Muhammad West – 2017 Year In Review

			shaytani r rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala COVID
mursaleen Sayidina Muhammad Ali he was
		

			a beloved brothers and sisters in Islam as salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu.
		

			operation to Allah subhanho wa Taala, the Most Merciful, the most kind, I should have a la ilaha
illa la with a witness that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah subhanaw taala who was
not taken, he has not taken a partner nor a son. He is one of the absolute To Him belongs the
beginning and the end. And to him is our final return. We send our love our greetings and
salutations to beloved Nabil Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I will guide I will lead our Imam
and to his pure and pious family to the Sahaba and all those who finally soon until the end of time,
we ask Allah subhanaw taala to bless us to follow the Sunnah of Nabil Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam to
		

			bless us in this walk of Juma to forgive us for the sins of last week. And to guide us in the weeks
to come and the year to come to Delhi be better than the previous years. I mean, well hamdulillah Al
Hamdulillah today is the final Juma of 2017. Final Juma of 2017. And next time we meet in sha Allah,
if Allah grants us to meet once again, it would be a new year. And it's important for us as
believers to take stock as time goes by. Because we learn that Allah Subhana Allah is well answered
in an insanity hustle that by that Allah says by time, all insane, insane, you're always in a state
of loss, there is one resource that we can never ever get more often, that is time, we all have a
		

			limited number of days in this dunya. And we can never get it back when a day is lost when a moment
is lost wealth, power, strength, whatever it might be, can come and go, but time never comes back.
And therefore we need to be cognizant that we only have a number of years on this dunya a number of
hours. And as one goes by, that's it we never going to get it back. And we definitely take stock of
our life, where we are and what we've achieved this year, every person should take stock of his life
in the Sahaba used to take stock of themselves daily. What did I do today? Am I closer to Allah? on
further away? What sins did I do? So I make the step far? What good did I do so I increase in that
		

			good? Allah Subhana Allah forgive us the sins that we've done, may Allah grant us blessings in what
is remaining of our life. Just something to think about. The average I save is the average life
expectancy of a person is around 65 years old. That's the average life expectancy globally. Some
countries it's more some countries is less. But if you are about, you know close to you, if you're
65 or 70, you're 30 years old, for example, you close to the halfway mark of your life before, it's
important for us not to want to make anyone despondent. But it's important for us to look at our
life. It's not forever, it's gonna run up. And therefore we need to make the most of it. As one year
		

			has passed, we need to look as a community, this 2017 How has it been for us as a year, we get
sometimes so engrossed in our daily life, going to school, going to work, looking after the kids
putting food on the table, paying the bills, and we forget about the big picture. And when you read
this quote by insha, Allah is a review of the major events that occurred in 2017. So many things
happen. And life is so busy, that we forget about what things happened. We just continue on. And we
don't take a moment to pause. So let's take a moment and have a flashback of the last 12 months.
What were the major highlights, there are many, many highlights in terms of globally, in terms of
		

			just the oma in terms of here in Cape Town, there are many things to take note of and just some of
the things that I have inshallah listed. One of the big things that is happening globally.
Alhamdulillah. For now, we in South Africa are saved from this, we're not as exposed to this. But
globally, there is a rise of Western nationalism, and anti Islamic anti Islamic rhetoric. If you go
outside of South Africa to a non Muslim country, you would feel maybe if you went 10 years ago, the
mood against Muslims has become a lot more severe. People have become have become very aggressive
towards Islam and Muslims in particular, Europe, America, Australia, the Western world has become
		

			very aggressive towards Islam. And we see this they were a number of elections, a lot a number of
elections that happened over the past year. And if you look at those parties that have either been
voted into government or made strong gains, that the people that the masses in the West, the people
that are supporting AI people that have an anti Islamic agenda, the words, the speeches, the
rhetoric is against Islam, for example, and this is perhaps the man that has made most headlines.
Trump in America
		

			was elected this year as the 45th American president, and of the things that made him popular. Even
though the people know his own people know that he's a corrupt, immoral person, they chose him. Why?
Because he has said that he's the defender against a much bigger enemy, much bigger threats as
Muslim Muslims, he has made Islam. The scapegoat Islam is the big danger, Islam is the big thing.
And therefore, you need to support him and support these policies to protect you against Islam. This
is one of the major campaign policies that he has put in place and we see it happening, he has
actually fulfilled some of those, those promises that he made banning Muslims from certain countries
		

			from entering America, asking that a list of Muslims should be put down. Now we need to take note
when Western secular free countries start putting policies in place to keep keep track of Muslims,
put the names down in the register, how long before Muslims are rounded up, before people will go
into their homes and take them out? We think this might be far fetched, not possible. This is what
happened to the Jews in in Nazi Germany, it started off with a government speaking out against them,
calling them outsiders, foreigners calling them a danger to society, we need to watch them, we need
to keep track of them, then they had to weigh certain emblems to make known this is Muslim. So we
		

			know who they are, their businesses were was surveillance. Not long after that, within a few years,
maybe 20 years after that, the society turned against them. And we know what happened. 6 million of
them were killed. And we against the Holocaust, as muslimeen were against the Holocaust, completely
against it. But we see, you don't just kill 6 million people overnight. It's a process of
dehumanizing another group of people, Muslims only make up about 1% of America,
		

			the number of people that are killed from terrorism, you find more people die, for example, from
being struck by lightning, or be falling off the bed, or from children shooting one another through
gun control. Muslims have such a small impact on the western society, because they're so small in
number, but they've become an issue. Why not because the politicians themselves truly hate Islam,
they just using it, you need an enemy. Now, this is a very, very common policy, if you want to get
the message to support you. You make them afraid of some Boogeyman. And you tell them, I'm the one
that's going to defend you. You make someone an enemy. In the past, it was the communists, the
		

