Sami Hamdi – At Masjidnoorli
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and your children during the life of rasulallah, when he was in a
position of power. Ya Ani, when the Prophet salallahu alai Salam
was in Marina. Allah, the Sahaba were in mashed nabui during his
life. Ya Ani, when the Prophet sallallahu sallam was alive, only
one person stood on the member of rasulallah and gave some sort of
his sermon, only one person. If I were to ask all of you, who do you
think that person was? You might say Abu Bakr, you might say Ahmad,
you might say Ali or Uthman, khalib bin Walid. But in
actuality, it was neither of them. In the lifetime of rasulallah,
there was only one person that stood on the member of Rasulullah
sallam, while the prophet of Allah was Harbaugh, while he was
present, that was Hassan bin SABIT. So now the question you I
ask is, why would the Prophet of Allah choose Hassan over the
others? The Prophet sallallahu Sallam knew that Allah had gifted
Hassan bin SABIT, something that the others didn't have. Allah
gifted Hassan bin tabid with the voice that echoed throughout the
horizons. When he spoke and articulated himself, everyone
would listen. So he was the microphone of the time.
I don't know how good brother sammy's Shir is. I know his
mashaAllah, his other background, but he is the Hassan interpret of
our generation. So we ask Allah, Azza wa jal that first and
foremost, that we benefit from him and that he allows us to become
some of those that lead the Ummah, just like how Hassan bin sabilaan
and all the other prominent Sahaba did so Without further ado, I will
welcome Shaykh Sahib Muhammad
Abu
as
barkalam everybody for coming. I was hoping for a smaller crowd.
But.
To the organizers for inviting me. I apologize sincerely for bringing
the snow.
I landed yesterday. I'll be honest with you, when I landed, it was
sunny. I woke up the next morning snowstorm. So I'm not going to
make any weather jokes, because every time I make weather jokes,
it gets worse.
So alhamdulillah, halaku, Lihat
salatul, is an
introduction, such as the one I've just received, there's always an
important message, first to myself and then to everybody else. Allah
subhanho
wa Taala says in the Quran Baga udu mankind, those who seek
glory, let the let them know all glory belongs to Allah, subhanho
wa taala.
In this area, Allah makes no qualification of the air. All
glory belongs to Allah.
Allah elevates whom He wills, and humiliates whom He wills.
The words with which you resonate are not the words of Samir Hammadi
at all
the words you are resonating with are words of justice that the
cause of Palestine epitomizes. It is your fitrah resonating with
what is right and nothing more than that.
It is your affinity for Islam and for what is right and just that is
resonating with words of justice.
Anybody who says those words or stands with justice, Allah
elevates them, and those who say otherwise and stand with
injustice, Allah humiliates. And I am well aware
that any praise that is attributed to me is not attributed to me,
rather, it is attributed to the glorious justice that Allah,
subhanho wa Taala has epitomized. And I'm very keen to push back on
those who say Sami, because Wallahi, if I was to say words
other than that which reflect the justice of Palestine, Allah will
humiliate me just as quickly as he has elevated Falah. Alhamdulillah,
as we talk today,
Politico published an article two hours ago saying that the
Americans
have told the Israelis that while they would prefer that the
Israelis or Zionists don't go into Rafa, if they do, there will be no
consequences.
Pompeo, the former head of the CIA, is recorded one hour ago,
dancing on the borders of Gaza with Zionist troops.
We've seen that
a girl
video recorded of her with her sister running down the street
when Arafat was bombed two days ago, her legs were blown off and
she was found hanging on the wall.
We saw hind six year old girl. Her family killed in the car, and
she's the only one alive. She calls on the phone call and she
says, I'm scared. I'm scared of the dark and my family around me,
everybody has passed away. An ambulance hears the distress call.
The ambulance rushes, but as the ambulance gets close, the
Israelis, they strike the ambulance to make sure that it
doesn't get there. Hinda is in the darkness around the corpses of her
family, six years old.
We've seen the video
of a man with a garbage bin, garbage bag,
and when you wonder what he has in the garbage bag, he shouts, crying
in the middle of the street. Has anyone seen my son's hand?
I have found his legs. I found his torso. I found his arms. I can't
find his hand. Please give me his hand so I don't bury him without
his limbs missing.
We saw the videos
of children as young as four, three years old,
surrounded by doctors, and the doctors
are shouting at each other in panic. One is saying, we have to
amputate the limb now the other says we have no anesthetic,
and so they proceed to amputate the child's limbs without
anesthetic, because it's the only way to rescue the child.
We've seen pictures of babies with an arm and both legs lost, and
that's how the child would have to live the rest of their lives
when the Israelis claimed the story of 40 beheaded babies, that
New York Times now doubts because it withdrew the podcast that it
did on the issue, it withdrew it from its website, and that the New
York Times journalist who reported it changed his story and said, I
didn't say it happened. I said there were reports that it
happened.
Didn't seem to matter at the time when Israel alleged that it had
happened,
the world went wild, furious, angry,
but when they saw
the images of Palestinian dead children, they.
Dismissed it as unfortunate collateral damage.
Ibad Allah,
there is something very strange about being in the world in this
current time. Something very surreal about seeing ethnic
cleansing live streamed, seeing genocide live streamed.
There is something very surreal at having all the video evidence in
the world, and the ICC prosecutor saying that he's still
investigating.
There's something fascinating about seeing all these images
and videos of this US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying last
year during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that bombing hospitals is
not normal and should never be normal. And then seeing Blinken at
the same time saying that Israel bombing the hospitals in Gaza
is part of trying to discover tunnels underneath those
hospitals, and therefore there's not really a problem with it.
That's the meaning of what he's saying.
It's very strange
to see 30,000
slaughtered, murdered.
Amongst them, 12,500 children,
and to watch the world bend over backwards to try to find every
justification to allow the Israelis to continue doing so.
It's very strange
to talk about
things that ordinarily would be horrific, but somehow they pass as
normal language.
For example,
when they talk about what happened on October 7, they describe the
story of a party taking place near the border of Gaza
on this particular point. Before I continue,
let me make it clear that Muslims have no problem condemning the
death of civilians, regardless of who commits it
when the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sent
Khalid Ibn Walid, the sword of Allah anhu, on a mission reports
to reach the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that Khalid had
transgressed against a particular tribe. Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam put his hands and he said, Allahumma in the Abu ilaka,
imafali, Allah I'm innocent of what Khalid has done.
The Islamic tradition upholds what is right irrespective of who does
it, and condemns what is wrong, irrespective of who does it.
Muslims have no problem condemning the death of innocent civilians.
What I will say, however, in this
is, how did the world get to a point
where they became so desensitized to the idea of a party at the
walls of what's been described as the largest open air prison in the
world.
How did the world become desensitized to the idea of a
party at the walls of a modern day concentration camp?
How did the world get to a point where it could say this sentence,
that there was a rave at the wall of a concentration camp,
concentration of people in a small area who have been kicked out of
their land and their homes. How did the world get to a stage where
that is just something normal? What is wrong with it?
How is it that
when Russia fires a missile in Ukraine and kills a child.
CNN, or New York Times, have no problem writing in the headline,
Russian missile kills child.
But when the IDF admit to killing 400 Palestinians in a bomb with
the jabeli refugee camp, CNN is unable to identify which bomb. It
just says, blast kills 400 people
why is it that when the Russians killed Ukrainians, it's easy to
identify who did it very quickly.
But when the Israelis killed 45 members of a single family,
the BBC can only write Palestinian. Londoner loses 45
family members.
I was talking to my wife earlier today,
and she said, You know, I feel like there is something hovering
that won't go away.
It's tough to sleep, it's tough to do anything, it's tough to
and it's because of the sense that this world is witnessing a
genocide in full view.
And for those who say that the genocide is an accusatory remark,
that I'm accusing of genocide,
the International Court of Justice ruled categorically that what
Israel is doing in Gaza
is enough to warrant Israel's standing trial for genocide.
And while I celebrate this ruling, it breaks my heart that of all the
Muslim nations that exist and all the Muslim leaders,
it had to be South Africa that went and took the case forward.
And may Allah preserve and protect South Africa and give it every
prosperity and protect it from every evil. These valiant people
who stand up for justice and still standing up for justice today,
they put an emergency request to the International Court of Justice
to allow for immediate measures to prevent the invasion of Rafa
for comparison,
Muslim leaders, some of them, are reassuring the Americans and the
Israelis, even now, that normalization of ties is possible.
It's still on the table.
Some Muslim leaders are saying there is no going back on the
Abraham accords. There's no going back on normalization 30,000
Palestinians. It doesn't mean we're going to kick out the
Israeli ambassador. We will not reverse normalization of ties with
the Israelis even after a genocide.
We saw one of the Muslim leaders fly all the way to Washington to
plead with Biden and tell him, Biden, enough, don't support this
genocide. Biden, in front of him, gives a press conference, and he
says that the attack on Rafa can go ahead as long as there is a
plan to do something with the civilians.
What they mean is as long as they can push the civilians into Sinai
outside of Palestine,
you would think, as a Muslim,
that given that there is a border with a Muslim country,
they can rely on that Muslim country for support. Maybe that
Muslim country can send in tanks not to fight the Israelis, but at
least to ensure the delivery of aid.
Instead, that army is deployed to make sure Palestinians don't
cross.
You would think that one that shares a border with a Muslim
country that has the largest army in the Muslim world, one of the
largest armies in the Muslim world. You would think there would
be mercy on that border for the Palestinians. Instead, the
Palestinian has to pay $10,000 just to cross.
When the news went viral,
they had a bit of shame, so they said, Okay, malish, not $10,000
5000
it's tough to wake up in the morning and imagine that this is
all happening in real time.
It's tough to imagine that
Israel waited for the Super Bowl to start
before it went and bombed Rafa
so millions of people who were watching Elisha keys and Asha and
these others dancing, laughing, celebrating a it
while that mesina girl who had the video was strung up on the wall
with her legs blown off.
It was strange to watch at the Super Bowl an advert trying to
justify what Israel is doing,
while at the same time knowing that on the other side, at that
exact moment Israel was bombing tents of refugee camps claiming a
right to self defense that international law does not give
it.
International Law says that an occupier has no right to self
defense, but rather, the occupied has the right to resistance.
