Sami Hamdi – From Palestine to the USA Resilience & Faith
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The segment discusses the struggles of the umaler and the importance of repeating political views. The success of Islam in bringing people back to their chosen future is highlighted, particularly through a positive mindset and positive impacts on society, particularly in the context of personal issues. The success of Islam in bringing people back to their desired future is highlighted, particularly through a positive mindset and positive impacts on society, particularly in the context of personal issues. The segment also touches on the success of Islam in bringing people back to their desired future, particularly through a positive mindset and positive impacts on society, particularly in the context of personal issues.
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And now we've seen him at masscon, Houston. We've seen him all over
social media, taking the world by storm. Tonight, we'll hear him
speak at plus one from Palestine to the US of A resilience and
faith we have brother Sami Hamdi as we delve into the ummas,
historical and current dynamics and the contributions of American
Muslims in addressing contemporary challenges. Brother Sammy onto
you. First of all, I want to push back a little bit on the
introduction.
First of all, I think it's important to note that everybody
who has resonated with any podcast I did is not resonating with Sam
al Hamdi at all. Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran in Surat
fat al mankanuida, those who seek glory, let them know all glory
belongs to Allah subhanho wa taala. What you are resonating
with is not Sam. You are resonating with your fitrah that
cries out for justice, for Palestine, you're resonating with
the Islamic duty to stand up for justice. Anybody who stands for
justice, Allah elevates them. Anyone who abandons it, Allah
humiliates. 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. Allah is the One who elevates.
Allah is the One who humiliates those who align with Islam, and
what it calls for. The natural consequence is that they are
elevated in status, and the ones who turn away will be torn down
and sent crashing down by Allah, subhanaw taala, at the same pace
with which they rose to this. I am fully aware of this. This this
introduction was meant for me and not for you, a reminder that all
glory belongs to Allah subhanahu wa all favor belongs to Allah
subhana wa taala. And I have been honored to have been some sort of
a vehicle, even if it's a small one, at least, to try to tell
people that this ummah is not weak. Has never been weak. Has
always had power. Has always had the ability to manifest power. It
just sometimes was a bit reluctant to use that power for a number of
different reasons. You know, sometimes I think that comfort is
not a really good thing for the Ummah sometimes, and I've seen
your houses, mashallah,
allahummallah Hassed, all I know is so my first time coming to
America was 2018 for a wedding, and when my
friend told me that he do the wedding in America, I told him,
yeh, why would I go to the Eye of Sauron yechi? I have no interest
in going to America. You know stuff. You're going to make me go
there. Why can't we do the wedding in London? Bring her here? Yaki,
and out of all the women in the world, you couldn't find somebody
exceptional. Anyway, he told me that if I don't come to the
wedding, because there were 400 of her and eight of us. So he said,
No, I will never forgive you if you don't come, we have to make a
splash when we go to America. And yeah, 400 was quite daunting to
look at, but when I came to America, second time November, 3
time December, 4 time January, 5 time will be March Inshallah, and
then I promise I'll go away. You won't see me again. I went back to
my flat in London, and my flat is quite decent in London, and I
entered then my wife said to me, how was America? I told her, I
feel claustrophobic in my flat,
like after you've seen what I've seen, you can't unsee it. I
in terms of the topic at hand. One of the hardest things about
repeating the same thing over and over again in different places is,
how do you do it in the same way, in a different way, in a way
that's received? I've seen some people comment. They say, Sammy
says the same thing over and over again, but in different ways. And
that, Sammy, bro, you need some new content. And the thing that
shocks me about it is that I never knew that Haqq was content like
that. It was just a trend that you just do, as if you just got bored
of talking about Raza now talk about something new or, or they
got bored of what Haq is, and now they want a new version of Haqq.
You know, they liked Haqq now should be Haqq x, or Haqq Neo, Neo
Haqq. And you know stuff, Allah Alam, you know. You think about
it, the Quran has been the same for 1400 years. Nobody said, you
know, stafala, Alam Allahu, any new content stafala. No one says
it. No one says that hadith should be changed by buchare Muslim. Why?
Because your heart resonates with what is Haqq. And the fact that
Haqq has to be repeated means we haven't done enough in terms of
the haqqan. That's why it needs to be repeated until it actually gets
implemented, first and foremost. So I'm going to say the same
message again. And I don't care if you've heard it before, it's just
the way it is. Inshallah, it inspires the same way it inspired
before. Inshallah, if it inspired before,
listening to the testimony of yomna Patel and describing her
colleagues and the like, the reality is you can feel it even in
the way she tells her story, the sense that not fatigue, but the
sense of, please hear my story. Please talk about Philistine.
Please raise awareness. Please don't get tired. Please don't get
fatigued. And the reason why that's a terrifying thing for her
to say is is the notion that the Ummah can feel fatigue for
standing up for Philistine and standing up for justice. But the
reality is that I don't think.
Is necessarily a bad thing to feel the fatigue, and I'll explain
exactly what I mean. First of all, let's appreciate what we've
managed to achieve so far. When Israel began its genocide in
ethnic cleansing, remember, Blinken was banning the State
Department from using the word Cease fire.
Netanyahu was given a carte blanche just to go and attack the
Israelis. Biden wanted to facilitate ethnic cleansing. On
the 20th of October, he proposed the bill to Congress to Oh, I
forgot the views expressed by the speaker reflect the speaker alone
and do not reflect the organization that invited me. They
did not ask me what I would say. I did not tell them what I was going
to say. What I say is me, and it has nothing to do with anybody
associated with this organization. And I mean that seriously,
please record that. Yeah, that's, that's very, that's, that's a
very, very important disclaimer. So Biden, on the 20th of October,
decided to put a bill in Congress where he wanted to offer money to
Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinian refugees. He felt that
the reason why Egypt and Jordan weren't taking Palestinian
refugees is because the money issue, you know, skin loose,
there's no money. So one of the things that I found fascinating
about the Congress bill is now I, Alhamdulillah, had the opportunity
in November to go for the first time to wonderful blue sky, sunny
LA.
And when I landed in LA, of course, you do the convention in
your speech, but you know, the five year old inside you wants to
see what you saw in the movies. I want to go see, you know, Beverly
Hills, cop. I want to see Beverly Hills. I saw these other movies. I
want to see Hollywood. I want, I want to see that, that wooden
letters that you guys have on the hill, you know, H, O, L, L, y, w,
when I went and saw it, I said, Is that all it is? But it was
exciting to me when I first landed in LA.
And thing is, when I went to LA, when I went to Beverly Hills, when
you go to Beverly Hills, you think, Okay, this is cool. This is
Beverly Hills. But when I turned up, I just found rows of tents and
homeless people in the tents. Biden said that the money that
Congress has homelessness is not a priority. Genocide and ethnic
cleansing is a priority. I could resolve homelessness. But why
would I do that when I have the opportunity for Jannah and ethnic
cleansing, and what lunatic would solve homelessness when you have
the chance to E cleanse Gaza and hand it over to the Israelis?
When I came for the wedding, for Abu Bakr, his wedding, who married
dua from Raleigh, she transformed him, masha Allah. So I came to
retract my statement about why'd you go find an American so she
made him a better man. Mashallah, yes, I said. Abu Bakr,
when I went to Raleigh for the wedding, there was a guy with us
in the car while we were driving, and he vomited. Now, one thing
that we have in the United Kingdom, God save the king,
is,
is that if I wake up in the morning and I go,
Oh, that felt a bit chesty. I can call the doctor and say, Doctor, I
just coughed, and he'll say, so what I want to see you? Why I want
to make sure I'm okay. Now these days, maybe you need to wait a
week or something to see a doctor, maybe two weeks. But you go to the
doctor and you can without paying a penny, and you can say to the
doctor, doctor, I coughed and I'm worried about it. And he'll say,
Why are you worried about it? I tell him, I felt chesty. He goes,
dude, it's just a cough. Just go home. I tell him, No, I looked on
Google. They said I might be cancer.
I need you to do some tests. I need a referral letter to go to
the hospital. And he'll write the referral letter just to get rid of
you, but because it doesn't cost a penny, I have my peace of mind
that that cough was just a cough.
When musketeers brother in the car was vomiting. He vomited the first
time. He said to me, you Okay, let's go to a doctor just to check
it out. And His face looked horrified. He looked more sick at
the suggestion than the vomit. And
then he vomited again. And
then I looked at him me and a Palestinian brother who came with
me from London, Omar Abdulhadi, he said to him, dude, it could be
something serious. Just go check at least. Just have your peace of
mind. Said no, and he vomited again.
It's almost his suggestion was making him more sick. And we said,
okay, let's at least call an ambulance. I said, No, you have to
pay for an ambulance here. And I thought, What a stingy guy over
$50 $100 to get an ambulance. Say, would you be $100 it's $1,000
to get an ambulance here.
God bless the NHS, the National Health Service.
Biden said that the money I could spend to make sure that they could
go see a doctor to make sure they're okay, the money is better
spent on genocide ethnic cleansing. What idiot would spend
money on health care when they can spend it on genocide and ethnic
cleansing? It's a no brainer,
so Biden presents it in Congress,
but on the 28th of October, Biden comes out and says that we will no
longer pursue the displacement of Palestinians. We will reject it
outright. I thought maybe Biden was,
you know,
because he claimed that he saw pictures of beheaded babies and
the White House they panned.
They said, No, he didn't see he didn't see it.
But then I saw John Kirby, and I sure saw the other spokesman come
out. So I said, yeah, it must be true. But there was a reason why
they changed their minds. It was because on the 26th or 27 there
was a Gallup poll that came out that suggested that Biden was
falling behind the Republican candidates in six swing states.
Now the reason they were concerned about these polls is because Biden
was falling in the polls, not because, necessarily because of
the economy, but according to Reuters, one thing that I'm aware
with Muslims is I'm aware that Muslims that we suffer sometimes
from inferiority complex. So if somebody who looks like you says
it, you won't believe it. So I need to bring you sources that, in
your mind, is almost equivalent to Bukhari and Muslim. So I'm
bringing you Washington Post and Axios from the Israelis. So you
don't say Sami said it. So Reuters, salaam alaikum.