			Soviets, before that it was the Jews, whatever it might be. Now, the enemy for these politicians is
Muslim and Islam. And therefore, it's easy to take a punch at us because we can't fight back. And
this is not just in America. We see in Germany, for example, right wing Nazi parties, they never
ever were able to get seats in parliament since World War Two, they were never able to get seats in
parliament. They are so
		

			hateful in their speech. They speak about how evil Islam is. And and before it was the Jews. Now
when they speak about anti immigrants, or nationalism, we need to protect our own people from the
outsiders who are the foreigners, they're talking about black people, or, or Jewish people, they're
talking about Muslim people, that they have policies in place, we need to limit the number of
Muslims in our country, we need to watch them. So a party for example, they call the alternative
party in Germany, they never ever got seats in parliament, because they really come from the Nazi
ideology, no one ever would support them. This year, they got about 15% of the votes in, in the
		

			German pilot in the German parliament, the numbers are growing, never had they seen such big growth.
Why? Because the people are being the real terrorists, or those who are causing the message to be
afraid, afraid of what Islam and Muslim mean. And it's not long before this fear turns into hatred,
and that hatred turns into violence. We see a similar thing in Europe, where Europe, we know in the
UK, they had another elections. I don't know if you know there was an election to just confirm that
Europe will pull away from the rich England will pull away from the rest of Europe, BRICS it again,
what is it all about? We don't want to be part of a bigger community. Why? One of the reasons why we
		

			don't want outsiders to come into our country, outsiders, meaning Muslim immigrants, mostly Muslim
immigrants. In France. Again, there was another election this year. And even though a liberal person
a person Macron won the elections, the be his biggest rival was again a right wing party, a party
that would not have gotten any votes a few years ago. And what we're seeing is a trend that these
it's for example, to make us understand. It's as if though an apartheid party started today.
		

			So we want to bring back apartheid. And they get votes and they get voted they get bigger and bigger
in number. It would be scary to see people going and supporting a party like that a policy was based
on the racism. A party was based on.
		

			Anti another group. But we see this happening. And in fact, something like a country like Austria,
small country, not very important to us. They elected the youngest president on 31 years old. He's
the president of Austria. How did he win it? How did he win the policy? The his party, also a right
wing party, anti Islamic, his basis of winning the campaign was an anti Islamic message. He was for
time the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it was this man that stopped Muslims coming from Syria
into Europe. Austria is like a gateway for Muslims coming out of study out of war. They want to
leave the Middle East. So they want to get to Germany, or they want to get to know where to get to a
		

			country where it's safe. They need to go through the Balkans through Austria. This man he brought
into the party he brought a he managed to get the rest of the countries around the area to block off
the immigrants from getting in there. So he did that last year. This year. He's the president of
Austria youngest prison on Earth. How did he get there? What was his role called? What was his Trump
called? anti Islamic message, very, very stern. message. We don't want Muslims in our country. We
don't want Islam in this country. And if they are Muslims in India, we need to monitor them, watch
them what they do what they preaching, we need to censor them, what only things we agree upon, they
		

			can talk about it. Now this is Western, the free world where everything is free. You can weigh what
you want, you can dress what you want, if you want to be a Satanist, you can be a Satanist, if you
want to. If you many of these countries, for example, they allow insist if you want to marry your
mother You can do so. If you want to marry your sister, you can do so. But if you want to be a
Muslim, and practice Islam, then you are a threat, the danger. And again Muslims make up not even 1%
of some of these countries. You have Parliament's debating hijab, women cannot wear hijab, yet. The
only like 400 women wearing Hijab in the country is really a threat to your condition.
		

			In England, they are about to bring a law that any girl that wears hijab, she covers her hair, they
will interview her and ask her is your Are your parents forcing you to waiters, but if she comes
with a miniskirt, no one's gonna ask her. Why are you doing that?
		

			In Switzerland, this former's jets, get the ban with minarets, they ban any mosques from having the
nares Why? Why would you ban a Masjid a place to have an architecture of a monastic? No, we don't
want symbols of Islam to be shown. It's a threat against us. Now, where does this fear come from?
		

			We're not a threat to them. And Islam is not a threat to the society and their way of life. We are
too small in number in those countries to make a real impact. But we are being used as a tool by
politicians to get into power.
		

