Defeating Zionism
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The speakers emphasize the importance of investing in Islam's vision and strategy to achieve success, including creating a "monster" sector to inspire individuals and organizations, investing in oneself, and empowering individuals and organizations to create a state for the Jewish people in the future. They highlight the need for investment in one's message and research, creating transformative content, and bringing solutions to the wider society. The importance of trusting oneself and acknowledging one's worth is emphasized, as well as personal stories of experiencing stress after long days at work. The conversation ends with a statement about trusting oneself and being prepared for challenges.AI Generated Transcript ©
I think we're live.
We are. Wait. Wait for viewer number 1
to join us inshallah. There you go. 234.
The powers of social media.
Brothers and sisters and friends, and welcome
to Islam 21 seas
final live
of this Ramadan.
And today we're gonna be talking about
defeating
the evil ideology
of Zionism.
With myself,
but more importantly and significantly
with our 2 beautiful beloved brothers and beautiful
souls
who are gonna come on in a few
moments. So basic
So
We're we're we're we're we're we're
sharing
around some message. We're online. We're live. We're
live. Us. Oh, good. How long have we
known each other for?
Like, how long have we known each other
for? I have known Saman since December
2009.
2009, I've known Saman since. And,
yeah, I'm seeing yourself probably December. A similar
time, actually. Maybe couple of months earlier.
Man, I appreciate you guys. I'm not too
sure, man. I mean I mean,
I hate you for this reminder of
something I spoke about yesterday or the day
before yesterday
during the Islam 21 c live, which was
the concept of barakah.
People think Barakah
generally means
more with less, or there are 2 natural
things that come together and Allah adds to
it.
But barakah, linguistically and otherwise,
also means
longevity.
So it's not only growth,
but it's longevity.
And when I've seen
both of you
throughout the years,
it reminds me of Baraka.
As we
grow
Well, I'm
you've grown, obviously, intellectually, spiritually,
professionally,
but also there's the element of consistency.
There's the element
of longevity.
And
I'm just
privileged the wrong word to use, I think.
I'm honored
that Allah has Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
chosen me to be associated with brothers like
yourselves. And hopefully some of that Barakah will
will rub off on myself.
So I pray you will. Let's start this
live stream.
Tarek. Okay. Look at this.
We've got brothers online giving us comments already.
We got,
from, Philistine from Jerusalem.
All the way across the globe. Palestine. Brothers.
We are with you in our duas, in
our love for you.
We wanna get you all involved in the
in the
in the appeal, in the webinar tonight. As
Hamza's mentioned,
this is
the last one.
Time is ticking. It's literally hours, minutes, seconds
left until
until that adhan goes and it's, it's the
night of Eid and then comes the day
of Eid and then, you know, subhanallah, we
just pray that Allah has accepted our efforts.
So while the time is here, while we
have it, we need to get all of
you involved Insha'Allah.
We are here to ask for your support,
not just to talk about Zionism and the
traps and the problems
and how we can counter it. And amazing
what the Islam 21 c is doing on
that, but we're also here to get your
support so we can continue running campaigns
like truth Palestine, like in their shoes,
like we keep on pub publishing those articles,
doing the awareness campaigns,
all the work that's happening behind the scenes
of the podcast.
It takes effort. It takes dedication. It takes
sacrifice,
and it's not possible without your support. So
we're here to ask for your support. Brother
Habib Rahman from India. We got Kimseya from
Istanbul.
Lots of beautiful people tuning in from all
over the world. We've got someone from Mecca.
So the world is awake. You're joining us
on this blessed night,
but we wanna get your support. We have
a target tonight of £5,000.
So we don't just want you to be
tuning in and enjoying the good company of
the brotherhood.
We don't just want you to be benefiting
from the reminders that no doubt you will.
We have 217,
218 people right now watching.
We want you guys to get involved. We
want you to be we want to be
involved. We want you to share the head.
We want you to not just be armed
chair Muslims, like I'm sure you're not, but
we want you to be proactive.
We don't want you to be like the
froth of the sea like the prophet Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa sallam described.
We don't wanna be those with in our
hearts, love for the dunya and fear of
death. We wanna be amongst those who are
the elites, the exceptions, those striving for the
deen, making sacrifices,
realizing that Islam is not just for ourselves,
realizing Islam is not just for our families,
but we're a collective. We're an ummah. We're
united,
and we have to work together
to persevere, to push forward
and use what's going on in Gaza as
a reminder. Allah hasn't just
cause these events to happen for no apparent
reason. There's no it's not incidental. It's not
meaningless. It's not it's not without
expectation.
Okay? And that's what Allah wants. Allah wants
to
reinvigorate us, awaken us. Right? We're a we
need to rise up and realize that Islam
has the solutions for mankind. Islam
can reestablish justice on the earth with all
the nonsense and fake news and lies and
cheating and and and massacres that are taking
place in the world. We are the solution,
and we have the tools. We have the
power to Islam, but for that to become
real, to take real impact on the world,
we have to be willing to sacrifice. We
have to establish more organizations
and support those like Islam 21c here tonight
inshallah
to change the world inshallah. That's what we're
gonna be doing tonight. So
take out your phones, take out your Ipads,
whatever it is that you need to make
a donation, head over to Islam 21c.comforward/live.
You can also call us in the studio,
07769-433-414.
But if you'd like to donate straight away,
then it's 0203-880-2981.
Saman,
why should people support a Slav 21c? Tell
the 300, the 2 people watching.
Well,
yeah. Jack Lohair, Tarek and, Shukhamza.
I couldn't put it better than, Sheikh Hamza.
He's been,
you know, part of his since
day 1,
writing articles, recording videos,
to serve our vision, which is
to see Muslims' confident and impact in the
world. And the hamza as hamza always says,
the vision
is always bigger than the organization. The The
organization is always bigger than the individual.
So if that vision is something that inspires
you, our mission is to educate and inspire
Muslims with divine guidance and solutions,
either using transformational digital content. It's gonna be
we're gonna be talking about Assamture Seed, about
what it does, and, what it's done in
the past and what we want to do
as well. You mentioned the Palestine truth campaign,
and hamza Allah,
you know, in the spirit of Ihsan has
been preparing some,
you know, bars to drop as well about
this, evil ideology of Zionism.
As we're in the last few moments, you
have to know
the 21st century landscape. You have to know
what we're up against, and you have to
we have to make dua. We have to,
work and take all the necessary precaution and
preparations against those who wish to do,
you harm, this deen harm, our brothers and
sisters harm. And the last has commanded us
to do so. So this is part of
our broader struggle.
The struggle is
for us in particular it's a financial one,
it's a a discursive one, it's a narrative
struggle, it's a media propaganda war that we're
fighting and Alhamdulillah winning by the permission of
Allah. You see maybe 10 years ago you
know 5 years ago it was much easier
to carry out genocidal actions. But today
everyone, subhanAllah, is almost everyone is connected.
You know we have
a much louder voice now as a Muslim
Ummah
using these, you know, devices. I'm always against,
you know, these devices and people getting addicted
to them. But right now, this is the
time you know similar to how Allah the
prophet said to Abu Dujana Allah hates this
type of walk except for this
situation
you know straying around. I would say something
like Allah you know
hates these these uh-uh
the addiction that we have for these
devices and spending lots of time on them
except for you know a time where you
have the Ummah
is in a crisis, an acute crisis and
we have to answer the call. So it's
so heartening now to see
when we see, you know, some nonsense that's
public published by, you know,
Israeli shills and Zionist spokespeople and their their
shills in the British media and the political
establishment. It's so heartening now to see underneath
those posts,
100 and 100 of people,
you know, setting the record straight,
refuting their lies and propaganda. And just just
just, you know, declaring that they don't, you
know, they don't believe anymore. They're they're just
an object of mockery,
of insult now,
which is deserving.
And people like our brother Hamza, Sadhamza,
the forefront as well on that you know
in the online domain. He even wrote
book which we were publishing we were selling
for giving for prophets for Islam to donate
all of their proceeds to Islam to you
and see in the dinners that we had
an annual dinner tour in
December. A book all about
you know refuting
common zionist kind of talking points and lies
and misinformation and so forth.
So this is our job, it's our duty,
so it's a an honor for us all
to be involved in this. Subhan Allah you
know right from and we we hope that
Allah counts this as being part of those
who you know strive for his sake for
his cause
to to uphold truth and justice.
And it's our opportunity now, brothers and sisters
to donate.
You know, one of the
one of the, our dear scholarship,
Mohammed Hassan did where he said, imagine
being resurrected
on your Mutiamah
with all types
of scholars
and we can add to it, you know,
Mujahideen and and people at the forefront.
And you'll be like why am I why
am I resurrected with these people? But the
reason was because you perhaps donated
for that work to happen. And inshallah as
you know the prophet said
you know the one who directs towards
good is like the one who does it.
And so what about the one who allows
good to happen by facilitating the means materially
and, and and metaphysically as well. So, alhamdulillah,
we have another donation coming in.
We got some messages from our brothers and
sisters.
Yeah. We got we got 2 donations.
Muhammad Rahman,
and h Begum. We have, donations from them.
Excellent. What are they donating for, Tarek?
But it's simple. Really, I mean if you
love Muhammad Sallallahu, then you should love this
organization. This is an organization that is it's
principled. It has values
and it's established to protect your identity. It's
established to
to target the Islamic attacks that are taking
place on a daily basis.
In reality there's there's an ideological attack taking
place globally worldwide.
You know one of the things I always
refer back to Ken Livingston in 2007,
He was the mayor of London and he
commissioned,
a research a piece of research into,
perceptions of Muslims. So he looked at all
the tabloid papers in the UK at the
time
and he the the team did an analysis
of anything to do with Islam. Muslims, Islam,
whether it was positive or negative.
And the research they found was that 97%
of the times that anything to do with
Muslims or Islam was mentioned,
90% of it was I mean, that's an
overwhelming number by the way. Right? But he
said 97%
of it was negative.
Right? So whether that be,
you know, talking about,
you know, Muslims
of extremism,
jihad was always on the headlines, all these
different headlines and titles and articles they took
out.
I mean and what we need to realize
since 2007
actually go back since 2001,
that narrative building and building and building and
building, and it's still happening today. Every time
you turn on the news, every time you
pick up a newspaper,
there's always some type of, you know, right
wing agenda or other agendas at play.
And these narratives have ingrained themselves into the
minds of the youth, even into the minds
of the elders where the elders are too
worried about speaking out about being brave and
confident Muslims. And the youngsters, they question everything
now. They they question the basics. I mean,
speak to any imam in in in the
UK mosque. They'll come up and tell you
what issues. They've got parents coming and crying.
My child wants to leave Islam or my
child has left Islam.
My child child is, you know, has homosexual
tendencies or preferences
or or is even, you know,
encouraging of the idea of homosexuality.
You know, as Muslims, look,
some could argue at the very least be
and let be.
Okay? You know, you have your way, I
have my way. But Muslims are meant to
be proactively enjoying the good, forbidding the evil.
We're meant to it's part of our identity
to be proactive. It's part of our identity
that if you see something wrong, you try
and engage in some capacity
to change that. But these narratives, these ideological
attacks, whether it be secularism, liberalism,
the LGBT agenda,
recent years we've seen,
this gender fluid movement.
I mean, it's
really coming from everywhere. It's it's it's, it's
like you see the haveith of the prophet
Muhammad SAW described now where holding onto your
deen for some, in particular the youth, it's
like holding onto that charcoal. It's like standing
and holding onto a burning rock that's literally
makes it so difficult. And that's why so
many people now, they compromise. So many people
are are moving away. But but there are
organisations and the stamp 21 c is one
of those. There's other great ones as well,
but there's not enough. There really isn't enough.
And these organizations, like Islam 21 c, are
there to protect your identity. They're there they're
to challenge
ideologies. They're they're they're to challenge foreign policies,
local policies that affect your way of living
and breathing Islam. And that's why we need
Islam 21 c. That's why we need to
be proactive
in
supporting, the organization and taking the knowledge, taking
the the,
the tarbia, the the understanding that we get
from an organization like this and implement it
in our lives.
Hamzah, my, I do
make sense.
But I think there's something a little bit
more
significant here to add to that,
which is
I really believe
that
organizations
like Islam 21 c,
institutions like Islam 21 c with their vision,
especially in a western context,
is far
more
of value, I would say,
than
maybe 500 duaat.