So Reuters reported that the fascinating thing about the Gallup
poll was that Biden was not falling in the polls primarily
because of the economy. He was falling in the polls over his
stance with regards to Israel and Gaza. But they said the shocking
thing about him falling in the polls because of Israel and Gaza
is that he was falling in the polls over a foreign policy issues
where American troops weren't even on the ground. Usually, when a
president is falling in a foreign policy issue, it's because our
boys are dying in places where we can't even point you on a map.
This time, Biden was falling in the polls of a foreign policy
issue where American troops weren't dying. So what was making
the American change their mind over Philistine and Israel was
nothing to do with the self interest that our boys are dying
abroad. It was because they were hearing the Ummah
that's a pathetic rule, but it is what it is. They heard the Ummah
roar.
They heard the Ummah roar.
Asanti abuna, well done. But it was literally a very loud draw,
and I explained to you why. So one of the things I asked one of those
tech guys. Now, I'll be honest with you, when my sister told me
to set up a Tiktok account, I told her, udubillah, I'm gonna spend
my nights scrolling through videos of people doing new dance
techniques and stuff. What do I look like to you? I'm a
sophisticated I didn't say that, but in any case, so
anyway, she told me, No, it's the future. It's how things will go.
They're like. So I reluctantly set up a Tiktok account. Now, one
thing I noticed with Tiktok is the Tiktok algorithm creates a bubble
for you. So for example, your Tiktok account is not the same as
mine. Mine is Ronaldinho zine, Dan. It's Harland complaining he
didn't win the Ballon door. You know, it's a motivational speaker,
this African brother who goes, bro, don't lose hope in Allah,
yeah, he's really good. Mashallah, honestly. And maybe some cartoons
here and there, Tom and Jerry, you know, from back in the days, and
and a couple, somebody's tick tock might be, you know, love Island,
Kardashians, Kanye West, and that kind of, you know, the point is,
tick tock creates an algorithm that's specifically dedicated to
what you like. It doesn't show you what you don't like, and
everything that you continue to post ends up increasing for
something to break that algorithm. It can't just be popular. It has
to be so stupendously popular that it pops the bubble of the
algorithm and forces itself onto the homepage. It has to make the
algorithm not just giddy and excited. It has to make it in an
ecstasy that it has to put it on your feet because it's so popular,
it's being shared so much, it's being commented on so much.
Everybody has to see what this latest trend is.
Alongside Tiktok algorithm, you have Elon Musk. Now, I know many
of you are upset with Elon Musk as well the statements that he's made
that his name might be Jewish, and he might be Jewish here, and his
mom might be Jewish, and, you know, Tesla might be Jewish. No
disrespect to our cousins. The interviews there, everybody can
see it, so I didn't say anything wrong the views expressed on the
speaker's own, and don't affect the organization. But one thing
Elon Musk, so when Elon Musk took over Twitter,
I saw many intellectuals, you know, they were like, This is a
disaster for Twitter. Like, this is a huge desire. Now, I didn't
exactly understand why, but because I saw intellectuals do it,
I wanted to sound intellectual, so I also tweeted, oh, this is a
disaster for Twitter. And I couldn't understand. They'd be
like, you know, I don't know, like, freedom of speech or
whatever. Or, you know, they'd be whatever, and I'd be like, oh,
yeah, freedom of speech or whatever. Again, I can't lie to
you. I honestly believe that Elon Musk's taken over Twitter was one
of the greatest days in the lives of social media. And explain what
I mean, Elon Musk did something. I don't think he intended to do it,
but he ended up that way. Anyway.
He introduced something called the Home page. So before when you go
on Twitter, you used to see only the accounts that you follow. This
time, he included the home page. So when I opened X, I'll show
respect x, when you open X, I was seeing tweets of accounts that I
don't follow. It was very strange. I was seeing love Island. I was
seeing Kardashian divorces Kanye West. I was seeing other things
that I'm not genuinely I don't follow, this stuff. I was shocked
by what I was seeing on the home page.
The homepage is a compilation of tweets that are popular, that x
thinks you will like, and it judges that based on the number of
people who are talking about a particular issue. And it puts that
issue on the homepage for something to break the algorithm
of x or algorithm of Tiktok. It has to be so stupendously popular,
the roar has to be so loud
that it breaks the algorithm and forces the content onto their home
pages. So on the 27th of October, when they saw the Gallup poll and
they saw themselves falling behind in the polls, there was only one
reason why Biden was falling in the polls. There was only one
reason why Americans were changing their mind, there was only one
reason why there was this unprecedented shift. There was
only one reason why suddenly Blinken was panicking and was
going to shift from no ceasefire to humanitarian pause. And that's
because the Ummah road and they kept talking about Palestine in
such a way, hashtag Palestine was not shared in the millions. It was
shared first by the Palestinians, by yomna patellais and her
colleagues and the Palestinian colleagues. Then it was amplified
by 1.9 million, not million billion. 1.9 billion. Muslims were
amplifying the hashtag Palestine, the algorithm got so excited that
when Paul Michael, Sarah, Joe Jeremy and these others and opened
up their Tiktok, or they opened up their ex, they no longer saw the
latest Kardashian craze or love Island alike. They saw first week,
Philistine. First video Philistine. Second video,
Palestine. Third video of Palestine, because all the
algorithm cares about is what's popular and what was popular at
that time, or what was the main issue, was that billions of people
around the world were talking about Palestine, which resulted in
Biden dropping in the polls in the six states, swing states. And it's
as if, because the Ummah took one step, Allah took 10 and made it so
that the swing states where he was falling behind weren't just any
swing states, it was swing states where Muslims have their deciding
votes.
The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam said the Hadith
that I used to read when I used to grow older. And I can't lie to
you, I used to read this hadith and only think of it from a
spiritual perspective. You know, sometimes you read the Hadith and
you think you don't truly understand it, but you're like
Allah
because it makes you feel good. You read, for example, belly
huani, wala, ayah, convey from me, even if it's just a verse. So you
come out your house and you go Quran
without understanding that the structure of the hadith is where
the secret lies the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, Balani wallayah Convey from me, even if it's just
a verse, the point of this hadith is in The Walo, even if the
Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam was saying, Don't be an
ummah that is quiet. Don't be an ummah that does nothing. Don't be
an ummah that says it doesn't have the ability to do anything for
Wallahi. If, though, if you can't convey anything, convey at least
an ayah, don't be an ummah that says nothing the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam also said Menara, Amin kumukaran fell
He who sees something that is wrong or she? Because I know in
America, this gender thing is a really big issue for you
guys. Whoever sees,
listen, I've never been asked about pronouns in UK, only in the
US. That's all I'm saying. It's a very American thing that you guys
are exporting. Please leave it within your own borders, the views
expressed by the speaker's own my pronouns, are he and are he and
Sami, that's my pronouns. Alhamdulillah,
I just realized I need to be careful when
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Whoever sees something that is wrong, let them change it with
their hand. But if they cannot, not, if they don't want to, if
they cannot, implying that you do not have the power to change it
with your hand. The Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, in
the structure of the Hadith, if you do not have the power, the
same way we feel, we do not have the power to actively go and stop
it. Then he said, then you believe Sani. Let him change it with his
tongue, meaning, speak out against it. Put pressure on it, condemn
it. Shout loud about it. Tweet about it. Do just keep talking
about it. Well, stop there. If he cannot with his tongue, then let
him condemn it in his heart, and that's the weakest of faith. The
Ummah believes that speaking out doesn't make a difference. Let me
retract that. Some in the Ummah believe that speaking out doesn't
make a difference, that what am I doing? I'm speaking out, but
there's a genocide still happening. I'm speaking out, but
it's not.
Making a difference. I'm speaking our
all I'm doing is speaking out. I wish I could do more. But here the
Prophet saw him saying that speaking out is an elevated form
of resistance, for he didn't say that was the weakest of faith. He
said, to do nothing and condemn it in your heart is the weakest of
faith. To be an ummah that does nothing puts you at your weakest.
To be an ummah that doesn't move puts you at your weakest. To be an
ummah that chooses not to mobilize makes you the weakest. But any
action, even if it's speaking out, elevates you in the level of
resistance. When Biden is falling in the polls in the six states
where the Muslims have the deciding and of course, I remember
inferiority complex. If Sami says it, it's not believed. So I bring
you Axios Israeli paper. They said, If Biden loses even a
sliver, their words, not mine, a sliver of the Muslim vote, he
loses the election.
Politico wrote, If Biden loses 100,000
from Deborah Mubarak in Michigan. Yeah, you
know, may Allah bless them and give them the fortitude to do what
is necessary. Views Express other speakers.
Views expressed other speakers. Oh, they do not reflect anybody
sitting in this audience or the organization that invited me. Come
on guys, get with the page. Get with the script.
It said, if they lose even 100,000 votes, Biden loses Michigan.
The reason that poll was shifted is because the Ummah
such a pathetic roar.
Maybe they roared and you didn't stop for Allah Ali,
the point is that, as a result of the speaking out that you felt was
insignificant caused a significant shift that Blinken, according to
Axios, went to Netanyahu and told him, Bibi, we got a problem. For
those who know Bibi, Bibi is Netanyahu his nickname. I'm not
mocking him in any way. I'm just that's his nickname, but may Allah
never give me a nickname like that. I like that. But I'm just
saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just
saying, I take it views expressed other speakers, of them, I have no
idea.
So Blinken says to Netanyahu, he tells him, Bibi, we got a problem.