I know I started on a
very sad note, very dark note,
but it's to highlight the reality of the situation that we're in,
because it gives context
to what do we do about it, to how do we move forward.
I believe that Allah, subhana wa Taala is in charge of all affairs.
The first way that I try to get out of the morning is to remember
that
Allah said in the Quran wala Taha muata, do not consider those who
have died in the way of Allah as dead, but him your zakun. Rather,
they are alive with Allah already receiving their bounty. Farihaina,
Bima, ata hum, allahum and father le happy with what Allah has given
them, a bill Larina, haqqu be him Allah, and they are calling out to
us that they no longer feel any sadness or pain.
Ist absurunme in Allah, they are conveying to us that they've
received the bounty from Allah. The
reason I mention this verse is to highlight that Allah, subhanaw
taala, is saying in this verse that I've looked after the dead.
You may grieve for them in this dunya, but do not consider for a
second that Allah has forgotten them.
There is no limbo for them. There's no punishment of the
grave. There's no waiting for the book in the right on the left,
it's straight to Jannah for them
and hamdullah, that Allah is present and ever present and
everything in his hands, and that he will judge between them, you
will.
The reason why we start from this basis is that if you accept that
Allah subhanahu wa
has bestowed His Mercy on those who have passed away,
and when you look at the way the Palestinians have shown their
resilience, you've all seen the videos, somebody sees his family
members pass away. He says, hasbun Allahu wakid, he says, in LA Illa,
you were ina ilayharaj, your own.
You see the mothers.
You see the children.
Their belief in Allah
is such that Megan rice on her Tiktok decides to dedicate a day
every day to go through a page of the Quran to try to understand,
where do these Palestinians get their resilience from
that Megan rice sees in this ummah a strength that is so powerful.
She wants to understand, where does this ummah get its strength?
And two weeks after she starts her Tiktok lives looking at the Quran,
she pops up with a hijab and says, La Ilaha, illAllah Muhammad
Rasulullah, the
resilience of the Palestinians,
who refuse to give up their cause of justice,
who refuse to just go away,
who insist on their rights.
That's what makes a girl in Los Angeles go on her Tiktok,
and she does a video where she says, I grew up in a Zionist
environment having never heard Palestinian voices, but as a
result of Tiktok,
which as a result of the Ummah, 1.9 billion people, amplifying the
voice of the Palestinians and breaking the algorithm and forcing
those videos on the handheld devices of the 7 billion people in
the world, because the algorithm saw those videos to be so popular
that it believed that everybody had to see those videos. So the
one who was watching Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
yesterday was suddenly finding the Palestinian videos on their feed.
And then when they saw the Palestinian videos, a girl in LA
does a video where she says, I grew up in a Zionist environment,
having never heard Palestinian voices, but as a result of what
I've seen, I cannot unsee what I've seen, and I'm dedicating my
Tiktok account every single day to exposing what the apartheid state
is doing to the Palestinians. My Account yesterday was Zionist
today will be for the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are showing a phenomenal strength, so much so
that Israel is spending millions to make sure no one hears their
voices.
Ibad Allah,
before Gaza happened,
I want to offer a framework through which to analyze the
events that have taken place,
because if I had not read these two books,
my opinion of what is possible would probably be very different.
One
day, I was sitting with an Algerian friend of mine. For those
who don't know, my father is Tunisian, my mother is Algerian,
and we in Algeria, on my maternal side, we always struggle with the
idea that France refuses to apologize for what it did in
Algeria. For those who want an insight in terms of what they did,
they used to line up hijabis every week, and they would pull their
hijab off and say, you are now liberated.
My great uncle, Tijani died in his early 20s. His cousin was in the
street. She was pregnant. Four French soldiers, they saw her. So
they took out the knives and the machetes, and they said, let's
find out what gender your baby is.
Tijani Allah heard, took out a rifle and started shooting at the
French, desperately trying to make them go away. They came that night
into his house and they riddled him with bullets.
I wanted to understand why the French, despite all these
atrocities that they committed, why do they refuse to apologize?
So I decided to buy a book by somebody who tries to defend
colonization.
So I bought it,
Algeria, savage war of peace, by a guy called Alistair horn. He
probably won't like the fact that I'm calling him a colonizing
sympathizer, but when you read the book, you can see he's trying to
justify it, or rather trying to say, if only the French had done
this, they could have stayed in Algeria.
He identifies two turning points in the liberation of Algeria that
is relevant for Gaza today. In my opinion,
the first turning point he points to is 1920s and the setting up of
schools by a sheik uda Abdul, Hamid bimbadis,
amaziri in origin, but an Islamic scholar who believed in the
identity of Algeria. Alistair Horne argues that these schools
that he established under the Council of Islamic scholars
restored in the generation a grounding not that the Algerians
had lost it. They didn't lose it, but helped to push back against
the French push against.
Against Arabic and Islam. It provided a haven, and the
graduates of these schools, 30 years later, would form the rank
and file of the fraud liberation national of the liberation
movement that in the 1950s would eventually kick out the French
colonizers. So he argues that the reestablishing of the Islamic
identity in Algeria, or the RE entrenching, let's call it. Was
the first turning point.
The second turning point is fascinating in terms of what he
chooses.
Alistair horn argues
that in 1945
a turning point happened in Algeria that completely changed
the course of liberation.
He says that in 1945
France was liberated from Nazi Germany because, remember, they
were defeated in two weeks by Nazi Germany.
The French were liberated from Nazi Germany in 1945 and the
Allies had got together to write a document saying that every man is
born free, and every people have the right to self determination.
So the French were celebrating their moral authority and the
like. And Algerians, they heard about this document. And Algerians
in Stef harata and galma in eastern Algeria, they took to the
streets demanding their independence. They read this
document. They said, Allah. Allah. It's a lovely document. We were
also entitled to it. The French were so horrified that Algerians
believed themselves to be people that this document applied to that
they celebrated and danced in Paris and in the same week,
massacred 30,000 Algerians.
The French, they say they massacred only 12,000 Algerians.
The Algerians say that 50,000 died in that week.
We'll go for the halfway point, 30,000
the French believe that when they massacred this number of
Algerians, that the Algerians would learn a * lesson, never
to resist, never to demand their justice or their independence to
respect the global order of the time, which is that the world is
divided in spheres of influence, between the British, the Italians,
the French, the Americans and the Western powers. That's the way the
world works, and nobody should upset that international global
order and international law was designed to uphold that global
order.
Alistair horn argues that massacre was the turning point in the
consciousness that led to the liberation of Algeria. The French
believed that Algerians would no longer be able to resist. Allah
had written that 17 years later, Algeria would be liberated.
The second book that altered my analysis of what's happening in
Gaza. And for those who say, Why is he telling us about his own
personal thing? The poet buna Muhammad, Canadian poet, he has a
lovely line. He says, We are all reflections true. So I can't talk
about me without talking about you. That we're all human beings.
You all have the same experiences. We share our experiences, and
there is resonance in the different experiences that we have
with each
other. For those of you who are a bit younger, I'm not. I'm young,
by the way, I'm not old by any stretch of the imagination. But
for those of you a bit younger, during your teenage years, when
you're competing in the Quran, you know you want to learn along Surah
to sort of show off in Salat, you know your brother is reading Qul,
Allah ahead, but you're reading pahama And Zen alaikal, Quran Ali
tashko, and
they don't know the next day, say, Whoa, you learn surah Taha. You're
like, yes, and if you learn surah Taha next week, you feel panic. So
let me try Surat Al Imran. Baqarah is a bit long, but try Surat Al
Imran. I was trying to lead Salat with the Surat hood.
And, you know, I read two areas and made a mistake in the third,
and then I'd be reminded I'd read the fourth and the fifth. Make a
mistake in the sixth. I thought, Allah, have I forgotten Surat
hood?
When I made the mistake on the sixth, ayah, I just said, Allahu,
Akbar, go to the Quran. It's not going to work.
So you go back to the Quran. You open Surat hood, trying to refresh
and to re memorize
Imam, a shepherd. He says, The Quran is a jealous book.
He says, if you leave Quran for a day, it leaves you for a week. If
you leave it for a week, it leaves you for a month. If you leave it
for a month, it leaves you for a year
for the Quran is what will testify for you your makayama. And it
takes it believes it deserves a loving relationship the same way
that it loves you. And I think Imam Shafi is correct in this, may
Allah instill in our hearts the law for the Quran that it
deserves.
As you're reading through Surat hood, you notice there is a common
theme.
NUHA salaam goes to his people and he calls on them to believe.
And he spends 900 plus years trying to convince his people,
but mahamanu, illa, khalila, only a few people believe.
So Allah destroys his people.
Who? DALAI Sala goes to his people.
He spends many years trying to convince them, but only a few
people believe ALLAH destroys his people. Saleh Hale, Sella goes,
shows him the sign the camel comes out the rock.
Only a few people believe ALLAH destroys his people. Lord alayhi,
Salat shweb, before Lord Shwe goes to madian.
Only a few believe Allah destroy a lot
goes to his people. Only a few believe ALLAH destroys them.
As you're going through it, you start thinking, hang on a second,
not every prophet
achieved success in the way that I measure success today,
not only that, lot he says something very interesting. Says,
kalau and Ali become kowat and Oh, are we Iraq in Shadid if only I
had power to resist you or a powerful ally, the same way we say
today, if only we had the power to do what we want to do. And you
notice in the ayah, straight after, Allah doesn't allow the
ayah to continue. Allah immediately. In that ayah says
that the messengers sent with Lord are telling him Allah has already
decided. We've come to tell you to leave because Allah has already
decided the outcome.
So when Gaza started happening and you saw the people start dying, I
said to myself, could this be 1945 Algeria,
I don't have the power that I would like to prevent the
genocide, and you feel helpless, but then you remember, neither did
nuhale Salaam Bucha Abu as but the
interesting thing about These prophets is, even though they
didn't have the power they would have liked to have, the difference
between me and them was I was thinking of sitting at home and
doing nothing, they continued to move and they continued to
mobilize, because they knew that the outcome belonged to Allah
subhanahu wa
when I heard Muslims say, What's the point in speaking out on
social media and raising awareness for Philistine. One Imam I
remember mockingly said, we what we will liberate the Ummah via
WhatsApp.
