Ibrahim Hindy – Racism Within The Community

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The conversation covers the negative impact of systemic racism on Muslims, including the use of "oppression and injustice" and the struggles of the Islamist movement. The speakers emphasize the importance of seeking acceptance and understanding of different worldview and the potential for systemic racism to affect one's experiences and experiences with police. They also discuss the use of negative language to assert one's political stance and demand actions, as well as the importance of educating oneself and finding a better way to be included in one's own experiences and struggles. The conversation also touches on the struggles of Islamist movement and the need for deeds to better than past experiences.

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			Last week, we discussed the concept of justice and oppression in Islam, and our need as Muslims to
stand up against injustice and to stand up against oppression and to recognize oppression and
injustice and to oppose it.
		
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			Today inshallah I want to discuss, in general the concept of racism, and particularly how it
influences us, and how we react to it.
		
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			And it's something that we should be thinking about, particularly as we see these events that are
unfolding across the world and primarily across the United States.
		
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			In 2016, there was a case
		
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			of a man in the United States, his name was Keith Lamont Smith.
		
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			And, you know, you may be you heard of his name, and maybe you heard of his case was penalised one
name of a number of names. Unfortunately, they have had the same ultimate result that he ended up
having this man would drive to the bus stop. And he would wait for his child to come every day, pick
them up from school at that bus stop.
		
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			And he had a medical condition which would make him not be able to sit under the sun. So he would
park his car where there was shade. And he would read a book. And he would do this every day. And
one particular day in this story, like in many other stories, police happened to be there one day,
and they miss took the book in his hand for a gun or so they said and they killed them.
		
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			Later on, his mother was asked by the media, what book was he reading? And she said he was reading
the Quran. That was the book that he would read.
		
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			And this story illustrates a number of points. Number one is that the stories we see throughout the
United States and the end here in Canada as well. These stories of systemic racism, particularly at
the hands of law enforcement, it's something that deeply affects our own Muslim brothers and
sisters. Some Muslims think this has to do with non Muslims like this is a non Muslim issue. The non
Muslim United States, the white United States against the non Muslim black United States, and the
reality is, many black people happen to be Muslim. In fact, in the United States, a third of the
Muslims in the United States are Muslim. And in Canada, a large number of Muslims here as well are
		
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			black as well. But we don't know exactly their percentage I don't I couldn't find exactly their
percentage. So the racism that exists affects our own Muslim brothers and sisters. Those who are
have rights upon us as the prophets I said, I mentioned the six rights of the brother upon the
brother. That's one issue that we need to understand and realize the second issues is to understand
and to realize that there are different worlds out there. And one popular question a lot of young
people like to ask these days, you know, there's times of popular questions. One popular question
that we tend to get is, you know, teenagers or young adults and they ask, Is there something called
		
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			the multiverse, multiverse idea that you have parallel universes. So there's this universe, that
there's another universe and another universe, this earth and another Earth? And, you know, it's
interesting because there is multiple universes within our own existence here. Like the universe
that I experienced, or that you might experience might be completely different than somebody else's
experience. You might be in the masjid. And you say, Look, I'm praying, I'm an Arab and I'm praying
and next to me is
		
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			dc in next to him as a black person, and you know, we're all together in the message. But when you
leave the masjid, your experiences, your universe might be completely different than their universe.
You know, if the police pull you over, it's annoying, and maybe they're going to be rude to you. But
that's all it really is. And for them, you know, the black Muslim brothers and sisters that are
interested for them, when they meet the police, they might be thinking, I'm gonna die today, that
might be what's going through their head. So there's a different reality, there's a different
universe that we experienced versus what they experienced. And the only difference between us really
		
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			is the skin color. And you know, we complain about Islamophobia. Whenever we see Islamophobia. We
complain about it, about the words that sometimes they say to us, because we are Muslim, the insults
they make against our religion against our Prophet, the things that they you know, the image that
they paint us as being dangerous as being extremists, as being radicals. We complain about
discrimination, we go to travel, and they put us through extra security checks and things like that.
But, you know, Rosa Parks had to fight to be able to sit on the bus. In Canada, viola Desmond, she,
you know, refused to leave the whites only movie theater in Canada, and was arrested and thrown in
		
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			prison. Because of that. There was one minority that took the brunt of oppression and racism. And
because of the struggles that they did, out there, the racism and the discrimination that we face is
a lot less, because of the struggles of people like Viola Desmond of Rosa Parks of Martin Luther
King of Malcolm X, and many, many other people because of their struggles. Yes, we have to face
discrimination, but it's a lot less because of what they did.
		
