Muhammad West – Elections 2021 … now what

			Power we live in a shutdown rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad not only you also have big Marian my beloved brothers and sisters
of Sudan, why they can live better go to
		

			Al Hamdulillah Bill Alameen or praise and thanks again to Allah subhanaw taala and I should have
Allah Allah Illallah will be a witness and testify that there is none worthy of worship besides
Allah subhanaw taala we send our love greetings and salutations so beloved Nabi Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam who is pious and pure family whose companions and all those who follow his sunnah
until the end of time. May Allah subhanaw taala bless us in this dunya to be steadfast in the Sunnah
of Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam to be in his companionship in the era. I mean, meanwhile,
hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. We've just come through another season of fourth session of elections,
		

			elections 2021. The local elections is done and dusted for the better for the worse. And now what
hon Allah The question is what happens now. And after all, our street lights have been littered with
posters, and a lot of promises were made. A lot of lies were told, perhaps we could say even what
happens after that. Maybe your party won, maybe your party didn't win, maybe you didn't vote. I
think by and large, these a feeling of I can say a sentiment of, of dissatisfaction. No matter the
one who voted who didn't vote, there's a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the options on the
table. And I think I see the nods in the masjid. So even those who voted and they were very clear,
		

			who are they going to vote for? They came back saying the lesser of the evils. There was no one that
really stood up and captured our hearts and our imagination. There's a feeling of mistrust in our
leaders. And this is a problem when we have that kind of relationship between the elected and its
constituency. But let's take a step back. And we ask ourselves Islamically what is the relationship
between the ruler, the one in charge the emir, the Sorbonne, the President and the those who are
being ruled? What is our relationship? What is What is Allah Spanner the same? And Allah very
clearly mentioned our relationship between us and our rulers, whichever word you want to call him,
		

			whether he's the king, the Khalifa, the president, Allah sponses Yeah, you were Latina? Amanu Oh,
believers are Muslims, or to Allah obey Allah unconditionally. There's no questions asked when Allah
gives you a command, you obey it to rasool and obey, then a visa salaam, unconditionally, even a
visa Salah make something haram or halal, we accept it without debate. We're only Amoraim income.
And then the Allah says, and I didn't use the word end up here and obey Allah said, and those who
are over you in authority, meaning obey them, but not unconditionally, there is you have to
recognize the authority, you have to obey them, you have to follow them, but within limits within
		

			bounds. And it's interesting to highlight here when Allah says only among those over you in
authority. Number one, yes, it applies to the rulers, political leadership, but there are many who
have authority over us could be your parents. So when you are in the house of your father, you have
to abide by the laws, the rules of your dad will actually your mom, Henry, the government of the
house, you have to obey those rules. When you work at a company. The leadership of that company has
set rules and if you sign up, you need to obey those rules, whether you agree with some of them or
you don't agree with it. If you're part of it, you need to obey with follow the system in the
		

			masjid, you have a committee you have an Imam, you have a leadership. And so you're free to choose.
Sometimes we are authorities you can choose sometimes that authority, but when you have sort of
established that this is my authority, whether you voted for a different word, counselor, but he has
now someone else's become the word counselor. That person is the authority over you and your job,
our job firstly, before we ask them, What have you delivered, Allah says Our job is obedience within
limits, that Allah says for internet as acting fishy in that if ever there is a laugh, even a
disagreement between you and the rulers, but who do who will Allah but in turn that matter back to
		

			Allah and His Rasool in quantum to be liable young law, if you're genuine believers, you would do
this. If you're genuine believers, you would respect the rule of law and authority over you. You
will follow you your rulers and if there's any filler, it happens when you go back to Allah and His
Rasool in terms of right and wrong, if you really believe in Allah, the Lika highly fatal accident
that will and that is the best for you in the end, that Allah says this method is the best, because
you have some, some level you have two extremes. You're one extreme, where you have absolute
obedience to authority without exception. We don't criticize them respectfully. We don't speak out
		

			again whether that rule is around. We obey as we had said, If he says Worship Me, we worship him.
That's extreme obedience. And then you have the other extreme where you revolt and you rebel
violently against your leadership. Both sides of these of the spectrum is going to cause harm and
damage. And I think the worst of it is to have bloodshed in the road.
		

			Islam, Islam in see in its philosophy, you will find that it always speaks about having an amine.
		

