Haitham al-Haddad – Voting is Mandatory – UK General Elections 2024

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See, my dear Imams, my dear Khatibs, wallahi,

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I am afraid. I don't want to say

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that

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you are sinful directly. I am afraid that

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you will be sinful.

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Sheikh, you said that voting is mandatory before

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its wajib,

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with a general election around the corner. Do

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you still feel that way? Yeah. Bismillah Rahim

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Rahim. In fact, I believe that it is

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more mandatory.

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It is more wajib to vote in this

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coming election,

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2024.

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Why is that? Because

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this is one of the

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best ways, the strongest ways to show our

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opposition

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to the genocide that is taking place in

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Gaza to have an influence

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to how our government is running, how our

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country is run. There are so many issues.

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I always ask brothers and sisters,

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how

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can we make a change? How can we

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influence

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the situation, the policy, without

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getting involved,

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without

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voting, we will not have any influence. We

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will be just marginalized. The prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam

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said, Whoever sees a munkar, he should

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try

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to change it by his hand. If he

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cannot, then by his tongue. Voting is one

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of those ways to

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enjoying the good and forbid the evil and

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to change the munkar. It is a mentality.

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We are an active

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There are so many ways of enjoying the

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good and forbidding the evil, and this is

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one of them. And this color said,

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If you want to achieve something that is

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obligatory, then

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all means to that obligation

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take also the ruling of obligation. We want

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to stop the genocide.

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How can we stop the genocide? My dear

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brothers and sisters here, here, I'm talking about

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as British citizen here, we can contribute towards

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that by having the right people

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in power

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who represent us. And then when we want

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them to vote for ceasefire,

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they will vote for this. When we wanted

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them to vote to stop selling weapons to

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the Zionist state,

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then they can do that. Not only that,

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they can support us

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because they represent us. They represent

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not only the Muslim community, but they represent

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the masses.

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Yes? So that's why my dear brothers and

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sisters, stop this question. So many people,

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keep asking this question.