huy Muslims
were ethnically Chinese, were the indigenous people of
that land. They are also now feeling the
heat.
But the demographic majority who are facing the
brunt of this oppression are the Uighurs.
These
reeducational
camps have been created by the Chinese government
to say that, look. We've identified that these
individuals or these Muslims have
problems which pose a national security threat to
us.
So, therefore, we need to put them into
these camps.
I mean, to basically
teach them
how to be more Chinese.
Brothers and sisters, make no mistakes. These are
concentration
camps
to force Uyghurs to leave Islam.
Make no mistake about
this. The Chinese government in official documents and
dossier, they've already said that they want to
sinicize
versus the Quran with socialism.
This is no secret that I'm telling you.
All of this information is publicly accessible through
the admission of Chinese state documents,
more so recently because a level of pressure
has been applied on China.
But all of this was unknown.
A lot of this was unknown to us.
In these camps,
women,
Uyghur Muslim women are forced to sleep with
and share beds with other Uyghur Muslim men
who are not their.
And the same for the men, folk.
When our sisters fall ill in this concentration
camps,
instead of being given medicine, they're given sterilization
pills and injections.
They are purposely
forced to not pray salah.
When it is the waqf fajr or Isha
or Maghrib or any of the 5 prayers,
it is then replaced. The prayer is replaced
by flag raising ceremonies,
swearing an oath of allegiance to the Chinese
Communist Party. That's what the prayer has been
replaced with.
And the horrific,
unthinkable,
indescribable
cases
of *, systematic * of our sisters,
and the
torture
is something that is so.
I I I I can't describe this to
you.
They would say
it would be easier if they just kill
us.
At least,
we hope to get martyred.
And many of these concentration camps, brothers and
sisters, you find
are populated by the elderly.
Of course, in various ages, but the elderly,
there are many in the concentration camps. You
know why that is?
It's because
they have said that it is better
for us, the elderly,
to go to these camps instead of our
children and our grandchildren.
We've lived our life.
We've held on to iman, but they're still
young.
Their schools, their beliefs can still be swayed.
They can still be brainwashed to leave Islam.
We won't.
So send us.
And literally, it's got to a situation where
the Chinese government will send out
notifications to each Uighur household
that someone from that family has to spend
a specific period in these in these camps.
So putting aside the torture,
putting aside the *, putting aside
all basic
level of humanity
that you could even afford
a fellow human being, putting all of that
aside,
you have the brainwashing and the indoctrination
of Muslims
to leave Islam.
And the prophet
Imran said
that the
have a choice.
Islam
allows them to
utter the words of disbelief whilst believing in
Allah
and his message in the final day inside.
We know that when it comes to saving
our own lives,
we can we can pretend to be a
non Muslim.
We can even curse
and do other things to preserve our life.
This is the importance Islam has put and
Allah has put on the life and honor
of the Muslim.
They could reject Islam
if it comes to but the Uyghurs have
not done that.
They've held on to their faith.
They refused to
give up their faith.
Because if they did, there wouldn't be any
need for concentration camps.
There wouldn't be any need for concentration
camps. If people are leaving Islam in their
droves are happily drinking, smoking, committing,
doing all the kinds of stuff which appears
to be the Chinese way of life or
the Chinese social way of life,
there wouldn't be any need for these camps.
But the reason why these camps exist, brothers
and sisters, is because Muslims are still
persisting and insisting
to remain firmly upon Islam. It
makes you wonder how
easy we have in
here and how none of us have truly
been tested in our faith
in the way the have. I was a
collective.
So this is the situation, brothers and sisters.
There's around 20 or 30,000,000 of our brothers
and sisters
in
who are going through this.
And I may have left many things out.
There's there's a list of things
which I had to tell you. I couldn't
describe in the presence of children.
So what can we do?
That's what the question of the post was.
What can you do?
Let's first begin by asking ourselves why we
should be acting in the first place.
Why do we act?
Why do we move for the cause of
Muslims? Why do we do
it?
It's because Allah
in the Quran,
and the prophet
has emphasized
the importance of Islamic brotherhood,
and that's where we act.
That's where we move.
But we'd want if there was a house
for our wife,
we'd want another Muslim to act, would we
not?
If these things were happening to your women
folk and your family, would you want someone
to act?
Yes. That's what we asked. Check it out.
2 of these.