			We saw it here, for example, when a group of people used white monopoly capital to justify certain
wrongs. So when I commit a certain I say, Don't look at me, look at that person, what he's doing,
focus the attention on someone else. And therefore, rather take the devil You know, when this, these
Islamic devils were going to come, they're going to marry your women, they're going to make your
Muslim children terrorists, they're going to bomb you up. So behind Allah, we know this is far from
the truth. But it's easy. It's a reality. So we need to be aware that this is happening in the
Western world. And it's on the increase and on the rise. Meaning was in the villa, if the trend
		

			continues within 10 or so years, Muslims already from certain Muslim countries can't go to America.
There'll be a time when Muslims might not enter Europe just being Muslim. Now it's not going to be
any more national where you come from to be if you got if you if you've got a Muslim name, no
Muhammad's no Fatima's can come to these countries. We don't want you. It will. It might get even
worse for the Muslims lovingly. It happened. Not so long ago, people of Japanese or Chinese origin
were rounded up for four years in America. Why? Just because the Japanese and we are at war with
Japan. So every Japanese person was in a concentration camp in America. This is a few decades ago.
		

			used to be called the yellow, the yellow three used to be afraid that the yellow man is dangerous.
So this is happening. And it's scary.
		

			We can't stop the preachers of hatred, the real terrorists, the ones who are in the news, and we see
daily with every time you see a Muslim, it's something negative. They won't show a Muslim who saved
the life. A Muslim doctor was working to saving people of all different colors and races, giving
them cures Muslims building a charity works orphanages deliver show that only Muslims who do wrong,
they are shown and they call Islamic terrorists and also talk about the double standards. So these
are campaign to make us
		

			Look in human, to make us look evil to make our religion look evil. And the masses unfortunately for
them, they are force fed this, they have no other other impact, they have no other area to know the
truth. The only ones that really the only way we can counter this is that each and every one of us
are ambassadors about Islam.
		

			So understand that your colleague at work, the non Muslim colleague, when he puts on the TV, when he
logs onto a certain website, and he sees everything he sees about Islam is negative. The only way
he's going to get a different story is through you, through you and me, each and every one of us or
do I don't say I'm not I'm not qualified to give the hour. Each and every one of you must give our
I'm not saying you go preach to them. Tao is through Allah through your character.
		

			So that when he sees and someone sees all Muslims are evil, he will say no, no, no, hold on. My
colleague, who I work with for the past five years, I haven't seen anyone more hardworking, more
dedicated, more responsible, more honest, more. a nicer guy. I've never met anyone better than him.
They should tell you and Subhanallah this was the secret to our forefathers. Why do we live in such
a lovely protected environment is that our forefathers were known. They went on to these Muslims,
they never compromise on the deen. They don't drink, they don't eat pork. They dress a certain way
they foster certain months. But we know when it comes to work, that if I if he says he's going to
		

			fix the roof, he's going to do a good job. He's not going to cheat me. I don't have to worry. He can
be left alone. These are going to steal from me that if he's my neighbor is always going to give a
burqa. My kids can go next door. I know his kids are not doing any drugs or stuff like that. Muslims
were known for the high moral conduct and they were respected and they were loved. And therefore our
Deen was it flourished here therefore we have what we living. But unfortunately that is not that's
changing. Muslims are seen as shady dodgy even Muslims now don't want to do business with Muslims.
Why? We contrast the Muslim is gonna give me a canal Joby and he's going to overcharge me, I'd
		

			rather go to the to the the company, the white man to do it. That's the reality. So understand that
you're not only harming yourself, by having bad conduct or character, you're harming Islam. It's
just reality. When you cut someone off in the road, and you've got a beard in the face, what's the
man going to say? They slumps is not going to say hamato that guy, dice lamps, they all like that.
When a Muslim does something wrong, and his name is in the newspaper, something wrong? Yeah, that's
how they will. It's reality. You can't, we can't be angry about it. Therefore each and every one of
us, we must make extra effort that what's happening in Europe, it's happening in America doesn't
		

			happen here. That hamdulillah our kids will still be allowed to come to madrasa we will still be
allowed to build our massage it will still be allowed to, to live our Islam freely. But the only way
to do that is to be part of the society and be productive members of the society. We need to look at
what's happening. Not just at the schools, the Muslim school. What's happening in Khayelitsha, not
only Muslim kids, what's happening to non Muslim kids. We speak out against corruption even if it's
against us. We look at the poor, even if it's non Muslim people, when we start helping and building
the society, society will help us as well. It's just natural. And therefore it's something for us to
		

			think about. This is the reality of the world we living in.
		

			We have we know a few, a few big events that occurred in terms of terrorism. And this is of course,
one of the the people that benefit the most from terrorism are the same white supremists,
nationalists, the same people that are anti Islam. They are the ones that love ISIS the most every
time a Muslim, and yes, we 1.6 billion of us, there's always going to be rotten apples, they're
always going to be misguided people, whenever one of us makes a mistake, I'm sure they jump up for
joy. They're not angry, they're not upset. They enjoy it. Why? Because this further gives them
ammunition to show that we are evil, that we are a threat. So terrorism is something that affects us
		

			the most. We are the people that are hurt the most by terrorists when in fact, if you look at the
		

			terrorist acts in Europe, there'll be a few incidences. 10 people 20 people die and I'm not
cheapening anyone's life. But if you look at what happens in Muslim countries, hundreds of people
are killed. For example, the biggest one of the biggest terrorist attacks we had, and most of us
might not even know and if you ask what terrorist attacks happen, they will say there was a concert
in England with some teenagers were killed, but they won't know that 500 500 people were killed in
Mogadishu in Somalia. Why could Somali lives not important to anti British people is more important
than 500 Somalis people going to in the market just in the in the marketplace, children being
		

			bombed.
		