			There's a hadith that says the person who dies without giving his pledge of allegiance to anyone you
don't have a leader, you die a death of God as Hadith you die a death of Jack Lea if you have no
authority over you, we don't have this concept which is free for all. In Salah you have an Imam, you
have an imam in Hajj even these an imam. The Masjid has an imam. The Committee is a committee that
mutawa lease of the masjid as mentioned in the Quran. There is a sultan, in the house, in the
government, wherever it is, there needs to be a shepherd. without a shepherd, the flock just goes
wild. And Islam is against this kind of this kind of philosophy. How How much do we obey them? Do we
		

			obey them when we feel like it? Do we obey them when they give us our our rights? So do we say
government we will only respect you and EU laws and obey you when you give us what is owed to us you
give us our electricity and our final so loadshedding comes we don't have to obey you. There is no
laws. Do we say that only the ruler that we like when we like you, then we obey you, then I'll be so
solemn will this harvest it. We gave our pledge to Allah's Messenger, to hear and obey our leaders,
not just Allah and that also but to the leaders, while active and otherwise meaning in times of war,
and in times of peace. In times of ease, when things are prosperous, when the economy is booming, we
		

			obey them. And when things are difficult, we also obey our rulers, even if we are deprived our
rights, even if we don't get our shape. We cannot dispute with this matter of leadership with its
rightful people when the ruler has been selected, then we do not rebel. I would so whichever system
we have, we have a chance to voice our concerns. We have a chance to challenge our rulers. They have
avenues to criticize, but we don't go beyond that. And once the matter has been resolved, and Hamlet
was resolved peacefully, then we have to obey until the next option. time comes when we give our
pledge
		

			that also says when you talk about the rules that you like you don't like even if a slave was
appointed over you and he ruled but he rule will Allah's book, they listen to Him and OBEY himself.
How's that? Hamdulillah we don't look at personalities, or people or color. We said so long as you
rule correctly, then we support you 100% But what if that rulership is not the best? So we said
hamdulillah if we had a good Muslim that rule you don't need we don't we don't we don't have an OB
anymore. You know alive some of us we don't have put up our machine we don't have a bucket has an
ominous here. So anyway, we for now, we would say we would do with any honest person Subhan Allah,
		

			right, the constituency says any competent and honest person will be happy with. Now what if you
don't get that you get someone that is not dishonest, or incompetent? What do we do with such a
ruler? There'll be some says there will be leaders who will not lead by my guidance, they will not
follow my sunnah. And they will not adopt my ways. They will be among the leaders, men who have
hearts of devils in their bodies. And we see them so Hala, we see them on the news all the time, men
that you think's panela how do you how do you know who's so much corruption and facade in the world
you are on the physician, the platform of leadership, the promises you will have leaders or Salam
		

			who have their shape on in human form.
		

			And the Sahaba then asked What should we do with them era Salah if we live to see such times if we
have such rulers? What must we do? Then at least we look what he said he said you will listen to the
Emir and you'll carry out his orders you will obey him even if he hits your back and he steals your
money you should listen to nobody you should listen to his panelists. But there are also lots of
this is very, very obedient you want us to be whenever you have somebody saying this hadith, we will
always fulfill our Amana whatever is required of us legally we will do if you have and I liken this
to to maybe your your parents or your boss, if your boss is a terrible boss.
		

			But you said okay, you quit me an hour late on Friday. I'll show you I won't come on to work on
Monday, you're gonna get fired for that you're gonna cause a bigger fitna. There are avenues and
ways in which you can dispute the always which you can complain. You can take those middle measures
and you can assert your rights, but you cannot rebel. And you cannot go against the authority in a
manner which undermines the authority. You might not like for example, what the Imam says in Joomla
when you make Salah you might have done something you do not stand up in the middle of sada and
scream. Afterwards, you can speak to the Imam and criticize in a respectful manner. And that is the
		

			adapt that is the discipline that Islam teaches you. We respect the office of authority, the office
of the presidency, the Office of the Imam, the Office of the CEO, we respect that wherever it is, we
expect that but then we also use whatever me a measure and method is allowed to us to voice our
concern to criticize another Hadith is not in the slides.
		