So I'm gonna conclude today's talk
on a high,
on a positive,
because
it is not befitting of the believers
to lose hope
and
to think that we are defeated and depleted.
It is not befitting of the believers
to think that we have lost.
We in this time for the next.
We
have to believe that Allah
has the best result for us in store
in this life and the next.
You have to believe that. Because if you
don't,
then what you're saying is that Allah's promise
is not true,
that he will not give victory to the
believers,
that he will not give victory to those
who remain firm and patient upon the religion.
So that's why we have to be positive.
We also have to be realistic
about what each and every single one of
us can do. Realistically,
practically, what can we do?
So let's go through some of these things.
And before we go through some of the
action points of what we can do,
I want to
bring to your attention to think about and
ponder on
the following verses of the Quran, where Allah
tells us in Surah Alaihi Imran,
indeed we have raised you,
the Muslims,
the Ummah of Muhammad
We have raised you as the best nation
from amongst mankind.
And Allah did not just leave it there.
Allah put a condition.
He put a caveat in that verse. It's
because you're enjoying what is good, you forbid
what is bad, and you believe in Allah.
So in order for us to be that
best nation raised from amongst mankind,
we have to enjoin in good, and we
have to forbid what's wrong.
And we know of the very
commonly cited hadith of the prophet
who said that when a Muslim and a
believer sees a munkar,
an evil or wrongdoing,
he should change it with his hands.
And if he's unable to, then he must
speak out against it.
And if he's unable to do to do
that,
the lowest
manifestation of iman is to hate it from
within.
I know that each and every single one
of us here in this masjid today, in
Paree Masjid,
and I know that each and every single
one of us who are living in security
and comfort can do more than hate something
from within.
I also know that due to the nature
of politics,
the nature of the country which we may
come from, that it is difficult to criticize
governments and rulers in Beijing. I understand that.
I understand that for our Pakistani brothers and
sisters, it's difficult to criticize China because their
economic reliance
on OPEC,
Amiseptic,
and China. And the same goes for many
Muslim countries.
I know it's difficult for Bangladeshis to criticize
the Hasina regime when it comes to their
treatment of the Rohingya.
I know it's very difficult for our Muslim
brothers and sisters in India to criticize
the Modi government
over what's happening in Kashmir.
I understand that these difficulties
and these political realities put us in a
position where perhaps
we can't say or do certain things, especially
when you're higher up in the pecking order
of society.
But a trait of the believer is that
he is consistent and persistent
upon justice.
Allah instructs us to be remain firm upon
justice even if it is against ourselves
and our kinfolk
and our families and our loved ones.
Here as individuals,
we don't control armies.
We don't control economic policies. We don't control
many of the things which state actors do,
that ministers do,
that diplomats
do.
We are the. We are the lay people,
but there's still a lot that we can
do.
In the same way that we advocate for
the rights of our Palestinian brothers and sisters
through organizations like Friends of Al Aqsa
amongst others.
There's a lot that we can do for
the Uighurs as well.
The first thing that we can do is
what I mentioned and started to talk within,
and that is to connect with the Islamic
history and the heritage of the Uighurs
In the same way that we know that
Mohammed bin Assim took Islam
or Tupac or Tushin or Sheikh Jarrah Jalal
in Bangladesh
or Tareb bin Ziyad in North Africa and
and Spain
or Sultan Fati in Constantinople
or Salman Danfodio in in what is modern
day Nigeria.
We know so many Islamic figures. We know
so many cases of history. Everyone watches Derilish
Ertugrul.
We can cite of characters and dates and
battles. We can really offer fun.
Let's try show this similar commitment to the
cause of the OIBs and the history of
the OIBs.
Let's familiarize ourselves with their classical scholars,
with the famous battles and events that took
place in their history, their figures, so we
can connect with them.
Secondly, I encourage you all, and I want
to actually commend and praise, the
committee, and the leadership
to raise awareness and to hold events like
this.
7, 8 years ago, I didn't know who
the Uyghurs were.
I only thought that the only Muslims that
exist in China were the Hui Muslims. I
didn't know there were actually Turkic Muslims, millions
of them,
in what is called Xinjiang.
I had to learn. I had to educate
myself. I had to connect with all good
societies and little, little communities and families to
find out what was going on.
So let's do that.
Let's educate ourselves about their history, about their
heritage, about their plight, about their situation.