			A whole marketplace of people 500 people being killed 300 of them injured. And just recently last
month or so, there was an attack on a gyptian Masjid, it was mo Lu time. And a group of terrorists
came in and they in Juma they came in with a guns and they just opened fire on people sitting in the
masjid children and old people, ladies 300 of them being killed, this is in Egypt. Now as the
reality is, this is the and these people, you know, they ascribe to Islam, Allah will judge venia we
cannot, we cannot say with Muslim or non Muslim, but the reality is they. And there's a number of
reasons why Muslims will do this. We are against it, and we don't and we completely condemn it
		

			because we said the most people that are killed through terrorism is Muslims. And the effect on the
rest of us is that we are all painted with that brush. So we are the first people that are against
terrorism.
		

			We are the first people against it. And but once again shows, that is a mindset of extremism. We are
not in a room of extremes, you will always find in your budget, someone who has a different method
ideology to you a different method to you, someone who practice Islam differently to you. We don't
resort to violence. We don't solve our problems without fists. This is not the way of the prophet
SAW Salem. He had monastics living in Medina, he knew who they were when the Sahaba asked him, Why
don't you just execute them. So he said, I don't want people to say look at Mohammed, he kills his
people, he kills his companions. I don't want people to pay me with a brush, I execute those people
		

			will disagree with me. Now we've become a very angry, angry kind of way if I manage it goes up that
we disagree with religious bomb that Masjid if a group of people practice Islam differently to us,
the easy way out, let's just destroy them, kill them, shoot them fight with him, we'll just don't
have them. That's not the way of Islam. We have logic of reason, oma of knowledge. If you cannot
justify your views, from a from a Quran and Sunnah point of view, when it's an easy way to say we
will just beat them up. We live in a time where you need to learn, you know, we can't run away from
difference of opinions anymore. We can't have a little cocoon, we only cape Malay Muslim Shafi is
		

			will love you and they won't be anyone else will ever Christians on Sunday, there'll be no other
other other groups anymore. Now you must open our doors now. Now you're gonna have all kinds of
different views, all kinds of different opinions. The only way to survive, is to educate yourself
and to educate your kids. The only way to protect yourself is through knowledge, can't run away from
it anymore. We can't use violence. And this is the problem that we see in our own bodies, our
problem, and we need to fix this internally. And you find the wildlife, you'd find the people that
perpetrate these acts are usually youngsters with themselves and nothing about Islam, with
		

			themselves when through difficulty, hardship, you know, they're not doing well at school, they don't
have a bright future. And so some person with a beard, tells you just push this button, walk in that
house that magazine, press this button, and you'll go straight to all your problems will disappear.
Easy, easy way out, you will never find these people who themselves have the shakes of this group.
And you'll find these groups that preach hatred, there is no orlimar from amongst them. There are no
scholars that you could say, support these views. Rather, it's an agenda for power. It's an agenda
for political gains. It's a agenda for certain groups to monopolize, and will lie we know we said
		

			the same people that benefit from terrorism are the same people that are in power. They're the ones
that benefit from it.
		

			And then we see the double standards again. And we look at this double standard in America. We know
in Las Vegas, there was a guy he shocked he killed about 50 people. Right? But look at how they
describe him. They will say that a lone gunman is a man alone, right? When you say Muslim, when it's
a muslim terrorist, all of them. It's an Islamic terrorist and Islamic terrorists. Islam is the
problem. But there's a lone gunman. They don't say a white gunman a Christian gunman No, no, he's
alone. crazy, insane person, we have nothing to do with him. Now this is the this is the double
standards. Again. You can't we can't we can't do anything about that. All we need to do is work
		

			harder to show that this is hypocrisy. We need to show the reality.
		

			So we're going through a list of the major events that occurred this year. And if you look once
again, we said in terms of terrorism, we have a problem we have we have extremist ideologies that
need to work extra hard. You need to speak to your kids about this. What do you think about
terrorism? What do you think about violence? What do you think about non Muslims, you need to ask
them about this so that we find logic we find a reasonable way out, but also understand there will
always be a group that will use that will have this double standard that we live in as Muslims
double standards.
		

			We also know that while
		

			Everyone is using the killing of a few people say minor terrorism, the major terrorists are not
being held to account, major terrorist monologue, do you know that we are at risk for the first time
in like 50 years of nuclear war? Now, people are talking about bombing each other with nuclear
bombs. Now, if one can see that all of us are going to be affected, the whole world will suffer. And
these are the same educated, the same advanced nations that are making these threats. And we need to
be away. That's vanilla, we know, I'm not here to preach doom and gloom, where we have hope we have
of positivity, but understand that we live in a very, very dangerous time. We have very
		

			irrational, very corrupt, very bad leaders ruling this world. And they will make decisions, even if
it means to sacrifice 1000s millions of lives to further their own personal agenda, they will do so
we live in a time where we cannot say for sure. I mean, as be prepared, the unthinkable might
happen.
		

			Remember, it wasn't was like 100, less than 100 years ago when nuclear bombs were dropped on a
country.
		

			And history repeats itself. So we need to be aware that at the moment is a crisis between the West
Western World War America, North Korea. What's happening in North Korea, we don't and again, as
Muslims, we don't always have to take aside as Muslims we feel while we don't like America and
Trump, so I need to support North Korea. No, both sides are on both sides have their own political
and personal gain nothing to do with it. We speak out against these kind of things. We shouldn't
have weapons like this on Earth. No country should have a nuclear bomb. No country should have the
ability to wipe out millions of people with one button that shouldn't happen.
		

