Muhammad West – Who to Vote – Points on Election

Muhammad West
AI: Summary © The Sharia principle is crucial in politics, as it provides guidance and guidance to avoid confusion and chaos. The importance of practicing religion and protecting political parties is emphasized. The upcoming elections are expected to be a focus on protecting citizens and finding the right party to support one's political agenda. The challenges of the current political establishment and the potential for chaos and violence are discussed, along with the need for a political strategy to prevent future political misunderstandings and show political dissatisfaction. Finally, the speaker suggests buying a book and a tarib for a gift.
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That he's none worthy of worship besides Allah.

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And we send our love and our greetings,

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our salutations to beloved Nabi Muhammad salallahu alaihi

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wa sallam whose pious and his pure family,

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to his companions, and all those who follow

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his sun until the end of time. May

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Allah bless us to be amongst them, Amin.

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May Allah bless us and protect us as

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a country. May Allah place the best of

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us as our leaders. May Allah guide those

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who are going to be our leaders. May

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Allah guide them,

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grant them to follow the guidance of

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Allah There is no guidance other than the

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guidance of Allah, Amin. Today we're gonna talk

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about the elections.

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I I'm still in two minds where I

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should just change this and talk about the

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importance of the miswak or something nice and

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neutral and easy. Because I have a feeling

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no matter what I say here, I'm gonna

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be the bad guy somewhere.

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And that's the nature of politics. In fact,

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the very first fitna and ummah was a

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political one, so hard on both sides,

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wanting the same thing, wanting what's best for

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the community. And I think I wanna start

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off with that. If you come to a

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different conclusion, to your neighbor, your brother, your

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friend, don't think that that person's conclusion is

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coming from a place of insincerity.

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That person might be wrong or you might

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be wrong, but ultimately, we all want

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goodness for our community, for your children and

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my children. The same school that my kids

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go to is the school your kids go

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to. We want goodness for all of us,

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and we might see things differently. And so

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whatever you hear, you might like, you might

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agree or disagree. It's up to you. But,

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alhamdulillah, I must caveat, I'm not being paid

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by any political party.

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I've been accused of receiving petrodollars from MBS.

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I can give I mean, Buranos bank details

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are there. The soup kitchen gladly accepts petrodollars,

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rupals from,

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Russia,

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political dollars.

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Any the soup kitchen accepts all of it.

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But we are not paid by anybody,

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and we're just giving our few,

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views and guidance as I think it's important

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for the Muslim voter. They want to know

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what should I do. And when the Muslim

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voter asks, what should I do? He's doing

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this from a sincere aspect.

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If he knows it is haram for me

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to vote, then he say, I won't vote.

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If he says, you must vote, I will

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vote, Then tell me who to vote for.

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I want guidance to do what is right

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with my Rabb. I want to be able

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to answer this question of the ifkiyama.

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What did I do? And so I'm gonna

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list some points and thoughts

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that we need to take into into consideration

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as we go into the election on 29th

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May. For those who didn't know, the 20

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9th May's

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elections. Alhamdulillah, you have a public holiday, but

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you have a duty to vote on that

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day. The first point we make, and this

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is the Sharia principle of the leader and

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the ruler.

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Allah

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made it such that it is wajib, it

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is compulsory

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to obey and follow the ruler whether you

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like him or not, whether he does his

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job or doesn't do his job, whether he's

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evil or corrupt,

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you need to obey him in so much

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as you do not do sin.

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Because without that, we have anarchy, then we

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have chaos. So Allah says in the Quran,

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Oh you who believe.

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Obey Allah absolutely.

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Allah's obedience,

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no questions.

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And obey the Rasul absolutely. If the Nabi

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sun sometimes says jump, you say how are

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you? You don't ask why are we? And

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then Allah says

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he didn't say

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obey those in leadership. He says,

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and those in leadership. There's deliberately Allah removed

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the word,

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meaning you obey the leadership because they are

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in charge of you insomuch as they command

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you to do that doesn't go against the

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sharia. Whether you like them, you don't like

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them.

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And we get this even more specific. The

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Nabi Muslim says, the best of all rulers

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are those whom you love and those whom

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love you. Now I don't think we have

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that situation, unfortunately.