And it reminded me of one Noah said Rabbi in need out to call me
Layla when a Hara wala, music, hum, dua, e INLA, FIRA Wan nikula,
mada, autumn, Lita, Fira, lahom, Jalo, aunfi, Adani, Abu wa tak
baroustik, Bara Allah, this is no Hala in a state of frustration,
I've called on my people day and night, and every time I call on
them, they run away from me, and when I call on them so you might
forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears and they
cover their faces and they treat me with arrogance,
I would hear Muslims, they would say, What's the point in
mobilizing and organizing to try to get the local councils
to take Philistines seriously? When the Zionists are shouting at
the local councils and making the Councils come out with statements
in support for the Israelis and some community members say, let's
go and tell them there's a genocide happening. Let's go and
tell the councils. And the community tells them, why are you
wasting your time? You want to liberate Philistine with these
petty initiatives? They reminded me of when Musa Salam told his
people, go and enter Jerusalem. Go and enter it. Allah will give it
to you. And they said, We won't enter it. Do you know who's in it?
They are common jabarien. It's the Americans, it's the Zionists, it's
the western states. They are so powerful. What power do you have
to do anything? And then two pious people, they say, Allah has told
you guys, just move, just mobilize. Allah will open it for
you. Just move. Just do something. Allah will open it for you. And I
would hear members of the community saying, no, no, this is
useless. And then I would be reminded of when Beni, Israel told
Musa, as Allah told you, that if you move, he will give it to you.
Then go you and Allah. Ill have an Bucha in Naha, Huna, kahid, go you
and your Lord. Your Lord told you when my Yaman mithkala that if
they do even an atom of good deed, Allah sees it that Allah told you
that women Arab wahome,
sa your home, mash Qura, that Allah says that those who strive
for the sake of Allah, those who strive to what is good, To what is
just those who raise awareness for Palestine, those who mobilize for
Palestine, those who keep talking about who keep tweeting it about
you, keep talking about it, who keep using the powers that Allah
gave them, however limited they might think those powers are that
those who strive for the sake of Allah, Minun, wahu, wamin on
meaning they are striving On the basis not that they can see the
outcome, but on the basis that Allah knows the outcome, and that
even if they cannot see the outcome, even if they don't know
the outcome, they trust that Allah has already decided the outcome,
and therefore they don't need to see it. They trust in Allah. Is
enough. Allah says Not that the result.
It is rewarded. He doesn't say their initiative is rewarded. He
says their striving is rewarded. The fact that they moved and they
mobilize is rewarded. I would hear my ummah saying, What's the point
of doing all this? It makes no difference. I would tell them.
Wakanna, Sakura, I want Allah to reward my striving, for we are not
equal. The one who goes and attends the council to try to get
a ceasefire vote is not the same as the one who sits at home and
does nothing.
I would read in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, Bali huaniwala, Ayah convey from me, even if it's just
a verse. And we would read this ayah, and we would interpret it
only in a spiritual sense that you would go out here the Hadith and
say full Hu Allah Ahad and who you feel a spiritual boost without
realizing the emphasis on the Hadith was in the Walo, even if
it's just a verse convey from me, even if it's just a verse meaning
ya ibad Allah, don't be an ummah that's quiet. Ya ibad Allah, don't
be an ummah that gives up. Ya, ibad Allah, don't be an ummah that
does nothing for Wallahi. If all you can do is open your mouth and
say something that is better than being quiet. Ya, ibad Allah, if
you have no power to do anything else, then at least believe, at
least say something and raise awareness for what's happening.
The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam responded to
those in our community who kept saying that we're talking and
talking and nothing is happening. You're wasting your voices. You're
wasting your time. You're wasting your time talking to American
society. You're wasting your time talking to British society. You're
wasting your time talking to local representatives. You're wasting
your time talking to your local councils. You're wasting your time
trying to talk to the media. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam
responded to these people when he said, Manara Amin, Kumu, Quran,
faluha ya Rahu bhi Ada, He who sees something that is wrong, let
him change it with his hand. Wa Ilam yastah, if he cannot, not, if
he doesn't want to, if he cannot. The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu,
Sallam leaving the scenario open for a possibility where you do not
have the power that you wish you had to stop it. The Prophet
sallallahu Sallam did not say, wait until that power comes to
you. He said, If you do not have the power to stop it with your
hand, then condemn it with your tongue. Put pressure on it.
Denounce it. Use your words to denounce it. Say that it's wrong.
Say that you should uphold justice. Go out and talk to
society. Go out and raise awareness. Go out and protest, go
out and shout, go out and say Allah, say, go out and tell people
that there is a genocide happening.
Wa those who are unable to speak out, let them condemn it in their
hearts. And the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alaihi salam said that
is the weakest of faith. Ibad Allah,
some in the community, they say that our voices don't matter. If
that was the case, why did the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
sallam, say that to denounce with your words is not the lowest of
faith, it's an elevated form of resistance.
Ibad Allah, how is it that a community on Ummah
can belittle efforts that they believe to be insignificant, but
in the eyes, is significant
when you read the seal of the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam.
Let's be honest, many people prefer to read about the medina
period up to Fatima, because the Meccan period, the first 13 years,
is one where you read about the persecution of the Muslims. It's
where you read about how bilali barabba had the big rock put on
his chest, where Sumayya Ra was killed because she said, la Ilala,
Muhammad rasulallah, where the Sahaba are beaten up, where there
is a boycott Khadija Raha dies, where the Prophet sallallahu,
alayhi wa sallam has the organs of animals poured over him by the
Quraysh who hated him, where the Muslims have to flee to Abyssinia,
Abuja for Abu Talib to try to seek sanctuary with najashi.
But why do you read this period as a period of weakness?
If it was a period of weakness,
why were Quraysh so worried about the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam? What was it that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam had, that meant Quraysh did not feel secure,
despite having the armies, despite having the money, despite having
control over the media. What was it that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam had that meant that even though the Prophet Sallam did not
have an army, that he didn't have the wealth that they had. He
didn't have control of the media that they had, that he was the one
him and his Sahaba being beaten up, not Quraysh. What was the
power that Meghan rice saw in the Muslims, that the Muslims are
struggling to see in themselves? What is the power that Netanyahu
saw in the Muslims?
That meant that he's spending millions to shut down social media
accounts whose social media accounts yours, not the
government's what is the power that Blinken sees in the Muslim
ummah? That means that Washington Post says he has to go to regional
allies to seek help to tamp down on public anger. What is the power
that desires that the Quraysh saw in the Paris, in the Prophet
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. What is it that they saw
in it that meant that they did not feel comfortable, despite the
power that they had.
For those of you who've seen the film, Rashad Mustafa, the message,
for those of you youngsters who haven't seen it, watch it
phenomenal. Allah,
he was killed in a bomb blast me skin at a wedding.
But his two movies, line of the desert and the message, two
phenomenal movies that every Muslim must watch.
There is a scene in the message where Abu Talib is lying on his
deathbed and he meets with the leaders of Quraysh, and he says to
them, all Muhammad wants from you is one word. And Abu Sufyan says
something remarkable. He says, if it was a matter of one word, we
would have given him 100 words. The problem is the word he wants.
The problem is that the word he wants is making Omar ibn Al
Khattab leave the elites of Quraysh to join the persecuted
Muslims. The word he wants is making Musa Abu numer leave the
luxury that he lives in to join the persecuted Muslims. The
problem is the word he wants is making the children of the elite
of Quraysh join the persecuted Muslims in the same way that
Kamala Harris's daughter is raising money for Philistine while
her mother defends the Zionists.
The problem is the word that he wants
is making nejshi disrupt foreign policy relations with us, the same
way that Macron is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza when Biden
didn't want him to. The same way that the Deputy Prime Minister of
Belgium is calling for sanctions on Israel when Biden doesn't want
them to, the same way that the word is making Spain say that it's
ready to recognize a Palestinian state when Biden doesn't want them
to, the same way that Joseph Burrell, the EU foreign policy
chief mocks the United States and says, How can you say that you are
against what is happening while you give them more weapons? The
word
is more powerful than the armies and the media and the wealth. It's
so great because it is affecting the foreign policy relations
between Abyssinia and the Quraysh in the same way that today, your
word is causing the ruptures between the Western Allies, many
of whom today are calling for a ceasefire and the Americans are
struggling to prevent them from doing so. How does an ummah
belittle the power of the word when the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu, alayhi wa Sal in those first 13 years, demonstrates the
almighty power of the word, so much so that aus and Hazrat come
to Him knowing he has no army, knowing he's been boycotted,
knowing that he doesn't have wealth, knowing he's been
persecuted by Quraysh, knowing that if they support him, they
will end up being isolated from the whole of Arabia. This mighty
word of his of the Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was so great the word that the Ummah doesn't appreciate. But
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his Sahaba a pre
appreciated a word that made the International Court of Justice
defy the Americans and 15 judges to two ruled that Israel has to
stand trial for genocide, and the US, in all of its power, could not
get The case thrown out. The Ummah says that the system is always
rigged, but they don't realize their word broke that system.
Ibad Allah,
how is it
that the Ummah believes that its efforts are ordinary and
insignificant, that you speaking out, that you using social media,
that you going to your councils and getting your councils to do
ceasefire votes, that you going to talk to your representatives and
pressuring them the same way the Zionists are pressuring them on
the other side. How can you believe these to be ordinary
efforts when, when you open the seerah of the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, and you get to the point in the first
13 years when Abu Sufyan is standing before Heraclius.
Look at the difference between Sahaba and between the ummah of
today. The ummah of today says we need the armies. The ummah of
today says we need.
Billionaires. We need the generals. We need the leaders.
Only with them can we make the difference? Let me tell you what
Heraclius, the Roman emperor, said, the equivalent of the United
States of the time. Abu Sufyan is standing before Heraclius, and
Heraclius asks him a series of questions about the Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi said, and amongst those questions he
asks him, and he says, Who are the people supporting this prophet in
such a way that it has caused you all this distress?
Tell me who are the people backing
Muhammad. I mean, Abdullah,
tell me about these people, before anybody says, Why didn't he say
SallAllahu sallam? Because I'm quoting Heracles, he didn't say
SallAllahu sallam.
Abu Sufyan replies,
but he doesn't say he's backed by a faction of generals in Quraysh.