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			And so as we see, and we reflect over the murder of George Floyd, or the murder of Ahmed arbury, and
many other people have been killed unjustly in the United States, like, keep them on Scotland we
just talked about, we have a collective tendency to feel smug. Right to feel a certain level of, you
know, that's not us. That as Canadians we look at, and we say that's an American problem. The truth
is, the same dynamics that exist in the United States, by and large exist, even here in Canada. Four
years ago, I believe there was a Muslim brother in Ottawa, his name was, um, the document ID. And he
suffered from mental health struggles. And he was in the store. And for some reason, they called the
		
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			police on him. And the police when they came to arrest him, they beat him until he died. This
happened in Canada to a Muslim, a black Muslim, here. And so and that's just one story of many
stories of the brutality that sometimes black people faced in the hands of law enforcement, even in
Canada. And even in Canada, when the police do something like this, who investigates it, the police
investigate the police. And so there's very few cases where the police are held accountable for
these kinds of deeds. But we also become smug as Muslims, that we think that these are the problems
of the kofod. And we're not like that. And a lot of Muslims will say, there's no racism in Islam.
		
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			There's no racism in Islam. Look, the prophet said, there's no preference for the Arab over the non
Arab there's no preference for the black for the white over the black but Prophet said this. There's
no racism in Islam. Look, I come to the masjid. And I pray next to the Pakistani brother and the
Bangladeshi brother and the black brother and we're all together in the masjid together. This is
true.
		
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			And it's true. There's no racism in Islam. But there isn't, that does not mean that there is no
racism in Muslims.
		
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			And using the slogan there's no racism in Islam, sometimes it's used as a way to distract from the
fact that there is racism within our community.
		
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			Look, there's no gossip in Islam. There's no backbiting in Islam. There's no cheating in Islam.
There's no lying in Islam. But do these characteristics exist amongst Muslims? do sometimes
gossiping happens in the masjid? Does backbiting happen sometimes in the masjid is lying sometimes
happening even in the messages within our communities? Of course they do. And the prophets have a
long way to send them himself and even a Muslim. He says autobiography on my team and men mdj, Leia,
Leia tupuna, when he said there's four things from the affairs of Jackie Nia, in my own man.
		
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			He says in my own Murphy Almighty, that will never be abandoned. They will they will always stay and
are my own. What is it? I'll fulfill?
		
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			The first two things he mentioned, bragging about one's status and insulting the others ancestry.
bragging about your own style. Our tribe is the best our clan is the best. rmsf is the best. And his
message is the worst. My lineage is the best in his lineage is the worst, which is basically what
tribalism is what racism is. It's all based on the same premise. So the two things that I mentioned
mentioned for the other is seeking rain from the stars, we can go out to the stars for rain, and the
third is wailing and tragedy. So you mentioned these four things as it will never leave our home.
And two of them have to do with racism. One is the pride of
		
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			If you, you know, a supremacy of your lineage of your tribe over their tribe, and the other is you
insult their tribe, oh, all those black people are like this. All those Egyptians are like this, all
those Pakistanis are like this, all those of these people are like this. This is a thoughtful
answer, because all the props that I send them said, and it's from the more of Jacksonian and Unreal
jania. It's from the affairs of jeconiah. And so there's a certain arrogance and smugness that we
have that when we look at the murder of George Floyd. It's terrible what he did to him. Look at how
brutal how nasty these Americans are. But if George Floyd was a Muslim, and he came into the masjid,
		
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			now ask yourself, we have to ask ourselves, honestly, sincerely, how would he be treated? You know,
if he was a Muslim, attending our misery with everyone else, would he be looked at with suspicion?
would people be looking at him like he's dangerous, a big guy. And he's black, and you feel like,
Oh, you feel threatened by him. Because some people have that mentality when they see others like
that. And there's a study done by the Institute for Social Policy and understanding and it studied,
did a bull pool with black Muslims and said black Muslims are as likely to experience racism, and
discrimination from within their own religious community, meaning from other Muslims, as they are
		