Now I'm not saying
this because
I'm here for some kind of conflict of
interest.
I'm saying this again.
I don't get paid. It's late for
me here. I'm doing this because I believe
in the vision of Psalm 21 c. They're
not giving me any freebies
or maybe a free, back massage or an
Eid gift. This is genuinely I I mean
this,
because it's based on a lot of years
of thinking.
And,
you know,
I've been involved in global DAO organizations doing
grassroots
DAO. I'm now the CEO of
Sapiens Institute
that is more intellectually focused.
And I still hold on to what I've
just said because
institutions
that deal with the media, that deal with
ideologies
are following what I would say prophetic and
a Quranic narrative.
Because when you study the Quran, you study
the prophetic approach,
you would see that yes, it's for all
people.
But during the ongoing message
and the inevitable clash of ideas,
what you saw was that the Quran and
the Sunnah by extension
were dealing with those people who held
the ideological space.
And
there's a
massive hikmah in that.
Because when you study societies, you see
that generally speaking, society have some kind of
worldview
or ideology.
Either that's a
really deep pause or
lost connection for a sec. Is there any
cases
There we go. He's back. Oh, you're gonna
be back. Yes. So in some cases or
many cases
dictates
how people should think,
what should they do, how they should act,
how they should behave, their moral outlook,
and so on and so forth. And that
is just the nature of ideologies. They wanna
propagate themselves,
and they have huge influence. And this is
echoed by social research and so on and
so forth. And we saw this with Pew
Research. Pew Research is a non partisan fact
tank.
In
2017, they said that the number of
Muslims who become Muslim in America
is around the same number of those who
leave Islam.
Now one way to unpack that is to
understand that, you know, the people live in
an ideological environment, and they're gonna get in
affected by it.
For example, you have an ideology like Zionism,
you have liberalism, you have humanism, you have
materialism,
you have atheism, if you wanna consider an
ideology as well. You
have feminism and so on and so forth.
And these isms actually affect the way we
behave, the way we think, and the way
we see realities, the lenses that they we
put on our eyes to understand the world.
Now
if we have organizations that challenge the ideological
discourse, they challenge the ideological framing,
then what that does is it challenges that
space.
And therefore,
it removes barriers
that allows
the grassroots dower to flourish.
And this is very significant because when you
look at the prophetic model, you see the
prophet he didn't have many shahadas himself.
The prophet
developed the Sahaba
in order for them to be refined characters
to go out to the people,
to engage
in this kind of strategic dawah in order
to get the masses,
which was based upon a sense of power
and authority.
And essentially,
we we have to frame it that way
and understand reality for what it is. And
that the reason I'm mentioning this is because,
you know, we live in a time of
TikTok
and Reels
and shorts,
and we have, like,
Islamic concert like gatherings with nice reminders that
people think it's.
I'm not gunning these things, by the way.
These things are very important. We need them.
Everyone has a space, and it's so important
for the dua.
But because we live in that online environment,
we want the quick fix. It's as if
we're suffering from some kind of spiritual diabetes.
We need some kind of spiritual insulin,
and I'm gonna listen to for, like, 10
seconds. I'm gonna feel great about myself
and so on and so forth.
Because we have that kind of environment,
online environment,
we have removed the focus and actually focusing
on building institutions
and building the right type of institutions that
are dealing with this ideological
frame,
which is
affecting the masses all around the world. Now
the reason I know this is also from
experience because I've been doing this work for
nearly 20 years or maybe more. And
at Sapiens Institute, we actually deal with Shubhrant.
We have private
one to one sessions, free sessions of people.
Lighthouse mentoring.
We we the Lighthouse mentoring, we pick up
the the pieces if you like.
And if we continue with our trajectory, we
don't focus on supporting organizations and institutions like
Islam 21 c, and we don't do that,
then I'm afraid we're gonna become a victim
of our own full full strategy,
a failed strategies. It's a it's a severe
lack of strategic thinking.
Severe lack because what we've done, we've capitalized
the downer. We've made it, like, you know,
capitalistic in a sense. How many likes I'm
gonna get? How many shares I'm gonna get?
1 what's the return investment?
What's the branding?
And, frankly, we've become algorithm prostitutes,
to be honest. If,
most most I've been in this store on
a very high level. I know most of
the people in the business. And many of
us, we have this algorithmic prostitution going on.
We have prostituted our souls.
Just to our own little objectives, and we
become so arrogant about it. Like, oh, look.
Yes. But we don't see the bigger picture.
The bigger picture is not much is happening.
The net gain is 0. Look at the
stats.
The net gain is 0. Yeah.
Why is that? Because we don't have the
prophetic approach of strategic thinking. You know, ibn
Hazm, the Andalusian
scholar, he talks about
the Quran, Surah Al Furqan,
chapter 25 verse 52, and Allah says,
He argues that the greatest form of jihad
for the prophet wasalam wasn't physical jihad. It
was using the Quran.
And we know from that perspective was it
was engaging with the leaders of the time,
with the influencers of the time. He also
says a secondary priority was
strategic thinking at times of danger.
And he says, if you look at the
CIRA, the person didn't engage in every single
battle, right,
Most of his time was
using the Quran as a form of jihad,
intellectual jihad if you like, and number 2
strategic thinking in times of danger.
I bet you no one has ever heard
this before in their life.
Why? Because we don't look deeper. We don't
I mean, I've heard of things like this
from for sure, but we need to see
things from a macro perspective
if we believe
that Islam success is our success
If we believe
that the brands and the organization should be
a service
to
Islam success.
And this is so critical
because if I were to do analysis on
most of our narratives and organizations,
it it it won't be that nice because
I I there's not much strategic thinking going
on or
high level thinking to see Islam
as the the end goal, Islam
success as the end goal. Because in reality,
when you focus too much on on brands
and and maybe narratives and numbers and all
of those things,
there's always gonna be an inevitable possible conflict
of interest between
the brand
and Islam success.
Because it could be the case that you
closing down is the best thing to do.
It could be the case that you focusing
on more important things,
it should be the case. And that's why
I'm saying to our brothers and sisters, whether
we like it or not,
we need to build institutions like your Psalm
21 c. We have no choice. We do
not have the luxury, my dear brothers and
sisters.
And if you're not aware of this, then
we're you're in your bubble.
And it's probably an algorithmic bubble to be
honest because the algorithm according to research is
encoded ideology.
It just we're in a echo chamber.
We have some migration in and out, but
in reality, we don't know what's happening in
other echo chambers. And we think the only
reality we know is our own echo chamber.
We need to be a little bit more
macro in our thinking.
We need to support these organizations.
We have to.
Because who's gonna be dealing with the ideological
framing that is actually responsible
for
preventing the dhow from flourishing?
Who's doing that?
It's not the charities.
Right? The charitable organizations,
humanitarian, or dower because they're already restricted
because they're charities.
I know. I used to run for the
charity. It was the life. It was the
world. You can't even talk about Israel. You
can't even talk about Gaza.
I'm saying this to you brothers and sisters
not as some kind
of rant.
These organizations are needed and they're fantastic and
we should support them all the time because
I believe Allah is Ar Razaq,
his provision has no boundary,
is boundless, is infinite. So we should support
everyone. But I'm talking about the strategic nature
of this discussion now.
We need
organizations
to deal with ideologies
through the media.
The the medium of today is the media.
We live in an ideological world.
We have atheism, Zionism.
Look, ideas can kill brothers and sisters.
Look what's happened in Gaza,
the genocide in Gaza,
it's because of an idea, Zionism, and the
greatest idea
and you and ideas are bulletproof, my dear
brothers and sisters. Ideas are bombproof. You can't
bomb ideas out of existence.
So how do you The fact that you've
been there. Yes. No. It's it's it's to
actually provide,
the good idea which is is which is
Islam, which is.
As Allah talks about the good word, right,
Which is
essentially Tawhid,
and it's like a tree with deep roots,
and it has perennial fruits and a bad
word, which is like shirk,
has is an uproot with no fruits.
So the reason I wanna frame the initial
part of this discussion today in this way
is free to understand the significance and importance
of dealing with ideologies
and the ideological frame that that removes the
idea obstacles, the social obstacle, the ideological obstacles
that prevent the rest of the dua from
flourishing.
And when we support them, then it means
we're being extremely
strategic, which in a way, as I said
before, is adopting a sunnah of the prophet.
So please donate. It's on to yc.com
forward slash live, my brothers. Because we won
that 5 k today.
I've got a question for you in a
second, but I just wanna just remind people
that that, we are here, of course, to
get the support tonight.
We just had another another donation at, sister
Roxana, but she's given a £100 towards the
course.
Brother.
Sound effect because, it caused a bit of
controversy.
Yeah. That's yeah. It's going through their ways
now. I'm in trouble apparently.
Brothers and sisters, we like to hear from
people in the studio as well. You can
you can call in 07769
433-414.
You can go to the website. That's probably
the easiest way for a lot of you.
Islam21c.comforward/live.
And if you wanna call up, if that's
easier for you, no problem. 0203-880-2981
inshallah.
And just a reminder before you ask a
question, Tarek, we're doing this, the the we've
been doing this in the last,
few odd nights when I'm done. Squeezing it
in just a very short live and stream
between our and
our qiyam and our Quran and other things
because this is a bad as well. And
we hope that if it is
that Allah you
know, counts us,
and rewards us as being part of those
who are defending the deen, the frontiers, people
of the deen who are,
you know, doing doing this crucial work. We
ask Allah to forgive our shortcomings. And whoever
whatever we can muster up, whatever we can
donate, whatever we can do to support this
work we ask Allah to accept it so
we want to diversify our ibadah tonight so
no need to feel guilt or anything that
why we doing this when we're
when we're you know it's the last of
night of Ramadan this is inshallah as our
Sheikh, told
us on Monday Sheikh Haitham. So this is
like
Priyam as well. This is your Ibadah as
well.
Especially particularly when, you know, there's an acute
issue like, what's happening in Gaza that we
that needs, our all of our attention. Sadiku,
I'm sorry to interrupt.
Yeah. Definitely. I I I just wanted to
ask Hamza a question. Hamza, we got, like,
nearly a 1000 people watching it tonight. Different
countries, different backgrounds, different ways of thinking.
What would you say to people that maybe
have this thought in their head, like, okay.
Look. I wanna help. I wanna do good.
I think you guys are doing, you know,
important work, but I I just
you know, I worry what we're up against.
Okay? We're on about multi billion pound industry
journalism. Okay? We're on a we're talking about
powerhouses. We're talking about people that are, you
know, investing 1,000,000 into
not just, you know, organizations, institutions, research,
articles,
podcasts, you know, they got they got
there's bots working against us now. Right? We've
got machines, algorithms typing away while we're sleeping.
We're we're up against a giant of itself.
What difference is the work of Islam 21
c really gonna make?
What would you say?
Yeah. Well, if the people who are now
ruling the world had the same mindset, then
they wouldn't be ruling the world. Because all
of these isms like liberalism and humanism and
Zionism,
which, you know, we may get to discuss
today.
All of these things started with an idea,
and there was support by individuals and organizations
through their actions and through their money.
Right? I was looking at I think it
was the charity commission website, and I was
looking at some pro Zionist organizations. And I
saw one student group.
That student group gets more money than Sapiens
Institute, man. I'm like, oh my god.
I was like, what is going on? And
that's why I get sometimes frustrated
at the lack of strategic thinking. Wallahi brothers
and sisters, we have money.
Wallahi, we have money. I've traveled the world.
I've seen it. We have money.
We have money.
There's a king who buys his son a
Bugatti Veyron. He crashes it. He buys him
another Bugatti Veyron.
We have money. The the money is not
a problem.
Allah has provided for us. We have iman.
We have resources. We have the intellect.
But people who have been given
authority, and I'm not talking about political authority
here, authority within their own domain, whether it's
financial or otherwise,
they lack strategic thinking, honestly.
They lack seeing ahead. We need to see
the vision
Where we're gonna be in 5 10 years.
And I'm telling you, Islam 21 c, if
we support it and we allow it to
grow 10 fold, it's gonna be making much
more noise. In actual fact, Islam 21 c
is already making noise
because of their Allah centric and Aqira centric
mindset, not brand mindset.
Look how many organizations they brought together.