Doesn't say he's backed by some aristocracy in Quraysh
doesn't say he's backed by CNN and New York Times of Quraysh,
he doesn't even say the ordinary people. Who uses the raguchi term
Arab hero. Now it's the lowest of society, the ordinary of society.
These are the ones who have made the Prophet sallallahu, Sallam so
effective that he is bringing about change that is worrying and
threatening to subvert all of our society and make it flip.
Heraclius didn't laugh and say, Oh, it's the ordinary people.
Don't worry about it, the way some people in our community, they say,
What? What can you do in the face of all of these people who've
gathered against you. Heraclius says, if it's the ordinary people
supporting him, then this is the way of the prophets. And Heraclius
doesn't stop there. He says, if it is the case that the ordinary
people are mobilizing, that the ordinary people are moving, that
they are the ones carrying his message, that they are the ones
supporting him, that they are the ones talking about Philistine that
they are the ones who refuse to be quiet, who refuse to give up, who
keep talking, who keep moving, who keep mobilizing. Heraclius says
this, Muhammad will one day rule the land that I stand on.
How does an ummah read this in the Sira and believe itself to be weak
and insignificant when Heraclius himself has said that so long as
the Muslims move
it is a promise that they will eventually cause a global shift
and change. Ibad Allah, let's be honest, if you had told me five
months ago that Israel would be on trial for genocide, how many of
you would have believed it
if you had told me five months ago that Macron would be one of the
first to call for a ceasefire, how many of you would have believed it
if you had told me five months ago that Joseph Borrell, who called
the Muslim world a jungle,
that he would be the one coming out loudly criticizing the US
policy on Israel? How many of you believed it?
If you had told me
that a CNN presenter would apologize for giving 24 hour
coverage should be headed baby's story without evidence. How many
of you would believe me? Ibadala, I asked the elders, I asked my
father and I asked the elders of our community, have you ever seen
journalists apologize for their coverage of Palestine and Israel?
And they said, No, we never saw it. Elders, you are here. Have you
ever seen it? Have you ever seen anybody from BBC CNN apologized
for their coverage of Never.
Why did she apologize? Think about it. Do you think she apologized
because Biden asked her to do so. Do
you think she apologized because Blinken called and said, aha, you
have to be fair in your coverage.
Do you think she apologized because Netanyahu called her and
said, Yes, I'm committing a genocide, but come on, be
fair. She apologized because she believed there was a power greater
than Netanyahu, Blinken and Biden, that she needed to keep off her
back and she needed to appease and that was more powerful than
anything Biden and Netanyahu could threaten her with. What was that
power, ya? Ibad Allah, it was you.
What was that power? It was your voice. What was that power? It was
your mobilization
ibad Allah, these global shifts that you're seeing
that has made
a multi billion Japanese company cut its relations with Israeli
companies because of the ICJ ruling
that makes Israeli papers report last week that the Israeli tech
industry is now under threat because companies are very
uncomfortable with the ICJ ruling, and they believe that the global
public opinion is shifting
ibad Allah, how does an ummah look at all that it has achieved and
still believe.
Of itself to be weak. Some of you might be saying, semi, I don't
believe it. I believe that it may be some Muslim nations,
governments, leaders. I don't want to believe I have powers. Let's
talk about it before I get into this part. The views expressed by
the speaker are the speaker's own. They do not reflect the
organization all the people sitting here, or anybody, they
didn't ask me what I would say. I didn't tell them what I would say,
this is only Sami saying it, yeah, Muhammad bin Salman is between me
and you don't involve these people in it when they land in Jannah for
Amara, and let them through,
you know. And for those of you, by the way, on this particular point,
those of you who get to go to Amara, take it from me. I have not
seen the Kaaba Since 2014
and I do not know when I will see it again. But Wallahi, if I had
known 2014 would be the last time I see the Kaaba, I would not have
prayed treasure in the hotel.
For those of you who go treasure every moment that you're there and
do not take it for granted. Do not take it for granted when Allah
invites you to his home, otherwise you will become somebody like me,
who, when he sees the Kaaba on social media and somebody saying,
I'm in OMara, I snooze his account for 30 days. I'm not interested in
seeing you there, that when I see them, post a picture of madil al
Munawwara, I snooze that account for 30 days. I don't want to see
you there because it breaks the heart. It's not the time envy is
for you in a jealous way. It's that it hurts that you can't go
some of you might be thinking that maybe the Muslim leaders are the
ones who moved to bring about some of these changes. Let me tell you
why it was you and not the Muslim leaders.
When Blinken landed in Tel Aviv, he was supposed, in the first
week, he was supposed to go to Tel Aviv and then go straight back to
Washington.
But when he was in Tel Aviv, after having a conversation with
Netanyahu, he decided to go to Saudi Arabia. You were Egypt and
some of these other Muslim countries. At the time we
analysts, we said, Why is he going to Saudi Arabia? For? What on
Earth makes him go to these countries?
Washington Post reported he's going to tamp down on public
anger. Ibadan Allah, I want you to focus on this part. Blinken went
to Saudi Arabia. Why? Because when he sat with Netanyahu in the War
Room, they were talking about the genocide, and they identified that
one of the greatest threats to their ability to commit genocide
was not governments, it was public anger, and therefore they needed
to take steps to silence who to silence you?
Ibad Allah, I say this as a semi joke, but in reality, 80% of it is
serious. Sometimes I believe that blinking believes in the power of
Allah, Subhanahu wa, more than Muslims do that. Netanyahu
believes in the power of the Ummah more than the Muslims do for how
can the Muslim tell me that their voice doesn't matter when
Netanyahu spends billion to silence it? How can the Muslim
tell me their voice doesn't matter when Blinken and Biden now are
desperately looking for any message in Michigan that will
receive them so they can sit down and tell them, please don't
abandon us in the November elections, because if you abandon
us, we might actually lose this election.
Why is Biden so desperate now to come out and say that I promise to
stand against the Muslim ban and I promise to do counter Islamophobia
initiative, please, please don't abandon me. Do you think Biden did
it because he cares? Biden did it because he sees a power in you
that you have yet to appreciate in yourselves.
Ibad Allah, when Blinken went to Saudi Arabia, to further emphasize
this point, some people say, Sami, why are you going all around
America? I'm not going all around America to tell you to do
anything. I'm going around America to try to look in your eyes and
tell you ya ibad Allah, there is a power you have that the world is
reacting to. And I'm begging for you to see this power that is
within you. When Blinken went to Saudi Arabia, he met with the
Saudi Crown Prince. When Blinken left Saudi Arabia,
the khutba of the massage in Saudi Arabia for three weeks straight
was ya ibad Allah, make dua for haz. You can add some tears for
added effect, but don't talk about it.
Don't talk about it, because it will lead you to turn against your
ruler and your scholars.
Abdul Rahman is today's in the MAK in Mecca itself, next to the Haram
said, we make dua for haz. May Allah bless Raza, but yay, ibad
Allah, don't talk about it. You don't have the good information to
talk about. It's a fitna.
And obey your ruler and obey the scholars they've appointed and
follow what they say. A Turkish friend of mine said to me, Sami,
I'm going to Medina. I'm 100% they will be talking about Raza, but
don't talk in Allah. Just make dua. Get to see Inshallah, he went
and he recorded the khutbah from the moment the Imam says, Raza,
sends it to me 10 minutes voice note.
So he said, they're mentioning Raza. This is just for your
information. They're talking about Raza. So I listen to the voice
note. The Imam says, ya ibad, Allah,
make dua for Gaza for they need it. But beware those who might use
Gaza to lead you against the rulers. Don't talk about issues
that you don't know. For our leaders, no information that you
don't know. And therefore you should not talk about these
issues. You should only make dua
do not talk about it between yourselves.
There.
A period in time
that I sat for three months in my home. I was still working and
everything, but I thought maybe Aisha needed a career change.
Politics is too controversial. Politics doesn't unite the ummah.
It divides it. I said my wife, she told me, Sammy, what's wrong with
you? Why do you sit at home now and you don't smile as much as you
used to? I told her, Sumaya, I am a man of fitna. She told me,
what's Atul I am Sami fattan Hamidi, I am man of fitna. When I
call out what these leaders are doing, I get lambasted, or I get
praised, but it doesn't unite. I can't bring people together. She
said to me, Sami, why don't we? I have an idea that we could bring
people together. You keep talking about reconnecting memories of the
Ummah, why don't we take people on trips to different places in the
Ummah and Muslim communities and reconnect those memories? So we
started a travel company taking people to Bosnia, Barbados, to
Malaysia, Korea, Japan, all these places. So as part of the job, we
advise tourism boards, and we also give presentations at certain
events. My wife went to Istanbul to present her idea of how the
Muslim market is growing. For those who are interested the
Muslim market, by the way, for those who think the Ummah is weak,
the Muslim travel market is worth $320 billion it's 11% of the world
market itself. In Korea, every November, they have something
called Halal week. They've calculated that 1000s of Muslims
go to Korea in November. So in that month, the Korean government
helps restaurants to substitute haram meat for halal meat in
anticipation for Muslims to come. And they set up chefs to show
Muslims how to cook Korean cuisine with halal food itself. This is a
non Muslim country desperately trying to convince Muslims to
come.
This is just about empowerment. So my wife, she goes to a
presentation, and there is a Malaysian guy there who says, Tell
Sammy that I'm going to Umrah in December. And I've received a
message from my tour operator that I should not bring kefirs, I
should not bring Free Gaza stickers, and I shouldn't record
myself making dua for Gaza. I told Sumaya, Sumaya, I can't go on a
rumor. Tell him a Rabbi Allah with him and whatever.
At the time I was in Los Angeles,
beautiful blue sky, sunshine, 27 degrees Celsius on the 25th of
November, Los Angeles, for somebody who comes from a place
where we have five days of summer a year, and they never come at the
same time, it was like, I stepped off the plane and I was dressed
for London weather. I stepped off and I saw it. And because the
pilot, he said it in Fahrenheit, because in America, you like to do
everything big. You don't like Celsius because the numbers are
too low. So he said, No, we'll do Fahrenheit, because the numbers
are big, 7080, 90 degree Fahrenheit. Even your cold is 40
degree Fahrenheit.
Your portions are huge as well. You order large. And if you've
seen Texas, Texas is even larger.