Bibi tells him, what's wrong. He tells him, as a result
of the Ummah roaring,
we're now behind in the polls, and we're concerned that these polls
might actually hurt us. Now we believe that these Muslims will
forget by November, because they've got Trump who do the
Muslim ban. And the Muslim believes that if they had to
choose between seeing their relatives and condemning a
genocide, they would rather see their relatives rather than punish
a genocide. So I know what these Muslims, but just in case they
decide that genocide is worse. Just in case they decided genocide
is worse than seeing not seeing their relatives for four years,
just in case we need a new marketing strategy. Netanyahu
said, what's the marketing strategy? He said, Look, I don't
think we should be so loud about the genocide and pummeling Gaza
and calling them animals and all this. Other thing, I think what we
should do is we should do a marketing strategy to make ethnic
cleansing and genocide look more humane merciful. How do we do
that? What we do is
we send a letter to the Palestinians in their homes, and
we tell them we would we are coming to take your land and bomb
your home, but as a mercy, we give you four hours every day to decide
whether you want to be in the home when we bomb it, or whether you
want to leave the home. And Bibi, what we'll do, we'll make them go
through a humanitarian corridor under the protection of the
Israeli army.
The problem is Netanyahu responds, and he says, according to Axios,
Netanyahu says, I need to know that this isn't a plan by Biden to
lure me into a ceasefire. Allah says he thinks they you, they you
are they are united. But kolobo, whom she their hearts are divided
because Netanyahu was worried Netanyahu, who doesn't really rate
the Muslim, said Blinken is coming here after promising me that he
won't call for a ceasefire. Blinken, as a result of hearing
these Muslims keep talking about Palestine, breaking the algorithm,
and changing public opinion. Now, Blinken, as a result of these
Muslims, after he managed blinking, blinking, come on, we
already got the fatwa from
country s,
you know, maybe I shouldn't go down that road here. You know,
maybe, maybe I should just but, you know, Blinken had a fatwa from
a chief imam in one of the holy sites that said, don't talk about
it, because it's fitna. He got the fatwa. And there was another
country that said, you know where Muslims like to go, for some
reason, they that said that it's the Palestinians fault, and
there's another country that said, we're not opening the border, and
if you force us to, we'll just load the Palestinians on boats and
send them to Europe, and you guys can deal with
it. Netanyahu said, Surely these Muslim states, we have Imams on
our.
Side. We have Imams calling for pro normalization as well. Why are
you worried about this? Because the fatwa is not working on these
Muslims. Because Islam is not like Christianity or Judaism, they
don't need an intercessor with Allah. They can talk to Allah
directly, and Allah spoke to them directly through the Quran. They
don't go they don't do confession, they do tobah, they do tahajjud
that night in dutobar. They don't need any man for that. You need to
understand what this Islam thing is all about. Netanyahu says, I
don't want to learn about Islam, because what you should he didn't
actually say that.
So they go from not calling for a ceasefire to a humanitarian pause.
But the Ummah refuses to be quiet. The Ummah puts the pictures of the
Palestinians leaving alongside the Nakba.
Not only that,
have you ever seen I know, I know there are many young faces here,
and I'm among the young faces, hamdullah, I am, honestly, I am
among the young faces, hamdullah, halafali, so I'm asking the elders
here, okay, not myself. Have you ever seen a BBC presenter, or CNN
presenter, apologized for their coverage of Palestine.
Why do you think they apologized this time when the CNN reported
about the beheaded babies 24 hours and then the presenter came out
and said, I'm sorry that we reported it without corroborating
evidence. Do you think that she apologized because she got a call
from the White House and Biden said, How dare you drop
journalistic standards, you should be fair and give the Palestinians
their air time. Do you think it's because Netanyahu said, Come on, I
know I'm committing genocide, but be fair to the victims. It's
because they heard the ummah.
Sheik Amar, I didn't say it. They said that. Ah,
they heard the Ummah roar, and they panicked. So they said,
listen, forget what Biden thinks. Forget what Netanyahu thinks. I'm
worried about what these people think, because these people were
supposed to be quiet. They were supposed to keep their heads down.
They were supposed to just take it lying down like they always do.
There's they were supposed to be Listen, we don't want to bring
trouble to ourselves. We don't want to struggle. We have lovely,
big houses. We don't want to jeopardize that. MashAllah has
said,
Allah, may Allah increase you and and increase me with that as well.
Inshallah,
anybody want to donate? Let me know.
So they apologized because the Ummah was mobilizing. The reason
why I'm giving you these examples is
is to try to get you to appreciate the power that you displayed that
I fear you don't appreciate.
The reality is that when I see how
the public opinion has shifted in America that makes a Zionist girl
in LA say, I grew up in a Zionist environment, never seeing
Palestinian content. But as a result of Tiktok, HAFA the Allah
say, Amin, listen, for those of you who didn't want to say, Amin,
let me put you this way. Would you have preferred BBC and CNN
dominate the narrative? At least Tiktok gave us a way to
because when they asked Tiktok to close down Palestinian content,
why you promote Palestinian content? Tiktok said, guys, it's
not the algorithm. It's just the new generation. It's pro
Palestinian. But why are they pro Palestinian? It's because the
Zionist girl in LA came out. She calls herself Zionist. It's not
me. She came out, she did a video. She said, I grew up never seeing
Palestinian content, but as a result of Tiktok and the
stupendous popularity of the videos of the Palestinians that
were being amplified by the Ummah that was roaring and raising the
voice of the Palestinians that was raising the voice of the
Palestinians that was delivering it to the homepage of Michael
Matthew, Luke, John Jeremy, Jeffrey, Michelle, Sarah. Give me
the names, John Jacob, all the all these other names right on all of
their homepage as a result of that shift that was taking place, we
saw Blinken buckle, Netanyahu buckle, Biden buckle, and we even
saw Kamala Harris come out and produce a video where she
announced a new counter Islamophobia initiative, the first
ever in America. And also the Democrats, they sent out an email
saying, yeah, they didn't say about Allah, but they said, I need
to be careful
there. I don't know
why that came out, but in any case, they said, Oh Muslims. Or
maybe they don't even respect Muslims, oh muses.
You know Trump, when he comes to power, he will do the Muslim ban.
Remember, how bad Trump is. We promise not to do the Muslim ban.
The reason they did that is not because they were affected by the
videos coming out of Philistine. They didn't see the pictures and
the atrocities the children having their limbs amputated without
anesthesia. They didn't see the bombing of the hospitals and
think, you know, these poor Palestinians or the like. They
went,
good job, Israel. But the reason they did it is because the
Democrats got together and.
They said, Look, I'm not going to try the accent. It's a bit tough
the way they do their accent. I can't mimic it. But they said,
Look, these Muslims are getting angry, and there's a chance they
might punish us in the election. So let's throw them a bone that
they can chew on that will help them to forget the genocide and
say, Look, guys, yes, we might have committed the genocide, but
the guy wants to do a Muslim ban. Like, how can you compare the two?
And that's why it was very interesting to see a tweet by
Hindi. I keep repeating this tweet everywhere. I mentioned her name
to give her credit, so no one says I stole her idea. But because I
sat there, I said, How do I address the fact that the other
side is Trump and then SubhanAllah? The next day, I saw
her tweet where she said, I like to inform the Democrats that, yes,
while it's true, Trump wants to put the Muslim ban, I'd like to
remind the Democrats that we Muslims survived four years of
Trump. 20,000 Palestinians did not survive. Four years of Biden,
we survived the racist, bigoted Donald Trump. There are some
people I don't know I saw online. They said, Sam is telling people
to vote Trump
rule. I know there are some Muslims who've been trying to
convince me that Trump is good. I have no idea where they got that
from,
except somebody. But then in the end of the conversation, they say,
I made more money on the Trump than Biden. I get it. Okay,
Philos. It's like the video the guy in a mecca going Allahumma,
filus, philos, philos, Philos. And the guy next to him says, Arab,
banana fu dunya Hassan. He goes, yes, yes, but Firoz, Firoz, mafi,
you know. So I understand that sometimes self interest might
guide somebody to one one party or another. But the point that I'm
saying is that you got to a stage where the Democrats are rattled by
what they're not rattled by any of the Muslim nations. They got a
fatwa from a Muslim nation. They got a statement condemning the
Palestinians from another Gulf nation. They got support to
blockade Gaza from another Muslim nation. They even got somebody
who's often called, I don't know where is Sultan or sometime, they
even managed to get him to be neutral in the whole Affairs and
Trade between the two countries actually increased 30% since the
genocide, although I read the report today that maybe the Sultan
is about to cut off an economic ties with Israel 100 days. But,
you know, later than ever. I guess, if it's true, the point is
the Democrats didn't change their position because of any of these
major Muslim states taking any stance. So what made Blinken
buckle and go to call for a sustainable ceasefire or hostages?
What made the drop in Biden's public opinion, what made all of
this shift that is making everybody fall over themselves?
That has made the Belgian Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister,
call for sanctions on Israel. Made Spain, state that is ready to
recognize a Palestinian state, make the US allies refuse to join
this coalition in the Red Sea. That made Saudi Arabia finally
lift the ban on making dua for Philistine? Oh, I mentioned any
country by name. Oh,
the views expressed or the speaker's own. When these people
land in Jeddah, please let them through the border of Allah. They
had nothing to do with me. I don't know them, and I'm not moving to
Houston just so they can do Amara. Please let them do it. Yeah, we
have our own gripe, but don't let them include This is between us.
I hope your names aren't registered on this event.
The point here that I'm saying is an ummah that keeps telling itself
it's weak brings about extraordinary changes at the
highest levels of state.
When I did the Yale podcast, so I can't lie to you, I know that that
podcast went viral, right? But I'll be honest with you, it's a
tantrum, not an analysis, because when they invited me for the
podcast, I calculated the time difference wrong. So I thought it
was 11pm UK time, it turned out to be 3am UK time. So and then, so I
looked I didn't know what to do. Should I go to sleep, wake up? But
I might not wake up, so I stuffed myself with coffee and watch
Korean drama. Korean dramas until 3am
they're really good Korean dramas, but in any case, and if you're
married, if, if you're married, watch them with your spouse. It's
a really good marriage, you know, takes you to the next level.
I'm serious. I don't know you're laughing.
