Morad Awad – Reflections on the War on Palestine a Palestinian
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The speakers discuss the recent struggles of the world, including the collapse of peace and the rise of nationalist and liberalization. They criticize those speaking about morality and the use of drugs and alcohol to create educational systems and filter media platforms. The speakers stress the importance of duowned weapons and the use of praying for victory, and urge people to stand for the truth, not to spread false propaganda, and to be with their brother and sisters who are oppressed. They urge people to share information and retweet, share it, and comment on it.
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Islam.
That Allah
gave us and guided our hearts
to a faith and a religion that allows
us to be
more resilient
and stronger
than anyone in this world.
Wallahi, this gift of iman that we have
brothers and sisters is a gift
that only a true believer can value
in their life.
But this gift and this value, this gratefulness
only comes out
when iman is needed.
And now is a time
where this iman
should come out of us.
We should demonstrate
the best forms of it
in the light of what is happening to
our brothers and sisters in falasdil.
For those of us, and I'm sure everyone
knows,
either a little
or a lot
about what is happening in Palestine.
And there's so many
people that can speak about it. But today,
I want to speak about it
not
as one of the imams here, or some
someone who works for epic, or someone
who gives khutbaaz, or No. No. No. I'm
gonna talk to you as a Palestinian.
I'm talking to you as someone who lived
this struggle.
I'm talking to you as someone
whose family is living in this struggle right
now.
My parents are in Palestine
right now. My family, and my friends, and
relatives, and everyone is there and they're all
over. They're spread out.
What is happening,
brothers and sisters, is something that is unprecedented
in in modern history.
But before I speak about it, I want
to give
you a little
a little story about
a mushrik
that lived in the time of the Messenger
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This mushrik prepared
a god from dates,
an idol,
from their ajwah.
The ajwah of the dates.
And prayed devoutly and sincerely to this idol
that they made.
But as
when the things were comfortable and good,
when it was worth it, this idol was
worth being worshiped.
But when the years of drought
came, and their life became threatened,
and the crops were not harvested,
This person
decided to eat
the idol that they once worshiped.
Because their life was worth more than the
value that this idol brings to it.
Their life
was more valuable
than the value this idol brings to it.
Because at the end of the day, when
a person's hungry and they're on the brink
of starvation,
it doesn't matter.
This is what we are seeing before us
in front of this hypocritical
world
that is watching
and witnessing before its eyes the atrocities that
are happening
before us in falastriq.
We are seeing on the daily basis
all of these
Geneva
and Luzah Al Levan or whatever it is.
These agreements in camp David and all these
peace treaties
and all these resolutions
and all of this. You know, the security
council agreed that war and this should be
conducted a certain way. It all fell down.
It's over now.
This game that was made in order to
subdue
a population
and subjugate them to oppression and make them
accepting of it under the false
notion that they
have rights. They have quote unquote sovereignty. They
have quote unquote independence.
They have quote unquote
dignity and human,
they're entitled to what humans are entitled to.
This all fell down. It's over now.
When it became not worth it, Khalas, they
decided to eat it.
In France,
freedom of speech.
They said, we have so much freedom of
speech that you can curse the prophet and
messenger of 1 and a half 1000000000 people,
and offend 1 and a half 1000000000 people
around the world
because there's freedom of speech. But today,
today they're not allowed to protest
just like anything.
Any protest just to show
their support to Palestine. They're not allowed to
do it.
They ate their god
It wasn't worth it anymore.
In Germany, protests,
Khalas.
Not
illegal as
well. Did you know in in Britain, as
doctor Yasser mentioned in his Khutba earlier today,
in Britain they're debating whether they should
make it a crime
to hold up the Palestinian flag
Imagine, what's the where's the freedom of speech?
It's done. It's done. They ate their goddess.
Their gods, their idols, it's not worth it.
This whole
liberal, okay, free human,
it's all god.
And that's why you find those
pillars of liberalism
and those who talk about morality
and those who lecture
the rest of the world that is inhumane
and immoral and people that do not have,
you know,
the the the same values
that the more enlightened
world has.
And they're preaching on and on. Wanna create
new educational systems. They wanna filter and sieve
out certain aspects of our Deen because they
don't find it befitting
of the values of the new world
and the modern world and the civilized world.
They this is them.
Those same people
are on media platforms today saying
level the whole thing down.
Murder 2,200,000
people.
Civilians,
gone.
Those same people that cry
on television,
that come when there's interviews, and they look
at the poor Israeli lives that were lost.
Yesterday alone, a 100 children were murdered and
massacred
by the bombs and bombardment of Israel.
Where are the crocodile tears?
Where are those fake tears that would cry
over the holocaust and what have we see
a holocaust happening?
Where are
you
from
that?
Where is everyone from that? It's as if
Palestinians
are asking for something.
Yani, that's
unimaginable. A population
in Palestine right now, the West Bank just
to give you guys who don't
know about Palestine.
The West Bank is little prison cells. These
villages,
every single village
has a door, a bawaba.
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and it has a a a checkpoint.
And it has a military, a small military
base next to it, every single Palestinian village.