I was in Los Angeles having dinner, and I said, you know,
there is a rumor that Saudi Arabia is and somebody said to me, no,
it's not a rumor. I'm going to Amra. Here is the WhatsApp
message.
For those who are arguing that maybe the Muslim leaders did
something in the background.
In the third week of the genocide, Saudi Arabia invited Jared
Kushner, Trump's son in law, to give a keynote speech at the Davos
in the desert forum. Jared Kushner said in the heart of Saudi Arabia
that the Palestinians are trying to ruin normalization between
Saudi and Israel, and the Saudis have told me that they will fail
in this, that normalization will happen. And
then he went back to the United States and he said, I feel safer
in Saudi Arabia than I do on university campuses in America,
because in America, he's being accused of supporting genocide. In
Saudi he's being told it's okay.
On the night that Israel cut off connection to Gaza and azazah and
Hindu khodari and plessia and the Palestinians were crying out
desperately that they're cutting off the connection to start a
ground offensive. And many of you remember, do you remember we were
tweeting hashtag Starlink for Gaza. Do you remember everybody
was acting? Elon Musk, yeah. Elon Musk, Move please. Starling for
Gaza, yeah. Paltal, I remember everybody that night, all the
friends, you guys, we all did. I can see you nodding. You all did
it desperately. Hashtag, hashtag.
While you were doing those hashtags, and you were desperately
seeking any refuge you do like they're beginning their ground
offensive while you were sending those messages at the exact same
time, Bin Salman was hosting Shakira konsa in Riyadh,
when Turki al ash the head of the general entertainment authority,
ironically, the descendant of shikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahab al
Ashiq, refers to the Family of the sheik
Turki al Ash was asked,
Why are we still holding concerts when a genocide is happening? And
he replied, and you can find this is all public information,
and I know it might make some people feel uncomfortable,
but
I do not believe that. Nahi anil munkar.
That to condemn what is evil destroys a nation. I believe what
destroys a nation is when the Ummah stops condemning what is
evil. Because Ibn Khaldun said Al AQ, justice is the foundation of
dominion. Will do non Bihar aburan and oppression is what destroys a
nation. Ibn Al Taymiyyah considered on the conservative
trend, said that Allah will preserve a carefree state that is
just, but will destroy a Muslim state that is unjust, even if it
has Masjid on every corner, and even if it is full during Ramadan,
Allah will destroy a Muslim state that is unjust, for Allah can
tolerate kufr with justice, but will not tolerate Islam with
injustice.
Ibn Khaldun describes why states rise and fall. He says, When the
Ummah is an ummah that stands for what is right, Allah gives it
glory, but when it doesn't stand for what's right and relegates
itself to rituals. Allah humiliates it, even if it prays
five times a day.
For Allah is not separate from justice. They are not two separate
terms. They are the essence and one and the same. That's why Allah
gave himself the name of the most just
Turkey elishi, who responded to criticism of holding the concert,
and he wrote on his Facebook post, name me a single concert that is
canceled because of a political event. How can you ask me to
cancel because of political events? The post on Facebook
doesn't include may Allah have mercy on the martyrs of
when the Emir of Kuwait died Allah, the Saudis had a problem.
If they hold a concert after the Emir has died, they risk a
diplomatic crisis with Kuwait, because the Arab saying goes that
if you have a wedding but your neighbor has a janazah, you delay
the wedding until your brother finishes the janazah.
So the Saudis, if they cancel the concert, it shows they don't care
about Gaza, because they're willing to cancel for the Emir
Kuwait, but if they continue doing the concert, they risk a
diplomatic crisis with Kuwait. So they said, We cancel the concert
for Kuwait, but we don't cancel it for Gaza.
When Oman closed its airspace for Israeli airlines in protest at the
genocide
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan got together to establish a land
bridge
to help the Israelis bypass the blockade imposed by the Houthis in
Yemen and Israeli channel 12, they documented a truck that landed in
the UAE and arrived in Israel only a few days ago. Some of you might
be thinking that bin Salman released a statement three days
ago saying that we will not normalize except for a Palestinian
state. That statement is not a message to Israel. It's not a
message to the US. It's a message to push back against your anger,
because all of you talked about it over the past seven days, and the
Saudis were worried about the Muslim backlash that they were
caught supporting the Israelis. In this regard
every two three days. How many of you have heard Saudi official
insist that normalization is still possible?
Ibad Allah, when 30,000 Palestinians die? Does it make any
sense to insist that normalization is still possible?
Is there any hekma in insisting that it's possible?
The reason I give you all these examples is not to bash Saudi
Arabia, even though it's a little bit about bashing bin Salman,
but rather to highlight that it wasn't Muslim leaders who forced
this global shift that you're seeing with regards to ghaza, in
the way that Western nations are now falling out over each other
with regards to ghaza and where they should stand in the ICJ
instead Muslim countries, most of them, have been siding very
strongly with the Zionist and the Israelis, insisting that they
don't really have a problem.
But this brings me to another point I want to make.
If this public opinion has shifted and Biden is concerned, why hasn't
he called for a ceasefire?
It's because, although Biden is being told that Muslims are angry
and they might punish him in the elections, there are also some
Muslims telling him that if he shows some empathy, he can still
win back some of the Muslim vote.
Biden is genuinely confused that, on the one hand, he's being told
that American Muslims will punish him in November, but on the other
hand, he has Saudi Arabia and the UAE telling him that no genocide
is going to ruin normalization of ties with Israel. So he believes
that Muslims are not united or organized in this regard, in terms
of punishing Biden in November, and that Muslims will forget by
November. Why? Because in the words of Biden, the other side is
Donald Trump, and as long as there is a Muslim ban, Muslims would
rather let Biden get away with genocide than not be able to bring
their relatives to America, because the flight from America to
them is very long, so you don't want to fly all those hours. You'd
rather bring them to America. And that's.
Much dearer to you than punishing genocide. That's what Biden
believes.
This brings me towards the final part of this initial talk. I've
been accused sometimes I go on a bit, and therefore I never allow Q
and A,
so we'll allow Q and A. But the point I want to make here is this,
what made Blinken go from banning the State Department from using
the word ceasefire to humanitarian pause, to hostage truce, to now,
Borrell openly criticizing the Americans, Macron calling for a
ceasefire. Netanyahu now falling out with his allies, yai Lapid and
Benny Gantz and talk of elections for those who want to know what
I'm talking about. Two weeks ago, Blinken went to Tel Aviv. When
Blinken went to Tel Aviv, he met with Netanyahu, then he met with
Yai Lapid and Benny Gantz, two opposition figures. When Blinken
left, Netanyahu made an interesting statement. Netanyahu
said that we reject the two state solution. And all the media, they
picked up on that, but it's the second part which was more
important. He said this is not the right time for elections, because
Netanyahu fears that Blinken is now trying to force elections in
Israel to get rid of Netanyahu, to trying to find a way to get Israel
out of it. Because Biden doesn't want to call for a ceasefire in a
way that makes the world say that the Palestinians won. He wants to
phased out ceasefire so that the Zionists don't feel that he
betrayed the Israelis, but that the Muslims celebrate him for
bringing an end to the war.
The point that I think their hearts are united, but kolobo Hung
shetta,
their hearts are divided. The reason their hearts are divided is
because you refuse to be quiet. You refuse to stop talking, you
refuse to stop mobilizing. You are the ones who made the difference.
Some of you might be saying, Samuel, you talk about these small
gains as if they are victories, but a genocide is still happening.
Ibad Allah,
the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam,
while he was being persecuted in Mecca. He made the dua
for a small victory like the ones I'm celebrating.
He said, Allahu AJ Islamabad, Umar Allahu,
reinforce my dawah with one of the two ummahs. The two Ummah as he
were talking, he was talking about were two enemies of Islam. One was
Omar Abu Khattab, who beats up his sister because he found hared in
the Quran. The other was Omar ibn Hisham, one of his uncles, Abu
Jahl. I think his was
Abuja.
So he's asking for Allah to bless Islam with two people openly
against Islam.
When Omar Abu Khattab entered Islam, we've all read the Sira.
How happy were the Sahaba when he entered Islam, but they were still
being persecuted. They were still being beaten up. They were still
being boycotted, but they found huge happiness when Omar Al
Khattab entered Islam. Will you dare say to the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, how can you celebrate a small victory
when the Muslims are still being persecuted? This is what I mean by
some of us. We read the Sira, but we do not comprehend it. We read
the Sira, but we don't actually learn from it. We read the Sira,
but we implement the opposite in our lives. We read the seerah and
say mashallah in the Halakha, but we do not have the strength
outside to implement what we see.
The reason why I emphasize this particular thing, yay, ibad Allah
is to highlight an important point for us, and a point that for me
used to be difficult to accept, but I might be able to help you to
accept it.
Allah, Subhanahu wa is always in charge of the outcome at all
times,
Allah has never consulted with any prophet over what the outcome
should be. Allah has never told the prophet what the outcome will
be.
When Allah subhanahu wa told Musa to go to faraun, Allah spoke to
Musa alaihi salam directly,
and he showed him two signs in inuri akhem, in Ayat al kubara
showed him the stick that turns to a serpent and a bright light that
comes from behind him.
I used to think as a teenager that if I ever spoke to Allah,
Subhanahu wa showed me two major signs. If Allah told me, jump off
a cliff, I jump off a cliff.
Musa alaihi salam turns around and says, Allah, I have a stutter. I'm
not sure. I don't know if I am effective going to Farah.
So Allah helps him to deal with the stutter. Rabbi shahari,
sadari, Wahe Siddhi wa Tamil, elisani, yafahu kauri. This dua
that you read comes from Musa, and that dua shows you what Musa was
concerned about. So Allah says, We deal with that.
I used to think and I read this surah, teenager, 16 years old,
coming back from Saudi Arabia, I needed to learn a long Surah
because my friends were getting ahead of me in Quran, we all knew
jozama, but you need a bit of, you know, it's it's also prestige to
know a longer Surah when you're reciting, you know, the ones that
people don't know. You know,
it's good to compete.
In Quran. Don't worry, mashaAllah, it's what made me learn most of
it. I was always worried somebody would get ahead
of me. Musa al salam, after Allah has given him those reassurances.