So in the So, so so when we did the yakim podcast, they said to me
that Sheik Mikhail will speak first, and then we'll take Q and A
and then Sami will speak. Now I thought, II like 3am Why can't I
go first and then go to sleep, and then Sheik Mikhail can? Can finish
off, because it's earlier his time. So Sheik Mikhail gave a
wonderful, wonderful mashaAllah. He's gifted Allah ibarraq. He is
Masha Allah. And
then they took the Q and A, and the question was a horrible
question. Let's be brutally honest. Are we in the West
betraying Philistine? And I realized what she meant by the
question, no disrespect to sister Iman. I'm sure it was a sincere
question, but the question effectively how I interpreted it
was, I feel like I'm betraying Philistine because the Muslims are
telling me I'm not by speaking out, but I need a source other
than Muslims to tell me that I'm making a difference, because the
Muslim source is here. I need Washington Post and Axios to tell
me I'm making a difference. Inferiority complex. So I flipped.
I said, you know, I know what she wants here. Fine. You have been to
Helen. You don't want Sammy to tell you. Here's Benny Gantz,
here's Netanyahu, here's Blake.
You can here's Biden. Here's the poll here. And then I saw I had
zoom on my phone, and it said, may Allah, bless your tongue, keep
going. And I went, Oh, tantrum. Turns the tantrum tends to be
analysis. That's perfectly fine. The point of the a clean podcast
is that later on, when I wanted to see what it is that made people
resonate with it, when I opened their clean podcast, I saw IDF
advert before it came up.
And when I thought, for Allah, I need to make Tahoe, you know,
like, because I saw the IDF advert, because I really wanted to
see the podcast, so I watched the whole IDF advert, so, you know,
and don't judge me, I wanted to see the podcast, so I thought, let
me listen to Saudis surah Taha. So I opened soda sham surah Taha. The
Israelis spent so much money, it was as if they wanted the IDF
advert to be the Bismillah before the Surah, because it came up
before the video sort of Paha. So Chile, phenomenal. The point is, I
don't know. I don't know if any of you guys have ever tried social
media ads. I'm not particularly gifted. I tried it when I first
started the international interest and realized I had no idea what I
was doing. Because you know, when you choose your countries and you
try to make it targeted adverts, it just seems to charge you more
and more and more and more and more. And if you try to do all the
categories at once, it tells you you spend, I don't know, like if
$20 and you only reach like however much you have to do
concentrated targeting for them to put the adverts on even the Quran
and Yaqeen means they were spending billions on their social
media, advertising to promote their cause and promote the IDF.
They were spending billions on a PR campaign
that the Ummah broke for free.
They spent billions on social media to propose a narrative and
monopolize a narrative that the Ummah broke for free.
The roar was so loud it reached so far it smashed the Israeli
monopoly for free. Pre hand up. You received money for tweeting or
for doing Tiktok. No one received money, right? Can you imagine how
much you'd have been paid if you did design this propaganda, but
you didn't want to take the money? Did you? You want to do it for
Hakka, for truth, and you broke it for free.
The reason why I'm saying all this is that today, the Israeli PR met
with Tiktok influences to now push the Israeli narrative once more,
to try to retake control of the narrative, so they're paying more
money to try to take back control of a narrative that you broke for
free. The reason I'm highlighting all these small things here and
there is to highlight the victory that you managed to achieve
through just speaking alone. So imagine if you did other things as
well. But the point I want to address after this very long
introduction has less to do with the victories you've achieved, and
to address this fatigue, this word fatigue that keeps coming up in
the Muslim community when it comes to Philistine
now to be to be serious now, I promise no more joke, maybe one
more. But
there were two books that I happened to read before Ghazi.
Happened that if I had not read them, I would not have the opinion
on Raza that I have today.
The first was one day I woke up and I was having a conversation
with an Algerian friend, and I said, why is it the French never
apologized for Algerian colonization? Why do they keep
insisting? And he was a Walla and Francis adomar, they have no
shame. That's why the Francis O Walla, I don't buy anything from
the French. I don't he's having a delicious yoga French come but
he's like, Oh, I don't buy anything from the French. Their
products are bad quality anyway. And I was like, Are
we skiing? But one
day, I decided, You know what I thought, you know, why don't I try
to buy a book by somebody who's sympathetic to colonizers and just
read from their perspective why they love colonization so much and
how they think things could have been different. So I bought a book
called Algeria, savage war of peace by a guy called Alistair
horn. So in this book, to be honest, it's quite difficult to
read, because at every juncture, he's trying to justify why
colonization could have survived if they French had just done this,
if they just done that, if they just allowed a bit of Arabic, if
they just allowed a bit of this, then they could have stayed, you
know, if they just went easy a little bit on this aspect, they
could have remained as colonizers. But in this book, he identifies
two turning points in the liberation of Algeria. The first
turning point he identifies was the establishment of the Council
of Islamic scholars in 1920s by a sheik, or Abdul Hamid imbadis.
Abdul Hamid bimbadi set up the Council of Islamic scholars and
set up an office in every city, and it would teach a new
generation Arabic Quran Hadith and a fluency in the Islamic identity.
And 30 years later, the graduates of these schools would be the foot
soldiers of the FLN that would emerge 30 years later in 1954
he said, this new generation that did not suffer from the battering
of France, because, remember France 400 years they tried to ban
the Arabic language. They would line up the hijabis, and they
would hijabis, and they would remove the hijab and say, You are
liberty. You are free now to do whatever you wish. For those who
want to know the savagery of the French. My great uncle was 19 when
he was killed one day. His cousin was pregnant, so she was walking
on the street, and four French soldiers, they took out their
nine.
And their machetes, and they said, Yo, let's see what gender the baby
is. So they went to cut open her stomach in order to get the baby
out. He panicked. He saw, picked up a rifle, started shooting at
them. They ran away that night. They came into his room and they
riddled him with bullets.
French were nasty. The French, they used to bring people,
electrocute them. They used to get horseshoe marks and dig them in.
They used to get the woman chop off their *. They used to do
all sorts of things in the name of the civilizing mission that is
France.
Abdel Hamid Ben bedis was pushing back against that battering by
trying not to revive the identity, but restore the bridge that they
were trying to break between the Algerians and Islam and the Arabic
language, the second turning point that Alistair horn identifies as
the turning point in liberation of Algeria
was, interestingly, the massacre of 1945
for those who don't know, in 1945 when France was liberated from
Nazi Germany, because they'd been defeated in two weeks by Germany,
I'm just saying, in the two weeks
when they were liberated from Nazi Germany, all the allies, Western
allies, got together to write a document. Every man is born free,
and every people have the right to self determination.
They came together. They said, this is, you know, the global
order and how it's going to work. And look how magnificent we are,
freedom and self determination. The French celebrated in Paris,
but realized that there were Algerians who saw the document.
And when Allah, Adi malabel, aka the document, Allah, this document
sounds fantastic. Freedom, Asmaa Ya Allah, freedom for everybody
who self determination. Ayaway hat and I want some self
determination. So they
saw this document. For those understood, he said, you have this
document, self determination. I want self determination as well.
So when stiff harata and galma, they took to the streets to
protest, and they said, We want liberation. We want freedom now.
France was so horrified that Algerians would want freedom that
they danced in Paris. They danced in Paris and then went and
massacred 30,000 Algerians in that week, the French say they
massacred 12,000 and that's them being quite you know, okay, we
killed 12,000 you know, whatever. No, it's fine, no problem. I
thought you were gonna tell me.
The Algerians say they massacred 50,000 Now I know some Algerian
uncles, maybe, maybe slight exaggeration, Halas will go for
the middle ground, 30,000 30,000 huge number. Alistair horn says
this was the turning point. But the second book that changed my
perspective on Gaza was the Quran and Surat hood. So one day, you
know, sometimes some of the shepard will know this. You want
to learn along the surah to show off in front of your friends. You
don't want to be the guy who just reads Qur'an Ness. You want to be
the guy who reads, you know, in Nafi, Khalsa, mawati will, and
everybody goes, I don't know the Surah, Masha, Allah,
like, like, my guy became a sheik, fam, you know, really, like, you
want to do it. So anyway, so I had one of those moments. You know,
not. They don't come often. I had one of those moments. I read surah
Hood. So I read the first two as a surah who made a mistake in the
third, read the fourth and fifth. Aya made a mistake in the sixth
and couldn't remember the seventh. So I gave up and just went Allah.
So I decided, you know, stuck for Allah. Alima forgotten, you know,
the Surah, and I forgot what. I need to open the Quran. I need to
go re memorize the surah. As I'm going through the surah again for
the first time, I'm actually trying to understand what the
surah is about NUHA. Salaam goes to his people. Allah destroys his
people. Who Dale Salam goes to his people, Allah destroys his people.
Shwe goes to his people. Allah destroys his people. Salah goes to
his people. Allah destroys his people. I'm
trying to find a nice way to say this, but as you're going through,
the story is sort of like now, there's not a single one managed
to succeed in convincing his people one by one.
And
then you get to shweb, and then Lord, and then Lord, you get to a
statement where Lord actually gets to a point where he says, Kala Abu
Oh, and kalau and Nelly, kalau and nebuchadne Oh. The people come to
oppress him, he says, If only I had power or a powerful ally to
resist you, and I can't lie to you. My immediate reaction was,
how can a prophet say that? And
then you remember, wait a minute, but in Surat nor Ali Salim laments
and says, Hara, be in need. Out to come. Me Layla wanna Fira, when
you call Lama Doubt only to Alam jalafi Abu Asmaa was stuck
ballistic. Bar no Haley salah, after
900 years of giving dawah says Allah, I have called on my people
day and night. And the thing is, when you read the ayah, I can't
lie, you feel like Noah is going Allah. Have 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, they cover their faces, and they treat me
with arrogance.
When hood goes to his people, they say.
Why should we follow your message? It's only the worst of our society
who follow you, and you're reading all this one by one by one. So
when Razer hits, my reaction is like, Lord, if only I had power,
or a power for Allah to resist you. You start looking and
thinking, subhanAllah, I don't have the power to achieve what I
want. But you remember Surat wood that these prophets, as well,
failed to convince all of their people. The question here is, do
we say that these prophets failed?