Let's continue holding events like this
in our in the centers of our community,
like Masajid and community centers.
Let's use these opportunities to allow
charity organizations
who are raising
essential funds and critical
aid to help the refugees all the refugees
who made it to Turkey
and other places.
Holding events is important.
Reminding your imam respectfully within the other book,
Islam,
of what's happening to the the Uighur Muslims
is important.
If you're a university student, it is important
that you discuss this as part of your
ISOC events.
It is important
that if you have someone
who is politically influential,
religiously influential, influential in any shape or form,
a friend, a family friend, a relative,
to inform them, to educate them, to at
least have a conversation.
And when there's all the other things that
we do,
that comes as a sixth sense to us
when it's when it's in terms of mobilization.
In the same way that we mobilize in
our tens and thousands for Palestine,
we need to do the same for the
Uighurs.
In the same way that we mobilize in
our 1,000
in Birmingham, in Bradford, in Luton, whenever something
happens in Kashmir, we need to do the
same for the Uighurs.
In the same way that we start petitions
one after the other,
draft template letters to MPs one after the
other,
Boycott campaigns
that we do with BDS in Palestine.
And the way that we did when the
when Charlie Hebdo,
republished
those blasphemous cartoons of our beloved prophet who
was seldom there's a huge
drop
in the French economy
because of a a
a a a very short but concentrated and
coordinated boycott of French products and designer brands.
We need to show that same level of
consistency,
effort,
passion,
concern
for our brothers and sisters.
When a companion of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam asked him,
what is the best form of jihad?
The prophet
he
responded by saying a word of truth
to a tyrannical ruler,
that this was the best manifestation
of jihad
to speak a word of truth to a
tyrant.
There was no specification as to whether this
was a Muslim tyrant or a non Muslim
tyrant. It was just a word of truth
to the tyrant.
I think we can all agree based on
what I've shared with you today
that the Chinese regime has gone beyond even
the normal
expectations
of what would be regarding as tyrannical impressive.
We need to find out
when Chinese politicians and diplomats are visiting the
UK.
We need to understand
and make a note of when there's huge
conferences
and there's huge bonanzas when it comes to
Chinese companies and tech companies that could be
using the slave labor of our brothers and
sisters to sell us the most latest,
technological,
props.
We need to be aware of where
the clothes that we are buying
and the shops in the UK, where are
they sourcing their clothes from? Where are these
clothes being made? Are they being made in
factories where our brothers and sisters are being
enslaved to work on?
We need to find out when these big
companies,
their directors, their representatives are holding events
to attend these events
and to respectfully
ask the questions that are needed to be
asked. Ask those questions that need to be
asked.
We're not saying go and disrupt to resort
to breaking the law. No. We're saying to
make a note of these key events
when people from China who represent China were
associated with the Chinese economy.
That when they come to attend these events
to us,
why are they doing what they are doing
to the Uighurs?
What is their problem with Islam?
We need to
be and be aware of these
events that are happening in our doorstep.
When the Christchurch massacre happened in New Zealand,
2 years ago,
I remember
there was a Chinese entrepreneur
who offered a very handsome and generous donation
to the Muslim community,
a huge donation. I forgot what the amount
was. It was a Chinese entrepreneur.
And, the the local Muslim community in Christchurch
respectfully returned
that donation
and said thank you very much for con
being considerate of our recent situation
of this terrorist attack that's taken place, has
killed 50 of our brothers and sisters. Thank
you for giving us this money, but we
respectfully have to give this back to you
because China is spending
100 of 1,000,000 of dollars, if not 1,000,000,000
in oppressing
our Muslim brothers and sisters.
And in fact, the reason why
the reason why the Christchurch Christchurch killer
massacred 50 Muslims, the thinking was no different
to the Chinese government. Please take your money
back.
So we must coordinate. We must mobilize
in the way that we do with other
oppressed Muslims
and occupied lands.
We need to account the Chinese government, their
representatives,
their business folk, their community, even
those
Chinese people in the UK who do not
know what's going on. I remember when I
delivered a talk at Oxford University,
I told the ISOC there because they had
a sizable Chinese society. I said invite them.
Invite them. Half of them didn't even know
what was going on.
Half of the Chinese students that attended our
Oxford University upon invitation of the ISOC did
not know what was happening with the Uyghurs
in Xinjiang.
The few that did know,
their answers came as no surprise. We have
a terrorism problem. These people are terrorists.