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And upon whom you make dua for them,

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and they make dua for you. Allah musta'an.

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May may Allah grant us this. And the

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worst of rulers

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are those whom you hate and they hate

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you. I think we are in that,

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position. And we curse them and they curse

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you. Allah protect us. This is where we

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are. So then the Sahaba said, should we

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not go and overthrow these evil ones? We

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are cursing them. We're making dua against them.

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Should we not fight them? So the rabbi

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says, no.

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We do not fight and do not go

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to war. We don't cause rebellion.

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We don't cause mischief. So long as you

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are allowed to they the prayer is established,

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meaning also, you can practice your religion freely.

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You can make salah freely. You can be

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a Muslim freely. Alhamdulillah then that's that's okay.

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And then he goes on further. Abism says,

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as long as you can practice your you

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can make salah, the salah is established.

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And then he says, one of you might

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have a governor appointed over him, and you

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find that this governor indulges in all kinds

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of haram. It's a very corrupt governor.

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And

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even if he he might take your money,

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he might hit you, in such a case,

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you should not dis you should not obey

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him in his sin, but you should not

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withdraw yourself from his obedience.

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You cannot withdraw yourself from obeying him. I'm

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not going to follow your rules, your laws.

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That is not so. Allah has made a

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compulsory on us. Whoever is the ruler, whoever

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is the president in 29th, someone. We are

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and we obey. So long as you don't

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command us to do haram, then we follow

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your rules. But alt ultimately, point number 2,

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we should always remember,

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the ultimate law is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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And the best advice we can give to

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all the political parties, take your constitution,

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throw it away, take the Quran as your

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constitution, and you will find that everything will

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be right in your lands. There is no

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greater law than the law of Allah Subhanahu

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wa ta'ala, and there's no one that knows

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more than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala says,

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do you prefer to choose a law that

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is of ignorance comes from jahl.

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And Allah says, and who is better to

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give laws and guidance? The lord of the

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universe.

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So when the lord of the universe says

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the death penalty in it, there is life

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for you, it is good for you. You

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don't follow it, that's why you have crime

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that's out of control.

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When he says the riba is bad for

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you, you don't listen, then you have an

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economic system where a few controls everything. Listen

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to the laws of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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and that is the second point. Point number

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3. So someone might say, if the laws

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of Allah is supreme, but we have political

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parties who legalizes what Allah has made haram

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and make haram, what Allah has made halal.

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How can we even vote for them? How

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can we even support them? Allah says in

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the Quran,

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And whoever deliberately chooses a law over the

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law of Allah, then indeed they are

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And whoever deliberately chooses a law over the

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law of Allah, then indeed they are kafir.

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And they find you certain groups, they'll say

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for you to vote

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is an act of kufr.

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You support

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them in their

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ideologies

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where they would say something against that alcohol

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is permissible. You are free to do what

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you want. You are free to marry whom

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you want. This goes against the Sharia. So

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am I also liable?

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We say no. Nobody here, unless, of course,

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that's your belief. I am voting because this

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constitution is better than the Koran, then you

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have a problem. But I don't think any

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Muslim

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votes a political party

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believing that the laws of man is superior

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to the laws of Allah. No one believes

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that. We choose a political party

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for what basis? To choose

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the best of them or the least evil

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of them? And who is the closest

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to the Sharia?

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We say none of them are in line

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with Allah's command. At least 1 or 2

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might be the closest, so we choose that

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one because their harm is least. And this

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this is a practical religion. And so the

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ulama of the world, we're not the only

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Muslim minority in the world that needs to

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vote. The ulama council of these are the

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greatest scholars in the world. They have, you

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know, addressed this issue many years ago, and

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they said it is permissible for a Muslim

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who has the right to citizenship

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in a non Muslim country to take part

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in the elections

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and the like because it is more likely

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that the Muslim participating,

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the benefit we will do is we will

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bring benefits

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such as presenting a true picture of Islam.

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We would want to vote for a party

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that represents,

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the rights of the Muslims. We did wanna

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defend the rights of Muslims and support the

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rights of religious minorities

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and strengthen our circle of influence. So why

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would you not do that?

