Muhammad West – Who to Vote – Points on Election
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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.
And we send our love and our greetings,
our salutations to beloved Nabi Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wa sallam whose pious and his pure family,
to his companions, and all those who follow
his sun until the end of time. May
Allah bless us to be amongst them, Amin.
May Allah bless us and protect us as
a country. May Allah place the best of
us as our leaders. May Allah guide those
who are going to be our leaders. May
Allah guide them,
grant them to follow the guidance of
Allah There is no guidance other than the
guidance of Allah, Amin. Today we're gonna talk
about the elections.
I I'm still in two minds where I
should just change this and talk about the
importance of the miswak or something nice and
neutral and easy. Because I have a feeling
no matter what I say here, I'm gonna
be the bad guy somewhere.
And that's the nature of politics. In fact,
the very first fitna and ummah was a
political one, so hard on both sides,
wanting the same thing, wanting what's best for
the community. And I think I wanna start
off with that. If you come to a
different conclusion, to your neighbor, your brother, your
friend, don't think that that person's conclusion is
coming from a place of insincerity.
That person might be wrong or you might
be wrong, but ultimately, we all want
goodness for our community, for your children and
my children. The same school that my kids
go to is the school your kids go
to. We want goodness for all of us,
and we might see things differently. And so
whatever you hear, you might like, you might
agree or disagree. It's up to you. But,
alhamdulillah, I must caveat, I'm not being paid
by any political party.
I've been accused of receiving petrodollars from MBS.
I can give I mean, Buranos bank details
are there. The soup kitchen gladly accepts petrodollars,
rupals from,
Russia,
political dollars.
Any the soup kitchen accepts all of it.
But we are not paid by anybody,
and we're just giving our few,
views and guidance as I think it's important
for the Muslim voter. They want to know
what should I do. And when the Muslim
voter asks, what should I do? He's doing
this from a sincere aspect.
If he knows it is haram for me
to vote, then he say, I won't vote.
If he says, you must vote, I will
vote, Then tell me who to vote for.
I want guidance to do what is right
with my Rabb. I want to be able
to answer this question of the ifkiyama.
What did I do? And so I'm gonna
list some points and thoughts
that we need to take into into consideration
as we go into the election on 29th
May. For those who didn't know, the 20
9th May's
elections. Alhamdulillah, you have a public holiday, but
you have a duty to vote on that
day. The first point we make, and this
is the Sharia principle of the leader and
the ruler.
Allah
made it such that it is wajib, it
is compulsory
to obey and follow the ruler whether you
like him or not, whether he does his
job or doesn't do his job, whether he's
evil or corrupt,
you need to obey him in so much
as you do not do sin.
Because without that, we have anarchy, then we
have chaos. So Allah says in the Quran,
Oh you who believe.
Obey Allah absolutely.
Allah's obedience,
no questions.
And obey the Rasul absolutely. If the Nabi
sun sometimes says jump, you say how are
you? You don't ask why are we? And
then Allah says
he didn't say
obey those in leadership. He says,
and those in leadership. There's deliberately Allah removed
the word,
meaning you obey the leadership because they are
in charge of you insomuch as they command
you to do that doesn't go against the
sharia. Whether you like them, you don't like
them.
And we get this even more specific. The
Nabi Muslim says, the best of all rulers
are those whom you love and those whom
love you. Now I don't think we have
that situation, unfortunately.
And upon whom you make dua for them,
and they make dua for you. Allah musta'an.
May may Allah grant us this. And the
worst of rulers
are those whom you hate and they hate
you. I think we are in that,
position. And we curse them and they curse
you. Allah protect us. This is where we
are. So then the Sahaba said, should we
not go and overthrow these evil ones? We
are cursing them. We're making dua against them.
Should we not fight them? So the rabbi
says, no.
We do not fight and do not go
to war. We don't cause rebellion.
We don't cause mischief. So long as you
are allowed to they the prayer is established,
meaning also, you can practice your religion freely.
You can make salah freely. You can be
a Muslim freely. Alhamdulillah then that's that's okay.
And then he goes on further. Abism says,
as long as you can practice your you
can make salah, the salah is established.
And then he says, one of you might
have a governor appointed over him, and you
find that this governor indulges in all kinds
of haram. It's a very corrupt governor.
And
even if he he might take your money,
he might hit you, in such a case,
you should not dis you should not obey
him in his sin, but you should not
withdraw yourself from his obedience.
