Mustafa Khattab – Defending The Prophet Pbuh 2
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The attacks on Islam cause people to lose their faith and become violent, leading to double standards and backlash. The importance of acknowledging the suffering of Muslims and respecting laws and laws in Muslim countries is emphasized. The speaker also discusses the need for sympathization with suffering from Muslims and the importance of bringing together Muslims to promote peace and justice. educating people on their own faith is key, and there is a need for everyone to stand up for their political beliefs.
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So
last time, we started to speak about
attacks on Islam and attacks on the prophet,
in some,
Yaniq,
web in some things in the in the
western media,
in some means of the western media, and
how some Muslims react violently to these attacks
on the Prophet
And, we gave several examples on why these
attacks happen with Islam and the Prophet
And the main reason is mostly,
ignorance.
Because as they say, if they if they
know Islam, if they know the prophet
will let him will never attack him. They
will fall in love with him. He gave
us a mercy to our Alim,
to the whole world as the Muslim hai
wa ta'ala says in the Quran. But they
won't see this because they won't see it
in the actions and the attitudes of Muslims
themselves. How would they know?
Right? So we have to reach them, and
we have to reach out to them and
let them know about Islam and Muslims,
throughout.
The other reason is is historical
because of all the history
of bigotry and and hatred and all the
wars that took place between
the Muslim world and the, the Europeans mostly.
The miseries and the injustices that are going
on in the Muslim world, a lot of
people are abused,
the violations of human rights. And what they
see in the media is basically,
gives a very negative idea about the Muslim
world. So whenever they think of that part
of the world, the Middle East, they think
of Islam, and they think of the barbarism
and and the viciousness of that area. So
how do they get a good,
perception in this of Islam
if we ourselves are not good ambassadors
of the faith. Right?
Also, we spoke about some people who have
used Islam just to gain attention,
for publicity, or to make money, and the
examples are so many.
But some people also think that some of
these attacks are meant to distract our attention
from the bigger picture, which is there are
so many abuses.
People are being killed in Palestine, in
Why? Because we're distracted
with the Saudi people. Right? Because we're we're
thinking about something else. So we start to
forget the most important issues and the big
picture. Right?
So
all the time say, well, maybe they do
it
to provoke,
a violent reaction from Muslims, which another time
or again would be used to prove once
again that Muslims are violently.
Right? So they, they run a cartoon about
the prophet who says something stupid about Islam,
or something that, you know, Muslims are vile
people. So how do some Muslims respond? By
acting violently.
Did they show it in the Utah? You
say we told you Muslims are violent people,
and this is because of Islam. This is
why I hear from some people. Muslims are
violent just because Islam teaches them to do
this. Right?
So this is how some people think, and
this is why you see these attacks in
the media. Right?
Of course, we are mad to see something
like this in the news, like, the prophet's
attacked because we love him so much.
Something has to be done, but what it
is. Right? Because if you if someone chooses
to vile to act violently,
you see what it's going to happen. Now
the image of Islam is damaged for so
many years to come in Europe,
and the brothers who live there, they know
how it looks like now.
I was just reading a report.
At least a 124
attacks,
have been reported only in the last 2
weeks against Muslims, against Masal, and against Muslim
businesses.
A A 124.
These are the ones that the ones that
were reported only in 2 weeks. Right?
Expect some legislations
in the future
against Muslim immigration,
against building Masada, the demerits, the hijab,
people. People working in battle would have a
hard time. People traveling there would have a
hard time.
And also the sisters will suffer a lot
because if they're a Muslim brother,
that's something like you wear a jacket, no
problem. But, if they see a Muslim sister
with the hijab, they know that she's a
Muslim.
Right?
So
the brothers like ourselves, they don't have,
you know, as much of a problem just
like the sisters.
Right?
So all these things are going on there.
And one is even more important,
you will not get as many people to
sympathize
with, Muslim suffering in Palestine and Syria. Nobody
cares anymore. Why would we care with the
killers and
the barbarians? Right? This is how a lot
of people think. Why should we care? Right?
So this is the the backlash
that resulted from the attack that happened in
Paris,
about 2 weeks ago.
How do we react according
to, the teachings of Islam?
They told me we we shared together how
should we react based on what the prophet
did in, in Medina
and also
what is taught in in the Quran.
I know that some people back in their
mind, they think that what happened in in
France and in other places was was justified.
Why?
Mainly for two reasons.
Number 1, they say,
yes, 2 peep 12 people died in France
France,
journalists and whatever, and a police officer. So
the number rises to 12 or 13.
3 of them were Muslim. Right? But see
how many people they have killed in the
Muslim world. 100 of 1000 in Palestine and
Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria. You know? So
some people think this is justified.
Well, I know and we condemn the killing
of innocent Muslims in the Muslim world, in
all these countries, the drones and and foreign
invasion and killing people for no reason. Right?
We all agree on this. But Allah subhanahu
wa'ala is telling that's in the Quran.
If someone
does something wrong, they are not your teacher.
