Khalid Yasin – Sky Views 03 11 2019

			hamdulillah salat wa salam ala rasulillah
		

			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		

			the brothers and sisters, this is your brother shakalaka, she is speaking to you on my Facebook Live
platform.
		

			This is another episode called sky views.
		

			And make no mistake, Sky views are my views. No one is responsible for what I have to say except
myself.
		

			I try my best to be sincere, straightforward and to keep it real. And today I have a special
message. You know, it almost likes like I have to, like, get something off my chest.
		

			My message today, you know, it has to do with
		

			Muslims, who are first or second generation. Adams, Asians and Africans are Muslim brothers
		

			who first or second generation Muslims from another country have a different social reality who have
		

			immigrated to America. They have built Masjid, they have had children, families built their
communities. And they are our Muslim brothers and sisters that we have interacted with for the last
50 years. So there's no issue of necessarily that we are prejudice or that we are polarized, or you
know that we have some kind of African American nationalism, about ourselves, because we want to be,
we want to treat certain issues in a very distinct way.
		

			And it seems like every time that
		

			I come on Facebook live, and I start addressing something which is relevant to the urban reality in
America, something that is relevant to the African American reality, something that's relevant for
the new Muslims here in America. It seems like every time I get online, and I'm talking about
something, from my perspective, dishing out medicine, or prescriptions, for the most part for new
Muslims, you know, some different brothers and or sisters, mostly brothers, they they have an issue.
		

			You know, we're not Islamic enough.
		

			You know, we're not understanding the core, and
		

			you will not understanding the sooner,
		

			you know, we'll we're violating or deviating from the Islamic rules. You know, our understanding is
not correct. You know, we're not,
		

			we're not subscribing to the, quote unquote, scholars whom they are familiar with. Or for that
matter, we're not subscribing to the mainstream understandings of Islam. When it comes to certain
issues.
		

			Well,
		

			they have a point. But that's all they have their own point, their own perspective. So in this
particular talk, because I know some of you are listening right now, and most of you, you have a
habit, you know that before you hear what has to be said, You can't wait. So you start commenting
right away? Well, for those of you who just like to comment, without hearing the entire
presentation, guess what? Today, I'm taking off the gloves. Now, if you don't know what that means,
go to shake Google and ask him what that terminology, I'm taking off the gloves. What that is, in
our vernacular, it means that I'm not going to be soft today. You know, I'm going hard. I'm going
		

			rough. I'm getting a little graphic today. So you know, I'm not even got my coffee on today. So I
want to let you know that I might say something that you really don't like, but guess what, it's not
really going to matter. Because I'm saying what I believe is appropriate and necessary.
		

			You know,
		

			at any given time, this is a research that was done by a German revert Muslim. And I want to make
reference to this. This research to get across the point.
		

			This German revert Muslim said at any given time, there are at anytime at any given time of night or
day because of the variation of times there are 20 million
		

			Muslims
		

			in the world.
		

			Muslim countries that are sitting in some shisha place, smoking, shisha. Now, if you don't know what
shisha is, then you know that don't even worry about it. But guess what? The majority of Muslims
they know what shisha is. whether they've been on Hajj or Umrah, or they've been to Egypt, or
they've been to Saudi Arabia, or they've been to Pakistan, or they've been to Egypt, or they've been
to Bangladesh, or they've been to the Gulf countries, or anywhere in the Muslim world, they know
what shisha is. It's a pipe,
		

			you know, was a long cord.
		

			And they burned the cold until it becomes red.
		

			And then after that, they put some kind of tobacco or fruit leaves or some other kind of substances
on that cone, and they pull on it, and they, they blow in the air. It's called Hubli bubbly.
		

			It's called shisha. They have some other names. This German researcher said, he's a Muslim, by the
way.
		

			At any given time, there are 20 million people. And he did this research about six years ago. So it
could be 30 million. He said that there are at least 20 million Muslims who are sitting in the
places smoking shisha
		

			on an average of three hours a day. So three times 20 million. That's 60 million hours. He said they
spend on an average the equivalent of 10 American dollars every time they sit down. So 10 American
dollars, times 20 million people. Well, you know, that is, that's $200 million a day.
		

			He said, and they are watching sports, soccer, music,
		

			whatever, MTV. They're just watching TV, eating, smoking, drinking, fruit drinks, tea, whatever
they're doing. But he says they're spending three hours a day. And they're spending the equivalent
of $10 each time they sit. So look, do the math. 200 million is spent a day times seven.
		

