Haitham al-Haddad – Voting is Haram and It Does Not Make a Difference
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The speaker discusses the idea ofNetsoxing, which is a vote based on opinion. The idea is that people should vote for the person they are supporting, not for the person they voted for. The speaker warns that winning in the democratic process is just a matter of supporting the wrong people and not being in the right parliament. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of selecting the laws in the democratic process.
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Quick question, Sheikh, before. I don't want to
vote.
It might be haram, and it doesn't make
a difference, Sheikh. What should I do?
Okay. See, I have spoken about this so
many times.
To say that it is it might be
haram, this is wrong.
Also, to say that it doesn't make any
difference,
that is not true. Who told you this?
Now let us stop.
Is it Haram? Do you know, brother,
that if you don't vote, you are actually
voting?
There is nothing in the democratic process called
abstention from voting
because
abstention from voting, it means someone else is
voting on your behalf. Let me explain this.
Imagine
I always give this example. We have 10
people.
Yeah?
Voting for party a and party b.
We have 4 people voted for a.
3 people
voted for b, and 3 people abstained.
Now
those 3 people
who abstained,
actually,
they are what? Supporting party a
to win. Yes or no?
Because if they voted for b, party a
will lose.
And in fact, party a will tell them,
no. No. No. No. No. Don't vote. We
don't want you to vote. Voting is haram
because he knows that once they abstained,
they actually
voted for party a.
Okay? So that's why we say in the
democratic
process,
abstention of voting is
actually voting,
voting
indirectly.
And sometimes it is worse
than
voting.
Okay?
Because others are using your vote,
and you are not using
your vote in the right direction.
And that's why in this,
in this coming election, 2024,
we say to people,
see,
a spoiled
vote is actually
voting for genocide.
I hope that you pass this message to
everyone.
A wasted vote,
a wasted vote,
spoiled
vote is actually
voting for genocide
because you are
supporting
the wrong people to be in the parliament,
and the war and the aggression
and the genocide in Gaza will continue
because the wrong people are there in the
parliament.
So
that's why I believe that you must vote.
You
are obliged
to vote.
Yes?
Your abstention
from voting
is actually
is the sin.
It's not that you vote
and you are sinful because you are voting
and you or you say that you want
to be on the safe side, that's why
you don't vote. There is no safe side
here. The safe side here is to vote.
At least do what Allah commanded
you to do, which is what? Enjoining the
good and forbidding the evil. And the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
the the one of the strongest
tools
to change this.
My dear brothers, my dear sisters, young people
are confused
about this point.
Now does it mean that you believe in
the democratic
process?
The democratic process is something and choosing
who represents you is something else. Yeah? Your
when you are voting,
is it still safe? It doesn't mean that
you believe
that someone
has the right to legislate
against the legislation of Allah.
Will remain.
You upright as much as you
can. There is no contradiction between voting
and believing that Allah
is the legislator.
This is see, and we all also say
that when in a democratic process,
there
are two sides,
selecting who is sitting there in the parliament,
and the second one is selecting the laws.
These are 2
different things. I hope that it is clear
for our brothers and sisters.