			No matter how bad our enemies are, you cannot bomb an entire city and kill women and children in
that it's a crime against humanity to have these weapons Alhamdulillah once again, we say we're the
only country on earth that had nuclear weapons and the voluntarily gave it up we gave it away we had
the technology and we said we don't want this technology. There are certain things that mankind
should not have. Because we're so irresponsible. A time might come when these things are used it as
it happened before we make do our we don't love to see that. We teach we should teach our kids we do
not solve our problems even as bad as the enemy is never ever will our Deen our models allow us to
		

			bomb an entire city, entire country like that? Never.
		

			Yet, when we look at our own own lands, we see we are at war. Every year. We know that list of names
of Muslim countries at war with itself we don't have to look outside. We don't have to blame outside
threats and enemies. We need to our to fix our oma we need to fix ourselves. Sometimes we look at
our problem and say what's the problem with the Muslim world? We say we point to Israel, we pointing
to Washington. Yes, that's an external problem. But the biggest problem is internally our house we
are we need to fix our own house first. What's happening in Syria, in Yemen, in Iraq and Afghanistan
in Libya? Yes, they were external influences. But now those influences are gone. And we are still
		

			killing one another Muslim killing Muslim. And sometimes in the name of Islam. how disappointed
salatu salam would be if he was here today. If we looked at the state of Alabama,
		

			every one of these countries they spend so much on killing fellow Muslims. These countries are in
disaster, why
		

			for powerful gain for the dunia
		

			you find for example in Cydia, how long has it been six, seven years, seven years of civil war seven
years of kids not going to school, seven years no hospitals being built seven years, a whole
generation of kids imagine you were born when the cutaneous opener was started. What kind of person
are you when you're now 18? When all you knew day in day out bombs falling? If you haven't gone to
school, what kind of person are you? What can that what is going to happen to that child? They will
just perpetuate the cycle of violence. We are dean of peace Edina rahama it we don't find this in
our in the heart of Muslim lands in the heart of Muslim lands. And we don't blame you can't blame
		

			anyone else besides ourselves. This oma needs to fix itself. Alhamdulillah I said we are not inside
this thing. We our kids can go to school. We can learn our Deen we can practice it freely. And
therefore we have a responsibility. When you look at this list, and you realize Subhanallah what
country and and really ask yourself, What country would you rather live in as a Muslim? You wouldn't
want to live in any of the Muslim countries. Sadly, you wouldn't want to live in the Middle East.
You wouldn't want to live in the Western world anymore as a Muslim. You would you would struggle to
find a better place for you Islam than here locally. But the question is, what are you doing? Many
		

			times
		

			We look at a situation and we feel what we don't have. We look at look at what other people have.
But seldom do we ask look at what we have what Allah has given us. And remember, every blessing is a
taste. every blessing is a taste. I was going to ask you and me, what did you do with this blessing?
You've been here for 300 years. You could practice your deen freely. Why is your deen not increased?
Why is your numbers are increased? What have you done with that?
		

			The people of Syria the people of Yemen, they know we're not better than them that they go through
this hardship, good, pious people even better than us. It was testing them. We are being tested with
something else blessings, we are being tested with ease and comfort. What are we going to do with
it?
		

			We need to look at these problems. These are our problems. This is our children. We are one mama one
brother, would you need to look at this as your What are we going to do to fix it? Maybe we can't
fix it tomorrow. But we can work towards it. We need to work towards fixing the oma. And many of
these things. If you as I said, step number one, at least get to know what's happening on the
ground, at least learn so in this holiday period. Ask yourself, why is the fighting in Yemen? Why
are the Saudis bombing Yemen? Why is Iran involved in Yemen? What? It's got nothing to do with the
people of Yemen? We didn't start Why is it there? What's the agenda? What's going to happen
		

			tomorrow? Why are 20 you know, hundreds of 1000s of people Yemen starving, and no one is sending
them food? Why not? Just around the corner of Dubai? We as you know spine? Allah, it's the it's the
most luxurious country on Earth. It's just around the corner people are starving. Why? Why is this
happening? We are the Muslim leaders, what's wrong with us? Why are we going that way? And how do we
protect ourselves from following that?
		

			It's been a bad year in terms of humanitarian crisis.
		

			The United Nations actually said that. This year, the UN warned that the world is facing the biggest
humanitarian crisis since World War Two, with over 20 million people at the risk of starving and the
countries that they they highlighted the worst of them Yemen because this war Muslims, Muslims are
allowing people to eat, they stopping food from coming in Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria is a Muslim
country, South Sudan, not a Muslim country. But since World War Two, this year has been the worst
year in terms of people starving, more people are dying of starvation this year than ever before.
Not because we don't have food. Do you know that we have more food than there are people to eat?
		

