Omar Suleiman – Do Not Aid an Oppressor

			Brothers and sisters, I thought about what a whole tuba to a convention about Palestine looks like.
And I realized that there are multiple routes that we can take when discussing the issue of
Palestine and the issue of any cause that involves oppression. And I'm going to make the assumption
that anyone here already understands the sanctity of this cause, already understands and is willing
to take time out and to organize for this cause, either because it is one that you have personally
experienced in some capacity, or one that you have a deeply held belief in, that you would otherwise
not be connected to, except for your humanity, or your deen or something else that urge you to come
		

			to this convention on Palestine and to be a part of this cause. And so I'm going to forego that,
based on those assumptions. And challenge us a little bit. And when I say challenge us a little bit
I want us to think about this cause in the capacity, not just what we can do for Philistine what we
can do for this cause and for the cause of oppressed peoples. But what we must make sure we don't do
that would compromise the cause. You know, when you talk about Ischia to knifes, when you talk about
spiritual purification, in your journey to ALLAH SubhanA hoods Allah, it's more about what you don't
do than it is about what you do do what I mean by that is that on the Day of Judgment, it is sins
		

			that will corrupt a person and that will ultimately Doom a person not their lack of knowledge or the
lack of voluntary deeds, meaning on the Day of Judgment, you would have more to fear from your sins
versus not having prayed more Fiamma lil are not having given extra in terms of your charity because
the baseline is that your enough's is to be purified Teskey to be purged of the things that could
possibly take it away from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Otherwise, in its nature, it is on its way back to
Allah subhana wa Tada. So when we talk about a woman, and we talk about the idea of oppression, and
that's what I do want to talk about today and wrongdoing, we usually approach it from whoever
		

			amongst human Rahman co mooncup, whoever amongst you seasoned evil, and let him change it with his
hand for you to hold it. And then if he cannot change it with his hand than with his tongue, and if
he cannot change it with his tongue, then he should hate it in his heart. And that is adna Lima,
that's the lowest of faith. That's the weakest situation, I want to approach it from another
direction, which is this idea of knowingly or unknowingly being from those who aid an oppressor or
aid in the oppression of those that they claim to champion Allah azza wa jal says what Tao and
auditability with Taqwa were not our enemy, what everyone cooperate with one another, in bitter in
		

			righteousness and in goodness, and do not cooperate in sin and transgression. And so you are either
in one of those two boats there is no one that is neutral or in between, you either work with the
people in good or you work with the people in sin, Allah subhanaw taala also says, One Tober Kendall
Isla Ladino Mala Mo, do not incline towards those who oppress fetzima Second one up or else you may
be touched by the fire will not come and do any law him and Alia, mulatto and so on and you will not
find beside Allah subhanaw taala a protector and you will not be given victory. And Allah as was
mentioned this idea of inclining leaning towards those being somewhat ambiguous about your support
		

			of the oppressed but being soft when it comes to the oppressor, leaning and inclining towards those
who commit volume and specifically Subhan Allah for those who are in a place of privilege, those who
are in a place where they've escaped the immediate consequences of the boom Allah azza wa jal
Annalisa Musa alayhis salam kala Bhima and I'm Talia Belen. Akuna here on the muslimeen ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada says that Musa it is Salam says that, Oh Allah as you have favored me, then a corner
over here and in which I mean, I'm not going to be a supporter. I don't want to find myself being an
assistant to those criminals and to those oppressors just because I've gotten out of the immediate
		

			wrath of fit own. Do not let me become an assistant. Or do not let me be one who in some way assists
the work of Fidel the work of the oppressor. And there's an interesting Hadith, usually not one that
you hear when you hear about the capacity of rulers because usually the Hadith that are put out
there in regards to those who rule are ones that entail obedience and ones that entail following
them. But there's this Hadith from the Prophet slicin which is also authentic, from kind of an
original all the Allahu Tada I know when he describes the scene, he says also la Seisen came out to
us and we were sitting a large group of us out of an agile Arabs and non Arabs, meaning this was a
		

			community that had expanded beyond
		

			Just being a makin phenomenon the deen of Allah was already showing that this was a universal deen
and the Prophet sallallahu wasallam came out to us and said it smell Listen to me. Hello Samaritan.
Do you hear me? That's cool nobody O'Meara there will be after me. Leaders manda La La him facade
Dhaka home because it'd be him. Whoever enters upon them and affirms their lives whoever enters into
their presence and affirms their lies. Well, Anna Hamada wouldn't meet him and supports them in
their oppression. Felisa mini Well, that's to me, no, he is not for me, and I am not from Him and He
will not drink from my help. He will not drink from my fountain May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to
		

