Haitham al-Haddad – London Riots- Challenges, Opportunities and Reform
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So we need to decide who we are at that time, the people from my
father's side who were killed in sha Allah, they are Shahid between
130 and 150
Muslims, by nature, are active people. One of the Imams, he
provoked me.
Can I love a Salafi? No way. Wahabi man, don't love them. In
the Quran brothers show me one verse that Allah jala, Allah
mentioned the sects of the ummah. They will never, we will never be
accepted. This is a sign of failure. I was confronted by one
of them. You want to confront us. We are ready for confrontation,
first of all, as an introduction, my dear brothers, my dear sisters,
we need to
remember that Allah created this life as a test. He created death
and life in order to test you.
In Naja al namah, Allah, Al Dizi natalah, we created this land. We
decorated it in order to test the human beings. In nahala, Malik,
Fati Nam Shadi, NAB talihi, we created a human being from a sperm
and we made him into tissues in order to test him. There are so
many verses that talk about this reality. So this life is a test.
This my dear brothers, my dear sisters. Some people think that
this is an emotional
point. No, but it is a very deep intellectual point, and it has so
many consequences in our life. One of them is not to raise your
expectations about your life. Don't ever live. Don't ever think
that you will be living without challenges, even they say in
management, when you don't raise your expectations, you will be
ready to anything. But if you raise your expectations, then you
will be so depressed when your expectations are not met. If we
raise our expectations, that we are going to live in the UK or
elsewhere
with no challenges, without your challenges, and then whenever we
see any challenge, we will be very disappointed. And that's why so
many people, my dear brothers, my dear sisters, so many people after
the riots, they were asking, Shir, do you think that we still have a
future in the UK? And some people are saying, Oh, well, I think that
it is time for us to leave. Or, as many people say, they will never,
we will never be accepted. Why do people have this? You know, these
conclusions, because they raise their expectations and they don't
remember that this life is a test. Allah. Allah says on a group,
okay, even if you run away from this country, where are you going
to go? You are going to go next to Mecca, there are so many other
challenges there.
Where are you going to go? Wait until you go to Jannah when there
are no challenges. But in this life, don't expect that you live
without the challenges. Here in the UK, in Saudi Arabia, next to
Mecca, next to Medina, next you will have the challenges. This is
the nature of this life. So we need to decide who we are.
Are we successful people who turn the challenges into opportunities,
or are we failing people whenever we have an opportunity, we turn it
into the challenges. I'll give you an example. Mataman, your son.
He's very intelligent or hyperactive. If you are a failing
person, you don't know how to deal with him. This will be a challenge
for you. Yes or no,
oh no. He is hyper active. I don't know how to deal with him. It is a
challenge for you. Okay, this is a sign of failure. Yeah, I'm not
saying that you are failing completely, but this is a sign.
It's not a positive sign. But for example, if you have a child with
some disabilities, and then you think that, Oh, my son has some
disabilities, but he has some other skills, or maybe this is an
opportunity for the family to come together and to instill love,
because Subhanallah a disabled a child in a family.
If they look at it positively, it will be a source of love for that
family. So that disability will be, what a source of what, of
goodness and hype later on, that it will be a source of goodness
and hype in the Hereafter,
which is more important than what? Than dunya. So as successful
people and we as Muslims, my dear brothers and sisters, we need to
think in a successful way. Allah. Allah does not want the Ummah of
Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, to be a failing nation quantum Latino
and in muncar Yeah. But the Afla moncamino, the believers, yeah,
succeeded. Succeeded. Why a Ladin, a Humphrey, Salat? This is the
first element. This is the first point they have for sure, and
their Salah. So our hush and Salah should lead us to success, our
mindset should be a successful mindset. Allah. Allah never
presented us in the Quran, nor the Prophet sallallahu, sallam,
accepted the Ummah to be a failing ummah.
But Afla, the Ayat of fala and success
are countless in the Quran. You as you know, Muslims are strong.
Muslims have resilience. Muslims have everywhere. They are positive
people. You saw the people in Raza, how they reacted, and you
think that we Muslims are less than that. Maybe we are not as
brave as the people of Raza, but we are brave enough.
We are brave, we are strong. And you need to understand why we are
brave, why we are strong.
And many people are asking why Muslims are so strong, why Muslims
have sovereign, why Muslims have patience, why Muslims etc, etc,
and this became a very good opportunity of Dao, even
politically, under the political umbrella, we have number of
opportunities, first of all, to talk to the to the local
authorities, to the MPs that look, why is this happening?
Has it happened just out of the blue? Those people have been what
charged?