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And some scholars like Sheikh Ibn Uthayin,

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great scholar in Saudi, passed away. He said,

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it's not only permissible, it is wajib. How

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can you stand before Allah? And you saw

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one party is completely wrong and the other

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one is 70% wrong, and you just allow

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that 100% party that is wrong to take

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control. For example, our Muslim brothers in India,

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and I'll make it easy. You have one

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party clearly,

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anti Muslim.

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Their ideology

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is to harm the Muslims. Their selling point

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is we're going to get these Muslims

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out. How can you then say, no. No.

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No. I don't want to be political. I

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you can't be apolitical in a situation like

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that. You must be political. You must stand

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against this ideology.

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And so and in our situation, how can

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you say, I don't care who rules over

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me and who takes my taxes and how

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it gets spent? Who is in charge of

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my school, of my kids, and the hospital

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that my parents are gonna go to? How

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can you say, I'm apolitical? By not being

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political,

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it is a type of political stance which

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is bad. And so everybody must vote. Don't

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wanna use the word because it means that

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it's haram for you not to vote. But,

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really, you ask yourself, I have to stand

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before Allah. There's a genocide going on. Your

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country is falling apart due to corruption. Load

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shedding. What did you do? Allah, I joined

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the public holiday. It's not a sufficient argument

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to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So need to

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vote.

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And this one even more important. So why

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is this election point number 4, why is

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this election very, very important? Because

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there's major repercussions in the past. You might

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have said, well, if I don't vote, the

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status quo stays the same. The DA will

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rule the Western Cape, and the ANC will

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rule the country. And maybe that was the

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case. But there is a very real chance

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now

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that possibly the DA could lose the Western

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Cape, and the ANC, well, it's outside chance,

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could lose the outright majority, and you could

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have a new ruling coalition.

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And so we need to think about,

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as much as we are unhappy about the

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status quo, what replaces it could be worse,

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could be better, could be worse. And for

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you to not have a thought about it,

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at least, just think about it, consider it,

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make dua, what do I do, and then

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go and vote your conscience,

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it is really negligent on your behalf. And

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so if you look at the stats,

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2019,

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the ANC,

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had 58% of the votes, but they, consistently

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have been losing 5,

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They would have to align with coalition partners.

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And so this becomes a very important elections.

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We also know that the majority of the

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people who can vote are not voting,

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which tells you something. The majority of the

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people who can vote are saying no to

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all of you.

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We are a very unhappy country, a very

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disillusioned country.

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And the biggest demographic

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is not the Butas I see in front

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of me. It is between the ages of

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20 and 20 and 35. This is the

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majority of our country today, the youth,

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who have no allegiance to a struggle, who

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are looking for an opportunity,

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who might not have the wisdom,

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and might go for different parties for radical

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reasons. And so it becomes very, very important

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to consider what will our country look like

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this time next week.

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This is very important. Your vote counts more

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than ever.

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Okay. So that's why it's important 2024.

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So what are the major issues? Now most

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of us know what the major issues are.

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When you take this consideration, you need to

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know what are we talking about, what are

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the big problems. Yes. Maybe in your street,

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your light hasn't been working, and that's the

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biggest issue in the world. Which party is

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gonna fix my light? But, well, there are

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bigger things to consider, and we need to

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look at the good and the bad. When

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we kick somebody out, we kick the ANC

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or the DA out. We kick the good

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with them out with them. And

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if we keep them, we keep their bad.

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And if we bring someone new,

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we bring their good and their bad. And

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this is this is the the the essence

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of the the mas'allah.

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So what are the benefits? What goods? What

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is what are the the current establishment? What

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is the good that they have done? Alhamdulillah,

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we can say thumalhamdulillah,

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not a single person here, I believe, fears

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for his deen in terms of being from

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the government interfering in his life.

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And this is a major blessing.

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Muslims who have been in India for more

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than a 1000 years don't know if they

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can practice their religion freely. Muslims in Muslim

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countries don't know if they can go to

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a Jumuah, and the khatib will speak the

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truth because it's not being watched by the

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government.

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The freedom you have

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did not come cheap and do not take

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it for granted.

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Muslims

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in the land of the free and the

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home of the brave

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can't even say certain slogans like let Palestine

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be free.