			That's 1.4 million. I mean, that's 1.4 billion. That's a week. So do that four times. That's $4.8
billion
		

			a month.
		

			That's 60 million hours, human hours, Muslim hours a day.
		

			times seven. That's 420 Muslim hours a week. So do the math times for that 1600 and 80 million human
hours. Now.
		

			I haven't seen a fatwa.
		

			I haven't seen any comments. I didn't hear any, any discussions on this issue by the major people
that give dour. I didn't hear any fatwas, from any of the major people that talk about Islam, who's
supposed to be the major scholars. I didn't hear anything about that.
		

			We don't hear any thing about that advising the young Muslims and advising the older Muslims that
this substance that they're smoking, what is it the time that they're spending? What is it the money
that they're wasting? What is it and the music that they listen to? Or the soccer that they listen
to? Or the sports that they're watching? Or the footwear hitch that they might be watching? What is
it? I don't hear the scholars saying anything? In fact, we don't even hear whisper
		

			into cook bars on Friday.
		

			We don't hear any anybody get on the member and even mentioned that.
		

			Because this phenomenon, by the way, this shisha smoking, this didn't come from the new Muslims. The
shisha smoking. This came from the Muslims, especially in the places where the majority of the
scholars reside, this where it came from, and they brought it to America. This is a phenomena they
brought to America.
		

			Now, let me give you another statistic.
		

			The majority of the alcohol
		

			sold in America, in liquor stores, in grocery stores, the majority of the beer and the alcohol that
is sold
		

			The majority of the lottery tickets that is sold is sold by Muslims.
		

			I'm talking about here in America now.
		

			The majority of the neighborhood stores that you might call bacala.
		

			You know, grocery stores, little small stores, I'm not gonna get into the ethnicity of the people
who own these doors, I'll say that they are Muslims. And they purposely put their stores in urban
neighborhoods. And they sell the alcohol. And they sell the lottery tickets, and they sell the
cigarettes. And they sell all the apparatus for drug paraphernalia, they selling it Muslims. And I
say that the majority of these stores, these little
		

			belong to Muslims.
		

			These two statistics that I just want to drop on you right quick. Now, these are Muslims who came
from Muslim countries. Sometimes you go inside their stores, they play in the corner and you know,
they have a sign over top of their thing that says, have them in rugby, they got a sign over the you
know, the sharp Ortega Bismillahirrahmanirrahim Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu there
Muslims, and this what they're doing. Yet on Friday, when they go to the masjid, that their cousin
or their uncle built, nobody says anything, not even a whisper.
		

			And these are the masters that the new Muslims attend, because unfortunately, or whatever you might
want to call it, incidentally,
		

			the new Muslims have not been able to build Masjid from the ground. Now, why they haven't been able
to do that we don't want to get into that. But I just want to say that most of the masjid have been
built and established by immigrant based Muslims, those who came from another country, and they
established a mosque, and May Allah bless them for that. And as a result of that, we knew Muslims,
we have been for the last 50 years, praying in their places. And sometimes they give the cook bar in
Urdu. Or in Arabic, or in Somali language. Or in some other language, they do that right in our face
in our country. And nobody says anything about it. So you know, when we choose we Oh, geez, you
		

			know, we older generation of Muslims, when we choose to sit down and have a chat, a talk, a naseeha,
you know, about our situation and about issues relevant to our social phenomena. When we choose to
do that, you know, I would think that it would be a courtesy, a courtesy for most of the brothers
and sisters, whose mothers and fathers were born somewhere else, and who and they themselves, they
are the second generation Muslims, I would think that you would give the courtesy of bowing out of
most of those conversations.
		

			Even if you think that you are religiously correct. You know, because you know, most of the fitna
that brought about distortion about Islam and Muslims around the world. You know, some of it
happened because of the enemies of Islam. That's true. But a great deal of the fitna, and the
misconceptions and distortions about Islam and Muslims that have taken place in the world in the
last 50 years, is as a result of Muslims in their countries, and their attitude, and their
dysfunctional behavior. And their antithesis of Islam. And their,
		

			their
		

			ruthless criminal exploiters, some of their ruthless, exploitive criminal leaders.
		

			You see, so this is what we have to deal with. This is a reality. You know that when we are
approaching people to talk to people about Islam, first, we got to be cleaning up stuff that Muslims
did. We got to be addressing stuff that Muslims did.
		