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			from outside of their community. And so if something goes missing in the masjid, are we more likely
to be suspicious that it was a black kid who stole it versus an Arab kid or another kid are way more
likely to feel less comfortable if the person leading celada is black, or reformed, more likely to
feel less comfortable, less certain of their knowledge, if the person teaching Hadeeth happens to be
black. And this attitude is something I personally have seen within our community. Sometimes it's
unconscious, like the person who is making these statements or seeing this or kind of getting
towards that unconsciously they're thinking this, you know, they don't even realize what they're
		
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			doing what they're saying, but the effects are deep in their mind, they have this attitude. And we
had an incident, not really an incident. But an issue recently, because we are measured, along with
many other massages, have a policy based on Philip, you know, the strongest opinion of the scholars
is that we follow global moon sighting, if the moon is seen anywhere in the world. And there is,
		
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			you know, relative certainty in the Shahada, and the testimony the person is saying is trust is
trustworthy is honest. If the people of that country say that this person is honest, then we follow
it. And we don't take calculations. And this is considered the strongest opinion amongst the fuqaha.
Throughout the history of Islam. This is a deeper topic. But that has always been our principal.
This year was the first year, first year I can ever remember that the African countries saw the moon
and Saudi Arabia and the other countries did not see the moon.
		
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			So we follow the African countries because our principles, anybody who sees it, we're going to
follow it.
		
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			And some of the comments, not all but some of the some people didn't understand some people didn't
agree. You know, they said we should follow local moon sighting. And that's the opinion of the chef.
But the majority of scholars they follow global citing some of the comments I got, were very
disturbing. Some comments were I don't want to follow these African nations. Other comments, I
received her comments like I will only follow if it's seen in the Middle East, or if it's seen in
North America, by Why do you want to ignore all of the brothers and sisters who are in Africa, when
I have the entire country of Mauritania, we all have the rellena were there. And 40 different
		
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			earlier men in Mauritania roads that they saw the moon. Now whether you really saw it, or they
didn't see it, they wrote this and our principles we accept. We accept the Shahada, we give
preference to the Shahada of a Muslim over anything else, including calculations. That's our
principle. Why should I reject it? Last year, Saudi Arabia saw the moon and the calculation said
they couldn't see it. We accepted their Shahada, because that's our principle to accept Shahada.
Right, but nobody said Why are we following Saudi Arabia? Why are you following Kuwait? Why are you
following Egypt? Nobody said that. And this year, all of a sudden, why are you following Somalia?
		
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			Why are you following Mauritania? Right. And that's a question that people have to ask themselves.
Where is that coming from?
		
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			I was disturbed with some of those comments. And there's more egregious forms of discrimination and
racism in our community.
		
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			When some people call black people abs, or in order to do I know sometimes they call them
		
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			cabinet. In other words like this, these are derogatory terms. And of course, they say behind their
backs, when they refer to the black person, they call them abs. They won't say it in front of them.
		
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			And sometimes when you call them and you say, How can you say this? How can you call them out? This
is not racist. All of us are also the law.
		
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			Officer Abdullah.
		
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			Okay, look at this example. And we thought about the long run.
		
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			got into an argument with bilateral the long run. What did he call him? Is that Yeah, so dad, oh,
son of a black woman
		
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			was the son of a black woman? Yes, of course. He's the son of a black woman.
		
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			And when you say, is he Abdullah, of course he's active a lot. But what do you intend and what did
you intend? And be that God's upset? He went to the prophets. I said, let me say Dr. Silva, he said
this about me. What did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam say to her without her? He said in the
C'mon, he can enjoy helia He said, You are a man who has a new subject.
		
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			Even though what he said, technically is true, technically be that is the son of a black woman. What
did he mean by that? his intent was to insult him, just like the intent of some people in the Arab
community when they call the black person if it's their intent is to say your kind is suited to be
abotu suited to be a slave.
		
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			And the Prophet recognize this, he understood it. He said, Oh, I thought of you have some jeconiah
in you. And I will throw the alarm to his credit when he heard this from the prophets. I send them
What did he do? He put his head on the floor in the dirt. And he said, Oh, be like put your foot on
my head. He felt so bad. Put your foot on my head and be laterally along Of course did not do so.
But forgive him. Unless paradises Yeah, you will. Edina Avenue is for Coleman and homie, NASA and
you're cool to me, means that let's not a people ridicule and other people, perhaps they may be
better than them. And so when we speak about racism, sometimes the reaction is always, but I'm not a
		
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			racist. I'm not a racist.
		