When they close it,
nothing can go out or in the village.
So it's a bunch of small prisons. That's
the West Bank.
That's where my parents are.
But alhamdulillah, you know, because they decided not
to do what Ghazza did,
they're allowed internet and electricity. Alhamdulillah. All that's
that's all I get, you know. The rest
of it,
To be treated with humanity? No. Absolutely not.
4 of my cousins were shot today.
4 of them. Just today.
And then, in the law in ghazah,
17 years of complete
sanctioning,
blockade.
They built a wall
that no one in the world has the
likes of. They say the most advanced wall
in the world. They were building it and
they actually tried to
bring the same wall to Texas because they
said it's unpenetratable.
And then we saw what happened a few
days ago to this this wall they spent
$1 a half $1,000,000,000 on.
Why? Because
the people are
people want to live with dignity.
There are people that want food
and medicine
and a normal decent life just like everyone
else, something that they do not do not
know of.
Imagine 17 years,
they're living with partial electricity, comes and goes.
17 years, certain foods are not even allowed
to enter gazza. Did you know to the
extent where food is okay. This particular,
cooking oil, you can't bring this in because
it has this chemical in it, and we
don't want this chemical in gazza. You can
have this other chemical, this other cooking oil.
Oh, this chips? No. This chips is illegal.
You can't have Pringles. You can't have Cheetos.
No. You can't have this other kind. Yeah.
Because this this is too good for you
guys. No. No. Well, you you can't even
bring that in kazah. No.
Medicine, right now as we speak,
2,200,000
people,
our brothers and sisters who have a right
upon us
are living with no electricity,
with no water,
with no internet.
Food is not allowed to come in anymore.
So there whatever food they have is what
they have. That's it. Once it runs out,
it's gone.
They can go and pray in the masjid,
but guess what?
The masjids are demolished as well.
The first day of attacks,
6 masajid were gone because they don't even
want people to run to Allah. By the
way, that is illegal in every aruf, by
the way, in every resolution,
in every treaty. This is known in in
in in warfare. You can't attack places of
worship. You can't attack educational
institutions.
The first places that were attacked are the
biggest masajid in ghazah.
And then,
the biggest university, the Islamic University of Ghazah
That was completely
leveled to the ground. The Islamic University. It's
obvious what they're after.
It's obvious that who the enemy is. Right?
It's obvious who their enemy is.
What I'm saying is,
we're seeing this happen before our eyes as
muslimeen.
But we have some things
that are within our power.
Our brothers and sisters, by the way, they
don't need our donations now. Did you know
when you donate to organizer, you got all
these GoFundMe's. I'm looking at this GoFundMe stuff.
I'm like, what is this? There's nothing allowed
in kazl.
Don't don't donate to these ambiguous
accounts or people
to thinking that you helped Ghazah. You're not
helping Ghazah right now.
It's going to someone else, some other organization.
Right now, I don't know. Nothing's going in
there. So don't think that you're helping Khazda
if you don't. The only way to help
right now
is 2 things.
There's 2 of the strongest weapons that we
have as muslimeen.
And this weapon was not taken out
in any given moment in the history of
Islam, except that Islam prevailed.
Except that, victory was given.
We learn this from the story of Salahuddin
Al Ayubir
Rahimahullah.
Salahuddin
before
the siege of Jerusalem,
he went to every single tenth of his
army himself.
And he made sure every single one of
them did was doing qiyam, and was doing
qunut and du'a.
Every single one of them.
And then when he saw a tent that
was asleep and wouldn't wake up to do
Qiyam, he would say, If we are defeated,
it's from this tent right here. He would
tell the people.
And the ones that made the most and
longest dua, he said, If we are given
victory, it's only because of these guys. Right
here.
Our first
the first weapon
and the strongest
is dua. But not just any dua. The
du'a that comes after a qiyam.
In specifically, in the last 3rd of the
night.
Can every single one of us do that?
Allah gave us safety and security.
Allah gave us
water to make wadu with? Allah gave us
food and nutrition to have strength with? Can
we not wake up right now? Fajr is
at 6
something.
6:20.
Right? Can we or 6 we pray at
6:30.
But a little before is fajr. Can we
not wake up at 5:30?
And make wudu and say, you Rabbi, every
single night.
Lift our hands up. Pray 2 rak'ahs of
qiyyah.
Recite whatever surahs we know. And then pray
1 witter and make dua for our brothers
and sisters. Can we not do that?
Because wallahi, if we can't get up and
do that,
The reason we're not being used for Allah
is because we can't even do this. It's
like, imagine we can't do this. It's as
if Allah is like, how am I gonna
use you? You can't even pray turakaz
in the middle of the night. Our brothers
and sisters in kazah, they don't sleep.
I was talking to a brother earlier, he
was saying wallahi, they don't sleep.
They sleep 2 hours, and they wake up
and they gotta keep moving. They hear
where the planes are and they're like, okay,
we might get hit.
They're changing.
In an act of of it's so it's
so
sickening. What we see? They asked yesterday,
they told 1,100,000
people to evacuate North Gaza.