			millions of tons of food is destroyed every year, because it's excess. So why are people still
starving? Because we insan humans people stop others from getting it. They are relief agencies.
There are people that says you know what I will give the people of Yemen food I will give the people
of Somalia food, I will give the people of Hazzard food. But there will be some tyrant who says we
will not allow you to feed the people. It's a tool starvation is a tool, we will make sure that they
will either starve to death or they will do what we want them to do. Now, when people do that, a lot
of response. And therefore it's no surprise that you found this year was of the worst years in terms
		

			of natural disasters. For the first time in history. There's you know, 50 years, 100 years, you had
two storms of category five magnitude. You don't find this twice a year. Yet it happened one after
the other. Hurricane Harvey hurricane Irma hurricane Maria
		

			it devastated so many countries. So we knew we start doing operation. Allah subhanho wa Taala taxes
Rama and mercy away and you start seeing this we know the profit zones is close to piano, you would
find strange weather patterns coming close to the time of the gel will be drought a global drought,
famine. Why? Because of the sins that we are doing the sins of inside not against Allah against one
another. Because we cause others to starve. We cause others to struggle. So Allah Rama goes away.
And we are in Cape Town we are feeling a drought, the worst drought in 100 years. We need to ask
ourselves why we don't one of the reasons why Allah withholds The rain is when we are corrupt in our
		

			dealings financially, when we don't pay Zakah what is really what is Zakah is feeding the poor Zakah
is giving the poor their rights. So when the rich oppress the poor, Allah subhanho wa Taala punishes
by withholding his reign. When you do not fulfill your duty to humanity, then a law responds by
withholding is a hammer is a B has to be a counterbalance here. Allah says in the Quran, if I were
to really hold insaan accountable for what they did, they will not be a single living creature left
on earth, if I truly gave you what you deserved. It's in the Quran. So when we look at natural
disasters, it goes hand in hand with the human disasters. And in fact, it's because of our
		

			corruption, our sin, our
		

			immorality that Allah subhanho wa Taala is all this drama. And of course when we return to giving
and being kind, that's when the rains will come. That's when the Rama will come, that's when the
blessings will come. So if you want to do something against for the drought, we living in a drought
right now is the farm and give charity, pay us aka and give charity. That's the best thing to bring
the reins back. Allah grant that this is routings.
		

			And hand in hand with that we find drought. What do we find corruption in our country. That's a
local issue. And I'm sure it's even worse nationally or globally. But we find this year. A big theme
this year in local politics is local corruption. We found and we know for a fact that a certain
group of elite people in government have captured government, way government industries, government
departments are used for personal gain. National Treasury, National Intelligence Agency is not used
to protect the people or to feed the people to help the people, but used to serve the agenda of a
few people.
		

			When a group of people get to this level, where they're able to steal, not millions, we're talking
billions. That's billions of rands to build schools built hospitals, to to uplift entire
communities. For a handful of people we ask when is enough, when have you stolen enough? When we
talk about billions, you've stolen, you know, billions of rands, you know, if you put a just
hypothetically, just to give you some idea, if you put a billion Rand in the bank, and you earn
interest, which is haram on that, you will get 100 million Rand back in interest every year, that is
over 7 million Rand a month, the bank will give you free of charge. So why do you need to steal 10
		

			billion? Why do you need to steal 100 billion?
		

			Why the answer behind Allah it's being stolen from the poorest of the poor. It's being stolen from
people that need it, if that's why in Islam, we have xhaka, because Allah has made it that there'll
be rich people, and there'll be old and weak and orphans, people that can't help themselves. So the
rich need to support them, as Allah gives you, you need to support those around you. So what
corruption that is the worst kind of stealing, it's not stealing from the rich, it's stealing from
the poor taking food out of the mouths of the poor. There are whole generations of youngsters, who
could have become doctors, lawyers, scientists, but because money isn't going to the education of
		

			the university, they fall in the wayside to drugs. This is the reality. So on a government level, we
know we have a corrupt government, we know that and more and more comes out the extent of the
corruption. How much of it is for working hard working people, your taxes increase, you pay more for
electricity you pay more for, for for government services? Why? So that further corruption
continues. That's the reality of it. And Allah subhanho wa Taala we see it, you will see it on the
ground. Everyone else now to make a buck you cut corners as well. You cheat in your own business
dealing, criminality increases, as the Allah will always say, the people are reflections of the
		

			leaders. When they lead as a pious you'll find the people are pious, when the leaders are corrupt,
the people become corrupt. When a leader steals from you, now everyone needs to steal. Now if you go
to a certain country way, corruption is part of reality. You cannot even get a document stamped, a
photocopy made at the police station, where the oma face without putting a tender and on the table
for the man. It's just part of life. Corruption becomes part of life from the top if the guy on top
is stealing, so for me to survive, I need to steal and so on It continues. You go to the doctor?
Yes, you want treatment while you need to put something in my back pocket. So behind Allah,
		

			we need to stop an sp What do we do? How do we stop it? Is people becoming part of your local
communities, civil society holds government accountable. When the people are the at the end of the
day, the power lies with the people. We need to speak out against this. I'm not saying we burned
down things. That's not how we do things. We don't go and and and, you know, destroy government and
Parliament? No, but we should show we will not allow this to continue. We support civil society.
People need to stand up, make their voices heard. And when we allow it to continue, it will just get
worse. And it's not only on government level recently, we found private companies, companies, big
		

			branded name companies are complicit in the some of the names of the bell pottenger KPMG. Stein off
sign off, for example, there's something you might have heard in the background style of big
corruption doesn't affect me billionaires lost their money. No, no, no billionaires didn't lose the
money. If you have 40 billion and you lost 20 billion. That's bad, but you still have 20 billion.
What really the people that got got hurt the most in Stein of our government pensions. If you work
for the government, you lost billions.
		