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			And I think sometimes people have the perception of racism. Like what do they think a racist is?
They think a racist is, you know, a kkk member. He's got the hood on. And he wants to kill black
people. Or when they think of a racist, they think of the cop who has his knee on the neck of George
Floyd, who sees him dying, has his hands in his pocket doesn't even care to do anything about it.
		
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			But racism is a spectrum. The Prophet solo everything, what did he say to everybody? In the FECA?
With a JD, you have some Jackie D and you in the moment? and Jackie, do you have some Jackie in you?
Meaning he doesn't mean that you have to be a full on racist, but you could have some aspects of JD
of ignorance within you. And the other one doesn't respond to the province they No, no, but I'm not
a racist.
		
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			Right. So sometimes we use this slogan to say I'm not a racist, to defend ourselves. We're using it
to shut down the conversation. We're using it to reject the possibility that maybe we harmed other
people with our actions and with our words, instead, our reaction needs to be similar to the
reaction of above or the last one, which is what, when he's confronted with the fact that he acted
with racism, what does he do? He shows humility. He puts His head on the floor. He says, oh, beat I
put your foot on my head. You know, he feels bad about what he's done. He wants to be allowed to
take retribution. And he puts his head in the dust in the dirt, because he realized when he was
		
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			being racist, or when he said something that was racist, he was showing some arrogance. So how do
you counter the arrogance? You counter it with humility. He puts His head in the dirt to say I want
to show humility or be that I'm trying to show some humility. And so there's a strong intersect here
between what we call racism and between what is arrogance. You know that we can easily draw the
similarities between the racism between what is racism and between the actions of a police when he
refused to Prostrate to Adam Madison on color Kala Anna Hi, Roman. Hi, Dr. Nieman. Now.
		
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			He says I am better than him. Right? This is the call of the racist I'm better than him. I am
inherently better than him because I'm white because I'm Arab because I'm this I'm inherently better
than him. Hello, Putin even now You created me all off from fire. You created him from clay. And so
it bleeds sees that his kind his species of gin are inherently better than mankind, and he refuses
to make such that. It Lisa was stockmar Allah says acceptably, all of the meats good except at least
Abella? stockmar he was arrogant and he was prideful. Well can the minute caffeine news of those who
rejected a last panel Tada. So he made a determination and beliefs based on what he considers to be
		
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			important to him that the jinn are better than mankind. And the angels themselves they don't
understand.
		
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			The angels don't understand. Why should we prostrate to mankind?
		
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			But what do they do condusive Hannukah in Manila in the Magnum Tina, they have humility and they say
Oh Allah, you know better than we know.
		
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			You have knowledge you only knowledge we have is the knowledge you gave us. Right? And they
prostrate because they have humility. And from that humility, they learn. In the beginning, they're
confused, but they show humility to the, for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. And because of that
they learn. So sometimes when we say, but I'm not racist, we're closer to at least than we are to
the angels, because we're not even entertaining the possibility that maybe we might be wrong. Maybe
we might be harming other people. Maybe we might be acting with ignorance.
		
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			And so it's unhealthy for us to always say, but I'm not racist. And I say this myself, I might have
without even realizing some racist understandings. I have to educate myself, I have to learn myself.
And if I do something wrong, I don't want to say but I'm not racist. I would rather say, Maybe I'm
wrong. How can I learn? How can I find out? Maybe I did something wrong. Maybe I'm misunderstanding
something. Maybe I'm thinking something prejudicial about others. How can I better myself, show
humility, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, metal, metal, hardened lava. Nobody shows
humility before a large relics of the lower reason that person, right. And so by showing humility,
		
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			realizing, hey, I might be wrong, I might be thinking some I might have some Gemini in me.
		