They are not your role model. You shouldn't
do like them. Right? We know in Nasirah
that the people of Mecca and the Ghafar,
the pagans,
if they took some Muslims captive, regardless if
they were all or young, they were women,
they used to have used them and tortured
them.
And if they came across
the bodies of Muslims who died in the
battlefield,
they used to mutilate them, like what they
did with Hanzah al Dinu.
Now what was the reaction of the prophet?
He said, don't kill a woman. Don't kill
a child.
Don't kill a woman. Don't
kill a child. Don't kill people who worship
their lord in in their places of worship.
Don't cut down trees. Don't kill animals,
and don't mutilate the bloods. This is what
the prophet said in response
to the brutality
they were committing against Muslims.
So they are not artisans. Right? If they
do something wrong, yes, we should react, but
in a rational way. Right? So this is
the first one. The second one,
why are they attacking the prophet all the
time? And
Why are they attacking the Koran's law system
all the time? And some people say, well,
this is hypocritical on the side of, Western
media because if you say something about,
the Jews, for example, this is anti cynicism.
You will be put in jail in some
European countries, and you will lose your job.
No question about that. Right?
So saying something about Jews, and I'm totally
against offending anyone or provoking anyone. Right? We
should be respectful. Right? So this is what
I believe.
But there are laws and claims. There's no
such thing as infinite freedom. Right? There's no
such thing because there are laws in place.
If you attack some people, you will go
to jail. Right?
So saying something about the Jews, for example,
is anti Semitism.
There are laws against,
whole Holocaust denial. If you deny the Holocaust,
you'll go to jail, right, in some places
in Europe. Right?
Attacking,
or speaking
badly about people of color, this is racism.
Saying something about homosexuals, this is homophobia. You
will be in shock. Right? You will lose
your job. But attacking the prophet and smearing
him and attacking the Quran and Islam,
this is always freedom of expression.
So now you look at the double standards
and the hypocrisy, right, in the western media.
Yahasim should react,
but in a rational way.
Now you will see
how the prophet
of the Sahaba reacted. We give a few
examples,
this sign as well.
Just by looking at the Quran, you will
see the attacks in the prophet. They are
important in the Quran. Right? So the prophet
is described in the Quran
by al Ghufar as. He is a magician,
and he's a liar. This is what they
the leaders of Sahaba, they are described by
the kuffar in the Quran as a sukha,
the foolish ones, the stupid ones. This is
what the kuffar say about Muslims, and this
is important in the Quran. And what they
say about the Quran as haftiyuudabbani, fairy tales.
£20
of days or £30 of days or something.
The prophet was supposed to give you the
the the days that he had gotten on
Sunday, for example. So he gave him a
Thursday. But what is that? 3 or 4
days before the time.
And
Omar was sitting there and said,
what what is this? How dare you talk
to the prophet like this? And his sword
was sword was in his hands, and he
was ready to fight with him.
And give him 20 more pounds
for scaring them. Right? So Umar alaihul went
and he gave him the dates. Right? So,
Umar alaihul asked him, why did you do
this?
Nasty you are with him, the kinder he
is, and he always responds to people with
good.
So now I saw these 2 qualities today
in front of me, and they say the
hadith that he took shahada, and he donated
half of his wealth
There were 100 of Hawaiians
making fun of the roadside, making fun of
Islam. How many poems? How many of them
survived until this day?
0. Not a single lie. Why? Because the
Sahaba didn't report
these moments.
The the the Muslims didn't
post them on Facebook. They didn't talk about
them. The user respond
by talking about the greatness of Islam, Hassan
and Islam.
Indeed, the honor
my honor and the honor of my father
and his father are all together a shield
or a protection
for the honor of the prophet from your
attacks. Right?
This would
not detract from the greatness and the nobility
of the prophet,
not even once. Right?
So say, for example, if someone looked at
the beautiful moon in the middle of the
month and they spit at the moon,
what harm
will the moon get from that? Nothing. The
spit will go back to the face of
the person who did it. Right? So they
will never detract from the beauty of Islam
or the greatness of the prophet in any
way. So we should always keep this in
our minds.
Right? But
if the people of Mecca or the Guffad,
they came to Manina
with this their swords to kill the prophet
and attack Muslims,
of course, the sahabas stood up with their
swords to defend. Right?
Us, it's it's business. Now your god coming
to kill us, not as self defense. I
defend myself.
So now we as Muslims living in the
west, we're now living in Muslim countries.
There are laws in this country.
And when you gain a visa, when you
gain,
PR, or you have a citizenship, you sign
some papers. Right? Then you will be a
citizen, and you will respect the laws of
these countries. And
these laws are not for the most part,
they're not against sharia
because we studied the insat of the Surat
of the sharia. If you live in a
place, they have laws, and these laws are
are not against sharia. They're not forcing you
to eat more or drink alcohol.
All they are asking is to be a
good citizen, pay your taxes, khalas. This becomes
part of sharia
while Muslim and the shulsing. The Muslims have
to honor their means. This is what the
prophet says.