You cannot withdraw yourself from obeying him. I'm
not going to follow your rules, your laws.
That is not so. Allah has made a
compulsory on us. Whoever is the ruler, whoever
is the president in 29th, someone. We are
and we obey. So long as you don't
command us to do haram, then we follow
your rules. But alt ultimately, point number 2,
we should always remember,
the ultimate law is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And the best advice we can give to
all the political parties, take your constitution,
throw it away, take the Quran as your
constitution, and you will find that everything will
be right in your lands. There is no
greater law than the law of Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and there's no one that knows
more than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says,
do you prefer to choose a law that
is of ignorance comes from jahl.
And Allah says, and who is better to
give laws and guidance? The lord of the
universe.
So when the lord of the universe says
the death penalty in it, there is life
for you, it is good for you. You
don't follow it, that's why you have crime
that's out of control.
When he says the riba is bad for
you, you don't listen, then you have an
economic system where a few controls everything. Listen
to the laws of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and that is the second point. Point number
3. So someone might say, if the laws
of Allah is supreme, but we have political
parties who legalizes what Allah has made haram
and make haram, what Allah has made halal.
How can we even vote for them? How
can we even support them? Allah says in
the Quran,
And whoever deliberately chooses a law over the
law of Allah, then indeed they are
And whoever deliberately chooses a law over the
law of Allah, then indeed they are kafir.
And they find you certain groups, they'll say
for you to vote
is an act of kufr.
You support
them in their
ideologies
where they would say something against that alcohol
is permissible. You are free to do what
you want. You are free to marry whom
you want. This goes against the Sharia. So
am I also liable?
We say no. Nobody here, unless, of course,
that's your belief. I am voting because this
constitution is better than the Koran, then you
have a problem. But I don't think any
Muslim
votes a political party
believing that the laws of man is superior
to the laws of Allah. No one believes
that. We choose a political party
for what basis? To choose
the best of them or the least evil
of them? And who is the closest
to the Sharia?
We say none of them are in line
with Allah's command. At least 1 or 2
might be the closest, so we choose that
one because their harm is least. And this
this is a practical religion. And so the
ulama of the world, we're not the only
Muslim minority in the world that needs to
vote. The ulama council of these are the
greatest scholars in the world. They have, you
know, addressed this issue many years ago, and
they said it is permissible for a Muslim
who has the right to citizenship
in a non Muslim country to take part
in the elections
and the like because it is more likely
that the Muslim participating,
the benefit we will do is we will
bring benefits
such as presenting a true picture of Islam.
We would want to vote for a party
that represents,
the rights of the Muslims. We did wanna
defend the rights of Muslims and support the
rights of religious minorities
and strengthen our circle of influence. So why
would you not do that?
And some scholars like Sheikh Ibn Uthayin,
great scholar in Saudi, passed away. He said,
it's not only permissible, it is wajib. How
can you stand before Allah? And you saw
one party is completely wrong and the other
one is 70% wrong, and you just allow
that 100% party that is wrong to take
control. For example, our Muslim brothers in India,
and I'll make it easy. You have one
party clearly,
anti Muslim.
Their ideology
is to harm the Muslims. Their selling point
is we're going to get these Muslims
out. How can you then say, no. No.
No. I don't want to be political. I
you can't be apolitical in a situation like
that. You must be political. You must stand
against this ideology.
And so and in our situation, how can
you say, I don't care who rules over
me and who takes my taxes and how
it gets spent? Who is in charge of
my school, of my kids, and the hospital
that my parents are gonna go to? How
can you say, I'm apolitical? By not being
political,
it is a type of political stance which
is bad. And so everybody must vote. Don't
wanna use the word because it means that
it's haram for you not to vote. But,
really, you ask yourself, I have to stand
before Allah. There's a genocide going on. Your
country is falling apart due to corruption. Load
shedding. What did you do? Allah, I joined
the public holiday. It's not a sufficient argument
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So need to
vote.
And this one even more important. So why
is this election point number 4, why is
this election very, very important? Because
there's major repercussions in the past. You might
have said, well, if I don't vote, the
status quo stays the same. The DA will
rule the Western Cape, and the ANC will
rule the country. And maybe that was the
case. But there is a very real chance
now
that possibly the DA could lose the Western
Cape, and the ANC, well, it's outside chance,
could lose the outright majority, and you could
have a new ruling coalition.