			Babs should be there. And abuse is the highest form of jihad is to say a word of truth to a tyrant
to speak truth to power, to voice the truth openly to the pirate, even though he doesn't like to
hear it, but you say to him in a respectful way, in the way Allah says Robbie Musa say to frown
Kowloon Lane go speak to fearing the worst of all men, there's no one was in fear or when there's no
political party was in federal investment, no one is worse than that. And Allah said to Nabi Musa,
when you speak to fear around you speak to him nicely, please remember, he's the king of Egypt, give
him that authority that he is, but you need to highlight these things.
		

			Now, one might say perhaps these Hadith are all in context of a Muslim government, a bad Muslim
government, right? What about a non Muslim government that says it is necessary upon a Muslim to
listen and obey the ruler, as long as he is not ordered, as long as the rule does not order you to
commit haram forces you to drink wine force us to do something, then you disobey. So as long as the
rulers don't force us to do haram, we obey them in what is permissible. And if he's commanded to
commit the sin, then there is no obedience in sin. Again, we give a very extreme example, you live
in a house of your father, your father is a non Muslim, but he pays the bills. You have to obey your
		

			father, when he says, You're going to come home this time. And you cannot, you can and can't do
this, you have to obey Him. But if he commands you to come and shoot, he commands you to drink
alcohol, you say not now, I disobey you, respectfully, with respect. And that is kind of the wisdom,
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			wise interaction that Allah subhanaw taala requires from us. Now, for Muslims living in non Muslim
lands, it's a bit tricky. It's a bit complicated. Some laws are easy, we can accept that we can, we
can follow some laws might go against our Sharia, some logos, we have an option to choose. And the
right arm, I have broadly defined two governments that are enlisting into two types. You have the
Muslim or non Muslim government. So we're not talking about non Muslim, Muslim rulers, we're talking
about non Muslim countries, you have what you call the hub
		

			where the government is persecuting you because you're a Muslim. Why? Because you're a Muslim. They
are trying to close down your misogyny, they trying to stop you from practice, they have an agenda
against Islam. So there are many governments who promote certain things which are haram, not because
they want to harm Islam, but they believe that this is okay. Now it is fine, you have the right to
choose, many Western countries are like that. But you have certain candidates, Pamela, like you have
the Zionist entity called Israel, like that. The government in India Subhanallah is like that. And
just on a side note, I have many colleagues in India that work with me in a university. And just
		

			this week, while we're going through our elections. Yeah, and I'm listening to our frustrations in a
country that has more Muslims than all of the Middle East put together, more Muslims in India than
the whole Middle East put together, Muslims, they are in living in extreme fear of persecution,
Muslims are closed down without me, if someone comes and he lays a complaint, you must be disclosed.
People are locked up without any rules of laws. Why? Because they're Muslim, there is an agenda
against Muslims. And this is a campaign promise that the ruling party is a Hindu party. And I'm not
saying this. We have wonderful Hindu friends and neighbors, we wish them well. But the government of
		

			India has a very anti Islamic agenda. Now the Muslims, they are in what you have what you call
battle harp, there is war from the government down and persecution. We do not live in that what
Hamdulillah we don't have that. We might have loadshedding, and crime and corruption and all those
things. But we don't have that what Hamdulillah. Now for Muslims living in that what should they do,
where Muslim is at war and being oppressed by his government, he has no freedom to practice his
religion. And really, the best option for them, and it's very difficult is the option of Hegira then
you leave. So as you saw, my teacher could not live in Makkah anymore, could not practice Islam. And
		

			so that is JIRA. And there are some, you know, this is an extreme view that we reject, they will say
all non Muslim governments, or like the, they persecute us, directly or indirectly, this is a
rejected view. Only if you cannot practice your deen freely, then you need to leave that land. But
we are Hamdulillah we live in the second category that is a man a safe country where our religion is
respected to a certain degree where we have the freedom. And it must be said with all the problems
of this land. There is no Muslim minority and this is perhaps factually true that there is no Muslim
minority on earth that enjoys the level of freedom that we have.
		

			You know, it would be unheard of that a Muslim candidate in Britain, or for President, for example,
in a major political party in America or wherever it is Western countries that have western values
that Islam will not will not be an issue. We saw so many Muslims in all political parties within
parties, whatever party they have seen your people that are Muslim, no one ever asks but this guy's
a Muslim. How can you vote for a Muslim? People don't in this country religion almost becomes we
don't see that anymore.
		

			That's a good thing that Hamdulillah we are not treated differently because of our religion, there
is no hostility against us because of Islam.
		