I know one Chinese student put their hand
up and said thank you for your talk.
I just wanna correct you on something. There's
not 2,000,000 in a in in these camps.
There's 10,000.
I said 10,000 is an acceptable number.
Protests.
Me and Sheikh Soleiman Ghani
had the honor of being invited
to
the stop the genocide stand for protest that
took place a few months ago
amongst Abba ul Ama and
Muslim,
representatives
as well as non Muslim human rights activists
who spoke in front of the Chinese embassy.
It was the largest
coordinated protest
in Europe
outside the Chinese embassy.
Not accept it from the organizers, I mean.
There will be another one coming up in
November, I believe.
We need to engage in these protests, especially
if it is being led by Muslims,
especially if what the solutions and what's being
called upon is something that does not contradict
Islam.
So as long as even if it is
being led by non Muslim white organizations
that if what they are calling for is
something that will alleviate the pain and suffering
of the Muslims of of East Turkestan.
And I already said petition boycotts campaign. This
is stuff that we need to be doing
more so, more often in the same way,
in the same passion, with the same zeal
that we do for the Kashmiris, the Rohingyas,
and the Palestinians, and the Syrians.
Write to your MPs in the same way
that you write to them about when something
kicks off in Palestine.
Why is the situation of Uighurs any different?
Their blood, their honor, their life
is the same as anyone else's.
So
write to them your MPs. The thing about,
at the moment,
for those of you who are following the
events of the Uyghurs,
western nations at the moment
are supporting them,
especially the US, but other European countries
are advocating and raising awareness about the situation
of
the Uighur Muslims.
But we also need to be very clever
and smart because the believer is not bitten
from the same hole twice.
That there is a level of politicking that's
happening between western governments and China.
In the same way that we have heard
that Russians
support the Syrians,
the Chinese
support
the Pakistanis.
The Americans support the Uyghurs. Listen, brothers and
sisters, none of these nations are here to
support the believers.
They're here for their own geopolitical
interest and the interest of their hegemony in
the region.
They are full, the cause of the Uyghurs
until that can be disposed for a greater
benefit.
That is the
that is sadly
the sunnah of man made politics,
especially more so in the era of secular
nation states
in a global order that is run by
capitalist oligarchs,
and financial institutions have enslaved practically the whole
world and nations to it, whether it be
the world back or not. That is the
global playground that we find ourselves in.
That's the global playground that we find ourselves
in. And in light of that
in light of that, there is a duty
on us
who are from
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Somalia,
Nigeria, wherever it may be,
that there is a level
of duty
to at least remind
Muslim governments
of their their basic responsibilities to their fellow
brothers and sisters,
to at least utter a word
of disagreement.
So it breaks your heart
when you hear that not a single Muslim
country
signed a joint statement in the UN
that was signed by nearly 30 or 40
western non Muslim countries
accounting China for what they have been doing
for the Uighurs. Not a single Muslim country
signed that statement, brothers and sisters.
And not too long after, we find a
joint statement in support of China
to say that what they are doing
is proportional,
and it is it is in fact a
national security issue
that they should be that they should have
the right
to deal with themselves because they don't interfere
in the national security or how they or
how America or the west handles their extremes
and their terrorism problem. Do you know who
signed that statement?
32 Muslim
countries. 32 Muslim countries.
The fact that they couldn't even remain.
They couldn't even hate it within. Not the
people.
Not the people. Not even all the pollin.
Whoever was leading the government behind this initiative
of 32 Muslim countries signed a document saying
that China has the right to do what
it's currently doing because it's a terrorism problem.
It's a national security problem,
and
China doesn't interfere
in the affairs of other countries.
Can you believe that?
Now I think of the hadith of the
prophet
said that the law was formed by man
is to hate it from within.
We're talking about not even being in a
situation of remaining neutral.
You are now siding and abetting and strengthening
the oppressor.
And we know the prophet said the Muslim
does not oppress,
and he is not and he he he
does not oppress, and he is not the
oppressed. So we shouldn't be oppressed, and we
shouldn't oppress.
Here we find 32 Muslim countries that have
found themselves
siding with China.
I pray to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the
hearts,
the minds, the conscience of those who are
ruling the Muslim countries, that there is a
change, there is an awareness, there is an
awakening
for them to do the right thing that
is most pleasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Ameen.
