Lauren Booth – Gaza I A veil has been lifted
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The speakers discuss the activation of "the unseen real" in horror shows, which affects people in society and has a negative impact on the world. They express anger towards people living in poverty and the police and military presence, as well as the importance of avoiding violence and resisting "horrrrible things" like the " bubble" of their culture. The segment ends with a discussion of the "horrrible thing" that can lead to war crimes and peace and blessings, and ends with a discussion of the "horrrible thing" that can break down into weapons and lead to war crimes.
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As-salamu alaykum sisters, brothers.
There is something going on in Gaza beyond
what you're seeing and I want to speak
about that today because a friend said to
me something yesterday which was so interesting and
I thought yeah that is what we are
missing from this whole narrative.
She said what we don't realize is that
the unseen realm is activated.
The unseen realm is activated and then she
said no the unseen realm in this horror
show of what's happening here in what we
know as dunya, the unseen realm is active.
Now let's have a look at what that
means for the people of Gaza.
A lot of non-muslims right now you're
asking how are they so resilient?
How is it that the mothers after the
screaming moment of horror, how is it that
the father carrying multiple bodies having lost his
wife and all his children will say I
must stay strong, these are in Jannah and
I will one day meet them again.
What is this belief?
The Palestinian people in Gaza specifically don't have
belief.
What do I mean by that?
Yaqeen.
They have Tawakkel.
So belief is I read the holy book
and I go yeah there is a God.
Most people around the world, in fact most
of the world does say that but how
does that actually impact us when a big
catastrophe falls and there is nothing like this
right now and I want to speak about
the veils being torn from what this world
is really all about through the sacrifice of
the Gaza people.
They live one foot in the unseen realm
because they don't just have belief, they don't
just read and say yeah okay that's that
seems true to me shrug get on with
your life.
They say this means that we must and
they go and act on their lives and
if you don't understand that if you think
that seems crazy and bizarre and amazing I
really get where you're coming from because I
went to Gaza in 2008 with that mindset.
I was a mainstream journalist, did all the
things of mainstream life not particularly religious but
Christian with a small c and I found
myself during the holy month of Ramadan in
Gaza and at the time they'd been under
siege just a couple of years and we
thought surely it can't get any worse than
this.
Surely human cruelty cannot allow the world to
encompass one and a half million people as
it was back then in a concentration camp,
a concentration of people by race, culture, creed
or politics and then treatment of harshness by
their guards, by the ones who won't let
them leave as a concentration camp.
I make no bones about that look it
up you know it's it's not an open
-air prison for many reasons but I've done
that I've spoken about that.
What I found that really frustrated me during
those visits those early visits to Gaza was
why aren't they more angry because at the
time believe it or not Subhanallah the Palestinian
people that I met and also in the
West Bank calmed me down because I was
horrified.
From the moment I set foot in Palestine
in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza
the besieged Gaza Strip one word came to
my mind this is apartheid.
The people who are painting themselves as oh
poor me the victims why doesn't everybody love
me and just do what I say everybody
hates us poor us were afflicting an absolute
apartheid on the people that they were saying
were making them feel victimized.
Nonsense.
I was angry when I saw the poverty
in Gaza just then not now can't even
imagine it now unimaginable horrors of a medieval
kind but back then I remember sitting in
refugee camps and in refugee camps that are
now gone gone Jabalia, Rafah, Khan Yunis, centers
of concentrated people who had already been made
refugees and were living a poor life a
getting by life because of an occupation on
their original land Allahu Akbar.