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			That's the way to remove the jeconiah within us, like Abu Dhabi along line ultimately does. And so
when developed knowledgeable Muslims who are black, they tell us, hey, brothers, hey, sisters in
this manner, your actions, your statement has treated us unfairly. It is unjust to us. Don't slam
the door in their face by saying I'm not a racist. Rather show humility in front of a loss penalty,
I might be wrong. Let me listen. Let me learn. Let me try to understand why I might be wrong.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in the La Liga, and Alberto had said if I had, what I
believe,
		
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			the prophet will love where he was. And he said, Indeed, Allah revealed to me What did Allah
revealed him, and that you should show humility, until Not a single one of you will boast against
another, and not a single one of you will oppress another. And this hadith makes it sound like
arrogance, the opposite of humility. pridefulness This is the crux of every evil that it bleeds
begins, his crew for of Allah subhanaw taala with arrogance, and with thinking that his kind is
better than Adam. And even the opposition of our profits in the long run reason was the greatest
opponent of our Prophet, Elijah, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam whenever he was killed and he looks
		
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			at his body. He says, had fear I want to have an oma he says this is the crown of this oma Abuja,
Abuja who fought the Prophet sallallahu. How do you send them every possible way? He could fight the
Prophet persecuting the Muslims torturing the Muslims killing Muslims.
		
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			Now there's a story about Apple Jad that one day, Abu Sufyan in Abuja, *, and a lochness image,
right, three of the wish the corner, they wanted to hear the end, what is the poor and what is it
about? So all three of them separately, went to the house of the prophet in the middle of the night,
because they know the prophets of the Lord said, embrace 200. And he recites put an ad tonight, so
they want to hear what is this quarter and so they go to his house, and all they want to listen. And
lo and behold, they see each other there. So they say to each other, we can't come back. If people
find out we come to here, and we're going to be in trouble. But the next day, alumnus he goes to Abu
		
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			Sufyan, he asks him you heard the poor and what did you think about Sofia and says, I heard some of
it I understood and it was beautiful. Some of the I did not understand what it meant. Then he went
to Abuja, he says, oh, Abuja or what have you heard the Quran? What did you think of it? And so Abu
Jamal was honest.
		
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			He went straight to the point. He said to him,
		
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			no weapon where I'm dumb enough. He says us meaning my tribe, and Ben were abdomen after tribal the
prophecy is lm tenez. And now we're always competing with each other.
		
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			They fed the hungry, so we would feed the hungry.
		
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			Well, how many fishermen and they carried the goods and brought the goods to people we brought the
goods to people why to file cleaner and they gave charity we gave charity as well. He said until we
became like two horses, you know, two horses in the race. One horse the notice comes before then the
other horse of the road, and they're coming back and forth as the racing with each other. He says we
were like two horses in the race. And then we're about to finish the race. What is this race this
race is for shut off to NASA gonna be shut off. We were
		
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			racing for honor, reputation status. He says until we're about to finish the race, car Lumina v.
then they said we have a profit amongst us. How are we going to compete with the profit
		
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			Abuja and his motivations are very clear. He wants to establish the supremacy of Ben Omaha zoo, over
the tribe of the Prophet brainwashing and been robbed him enough.
		
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			And his motivation against the Prophet sentiment against Islam as he wants to prove his tribe is
better than their tribe. And this is a lesson for us to realize the greatest enemies of a lot from
the least of which is to figure out all of it is based on what they're motivated with pridefulness
with arrogance, wanting to prove the supremacy of their kind, their clan, their species, their race,
and in the end, ultimately, it is a spiritual disease. When two of the Sahaba in Medina, two young
kids began fighting with each other. One of them was from the unsought, the other ones from the from
the mahadji when they got into a fight about something petty, and then the one who was from the
		
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			unsought who said, Oh, you from the inside Come help me. And the one from him had you don't call
dogs at all you from them, why'd you come out me? And the profits alarm Has anyone heard this? He
said, Now that is our Jackie, what is wrong with you that you are making the call of Jackie Leah,
you're calling to your tribes fighting because of your tribes fighting because of where you came
from. And then he said there will have in Montana, he says, leave this abandon this, because this is
something that is rotten. This is something that rots and decays and is disgusting and filthy. This
mentality is the mentality of abuse of a * for hours, and it destroys our spirituality. And so
		
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			when we are dealing with this issue of racism and trying to explore to recognize it, we have to
realize it could be within us. And we have to try to deal with it and try to remove it from
ourselves and try to have humility so that a lot of zildjian removes any arrogance that we have in
our hearts. And the Prophet sallallahu Sallam said, none of you will enter agenda, the one who has
even an atom's weight of arrogance in their hearts We ask Allah subhanaw taala to remove any
arrogance from our hearts and to bring us unity with all our brothers and sisters felco nobody had
there was stuff nobody would have from stuff through in order for him.
		