Many people were active against the Uighurs, against
the the Chinese oppressors, you know, supporting our
Uighurs and brothers and sisters. Many were. Many
were writing articles, doing this that and the
other, but Islam 21 c was the organization
that brought I think over 100 organizations together,
and now they're in 10 different countries
with regards to this cause, which is based
on the Stanford Uighur campaign.
Ten cities. Yeah. Limited resources.
I'm aware, I think, of their budget. This
is a limited resource.
Limited.
There are some organizations, their marketing team is
bigger than Islam 21 c.
I'm not joking.
Yeah. Their marketing team,
which is good. And and may Allah increase
them too. There's an American organization. Their marketing
team is probably bigger than Islam 21 c
and Sapiens put together.
Yeah.
And
it was Islam 21 c that made the
noise with regards to stand for Uighurs
in a way that is strategic
and global, that not only is about protests
and,
providing information, but I also know dealing with
it on an influential,
structural,
and political level. With all due respect, if
Islam 21st can do that
with
a was it a shoestring budget, then imagine
if we give them a little bit more.
They're gonna take over the world, bruv, as
we say. Right? So number so that's number
1. Number 2,
come on.
Don't forget who your Lord is.
Allahu Akbar,
the greater. Allahu
Akbar,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
who's the most powerful, the all knowing,
Al Hakim, the all wise, Al Aleem, the
all knowing
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala your Rab.
He is the master, sustainer,
owner of everything that exists.
Nothing happens
without his
irada and qudra, without his will and power.
This is who we have. This is Allah
And if we're patient and we do the
right thing,
then
we have nothing to fear. Nothing at all
to fear. 0.
Because we have Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
So based on those two things, my dear
brothers and sisters,
we should really, really, really support Psalm 21
c and see where they can go grow.
Now in that mindset as well, if you're
gonna have children, brothers and sisters, that mindset
is gonna destroy your children.
My child is 2 months. He can't even
walk. He can't even speak.
He can't even feed himself. He can't even
wipe his own posterior.
What's the point? What am I gonna get
out of this? What can he achieve?
No. That's that would be such a ridiculous
self defeating mindset. You're like, no. My child,
I'm gonna invest in him. I'm gonna love
him or her. I'm gonna I'm gonna make
sure that they have good.
I'm gonna make sure that they are confident,
that they have the right experiences and so
on and so forth. I'm gonna be a
patient and, you know, building them into their
teens and onwards because I have a vision
for them and I want them to have
their own vision and they're gonna succeed, and
I'm gonna be there for them. That's what
you do. You invest.
Similarly,
we're not giving donations to Islam 21 c.
We're investing
in Islam 21 c.
Brothers and sisters, I'm telling you the narratives,
concepts, ideas from Islam 21 c have built
other organizations.
They have built other projects.
My organization,
Sapiens Institute,
its landmark course, no doubt,
10 effective strategies on how to do with
your doubts and the doubts of others. That's
gone to thousands of people all around the
world.
We even trained some aspects of this course
to, like,
I think in South Africa, over 500.
The origins and the basis for
a lot of that course came from
Sheikh
Ali Hamuda.
It came from Islam 21 c.
The inspiration,
the origin. Obviously, we developed and expanded it,
but it first was inspired
by Islam 21 c in a huge way.
That's one aspect. And there are many other
things. The project that we have in collaboration
with Sibyl, which is called the Visionaries,
A lot of the narrative in that retreat,
that master class if you like, has come
from the work from Islam 21 c. How
to have a Allah centric vision, an Aqira
centric vision, how to have principles for success
from the Quran and Sunnah in order to
have success in the dua. I could go
on and on.
The point here is you need to understand
the power of
and the ability of Islam 21 c,
the ability
of framing
perspectives
in a Quran
way to give that confidence and to ensure
that you have impact.
Me and my team and our work is
a living manifestation
of the vision and strategy of Islam 21
c.
Simple as that. So
I know it's a long answer to a
short question, but it's very important for people
to understand the ability of these brothers and
sisters in the organization
and also the vision and the strategy and
their Allah centric and akhira centric mindset that
they have in order to achieve success.
This is why they were able to do
what they could do with Stanford Uighurs,
and this is why they've inspired many people
including myself and organizations, including the organization that
I run. So that's why you need to
invest.
Listen.
If I said to you 15 years ago,
I want you to invest
in
Tesla.
It's unknown,
but here's a vision. This is what they
wanna do. You know, the petrol industry is
laughing at them. Oh my god. You're gonna
create electrical cars.
Right? If I said to you, give me
£1,000,
and in 15 years, you're gonna become a
multimillionaire.
Right?
And
now you know what you know about Tesla.
You'll be like, that's the best thing to
do.
Similarly,
with Islam 21 c. You may not know
what they're going to achieve in the future,
but let me tell you something even better
that's better than the Tesla example.
Your intention
will transcend your action, and you know this
when you study a class and you study
the intention.
If you understand something what we've said right
now about Islam who wants to see the
ability and how they can impact people
and and organizations
and what they're able to achieve with a
shoestring budget,
then you're like I'm gonna invest in them
because what I will get from Allah is
greater
than what I would get
if I invested in Tesla 15 years ago.
Because what Allah has ready for you is
greater than anything in the dunya.
The other thing you need to understand is
this,
even if you're Psalm 21 c inverted commas
are not successful because I'm saying inverted commas
because true success is that you go to
Jannah. You may be trialed your whole life,
but the greatest success is that you're going
to Jannah.
But even if you're not they're not successful
in a from a dunya perspective, the very
fact that you had the intention, you will
get the road for the intention.
So you just can't go wrong. This is
better than investing in Tesla 15 years ago
and giving £1,000.
So my dear brothers and sisters, please invest
in the Psalm 21 c.
Look. Do I agree with everything that islam
21 c says? No.
Do I agree with what I say all
the time? No.
I even disagree with myself. Yeah. I'm gonna
start agreeing with anybody else.
That's not the point.
The point here is I know I could
go to Salman,
and I could say, bro,
you need to fix that a little bit,
which I've done before.
And they do it.
And
they do it well.
And they're listening,
and they're improving,
and they're progressing,
and they're unifying.
That's very rare to have in an organization.
I've been around a long time
from a non Muslim world perspective, project management
consultant,
and even within the Muslim community. I'm telling
you,
to be able to hold people to account
in a nice way and tell them this
is the perspective you should take, and they
do in a egoless fashion. I'm telling you,
you have people like that in the down
your life. You hold on to them because
they're worth more than £1,000,000,000.
They're priceless.
And I can say that is exactly the
case with the Psalm 21 c.
I mean, even the Psalm 21 c brothers
were helping us and engage with us with
the Visionaries Project, and I even said it
was the easiest team to work with.
It was just it was like he go
left. Like, there was no arguments. There was
no ego. There was no me that, this,
that, the other.
Is this on
point. May Allah preserve them and protect them.
So I'm saying all of these things
because I believe in them and and, yes,
he's passionate, but, you know, there's no passion,
there's no life. So what you need to
do, brothers and sisters, if you go to
Islam 21 c, I think there's around 800
people watching this. Just £10.
Now there's 1200.
1200. £200. £8 each. Just £8 each, which
is like 2 lattes.
3 lakh, 2 and a half lattes, or
2 lattes in a in a muffin. Yeah?
£8
each, my dear brothers and sisters. Every single
one of you, and we could close the
shop. Even actually it's much less than that
because you want £5,000. So you spend £4
each. It's a latte.
Right? Everyone give us a latte each, and
that's it. It's game over.
We're we're ready to continue the evening. So
look, my dear brothers and sisters,
we need organizations
at different levels. We need brothers and sisters
at different levels. We need the charitable sector.
We need the Dower sector. We need the
grassroots sector.
We need the intellectual sector. We need the
media sector. We need the popular speakers. We
need the charismatic speakers. We need the soft
speakers. We need the hard speakers. Everyone has
a role. Yeah?
So I want you to understand what I've
been saying that's fine in the correct way.
What I'm saying is let's not lose the
focus
in the development and the building of institutions
that are critical to our success.
Because institutions
would always
trump if you like or they would always
surpass
individuals,
always,
Always. And Salman mentioned this the other day
and and actually
Oh,
alphabet.
Frozen again.
What did Salman mention the other day?
The suspense.
Sorry. Every 5 or 10 minutes, something happens
to the tethering on the phone, but it
the the Internet is fine if something happens.
So
look.
You you were mentioning something I mentioned a
few days ago. If it's not for Obama,
Obama was, you know, everyone's charismatic leader at
that time. Well, not everyone's, but, you know,
the liberals especially.
Also, he's also known as
the bomber, I guess, because of his drone
attacks against innocent civilians.
Yeah. Let's put that to the side.
He was the he was everything, and he
developed policies. He had a great smile and
charisma
and all of that stuff. And his inaugural
speech sounded so amazing because of the way
he was able to articulate himself. But if
you if you were to write down his
speech, there wasn't much substance there at all.
And that's why when you hear a charismatic
speaker, always write down what they say and
then look at it after, then realize if
you had substance or not. Anyway,
so he did all that stuff. Now he's
hardly remembered.
Now he's gone. Khalas.
And then Trump came into power, and he
literally trumped some of his policies.
Why? Because Trump now became a head of
an institution, the secular democratic
institution with the all the kind of structures
in place
in order to
Trump
what
Obama did previously.
Obama, he may pass away, what, in 10
years, Allah knows.
After a few years, he's not gonna be
remembered.
Even us in the dua. And I say
this to some brothers sometimes when they're always
chasing, like, you
know, people liking them and this and the
other. Guys,
there are pious children that don't make dua
of their parents every day.
There are pious children that don't make dua
for their parents every day.
And you think, you know, people are gonna
remember you? Is you think that's what it's
about? It's about Allah remembering you. Right?
And this is very important for us to
understand. After 1 or 2 decades of our
death, people are not gonna remember our surname.
They're not even gonna remember what we did.
Right? The videos that we did, they're gonna
be obsolete. The things that we wrote, if
unless it was like a masterpiece,
it can all finish. Things are gonna move
on. You're gonna be absolutely forgotten. Literally forgotten.
They won't even know where your grave is.
Tell Tell me, do you know the name
of your great great grandfather?
Do you know what he did? Do you
know his cousin's name? Do you know his
brother's name? Do you know where he lived?
Do you know his job? Many of us
don't have no clue. We have no clue.
We're gonna be forgotten like that as well.
Yeah? So it's very important
without moving off on a huge tangent for
us to understand that
institutions would always be bigger than organizations,
and the vision will be bigger than the
institution.
But if the institution is always Allah centric
and akhirah centric, there would always be a
service to the vision. So and I really
believe Islam 21 c is all about that.
And I know that for sure sure because
I worked with them on the visionaries project.
This is what they live and breathe.
The things that they do behind the scenes,
their logo is not on there, their brand
is not on there, but they're there to
help touch, move, and inspire individuals and organizations.
So brothers and sisters,
invest. There's nothing else that we need to
say really. We live in an ideological world.
The ideological frame is very strong.
We're getting forced successes. Yes. There are some
successes, but on the macro level, we still
got a lot of work to do because
we're not focusing on developing those needed institutions
in order for us to
grow, in order for us to remove the
obstacles that prevent the DAO from flourishing. And
one key obstacle, my dear brothers and sisters,
as well is the ideological
obstacle.
And this is so important,
critical,
especially in the 21st century,
and the platform that Islam 21 c have
decided to use is the platform of the
age, which is media, social media,
and we want far more transformative content.
And you need to invest in it, my
dear brothers and sisters. And I said, supporting
Islam 21 c,
in my view,
is most likely
better than supporting 500 du'as.
Because you have to see where they're going
with the vision. You have to see it
from an institutional and structural perspective.
There, as an institution,
dealing with the ideological frame that is preventing
people from becoming Muslim or is making people
leave Islam.
500 Dua'at can only do so much, but
an institution
that grows and develops other people
is far greater than all of those individuals,
especially because they're focusing on one of the
number one
problems
of not allowing the Dow to flourish as
much as it should or as much as
we want. And that's why we have to
be strategic in our thinking. So please donate.
Psalm 21c.comforward/livebrothersandisters.
This is about over a 1000 of you
watching.
Just £5, £4
each. It's like a latte. And you remember,
sadaqah does not diminish wealth.