Why they have been charged because of fear of some of the politicians
discourse. They were targeting Muslims. They were presenting
Muslims as the fifth column. Muslims are this and that and the
enemies within. And as a result of this, those people were waiting
for any opportunity to start what attacking Muslims
the time is suitable to present our case politically in front of
the politicians, to put pressure on the MPs to criminalize
Islamophobia. Why are you always targeting Muslims?
Okay? This is another important benefit. Normally, in any society
the minority, when they feel that they are targeted, they come
together more,
okay. It is a matter of Iman and kufr. Now it is not about okay,
even it is not a matter of sunnah and Vidhya. It is not a matter of
who is on the right path or who is not on the right path. Raf Elliot
is sunnah or is not sunnah? Successful people, I don't want to
use the word leaders think macro.
Failing people, they cannot think macro, and that's why they cannot
distinguish between micro and macro and failing people, let me
say it clearly, they are willing to fight over RAF Ali adain while,
yes, the world is attacking our brothers and sisters in Raza while
we been attacked these days we see people in the masjid or Masai did
fighting over this. This is a sign of failure,
because we don't know when to think macro, when to think micro.
Successful people don't think as fearful people. Successful people
are not Coward people. Successful people are what brave people look
at, the Prophet, sallAllahu, Sallam and the companions. Have
they ever shown cowardness at any point in their life?
No,
why this is this is a negative trait. This is a very negative
trait. And when they see us, no, confident, strong, you want to
confront us. We are ready for confrontation. Yes, we don't break
the law. But when you, when it is needed to defend yourself, you are
ready to defend yourself. Show that you are a brave person. This
is a sign of positiveness.
Don't respond to a negative attitude by what a negative
attitude all the time. It will not come to an end. You will lose, and
the other person will lose, and Islam will lose.
A negative attitude will lead to a negative attitude that successful
person will turn the negative attitude into what a positive
attitude by responding in a positive way,
your neighbor is giving you grief and hardship. Believe me, help
him. He will be so embarrassed
and you will win him over.
But I'm not saying do it out of what weakness and cowardness. No,
do it out of what positivity and out of bravery positive attitude.
Okay, so important, they normally present us as the barbaric people.
And so many people called me from abroad. They said,
one of them is my brother. He said, The Black men, you know, the
white people. Why they are behaving like this?
Yeah. I said, Well, I saw embarrassing. But this is not all
the white people, some of them, many of them are, you know,
behaving in a very different way. Many people outside the UK, they
think that white people are angels, yes or no, and it is only
black people or Asian people who are what savage, barbaric people,
etc. No, all the human beings, they have good people and what bad
people. In fact, Islam is improving our attitude. And
Alhamdulillah, Muslims, we wouldn't behave like this. So this
gives us confidence that, look, we are Muslims. We don't behave like
this. And it is not only Muslims, Muslims. Muslims are savage
people, barbaric people. They are uncivilized. They are no no. In
every community, there are people like this, and it is very
embarrassing. Alhamdulillah, there are so many white people, non
Muslims who rejected all of these things. And as we said, in every
community, there are good people there are bad people. It is a
matter of percentage. But the key thing is the good people should
make it clear and loud that we reject all of these, all of these,
you know, nonsense
activities and Alhamdulillah, we have seen within the night,
non Muslim, wider white society, that those, some of them even were
donating for Alhamdulillah as they donated for the South port Masjid.
Many of them donated for that. Many of them volunteered to
protect the masjid, to protect the Islamic centers, etc, etc. The
point is, it is not only it is not just Muslims are always bad,
barbaric, etc. First of all, I've been thinking about this for a
long time to come up with this road to reform. The other thing
is, the implementation is not that easy.
Okay, the first element, or the first step that we need to work
on,
increase the Iman of people,
increase the religiousity of Muslims, and those who are not
Muslims try to bring them to Islam. So this is the first step,
which is what, let us call it, what Iman The second point is
knowledge.
Yeah, knowledge. We need knowledge, whether Islamic
knowledge or what
general knowledge. Knowledge is power.
Ignorance is what is weakness.
That's why in the Quran, Allah, Allah, Allah encouraged us to seek
knowledge in so many places. And
Allah commanded the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to ask
him for what more knowledge?
The only thing that Allah, Allah commanded the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, to ask for more. Is what knowledge wakura, Rabbi Zini ilm,
the third point is what Unity,
Unity of the Muslim, Ummah Abu.
Some Muslims are fond of what disunity some Muslims, they don't
know from Islam, except the Hadith, that Islam, or Muslims,
will be divided into what 73 sects, all of them are in the
firefal except what, except one sect, and which is the that sect.
Who are the people of that sect? It is me, anyone else. He is, what
he is not of that what saved sect? They don't know of Islam, except
this. Read the Quran. Ya Habibi read the Quran in the Quran
brothers show me one verse that Allah, Jalla Allah mentioned the
sects of the ummah.