And so we need to think about,
as much as we are unhappy about the
status quo, what replaces it could be worse,
could be better, could be worse. And for
you to not have a thought about it,
at least, just think about it, consider it,
make dua, what do I do, and then
go and vote your conscience,
it is really negligent on your behalf. And
so if you look at the stats,
2019,
the ANC,
had 58% of the votes, but they, consistently
have been losing 5,
They would have to align with coalition partners.
And so this becomes a very important elections.
We also know that the majority of the
people who can vote are not voting,
which tells you something. The majority of the
people who can vote are saying no to
all of you.
We are a very unhappy country, a very
disillusioned country.
And the biggest demographic
is not the Butas I see in front
of me. It is between the ages of
20 and 20 and 35. This is the
majority of our country today, the youth,
who have no allegiance to a struggle, who
are looking for an opportunity,
who might not have the wisdom,
and might go for different parties for radical
reasons. And so it becomes very, very important
to consider what will our country look like
this time next week.
This is very important. Your vote counts more
than ever.
Okay. So that's why it's important 2024.
So what are the major issues? Now most
of us know what the major issues are.
When you take this consideration, you need to
know what are we talking about, what are
the big problems. Yes. Maybe in your street,
your light hasn't been working, and that's the
biggest issue in the world. Which party is
gonna fix my light? But, well, there are
bigger things to consider, and we need to
look at the good and the bad. When
we kick somebody out, we kick the ANC
or the DA out. We kick the good
with them out with them. And
if we keep them, we keep their bad.
And if we bring someone new,
we bring their good and their bad. And
this is this is the the the essence
of the the mas'allah.
So what are the benefits? What goods? What
is what are the the current establishment? What
is the good that they have done? Alhamdulillah,
we can say thumalhamdulillah,
not a single person here, I believe, fears
for his deen in terms of being from
the government interfering in his life.
And this is a major blessing.
Muslims who have been in India for more
than a 1000 years don't know if they
can practice their religion freely. Muslims in Muslim
countries don't know if they can go to
a Jumuah, and the khatib will speak the
truth because it's not being watched by the
government.
The freedom you have
did not come cheap and do not take
it for granted.
Muslims
in the land of the free and the
home of the brave
can't even say certain slogans like let Palestine
be free.
In the most free of the world,
so the level of freedom we have,
don't take it for granted, and it can
be lost if there's a change in politics.
We are of the most privileged Muslim minorities
in the world.
We have a country that on paper
believes in human rights, human dignity, freedom.
We have,
you might not believe it, but we have
comparatively a stable country. You can go to
court. Someone bumps into you, there's a process.
You need an application made. You don't have
to go and pay hundreds of bribes and
fines.
We have a process that kind of works.
It's broken sometimes, but it's it works. And
30 years ago,
the world watched if this country is gonna
be a failed state like so many African
countries.
Alhamdulillah, Allah did not Allah protected us from
that. And those who were in charge of
it needs to take credit that they played
their role in what we have today.
And we have a province. We also have
to give credit that perhaps this province is
the province that is best functional at the
moment.
And so all these things, we find Muslim
non Muslim parties
that have a very good alliance or relationship.
We can phone them, and they will do
their best to help us. They have great
respect for Islam. And for us, I mean,
which other
which other country, non Muslim country, can you
look at all the major political parties and
you find in their senior leadership Muslims?
And that's a good thing. Whether you hate
the DA or the ANC, whatever, Alhamdulillah, I'm
glad that there are Muslims in those parties.
And someone might say, how can they be
there? How can you be part of the
DA or the ANC? Read Surah Mu'min. There's
a surah in the Quran. The Surah Al
Mu'min, the believer, not Mu'minoon, the one believer.
Who is this man? Who is this believer?
This is a believer in the administration of
Firaun,
and you have him in the Quran speaking
to Firaun.
Boss, chief, what you're doing with Musa? It's
not right. We should think about this. Allah
praises him. Did he resign?
Did he say, no, Firaun, I can't be
part of this administration? No. He's trying to
pull the strings on the inside, and Allah
praises him and puts him in the Quran.
So alhamdulillah, we hope our brothers and sisters
in whatever political party, your agenda is firstly
the agenda of Allah.
And you pull whatever strings you can for
the sake of the the the betterment of
the Muslims and humanity as well. So there's
some a lot of goods, and we don't
wanna lose these things. We don't want to
lose this by changing the leadership. But there
are big problems, and we can't let the
status quo continue. And these problems, you might
have a different list, a different order, but
I've put them,
for me,
the things that's primarily on my mind. What
does the conflict in Gaza say about you?