You would think at this point
that Musa is ready to go to Pharaoh
instead. Musa al salam says, waja Ali, Wazir, Amin, Ali, Haruna,
Akhi, Ojeda, Kofi emri. He's spoken to Allah. He's seen two
major signs. Allah has told him, your stutter doesn't work. Don't
worry about your stutter. Allah has told him, I'm with you, but
Musa I Salam still says, Allah sent Haroon with me in another
area. He says, who asked sakhomini Sana, he is more eloquent than me.
And as a teenager, I won't lie to you, you read the story, and you
think, oh, Moses, pushing the limits of it, you know, like
Subhanallah, Allah is telling him all these things. And he keeps on,
you know, stuff for Allah, answering, Becky, yeah, Allah, He
tells him, go to Pharaoh. He says, Yeah, Allah, I'm not sure if. And
you think Subhanallah, you
know, initially you think, can anyone speak to Allah anyway,
I realized the problem was I didn't know Allah, but Musa al
salam did. I thought of Allah as wrathful more than he is merciful.
So I thought Allah would rebuke Musa al salam instead. The next
area, Qala, QAT, Musa,
we give you what you request. And bear in mind, Musa wala kadman,
this is not the first time we've shown our favor. When initially
Pharaoh wanted to kill all those babies. We are the ones who saved
you, Wali tuna alaini, and we are the ones who kept watching you
grow in the palace of Pharaoh. Yeah, Musa, I've never abandoned
you these requests that you're making. It's not me doing you a
favor for the first time, I've always shown you favor in the same
way that Allah has always shown us favor from the moment that we were
born. Because Allah says, if you were to count the blessings of
Allah today, all of you here, you would never finish counting them.
Allah has said that to you to make you appreciate that He is with you
move and Allah will be with you.
When you continue to read Musa alaihi salam, you think after
Harun alaihi salam is now going to go with Musa al salam to faraun.
So imagine as a 16 year old when I read
that Allah tells him ihabila fara in nahutawah, and
they both reply, Harun and Musa. They say, arabana in Nana, oh, a
Yatra Allah. We're both scared that if we go to Pharaoh, he's
going to do something to us. And you went,
and I'm thinking, surely this time, this is the fifth time, now
that they are Allah, told them something, and they are saying, Ya
Arab, I'm not sure if I am the right person. Allah, instead of
rebuking them, says QA Allah in any man. Kuma, asmaara,
do not be scared. I am with you. I see and I hear Fatiha U FAQ in
Rasulullah, Rabbi
Allah says to them, I understand that you might be scared, the same
way you might be scared to talk about Philistine today. I
understand that you might be hesitant, the same way some of you
are hesitant to go out and meet with your local representatives or
to go to the council to attend the ceasefire vote. I understand that
you might be hesitant that when you see the Israeli Delhi shop,
they've got a picture of all the hostages, that you might be
hesitant to go put a picture of the 1000s of children who have
been killed and slaughtered, so that the people and Americans can
see for themselves the genocide that's taking place. Allah says, I
understand this hesitation. This is not a sign of weak Iman. For if
it was, how can we accuse the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam to be of weak Imam. Musa cannot be accused of weak Iman. He
believed in Allah, but he still felt that hesitancy. The story of
Musa is that Allah is saying that it is not a sign of weak Iman to
be hesitant. It's not a sign of weak Iman to feel that fear. The
sign of weak Iman is if you let that fear force you to a position
where you do nothing.
When Musa alaihi salam ends up in front of the sorcerers, the
magicians,
you see how Allah sets the setting Musa alaihi salam stands in front
of them. They are goading him. The audience is taunting him. Pharaoh
is threatening to kill him.
Imagine yourself in that situation. You would be like Musa
al for Oh, Josephine, Musa Musa, in his heart, in that moment, he
felt fear when you stand up and you say the Haq, when you stand up
and you say the truth, when you tell them this is a genocide, when
you tell them that you need to make sure that those who support
the genocide need to be punished. When you feel that fear as you say
it, Allah is telling you, even Musa salaam, he felt fear. But
what's the difference? It's what Allah says to him afterwards.
Kulna, Allah, Allah, and not only that, Allah reminds him, wa al kme
Sana. Allah reminds him, in that moment of the signs he has given.
Him the same way that we remind ourselves of the blessings that
Allah has given us, in that this Ummah that is hesitant, that is
worried, that is concerned. This is the Ummah that made Macron call
for a ceasefire, the Ummah that made the South Africa go and put
the ICJ case because they heard our call and they chose to
mobilize and may Allah protect and preserve South Africa. This is the
Ummah that broke the algorithm and social media and changed public
opinion in America so much so that the polls now show that those
under 30 fives are overwhelmingly pro Palestinian, not Zionist, that
it was this Ummah that made Biden fall in the polls behind every
Republican rival in the swing states where the Muslims happen to
have a large concentration and potentially the deciding vote.
They didn't. He didn't fall in the polls because American soldiers
are dying. He fell in the polls of an issue where American troops
aren't on the ground, meaning he fell in the polls because when
Americans heard your roar, when they heard your message, when they
heard your dawah, they said, oh my goodness, I didn't know this was
happening. I was Zionist yesterday. Today, I'm pro
Palestine. I've heard your message. I've heard your message.
I will not reward genocide. Allah is showing that the same way he
gave us these victories, he reminded Musa wa al khime sana in
namaskadu, Sahira walayu siru hai to ATA and the construction of the
next area, WA UL Kaya Sahara to Sujan. Magicians, Musa found them
in prostration dua ulqia gives the impression that Musa was not
expecting it, that Musa threw the stick and was so shocked by what
he saw in front of him in that when he moved, when he mobilized,
when he acted, when he chose to move forward based on the Promise
of Allah, even though Allah did not tell him what the outcome
would be, because he moved Allah opened it for him, because he
moved Allah delivered for him, because he moved Allah shifted
that global public opinion that makes Israel today stand on trial
for genocide in the International Court of Justice that every Muslim
believed was a rigged system because Musa as moved, and the
Ummah moved. That's why the world is shifting and companies are
cutting ties with Israeli companies because they don't want
to fall for the ICJ it would not have happened if the Ummah did not
believe in the promise of Allah, it would not have happened if the
Ummah hadn't moved. The Ummah has moved, and it's made those gains,
and that's why, ya ibad Allah, I want to go into the final strait
on this particular point,
the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam,
when he died,
he did not live to seek God's liberated.
The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not live to
see Islam in Iraq or Syria or Egypt.
The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did not live to
see Islam being given the DAO of Islam being given in a language
other than Arabic.
The Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, never heard Islam being
given dower in the English language.
Ibad Allah. When I sit on the plane and I fly, and they make me
fly backwards to Istanbul three hours, and then Istanbul to the
US, I don't understand why, but Turkish Airlines is better than
British Airways and some of these other ones, like, you know,
Turkish allies is lovely mashallah, and it pleases me
greatly to see, you know, these Muslim companies, you know,
rivaling the top as well. Text allies is lovely.
But as you're flying over that plane, over that sea, and you come
to the other side of the world,
whether it's on this side or on the West Coast, which is, in my
opinion, if the Earth was flat. That's where you fall off. You
look
and you think, did the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam know that Islam would spread all of this way, that it
would cross all of this way, but ya ibad Allah, the Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, did not live to see Islam in America.
My question here is, did he need to
and when you go down this line of thinking,
you begin to appreciate that the magnificence of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
was not necessarily in his material achievements, in the way
that he took Mecca,
but rather in the Spirit that He left behind in an ummah that from
then on, for the next 1400 years, would never give up, would never
stop striving, would never stop delivering his message, no matter
how much persecution or colonization or repression it
would face. The Ummah would go through the turbulent states, and
Islam would still continue to spread. It would go through
colonization, and Islam would continue to spread. It would go
through persecution, and Islam would continue to spread. Why?
Because it's the spirit he left behind of an ummah that never
gives up, because it believes that Allah is the One who is always in
charge of the outcome A.
Allah, because for the Muslim,
the aim is not necessarily to achieve the outcome in their
lifetime.
For Allah has monopolized that outcome, and we know that Allah,
Subhanahu wa did not give every prophet the outcome that perhaps
we believe should have been given.
I always used to wonder
that maybe I believed what the outcome should be. And I used to
think, why doesn't Allah deliver that outcome?
And then I read the book wrote to Mecca, by Muhammad Assad, and he
has a wonderful line in it where he says
that, in this ummah, it's not Muslims that make Islam great.
It's Islam that makes Muslims great.
It's not Muslims who make Allah great. It's Allah Who makes
Muslims great.
When Islam was the inspiration for Muslims to go out and be on the
front lines of justice, Allah gave it glory.
But when Islam became for the Ummah, just a bunch of habits and
rituals. Allah removed that glory.
There is a friend of mine named Zayd from albrous Press. We were
driving one day back from Manchester, and he gave me an
interesting observation. He said to me, Sammy, did you know only a
minority of Sahaba are buried in Medina? Majority are buried
outside of Medina because their interpretation of Islam was to go
out and stand on the front lines of justice, which is why I am
confused when people say that they want to go back and they want to
go back to being insida, what did the Sahaba interpret that made
them go out and what have you misinterpreted that is making you
want to go back?
Ibad Allah, the point
that I want to make is a simple one,
do not pursue the cause of Palestine or any just cause on the
basis that you want to see the outcome in your lifetime.
For Allah, Allah has already appointed the outcome as he
wishes, when he wishes, and how he wishes, and Allah will not ask us
what the outcome should be. Allah has already decided
rather pursue the outcome on the basis that you want to be one of
the vehicles that Allah uses to deliver that outcome.
Ibad Allah, you know, the only people that were sent a prophet
and rejected the prophet but were still guided are the people of
Yunus alayhi salam, because in Yunus, Allah delivered a lesson in
which, when Yunus left his people in frustration, Allah delivered
the message where he said to Yunus alayhi salam, ya Eunice, do not be
confused. I don't need you to convert these people. If I wanted
to, I could the honor was not in that you would succeed in
converting them. The honor was that I had chosen you as a
vehicle. And the proof is when Yunus left the whale, when he said
Subhana khaini kundum in avalli, mean, I was from the wrongdoers,
when I left my people, when Yunus goes back to his people, he finds
them all guided.