Why don't tell me? Why don't tell me? Because you think It's haram.
I know you because haram, but we think beyond haram. You, it's
because you understand that the role of the prophets was not to
deliver the outcome. The role of the prophets was to strive. The
role of the prophets was to deliver the message. The role of
the prophets was to mobilize. The role of the prophets was to move.
The role of the prophets was to war. The role of the prophets was
to convey the message and take action in order to mobilize, in
order to try to make the difference, but the outcome always
belong to Allah, subhanaw taala, even when you notice some of the
prophets, they don't say in the Maya rabbi, say of surani, Allah
would give me victory. They say in the Maya rabbi, saya Deen Allah
will guide me. And more, more you look into it, you get to this
point where even Surat Al Isra, where it says
woman Arad al ahramin on far
those who strive in the way of Allahu, akben, and they believe in
Allah, meaning their striving is on the basis that they believe
ALLAH is in charge of the outcome, and because Allah is in charge,
therefore it's worth striving, even if they cannot see the
outcome, because they know Allah is in charge of the outcome, Allah
doesn't Say the outcome is rewarded. KENNETH in the team,
Allah says, for Allah, it's their striving that's rewarded.
So when my wife came to me three days after the Gaza genocide
began, and she said to me, Sara has sent me. Sara has a Raha.
You're acting as if you're the only one whose heart is broken
over Gaza, but you don't see me sitting around depressed in the
living room. You're not helping with the Hoover or the dishes or
the cleaning or anything, so either get up and go record a
video with analysis, or help me with the dishes and the Hoover. I
thought, I'll go record a video. I
didn't mean it in that way. I just meant, you know, I should do
something. She was right. She was correct. I should go and do
something. And when I came home, I did some dishes as well. You know,
there's nothing wrong with it, guys. I'm not a red pill guy. Not
a red pill guy by any stretch of imagination. And may Allah forgive
these red pill guys who made the brothers become very antagonistic
towards our sisters. Brothers, a bit of game is good in in to to
train as well, you know. And Allah Aisha, and used to say, the
Prophet used to play with Aisha, RadiAllahu, you know, some poetry
will be good for some brothers to learn as well. You know, it works.
Trust me. Take it from me. I got married at 20. But, yeah, yeah,
true Listen, true story. I saw, I saw my wife at university. We had
this very controversial issue took place, and I was like, I'm not
getting involved because I don't want to cause fitness between the
Muslim community. Let me wait till it dies down, because they will
get the Liberals on their side, and the student union will crack
down on the MSA. And then I walked into the common room, and Sumayya
is wiping the floor with this other guy. And I said to my
friend, I said,
what's her name?
She said to me, why do you like her? I said, this isn't the time
for this Sakhi. Just know what her name is.
And then, because we were in university, or college, as you
guys call it,
yeah,
so she walked into the college shop,
and I saw her going, so I followed, and I wanted to, I was
like, I go by Twitch, because Nick was in the football team. He was
the shopkeeper in the in the shop. So, Somaya put her stuff down, and
I put the Twix, and I went, Nick, it's all on me.
And she went, excuse me.
And Nick was like, oh, send me. Likes a girl. So
I tried to talk to her for the next three weeks, but she would
only talk to me a little bit like, here and there. You know, it was
like, spam. What's wrong with you? Just talk to me. I eventually, I
did this. I said, You know what I'm just going to do, istikhara
about it, Ya Allah, either remove the feelings from my heart or give
me an avenue forward.
And I can't lie to you doing. Sujood, some people think
istikhara is sophisticated thing. My istikhara was simple. Allah, I
don't want the istikhara where you give me a feeling that it's right.
I know I'm undeserving, but give me a sign like you gave Musa
alaihi salam,
or give me a sign like you gave Zakari alaihi salam,
please. Allah, ano, am undeserving, but Allah, please.
You said, you know, if I make dua, you respond to me. Allah, please.
So on this, so I would do two raka after Asia, to foraka in the
middle of the night, and two rakat du for Fajr. Very disciplined, and
this is
on the eighth night. Listen, I'm not Sufi by any stretch of the
imagination, and full respect to the Sufis. I'm not saying I'm just
saying that on the eighth night, I saw a dream that the friend I
asked about her brought me qurbani for Eid.
And said, Send me it back. Bismillah. And I went, Bismillah.
But and I woke up, picked up the phone, I called him. I said, Go
tell that so many God does a guy Sammy wants to marry. He said,
Dude, what do you think? He says, 1500s What do you mean? Go and
say, I've told him. Wallahi, she's gonna say yes. Anyway, my wife
jokes. She says, what I was a cow. Is that? What you're saying I was
a cow in your dreams,
man.
The reason why I tell that story there is the reason why I tell
that story is to highlight in a mundane or not mundane to me, but
mundane maybe to you, a mundane example of relying on Allah.
I want to leave you with two particular points with regards to
a Philistine,
it's okay
to feel fear about speaking up for Philistine.
It's okay to be worried about the struggle.
It's okay to hesitate
because Musa alaihi salam and Surah PAH needs six reassurances
before he goes to Pharaoh.
Musa al salam speaks to Allah subhanho wa taala, and is shown a
YA tuna kubara, two major signs.
Now, I was 16 when I first read surah Taha, so don't judge me on
the reaction I was 16. I like to think I'm mature now,
but when I thought of myself, if I'd ever spoken to Allah Samantha
and received two signs, you'd think if Allah tells you to do
something, you'd go and do it straight away, not Musa, turns on
and says, Yeah, Allah, have a stutter. And I went, Oh, Musa,
you're playing a bit. But I
realized the problem was not Musa as the point was me and my
perception of Allah, because Allah responds to muses, dua, Rabbi,
Shahin, suddenly, wahluk ATAM Milli, sunny, holy.
And I think, okay, Allah said, the stutter is not a problem. But then
you read the next request, Allah, I know you showed me two signs,
and I spoke to you, and you create my stutter, but I don't want to go
alone,
which Ali was here I'm in Ali Harun, a send with me. Harun, and
as a 16 year old, 16 year old, I went star for Allah. He has Allah.
He wants his brother to go with him. Yani, his brothers gives a
comfort, in a way, Allah doesn't I realize the problem is my
perception of Allah. Allah responds to him and says, Talaq ad
Utila, Kaya, Musa, we've given you Harun. And don't forget, Musa,
this is the first time we showed favor on you. We were the ones who
told your mother to put you in the river and to keep and you were
raised in Pharaoh Wali, tusna, ALA, Ani, you under my protection,
under my cover. So you think at this point, Musa Salam is ready to
go to Pharaoh
he has Harun, his status remedy. He's talk, spoken to Allah. He's
seen two signs. Now imagine Maria, she's a 16 year old, when both
Haroon and Musa turn around and say, Allah, we're both too scared
to go to Pharaoh, Rabbana, Inna, HAFA, Aya fruit, Alena, oh, a
yatra. And I
realized the problem was I didn't know Allah, subhanho wa taala,
because he says, call a lot of in any makuma. Asmaa Ara, I'm with
you. I see and I hear,
and then Musa alai Salam, when he sees the signs, and he's facing
off against the sorcerers, Allah says in surah Taha for Oh
jesefina, Musa. Musa has spoken to Allah subhanaw taala, seen the
signs, had his stutter. The stutter was deemed not to be a
problem. Harun with him as well, and they both said, we're scared
and still, when he has all these signs and knows Allah is with him,
still, he feels scared. It's not wrong to feel fear to speak about
Philistine. It's not wrong to be hesitant to speak about
Philistine.
It's not wrong to feel that when is this victory going to come for
Allah? Says that the Sahaba and the Prophet Zulu ha Rasulullah
matter Allah that they were shaken until the Prophet and the Sahaba
would say, When is the victory of Allah coming? Based on their
analysis of the situation, after Badr and Uhud and khandak and
hudabiya, they said, When is this victory coming? We've been
fighting for so long for this particular victory. It's not
coming.
The difference between the oh, that Musa al salam and us,
however, is what Musa did with that fear, and what we do with
that fear? When Nuh complains that the people are listening to him,
Nuh doesn't actually stop giving dawah, even though he feels it's
becoming fruitless. Musa Ilam doesn't stop moving, even though
he's feeling all this fear,
even after the reassurances, he keeps going. When Musa is fleeing
from Pharaoh, think about it again, 16 year old reading the
Quran. Now, when you're fleeing from somebody, where do you go?
You go to the hills. You go to the mountains. Who goes to the sea?
No, honestly, if I told you, let's run away from the they're coming
together, who would run to the sea? When Allah tells Musa al
qahuna, Musa as Musa as goes, and when he actually gets to the sea,
benis rahi says, Musa, why you see what brought you here?
But Musa is because he trusts Allah, subhanaw, taala, Allah will
deliver an outcome that he doesn't see. A.
And that's the point in that the Quran tells you that it's okay to
feel that fear.
It's okay to feel that hesitancy. And this is where it brings me to
the final point here, which is to address the issue of the fatigue
ibad Allah,
if you are pursuing the case of Palestine on the basis that you
want to see the outcome in your lifetime, then know that the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam died before Al Quds was liberated.
For those of you who believe that you will only move on the basis
that you will see Quds liberated in your lifetime, remember the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam did not live to see Islam to be
given dawah in English.
For those of you who want who will only mobilize on the basis that
you see the outcome in your lifetime, know that Musa Ihu, who
made Medina Muslim, died before the Prophet Sallam could even
enter Mecca.
For those of you who believe you will only, you will only mobilize
on the basis that you will see the outcome in your lifetime. Know
that Sumayya Rav Yan had died before the Prophet salallahu Salem
could even give dawah in public.
For those of you who believe you will only mobilize on the basis
that you have to see the outcome and people must celebrate you and
clap for you. Remember that Hamza radiallahu anhu died in Uhud in
the battle where the Muslims were defeated, he left the Prophet Sal
Salem in a state of defeat in the battle of Uhud.