And it doesn't mean, brothers and sisters,
it doesn't mean
that if you were to, let's say, criticize
the PTI government,
that doesn't mean you are anti Pakistan.
That doesn't mean you are anti PTI.
That doesn't mean you are a Western CIA
agent.
It doesn't mean that you're disloyal to Pakistan.
If you if you criticize,
Sheikh Hasina about how she has handled the
Rohingya issue, that doesn't mean you are a
Rajakkar,
that you are an agent, that you are
someone who wants to bring Bangladesh down.
You are able to love the land you
are from. You are able to love those
whom you feel represent you whilst being firm
and consistent
in
criticizing them when they do bad and praising
them when they do wrong right.
How can you
love someone so blindly? How can you love
a political party, a political figure, a country
which didn't even exist a 100 years ago,
which is most of the world. How can
you love such a thing that it forces
you to remain silent
in a case of injustice and oppression? How
does that make sense?
And I'm talking about those who are able
to do it from a position of comfort
and security.
I'm not I'm I'm not saying this for
those Muslims who find themselves in countries where
even saying that the most minute thing can
land you in prison or or you could
be killed. I'm not talking about that. I'm
talking about those who find themselves in positions
of comfort, especially in the west. How can
highlighting an inconsistency
in in a government's policy, whether it be
where you are from or where your parents
are from, mean that you are disloyal?
How can you love someone
or a party or a figure or a
country so much that you're willing
to turn a blind eye?
In the same way, how can you hate
a country,
a figure, a party where you can't praise
them when they do the right thing?
So brothers and sisters, in the same way
that we petition,
write letters,
lobby,
make political conversations
with other student societies,
with scholars, with teachers, with academics, with business
professionals,
Here, we should do the same with those
from the Muslim majority world, many of whom
would be our relatives, whether they are here
or
in other parts of the world.
And last but not least,
we have to carry on making dua.
We have to carry on making dua because
that is you know? Oh, brother, you know,
tie your camel and leave the restaurant.
Very common one we cite.
You know, just, you know, just do just
tie the camel and believe in, and leave
the rest of Allah.
The tying of the camel is that we
exhaust everything that we humanly can without endangering
ourselves and others that we do what is
the most that we can physically exhaust, financially
exhaust to help
not just oppressed Muslims, but the oppressed, period.
And then we tie the camel,
and we leave the rest to Allah.
In the same way that during the battle
of Badr,
the material preparation was met. The decision to
meet Quraysh was decided.
But how did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam spend the night? How did he spend
that time once the preparations were made? He
was crying
in tears. His beard was drenched
with his tears begging Allah for victory.
And as Abu Bakr who told the prophet,
you Rasulullah, enough.
You have made enough dua to Allah. So
carry on making dua. I make dua big.
One of my teachers, Sheikh Haitham, may Allah
bless him and present him. He said to
me, when you make dua, make dua big.
Right, Sheikh? Would you agree?
There's no more point making a half hearted
dua.
If you want someone like Direlish Ertugrul Ghazi
or Sultan Fatih or Tariq Bin Ziyad or
If you want such figures to come back
and to liberate the situation, then also make
that dua.
If you want a Muslim ruler or a
Muslim country to do more,
make dua.
Make dua big.
Make it big.
Because there is no dua that Allah cannot
deliver.
He could deliver everything and more beyond our
human comprehension.
I pray to Allah
that he relieves the hardship and the difficulty
of our Uyghur brothers and sisters in occupied
Eastern Palestine, Amin. I pray to Allah
that he eases the suffering of all the
Muslims
around the world, Amin. I pray to Allah
that he eases the suffering
of
all human beings
who are being oppressed,
who are being violated,
who are being where their lands are occupied
and their land, their property, their rights are
being transvest upon Amin.
I pray to Allah that
he blesses in our lifetime,
rulers and states
and civilization that will live according to Islam
and will do what is most pleasing to
Allah. Amin.
And I pray to Allah
that whatever little efforts that we have done,
whatever meager efforts that we do that it
weighs heavy on our scales on the day
of judgment, Ameen. And I pray to Allah
that when that day comes,
when that day of liberation and victory comes,
our contribution
is something that is regarded as part of
that wider struggle. Amin,
may
Allah bless you all. May
bless the committee of Palestinian Masjid Khalid Institute
with the best in this life and the
next. Ameen.
For your patience.