It does not diminish your wealth, the prophet
told us that. And also remember what Allah
says, I think in Surah Al Baqarah verse
274,
that those who give day and night,
those who give day and night openly and
secretly,
they will have the reward from their Lord.
And with them, they will have no grief
and no fear. This is so beautiful.
They would have no fear. It means according
to the Mafasir
that they will not fear the horrors of
the day of judgment. They're not gonna fear
the horrors of the akhirah.
And they won't grieve, meaning they'll have no
grief from the point of view that they
won't grieve what they left behind in the
dunya.
Your sadaqa
is a means
for a reward from your lord, and what
Allah can give you, no one can give
you, and it surpasses anything that you can
have in the whole entire dunya.
And not only that, you won't fear the
horrors of the day of judgement.
You won't fear the horrors of the, and
you won't grieve what you left behind.
Just imagine that psychological
state. And this is what Allah
is
is is is wanting to give to you
is because that's the whole point of guidance.
So give day and night. Now we're in
the 29th night. Give tonight to one of
the most important strategic
projects that you can support, Islam 21 c,
because they're dealing
with
the ideological frame, reframing
narratives,
which is in my view, a key Quranic
approach and a key approach of the prophet
because he dealt with the influentials. He dealt
with the ideological space. Because remember, we know
what we always say. It's Tawhid, call to
Tawhid.
We agree, but to be honest, generally speaking,
that's kinda shallow. And let me explain why.
Because when you look at the Quran and
Sunnah, there was Tawhid but there were also
manifestations of Tawhid
that the person was calling to or the
Quran was calling other people to. Like, not
to do in fact aside, like, not to
be have misogyny
Mhmm. And treat women badly,
not to, be unjust, not to do riba
in interest, and all of these things because
these evils are manifestations of shirk to a
certain degree.
And and and the opposite of those are
actually manifestations of tawheed.
So you will have, yes,
has branches and some of those things include
key actions.
So it's important not only
to oversimplify,
it's important to simplify but not oversimplify. Yes,
call to tawheed
but from a ideological and societal perspective, there
are other aspects that need to be dealt
with as well. Like, for example,
the LGBTQ plus movement.
Islam 21 c has been on the forefront
on these issues.
The genocide in Gaza,
the genocide
of the Uyghurs.
These things are actually manifestations
of, you know, our affirmation of the unicity
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And
it's a Quranic narrative and a prophetic narrative
to also include these things in our dua.
To reduce the dua which is to a
simple call like that is oversimplifying
the Sira,
oversimplifying
the Quranic narrative, and even oversimplifying
the NBIA. Because, yes, Allah says they were
not sent except to say
but what does that mean in their social
context?
What did it mean?
Right? So that's why it's very important for
us to understand that it comes hand in
hand.
And this is so important, my dear brothers,
because I'm just worried that we've created the
wrong narrative in the west concerning dawah,
and we're we're missing the important Qur'anic and
prophetic approach of dealing with these ideologies
and dealing with the framing.
And this is so significant, my dear brothers
and sisters. That's what Islam 21 c is
doing. So may Allah bless every single one
of you who is watching and participating.
I'm sure And you. Are we gonna be
discussing Zionism, by the way?
I was so worried. They said to me,
you know, Hamzah, you're gonna be talking about
what is Zionism, what are some of the
key myths
and,
detractions from the Zionists and stuff like that.
And I was putting a PowerPoint presentation together
based on the book that I coauthored in
order to make sure it's done properly.
But, we haven't done that yet. So you
saved me from that headache, I guess. But
I'm ready if even if we do need
to do it. Then maybe I could stop
off, Saman, if you're okay with that. I
wanted to bring to light some,
some information. But before I do that, just
very quickly, I wanna give a shout out
to some of the people out there that
are donating.
We had, sister Miriam Ida.
She's made a donation,
of £10. May Allah bless her.
Let's see where we are for it. NB
Mia, £25
we have a
called Janovich,
£30. Yeah. So they keep keep them coming,
brothers. We've got
we've got 1441.
142. We're getting close to the Islamic calendar
here now. Right?
That's gonna be significant to some degree.
But but the donations, brothers and sisters, we
need to call you to action. If there's
that many of us here, we have to
take action. We've had we've got about we've
got about
£200.
Okay? We're halfway into the show. We've got
200. We need to push a lot more
than this inshallah.
That's
I'd say 1 out of 25
with the fractions. 125th
of what we need. So look, I wanna
push this last hour and 5 minutes that
we're here. Okay? It's potentially a little qadr.
Even if it's not or we don't know,
we have to search for it. We have
to do the actions. If you knew tonight
was late at Al Qadr, what would you
do? How much did you give? How much
did you sacrifice?
Imagine £1 is equal
to £30,290.
Yeah. That's monumental, my share. £10
is is more than 300,000.
A £100 is more than 3,000,000.
Okay? And that's the there's no better
ROIs than that. No better return on your
investment. So invest tonight inshallah.
And speaking of big numbers, Hamza, Samal, maybe
I can bring you back to the topic
of Zionism.
You know, September or October, obviously, we know
what happened, but there's been a lot of
things happening behind the scenes that we're not
aware of. We're obviously trying to raise money
to defend the honor of our brothers and
sisters, we're trying to challenge all that propaganda
that's out there.
We've got a lot of work to do.
I'll give you an example. The Israeli government,
they spent in the first couple of weeks
of
the atrocities,
from, October 7th,
they spent 7.1.
Yeah? £7,100,000
solely on YouTube
ads. You're right.
It's all the propaganda, it's all the, you
know, twisted stories trying to make them out
as the victims,
which has never ever happened before that an
occupied people present themselves as victims, but that's
what they're doing. And they use these graphic
videos, but what that equated to just to
make
it as tangible for us, that's 7,100,000
US dollars
in YouTube videos
that translated into 1,000,000,000
video imprints across YouTube.
Right? Imagine that video be played over and
over and over again,
systemically just infiltrating the minds of those that
were very well informed or educated about the
situation,
making the Israeli government, making the IDF out
as the victims,
and trying to change and sway the perceptions.
Okay? So this is only one example.
Right? It's a pretty big example, but it's
one example
of of what we're up against and what
we're up against. You shouldn't let that put
us off. The numbers shouldn't put us off.
But what it should do is motivate us
motivate and inspire us
to push forward and invest and support this
organization.
Right now, we're on 1,500
people.
If everyone gave
£1,
yeah, 1 dollar,
we'd be, you know, a third of the
way there. Okay? But if they gave £10,
we would have tripled our target for tonight.
$10, we would have tripled our target for
tonight. So we have the numbers.
Yeah? In fact, tonight's tonight's, webinar is really
almost a representation of the, you know, the
scenario in the world. We have the numbers
globally.
We have the Muslims, they have we're strength
in numbers. And like Hamzah said and I
also agree with, we have the finances
as well. We have that from I mean,
Hamza's talking about sheiks buying, Saudi sheiks buying
their sons, you know, so No. No. I
I didn't I didn't mention where they're from.
And by the way, they were not from
Saudi, but I'm just saying We have
kings buying supercars.
Forget the kings. Allah bless them. Allah guide
us all. But I'm on about the average
Muslim has money. Right? Allah says in the
Quran,
in
the Quran,
All you who believe, give from that which
we have, we have provided you. Allah is
a razaq. Allah is the one who provides.
Allah has given that to us. Okay. And
then Allah goes on to mention after, before
a day comes, when there's no intercession,
when there's no bargaining, there's no going back.
Okay. So what you have right now, Allah
has given that to you. There's a reason
why you are where you are. There there's
a reason why you have the job, the
education,
the comfortability,
all the blessings, and there's nothing wrong with
those things. But Allah is testing you. What
will you do it? 1526
people here. We have a target of 5,000.
We want your support inshallah. We want everyone
to give even if it's a pound, even
if it's a dollar, even if it's a
euro, we want everyone to be part of
this venture tonight inshallah because God only knows.
You know, I
we we are still in some ways in
our infancy,
you know, stage as an organization. There's still
so much more to go. The journey is
still early. Yes, you can donate from Techy,
my brother, Insha Allah. Click on the link
that we're gonna just scroll up, you'll see
a link. We'll send it again now. You
can donate. All your cards should be accepted
and,
support the cause
So, guys, let's let's let's start from the
starting point in terms of
we know there's
1,000,000
being spent. I I mentioned 1 I, quote
of the the, Israeli government.
Another scenario is there's an organization called Facts
for Peace that I came across when researching
online.
And this was started by a, an American
billionaire who's involved in real estate. So he
starts this organization ironically called Facts for Peace.
He's a Zionist
and he decided that with all the propaganda
that they're pushing out, and they're not being
effective, and they're losing the PR battle, he
thought, right, let me get all my billionaire
friends together and let's raise 50,000,000
US dollars.
Okay? This is months ago. I don't know
the outcome. I'm sure they raised it if
they're billionaires themselves.
But these people are conspiring, they're making an
effort, they're spending money,
and the Muslims were sitting here and
we were doing stuff, we've got organizations like
this, but we have to actually have to
empower
and and, equip organizations like Islam 21c.
So, Zion, what are we up against?
Yeah. Well, Zionism is,
as we can see, my dear brothers and
sisters in Tarek and doctor
Salman, there's pure evil.
And I think a good way of framing
it I was reading this from Al Jazeera
a short while ago, and they basically framed
it quite interestingly. They basically said that Zionism
is basically a colonial movement. Yeah?
And it was, established
by any means necessary, and you could see
that's from just on the historical record
to establish by any means necessary a national
state for Jews, and this is very critical
now in historic Palestine. Yeah?
So Zionism generally speaking is nationalistic.
It's a political
worldview ideology,
and it call called for the creation of
the Jewish state, and now it supports the
continued existence
of such a state.
Which what does that mean? It basically means
it supports
apartheid.
It supports
ethnic cleansing. It supports
illegal settlements.
It supports
land grabbing.
It supports
dehumanization
of the Palestinians.
It supports
feigning
2 state solutions,
but in practice,
increasing with the settlements that actually go against
the very fact of the peace process by
feigning it just to prolong
the international
dialogue and discourse and to be somewhat seen
as, you know, good guys. But in reality,
they have no intention of giving
anything back or any authority, especially these this
form of Zionism. So in in general,
Zionism
is a colonial movement.
It was established for to
establish a
Jewish state in historic Palestine,
and that also involved what involved land grabbing,
involved is the ethnic cleansing. If you look
into, for example, the Nakba, what happened
in in 1948,
you had over 700,000
Palestinians
expelled ethnically,
cleansed, if you like, expelled from their lands.
You had over 600 villages that were destroyed
to the point where the water was were
even poisoned.
And
now as a result of that, we have
over 5,000,000 Palestinian refugees,
and they haven't been given a right to
return.
So in that's that's Zionism in general, but
there's a history.
And what's important to understand
is that
Great Britain, you know, our country where, you
know, we are committed to the well-being of
Great Britain and all Britons, but we and
and part of that commitment to the well-being
well-being of Great Britain is to actually make
them realize their history.
Right? And
one key aspect of Zionism
being,
you know, making its
mark on the world, this evil mark on
the world was basically
Great Britain's capitulation
to the bidding of the World Zionist Organization.
Right? Now the World Zionist Organization was an
organization founded in around 18/97,
and it was done by Theodore Herzl
and other politically orientated Jewish bodies as well.
Okay? And their main goal was to establish
a state for the Jewish people.
Now,
more specifically, right, the catalyst for all of
this for the birth of Israel was actually
the Balfour declaration of 1917,
which promised
a national home for the Jewish people in
Palestine.
Now let me tell you what's more shocking
about this here. What was shocking about this
and obviously the Zionist entities like the World
Zionist Organization and other
politically orientated
Zionist entities were okay with this
was
that the foreign secretary at the time, which
was as we said,
Balfour, Arthur James Balfour,
he was well aware, right, which goes against
the Zionist myth that it was a barren
land with no people. Right? He was well
aware
that it had a majority
Arab presence in the region,
and yet it did not prevent him from
ignoring the interest. And this is what he
says. These are his own words.
In Palestine,
we do not propose
even to go through the form
of consulting
the wishes
of the present inhabitants
of the country.
Zionism,
be it right or wrong,
is more important
than the wishes of 700,000
Arabs. Now, obviously, he's a he's a classic
kind of,
you know,
20th century Brit, especially the early 20th century.
So he's gonna put some caveats so he
could play with ambiguity.