Does any of you dare to say any of this Sahaba failed, or that the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam failed by not seeing courts liberated?
Why? When
the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam was asked by the angels,
and every prophet is asked this before they go to Jannah. Do you
want to stay in this dunya until the end of days to see the fruits
of your outcome, or do you want to go back to Allah and Jannah? Why
does every prophet say I want to go back? Because they understood
emphatically that Allah has a monopoly on the outcome that he
does not share with anyone.
They understood that they were sent as vehicles, as Warners from
Allah, subhanho wa Taala and Allah, who would decide the
outcome. Do you know the only prophet who leaves his people
doesn't convince his people, but their people are not destroyed.
It's yula Salah Salem, Yunus Alayhi. Salam gives dawah to his
people and gets so frustrated that he leaves. He abandons it the DAO
in a way that Nuh didn't when Yunus as swallowed by the whale,
when he comes out, he finds his people guided, because the story
of Yunus is Allah saying, Ya ibad Allah. Never think for a second
that the Muslims are doing Allah a favor.
Know that the honor is not in Muslims honoring Allah by giving
dawah. Know it is that Allah has honored the Muslims by allowing
them an opportunity to be the vehicles through which dawah is
given. To be vehicles through which to mobilize, seeking Allah's
pleasure in the mobilization for Allah has already decided the
outcome. He's already decided the timing. He's already decided how
it will be done. He's already decided where it will be
implemented. He's already determined these affairs. The
choice that's left to you is not the outcome. The choice is whether
you want to jostle to be a vehicle through which Allah delivers that
outcome. When Allah told Ben, Israel and Musa, go to Jerusalem,
enter it and it will be given to you, they said to Musa, we will
not enter it, because there is common Jabari in there. They are
really powerful people. There's no way we could beat them or defeat
them.
And they told them idab. And he said to them, Allah has promised
it to you. They told them, idab and tawara buchala. If Allah has
said it, go you and your Lord and fight, we will be here waiting for
your victory. Allah said he forbade it for them 40 years
because they chose not to strive. So Allah refused to give them the
outcome that he had decreed, and he waited for a generation to pass
away and see if the new generation would choose to respond to the
court ibad Allah. The reason why I emphasize the idea of Allah
subhanahu wa being in charge of the outcome is because, when
you're pursuing the cause for Philistine, if you're pursuing it
on the basis you want to see God's liberating your life in your
lifetime, then stop now, because in this there is a suggestion that
you want to share in the glory of Allah subhanahu wa taala that he
has said only belongs to Him,
ibad Allah. Sometimes when the Ummah reads about Musa ibn Umar,
if I was to say to you, would you be happy to be a Musa abnor Umair
to die before the opening of Mecca? Or would you rather be one
of the newly converted Muslims when they entered Mecca? Many of
you will say, We'd rather see the celebration than be the footnote.
That's the way you would see it. Musa ibn Umar is in ferdows, but
some of you would say, yeah, he's in ferdows, but I want to go. Want
to go for those another way. I don't want to be the one who
sacrificed. I want to be the one who's on top of those who
sacrifice. There is a sub. There is a subconscious assertion that
those who sacrifice are lower value than the ones on the podium.
When you talk about Jerusalem and salah, hadeena ayubi, none of you
meant.
The Imam as behind him, or those who taught the Quran, or those who
revived the society that created Salah hadil ayubi. Salah dinayubi
was the cherry on the cake. None of you talk about the cake itself.
When you look at
I will press you just a little, just for one particular example
here, once upon a time, I also believe the Ummah to be weak. I
truly did. I lived in London, and I had all these theories. And I
said, the Ummah should do this and this and this and this. Allah,
they're so wrong to this. They're so wrong to do that. And then one
day I went to Bosnia. And when I went to Bosnia, and here is where
I have the chance now to tell you about my ummah, and Ummah that you
should all subscribe and be part of. InshaAllah. It's the Ummah the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu. Said, I'm not making take fear here. I
just realized that, in any case, when I went to Bosnia, I learned
that when the Ottomans were kicked out by the Austro Hungarians, the
Austro Hungarians had a problem with the Muslims in Bosnia,
because even though the Ottomans left, they were convinced that the
Europeans had entered Islam by the sword. But when the Ottomans left,
these Bonnie's refused to give up Islam. Not only that, they kept
building masurjan. So when the Yugoslavian Kingdom emerged, not
don't confuse it with the communist communism, the
Yugoslavian kingdom in the 1910s 1920s they realized that when they
did the census, what do you identify? As they found that the
Bosniaks would write Muslim, the Muslim servants would write
Muslim, the Muslim Croats would write Muslim, and everybody else
would write ethnicity. So they said, This is problematic. What is
this identity that transcends nationalities? This is problematic
for our Yugoslavian image of the Slavic people coming together. So
they divided the kingdom into nine bandvinas, nine provinces, and
they made sure the Muslims were the minority in each one, so they
could not organize and mobilize together. In 1938 a communist
philosopher came up with the Muslim question. They said, we
have an issue with this identity of the Muslims in which they're
able to transcend the ethnic boundaries. So this the con the
way they address the Muslim question was to execute half of
the student leaders, put the rest in hard labor, shut down massage
and shut down the Islamic organizations, and ban the
recitation of the Quran and the practice of Islam.
All the Bosnians had to do was give up La Ilaha, Allah, Muhammad
rasulallah, and they would have had a nice, comfortable life like
everybody else living there. They refused to do so. A man would say,
Walla, have not given up, my beloved prophet, Muhammad
Sallallahu, alaihi salam, and he would teach Quran in his basement
and be executed for it. The woman, would see that hijab is unable to
go to the universities or the like, and they would say, I'm not
giving up. Let I'm going to teach Quran. And she was executed for
it.
They would continue doing so until Yugoslavia broke apart and Bosnia
was established, and then the Serbs would invade and say, We
cannot tolerate Islam in the heart of Europe. We're going to go
commit a genocide against the Muslims
today in the heart of Europe, there is La Ilaha, illallah,
Muhammad, rasulallah. The mosques are full and all who try to remove
Islam. Islam only grows stronger and stronger in the heart of
Europe, not because there was somebody on top of the podium, but
because the ordinary Muslim is the one who carries Islam on their
back. The ordinary Muslim who believes themselves to be
insignificant was so significant that not even genocide,
colonization or persecution could erase Islam from the heart of
Europe. You look at Turkey. I went to Turkey and I said to the text,
I think Erdogan should lose the election. They said, why? Then
he's gone a bit, you know, the last two years. Maybe they need to
reflect a little bit his pragmatism is a bit too much. And
he listened to me, and then he said, abi,
I agree with everything you said, except one thing he said. What he
said, Erdogan is the product of my grandfather teaching the Quran and
being executed for it, of my grandmother teaching the hijabis,
who couldn't go to university, teaching her to be educated so
they became smarter than the secular women of our people who
broke the system and managed to deliver Adnan Mendez, who was
toppled, and then delivered Erbakan who was toppled, and then
smashed the system and delivered Erdogan to power abi. It was our
efforts. You just don't appreciate it coming from the west, suit and
abutted to try to tell us how we should when you never struggled a
day in your life. You weren't persecuted. You read Quran and had
you don't go to prison for it. We never gave up Muhammad Rasulullah,
despite the persecution, despite the colonization, despite the
execution, despite the torture, we did not choose to give it up.
When Heraclius said to Abu Sufyan, who are the people who follow the
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, who are the people who deliver him to
success, Abu Sufyan said, it's the ordinary people of our society.
It's the ordinary people of our society. And Heracles would reply
and say, that was the way of the prophets, the reason being ibad
Allah, don't pursue the Palestinian cause on the basis
that you want to see the outcome.
Pursue the Palestinian cause on the basis that you want the
greatest honor that can be bestowed upon a servant of Allah,
subhanho wa taala, which is to be the vehicle that Allah uses to
bring about the change and the outcome that will lead to the
liberation of Al Aqsa, the same way that Allah gave that honor to
those who paved the way for Salah ad din ayyubi to take Al Aqsa
if you want to pursue the Palestinian cause on the basis
that you want Allah subhanahu wa.
You to be the key that unlocks the flood that leads to the liberation
of Al Aqsa.
And for those of you who try to understand what Anna I'm talking
about,
Allah subhanho wa Taala has given you what the greatest outcome is
in the life of a Muslim. And you realize it's nothing actually to
do with the dunya, because this dunya will be destroyed by Allah
subhanho wa taala. You realize it's actually in one of the
shorter suras, which is that
the greatest honor a Muslim can achieve is that after a lifetime
of struggle, of mobilization, of movement,
of pushing through the heartbreak, you've all seen the pictures of
the kids with their legs amputated, pushing through the
despair. You've all seen the rubble and the kids with their
arms dangling and their legs dead and lifeless and the like,
after pushing through the heartbreak we've all seen, people
tell us whisper, what's the point of talking? It's not making a
difference. What's the point everybody is against us? What's
the point the world is against us? What's the point in mobilizing?
You're going to liberate the um over WhatsApp
a lifetime of pushing through that, and you keep going, and you
keep pushing, and you keep going, and you keep pushing. And Al Aqsa
is not being liberated. Bin Salman is continuing his de islamization.
The UAE is defunding the halal economy and is opening casino and
a brewery and the like. And you're seeing the world turn and turn and
turn against you and the like. And you keep going. You're desperate
to make a change, desperate to make a change, but you're running
out of life. You're running out of aura, and then suddenly your soul
is about to leave. And in that despair, you look around the
world, you see everything is getting worse. You're trying your
best, you're trying to mobilize, you're trying to move, you're
retweeting, you're doing all these other things. You're spending your
money, you're doing charity. Ya Allah, I'm trying. Ya Allah, I'm
trying. You're doing like Ruth alaihi salam, if only I had the
power. You're like no alaihi salam Allah, I tried day and night, and
nothing is working. And the like. And as you trip over, you feel
your life force coming, your soul is about to leave. And you say, La
Ilala Muhammad Rasulullah, through tears of despair that your whole
life went down and you didn't achieve anything that you wanted
to achieve. You kept trying, you kept mobilizing. You didn't
achieve anything that you wanted to achieve.