			And that's not fair. Yet still, more people are accepting Islam in the United States of America.
More people are accepting Islam in Canada, more people are accepting Islam and Britain and Europe,
more people are accepting Islam in the in the non Muslim Western countries in one year
		

			than 10 years in the entire Muslim world. That's a fact. Now I'll repeat that.
		

			More people are embracing Islam, in spite of all the misconceptions, distortions and you know, all
the conspiracies
		

			against Islam, that's taking place in the media, and through the behavior of Muslims, and all of
that still in the Western world. More people are embracing Islam in one year than are embracing
Islam in the entire Muslim world.
		

			So there is a reason for that.
		

			And I would just like to say to
		

			the brothers and sisters in Islam, all of us who are Americans, or living in the West, and we are
sharing the constitutional liberties of the countries that we're living in. And yes, you can talk
about anything you want. You can give your opinion about anything that you like, or that you
dislike, you can do that. And Facebook is like that, you know, anybody can just get on Facebook and
make a statement that they want to make, you know, it could be a silly statement. You could be
narrow minded, you could be sick, you know, you could be, you could be stupid. And you can still
make a statement. Why? Because Facebook is like that. Well, guess what this is Facebook Live. This
		

			is Chicago scene. This is my, my page. And this is sky views. So when I'm giving my opinions and
talking about relevant issue issues, my theme is Islam in the 21st century, I never called myself a
scholar, even if somebody else wants to call me that.
		

			The best I can call myself as a student of knowledge, or like a student, of a student of a student,
that's all I say. And a law he knows best. But as a senior Muslim, as a social activists, as a great
grandfather, as a grandfather, and as a father and a brother and a Muslim. Living in America, having
traveled to 97 countries in the world, I have my responsibility,
		

			to give advice, especially to the new Muslims, to give advice, especially to the African American
Muslims. And I say yes, especially to the African American Muslims, because these are my people. And
when Mohammed ciloxan, first came, he came to talk to his people. Yes, it was a universal message.
But first, he had to deal with his people. And although I'm representing a universal language, I
mean, a universal religion, and system of life. And I'm doing and I'm doing my best to be objective
and open about things. There are times when I have to deliver my message within the context of the
mentality and the social realities of my people. And when I do that, I think it would be a courtesy,
		

			for those who's not of that population, who's not part of that particular social phenomena to bow.
And just be like, you know, the furniture, the on the side, listen, if you've got a comment, give a
constructive comment.
		

			But for the most part, you should bow out, because you don't hear new Muslims making a lot of
comments about what's happening in Turkey, or what's happening in Saudi Arabia, what's happened in
Malaysia, what's happening in Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and what's happening in Burma, and what's
happening in Egypt. No, you don't hear us talking about those things, especially when the scholars
are addressing those issues. We don't have anything to say we listen, we observe, we appreciate.
		

			You should do the same thing you should listen, you should observe, you should appreciate and even
when you disagree,
		

			you should disagree with respect. And if you don't have to voice your disagreement about something
that doesn't have the social context that is relevant to you, you should sit on the side and take
your notes and allow other people who are sharing that experience of the medicine and
		

			let them enjoy that moment. Because we have our moment. We have our issues. We have our priorities.
We have our language, we have our culture, we have our history. And guess what, we may not
understand the Arabic language, as well as some people. We may not even understand Islam as much as
some of the great profound scholars, but we're not stupid.
		

			And we're not ignorant.
		

			And we've read the same books, and we've come to the same conclusions. And we perform the same hedge
and we're reading the same core n and many of our children, they're speaking Arabic better than the
Arabs. So therefore, I would say to you, please, allow us.
		

			Give us the courtesy
		

			to discuss issues that are relevant to the new Muslim phenomena that are relevant to Muslims in the
21st century, especially in the Western world. And if
		

			Don't agree, then just don't agree silently.
		

			Because there's so many face page facebook pages, there's so many issues, that we have nothing to
talk about we new Muslims, we don't get in it. We're not in it. You know, there are about 37 major
Muslim countries, and all of them are engaged in some particular phenomena in the world today, but
we don't have much voice about that. So when we're talking about Islam and the Western world, and
the phenomenon of Islam in America, and the Islam that we are dealing with, with our grandchildren,
our great grandchildren now children and ourselves than I would say, I would ask our dear brothers
and sisters who are first second or third generation
		

			immigrants.
		

			Just bow, listen,
		

			appreciate. Take your notes. Give us that courtesy. We deserve that. So this is Charlotte yacine.
And I told you I was gonna take the gloves off a little bit. I didn't curse. Although, you know, we
come from we come from a people that you know, sometimes you don't have to read people.