So to curtail any kind of backlash, he
did say,
you know, you shouldn't
infringe on the rights of the indigenous population.
But this was not a serious statement as
we subsequently saw with the Nakba and the
the the Zionist movement taking hold and so
on and so forth. So,
yeah, really. So the history of colonial Zionism
is basically, number 1,
Great Britain's capitulation to the bidding of the
World Zionist Organization founded in 18/97
by Atherdo Herzl
and other politically orientated Jewish bodies. And secondly,
the catalyst
was the birth or for the birth of
Israel was the Balfour declaration of 1917,
which promised a national home for the Jewish
people.
And as we said, Balfour said, but we
don't care if Zionism is right or wrong.
You know, Zionism is more important than
the wishes of 700,000
Arabs.
So
that's the kind of general nutshell in terms
of Zionism. And now in the modern day,
Zionism has hasn't really changed, to be honest,
because, obviously,
you can't be anachronistic and say, look. Zionism
is about establishing a Jewish state because they
have one now.
What they're now saying is that we have
to support this Jewish state. And when you
see Zionist narratives in practice and indeed,
you would see
that they follow the same method
as Balfour,
which was what? We don't care if the
Zionism isn't right or wrong. Zionism is more
important than human beings. Zionism is more important
than
Arabs,
than Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs,
you know, by any means necessary, and they
support that with propaganda.
They support it with myths and lies.
They support it with,
half truths.
For example,
what the Zionist movement would do in order
to try and preserve
Israel as a state, to give it its
kind of, you know, moral mandate, if you
like, or intellectual mandate.
The the the the the famous one is
is and it's a colonial myth. Right? A
Zionist colonial myth. Hey. It was a land
without a people and a people without a
land. In actual fact, Netanyahu mentioned this in
Jordan Peterson's podcast.
The filthy liar.
Like, the literally
liar, evil liar. Right?
It was a land without a people and
a people without a land. Right? The Jews
simply returned home. There was no one there.
But this is all complete utter nonsense,
and we know this. I mean, we don't
have to go into the academic works, but
there's a lot of work that has been
done by Israeli,
Jewish,
and Arab, and non Arab historians.
But the few things that we need to
get people to understand is that
number 1,
they need to understand
that
Arabs
existed
in Palestine before
Islam, right, before the 7th century.
And
Arabs existed in Palestine
before
any Arab conquest.
Palestine was under our rule before
738
AD. Okay? So it's before
anything
that's Islamic. Okay? It was under Arab rule.
In actual fact, the Arabization of Palestine was
done by Arab Christians
100 of years before the rise of Islam.
Not only this, we have references to the
land of Palestine
and its people
way back.
That 420
BC. Right?
Herodotus
apologies about the slight technical picture we have
there.
BC.
As the father of history. He wrote a
book called yes. I'm back. He wrote he
wrote a book called his entitled history, and
it was written in around 4 50 BC,
okay, before the common era. And in it,
Herodotus details his own visit to a land
called Palestine,
and he describes Palestine geographically
as the country that we now know today
and he says the seaports of Palestine were
occupied by
Arabs who controlled the incense trade.
What about David Ashri? He's a professor of
his of ancient history at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. He acknowledges that during Herodotus' time,
Arabs lived in Palestine, but there were only
a few Jews there. Nowhere does Herodotus mention
the Israelites in Palestine. And we could go
on and on and on. For example,
many ancient figures who refer to Palestine as
a distinct region, they included Aristotle,
Strabo,
Pliny the Elder,
Pomponius
Pomponius
Mella,
and Mianus
Marcellinus,
and so on and so forth. And what's
quite remarkable, to be honest,
from a historical perspective is the mortuary temple
of Ramesses the 3rd at the Mendinet Habo
Temple in Luxor,
and they say it's one of the best
preserved, temples in Egypt. And in this temple
is an inscription dated in 1,150
BC. So 11 50 BC,
and it refers to
Palestine.
Right? You have an early Assyrian tablet
from 717,
and so on and so forth. Anyway, the
point here is the Arabs existed in Palestine
before Islam.
And a simple example that could be given
to illustrate this point is the council of
Chalcedon.
The council of Chalcedon, which was held in
4 51 AD.
And that council was basically establishing the two
natures of Jesus. He's, fully man and and
fully god. Right? Try and work that out,
but that's a different issue.
Council of Khalsadon by an Arab bishop. Now
think about this. You know these liberal
or right wing Christians, they love Christianity.
The formation of their doctrine
force
although it is, the formation of their doctrine
was in 4 51 AD before Islam.
It was it was represented at the Council
of Khalsadon in Gaza
in Gaza
by an Arab bishop.
I mean, even even to think about that,
just your head is spinning.
We should tell these people, what are you
talking about? The so called Christian civilization, as
you know it today, a key milestone was
the council of Chalcedon
in 4 51 before Islam, and that council
was about the two natures of Jesus that
you're supposed to believe in. Right?
And it was represented by an Arab bishop,
And then you're falling for the Zionist
myth,
unacademic,
unintellectual,
vacuous
myth,
baseless myth, unjustified
myth,
ignorant myth that there was no people, no
land. The Jews are simply returned back.
You know what's even even interesting listen to
this. You're gonna love this. In fact, historically,
the Byzantine emperors of Constantinople were the ones
who appointed Arab kings as rulers of Palestine.
Emperor Justinian,
he named him Abu Karim ibn Jabala as
the ruler of Palestine. Now I could go
on and on and on, but finally, just
on on just this myth.
This colonial myth
is even known by Zionist themselves,
and they have admitted with their own mouths
this myth.
Moshe Dayan Moshe Dayan was close to Ben
Gurion. We know Ben Gurion was the first
minister of Israel.
And Moshe Dayan was the Israeli military commander
and former defense minister.
Moshe Dayan, addressing the Technion, which was the
is is the Israeli Institute of Technology,
said the following. And this is published by
Harritts, 4th April 1969.
He says
Jewish villages
were built in the place of Arab villages.
You do not even know the names of
these Arab villages and I do not blame
you
because geography books no longer exist.
Not only do the books not exist, the
Arab villages are not there either.
Nahlal arose in place of Mahlul.
Kibbutz Vat in the place of Jipta.
In the place of and and so on
and so forth. Even Zionist themselves admit that
there were people there that were ethnically
cleansed.
So,
that's one myth. I mean, there are other
myths. For example, Gaza is not occupied, which
we could talk about, but I think now
we I'm fundraising. The point is my dear
brothers and sisters,
these ideologies need to be dealt with and
dismantled, and we need the Islam 21 c
to be that institution of voice that we
invest in because they've got a track record.
They've proven themselves. They're gonna be 20 years
in in 2,026,
inshallah.
They have this in-depth new campaign coming up
called
Palestine Truth. They already have a successful campaign
and is continuing stand for Uighurs to the
point they got over a 100 organizations together.
Some of these organizations don't even like each
other, I believe, but see that shows their
leadership skills and their Allah centric mindset.
Right?
And they're in 10 different countries formally now
dealing with this. And not only on an
activist perspective,
but structurally
at different levels
of society,
whether it's in the west and the east,
whether it's dealing with on a political level
or otherwise. And I know this
firsthand.
And they've had such a great success with
this campaign. Imagine now what they're gonna be
doing with the Palestine campaign, Palestine truth campaign.
It's just gonna be even better, Allah. But
we need to invest in these brothers who
have shown they have leadership skills. They have
shown they could do the hard work behind
the scenes. They have shown they could bring
people together. They have shown that they could
even create campaigns in the media and for
you to understand things in a simple way
for you to actually propagate it and actually
be activists on the ground as well. But
they also shown that they could do with
different levels of society,
grassroots and politically and structurally.
And if we invest in these people who
have shown that that ability, imagine what they
can do with this Palestine campaign as well.
This is enough just for someone to give
5 k immediately.
This is enough.
And that's why it's very very important, my
dear brothers and sisters,
that we support Islam 21 c that is
dealing with these evil ideologies like zionism and
liberalism
and all of these isms that are that
are creating barriers
that prevent the dua from flourishing.
And we have to be prophetic in our
approach, be strategic thinking. Remember what he even
Hazem said,
having strategic thinking in terms of danger, understanding
what the where the priorities lie, and now
we are focused on building these such institutions
and investing
and looking into the future where where they
can go and what they can achieve. Now
is the time, my dear brothers and sisters.
Everyone has the ability and the sphere of
control.
Some people are doing grassroots dower. Some people
are doing intellectual academic work. Some some people
are doing political work, some people are doing
humanitarian work, some people are doing reminders.
They're all great and they're all needed. But
because we've got relative success from an individualistic
micro perspective on these things, sometimes it's blinded
us to the macro.
And the macro is we need the likes
of Islam 21 c in order to help
with the ideological challenges because they create severe
barriers to the success of all this other
work. This is why I said the likes
of Islam 21 c are equivalent to, like,
500 Duaat or a couple of DAO organizations
because they actually remove the ideological barriers that
prevent the DAO from flourishing. And I know
this as CEO of Sapiens Institute because part
of our Lighthouse Mentoring, we have people who
have Shubhahat and Destructive Dua, and we mentor
ex Muslims.
They have all the answers online. They have
all the books that they need, but it's
sometimes it still doesn't work for them. They
need someone to really unpack
those, you know,
social, psychological,
in-depth,
you know, ideological,
acclimatization
that they've had. And I I like to
use this example. I think Tarek might like
this.
We're like a bunch of fish in dirty
water.
Talking to the fish and telling the fish,
hey. The water's dirty is not gonna change
the situation
because the fish is still gonna be sick,
still gonna be affected by the dirty water.
The way to change the situation is to
change the water,
purify the water.
Right?
Clean the swamp.
Purify the water, and that's what ideologies are.
They're like this it's like
it's like water, and we're just a fish.
Talking to the fisher by all the time,
sometimes it's it's not gonna work. We have
to clean the water. And part of doing
that
is doing activism, is going on the media,
is challenging the ideological framing, challenging the influential
structures and people
and influences and the idea holders, if you
like, the whole diadological
space
that actually create that dirty water if you
like. And challenging those people would help purify,
the water in order for the fish to
flourish. I think that's a good way of
putting it as well. I like it. I
like it. You got me wanting to go
fishing now, ma'am. So I gotta be patient
because Ramadan is still here. Brothers and sisters,
we've got people tuning in from Russia.
Waking up. I think people are probably maybe
finish the Tarawa prayers.
If you're living the the western side of
Europe, maybe you just come back from,
some I don't know. After Tarawee, you went
out to get something to eat. Maybe you
just woken up, you know, nap. So I
have the brother from, Jerusalem, from Alkuts
tuning in.
Excellent. In the comments, brother.
We don't have here for much longer, but
we've got 1800
of you.
1800 of you. So we're calling on you
now to support
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We have had some,
we've had some donations recently as well.
Missy, we had,
Nasim
She's giving 10. Kashif Aziz also giving 10.
We have had Mian 20
someone will.
Someone will. Interesting. That's a £100 for that
person,
So keep them coming, So there's 1,830
of you. Like I said in the comments,
right, if I mean, it's more now. We
raise more, but I was gonna say if
if everyone watching gives £10, €10, or $10,
we can triple, but it's probably quadruple now.
We can quadruple our target.
If you can't do that, you know, this
is a night you don't wanna just,
you know, if someone invites you to some
good. Right? You don't wanna be in a
position where you regret that one day. You
wanna take that opportunity.
So even if it's a pound, a dollar,
a euro, whatever it is inshallah. But Yeah.
Let's aim if we can. We've got 10
minutes to 1. Okay? Let's aim in the
next 10 minutes if we can set some
targets. Let's try and get let's give 5
people
to give 10
and let's get 5 people to give 20.
Right? We'll make it nice and easy for
everyone inshallah.
Five people to get 10, 5 people to
give 20 and inshallah that will help us
edge a little closer to our target tonight
inshallah.
Sisters, if you just joined us, it's Islam
21 C. We're live with you. We've got
Salaham's resources here. We've got doctor Saman Bhatt
who's head of Islamic thinking.
So what does that mean? You're only allowed
to think about Islamic stuff, Saman? Or Out
of Islamic thought. Every every thought is Islamic,
is it? Had of Islamic thought. That's the,
that's the title they mustered up. So what
does that mean? What do you do? Just
think Islam all day, every day.