Allah was given the sign to all of us that Allah doesn't need us to
deliver it. Allah could do it if he wants. The honor is not in
delivering the outcome. The honor is in being chosen as the vehicle
that Allah uses to deliver the outcome that Allah uses to deliver
that global shift and deliver that global change. Pursue the
Palestinian cause, ya ibad Allah on the basis, not on the basis
that you want to seek liberated in your lifetime, although we all
wish we do but pursue it on the basis that you want the greatest
honor possible, which is to be the vehicle that Allah used, even if
you don't see the liberation in the same way, Allah chose the
Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, as the vehicle, even
though he never saw cause liberated.
Ibad. Allah pursue the Palestinian cause on the basis that the
greatest honor in this lifetime is to be a vehicle that Allah,
subhana wa Taala uses to make change.
Because, in my opinion,
the greatest outcome for any Muslim is nothing that this dunya
can provide
the greatest outcome, in my opinion, in my humble opinion, and
I leave you with this, and maybe it will encourage you inshallah as
well. And I've said this in many times across America, and I love
sharing it because I want you to believe it as
well. La yo Mina had a comma yo habulin, no one believes until
they love for the brother what they love for themselves. Let me
tell you what excites me and encourages me to keep moving. And
this is the final part.
The greatest outcome for any Muslim
is that despite the heartbreak that you feel in your heart and
the despair that you feel for LUT alai Salam felt it when he said,
If only I had the powerful ally, or if only I had power, powerful
ally to resist you. LUT alai Salam said it as well. No. Alaihi salam
lamented, I call on my people, day and night. He showed his
frustration as well. There's nothing wrong with that
frustration or that sense of heartbreak, but the greatest
outcome for a Muslim is that
when you go through your life, and it may well be a ibad Allah, it
may well be that we arrive to our last breath in this life and is
not liberated, that bin Salman has now spread alcohol throughout
Saudi Arabia.
Just reintroduced it. He's reintroducing gradually that the
UAE has now built five casinos instead of the one that it's
building at the moment, and the alcohol bar that it's where Qatar
has introduced alcohol in certain spaces and it might expand it in
the next sporting event or the like.
It may well be that you arrive at your dying breath and your heart
is truly broken, that you made all this life, all this efforts, all
this striving, and you kept going, you kept pushing, but you never
got the outcome that you wanted to achieve. You never got the outcome
that you dreamed, that you desired more than anything else. And you
lie there on your deathbed, and you might be like Khalid Ibn
Walid, maybe, where Khalid iwalid lay on his deathbed, and he said,
Why do I have to die like this? Why couldn't I die on the
battlefield? Why do I have to die like an old man in my bed? And his
friend had to say to him, ya Khalid, the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu sallam, called you sword of Allah. If you had fallen
in the battlefield, the people would have said, the sword has
been broken. It is only fitting that the sword of Allah dies this
way, not in the battlefield. But we have the report that Khalid was
upset at the way that he was leaving this world after being
demoted as commander in chief four years earlier, He reconciled Omar
Khattab. In the end, he named Omar Al Khattab the executive of his
estate. But it may well be, what I'm saying is it's not wrong to
feel at the end of your life that perhaps you wanted to achieve more
than you did in this life. There's nothing wrong with that.
I imagine that as we're lying on our deathbed and we're counting.
If only I'd done this, if only we'd done this, if only we'd done
this, if only I had managed to succeed in convincing the
communities around here to gather together and unite and actually go
and make a difference in their local council. If only I could
convince them that they should punish genocide. If only I could
convince them that they could have ya, Allah, maybe I should have
done this. I should have tried this. I should have talked this
way. Maybe I talked for too long. I lost their attention. Maybe I
took too short. I didn't give it enough depth. Ya, Allah, I should
have done this. Maybe I should have done that. And you feel your
Roar is about to go, your spirit's about to go. And in that
heartbreak that you didn't achieve what you wanted to achieve, you
say, La Ilaha, illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah, here's what I imagine.
I
imagine that as the soul leaves
in that heartbreak you won't hear, yet you won't hear, Oh, disgusting
soul. You won't hear, Oh disgusting soul, the one that used
to tell the brothers who used to mobilize why you're mobilizing for
there's no point in this initiative that you're doing.
They're too strong. There's no point. Oh, you think social media
is going to liberate the ummah? What's the point in your tweeting
or whatever? There's no point you're wasting your time. Oh,
there's no point in raising your voice. What does your voice
matter? They have money and weapons. Your voice means nothing.
Instead, you'll hear ya to
hanafum, Oh, beautiful, beautiful, blessed soul. In that moment of
heartbreak, as you're leaving the world through your tears, Yaya,
the angels will be celebrating, happy for you. Nobody happy.
They'll say, there's a sweet smelling soul. It is coming. Sweet
smelling soul.
Come back to Allah.
Come back to Allah. Ravi ATAM, mardiya, the angels will say that.
So why are you so upset? Allah is celebrating you from upon high.
Allah is celebrating your soul. Come
enter my dominion. Let me show you what is the best outcome of all,
what holy Jannati, enter my Jannah.
And here's the scenario I imagine when I was growing up,
I used to believe I didn't deserve Jannah. So I would pray because I
would scare the hellfire, not because I want a Jannah. I thought
if I get the first Jannah, I'd be happy like I satisfied. I'll be
satisfied with that, you know, until I saw Shaykh Ahmad sallaman
Jannah series,
am I? Sulaiman had the Jannah series, where he describes Jannah
as in the Hadith.
So you're listening to him describe Jannah, and you start,
your imagination starts running wild. You know, what will Jannah
look like when I was a kid, when I was younger, like seven, eight
years old, the Imam would ask her, Sami, what would you like in
Jannah? I tell him, I want a river of Rubicon mango.
He tell me, think bigger. What do you mean Rubicon mango? I told
him, because there's better things than Rubicon mango. I told him she
haven't tried Rubicon mango. Then he told me, Okay, what else? I
told him? I can have more. He said, Yeah. I told Rubicon mango
hit and Rubicon goaver This side. He told me, come and send me.
Think bigger. I told him I want a football pitch on the way back and
PlayStation in the front.
He told me, in the Raji on the ambitions of this new generation,
Shelley man, when I watched the Jannah series, I laid down there
at night, I remember, and I started to imagine, what would
Jannah be like if I entered it. And I want to share with you this
scenario, maybe it will encourage you to move forward as well.
Because I love
it. I don't think much of myself. I'll be honest. My father doesn't
like when I say it, but I don't think much of myself. I'll be
honest. And I can only hope that one day Allah admits me into for
those you know, one day with all of us, inshallah. But I like to
imagine, and to imagine good of Allah is good. It's something
encouraged, right? So forgive me for imagining, if I'm being
ambitious in my imagination, but I want to imagine, I like it. It
keeps me going.
I imagine that one day when my soul goes up.
I imagine that when I open.
In my eyes, because I've just, you know, my soul is left, and I feel
I didn't achieve the outcomes I wanted in this dunya. And I enter,
and I'm expecting to be held to account for it, but when I open my
eyes, I see to my right side, beauty like I've never seen
before, mountains, trees, fields of grass, mansions, palaces. I see
all these people here, and then I say, who does that belong to? And
they will say, it belongs. It belongs to this righteous person.
Who does this belong to this righteous person? You're thinking,
Where am I? Is this? What first Jannah looks like, Allahu, Akbar.
And then as you're walking,
you find three men sitting under a tree, one of them the most
handsome person you've ever seen in your life. And there's a person
next to him who's talking, and they're talking in a loud voice.
It's a very, you know, like engaging conversation, you know,
very animated. And as you get closer, you hear, you hear so, so
ya Rasulullah. When I entered the laksa, when we entered the Quds,
when we took it back from the Crusaders, we entered in Ya
Rasulullah, and we reestablished the deen. And the person on the
other side will say, but ya salah. Aen, when you entered Al Aqsa, did
you establish justice for everybody, not just the Muslims,
for the Jews and the Christians. When I entered Al Aqsa, I brought
the Jews back because the Romans had kicked them out. Salah, Adil
Yubi will say, yeah, when I entered, I brought the Jews back
because they were also kicked up by the Crusaders. Say, assent,
well done. And
you'll walk in not quite believing what's happening, like, where are
you? Is this really so who's the person in the middle? The person
in the middle will say, salaam. You say, Why salah? That?
You will say, what generation are you from? And I'll be honest with
you, I always imagine that there's not much that we can brag about.
Ya Rasulullah. What a generation that we broke Israel's monopoly
over the narrative. We got people to see the justice of Philistine.
But Ya Rasulullah, we will powerless to stop the de
Islamization of Saudi Arabia. We will power us to stop what was
happening in you He will power us to stop, you know, to prevent the
chaining of Al Aqsa. Ya Rasulullah, we tried, we
mobilized. We did what we could. We tried on social media. We tried
with our money, we tried to pull resources. We trained political
analysts. We encourage entrepreneurs to become
businessmen. So we could establish a pool of money where we could,
you know, draw and build our institutions and build our Islamic
schools and but ya Rasulullah in the end Wallahi, when I left the
the world, I left it probably worse than when I entered it. Ya
rasulallah. And I don't know if I went back, I might have done this
differently. Might have done this different. Ya rasulallah. I don't
know what face I can show you. Ya Rasul and he will say, Enough,
enough, enough. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. And you
sit there. You know, feeling like you're not worthy of that company.
We'll all be there Inshallah, the same gathering
I imagine. And just entertain me on this one, I imagine that as we
sit down, two people will come after, after we've sat down, they
will come. And as they approach, they will process Salam will say,
salaam. Warahmatullah say Walid Salam. And He will say to them,
what generation are you from? They will say, We are the generation
they live. Generation liberated Al Aqsa for the third time after
Saladin Ayub.
And I imagine, I can't lie to you when I imagine this part of my
heart goes, you know, envious, but in a nice way, like Masha Allah,
what a blessed generation. You know, I'm sitting with Salah Abu
who liberated it, and we liberated, and this group of
people who liberated. And I'm the guy who, you know inward, and this
is what I imagine, and just indulge me in it. You know, it's I
believe Allah to be merciful, and I believe that Allah laud will not
let any effort that is done in his name go in vain. I imagine that
before they sit down, they will look at us over here, and they
will say, before they sit down, they will say, Rasul Salam. How
was it done? And they will say, Ya rasulallah. What happened was,
wait a minute,
is that you Sammy, ya rasulallah.