Instead, you had people like Sami telling you, keep going, keep
tweeting, and you're making a difference. You say, Sami, who
drink me, I should have done other things.
The greatest outcome a servant can have is that in that moment when
they die, when the soul leaves the body, you won't hear ya Ayato
Hana, O disgusting soul, soul that had power but didn't do anything,
soul that was told by its Prophet convey, even if it's just a verse,
just talk. But they said, No, what's talking going to do? That
would read in the seerah, the shift in public opinion the
Prophet, sallAllahu in the first 13 years. But they would say, I
don't want to be a Sahabah the first 13 years. I want the glory
of the last, final years,
those who had money, but said, Why am I wasting it, spending on these
institutions? I'll spend it on charity, only charity because
that's a private thing. I don't want to build. I just want to give
charity. The Prophet said the hand that gets his risk is more
valuable than the hand that takes charity. But I flipped it because
I
don't trust the ummah. You won't hear ya that kept telling people
there's no point. It was useless. Instead, you'll hear something
else. You'll hear that in the despair that you feel, that you
achieve nothing in your life, you'll hear the angels. They'll
start saying, there's a beautiful smell that is coming up here.
Jama, the angels will look at each other. They will say, there is a
beautiful smell that is emerging. The angel on the right side of
your shoulder will say, I have all the good deeds of this soul that
is written this soul when they told them there was no point. They
kept going when they were heartbroken. They kept moving when
they felt their despair. They wouldn't stop going whenever they
felt that the world was against him. They said, Allah is with us.
We can conquer the world. They never saw the outcome in their
lifetime. They kept saying, When is victory going to come? But they
kept going regardless, because they believed that Allah knew
where the victory was, even if they could not see it, they
trusted Allah so much. O angels, this beautiful soul you're talking
about, they trusted Allah so much that even in the darkest hour,
they kept moving because they didn't have any other choice to do
except to believe Allah. And the angels will say, yeah to enough.
Salma in Maria, Allah is pleased with you. Allah is happy with you.
Fed holy fear. Ibadi, what? And the final point I promise you the
final point, for those of you who are undermining public opinion,
remember, for those of you undermining public opinion, I will
say one thing here, the first 13 years of the life of the prophet
Muhammad, saw him. He didn't have an army against Quraysh. He didn't
have missiles or weapon or money or the like. Why did Quraysh keep
persecuting him? Because they could not understand that, despite
their monies, their tanks, their missiles, the Zionist quresh
Didn't couldn't understand that, despite all of their abilities
that they had, despite their superiority in what we deem to be
superior, they could not understand why Abu Khattab would
leave the elite of Quraysh and come and join the Muslims, the
persecuted Muslims. They could not understand would leave the elites
of Quraysh to come and join the Muslims. They could not understand
why Zionist people in America would go and join the at least
would go and join the Muslims. They could not understand because
public opinion matters, the Haqq matters because it leads to a
series of consequences that leads to opportunities that makes us and
Hazrat turn up and say to the Prophet Muhammad, though you have
no power, though you have.
No army, though you have no money, though you have no wealth, we're
ready to give everything for you in order to deliver the hub. And
this is the scenario that I leave you with, and I'm going to hand
over here, because there might be question answered. I might have
gone overboard. This is a scenario I imagine for those of you who for
those of you who believe that perhaps Sami was sending us a
dream and telling us keep going, even though won't achieve
anything. Here's the scenario I imagine, and I leave you with this
one. It's my favorite scenario. It's inspired by the Jannah series
by Ram al Sulayman. When I was growing up, I was fire. I wasn't
deserving of Jannah, so Hellfire would scare me to the first
Jannah. And then for those, you know, it's not for people like me.
And then I saw the Jannah series, and I saw how for those who was
described, I said, No, no, no, I want a piece of this.
I imagine that one day inshaAllah, if Allah blesses us all, and we
enter for those with Shaykh, Ahmad, Shukri and the like, and he
will roar in front of a and we enter,
and we see the Prophet, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. And
the Prophet saw him, says, salaam, Alaikum. We say, walaikum, Salam.
And we see Salah di ABI talk to Abu luktab, and he's saying, Ya
Rasulullah. When I entered Al Aqsa, we finally achieved it. We
did this. And I'm looking with envy that he liberated Al Aqsa,
and also Salamu say, which generation are you? Say, Ya
Rasulullah, from a pathetic generation, we broke Israel's
monopoly on the narrative, but didn't do much beyond that. We let
Iggy Israel. We let you know, Nicki Minaj come we let all these
other things, Ya Rasulullah. We couldn't do anything. And we have
even had Imams who said that It's fine as long as we can do AMR and
Mecha, Medina, Ya Rasulullah, who are pathetic generation. I didn't
achieve much. And when we sit next to Rasulullah, and I'll be going,
ya Rasul I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried,
I tried, until I became
a me. And then you sit down, and you'll be really depressing. And
then two people will come, Inshallah, after us. And then they
will say, salaam alaikum, walaikum, Salam. And then they
will see which generation are you? Ya Rasulullah, where the
generation liberated Al Aqsa after Salah Adina for the third time.
And this is what I like to imagine. I like to imagine before
they sit down, they will do this, ya rasulallah, we liberate Allah,
Sammy, and I'll be
like, Do I know you, Sammy, I saw you thinking Muslim podcast when I
was a kid,
Wallahi, you kept telling me the outcome belongs to Allah. The
outcome belongs to Allah. So I kept going. I was broke, but I
kept going. I was heartbroken back going. I had despair, but I kept
going. But you know, the opportunities, like you said, semi
they kept coming, one by one by one, but when suddenly I found
myself able to liberate Al Aqsa, we did it. We gave the Ya
Rasulullah. If it wasn't for him being a la Rabo rouser on the
microphone, Ya Rasulullah, I probably would never have achieved
it. And Ima Jala sulla says, You see, every soul has a purpose.
Every soul has a purpose. Share this scenario with me, ibad Allah,
and we will keep going for Palestine. We keep raising our
voices. For Palestine, we keep shouting. Allah has decided the
outcome, whether it's our generation or the next generation.
It doesn't matter, because what makes them so upset is 1400 years
they persecute colonized, torture and the like. But this ummah
refuses to die.
I'm not entirely sure that boycotting Hajj Ummah is a good
thing, and I explain to you why one Hajj is a father by Allah. It
doesn't matter who rules it. Second thing is,
I don't know if you guys, I know here, American branding is
wonderful. So you branded ham ball as football, but in the UK, we
brand things properly, you know, like football is actually
football. So there's a football the Ballon d'Or in football, the
best player in the world last year was a player called Karim Benzema
Algerian.
So Karim Benzema moved to go play in Saudi Arabia. When he went to
play in Saudi Arabia, he had two choices, to play in Riyadh or to
play in Jeddah. So he decided to play in Jeddah, and then he gave
an interview to the athletic which is a prominent sisters for those.
It's a really good, wonderful analysis of football and sports.
So I don't, I don't finish my morning unless I've read the
articles there. So, yeah, I'm a mad fan of it. So when Kari bazima
went to Jad, asked him, Why did you go to Saudi Arabia? Why do you
go to jeddan? He said, I went to Jeddah because I'm Muslim and I
want to be close to Mecca Medina and pro bin Salman Twitter
accounts went wild. Why? All Saudi has is Mecca Medina. He hasn't
received the script like he's getting paid all this money, and
he doesn't understand what His purpose is. The thing is, it hurts
bin Salman's followers that more people go to Mecca Medina than
they go to Iggy Azalea to work in constant stuff. Allah mean, but go
to a conference. It hurts bin Salman's followers that more
people go to Mecca Medina and go for the religious aspects, rather
than going to the Red Sea resort and this kind of thing as well. So
I'm actually not in favor of people not going to Amala. I
appreciate some of us can't go, but when you do go in front of the
Kaaba, please make dua that one day I will get to see again. Let's
imagine we have been st man's advisors, and we open a map to our
north, we see 23 pro Iran militias that have fired rockets at the
Royal Palace, and they dominate the government in Baghdad, they
dominate Iraq. To our east, we have Iran mainland to the south,
we have the Houthis who have filed on oil facilities before, and the
Americans have demonstrated they're not willing to come to our
protection when the Houthis fire those missiles in two.