To go where?
Evacuate. Go to the south.
But this is the most densely populated
land on earth.
This They say every square meter has 2
people in it. The people if they all
stand in the street, they'll be stuck to
each other. Alhamdulillah, there's buildings. But those buildings
now are being leveled. Egypt
closed the door. Egypt said, No one is
coming into our country.
And then
for the humanitarian
aid, for everyone that's helping that's coming in,
no, they bombed
even the street where aid can come in.
The only one bloodline that has. It's over.
It's gone. There's nothing there.
But the people are completely sanctioned. They don't
even have the seat.
Nothing.
But what do we have?
What can we do? Number 1, du'a.
If we are really
concerned,
then it's this, the qiyam, the last 3rd
of the night with du'a. This is the
gauge and the measure of who is truly
with it
and truly against it wallahi we would get
up if we were hungry and we knew
there was a restaurant open that we felt
like we'd get up and go buy that
food
You'd get up for a cheeseburger.
We'd get up to meet a friend.
We'd get up for an interview.
But now, 2,200,000,000
people are being
called to the one of the biggest genocides.
Right now, they're planning one of the biggest
genocides in modern history
under the view of everyone.
The second thing. So the first is what
guys?
Du'a. Du'a when? Specifically.
In the last 3rd of the night, after
qiyam.
This is why in the the surah that
I read in the second raka. What is
it?
Allah talks about kiyam.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Allah
knows that some of you will be sick.
And others are, you know, getting from the
Barakah of Allah, making money, generating their wealth,
doing good for their lives.
And there's others that are fighting for the
sake of Allah.
Read as much as you can from the
Quran
That's Allah's advice. In Qiyam, read what you
can from the Quran
Make duaal
The second thing is
what wasn't
available in the past was social media?
They have the money.
They have the analytics.
They have their propaganda.
They have their people that design
how to
convey a message,
how to dehumanize a population,
how to make it acceptable
for a genocide to take place. They are
putting that in us right now. This is
what is happening right now.
Our neighbors,
the people around us, everyone
who is on mainstream
media,
day and night watching what is happening,
they
are
in their khalas. They're in the grinder.
They're in the mixer to do what?
So that they can be brainwashed enough to
accept a genocide taking place in Palestine today.
We're seeing this happen.
Taib, how do we combat this as Muslim?
One thing they don't have, this is definitely
not the truth.
They're tyrants.
So Allah is with the truth.
But one thing we have is numbers, alhamdulillah.
So if every single Muslim
made a classmate,
a colleague,
a neighbor, a friend, a family member, some
5 people around them know that do not
know. 10 people around them know that do
not know. Explain to them.
Let them know what is happening.
It'll spread like a wildfire. It'll be a
counter propaganda. And alhamdulillah,
we're doing good.
Right now,
what Falaasdeed,
the way the attention it used to get
isn't like today.
But we still have a lot more to
go, insha Allah
There's a long way to go. So everyone
of us, we're not active. I'm not too
active on social media.
But
in these days, in these times, we need
to get there.
We need to get there.
We need to like post. If there's something,
you retweet it. You share it. Copy. There's
a nice article. There's a video. And don't
don't spread videos that that demoralize, that put
down.
No.
Spread videos that's that that have data. That
have like, you know, like,
something that will wake the people up from
this false propaganda that's taking place. That's what
we need.
Right? Share this the the these things. Share
it around and don't don't hide it. And
if we all do it collectively,
we will make a huge difference.
And all we need to do is try.
So today, we're said, 2 things is our
homework. Number 1 is what?
Qiyam and the last 3rd, and du'a for
our brothers and sisters. And the second is
what?
To work our social media skills.
Share, retweet,
like, dislike, negatively comment on things. You know,
even if there's a video and you have
a If you're an influencer,
it's your time to shine.
If you can comment on their videos,
and just say, this is God, this is
propaganda,
this right here is the truth. Look at
the numbers. This is all fake. Oh. 40
babies got beheaded. Even the president said 40
babies. That's completely false.
An Israeli lady, she said she said that
these the militants came into her house,
and they let her stay in her room.
Oh. The reporter is like, Woah. What did
they do to you? Did they torture you?
Did they kill your kids? It's like, No.
They just said, We're Muslims. Wallahi. This is
an Israeli lady. Said, We're Muslims and we
don't we don't kill women and children.
And they sat.
Like, Okay. What else happened?
Said, you know,
he asked me for a banana about an
hour later. And I told him, yeah. You
can have one.
Imagine that. Like, the complete opposite of what
they're what they're trying to this would never
make it to mainstream media. This is impossible.
But you know who can spread something like
this?
Who can do that?
We can do that. We can let the
people know. Why
not?
So, brothers and sisters, let's stand for the
truth. We ask Allah
to use us in these critical times, in
these crucial times, in the ummah of Islam.
We ask Allah
to guide us to the straight path. We
ask Allah
to be with our brothers and sisters who
are oppressed, and who are being, fought and
who are dying systematically
in Palestine.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be
with our brothers and sisters all over the
world who
are
in
need.