			be amongst those that are from the Prophet, slice alum. And that drink from his held that drink from
the hand of the Prophet salallahu it he was setting them a drink that would do away with our thirst
for all of eternity. On the other hand, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that
whoever on the other hand opposes them, does not affirm their lives. Then he is from the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for whom I'm in New Ana Minho? He is from me, and I am from him. We're
sorry to Allah, you'll help and he will be amongst those that drink from my hand. This is an
interesting Hadith and it's one that you could easily read over and simply say, well, Hamdulillah I
		

			don't enter upon tyrants Hamdulillah I don't directly support tyrants and Hamdulillah I don't do
this. I don't do that. The same time. This idea of what it means to be from those who support
tyranny is one that we have to dissect a little bit and be very self critical. There's a story Reema
Rahim, Allah Tala that's narrated authentically, but Imam and Marwadi Rahim Allah Tada he said that
the prison guard of Imam Ahmed Rahim Allah Tada so John entered upon Him one day for Katya about
Abdullah and Hadith Olivia roja feel what valonna were outlining him so here he said to Imam
Muhammad Rahim Allah to Allah is the narration about those who oppress and their supporters
		

			authentic. They mama Rahim Allah said yes it is. So the guard responded. Aleph enemy an outline of
one AMA, he said in that case, am I from those who support the oppressors listen to what he said. He
said outline on walima man yet Hulu Shahrukh? Well, UFC was held back. Well, usually Hota amoc Well,
will you be Are we a study monk? He said no. Those that support oppressors is the one who cuts your
hair. The one who prepares your food, the one who washes your club's, the one who buys and sells
from you. Meaning that's the one who would be considered from the supporters of the oppressors for a
man to come in and foresee him. As for you, you are from the people of London themselves, you
		

			yourself are an oppressor. There's another narration by the Imams of Yana thodi Rahim Allah to Allah
da Hayat that a Taylor came to him. And he said to me, Mom, the Fianna 30 Rahim Allah to Allah in
the elite Lucia so fun that I tailor the garments of the tyrants. He said if I told on him an
outline of what do you see me Oh Imam to be considered amongst those that aid the oppressors. So he
responded, he says but antamina Lotta mighty unfussy him. He said, rather, you are an oppressor
yourself. Imagine the tailor of the tyrant. The one who tailors the clothes of the tyrant, you are
actually from the people who learn. He said outline of one ama menu be Roman calibre when
		

			he said the supporters of the lotto mean, the supporters of the oppressors are the ones that
purchase and trade in you, with your threads in your needles as for you, you yourself, are amongst
the oppressors. Now, somehow, you could read that and you could say, Wow, you could, you could read
that. And you could come away with a reverence of the tradition. But I don't want you to stop there.
I don't want you to stop at admiration of the moms, I want you to ask yourself, Where do I fall in
this discussion?
		

			Where do we and our families fall in this discussion? Considering the present circumstances, this
idea of being so careful to not be amongst the oppressors? Subhanallah I was explaining to a group
of people why these ions about UCLA Amalia team, consuming the wealth of an orphan that sounds odd
and an almost outdated when you read it in the Quran. For some people that don't understand these
concepts. What do you mean, consuming the wealth of an orphan because an orphan in the society of
the Prophet sallallahu wasallam was the most exploited individual. They would not be given the
rights of inheritance, nor the compassion of parenting, but at the same time, they'd be put out
		

			there to work. And then there was nothing to protect, what they would earn nothing to protect their
food and their earnings and their drink. I want Allah has revealed all of these ions
		

			about not consuming the wealth of an orphan to Allah, what are the Sahaba say they say, you know, we
would pick up food from our own children's plates. You know, if you're walking into your house and
your kids are eating and you pick up something to eat from your child, but as for the food of the
team, the food of the orphan, we wouldn't even dare put our finger in the food of your team. After
those ayaats came down, that was their level of Taqwa and piety. And in our deen we look at
ourselves like that. We look at ourselves with that scrutiny to say, look, I don't want to
participate in anything that could be of that violation when it comes to Allah subhanaw taala or
		

			private deeds, the Haram and the not too shabby heart the doubtful matters, the gray areas I don't
want to be in the gray area with Allah subhanho wa taala. I want to be in the clear. Likewise, when
it comes to voting with an addition you know, when you think about how money you think about how
money there's how money that is earned through haram ways selling haram products, money that a
person earns through riba money you know, interest and usury, that type of held on right you sell
haram in your store, you earn in a haram way, that type of haram, that type of how money is haram
for you, but it's headed for other than you, according to most of the scholars, meaning what someone
		