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In the most free of the world,

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so the level of freedom we have,

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don't take it for granted, and it can

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be lost if there's a change in politics.

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We are of the most privileged Muslim minorities

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in the world.

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We have a country that on paper

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believes in human rights, human dignity, freedom.

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We have,

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you might not believe it, but we have

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comparatively a stable country. You can go to

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court. Someone bumps into you, there's a process.

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You need an application made. You don't have

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to go and pay hundreds of bribes and

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fines.

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We have a process that kind of works.

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It's broken sometimes, but it's it works. And

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30 years ago,

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the world watched if this country is gonna

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be a failed state like so many African

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countries.

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Alhamdulillah, Allah did not Allah protected us from

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that. And those who were in charge of

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it needs to take credit that they played

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their role in what we have today.

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And we have a province. We also have

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to give credit that perhaps this province is

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the province that is best functional at the

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moment.

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And so all these things, we find Muslim

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non Muslim parties

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that have a very good alliance or relationship.

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We can phone them, and they will do

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their best to help us. They have great

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respect for Islam. And for us, I mean,

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which other

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which other country, non Muslim country, can you

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look at all the major political parties and

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you find in their senior leadership Muslims?

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And that's a good thing. Whether you hate

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the DA or the ANC, whatever, Alhamdulillah, I'm

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glad that there are Muslims in those parties.

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And someone might say, how can they be

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there? How can you be part of the

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DA or the ANC? Read Surah Mu'min. There's

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a surah in the Quran. The Surah Al

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Mu'min, the believer, not Mu'minoon, the one believer.

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Who is this man? Who is this believer?

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This is a believer in the administration of

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Firaun,

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and you have him in the Quran speaking

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to Firaun.

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Boss, chief, what you're doing with Musa? It's

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not right. We should think about this. Allah

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praises him. Did he resign?

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Did he say, no, Firaun, I can't be

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part of this administration? No. He's trying to

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pull the strings on the inside, and Allah

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praises him and puts him in the Quran.

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So alhamdulillah, we hope our brothers and sisters

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in whatever political party, your agenda is firstly

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the agenda of Allah.

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And you pull whatever strings you can for

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the sake of the the the betterment of

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the Muslims and humanity as well. So there's

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some a lot of goods, and we don't

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wanna lose these things. We don't want to

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lose this by changing the leadership. But there

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are big problems, and we can't let the

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status quo continue. And these problems, you might

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have a different list, a different order, but

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I've put them,

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for me,

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the things that's primarily on my mind. What

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does the conflict in Gaza say about you?

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It's not just about Gaza.

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But if you are okay with mass genocide

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of children and women, I don't want you

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to be in charge of my kid's school.

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I have a problem with that. I have

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a problem if your ideology

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your ideology is aligned to where some parties

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or some group or some type of people

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or some system is superior,

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and I'm not part of that elite group,

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then your policies will flow out like that.

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So I have a problem with that. I've

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made this a a primary issue for me.

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You might say, well, that's a foreign issue.

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But for me, it's a primary issue. If

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your stance on Gaza is very important to

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me.

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The economy and unemployment is

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can to to help our

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dunya well-being. If you can't create jobs

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because of your failing, then you need to

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take responsibility.

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And more than that,

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the inequality.

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So it's not only that we are a

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poor country.

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We have mass inequality. We are the most

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unequal society in the world, the worst of

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the worst. We have 7%

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of this where you have to or rather

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20 percent of this

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country controls 70% of this country. The same

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people who benefited from apartheid are still in

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control economically.

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So whichever political party you are, you haven't

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fixed this. And we must say this again.

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The Western Cape and Cape Town is the

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worst when it comes to inequality.

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The

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this city works, but not for you if

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you're in Manninburg.

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If you're in Bishop's Court, yes. But if

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you're in Bishop Labors, it doesn't work.

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People who are rich

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control and that and there is a party,

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and there's a and there's an ideology that

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maintains the status quo. We wanna keep it

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going. That's a problem for

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me. Then there's also a problem when you've

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robbed this country so blind

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to the point where we can't fix our

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roads. People die in hospitals.

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We've robbed it, stole it through corruption to

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the point where we are we can't even

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provide water, electricity, sanitation. People have died through

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your corruption. You've allowed an external family to

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rob this country blind.