			The biggest investors in these companies are the government pension, the teachers, the doctors, the
engineers, the police, the army.
		

			Obviously the government takes the pension puts in the company invested. So when you're 60 years old
years and income for you, this money was put in a company like Steinhoff. So a elite group of people
that lied, that cheated, caused a company that was it's the second biggest furniture company on
Earth, to basically almost collapse 90% of his wealth gone. government workers have lost big chunks
of the pension. So this isn't something that doesn't concern you. It's something that concerns you.
If you work for government, you've lost money. And again, how the government allow this to happen,
and why do we allow this to continue to happen, but once again, it shows there's an elite group of
		

			people, some of them in government, some of them sitting in offices, and they live their life that
they can exploit the masses. They live their life, they can steal without any limit, there's no
limit to say we're talking billions, hundreds of billions of we ask when is enough, and will lie to
sickness, Allah subhana wa Tada, once you start stealing, Allah will not put Baraka in that meaning
you can still move and more and more, it'll never be enough. Where's the man who does his business,
honestly, 10,000 and will be enough for you. Some of you.
		

			Many of us here, in fact, enjoy greater happiness than some of these people that are living through
this massive corruption. looking over their shoulder every minute, they can't get out. My nephew
asked me Can you imagine how much these people will enjoy? You know how happy they are with the
billions that they've stolen, so they're not happy? Every day, you know, time is gonna come and a
lot more expose the Titans. I was gonna show him and he's gonna lose everything. And he always has
to look over your shoulder. But the prophet SAW Selim sees that little bit that you've earned
halaal. Allah puts Baraka in it, you'll find happiness in that that meal that you eat will be more
		

			enjoyable to you, then whatever that person is having in his palace, because there's earned of
haraam. There'll be no joy in this dunya or the architect something to learn. Yes, you're not on
that level. But you all are running businesses, you're part of a company. Don't cut corners, don't
cheat your boss, don't cheat your customers. Don't cheat the domestic workers working for you don't
cheat the government don't cheat anyone. So that one day when we stand before a law, we can say
yeah, I didn't make much tahajjud I didn't fast much. But everybody ran and was halaal. No one can
make a claim against me and piano, I earned something in the Haram means it was little but it was
		

			Helen Allah Baraka in that
		

			of the major events that occurred. And as we see, a lot of our data has caused changes. And
throughout the world leaders are changing. The old leaders, new young faces are coming in, because
people are tired of the old faces. People are tired of the same status quo. So you had for example,
Robert Mugabe was deposed as a leader. And we found the ANC national conference just a few weeks
ago, that's a new leader has come into play, we ask Allah to replace them with better leaders. Will
Allah grant that if there are bad leaders guide them and if they're bad, then replace them with
someone better. And we support new leaders. We don't and we don't say only the Muslim leaders, our
		

			leaders know, we live in a non Muslim country, these leaders are leaders, and we don't work against
the leader, we support him in good and we advised him when he could mix it wrong. And we every
chapter, as it shows you, no matter how bad things are, Allah will bring someone new, with patience
with time we work towards it, Allah Subhana will change and then replace them just moving on and
we're running out of time here. We know also in a local in a local since a Shia mosque, there was a
grand opening of a Shia mosque in Cape Town. And while the actual event is not that significant is
how we responded as a community. You found certain groups that were extreme, you know, we must burn
		

			this mystery down. We hate them that far. That's one extremist view. There's another extreme view
that says if we all the same, there's no differences. reality, this is reality. Now, understand, we
cannot as I said before, you can't hide away from fitna, you can't hide away from differences of
opinion. You have only the only way for you is to educate yourself, to learn evidences to prepare
your kids. Your kids are going to ask you now what's the Shia what's the Salafi? What's our hobby?
What's the Hanafi what's the Shafi? You know? What are the differences? Why do my feet pick my
friends celebrate Christmas? I don't we can't we live beyond the time we we just don't don't listen
		

			to what the Imam says and keep quiet makes my job easier but it's not the reality anymore can't do
that. We need to educate our kids that there are different groups out there and we live in a society
that we wouldn't have it any other way we different groups are allowed if if if the government only
allowed one way one method one religion, the Islam wouldn't be allowed to be practiced here everyone
be Christian. Right so we we are happy Alhamdulillah we live in a society we must can open up way
madrasahs can open up Yes This means that across the road, Satan's temple can open up across the
road.
		

			You can't do anything about that. Around the corner shebeen will open up everyone is given equal
rights. So therefore, we need to work harder to educate our kids to learn with regards to Shiism
specifically,
		

			don't get involved in debates. It's not for you and me to get involved in debates, but educate
yourself and how you educate yourself. Learn about the Sahaba if you know who the Sahaba are, you
know who abubaker is Omar is worth man Raja washer is how much the prophet SAW several of these
people that will be enough for you, you'll never be able to really fall into any group that curses
and insults them never be able to do that. So your job people have asked me all the time, speak out
against Shiism as we can have a lecture on that. But before I can speak about those things if you
don't know who Mohamed Salah Salam is any Sahaba then you have not learned the basics. One of the
		

			sicknesses of this is we jump into the controversy and we don't know the basics. We don't know how
to make solder properly to take we do properly but we want to know about terrorism. We want to speak
out against government. When is the controversial stuff we want to get into? How many times you ask
me is Bitcoin hollow? Is Bitcoin hollow? Awesome is is your basic finance of interest? How long is
your basic job hold on? I don't the extreme stuff we focus on but the basics we don't focus on.
That's one of the reasons why we fall into fitna. So learn the basics.
		