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			therefore, the fifth Council of the world, the majority of the fact of the matter, the overall the
Council of the world, they said that is not only permissible that we vote there, I should have given
this perhaps last week this week, but it is not only permissible that you as a Muslim vote, but it's
your duty to ensure that even if you have bad candidates choose the least evil. And if it's a good
candidate, choose the best of them. Because not all non Muslims are the same. You have on the one
side of authority will help them defended, there'll be Salam, and you have on the other side of your
own. And if you can make a difference with your boat, then it is your obligation, your logic, if you
		

			see something wrong, to change it with your hand with your voice. And if you don't do anything, then
hated with your heart. And that is the least form of Eman. And so when we choose the rulers,
		

			and it's the point is that now we've chosen, we have to look at and weigh the pros and the cons what
is best for our community, what is best for the agenda, Muslims and the Muslim community who is
going to respect us and our deen and our livelihood, who is the most competent and the most honest,
and sometimes it's very difficult. I mean, that is why if it was a clear choice, we would have all
known who to vote for. But because there is no clear choice, that is whether that healer, and we
make for those of us who voted, we ask Allah to forgive us that if we chose the wrong candidate, we
did so sincerely. And for those who didn't vote, I hope it was not just out of negligence, but it
		

			was in protest, we'll make dua for that as well. And for those who misses the wadi, for those who
voted purely out of apathy, that's a dangerous sentiment creeping in. And what is strange, there are
people here that were on the roads in times of apartheid, fighting physically for the right to vote,
but they've come now a few decades later, and they feel that there's no purpose to vote anymore,
that what we fought for. When I vote, I don't vote is immaterial anymore. panela scary that things
have gone to that level of apathy. And so if we look at the elections, and we take away, and what do
we do? Now. So some important points to note, this was the lowest turnout of people voting in our
		

			country's history, which means the majority of the people who didn't vote, which is the biggest
number, felt there is no fun either in voting, that there is no benefit in this, that every one way
is useless.
		

			And that's a worry. If that's the feeling, what do we do about it, we just leave it like that and
wait for three years for the next time. And we do that the same, because if we keep doing that, the
situation will always get worse, the situation will always get worse. So while there is no solutions
on the table, we cannot do nothing. That is that is a problem. And that's not just the Muslim
community. But the broader South African community feels the same way. And that is perhaps the
biggest number to put out the number of people that didn't want to vote to show how bad our options
are. We also saw Subhanallah, whether you noticed or not. And this is actually was a defining moment
		

			in our democracy in the ruling party that NC has come under 50% nationally.
		

			This is a big thing. And what what what we had for many years now we had one party that really
dominated, you know, they had they had the power to really push through a lot of a lot of changes.
Now that power has waned. And these no dominant one single dominant party. And, and analysts were
saying that, you know, in many parts of the world, you had a party like the ANC, you had
colonialism. So the Britain, Queen of England ruled much of the world as we know. And when the
British left you had a party that pushed for, for freedom, like Mahatma Gandhi, in India, the AIC or
the IAC, the ANC, the Indian National Congress, very much like the ANC. Those parties stayed in
		

			power very long, because they are the Revolutionary Party, the other party, which we recognize,
brought us our independence. But when those parties lose the majority, they never ever get it back.
Never in the world as a revolutionary party, when they lost the majority come back into power
formula so so for the ANC to ever get back over 50 will be the first time in history. It's a very
interesting way of thinking that in the next government will lower the next national elections three
years from now. We could have a new ruling coalition.
		

			Now we know the devil we know, we don't know what other devils might come afterwards. And that's the
scary thing. And we need to prepare for that eventuality. It can go for the beta, but it can become
much, much worse. It can become much, much worse. And so we're now in an age of what we call and it
wasn't only the ANC, the big political parties, the DMA EFF, they also lost votes panela. So even
the other big parties these this illusion meant that we don't trust them, that we don't support
them, that if we did vote for them, they are the least
		

