Lauren Booth – Gaza And Your Mindset I
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The recent election results are dangerous and reflective of "encies of evil" that involve global issues such as "can protests" and "can protests". The "encies of evil" that involve "can protests" and "can protests" are also occurring in the United States. The "working together" for the next nine months will involve reciting the holy book and practicing socializing, while the segment ends with a call to action for organizations to improve people's lives. The "working together" for the next nine months will involve reciting the holy book and practicing socializing.
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Some days I just roll over in my
bed and I think I don't know how
I'm going to get out of bed today.
What have we been doing for the last
nine months?
Because I suspect too many of us have
been scrolling, crying, scrolling, crying, emoting, calling, scrolling,
crying.
Today is a really hot day here in
Istanbul and I've got the door open rather
than the fan so you may be hearing
some seagull noises.
That's how it's going to have to be
otherwise I'm just going to be fainting.
Look, I want to review the most recent
information coming out of Gaza for you and
take us through what's happening but I want
to do it with the aim inshallah of
us not falling into hopelessness because this is
the danger after nine months of genocide.
We cannot slow down on our solidarity with
the people going through genocide.
You know we've got the biggest year of
elections around the world right now.
We've just had a UK election, we've had
a French election, we got rid of one
bunch of colonial masters and we swapped them
for another.
So what?
Keir Starmer, he said he's a Zionist.
The French election is marginally more interesting but
I want us to look today right into
the heart of Gaza and also looking at
the, you know, the faith reality that the
people of Gaza are people who love Allah.
So how do we match that with the
absolute evil that is being inflicted upon them
right now by the powers that are allowed
to be in this world?
First off you need to know that the
most immoral army in the world is now
re-entering Gaza city.
They don't even give an excuse why they're
sending tanks in and why they're destroying what's
left.
There is nothing left of the structure, why
they're just killing and murdering again.
500,000 people in a piece of land
around five kilometers squared, no shelter, no clean
water, no water at all, no food, nowhere
to stay, no hospitals.
How is this being allowed to happen?
Some days I just roll over in my
bed and I think I don't know how
I'm going to get out of bed today.
But I'll tell you what keeps me going.
Number one is belief in Allah Ta'ala
and knowing what the holy Quran says in
all circumstances about living a humane and dignified
existence even in hardship and watching that played
out in real time alongside the most evil
depraved acts of our lifetime that we have
been witness to.
SubhanAllah.
All right so the Lancet is a medical
journal respected around the world globally and it's
broken ranks because it has just issued a
report saying very clearly that forget 40,000
as if that wasn't heinous enough.
Forget saying 40,000 people are dead in
Gaza.
Let's all stop saying that from today, okay?
The Lancet says that it's normally four times
as much in a devastating war scenario of
deaths, four times as much as is primarily
reported.
Why?
Because the deaths aren't merely from catastrophic carpet
bombing.
They're from the person who's got cancer who
can't get support.
My friend's mother died of diabetes during this.
Presumably she would have had treatment.
That's just another statistic.
Waterborne diseases, infections from wounds, all things that
could be treatable but are not treatable.
We're looking at 186,000 to 250,000
dead in Gaza now.
Dead, not missing, not displaced, dead.
It spoke to this week.
As a journalist, I speak to a lot
of people and I said reports are coming
out that some of your factions are saying
they're going to withdraw, just withdraw some of
the good treatment that they've been giving to
the hostages in Gaza and I was really
disturbed by this.
I couldn't believe it because I know that
these groups value Allah's khair.
That's all they're doing this for, is for
Allah.
That's why they're fighting for goodness, for justice,
for al-Aqsa, for the rights of Muslims
everywhere, subhanAllah, for the rights of decency everywhere
and they're not going to throw it away
with tit for tat.
Well you're not treating us nice so we'll
treat you worse.
That's not where we come from as Muslims
and I waited and I heard back and
he said trust me we will not be
negotiating our Islamic values.
They are not our teachers is the message.
We are not going to debase anybody because
even if, even when our people are being
debased, that is the dignity of the people
of Palestine who are in this struggle.
Allahu Akbar.
They are teaching us our deen every day
and if they can have this level of
sabr, us sitting at home, we have to
keep going.