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			allowed him to DLL Soto sonamarg to learn early he was so happy he Omen Wada roboshot, he saw that
he recently dropped the assignee of Cody. inshallah, I just want to mention a few tips as we move
forward what we can do to find a better way forward for ourselves. And the first thing that we can
do is to educate ourselves to learn about each other to learn about our backgrounds, our experiences
and our struggles. And Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, Nia us in the hunt of an upcoming
decade in Monza with jamnagar Ruben what Baba Illa Lita Rasul Allah subhanaw taala says, oh,
humanity, we created you from a single male and female and made you into communities and tribes for
		
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			what reason Allah Lita, our food, you can know each other, that you can learn from each other. In a
Chromebook Amanda lie at Qualcomm, the one amongst you who has the most honor in the sight of a loss
of data is the one who has the greatest level of taqwa. And so when we have ignorance of each other,
it leads room to misunderstanding to intolerance to unfair treatment of each other. And it's
important for us to try to learn to read books to understand the history of what it is that we are
dealing with, or what it is that our brothers and sisters are dealing with. You know, sometimes
there are very unhelpful comments. I don't want to go too long. But sometimes, you know, brothers
		
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			will be like, I'll give you an example of Palestinian brother once. We're talking about the
struggles of other people. And he's saying,
		
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			you know, he says, I love you know, black people come to the masjid, I pray with people who are
black, I have no problem with them. But you know, they're full of drugs, and they're full of Xena.
And they're full of this and they're full of that. And this is a type of mentality that is common. I
said, say what if people would say about the Palestinians you know, I like the Palestinians, but
they're always fighting each other and killing each other and and backstabbing each other and things
like this. And he's, well you don't understand what happened to us. You don't understand the history
of what happened to us as it likewise you don't understand the history of what happened as well to
		
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			black people. And first of all, those are prejudices. You know, most black people are not the
children of Xena would either be law and then on top of that, look at what has happened to them over
the history, look at the policies that the government put in place to break up the black family.
Right so as you educate yourself, you're gonna have more empathy, you're gonna have more compassion,
you're gonna understand, okay, they came there's something that there's a reason why they're in a
situation that they're they are in and we can learn from that and be able to help them inshallah
again, still struggles and a lot of Muslims of course, read the biography of Malcolm X, but there's
		
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			a lot of great resources inshallah, for us.
		
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			To gain knowledge, there's also a great documentary on Netflix called the 13th. And it talks about
the Jim Crow era, and a lot of the policies from slavery and how it affects black people even today.
And so if you want to understand better take the opportunity to educate yourself and gain more
appreciation and knowledge of the history that black people have endured in Canada and the United
States. The second is to seek accommodation to try to accommodate one another, to make each other
feel included in our massage and included in our events to make each other feel more welcome. That
we cannot be the people who in the last hour or so do not answer we love those who repel reject
		
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			people from the path of a lot. We need to be the people who invite others to the path of a lot. You
know, there are people who left Islam, you know, someone told me a story of someone who,
unfortunately, he went to a Muslim country, he was trying to learn from a share. And the sheriff
said about the black people in his area, he called them a bad he called them leads. And that hurt
him so much that he even for a short period of time left Islam, because he was a new Muslim, and he
sees the shift being racist to other black people, and it hurt him so much. So sometimes the way
that we act can repel people so much to the point that they might even leave Islam. And that's
		
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			something on us we need to be those who are inviting others to the path of Allah not rejecting them
from the path of Allah subhana wa Tada. And third, ultimately, racism is a spiritual problem first
and foremost. And so we need to turn to Allah subhana wa tada to ask him for guidance, to ask him
for courage to be able to deal with these issues that we might have within our own selves, and to do
true has true self accounting to take ourselves to account. What did I do that might have harmed
other people? What action may I might have said or taken that might have hurt others around me, and
how can I improve myself and how can I make sure that inshallah tomorrow my deeds will be better
		
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			than they were yesterday, this is the attitude of the believer, as Bob said, has simple and physical
ability to have simple take yourself to account before you were taken to account. And we asked the
last panel to add it to make us of those who have bettered ourselves and those who have tried to
bring justice and empathy in our community in the law in the law.