			Some of the evils and we'd rather many people put their vote with smaller parties, independent
parties, new parties, looking for something new. These are hunger, that we need something different.
We really need someone who some party to capture our hearts and our imagination that will just give
us basic honest, they are honest, and they are competent. And for the next couple of years now, and
it will might be for a very long time. We have what we call coalition politics. Now, we're going to
have partnerships between political parties, won't be one group will be a team of parties. And this
		

			has shown to be very problematic throughout the world. These political parties don't have a good
record of working with one another politicians to begin with are not good at governing, even when
they have all Falah like the DA, you know, what I didn't realize is that they controlled the two
thirds of the majority in the Western Cape in the last elections. So every problem that was the, you
know, they had all the political power, they needed to push through changes, but still it couldn't
be done. The ANC also nationally a few years ago, had two thirds majority, they could change, you
know, they had no one to stop them. But still they couldn't they were ineffective. How are they
		

			going to push policies through now, when you have to talk to five, six different political parties.
Each has its own agenda, and not for the agenda of the people. So we are perhaps Mullah, protect us
up for a rough ride, where you'll find more politics and less governing, more grandstanding, more
false promises more, you know, fake news and bashing, that actually getting the work done in bottles
being fixed, that kind being tackled. And so Subhanallah My question is, what do we do? Do we allow
the circus to continue? Or do we do something about do we do something about it? So it's going to be
a new era for the next couple of years. But also Alhamdulillah, all the negativity, as I said, we
		

			live in peace and security. And we didn't we just saw a few months ago how easily political unrest
in Durban can cause chaos, we still a very volatile country. hamdullah no one was killed, there was
no violence. And for that we give sugar, because whether it is the Middle East, or Muslim countries,
Eastern countries, wherever you are in the world, even America Subhanallah the new president came
in, they stormed parliament, the Parliament of the United States of America was storming
SubhanAllah. So no, we should not take security and freedom for for granted. The situation can
become volatile very quickly. And our country has a history of volatility. And so we as a Muslim
		

			community, we need to not only be aware of this, but we need to participate. For many Muslims. Our
apathy, and disillusionment is why they want to participate altogether. Well, if you don't do that,
decisions are going to be made for you. The CDs are going to be made for you. And it will not get
better by you doing nothing saying nothing, not participating, nothing is going to change. And
Alhamdulillah. As I said, in spite of our minority, we hold a lot of economic and political clout in
this country, we are a powerful block a segment and by us disengaging, we lose that privilege, we
lose that ability. So for us, the biggest thing that we need to do now is to be part of our civic
		

			organizations, the organizations that hold our government accountable. Now is the time to put down
and challenge that our politicians who made these promises, you know, your word, counselor, whether
you chose him or not, whether you voted in four years, you would consider, but now you need to hold
him accountable. You cannot only wake up four years later, when he wants to five years later when he
wants to get your vote again. Now you have a list of things. Many times people complain and complain
on WhatsApp groups, but they don't complain the official channels I just had this conversation
before Joomla people complained to me about organization. I said, Why are you telling me that you
		

			tell that organization if you just want to moan and criticize, then this argument is irrelevant.
This is irrelevant. Nothing's going to change. But if you make your voice heard in the critic forum
in the correct platform, that is your job. Now remember, it's not only a good thing to do, it is
your Amana that Allah has commanded you and Musa said if you see something wrong speak up in the
correct manner. So now be part of your political association find out who won you would find that
with who she is. Have a conversation with that person get to know what did they what do they stand
for? Click down now the list of promises so you promised XYZ let's see if they're gonna fulfill it
		

			and hold them account every time you know we do this for companies. You buy a set it that way I work
if it's not what to your liking you make sure you phone us and we we respond. Do the same with your
with your politicians. And remember, by doing doing nothing, evil prevails by doing nothing is just
as bad as being part of an evil system. As the famous saying goes, it isn't
		

			for evil to prevail for good men to do nothing. So Subhanallah for us in conclusion, and we will
talk about perhaps practical steps next week. How do we hold our parties accountable? What do I do?
Where do I start? We have to put this down. But for us, Al Hamdulillah, we have a lot to be sugar
and to be grateful, and we thank Allah for the peace of security. We have a duty to preserve it so
that our kids don't live in a time when they say, Yeah, Allah, how much is of enclosed. We have a
government that is oppressing us, our deen can become like that. It's our your responsibility to
make sure the next generation the Islam and the morals and the livelihood is protected. We cannot
		

			allow the rulership of the leadership that is corrupt that's bad to take away our privileges. This
is our land is your land we also have African as well. And so us that is Mila that is part of your
your your Amana as a as a Muslim. Just two quick announcements
		

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