I,
I have the privilege of dealing with,
100 of Mashaikh,
being like the liaison
between, the mashaikh and the sumptuous editorial team
and,
getting them to write stuff, record stuff, speaking
to them. I was just, speaking to Sheikh
Ham today about, you know, katibs for Eid.
We need some advice.
Those of us giving Eid for for example,
gave some amazing amazing advice because I was
like you know how can we just have
Eid celebrate as normal
but he's he he gave some really, really
good advice. I'm gonna be publishing it in
a few hours, inshallah, in the morning. Inshallah.
So stay tuned for that. Especially if you're
Khatib, we're looking forward to talk about on
the,
not but in the hopefully in the open
air aid salah. And any food you still
want? Any little a little taste of of
what's to come?
Basically,
the people of Gaza will be celebrating
Eid because it is a symbol of Islam.
It's a sha'ira from the shayir of Islam.
And, it's a a way to,
also an act of defiance in the face
of, the persecution. And, the Zionist kind of
the the fanatical,
enemies of the Muslims and the Palestinians in
particular, they get even more enraged, you know,
when they see
the
the the attempted
victims or supposed victims,
you know,
showing solidarity, showing happiness, showing celebration. And also
our celebration is not the Duniwi celebration, we're
not celebrating anything
other than completing or being given the tawfiq
to complete an act of worship, serving Allah,
serving God, serving the creator of the heavens
and the earth. And this is something that
the enemies of,
God, the enemies of
Allah hate. So even more so, even more,
reason for us to
show Eid in public, show Eid the symbols
of Islam, symbols of Eid, the symbols of
celebrating Ibadah,
in public.
So I should party harder is what you're
saying?
Party in
a way that the prophet taught us to
party so called party in Eid, making loud
takbids,
going, going in the streets, walking one way
and coming back another way,
having it hopefully in public and
and, expressing and making iftar of Takbir of
Allah in public. Alhamdulillah. Yeah. I will I
will make this one I I mean, you
gotta go, Hamza.
Yeah. Yeah. So, guys, listen. I I need
to go. Obviously, you know,
just for the audience's sake, the the the
framing of the live was to provide more
information about Zionism, which, you know, with these
things, it doesn't always happen.
But what I would suggest you do, you
know, other
points like people saying Gaza was occupied,
other points like, you know, if Hamas were
to go, there'll be peace, all of these
talking points from the Zionists and so on
and so forth. A lot of that has
been addressed in the book that Islam Tawasi
helped distribute a few months ago, which called
unveiling tyranny. There's a revised edition now you
can find on the on the Sapiens Institute
website for free. And this again shows
how Allah centric and Akhir centric aslam 21
c r, and they're able to bring different
people together and actually facilitate this type of
work as well. So my final points would
be is, please, if you want more information,
not only that, but there are other references
and thinkers that you should go to that
far better than what we've done. But I
think the framing and addressing the kind of
contemporary
sound bites and myths and detractions,
is is done a good job, Alhamdulillah.
But notwithstanding, I just want all of you
to go to islamt.comforward/forward/live,
my dear brothers and sisters.
You know, Islam is gonna say dealing with
the media, with the ideological framing, with removing
the the ideological barriers that preventing from the
dua from flourishing and preventing from the community
from flourishing
in in in a greater way. And it's
a much needed work. Everyone has their role.
Everyone should stay in the in that role
and it may allow increase them and protect
them. But sometimes, you know,
individual successes blind us to the fact that
we have to focus on one of the
most important institutions,
which are institutions just like Islam 21 c,
which is dealing with the ideological framing, preserving
the identity,
removing the ideas,
the the the the barrier the ideological barriers
that prevent Islam and the dua from flourishing
globally. And that's why we need to invest
in them. So in the next 3,
6, 9, 12 years,
we're gonna be so grateful to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala that he gave us the opportunity
on this odd night to even give £10
or a £100, even a £1,000
to support this amazing work. So look at
their track record record with Stanford Uyghurs. They
brought over 100 organizations together. They're establishing 10
different countries now, dealing from the grassroots, activists,
and even political level, which is shocking on
a shoestring budget. Imagine we give them much
more. Imagine what they can do with this
new amazing project called Palestine Truth. Support them
today, brothers and sisters.
For the opportunity my dear, beloved brothers. I'm.
Beautiful to have hamza with us as always
and keep him sincere
a powerful powerful speaker Mashallah
passionate brother
and he's he's
done so much for the Dawah may I
enable him to do more and it's not
privilege
privilege is always done. We can praise him
as much as he's praising his son and
see I have the
luck. Keep him sincere. He's always been a
soldier.
Oh, wait. We're gonna we're gonna have another
pet or someone else join us on the
live stream.
Oh, lovely.
Because we have the You're tail
down.
Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me.
Sure.
Masha'allah. What is the one's name?
She likes to be famous.
She's a cutie. Long hair. Her name is,
Marshmallow.
Marshmallow.
You're holding it like you're holding your newborn
baby somehow? Yeah, bro. She's a little
baby.
Can you hear that?
She did that sound, the purring. Is that
purring?
She wants to be famous.
She is famous now. She got nearly 2,000
people watching her. So brothers and sisters, we're
here obviously not just to watch cats on
screen. Okay? We're not here to watch someone.
I think cats, cats do quite well on
the Internet.
They should. They should. Gonna bring some.
Go ahead. I'm gonna hey. It's bringing in
some donations. I'm sure it's gonna be. We've
got we've got, Marie Lawrence Lambert who's given
£25.
May Allah bless the sister.
Is he a cat is he a cat
lady?
I mean, we're all cat people, aren't we?
Right? Everyone loves a cat. I I used
to love dogs more, but that was when
I was younger and I had them.
Didn't know any better. But now,
I
you know what? When I get my farm,
one day, then I'll be a dog person
again. Right? It's just the farm. We already
got another another donation. The the same thing
this cat is a better fun way than
you, Tarek. I think so. I think so
much so.
We've also got Sammy,
let's see.
Sammy Hash Hashush.
Hashush?
That's an interesting one. I like I it
sounds like a Moroccan name,
Oh, look. Look at that. I send,
I send a tip a £100. I believe
I send all the last time as well,
didn't he?
One of our authors, one of our,
close friends
and, senior brothers.
So brothers and sisters, we're getting lots of
donations coming in now. The Umar is waking
up. We're also getting people commenting.
We have we have, oh,
Oh, we've got, we've got,
Hussein.
Who is this, Hussein,
from Turkey.
Right. Just pass it on.
Brothers and sisters,
we're getting close to 2,000 people
watching this live stream right now. Is it
me 19 34. We've got 1934
people watching apparently. You know, it's only going
up. I don't see it really going down,
which is beautiful. So brothers and sisters, if
you've just joined us, we are here. Islam
21c.
Allah has brought this message to you tonight
that we are doing the work that is
fighting the ideological Islam, the ideological attack on
Islam.
So every single day, we have messages being
pushed down our children's throats, whether it's secularism,
whether it's liberalism,
whether it's Zionism,
the LGBT objective,
you know, the effects of zina, the effects
of
capitalism, the effects of drug use, nikram,
all these challenges,
all these things are keep on trying to
infiltrate our community.
And we as an Ummah have to establish
the organizations. You know what? Just wanna say
a big thank you to all the uncles
and all the aunties who in the early
generations that came before us, they established all
those masajid,
those mosques that built,
and provided pillars
for us as community members
and for ensuring that halal meat was available
to us in the UK and other countries,
and whatever whatever countries you're from as well.
But in particular to us, our non Muslim
countries where Muslims are residing like us here
in the UK, now that we've done those
things,
and even in countries that we have people
from, let's say, Muslim areas in Russia, we
got Turkey,
we got Pakistan, lots of different people. Even
in the Muslim countries,
we now have to change our mindset. We
have to have a a paradigm shift into
realizing the importance of
investing in, cultivating,
developing,
and and really creating more impact for organizations
like Islam 21 c.
You know, with what's going on with Gaza,
we've seen worldwide and globally
the effects of
so many people
being affected by this war. We've we've seen
people suffering, people being
dishonored, people's lives being taken.
And as a result, this has started to
wake the Ummah up. Right? You know, more
likely than not, the situation of Gaza has
made you a better Muslim. It's made you
see
the examples of young kids
on operating theaters, reciting Quran because there's no
anesthesia,
and they're using that as a. We're seeing
mothers give birth without anesthesia.
Right? A 180 women are giving birth every
single day inside, in in Palestine, in Gaza.
Okay?
They're going through immense difficulties. Some of the
areas are famine bound now. Many people are
suffering in ways we could not possibly imagine.
But despite those challenges, despite the hardship and
the the suffering,
what we see is that these young children,
they've taught us what it means to be
real Muslims. They've taught us what it means
to have iman, to have sabat, to have
forbearance.
They've taught us what it means
to
overcome travesties, calamities in the life and face
it on with Iman.
You know? And you're seeing this not from
not just from
grown elderly people who have developed their Islamicness
and their strong. We're seeing this from children.
You know? I saw a video of a
young boy. You know? He's he's covered in
blood and his brother, his younger brother is
on on a operating theater.
And he's telling his brother, he's saying, be
strong. Be strong. You know? Say
if
you think what were you like when you
were that age? Maybe what are our own
children even like? You know, may Allah protect
us and guide us and keep us all
strong, but but to have that that resilience,
that strength, that courage in those moments.
You know? The father
who's who's crying aloud and he's suffering and
he's covered in bandages from head to toe
from burn marks. And he's he turns to
his child and his child is
even more burned than him and he has
more bandages all over his body, and he
says, oh, father, be strong. Be strong.
Right? Victory will come, oh, father. We're I'm
fine. You be strong. Be strong.
You're overwhelmed. You're,
you know, like it's an inspiration for us.
And seeing this brothers and sisters, this is
meant to change us as a mummer. Allah
is trying to remind us that,
you know, the hardships that are going on,
be aware of them. Wake up. Islam shouldn't
just be, you know, it's a passive
belief. It's something that's meant to,
invigorate you. It's meant to wake you up.
It's meant to meant to make you take
action and fix the the ills in society.
It's meant to make you want to be
a part of the solution.
It's meant to make you want to
grow the religion, call the religion, establish the
religion. You know? And this is what you
have an opportunity for now right in front
of you. The 1,966
of you watching, we have about 25 minutes
left inshallah,
and we invite you. Give a pound, a
dollar, a euro. Give 10 if you if
you can. Give 20. Give 30. Give 50
if you can. We wanna get in the
next
few we're still waiting, I think, for the
we got some of the, like, payment, but
we're waiting for the 5
tens.
We're waiting for the 5 twenties that came
in. Now we've we've reached some of those
targets because but Asan gave
100.
Right? So that's
that's the 5 twenties, let's say. Okay? We
had Sammy who gave the 50 and Marie
who gave the 25.
So we need that 25 to complete that
target that we had. Let's get someone in
the next minute donate that that 25, and
then we can move on inshallah
to the next target for the last 25
minutes. Okay? So we need someone to call
in, right, or go on the website and
donate £25
for us to reach our target
and then we'll get a total amount.
And for the last 20, 25 minutes, we
can push on
So we got comments coming in still.
Right. So 50 word conversations going on there.
Tell Marshmallow
to save free Palestine. Can you do that?
Yeah. I just wanna know. Some, subtitles.
Gold to infinity,
do you speak?
Did you hear that? Woah. Last time. That
was sound effects.
So gold to infinity. I hope you could
translate that, but that was the cat version
of free Palestine.
So,
yeah, let's get some callers. We I still
want you to let one person to call
in. Right? Let's get that person to call
in Insha'Allah.
Asan, maybe you're listening. Masha'Allah. I think last
time you were in the Masjid and you
made,
oh, oh, okay. Let's see. We need, we
need 10 people donating £25.
10 people. So admin team in the background,
they're setting challenges. They're setting targets. You know,
one thing I noticed about the numbers, Saman,
is they they haven't gone down tonight at
all. Well, every time you said last time
you said that, the few people left.
Hey. No. I don't think they did. They
went down a few by a few numbers,
but there is one What about
that?
Sometimes we just down by 1 or 2.
There's always 1 or 2, you know, people's
Internet connection,
stuff like that. 1990 We're on 1993
now. The year I thought it was born.
19 93. Who's born in 93?
I'm joking.