If this is a very important topic, yeah, the entire Quran will not
address it.
Yes, brothers. If this is a really important topic, why didn't the
Quran address it? In fact, the Quran addressed Muslims as what
one Ummah in Al muslimaty, one meaning Almond minati Alpana. At
all one group,
yes.
So we are one,
and then Allah commanded us to be one of my abilities,
Allah. Allah says, wala tanaz, a
What about Salafis? What about Braille wave? Are they part of
this?
Or only? Yeah, one sect is a Hua, his brothers
come on in Namal, meaning this is, as they say in Arabic language,
Hassel ya, any limitation Muslims, not means, cannot be, but what
brothers,
and, of course, sisters, the Prophet sallallahu, sallam, he
made an oath
will let the NFC be Adi. He by the one in whose hand is my soul. You
will never enter Jannah until you believe, and you will never
believe until you what
anyone knows
until you love each other.
Can I love a
if he is a believer? Why not? No, he's not a believer. So what is
he?
Can I love a Salafi? No way. Wahabi man, don't love them.
Yeah, run away from Wahhabis.
Run away. Don't listen to Wahhabis. Just put your put what
is it in your Okay, so you don't listen. If the Wahhabi say, Allahu
Akbar, don't listen to him. Because Sufyan, someone asked him,
Can I listen to amuthad? He said, No, even if he reads Quran. So
Wahab is a Muqtada, so therefore don't listen to him. Just even if
he reads Surah Fatiha, he might eat with Surah Fatiha.
We want too much, brothers and sisters, too much.
Yeah, the Prophet, sallAllahu, sallam said, listen to this, Mam,
Salah, salatana,
yeah, whoever, what praise our salah.
Yes. Was stuck by Ana, and he faces there,
and he eats, well, akala Dabi hatana, he ate, what
the food we eat, the the meat we eat.
Okay, then what
for? Who was Muslim? Laho malalahi malayna,
he is, what the Muslim,
what is for him, for us, what is against him is against us. We are
like one hand.
Some people say, What about the Muqtada people? And what they
Sufyan is Saudi said, walai is better for me to have a dog in my
house rather than to have a person of bida.
Which person of bidah Everyone is calling the other person a person
of bidah. If you analyze the Islamic al Qaeda, all Muslims who
pray as the Prophet salallahu sallam said, they pray our salah.
They face our Qibla and they eat.
That the Biha,
all of them agree on 90% of matters of Akira.
The fourth point is, what
influence quantum
monka? What do I mean on a bill because of our influence, positive
influence, which is
enjoining the good and forgiving forbidding the evil, we became the
best of nations. Muslims by nature are active people. Muslims by
nature cannot sit aside watching things going wrongly and do
nothing.
You don't see someone crossing the road and he was about to, you
know, to be hit by the car.
Yeah, this is not so good.
We influence. If you don't influence. You will be what
influence successful people are never what influenced in a
negative way. They what proactive people they influence. There are
seven areas of influence. I call them what the areas of influence
in non Muslim countries, not in Muslim countries. Many Muslim
countries, there is one more area in non Muslim countries, areas of
influence. The first one is,
politics is dirty, but we have to be involved in it,
agree, because
Islam, with no politics will end up to be what politics with no
Islam. So don't blame politicians if they have no Islam, because we
said politics is not part of Islam. Yeah, and this is a form of
secularism. The second one is
law, judiciary.
We have to influence that.
Okay, third one is media,
brothers and sisters. You know,
I strongly believe that Muslims want this. Genocide. Despite that,
it is genocide. We are winning. What is the main reason for us
winning?
One of the main reasons is because so many young people like
yourselves, they took part in this global conflict, and they were
presenting the Palestinian case, yeah, on media platforms. So media
this, the third one, the fourth one is economy and finance.
Poor people are miskeen.
Is that true or not?
The world doesn't respect poor people. We have to be rich to be
strong. And the Prophet
said the fifth one is education.
What is it? Education? We need to be influential in terms of what
education,
and then the sixth one is what socially, and then the seventh one
is Dawa.
Those areas of influence, my dear brothers, my dear sisters, we need
to be influential in those influentials, in those areas,
brothers, sisters, if we stay in a country and we don't influence
those areas, we will never be respected.
You need to influence those areas. You need to be among the decision
makers in those areas. We ask Allah, Allah, Allah to help us to
benefit from what we have heard and to turn those challenges into
opportunities and to help us to be more united and to forgive us for
our shortcomings. Brothers and sisters, don't be negative.
Be positive.
The Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam used to be optimistic all
the time. Don't ever accept pessimistic discourse or language.
The
angaloni yakarim,