It's not just about Gaza.
But if you are okay with mass genocide
of children and women, I don't want you
to be in charge of my kid's school.
I have a problem with that. I have
a problem if your ideology
your ideology is aligned to where some parties
or some group or some type of people
or some system is superior,
and I'm not part of that elite group,
then your policies will flow out like that.
So I have a problem with that. I've
made this a a primary issue for me.
You might say, well, that's a foreign issue.
But for me, it's a primary issue. If
your stance on Gaza is very important to
me.
The economy and unemployment is
can to to help our
dunya well-being. If you can't create jobs
because of your failing, then you need to
take responsibility.
And more than that,
the inequality.
So it's not only that we are a
poor country.
We have mass inequality. We are the most
unequal society in the world, the worst of
the worst. We have 7%
of this where you have to or rather
20 percent of this
country controls 70% of this country. The same
people who benefited from apartheid are still in
control economically.
So whichever political party you are, you haven't
fixed this. And we must say this again.
The Western Cape and Cape Town is the
worst when it comes to inequality.
The
this city works, but not for you if
you're in Manninburg.
If you're in Bishop's Court, yes. But if
you're in Bishop Labors, it doesn't work.
People who are rich
control and that and there is a party,
and there's a and there's an ideology that
maintains the status quo. We wanna keep it
going. That's a problem for
me. Then there's also a problem when you've
robbed this country so blind
to the point where we can't fix our
roads. People die in hospitals.
We've robbed it, stole it through corruption to
the point where we are we can't even
provide water, electricity, sanitation. People have died through
your corruption. You've allowed an external family to
rob this country blind.
You need to take responsibility for that. And
then, of course, crime. How can it be
that we are most violent country in the
world?
Your primary objective is to protect its citizens.
I don't care it's and Cape and Swahangla,
Cape Town, if you look at the highest
murderers,
Nyanga, Guguleto, always features populist.
Both the ANC and the DA need to
take that responsibility. If you can't protect your
citizens, there's something seriously wrong. We have load
shedding. To have 289 days last year of
load shedding, the whole year, you can't provide
electricity.
You claim to be the most developed economy
in Africa,
yet you find many African countries don't have
the extent of load shedding that we do.
Another shocking statistic, as we said, the majority
of our country
is below the age of 40,
yet only 56%
of the youth either have a job or
are learning. The other 40, 45
are sitting doing nothing.
No opportunities.
That's a disaster waiting to happen. It is
a disaster, but it's even a bigger disaster.
So these are the issues.
And so when you vote,
you must ask yourself, I don't wanna lose
the good that I have, but I can't
allow these problems to continue. And these are
major problems. Can this economy deal with more
load shedding, more corruption? Corruption? Can we deal
with more crime, more taxes?
How much more before the system breaks?
And this is the challenge that we have.
So how do I make a choice?
What does the Quran? What does the Sharia
tell us to do? Well, in a situation
like that where we don't have a clear
answer, we don't have a Sayyid Abu Bakr
or Sayidna Omar Radiallahu anhu will come and
we all say, well, lead us, we now
have to choose and choose unfortunately the lesser
of 2 evils. What is evil? No one
is good. No one is perfect. And so
we choose the pros and the cons. And
we have to weigh up what is in
the best interest first and foremost for the
ummah.
When I say ummah, I mean locally, internationally.
What is best for our deen? At the
end of the day, if you take my
house, I'm sad. You take away my health
care, I'm sad. But if my deen is
preserved and I die as a Muslim and
my kids die as a Muslim, then at
least we've succeeded. But if but if you
have all the khair and barakah, all the
goodness, but my deen deteriorates,
well, then that's a problem. So I need
to prioritize my deen then my duniya.
And every single person here, you must do
the same. And we need to voice our
concerns as Muslims
and in a way in which it encourages.
We need to make this
vote
change if whatever's wrong in the political establishment.
We need to show them. We want you
to change for the better.
And if you've changed for the better, Wallahi
will support you. And we will
campaign for you, but you need to change
for the better.
So now let's get into the thick of
things and look at each party. We do
wanna name names, but now we need to
name names. And when you go through the
names,
we see the
the the hadith of the Nabi Salam. A
better one asks, You Rasool Allah, when is
qiyama gonna come?
The prophet says, when the power of authority
comes in the hands of the unfit person,
then is close.