You are not born. You're like you're close
to 50 now. Right,
Yeah. If you,
a decade or 2? A few a few,
a few,
years twice or three times.
Yeah. 1,
how many well, 1994.
I started high school in 1996. I don't
know if that's relevant or not. Does that
give away my age? I started in 97.
Oh, you're
gonna be? How did you know? I'm not
the most surprised.
No. It's very much so. My it's for
looks.
Anyway,
We're back with 993 now. Thanks.
992. That's goes up by 1 and 2.
Alright, brothers and sisters. Let's get some calls
in. 077-694-3414.
That's the number to call us in the
studio. Be the first. Be the first person
to call us in. Maybe someone wants to
speak to Marshmallow.
Right?
Also, I'd like to hear from you in
the,
what, in the the donation line, I guess.
So you can go,
the number's gonna come at the bottom of
the screen in a second. But until then,
islam21c.comforward/live.
We are there, brothers and sisters. So what
stands out to you as one of
the most successful
yeah. Give us a success story.
I don't even see it. I can think
of some, but I'm curious what you're gonna
say.
Well, I I'm really,
impressed with the the the team that they
they've done a huge,
revamp.
I've got some slides here showing you,
you know,
our new kind of products and platforms,
strategy.
So we've got we've we've split our products
into, guidance, news, podcasts, and campaigns.
So, you can see if you zoom in,
maybe you might have to zoom in your
screen, brothers and sisters, but I've got lots
of stuff in terms of articles, ebooks,
series, videos, shorts, in terms of Islamic guidance.
Our news, we've revamped our news section. We
don't do simply reporting news, but, no, we
we have,
Islamic scholars and subject matter experts comment on
and give an Islamic,
spin and interpretation
on, you know, the things that we should
be,
wary of happening in the, in the world
locally and around the Ummah.
We have our podcast,
the unscripted podcast, the old one,
long long running one, kind of lighthearted, entertaining
one,
quite, you know, jokes and stuff.
But an also a more, serious and to
the point podcast that we started a few
months ago called Empowered.
It's online like this, and we have campaigns
as well, the major and minor campaigns.
And the thing is we've done a complete
rebrand, you've got some statistics there, complete rebrand
in terms of, the look of the website,
and
the the actual articles themselves have changed. We
had a a big listening exercise
last, year, last year now.
We,
did a survey with 100 of our,
kind of,
audience members,
readers. We did interviews as well with people.
Let us know in the comments if you're
one of those people,
and we we listened to your feedback in
terms of what's what's really required now. So
we've got, generally our articles are shortened, and
they have some summaries on top, bullet points,
and also key action points at the bottom.
Because again,
our,
vision is about, you know, impact,
confidence and impact. So we want people to,
you know, leave with specific action points, you
know, when whenever it whatever the article topic
is.
Alhamdulillah.
And,
yeah, one of the campaigns coming up, I
was saying the other day,
We have not done another donation.
£100.
So,
yeah. One of the I was saying the
other day, one of the
the the benefits of, longevity and an an
organization that's almost 20 years old, I'll start
to vocalize that.
It has lots of processes and
and structures in place such as, you know,
new campaign initiation documents and research and so
forth. And, one of these has been done
for, the Palestine truth campaign where we aim
that we aim to tackle the lack of
knowledge, misinformation, and lots of Zionist propaganda as
Hamza was talking about. So this is, something
to keep, you an eye on. We also
have,
a very, very
powerful campaign in my, opinion, very close to
my heart, which is the power of the
Muslim woman campaign. A group of sisters
that are kind of leading the the dua
in their local areas among sisters and doing
circles and stuff and, on the forefront of
thinking. They've been throughout, you know, the Tarbia
programs, Sabeel, and so forth. They are taking
a lead on this, powerful Muslim woman campaign.
So we're looking we're looking forward to that.
It's launching in the next quarter,
Inshallah.
And,
I think I've got 2 of the same
PowerPoint.
But,
yeah. So those are the some of the
things that I'm really looking forward to in
show in terms of, like, say, you know,
coming up soon, also, the revamp, you know,
the success story, I would say. Because I've
seen I haven't been at some Assam Trust
here from the beginning. I mean, like I
mentioned, Hamza was here. I've been, you know,
involved in Assam Trust here from before I
even started, but I've seen lots of, you
know, design language and,
types of products and and and, content
that we do. And, it's really, you know,
really,
really heartening to see what's happening. We also
started a new,
a few new series on YouTube as well,
special actual proper YouTube videos. So one of
the Islamic thoughts series, you know, talking about
different topics from the to,
you know, to,
this James Webb Telescope discoveries to obviously, what's
happening in Gaza, the Pakistan elections, from an
Islamic thought kind of, spin in Islamic thought
kind of angle. So those have been getting
a lot of traction, Hamdul, and lots of
good feedback.
And,
not just feedback generally from people watching,
like in the comments, but from people I
see in the community, you know, imams, leaders,
khatebs,
scholars,
mashaikh, you know, they,
I went to the US a few months
ago to visit many, many different Mashaikh. We're
still in touch with today, alhamdulillah.
Pretty much all the Mashaikh were very you
know, have been following Sun Tzu and c
and benefited from it.
Even if not the the congregations, but the
imams and the and the and the and
so forth
are very,
you know, aware of,
Santras. And as I mentioned, you know, Khatib
getting in touch, Sheikh Haytham, for example, the
article coming out in a few hours, inshallah,
in the
morning. Yeah. You know, someone, I really really
wanna touch on that bit. I want people
to understand this point you just made in
a little bit more detail.
Because for some people that have I mean,
for the average person, maybe, we don't understand
the value, but it's it's like someone senior
senior in this I'm 21 c. Actually, it
was an external person, very, very
senior in the charity
consulting game.
And they said to me, you know what?
There's and this is how they put it.
These very interesting words. They said there's not
a mover or a shaker in the dua
scene. Okay? Referring to all the Duaat or
the Shmeshaya
or the even the Dua influences and so
on. They said there's no one really, what
they meant is there's no one really that's
significant
involved in the Dua except that they know
and utilize the work of Islam 21.
And then they illustrated the point to me
that this person
went to an Islamic convention.
Right, a global convention where people come and
meet to discuss, you know,
you know, Islamic issues affecting the Ummah globally.
One of these expos was in, I think
it was in Africa.
And
they went to the expo, and they had
world leaders,
politicians, policymakers,
influencers,
attend. And
so this person who who's a senior in
the in the charity sector, he came and
he he had a conversation with someone and
he just casually brought up a slump to
anyone see
and
this is a brother from an African country.
He's not he wouldn't be known to us.
He's he's a policy maker in that country.
You know he went through a term himself.
He's quite Islamic grounded,
but he is working in government and he's
trying to introduce policy.
And he says that he uses the articles
from Islam 21 c to put forward motions,
for
the benefit of the community, benefit of the
of
the of the country
based on articles that are slammed on the
stage writing.
Now I I personally find that very profound
knowing that one article,
one writer sitting down, writing an article, putting
thought, putting research into it,
clear objectives, clear understanding that he's trying to
bring about. And, of course, I might read
it as an average Muslim. Some might read
it. You know, any one of our of
our people commenting
might read it. And, you know, you'll take
benefit and you'll think, okay. Yeah. I can
try to do that. And you'll think no
more of it.
Whereas, Allah's plan is different.
Allah's taking this work,
giving it to people of influence, of power,
and putting it into
activities that are shaping society, that are changing
people, that are changing outcomes that will benefit
Muslims
or outcomes that will benefit society as a
whole. And that's what Islam is meant to
do. It's meant to bring solutions
to the wider society.
So the impact you can't undervalue. So when
we say less 10, 20, 50, £100,
then this is why because the work is
coming in.
Brothers,
your 2,000
and 55 of you watching
that you tuned in. As we come towards
an end in the last 14 minutes,
we've had, we've had £10 donations. We've had
20. We've had 50. We've had a 100.
But to get us closer to our target,
we're we're not I'd say we're maybe
1 9th, 1 10th maybe. Let's say 1
9th of the of the target tonight.
So what I need now is, in these
last 40 minutes, is I have to make
an appeal to you
that because we have not got close enough
to our target I need to ask some
of you
big big hitters out there, some of our
generous donors, some of our believers in the
cause,
supporters of the salah of 21 c, I
need to ask you to step forward now.
And I need you to to, InshaAllah, these
moments leading up to,
if not maybe already in where you are,
the last set of the night where Allah
comes down and is searching and asking
where are my servants so I can, you
know, give them forgiveness? Where are my souls
so I can answer the dua? Allah was
looking. Allah wants to
show his mercy on us.
And maybe through this act of supporting the
dawah, supporting
that which is most beloved to Allah says
in Quran who is better in speech than
the one who bites to La illaha illa
Allah. That's what, that's what we're doing, brothers
and sisters. That's what this organization is for.
So inshallah, come forward. I believe you got
some good news that just come in.
I I need a sound effect. Do you
have a how you can?
Okay. I need the Marshall, our brother lined
up for after this because we have we
have a
who's given £50.
Brother. That's the one. Sister.
That's
that sounds good. I like it.
Sister.
By the way, did you find out the
sound effect? There was the ew. Ew, brother.
Yeah.
Brother.
What's
that? What's that?
Oh, may I bless
may Allah bless me. He's a beautiful brother.
May Allah bless the brothers and sisters,
final moments. We're looking for the big hitters
now.
Keep the small, medium, and large donations coming
in, but I want someone to save the
show. I want someone to say, you know
what?
It's the last of nights. I've got a
feeling. It could be a little cut out.
I'm gonna search for it. I'm gonna sacrifice
for it. I'm gonna invest in it. I'm
gonna come forward and give £500 or I'm
gonna come forward. I'm gonna give 10,010,000.
Yeah. Why not? 10,000, 1,000.
Why not brothers and sisters? Charlie, you know
what? This, Saman, there's 2,086
people out there. How many on average do
you think could give more than 10,000 if
they wanted?
If they want to have capacity.
I think all of us, if we trust
in Allah. Oh, good answer,
Good answer. Masha'Allah, brother.
Masha'Allah, brother.
Okay. Yeah. Look. It's possible. All of us,
you know, if we wanted to, we can.
I'll give you an example of how. Right?
There was a,
a masjid in South London, right, that I
went to. We were doing a fundraiser there.
And I was asking people to give a
specific amount and I was focusing around the
amount of £1,500.
And I'm sure you've been to these events.
You put your hand up. I'll give it.
I'll give it. Right? And we go Some
hands go up in the heat of the
moment.
Yeah. I've seen your messages before.
Brothers and sisters once, right? This is years
ago.
So mom was doing it to cuff in
a masjid. Right? It, it was, a password
screen
and
and there was a a fundraiser,
right, for a charity. I was working for
the charity, I think, at the time, and
they were building houses for Syrian refugees, Masha'Allah.
And each house would have been maybe 5,000
somewhat? Yeah. I think so. Something like that.
So I got the funniest message from someone.
Someone says,
but,
brothers, what you
said, something that do you remember exactly what
you said? No. It was it was something
like,
words were said, mistakes made, how to put
up, basically, I owe 5,000 to a charity.
I need you all to do it. I
need you all to dig deep. Right? That
was the message and most unique one I've
ever seen,
Alhamdulillah. The, that's people who's, like, donating 1,000,
alhamdulillah. Because, you know,
you just you just make the intention, inshallah,
and Allah opens doors. Yeah. And that's the
point. I'm trying to tell people. Right? So
I'm in a masjid in South London. A
little boy comes up after with his auntie
or his mom or both, I think. And
they said, look, our our little boy here,
he's got something to tell you. I said,
no problem, girl. What's the issue? What's wrong?
So this little boy, Sayed, he's 8 years
old. He looks up at me, these big
kind of, like, you know, big eyes
feeling all bad and guilty. I said, what's
wrong, Sayed? He's like,
when I put my hand up for 1,500,
I thought you meant 1,500
pennies.
Okay?
So he didn't think it was pounds. He
does pennies. You know, kids, they deal with
pennies.
So he said, look, but inshallah, I'm gonna
do my best.
That boy, 8 years old, went away. And
2 weeks later he came back to my
office with £2,800
cash. Wow. So brothers and sisters, it is
possible. Right? When Saman says that of the
2,100
people here
and more probably,
then you can all do it. Yes. You
can. But the question I was asking is
to who has that money right now? Of
those 2,000 people,
I would say,
on average,
who let let's say,
5,000 or more, I'd say probably
at least a 100
at least a 100. Maybe 200 of those
2,000 can give that.