So when you come to a country, you
have to respect the laws of the country.
And the reason why we came here is
because you don't have freedoms,
democracies. You don't have to agree with everything
you see around you, but at least
you love this country
because it has something that our countries back
home did not offer us. Right?
So you didn't choose your country,
the country of origin, but you chose Canada
to come and live in. Right? So as
they say that,
your country, whether it's Egypt or Pakistan or
whatever country we came from, this is like
your mother. You didn't choose your mother. But
Canada is like your wife. You chose
your wife with your own free will when
you signed the contract. Right? So when we
come to this place, we have to go
and the laws will sign it.
I'll give a few examples from how the
Sahaba were living
in some places
with non Muslims, and they respected
the treaty they made.
There is a story of Abdul Shaddad.
He was employed by a man whose name
was Al Ustad ibn Abiir Abayt. Al Ustad
ibn Abiir Abayt.
He said he was Muslim, but at some
point, Al Ustad ibn Abiir Abayt
claimed to be a prophet.
To be a Muslim, but now he said
he is a prophet. Right?
So he said, one night, I was standing
guard over there,
and
I started to think about killing this man
who claims to be a prophet. Right?
Then he said, when I was about to
do it, I remembered Adi from the prophet
So, Israel, I remember this hadith from the
prophet If
someone entrusted you with their lives and their
blood,
then you betrayed their trust and killed them,
then I will disown you. I will be
your enemy on the day of judgment even
the victim was not Muslim. So he admitted
this kameen, and he didn't do it. So
this is one example.
Another example is the story of Khubaib ibn
Adi.
Khubaib ibn Adi was,
take he was ambushed with other Muslims,
and some of them were taken to Mecca
to be killed. Right? This was also that
what
happened? They took him to Mecca for Bayou
ibn Adi, and they put him in a
in a in a cell. They they put
him as a prisoner in someone's house in
a room. Right?
It says in the Hadith that they abused
him when they took him. Right? They they
didn't give him food. They were beating him
and stuff. So he said,
Do you vote?
So
they were ashamed. They were embarrassed that they
didn't have use of
anymore. Then he told his guards,
please let me know before they kill me.
And please, if you give me food before
I die,
don't give me or
anything. Just give me halal and things to
eat before I die. Right?
So they told him you are going to
die tomorrow.
So he said, can I please go,
surgeons or something to clean myself before they
kill me, and they said okay?
So he said, while I was cleaning myself,
this little kid entered the room and ate
and sat on my lap. Right? A little
kid that belonged to the kuffar.
Then the mother came and saw the baby
through, the window, and she was terrified. She
started to scream. He's gonna kill my baby.
He's gonna kill my baby. So for Benjisten,
do you think I'm going to as a
Muslim, I'm going to kill this innocent soul
for no reason. He didn't do anything. Why
why should I kill him? Please come and
take him. And he had the scissors on
the knife in his hand, and he didn't
do it. Right? But and they and they
took and killed him.
Back in the 19 forties, the Germans, the
Italians, and the Japanese more of the enemy.
Right? Because they were fighting against,
the wars in in in Europe, the 2nd
World War and all that stuff.
And by that time, Muslims were not the
enemy. They were just the Ali Baba people,
the Aladdin, and
the magic plants, and the slime carpets, and
and all that stuff. They were nice people.
Now, 20 years later, it was the Vietnamese.
They were the enemy
in the 1960s.
Again, in the 1980s, in Mozambique, the Russians,
or what they call at the time, the
red devils.
Right?
So
I'm sure that the day will come when
someone else will be the enemy. Maybe the
Chinese,
maybe whatever. Who knows? We're not gonna be
the enemy forever. So this is the good
news. The bad news is in the days
when how you do as a community.
We Muslims are the 2nd largest religion in
Canada and in the US and probably in
the whole world. Right?
We are not doing enough in doubt. Alhamdulillah,
we have a lot of resources.
There is not a stable,
Islamic
channel
funded by mostly by Muslims that is in
a good standing.
Islamic
for dancing and for movies.
You can't even close your eyes. This is
the.
Right? But how many of them are Islamic,
channels that are funded by Muslims? Almost sealed.
Right? So we need to do something. We
have to stand up, and we have to,
to to, to, to, to, provide an alternative
image for Islam and Muslims.
We have to teach people an enlightenment about
ourselves as a community.
And we, as a Muslim community,
as I said several times before, we have
to participate in elections. If you don't have
candidates, at least vote in the elections. Because
if they know that you have a voice,
you have a political weight, they will think
twice before they attack you. Muslims, just like
other,
ethnic or religious groups in this country and
other elsewhere,
they have to work hard
to lobby, just like others,
to pass legislations,
to make it
a crime to attack Islam, just like attacking
Judaism or attacking the Holocaust is a crime
in the law. Right? So we can do
something like this. We can pass legislation to
make an attacking the
just like attacking churches and synagogues. A hate
crime. Right? This is something we can do,
but it will take all of us together
to reach that point. And Allah
guarantees in the Quran