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You need to take responsibility for that. And

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then, of course, crime. How can it be

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that we are most violent country in the

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world?

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Your primary objective is to protect its citizens.

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I don't care it's and Cape and Swahangla,

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Cape Town, if you look at the highest

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murderers,

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Nyanga, Guguleto, always features populist.

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Both the ANC and the DA need to

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take that responsibility. If you can't protect your

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citizens, there's something seriously wrong. We have load

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shedding. To have 289 days last year of

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load shedding, the whole year, you can't provide

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electricity.

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You claim to be the most developed economy

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in Africa,

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yet you find many African countries don't have

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the extent of load shedding that we do.

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Another shocking statistic, as we said, the majority

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of our country

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is below the age of 40,

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yet only 56%

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of the youth either have a job or

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are learning. The other 40, 45

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are sitting doing nothing.

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No opportunities.

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That's a disaster waiting to happen. It is

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a disaster, but it's even a bigger disaster.

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So these are the issues.

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And so when you vote,

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you must ask yourself, I don't wanna lose

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the good that I have, but I can't

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allow these problems to continue. And these are

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major problems. Can this economy deal with more

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load shedding, more corruption? Corruption? Can we deal

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with more crime, more taxes?

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How much more before the system breaks?

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And this is the challenge that we have.

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So how do I make a choice?

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What does the Quran? What does the Sharia

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tell us to do? Well, in a situation

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like that where we don't have a clear

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answer, we don't have a Sayyid Abu Bakr

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or Sayidna Omar Radiallahu anhu will come and

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we all say, well, lead us, we now

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have to choose and choose unfortunately the lesser

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of 2 evils. What is evil? No one

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is good. No one is perfect. And so

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we choose the pros and the cons. And

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we have to weigh up what is in

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the best interest first and foremost for the

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ummah.

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When I say ummah, I mean locally, internationally.

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What is best for our deen? At the

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end of the day, if you take my

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house, I'm sad. You take away my health

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care, I'm sad. But if my deen is

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preserved and I die as a Muslim and

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my kids die as a Muslim, then at

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least we've succeeded. But if but if you

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have all the khair and barakah, all the

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goodness, but my deen deteriorates,

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well, then that's a problem. So I need

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to prioritize my deen then my duniya.

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And every single person here, you must do

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the same. And we need to voice our

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concerns as Muslims

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and in a way in which it encourages.

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We need to make this

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vote

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change if whatever's wrong in the political establishment.

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We need to show them. We want you

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to change for the better.

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And if you've changed for the better, Wallahi

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will support you. And we will

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campaign for you, but you need to change

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for the better.

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So now let's get into the thick of

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things and look at each party. We do

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wanna name names, but now we need to

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name names. And when you go through the

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names,

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we see the

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the the hadith of the Nabi Salam. A

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better one asks, You Rasool Allah, when is

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qiyama gonna come?

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The prophet says, when the power of authority

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comes in the hands of the unfit person,

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then is close.

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Then is close. But

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you could be worse. You could be

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stand for our brothers in America.

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Allah, I don't know what they're going to

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do. So as bad as it is, it

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could always be worse. All, subhanahu wa sallai,

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said our brothers in India who are facing

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a type of genocide.

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They're fighting for their survival.

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We don't have we're not yet there. We're

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not there and may Allah grant us never

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to get there. So with all our problems,

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Allah has also given us a lot of

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benefits. So let's take 1 by 1 the

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ANC.

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What can we say about the ANC? Good

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and bad. 30

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years from a potential fail state to a

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functional state. They need to take that credit.

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We give it to

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them. What they inherited

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to what they delivered

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is better.

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We have a country based on human

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rights laws, courts.

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We know that this is a and I

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see this firsthand.

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They have a great respect for Islam

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and a great respect for the Muslim minority,

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for this Muslim community.

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Their stance on Gaza makes us believe in

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them again, And we hope that with all

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their failings that the ANC has found its

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moral compass once again.

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We hope it's not just a PR stunt,

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that as you are so strong against injustices

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in Gaza, you will be also against the

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corruption and the evil here at home. That

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when people kill each other on the Cape

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Flats, those are children also.