We have to know.
Well I'll tell you what we have to
know.
I spoke to my friend Yasser who's been
forced to evacuate into Egypt.
He and his family are in Cairo.
May Allah bless them, keep them in your
inshaAllah and he can just tell in my
voice that I was struggling with seeing these
images and really you know how can they
keep going you know what is expected of
them really and he said don't get into
this state.
Allah loves us and victory is ours.
He hasn't left us.
He is absolutely with us.
Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar.
He's raising us in rank and debasing the
enemy and you must see it through this
lens.
SubhanAllah.
Only the people of the Quran can really
grasp this and let's be clear there are
more Hafiz of Quran people living the Quran
in Gaza now than anywhere else in the
world.
Today we're gathered for a very special event.
My two cousins who are both 14 years
old are gathered for their big day.
Today they're finishing memorizing the Quran and they're
reciting their last verses in our tent mosque
inshaAllah.
This happened in Gaza just last week.
More than 1000 Hafiz of Quran completed memorizing
the holy book subhanAllah during the nine months
of a genocide.
What focus does that take?
What ability to say this is what we
rely on?
This is what is going to take us
through this and this has all the answers
for us and I want to ask you
and me Allah forgive us what have we
been doing for the last nine months because
I suspect too many of us have been
scrolling crying scrolling emoting calling scrolling crying.
We have not been memorizing the Quran.
We have not been.
Have we?
Increasing in our deen.
I hope you have dear brothers and sisters.
I hope inshaAllah if you're not Muslim that
you're coming closer to understanding Allah God is
one one and he is the creator of
everything.
He was not born.
He will not die.
He is over all things cognizant and in
control.
So really what we're learning in this horrible
time apart from the fact that we have
no major leaders of principle who are willing
to take a risk for goodness and dignity
right now apart from that apart from that
surely what we're learning is that this everyday
world clouds seagulls chair table hair scarf hunger
thirst annoyance whatever this realm it's not it
is it it's not it it can't be
it there must be a justice and alhamdulillah
there is a justice there is a justice
in the next life.
I learned this week that the hardships of
the sadikun the extremely patient ones mean that
the opposite to what is happening here is
happening in the next realm.
What does that look like?
Hunger you'll always be fed thirst you'll never
be thirsty again the extremely patient ones will
have the opposite of this reality in the
next life and the extremely luxurious ones who
are not putting away good deeds for the
next life will have the opposite.
What does that mean?
You have sadness here but you're praying and
you you're loving Allah and you're being the
best in the way that the Quran describes
you'll never be sad again for eternity.
You're thirsty here but you're saying alhamdulillah thanks
be to Allah in the next life you're
saving up and you'll have no thirst.
All of their deeds all of the dhikr
the people carrying the children dragging uh grandparents
uh on on whatever they can they can
carts across Gaza but saying alhamdulillah Allah we
trust you what do you think is waiting
for those in luxury?
The ones who are sitting on the sofa
and sipping tea and pressing buttons and going
yes we'll approve uh that next amount of
weaponry too is not real.
Luxury, agony, greed, complete penury in the next
life and doom.
That's the reality it's a bit like uh
in some dreams in some dreams it can
be that the interpretation is the opposite of
what it means so if you dream about
wealth maybe hard times are coming um if
you dream about some disaster that's happened it
can be this a new start that's what
it's like for the believers that is the
reality described in the holy Quran that the
opposite will happen in the next life your
hardship will be forgotten the Quran says to
the believers those who believe and do deeds
of righteousness and establish regular prayers and regular
charity will have their reward with their lord
on them shall be no fear nor shall
they grieve so this terrible reality it's merely
a dream it's merely a dream and one
day we'll all wake up there was a
man and he was shot in the west
bank this week resisting the zionist army and
he called his family to say a final
farewell foreign
how calm did you see how calm he
sounded even giving his family some support while
he's he's waiting to be murdered um
brothers and sisters in humanity and in faith
pull ourselves together let's crack on with what
we must do give generously find people who
are helping join them keep our voices raised
for palestine this world is a dream we're
going to wake up let's put beauty before
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salam alaikum