			else eats from your food and drink. That's not their fault, you earned it in a haram way. They
received it in a halal way, however, to how Allah money that is earned by transgression, by hustle
by, by, by by theft and aggression, if you know that the person in front of you partakes in that,
that money is haram for you as well. You can't touch their stuff. If you know that that person is an
actual thief, if that person is an aggressor, because this adds on to the right of Allah subhanaw
taala that you earn in Milan, that you also that you also do not transgress human beings. Now, what
does this have to do with us, talking about Philistine we're talking about Palestine. We're talking
		

			about a cause, and a people that have been suffocated by governments around the world, economically,
the participation unfortunately, knowingly and unknowingly and their oppression, the United States
government being the greatest cover for the Israeli aggression, the greatest funder of the Israeli
aggression against the Palestinian people. Someone says our tax dollars are bad. I don't want my tax
dollars to go towards oppression. Well, that doesn't mean don't pay taxes. That means fight until
your taxes are not used that way anymore. Insist and fight back. I don't want to participate in that
way. I don't want to have a hand in the oppression of my brothers and sisters, when you talk about
		

			the BDS movement, and you talk about the idea of boycotting an oppressor and what that spiritually
means to a person. You know, people debate effectiveness and this and this and that walk about what
it's spiritually means to ground our families in this idea that I will not purchase the products of
an oppressor knowingly, I will be principled enough in my family to say you know what, we're going
to forego this. Teach your families that to be inconvenienced for your beliefs and principles is
noble and rewardable. Everything counts, even the small things, that's where you reflect on the
piano, thodi and emails and things of that sort. It all counts, not enough to just forward a
		

			unverified WhatsApp message. Think about it, put it in your own house, put yourself to the test
business owners, you know, who are your wholesalers? Who are you consuming from? And you say I'm not
going to patronize the hotels or the homeless of the oppressor, or their dates or their deodorants.
And I'm going to teach my kids that, you know, we're going to be a little bit inconvenienced,
because we're not going to participate in these things, and will insist on the larger transactions
that oppressors should not be given blank text. And I certainly don't want to have a penny to do
with it. Work for that. Teacher family that? Yes, it's inconvenient. Yes, sometimes it's going to
		

			get really difficult, because those that unfortunately consumed the rights and the dignity of your
brothers and sisters around the world also tend to come packaged and some of the most prominent
companies that we have over here, we all have to insist on that. It's not just about that tailor.
And what the tailor was effectively impacting in terms of the tyranny in his society. It was that I
don't want any part of that. So it's not just because it's effective or not effective. It's because
it's our ethical duty, first and foremost, and then you talk about how to make it more effective,
but you act on your ethics, and you put yourself to the test. And the last thing is your brothers
		

			and sisters and I want to cover these last three points, did they lie to Allah in the capacity of
what just because you are Muslim in one way, does not mean you are not while in another. Just
because you yourself are wronged in one way does not mean
		

			that you are not vollum You are not an oppressor in another way. How does it stop us from becoming
ourselves oppressors. There are people that will cry and shout and scream about the oppressors on
TV, but they're ignoring the one in the mirror, you oppress your family and you talk about
oppression.
		

			You cheat your brother and sister and you talk about the illegal consumption in these and these
Muslim rulers that are using Muslim resources to oppress other Muslims. What about yourself, hold
yourself to that standard. First and foremost, you can't complain about another oppressor and be an
oppressor at home. That's the first one you need to deal with. And then collectively as a people,
holding ourselves to different standards, making sure that we are never in any way going to
compromise the support of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada by being guilty of some sort of oppression
ourselves. And so three things in this regard that they mentioned. Number one, do not let your
		

			enemies be the bar by which you set your ethics. You maintain your moral code, you maintain the way
of the prophets of Allah who it was set, the bar of what is an ethical code is the bar of the
Prophet sallallahu wasallam. It's the bar of Taqwa and the sun being at the top of it, God
consciousness and piety and excellence being at the top of it. We don't let anyone else
		

			cause us to become dirty like them because of the way that they're wronging us the victory of sola
Medina let you be Rahim, Allah Tala was not just removing the tyrants from the Holy Land, but
keeping his ways wholly and free from tyranny when he had the upper hand, and we celebrate that well
as the Magna * Shanna annual Coleman and Aneta deal. Don't let your hatred of a people cause you
to swear from justice. Why, because that's when you really have to hold yourself to a standard of
justice when you don't like the person or you don't like the people, and you still scrutinize
yourself and hold yourself to justice. And so our enemies can never become our teachers, we have a
		