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But we can't

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just accept what you've done in terms of

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corruption. Inexcusable, the level of corruption. Look at

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all governments are corrupt, but there's a level

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of corruption

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where the country is brought to its knees.

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You can't say that 3 hand for the

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whole year, you have every single day load

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shedding, and we should just accept that. We

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can't accept that. It's been 10 years.

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15 years, 2010

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since 2010. You've had 15 years to fix

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it. How do I know if I vote

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for you again another 5 years it's not

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gonna get worse?

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The economy is is struggling,

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but more so you haven't provided a clear

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solution. I don't trust I don't trust that

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you have the solutions or the intentions to

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implement it. So this is the problem with

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the ANC, good and bad.

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The DA, Mohammad Rahim Al

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yes, they claim to be better at service

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delivery. I I don't know if that's true

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or not, but that's what they claim.

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They stance on Gaza though is unforgivable for

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me,

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And I cannot prioritize my potholes and my

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bins, even my electricity

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over the killing of children, for me personally.

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And this tells me who you are. And

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this tells me that if you're competent, but

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that's your ideology,

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what would you replace

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the ANC with?

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I cannot accept that.

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Their policies also have no problem in keeping

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the status quo of Cape Town. We have

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an elite minority which controls the entire

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city. That's a problem. There's been no effort

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to change.

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In fact, it's become more unequal under them.

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And we are the most dangerous metro, the

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highest moderators in in Cape Town. And the

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as I said, the interests of the elite

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are served. So I have a problem with

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them. The EFF.

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The

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really, this is a party which purely gets

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its its votes

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at the failings of the DA and the

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ANC and the disillusion. People are so angry

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and in anger. And this is this is

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how the BJP in India came into power.

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The Congress, Mahatma Gandhi's party, the ANC of

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India, kicked the English out. Obviously, over years,

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they became corrupt. We will rule until Jesus

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comes. That's kind of what everyone says. We

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will just but then you became corrupt and

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corrupt, and people became so angry that they

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went for a radical party, a party which

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didn't care about human rights, which didn't care

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about it was all about bringing down the

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establishment,

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a type of Donald Trump kind of mentality.

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And this is what we see. Not on

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models, not on ethics, not on principles.

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It is there to create chaos

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and to opt to get opportunity out of

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chaos.

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Their policies

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are not it does not align with what

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we know to be correct policies.

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It is purely there to incite anger,

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violence,

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to incite frustration,

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and so I find a problem with that.

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I cannot see, in my in my honest

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opinion, a d a a

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a Western Cape or South Africa ruled by

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the EEF being better

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than a Western Cape ruled by the DA

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or ruled

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South Africa ruled by the EFS instead of

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the ANC. I personally you might feel differently

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and you're welcome. I cannot see, and therefore,

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I can't vote for them. But now what

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comes to we have small parties?

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Small

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parties in the past,

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small parties

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didn't have much chance of coming in. Now

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as the bigger parties are all losing votes,

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the small parties become more powerful. And there

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are Muslim parties like the Sun Party, the

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AM4C Al Jamah.

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Voting for a small party was always a

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risk because you needed 50,000 votes to get

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one seat. If you didn't if they got

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30 or 40, all that votes were lost.

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So it was a wasted vote.

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And some of the small parties might still

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be a voice a wasted vote. We don't

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know how much they're gonna get. Al Jammah

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is the only one who broke into that

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threshold barely, just barely. They have one seat

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in parliament. What did they do with that

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seat? They got a position

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in the,

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the mayorship of of

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of of of of Gauteng,

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but there's a voice in parliament,

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and at least there's a seat.

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So now having these considerations,

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what is our political strategy, and what am

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I gonna do?

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This is me thinking out loud.

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If I look at the stats, look at

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the numbers.

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Last year last elections, the ANC,

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as we said, had about 57% of the

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votes.

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And based on the way they've been losing

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votes the last year, 6 5, 6%, there's

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a chance that you could change the ANC

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this year. Your vote could change the ANC.