Okay? So I'm talking to the 100 out
there. I'm talking to you, Aisha.
I'm talking to you, Khattab.
I'm talking to you, Khaled. I'm talking to
you, Abdulrahman.
To you, Mariam, to you, Khadija. I'm talking
to you guys. If you can give that
money
before Ramadan, you know, goes, it's already fleeting.
It's going. It's leaving us before it goes
step forward inshallah and invest tonight.
Give to the intention of 1,000. Yeah. So
he say, get someone. Make the intention
within Ramadan inshallah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make the
intention. Say Allah, you know what? I can't
do it but I wanna do it. Open
a way for me. Make it easy.
Yeah. If Allah wanted to, he could have
that money in your account
tonight if Allah wanted to. But how sincere
is your intention?
How much is your will? How great is
your will? How much you will sacrifice?
So those who give a 1,000 give a
1,000. Those 500 give 500.
We know that, you know, fifties and a
100 and even twenties and tens, they'll come
through. Please keep those coming as well,
but we're looking for someone to save the
appeal inshallah. We've this is our I think
our 5th one now in the last 10
nights alhamdulillah. We didn't decide to do every
night,
and we didn't decide to do it all
night in the nights we're doing them. We
thought, let's do a couple of hours, give
the brothers and sisters an opportunity to invest
to support in Islam 21 c, and that
opportunity is right here right now, InshaAllah. So
let's get donating, InshaAllah.
Call us in the studio. No one's called
yet. We're feeling a bit lonely.
Hamzah's left us
and marshmallow. Marshmallow's left us as well. Call
us in 7769
433
414.
Go to the donation hotline.
We need to bring that donation hotline back
on the screen. Yeah. The team will skip
that up. 4 4 people donating,
£25 we need left. Let's go. Let's do
it. Where those 4 people let's get the
first one. Right? As we have How many
do we start off with?
Altogether?
Yeah. There's 44 left.
Four left.
I'm not sure. Let's just focus on those
4 for now.
Oh, 10.
10. We started with 10, and we need
4 left.
Yeah?
Oh, we have 4 left. So let's go.
We had a sister had just a
short while ago. Inshallah, we need you to
come forward with the comments now. Let's see
who's saying what. Sorry. I just saw a
message that, was sent when you were talking
about fish.
Yes. Well, I'm thinking of yeah. Yeah.
What are we playing?
You know what? I don't know. I can
I can't send that? I get awkward around
for months. Just wanna send that. That was.
You're gonna keep that one on your little
tab now. That's a good idea. You know?
I'm gonna save that.
What else? What else? Any suggestions? So someone's
got this device. I don't know what it's
called. I've seen them around.
But you can just basically you got buttons,
and each button you press, a sound bite
comes up. So let's, let's give let's give
an example, Simone. Let's go to the, brother.
Well, how about the,
yeah.
What else we got? Brother.
That's it. I like that one.
It's it's Oh, we got another one. We
did? For the donation. Oh, 3. Oh, 3.
4.
There we go. Let's we're waiting for a
name to come up on our screen.
This is the this is the Hamid Hayat.
Three people left now. Okay. So we got
we got we start with 10 people that
we asked to give £25.
We had got 7 of those,
and now we have 3 left.
We just had on a Hayat £25.
Takbid.
Can we get a natural Allahu Akbar? Not
not dachi, not a Takbid ones.
Please, someone call it. I tell you, if
we get a donation this worked last time.
If we get a £50
donation, we will not allow someone to play
that again for the rest of the night.
Okay? Yeah. Mute your mic now.
Who's mic? The rest of the night is
only 2 minutes. Yeah. That is still the
rest of the night.
Right. Three left in Charlotte. We need 3
people. Pay the 1 pound fish again. That
worked. Let's try it. Bring bring marshmallow back.
That's what we need.
Marshmallow has moved on to, better pastures.
I think she was getting some, better treatment
elsewhere. I need some tuna. You're going to
15 minutes of fame.
What what a 15 minutes it was.
Right. Three people
call in.
077-694-3414
to speak to us and let us know.
You You could be donating and go to
slam 21c.comforward/live.
Right, Saman. We're talking about Zionism tonight.
Yeah. It's very important we talk about these
topics. We challenge the narrative, challenge the propaganda,
challenge the the fake news out there. Alhamdulillah.
There's lots being spent,
lots of, you know, algorithms at play, bots
at play, challenging the truth, challenging.
I mean, it's the battle versus truth versus
falsehood, isn't it?
And that's why we have this campaign,
Palestine Truth. So brothers and sisters, get to
know about the work of Islam 21 c.
The work we're doing is immensely important.
Right? The what we're trying to do let's
go back there for a second, Samad. What
is it that we're trying to do?
We are trying to see Muslims empowered and
impacting the world.
You know, it's like, Hamzah said earlier that
the Prophet SAWH,
he himself
didn't have,
you know, a great monumental amount of Shahadas
considering how many Muslims there were at the
time. The Prophet
SAWHALLAHHSAM focused on building
the hearts and the minds of particular
people
so that they would go out and do
that. We're asking you to support us tonight
inshallah
so we can do the work that you
may be unable to do.
We educate and inspire Muslims with divine guidance
and solutions through transformational
digital
content.
I'm sure you've seen some of that with
the podcast, with the articles, with the news
feed,
and that's what we're trying to do. Okay.
Let's just look at some stats.
You know, I I I don't wanna get
people bogged down with stats right now. I
want I want people to take action because
we're showing them enough. They should know this
is a worthy cause. So as Saman goes
through those buttons and sisters, I'm gonna remind
you we have 2 minutes left and we
need 3 people
to support us by donating £25
each.
Right? The appeal's gonna come to an end.
You're gonna go back to your Quran. You're
gonna go back to your prayers, and you'll
probably forget about giving sadaqa. And what
a what a mess, what a catastrophe that
would be that you forgot to give sadaqa
on what could be laid into cover. The
prophet Muhammad
was described
as someone who used to give like the
wind, meaning it was constant, constantly giving, constantly
giving. And the wind, as we know, it
brings lots of benefit with it. It brings,
you know, it brings new seeds and scatters
them so they can grow and, you know,
continue
to offer benefit to the lands in the
same way the prophet would give and give
and give and brought benefits.
He brought benefit to the community. He brought
benefit to the Ummah. And Jibril alayhis salam
would descend from the 7th heaven down to
the earth
in Ramadan, and he would tell the prophet
to give salakat.
And if he forgot, if Sisi
forgot to give salakah, Jibreel will come down
and remind him.
He would remind him. So the same way
Jibreel Assam would would remind him to give
salakah,
I'm reminding you about the words of Allah
in the Quran where Allah says,
Allah Allah is mentioning a story, right, a
scenario
of when a believer will come,
his death is coming to him now. Death
has come and the believer says to Allah,
oh, Allah delay it, please delay it.
Hold back death so that I might go
back
and do and he mentions a specific deed.
Okay? So this person is about to die.
Right? Imagine a picture. This is Allah telling
you what you are going to be like
on the time of your death when it
comes. And mentally, you'll say, Allah, please, please,
please, one more deed, one more action, one
more thing that'll bring me closer to you.
I will forgive my sins.
And then if a person says, oh, let
me go back, does he say let me
go on Hajj, please? Great reward in that?
No. He says, oh, Allah, let me go
and speak out again, against an oppressor. Great
reward in it. Does he do that? No.
He says, Allah, let me go and pray.
There's a great reward in that. Is that
what it is? No. It's not. It's not
any of those other beautiful things that are
rewardable.
He says,
Let me go back so that I can
give
let me go back so that I can
give
and then he's continues and he says so
I can be from the righteous
And may Allah make Masha'Allah,
the brothers Masha'Allah, righteous,
this is righteous who are donating now. We
have someone anonymous who's given £50.
Doug
Beard.
Is that home? Say some Doug Beard. Is
that home?
Oh,
Oh, where the crowd go crazy.
Right. We have,
Amir Hayat again
has given £15. May Allah bless you, Amir.
No. There's 22
2 of those slots taken off the board,
so you got one left.
Let's go. Let's go. Just one more to
give £25,
inshallah. One more. So, brothers and sisters, we're
waiting for you. He's the last person. We've
overgrown our time.
We're gonna get that last donation inshallah. But
as we wait for it to come in,
we're gonna give some salaams. We're gonna do
some outros. I just wanna say for myself,
Zaklakar, it's been a pleasure to be invited
here, to be a part of this.
Saman, you've been a pleasure to be to
be work with you. Obviously, setting a high
example.
My background is more of a vintage look,
more of a a rustic home look with
some candles. I should have turned the lights
off actually. Maybe He's actually in a big
studio warehouse.
It's just gonna the wall's gonna just go
flat after you go there.
That would be hilarious. We So much for
that. You've outdone yourself
bookshelf.
With this lab 21 c branding colors and
the migration.
Even down to the cup.
Yep. Yeah.
Of course.
I know final reminder for myself,
you know, as as one of the the
great scholars, he said he said, don't just
search for the odd night in between the
pillars of the Masjid.
Right? Meaning, don't just don't just search for
your,
the the reward within your own Ibadah. And
he continued to mention a whole list of
things like, you know, feeding the hungry, clothing
the poor, and on and on and on.
The point he's mentioning is that look for
laila for qadr also in serving the ummah,
in benefiting the ummah. Because if they benefit,
you benefit.
The Muslim is a reflection for another Muslim.
If the Muslims are getting stronger
and rising
up and becoming closer to Allah, if one
of us is doing that, then we're all
doing it together. So we have to have
an Ummah centric perspective on life. It's not
enough that you get closer to Allah and
you, you know, do your own Ibadah, but
we have to try and elevate each other,
help development
work that they're doing to build the hearts
and minds of Muslims, build the development work
that they're doing to build the hearts and
minds of Muslims,
building
confident Muslims who are impacting the world. This
is what the prophet Muhammad SAWSOME did. This
was his whole
message, right? This is how we ended up
with the likes of Abu Bakr
by the 10 promised,
promised Jannah
and the 1,000 and 1,000 that came after
them as well. This is how we ended
up with the number that changed the world
from China to Russia, to Africa, to Asia.
This is how we changed the world because
Muslims,
they strengthened themselves, they built their hearts, they
built their minds, and they took action. So
may Allah make us all people of action.
May Allah allow us to utilize
the benefit of Islam 21 c
to change our lives and to change the
Ummah. And from my side
to everybody
we're still waiting for that £125.
I believe it's gonna go
it's gonna come in inshallah but while we
wait someone I'll hand it over to you
for the final remarks inshallah.
Brothers and sisters
and it's been a pleasure
Just I forgot to actually look at our,
Instagram,
comments and stuff because Same with you. Same
with you. Kind of separate things. Just to
remind, brother and sister, if you're on Instagram
and watching this, do the little click the
little share button and put it on your,
stories as well. Some of the brothers and
sisters were doing that before. And seeing going
through your stories. You're doing a great job
sharing. You can add little quotes and stuff
like that.
And, yeah,
brothers and sisters.
Shall we shall we end it there, Tariq?
Shall we, what should we do? Yeah. I'm
sure inshallah the the the one is gonna
come in anyway inshallah. You know what? I've
learned something in this Ramadan. It always
does. Yeah. It always does. The Ummah always
respond.
So may Allah bless you, brothers and sisters.
The link is there. Islam21c.comforward/live.
Just go on there. Put your details then.
You know what? We don't just want that
125. I'm sure more will come in as
well. So for the rest of you, 2,234
beautiful souls. May Allah honor you. May Allah
accept your Ibadah tonight. I mean, I mean
you next time. Keep supporting our work. Keep
following and benefiting as well, Inshallah.
And for myself, for Saman, and, of course,
Hamza has left us, and not to mention,
We'll see you next time, inshallah.
Brothers and sisters. And remember, if you're watching
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touch with us. Until next time. I've been,
Samamba. This has been Tarek Sheikh. Hamza has
been Hamza as always.
Just before we're about to finish,
Masha Allah.
We should Yes. We're the ladies. Amazing. Masha'allah.
I just need to know. I hope it's
gone through because it's been taken back out.
For everyone, may I bless you all. We
Take care, bro.
Take care, bro.