			moral code, we have a standard, and that standard is the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. And what he
has taught us number two, and I know that this one, you know, may not come off the best way to some,
but it's something we have to hold ourselves to do not support the oppressors of your brothers and
sisters, or the oppressor of your brothers and sisters, because he's supposedly an ally to you
against your oppressor. We call out those who champion human rights, but ignore the Palestinian
cause all the time, and they are many, the greatest hypocrisy that you'll find in human rights
discourse is usually on the opposite end of this, let's acknowledge this and get that out of the way
		

			and I'm not suggesting anything else you'll find people champion every cause in the world
legitimate, illegitimate, but be a complete hypocrite on Palestine athletes, academics, influencers,
we see it all the time.
		

			So let's look inwards in sha Allah to Anna, we're not those people have all sorts of courage for
other causes, but nothing but cowardice. When it comes to Palestine, we can't be guilty of the same
thing. And so I'll say it, no dignified person to find themselves rejecting the Israeli bombs over
Gaza, but whitewashing the chemical warfare of Bashar Al Assad against his own people in wholetime.
And vice versa. You can't be opposed to illegal Israeli settlements, but for Chinese internment
camps for the Oilers and vice versa. You can't be opposed to Israeli military propaganda, but
perpetuate American police propaganda and vice versa. We have to be consistent you either are with a
		

			volume or the month room, and the Prophet slice and I'm said be the servant of Allah that is Muslim,
not the one that Islam be with the servant of Allah that is Muslim, not the one that has done and be
with the one that's oppressed, not the one that's oppressing. Consistently hold ourselves to a
standard. That's how we purify ourselves as well. And we, being an oppressed people does not give
you the selectivity in which oppressors you can support or oppose. It just makes your steadfastness
in the face of oppression that much more rewardable Number three, not totally more info Second, and
this is the most important one. Do not wrong yourselves with sins. Do not wrong yourselves with sins
		

			on a lie. Look back at Salon and fantasy of all the Allahu Taala on one Saturday, we will possibly
Allahu Tada. And as they're at the Tigris River in this battle with the most arrogant empire of
their day, the Persian Empire and they're looking at the river and side and salon or the Allahu Tada
and Houma are sitting on one horse and they have an entire army behind them and there's a river in
front of them and they have this conversation with one another die little the Allahu Tada and who
says, I spoon Allah when their mother Joaquin Allah He Leon Sauron allah how Alia where are you?
Iran Allah Medina, what is the man Allah I do in Namibia confit JC Bahujan Oldland Oman targetable
		

			Hassan pitiful words. He said Allah sufficient for us and he's the greatest protector. I swear
		

			Allah subhanho wa Taala will give victory to his loving servants, that he will make victorious as
dean, and that he will defeat his enemies so long as there is no transgression or sin within our
army that would void our good deeds.
		

			You see, they weren't looking at the size of the army on the other side or their oppressors or the
palaces or the dynamics of the river and they weren't doing the math before they were doing the
taqwa. They were thinking first and foremost about what what do I have in myself as a people and as
individuals. You can't ask Allah for his muscle while partaking in his ASEAN ask Allah for his
victory, while actively disobeyed disobeying him we've got to put ourselves to the test. And that is
something by the way, that is a lifelong project that does not stop until we reach our graves. Yeah,
you had the nominal in tongues for Allah Hi on soracom Are you sub bit Akadama calm? Oh, you who
		

			believe if you support Allah, He will support you. And he will make your feet firm. May Allah
subhana wa Tada. Count us amongst the supporters and may Allah subhanaw taala keep our hearts pure.
May Allah keep our cause pure. May Allah keep our feet firm. May Allah subhanaw taala make us
amongst those who are just in their families with themselves with their communities. May Allah
subhana wa autonomy because the people that establish justice across the board may Allah subhana wa
Tada protect us from any form of London no more than a little naughty. I'm going to piano
transgression is darkness on the Day of Judgment. May Allah give us light and protect us from that
		

			darkness on the Day of Judgment. May Allah subhanaw taala Give victory to our brothers and sisters
and Philistine and to the oppressed all over the world. May Allah subhanaw taala count as amongst
their supporters, Allah I mean, a cold call the harder stuff but Allah Allah can when he saw it and
was so mean for stuff in the whole of Orion
		

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