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And you need to think about what does

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a South Africa look without the ANC,

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a DA South Africa or an EFS South

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Africa or a coalition,

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and you ask yourself, does any of those

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parties sound better? And if the answer is

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no, then rather the devil you you know

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and the devil you don't know. But if

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you feel genuinely

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that this party is better at ruling this

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country and legitimately they're gonna get, then you

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need to vote with your conscience. The same

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goes with the DA. And, SubhanAllah, the DA,

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only 52%

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of the votes in the Western Cape, they're

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very close to losing

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this province.

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And you might say, is the ANC or

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EAF ruling the Western Cape better?

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Then you need to make that decision.

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So we must make our vote count,

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and we must show our dissatisfaction.

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We need to show

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the problems that the DA and the ANC

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have ruled. You've made big mistakes. We need

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to show that

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without

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making it worse.

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That's the crux.

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You cannot

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replace remove something because I don't like it

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and bring something worse in its place. That

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is haram. It's a sharing principle.

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If you replace something bad with something worse,

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then you should not replace it.

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Maybe there is a a a claim that

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we should dilute the power

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of these parties.

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We should have coalitions. We should have smaller

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parties and opportunity.

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These are all things that you need to

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consider.

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For me, a possible strategy,

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I have no problem replacing the DA with

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the ANC in the Western Cape. Personally, I

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don't have a problem.

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And I have no problem with a smaller

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party

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have

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no problem with that as well.

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I don't see a better ruling party at

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the moment, not because the current ruling party

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is perfect, but I don't see one that

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is better. I can't see it. And so

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I will probably have a different party that

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I vote for in the Western Cape to

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the party that I vote nationally.

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I want both these ruling parties to know

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I'm not happy. I want both of them

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to fix it. I don't see the fundamentally,

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the policy the DA aligns with me.

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I want the ANC to find its soul

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again. There are some good apples in there,

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and I hope they got rid of the

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bad apples. And I want our small parties

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to become stronger,

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to have a bigger voice in parliament, to

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be taken seriously, and to fight harder for

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us. And so these are my thoughts and

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reflections.

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Ultimately, the long term strategy

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is not the 29th May. Where you and

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I have failed

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is we only wake up election time.

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Part of our civic duty is to hold

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the people in charge accountable.

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And if we don't have a viable candidate

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now, a viable candidate now, we didn't have

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1 2019,

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we didn't have 1 2014,

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How long are we gonna persist at this?

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If it's a small party, then we need

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to fix it, build it up. If it's

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a big party that needs to be fixed,

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then we need to fix it. But we

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can't have this fa'aun sake. This is our

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our country.

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And we need to play our role in

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being leaders and responsible,

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take care of our society, and play our

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civic duty. It is a mandatory. It's part

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of our,

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Wajibat

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as as Muslims.

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It is enough, as they say, for evil

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to prevail

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when good people do nothing.

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When we go back to sleep after 29th

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and wake up, I don't know, 20,

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29, and then ask, how did we get

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to this point?

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We can't do that. And so may Allah

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guide us to do what is right, to

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what pleases him. May Allah guide our leaders

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and our rulers and and may Allah appoint

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those who are the best of us. They

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are good in this country. May they be

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the ones that oversee our affairs. Aamin Aamin

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Few announcements.

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Hajj season. We make dua'u allahujaj and, of

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course, Qurban season.

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There's, too far back now. Okay. And then

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this was.

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Yeah. Okay. So a lot of announcements actually.

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Alright. So, Korban,

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if, you can speak to the Talib if

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you would like to Korban. Best deed you

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can do during the days of Hajj is

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to Qurban. Maybe we make a Qurbanian all

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the political parties. May Allah bless them.

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Amen. Right? And then our Hajj guide,

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we've put, released a Hajj booklet. The Hajjis

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will take with them, insha'Allah, on Hajj on

00:30:09 --> 00:30:11

Arafa. It's a wonderful gift. So not the

00:30:11 --> 00:30:14

Slavat is important, but the book as well.

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So please, purchase the book and as a

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as a wonderful gift. And then with the

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tarib, there's 2 khatams. 1st, there's a khatam

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for Palestine,

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Saturday, tomorrow, 25th,

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here at Buranos? Yeah. At Burano.

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9. 7 after Ishai. Yeah. For for for

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for for Palestine.

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And then Scottish

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will be having their

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on Sunday 26th May at Masjid Jafi, half

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past 7, in the morning.

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So much.

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