Then is close. But
you could be worse. You could be
stand for our brothers in America.
Allah, I don't know what they're going to
do. So as bad as it is, it
could always be worse. All, subhanahu wa sallai,
said our brothers in India who are facing
a type of genocide.
They're fighting for their survival.
We don't have we're not yet there. We're
not there and may Allah grant us never
to get there. So with all our problems,
Allah has also given us a lot of
benefits. So let's take 1 by 1 the
ANC.
What can we say about the ANC? Good
and bad. 30
years from a potential fail state to a
functional state. They need to take that credit.
We give it to
them. What they inherited
to what they delivered
is better.
We have a country based on human
rights laws, courts.
We know that this is a and I
see this firsthand.
They have a great respect for Islam
and a great respect for the Muslim minority,
for this Muslim community.
Their stance on Gaza makes us believe in
them again, And we hope that with all
their failings that the ANC has found its
moral compass once again.
We hope it's not just a PR stunt,
that as you are so strong against injustices
in Gaza, you will be also against the
corruption and the evil here at home. That
when people kill each other on the Cape
Flats, those are children also.
But we can't
just accept what you've done in terms of
corruption. Inexcusable, the level of corruption. Look at
all governments are corrupt, but there's a level
of corruption
where the country is brought to its knees.
You can't say that 3 hand for the
whole year, you have every single day load
shedding, and we should just accept that. We
can't accept that. It's been 10 years.
15 years, 2010
since 2010. You've had 15 years to fix
it. How do I know if I vote
for you again another 5 years it's not
gonna get worse?
The economy is is struggling,
but more so you haven't provided a clear
solution. I don't trust I don't trust that
you have the solutions or the intentions to
implement it. So this is the problem with
the ANC, good and bad.
The DA, Mohammad Rahim Al
yes, they claim to be better at service
delivery. I I don't know if that's true
or not, but that's what they claim.
They stance on Gaza though is unforgivable for
me,
And I cannot prioritize my potholes and my
bins, even my electricity
over the killing of children, for me personally.
And this tells me who you are. And
this tells me that if you're competent, but
that's your ideology,
what would you replace
the ANC with?
I cannot accept that.
Their policies also have no problem in keeping
the status quo of Cape Town. We have
an elite minority which controls the entire
city. That's a problem. There's been no effort
to change.
In fact, it's become more unequal under them.
And we are the most dangerous metro, the
highest moderators in in Cape Town. And the
as I said, the interests of the elite
are served. So I have a problem with
them. The EFF.
The
really, this is a party which purely gets
its its votes
at the failings of the DA and the
ANC and the disillusion. People are so angry
and in anger. And this is this is
how the BJP in India came into power.
The Congress, Mahatma Gandhi's party, the ANC of
India, kicked the English out. Obviously, over years,
they became corrupt. We will rule until Jesus
comes. That's kind of what everyone says. We
will just but then you became corrupt and
corrupt, and people became so angry that they
went for a radical party, a party which
didn't care about human rights, which didn't care
about it was all about bringing down the
establishment,
a type of Donald Trump kind of mentality.
And this is what we see. Not on
models, not on ethics, not on principles.
It is there to create chaos
and to opt to get opportunity out of
chaos.
Their policies
are not it does not align with what
we know to be correct policies.
It is purely there to incite anger,
violence,
to incite frustration,
and so I find a problem with that.
I cannot see, in my in my honest
opinion, a d a a
a Western Cape or South Africa ruled by
the EEF being better
than a Western Cape ruled by the DA
or ruled
South Africa ruled by the EFS instead of
the ANC. I personally you might feel differently
and you're welcome. I cannot see, and therefore,
I can't vote for them. But now what
comes to we have small parties?
Small
parties in the past,
small parties
didn't have much chance of coming in. Now
as the bigger parties are all losing votes,
the small parties become more powerful. And there
are Muslim parties like the Sun Party, the
AM4C Al Jamah.
Voting for a small party was always a
risk because you needed 50,000 votes to get
one seat. If you didn't if they got
30 or 40, all that votes were lost.
So it was a wasted vote.
And some of the small parties might still
be a voice a wasted vote. We don't
know how much they're gonna get. Al Jammah
is the only one who broke into that
threshold barely, just barely. They have one seat
in parliament. What did they do with that
seat? They got a position
in the,
the mayorship of of
of of of of Gauteng,
but there's a voice in parliament,
and at least there's a seat.