			Then, of course, and I'm getting close to the India, one of the worst events perhaps the worst even
for us as Omar was what happened in Burma, the Rohingya, we saw a million plus Muslims being
brutalized by a serb by the Burmese government. And we saw a genocide that even a weak government, a
weak organized like the United Nations came out and said, this is textbook genocide. This is exactly
what genocide is. We saw what happened.
		

			Hundreds of 1000s of Muslims being expelled from Burma into Bangladesh. Now that's bad on itself.
What's worse than that is the response of the Muslim ummah. Was there any Muslim country that really
did anything besides woods? was a Muslim country that came in that boats, you know, humanity gave
humanitarian aid. The people that really did the the humanitarian aid are Muslim groups on the
ground, gift of the givers sense of the Islamic Relief. These are the people really going in this
room on the ground, but the people on top was entrusted with power. If you cannot protect the
weakest of society, then you have no right to be in power, really, as Abubakar Rajan said, when he
		

			stood and he became in his own inauguration speech, he said, I'm only years standing as the halifa.
So long as I protect the rights of the weak and the poor, that I take from the rich, and I give back
the rights of the poor. That's my job. That's the job of the government as the Amir, so Subhanallah
we find Muslim countries turning away these people, they come in the boats to Indonesia to Malaysia,
send them back. Similarly, back to what genocide, so we shouldn't forget. And while we might think
we don't have much to do, there's a lot you can do. You can write we have the Burmese Government,
yeah, we should expel them, our country should expel them. We have all people know the evil of, you
		

			know, ethnic genocide at a group because of the color of the skin. Right, we should say, we will
allow a government like that to operate in our country, we are getting to that, if you're that
backwards, you shouldn't be, we should demand our government to expel the Burmese government from
South Africa. And we should cut relations with them. And we should support organizations that are
feeding and helping these people and makes us think, again, this holiday period how much we spend on
clothing and enjoyment. 100 Rand could be used to buy whatever, but it could feed entire family for
a week. So it's not haram for you to enjoy your money. But it's something to think about when you
		

			when a pair of shoes of 3000 Rand, and that's enough to put a roof on a family's head, you need to
just ask yourself, is that right in my eyes, so don't forget what's happening in Burma is the worst.
And it again shows the weakness of the Muslim world, the weakness of the oma that we in. And then
the last perhaps thing that was that just recently happened. You heard about Jerusalem. So for the
last 5060 years or so, the world knows what Israel is doing is illegal. And the robbery of a country
they stole a country but because they have political power. All people have done is speak out
against it. So there was an understanding that Okay, you've stolen most of Palestine, at least
		

			Jerusalem, we won't allow you to claim that on paper, you can't claim it. And it was an
understanding for the last 60 years. And in the last month or so, the American government gave
legitimacy to the Israeli government to Jerusalem. They basically said, You know what, Jerusalem
belongs to Israel.
		

			So this is what was said. And
		

			they moving the embassy as we said, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Now, again, for us, it's like, well,
no one was killed. There's no fighting. That's the real that's the sad thing. It's like a thief
living in your house. The government says
		

			You know what we need to go through a procedure to find out who this house belongs to. In the
meantime, the thief, this house doesn't belong to you. Now the government comes in and says we're
going to give a new title deed to the thief. It belongs to him. Now, that's exactly what happened.
They've legitimize the crime. They've made it legal. And hamdulillah. We found that a week later,
the United Nations basically unanimously 128 countries against nine have all said that this is
illegal. And in 28 countries around the world sit to America, and only nine countries support
America, this thing is illegal. But again, what are we going to do about it? I think 28 countries,
		

			you're only going to talk about it. Don't expect favors from outside the outside world. Don't expect
favors from people outside this room. If we as Muslims can fix our own problems. Don't think
someone's going to come and support you. So as we approach 2018, we learn from the mistakes of 2017.
We go back and we think long and hard we part of a bigger oma. We need to educate ourselves, educate
our kids, learn about the fitna speak to kids about what's happening in the world. Because
Subhanallah we are writing the chapters of our history. We are writing the chapters our history. We
need to make the world better when we leave this dunya We can't leave it worse than when we found
		

			it. So I was honored Allah bless you bless us. May Allah forgive us for this 2017 so much bad has
happened in it. Allah forgive us for for our negligence, our mistakes, and May Allah grant us that a
new year be better which will be better for you and your family and for me, and for all of us in
this room. Allah help the oppressed people of this dunya May Allah remove the tyrants amin sola
Zina, Mohammed received an announcement here
		

			the annual cape HTML Okay, so this announcement of the annual cape HTML will start on Friday the
29th which is today after answer till Sunday at the Annenberg High School
		

			in to get out men and Berg all are invited to the HTML inshallah we'll begin of the assets today
will continue till Sunday. It's all welcome inshallah. Just like last night, we will continue with
our if you have any questions or comments, you can email me with [email protected]. We'll continue
with our classes in the New Year Zack Lefevre Solomonic marble America