I was angry I said well how come
you guys aren't fighting every day how come
you're all you're not all in the resistance
how come the resistance is relatively small and
you know what they said don't be angry
our face teaches us that we have the
right to resist but it doesn't teach anger
and I thought that the Palestinian people had
a kind of Stockholm syndrome right Stockholm syndrome
is where you get taken captive and you
kind of fall in love with your captive
so far from wanting to harm them you
actually want to see them do well and
I thought that the I thought that they
were all they all had a kind of
you know a mass unconscious you know illness
because they weren't as angry as I was
you see I'm European I'm Muslim my identity
now is Muslim and that's my practice and
it's my daily life and that's my spirituality
and that's my heart but you know what
I grew up in the paradigm and the
framing of Europeanism and we're violent there's a
violence in us that you know you smite
us and we're going to smite you three
times as hard that that when I hear
Israel saying there's no proportionality right what we're
seeing on the ground now in Gaza are
the resistance fighters legal under international law I'm
not making this up legal under UN charters
you're allowed to resist the occupation people coming
into your homes and your villages and killing
you and your children you're legally allowed to
resist that like a like a householder has
a certain level of resistance to someone coming
with in with a gun and trying to
you know hurt their family the Palestinians have
these rights right now there are fights going
on between the most one of the most
heavily armed nations on earth with their tanks
and their guns and their helicopters and their
apaches and the and the carpet bombing and
groups of locals trying to protect with their
bodies and their few arms their homes and
their families and then you have army commanders
from the other side saying because there's resistance
here and I'm going to post this you're
going to have a look at these actual
quotes coming out in the media because of
the resistance and we've lost some soldiers who
are armed you're going to be made to
pay what is the payment they're talking about
war crimes because you're resisting in this part
of Gaza we're going to totally annihilate several
buildings a whole neighborhood with hundreds of people
subhanallah I was angry but they were very
controlled and not angry and spiritual and what
I'm seeing there now subhanallah I think what
the world is seeing is a ripping away
of the veils of what this life actually
is the prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him in many narrations talked about this
world as something it's filthy it smells do
you want to go if there was a
dead carcass of a camel or a goat
over there and it had been decomposing for
many days would you want to go and
hug it would you want to carry you
wouldn't go near it you'd go look that
is awful and you'd walk away that's this
world and within that Allah Ta'ala has
made beauty in it and the possibility of
kindness but the reality of it is at
any moment it can break down into some
violent horrible thing that we should want to
escape and so we shouldn't be too attached
so the Gazan people are not attached to
this world and they're teaching us detachment subhanallah
they know that they know all too well
because for 75 years they haven't been allowed
an attachment and all of this is Allah's
decision and he is perfection that they've seen
the reality like the next life is better
than this and don't get confused this doesn't
mean that that we're a death cult by
the way I have never met people who
love their children more than the Palestinians or
I can say with as much joy I've
never met so many children as in Gaza
I remember you know going and going where
are all these kids coming from because in
the in the European countries we don't have
that many children and we tend to hide
them away um you know in Turkey it's
a bit different you see the kids outside
but maybe on this street five or six
in a street like this in Gaza and
Jabalia you'd see 150 children well you would
have this life this life is not it
and they know that subhanallah and the Palestinians
as a famous poet once said teach life
they teach beauty and calmness and detachment and
they have to walk and with every shred
of their being after the shock has come
and even during the shock some of them
will say these amazing videos of of a
of a brother and he was going to
a family member hey are you a man
over the corpses of of their family you
man come on this is it Allah shows
us they're shaheed we're happy in other words
their horror in this world is over and
they're in a better place and they don't
just believe it which is a low level
they know it and then they live it
and they implement it allahu akbar there are
angels present with the people there none of
this makes sense in a worldly sense how
can it be that a tiny little patch
of land no bigger than Glasgow in Scotland
is the focus of so much bombardment now
I've seen brothers laughing going yeah oh here's
another missile there it goes oh there's another
one I don't care because Allah is with
me this does not take away from the
war crimes that are being done it doesn't
mean we're ignoring them it means we have
to activate ourselves to be strong in this
to have absolute belief in Allah to Allah
to be have absolute knowledge that the next
life is the best life and that the
unseen realm is active there are angels involved
in this the smell of musk all throughout
Gaza stay strong brothers and sisters activate yourselves
number one know that if we don't see
Allah he sees us in this moment and
the Palestinians won't be asked to pay for
this but you and I will be asked
what did you do for your brothers and
sisters did you not feel anything did you
carry on partying and eating and and and
go to the cinemas or did you actually
make a difference and stand with them and
if you're interested if you're interested in knowing
the reality of this life you can get
a Quran from the link below inshallah for
free find out why you're here and find
out why these people are extraordinary because this
life this life is a stinking carcass and
the victors are the believers and right now
as our prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be
upon him said when there is fitna when
there are problems when there is terrible trials
and tribulations in the ummah in the muslim
world you know where you're going to find
belief inshallah inshallah