So now having these considerations,
what is our political strategy, and what am
I gonna do?
This is me thinking out loud.
If I look at the stats, look at
the numbers.
Last year last elections, the ANC,
as we said, had about 57% of the
votes.
And based on the way they've been losing
votes the last year, 6 5, 6%, there's
a chance that you could change the ANC
this year. Your vote could change the ANC.
And you need to think about what does
a South Africa look without the ANC,
a DA South Africa or an EFS South
Africa or a coalition,
and you ask yourself, does any of those
parties sound better? And if the answer is
no, then rather the devil you you know
and the devil you don't know. But if
you feel genuinely
that this party is better at ruling this
country and legitimately they're gonna get, then you
need to vote with your conscience. The same
goes with the DA. And, SubhanAllah, the DA,
only 52%
of the votes in the Western Cape, they're
very close to losing
this province.
And you might say, is the ANC or
EAF ruling the Western Cape better?
Then you need to make that decision.
So we must make our vote count,
and we must show our dissatisfaction.
We need to show
the problems that the DA and the ANC
have ruled. You've made big mistakes. We need
to show that
without
making it worse.
That's the crux.
You cannot
replace remove something because I don't like it
and bring something worse in its place. That
is haram. It's a sharing principle.
If you replace something bad with something worse,
then you should not replace it.
Maybe there is a a a claim that
we should dilute the power
of these parties.
We should have coalitions. We should have smaller
parties and opportunity.
These are all things that you need to
consider.
For me, a possible strategy,
I have no problem replacing the DA with
the ANC in the Western Cape. Personally, I
don't have a problem.
And I have no problem with a smaller
party
have
no problem with that as well.
I don't see a better ruling party at
the moment, not because the current ruling party
is perfect, but I don't see one that
is better. I can't see it. And so
I will probably have a different party that
I vote for in the Western Cape to
the party that I vote nationally.
I want both these ruling parties to know
I'm not happy. I want both of them
to fix it. I don't see the fundamentally,
the policy the DA aligns with me.
I want the ANC to find its soul
again. There are some good apples in there,
and I hope they got rid of the
bad apples. And I want our small parties
to become stronger,
to have a bigger voice in parliament, to
be taken seriously, and to fight harder for
us. And so these are my thoughts and
reflections.
Ultimately, the long term strategy
is not the 29th May. Where you and
I have failed
is we only wake up election time.
Part of our civic duty is to hold
the people in charge accountable.
And if we don't have a viable candidate
now, a viable candidate now, we didn't have
1 2019,
we didn't have 1 2014,
How long are we gonna persist at this?
If it's a small party, then we need
to fix it, build it up. If it's
a big party that needs to be fixed,
then we need to fix it. But we
can't have this fa'aun sake. This is our
our country.
And we need to play our role in
being leaders and responsible,
take care of our society, and play our
civic duty. It is a mandatory. It's part
of our,
Wajibat
as as Muslims.
It is enough, as they say, for evil
to prevail
when good people do nothing.
When we go back to sleep after 29th
and wake up, I don't know, 20,
29, and then ask, how did we get
to this point?
We can't do that. And so may Allah
guide us to do what is right, to
what pleases him. May Allah guide our leaders
and our rulers and and may Allah appoint
those who are the best of us. They
are good in this country. May they be
the ones that oversee our affairs. Aamin Aamin
Few announcements.
Hajj season. We make dua'u allahujaj and, of
course, Qurban season.
There's, too far back now. Okay. And then
this was.
Yeah. Okay. So a lot of announcements actually.
Alright. So, Korban,
if, you can speak to the Talib if
you would like to Korban. Best deed you
can do during the days of Hajj is
to Qurban. Maybe we make a Qurbanian all
the political parties. May Allah bless them.
Amen. Right? And then our Hajj guide,
we've put, released a Hajj booklet. The Hajjis
will take with them, insha'Allah, on Hajj on
Arafa. It's a wonderful gift. So not the
Slavat is important, but the book as well.
So please, purchase the book and as a
as a wonderful gift. And then with the
tarib, there's 2 khatams. 1st, there's a khatam
for Palestine,
Saturday, tomorrow, 25th,
here at Buranos? Yeah. At Burano.
9. 7 after Ishai. Yeah. For for for
for for Palestine.
And then Scottish
will be having their
on Sunday 26th May at Masjid Jafi, half
past 7, in the morning.
So much.