This is semi he used to go all around the YouTube. What's the
power they see in you that you don't see in yourself? And he
would tell people, move ya ibad Allah and social media and this
kind of thing. And then these people in Huntington, I remember,
they managed to push back against the council that was supporting
the Zionists, and they managed to cause a momentum. And the Muslims,
they punished genocide Joe, and it caused the political Shockwave.
And the whole global order started shifting, and Israel lost its
monopoly on the narrative, and Belgium imposed sanctions, and
Spain recognized the Palestinian state, and Israel started falling
apart, and suddenly they were talking about the coexistence once
more. And then one thing led to another, ya rasulallah, and then
al AFSA was liberated, ya rasulallah This generation, if it
was not for them, if it was not for what they did before, if it
was not for the battles that they won, if it was not that they broke
Israel's monopoly on the narrative, if it was not for the
Islamic schools that they built, if it was not for the resources
that they deployed for us, if it was not for the heroism and the
courage that they inspired in us and the stories that they told us
and that they told us the Ummah was strong, and they insisted the
Ummah was stronger. Ya rasulallah, I believe that. I believe that the
Ummah was strong. Ya rasulallah, if it was not for them, we would
never have liberated Al Aqsa Abu and
that's why I finish on this point. Yeah, ibad Allah, if
you want to do a test to find out where you belong in all of what is
happening, there is a test that I always tell people to do,
open the seer of the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, Sallam and.
Ask yourself, where would you accept to fit in the story?
When you go to Sumayya, ravala anha,
who passes away before the Prophet salallahu, alaihi salam, can even
give dawah in public. Do you love Allah so much that you would
accept a role for yourself, like listen the story?
Or do you say to yourself, yes, sumay al anha got ferdows, but I
don't. I don't want to be Sumaya.
Then you ask yourself, Okay, will I accept to be Musa ibn Umar who
converts yam to Medina but dies in bedr doesn't see the final
outcome, doesn't see fat Hammack. Would you accept to be Musa Abner
Omar even though he's for those? Or are you somebody who says, No,
that's Musab. That's, I don't. I want, I want to be at the end to
see the outcome. I don't want to be the sacrifice in the middle of
the I don't, I don't want, I want my efforts to be celebrated in the
dunya, not just
when you get to Hamza Rahu, who dies in, uh, the Lion of Allah
dies in the battle where the Muslims are defeated. Do you say
to yourself, I would accept to be Hamza? Or are you somebody who
says, no, no, no, I need to be in fat that's Hamza. That's not for
me. Hamza gets for those, but that's not how I want for those. I
don't want to be a vehicle like this. I don't want to be a vehicle
like I don't want to be I need to be big vehicle. I don't want to be
vehicle like stuff for hasha, even the Hamza Anu was a big vehicle.
Are you somebody who reads about the next Sahabi who dies before
Fatah Mecca?
Or do you find yourself being a Fatah Mecca and saying, Yeah, I
don't want to be the vehicle that struggles. I want to be the
vehicle that's there at the end with the victory and the
glory. For some brothers,
you find that you might perhaps be closer to Ube im salud than any of
the sahab over there.
But I think it's a good litmus test
to determine for yourself, where would you accept to be in this big
story that Allah subhanahu wa taala is writing, and where would
you accept to be the vehicle and ya ibad Allah, I promise this is
the final point I'll make
the fascinating thing about sacrificing for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa, and being willing to be a vehicle in any capacity for
Allah subhanahu wa, when you explore the story of Ibrahim
alaihi salam, from this aspect,
you realize how magnificent Allah subhanahu wa actually is, because
Muhammad Jalal, from thinking Muslim, asked me once, he said,
How can we be people of Jannah like Salah di ayubi? And I said to
him, Why does everybody assume that the people of Jannah are the
ones on the podiums? Why don't you believe the people of Jannah to be
the ones who were the Kega salad ayubi was the cherry on the top.
Why don't you believe the people of Jannah to be those ordinary
people who paved the way for Salah Hadean to come those in Turkey,
when Ataturk tried to ban the Quran, they kept teaching the
Quran. When they banned the hijabis from going to university,
they kept teaching the hijabis. When the Yugoslavian communism
tried to wipe out Islam, they executed half the MSA leaders and
put the others on the hard labor and they banned the Quran, and
they banned the Muslim associations. But the Bosnians
kept moving. And when Serbia came and committed the genocide, these
ordinary Bosnians, all they had to do was give up la Illa Allah,
Muhammad, rasulallah, and they could have lived in comfort, but
they chose to struggle with La ilaha illallah, then live in a
comfort of humiliation. Why do you not consider them to be people of
Jannah? Why do you only consider those to be at the podium? And
that's the point I want to make here, iba Allah, is that when you
read the story of Ibrahim alaihi salam, notice that Allah asks him
to give up what is dearest to Him for allah, Subhanahu wa and the
story of Ibrahim is how he goes through a phase where he's
desperately trying to reconcile it, desperately trying to get his
heart to be content with being in Allah's order what Allah has asked
him to do. But look how magnificent Allah is the moment
Ibrahim alaihi salam is ready to sacrifice what is dearest to him.
Allah doesn't even take it from him. All Allah wanted to see was
that Ibrahim assalam was ready to do so, and then Allah decided that
he wouldn't even take the sacrifice. He said, keep your son
and I make you honored as a result of it. And Ibrahim assalam was
propelled to greatness. We Muslims think we need to look this way to
go greatness. We don't realize that in reality, it's that moment
when you're prepared to be a vehicle in any capacity for Allah,
that Allah propels you to the greatness that you seek. For all
glory belongs to Allah. All glory belongs to Islam. And if anyone
seeks glory, let them know all glory belongs to Allah. SubhanaHu
wa you made the difference ibad Allah, you made Biden buckle. You
made blink and buckle. You made Netanyahu buckle. You shifted the
global order. The world is shifting because you are talking.
The world is shifting because you are mobilizing. The world is
shifting because you refuse to give up. The world is shifting
because you refuse to be quiet. The world is shifting because you
are taking action, because you are taking one step. Allah is taking
10 towards us. You are going to Allah walking. Allah is coming
running. Allah is using us as vehicles to shift the narrative on
Ghazal and Philistine in a way that is making Zionist right to
say that even though Netanyahu might win the military war, the
damage he's done to Israel's image by changing it from a haven for
genocide victims to a genocide Romania.
State means that, quote, our allies will no longer rush to our
rescue in the way that they did before. It's you who's making that
difference. I am pleading with you, as your brother from London,
keep doing what you're doing, keep raising your voice, and if Allah
subhanahu wa gives you the ability to deliver justice and punish
those who supported that genocide in that November elections. Ya
ibad Allah used that power and let the world say that when you commit
genocide, your political career is finished, because the Ummah would
rather struggle with dignity than live in humiliation and let them
get away with genocide, may Allah.
Bless you your family immensely.
We will you guys have two options. Option number 1q, and a. Option
number two, I give you a gift, or sakhala Allah gives us a gift that
on the Day of Qiyamah will all bear witness once
again, you have no choice at this point. So which one do you want?
The gift or option one?
Gift? You sure
someone's the option one.
You have classes tomorrow,
so we'll give we'll go with the gift. We'll go with the gift. It's
going to be very quick. It's a huge blessing. Alhamdulillah, we
have someone here that wants to
accept Islam.
So I will call him up, and I will allow brother Sami to have you.
Had done any Yeah? No, no in America,
yeah.
What about New York? So we will allow brother Finn to come up.
Finn, you can come up. Alhamdulillah, he is willing to
accept Islam, someone young mashaAllah, the reward,
the effort that goes into him is actually you will never imagine.
It's the kids that make the most troubled noise in this masjid, the
ones that hold up the walls in the masjid, the ones that are always
on their phones, so you never discredit any effort that someone
can bring to the table, or any potential someone has. So may
Allah bless brother Finn after the shahada, he requests that we give
him a name, an Islamic name, so I will allow brother Sami the gift
of blessing him with the righteous name, a
first of all, let me say
that ya ibad Allah,
I honestly believe that there is a difference between those of us
born into Islam and those who accept Islam later, those of us
born to Islam, our parents were Muslim. The environment was
conducive for us. We had that network. We had an environment
that made it easy for us,
to encourage us and push us towards Islam and the like,
to somebody to accept Islam later,
is a sign and a true testament of faith in that, with their hearts
and their minds, they identified the Haqq,
and they had that strength and courage and willpower and blessing
of Allah, Subhanahu wa to accept it and enter it, knowing the
changes that it makes in their lives. Never iba Allah say that
those who are born into Islam are better than those who enter it
later. For Allah, Allah blessed us with the environment early on. But
Allah gave our brother here a huge blessing in letting him see it
with his own eyes. And may Allah inshaAllah, we find him
inshaAllah, in the companionship of the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, Sallam in Jannat al for those
you just repeat after me,
inshaAllah shadu, ashadu Allah ILAHA, Allah Ihara, Allah ILAHA,
Illa Allah Illallah in LA Allah wa ashhadu wa, shahadu wa ashadu wadu
anna Muhammadan, Annam hanaman, anna muhammadan, Anna anna
muhammadan. Muhammadan, abduhu, Abdul warah Sulu water, Suru I
bear witness. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, that
there is no God but Allah and Muhammad. And Muhammad is the
Messenger of God. Is the messenger of God. Welcome to Islam.
Allah Masha Allah mashaAllah.
Everybody in here is your kin, is your family, is your brother. And
to be honest, when we think of names that we might bestow, we say
that the best of names can only be the one that was given to the best
of creation, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. And may Allah
make you a pillar of this religion and a sign of this deen and the
hero of justice in the same way that the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, Sallam ordered all of us to be so. Instead of giving a
complicated name, we stick with Muhammad Inshallah, the blessed
name. Welcome to the Deen Muhammad.
Welcome.
Greet him. Greet him, brother, greet him.
May Allah, bless him. Award everyone who came and
participated. We request everyone to please keep brother Sami, the
masjid, the community, the ummah of Rasulullah, especially the
brothers and sisters in Philistine. We ask Allah that he
liberates mashallah and Philistine, and He grants some
Sabha patience and victory in this, dunya and akhirah
SubhanAllah sifun.