2015 because of the low oil price. When the Americans were competing
with me on oil price, they brought the oil price so low that I burnt
through 1/6 of my treasury in one year, meaning I was going to be
bankrupt within six years, if the price continued to stay at that
basis, I have an economic crisis, and I have a security crisis that
I desperately need to resolve now, I can't trust the Muslim states,
because in 2003 elite recording from the Qatari Prime Minister
said that after 911 the Americans were drawing up a list of
countries to invade. One of them was Saudi Arabia, and the Qataris
was sort of getting ready to facilitate the division of Saudi
into five countries. The Qatari Prime Minister said it was taken
out of context. But the point being is that Saudi believes that
the Gulf states, if there's any attack on Saudi, the planes will
take off from the Gulf states, they won't take off from us. So
Bin Salman says, with all due respect, my Yemeni sister, I have
more important priorities than the Palestinians. And not only that,
when Qatar became the first country that willingly normalized
with Israel in 1996 for those who don't know, long story short, the
Emir goes to get medical treatment in Switzerland, the son calls him
and says, Father, don't come back. I've done a coup. The father
called Saudi and UAE says, Please restore me to power. My son has
done a coup. The Saudis get ready to invade. They say, we can't have
a system where sons talk with their fathers, and then the Qatari
emir calls the Americans. Said, Listen, if you get the Saudis off
my back, I promise to normalize with Israel. Set up an economic
office in Doha, and I promise to give you the biggest US military
base in the region. Americans get excited. They rush in. They tell
the Saudis, don't you dare invade Qatar. And Qatar becomes the first
bin Salman says the Ummah makes excuses for Qatar because they
have religious scholars. And Al Jazeera talks about Palestine
while having normalized if they make excuses for Qatar, why can't
they make excuses for me? UAE saw that Qatar benefited. They said,
the Ummah makes excuses for Qatar. Let me normalize as well. Because,
as the Qatari Prime Minister said, when Arabs get close to the
Israelis, it's not because they like the Israelis. It's because
they believe the Israelis are the key to the Congress and the White
House. And since UAE has normalized, Congress doesn't talk
about Sudan, where there's a rampaging, genocidal militia
backed by the UAE, which the UAE is supporting, because it
absolutely believes that if Sudanese vote, they will vote for,
in the words of Bin Zayed, a 1400 year old book, to be a
constitution, and therefore these people should not be allowed to
vote. The UAE believes that, because normalization is so
valuable to Congress, what it does in Yemen, what it does in Sudan,
what it does in Libya, Congress says, turn a blind eye, because we
don't want to risk normalization. Bin Salman says people still go
for holiday in Dubai, in Abu Dhabi, and they go and pray in
Sheik Zayed mosque, and they take pictures and selfies of
themselves. They say, this is a lovely place to raise a Muslim
family. They don't care what UAE does abroad. I also have scholars
as well. When Qatar introduced alcohol in the World Cup, certain
sections, certain areas, Ummah, didn't make any any uproar. Why
don't I introduce alcohol in Saudi Arabia do the same thing next
year. Now UA is doing a brewery. Bin Salman says, I need the
Americans to push back against the Iranians. There's no issue where
Israel threatens me. There are three borders where Iran is
threatening me. If I normalize with Israel, then the Americans
will come and protect me from Iran. They'll protect me from
those militias, and I'm not ready to jeopardize that for the sake of
Palestinians, who, according to the Saudis, we gave them money, we
supported them, and they turned out to be Ingrid.
Can't believe it. That's the position of the Saudis. The point
is they believe that even even Turkey Erdogan says, I'm
struggling the Mediterranean. I've got economic crisis. I need
resources. I need a gas pipeline. They're going to do Middle East
corridor through Saudi and UAE. Yeah, Israel, please don't do it
through Saudi UAE. Please do it through me. I'm more better.
Remember I was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel. I've
never done anything like Saudi cutting off oil. I've never done
anything like invade like Egypt did when I kicked out the Israeli
ambassador, it wasn't because of Palestine. It was because nine
Turks were killed on the flotilla. Don't touch the Turks. You can
touch Palestinians, but don't touch the Turks. Otherwise, that's
when we might take action or the like. We want peace. We can't work
with Netanyahu, but we're ready to work with the Israelis, and that's
why they all believe there are certain specific interests where
they want to see the outcome. They don't believe the outcome,
necessarily the in an outcome they don't see. They want to see an
outcome that they see. And they believe Palestine is not worth and
the final point, I promise, final point, is they believe this is the
darkest thing, that Palestinians are not going anywhere anyway.
20,000 will die. There's still another 1.5 million. Anyway,
they're going to stay. Netanyahu is not going to get his way, so
I'm not going to jeopardize my ties with the Israelis. And later
on, later on, the Ummah is fickle, just like they don't complain
about Qatar or UAE or Saudi in a few years time, I'll make some
grand stance against us or the like, and the ummah will come and
say, go on. Bin Salman,
I'm going to try to answer this question in a way that doesn't
make me sound callous
when I went to San Francisco, I
finished giving a talk, and then I came out, and then I was sitting
with some students, and one of them asked me, Sammy, how are you
finding the boycott for the sake of Philistine? And I said, Look,
to be honest, I can't lie to you, it's a bit hard. They said, why? I
said, I've got no I've got no problem. Boycott.
Thing. But, yeah, here, like, where are the Muslim alternatives?
Like, I wanted to buy Timberlands, and I can't find the alternative.
I know it sounds like, you know, like a tiny look, but Timberlands
are much cheaper here than they are in the UK, but, but the point
that I'm saying is that I could find a Zionist company in every
single industry. I couldn't find a Muslim company in every single
industry. So when we're boycotting Muslim companies should be
benefiting, but we don't have Muslim companies. Muslim companies
to benefit so and for those who say, Sami made the big deal of a
Timberlands, let me tell you something. Haq is not always done
with a heart that is at peace. And the proof is that in the seerah,
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, for those who say, How dare he
brings here for Timberlands, I'm not someone who believes that
Islam is only for grand things. I believe ALLAH can be asked for
even the most mundane things, because Allah says Rooney, a stage
Blackham, as I said when I got married, I said, Yeah, Allah, give
me any sign, like Muslim Zakaria, don't want the feeling sign. I
want the proper, you know, something clear.
So one of the things is that when it came to when the Prophet sallam
was leaving Mecca, Allah told him leave Mecca. Allah has given him
an order to leave Mecca, but still, when he leaves Mecca, he
turns around, looks at Mecca and says, Wallahi, you are the dearest
land to me, and if your people had not driven me out, I would never
have left you. This is despite knowing Allah has ordered so he
was heartbroken. While following Allah's order, I feel a bit of
discomfort giving up temperance. The point is,
we talk about charity and giving charity all the like. First thing
to note is that we're giving a lot of charity for Gaza, but 80% of it
is stuck on the Rafah crossing, so a lot of it is actually perishing
before it even gets to Gaza. The second thing worth noting is Gaza
has exposed that as a community, we have a lot of holes, because
one, when the Prophet saw him, said that Allah loves the hand
that gets this risk on its own, and that hand is better than the
charity. What we did, what we did was that Allah, Prophet sallam,
said, for those who they're here, Allah loves the hand that gets
risk, and that hand is better than the hand that takes charity. What
we did as an ummah, the modern day Ummah, is we sort of, we sort of
went to the Hadith, and we went, sorry, I don't know what's going
on here. Yeah. Okay. I get I get the signal. Yeah. Mukherjee,
so what we did to the Hadith was the modern ummah. I'm not saying
the ummah of the past. We sort of looked at the Hadith and went, Ya
Rasulullah.
This is a nice Hadith, but we want to add to it. It's not just any
hand Ya Rasulullah. It's that Allah loves the hand that gets his
risk from engineering, law and medicine. Ya Rasulullah. Do you?
Do you want me to say to my brother, whose daughter is a
surgeon, that my son makes shoes? Do you want me to look my family
in the face and tell them that my son makes shirts for Sami because
he doesn't want to buy Marks and Spencer, he wants to buy, he wants
to buy from a Muslim Company, but you want me to look my family in
the face and tell them, my son makes shirts ya rasulallah? There
is, there is what Allah likes, but also I have to be careful about
what people like as well. You know, there's what Allah likes,
but what that's essentially what's been the reason why I'm answering
the question this way is Masha, Allah. I can't lie to you,
American Muslims have resources. Allah has said, but you do, masha
Allah,
but I do feel like you know Prophet Salim said, This is the
handicra risk. And you sort of done it like this. You've elevated
the charity hand over the risk hand because you don't want to
trust Muslims in their initiatives. The Zionist, for
example, will invest 10 times in a failure because on the 11th time
that failure creates Google, they will invest 14 times, and the guy
will blow, or the sister will blow the opportunity, maybe 14 times.
On the 15th time they create Tesla, and then everybody would
say, Masha, Allah. You know, he failed 14 times. But Allah gave
him the 50 times because he continued, whereas in reality,
when he failed the first he went, Allah, You wasted all that money.
I'm never investing in you again. The point is that sometimes I
feel, as a community, we embody the traits, the opposite traits of
what we celebrate. In the Sira, for example, when the Prophet saw
him, sends Khalid Ibn Walid to a tribe, Khalid wali transgresses,
radila anhu, and some civilians are killed in the process. The
Prophet saw him, turns around and he says, Allahumma in the Abra
Ulay Kam, imafala, Khalid, Allah, I'm innocent of what Khalid has
done. I promise you that 99% of the Ummah, if they were alive at
the time of the Prophet sallam, and saw and heard what the Prophet
said about Khalid, they would never allow Khalid to lead an army
again. They would have said, You're canceled. Did you not see
what the Prophet said about you? We will never trust you again.
When an Uhud they disobeyed orders and which resulted in defeat,
Allah said to the Prophet sallam, wala, Kuta, Fudan, Khalid, Al
qalbim and hawliq, if you were hard on them and punish them
hardly for their failure, because they wanted the dunya, they would
have fled from you. Farfondham, so pardon them. Was talam asked me to
forgive them. And here's the curveball we'll share with humph
Amar, bring them back into your consultation. So bring the
failures and consult with them in the next step. And as if Allah
knew you'd say, why would I bring somebody who failed into my
consultation? He says, For either azemta, Fatah, Allah, once you've
agreed on something, put your trust in me to make sure that they
will.
Ruin your future project. We read this in Sierra, and we go, Ma sha
Allah. Do you want to hear what I read about in the seerah? But in
your day, in your daily lives, you would never implement it. You
would implement the exact opposite. And then you ask, why
the power of the Ummah remains locked. It's these things that
unlock the power of the ummah. The question was about, you know,
investing in our chosen future, or in the orphans. Invest in charity,
but recognize that Allah loves the hand that gets his risk. Abad
Allah, the Zionists, the reason they're so powerful is because
they have a wider pool of money to draw on, because they don't
underestimate any industry. They go in and they invest in those
industries, and they dominate in those industries as well. And
that's why they're able to do and not only that, they support each
other even though they have differences. They buy from each
other because they want to elevate each other. We go to Muslim, we
say, your biryani was poor. The Zionist made it better than you.
I'm going over there. You're like, yeah, at least tell me what was
wrong with the biryani so I can fix it. Now, you should have known
I'm not expert in biryani. You should know it. We need quality
produce in this ummah. And this is the thing. There's an area and I
finish on this point where Allah says that Sahaba, wadde wa Al
kufari, they are tough on the oppressors and repressors, but
merciful between themselves. Sometimes I feel the Ummah is the
opposite, that we are tough on each other, but we make 1000
excuses for Red Pill people, for example, whenever they make a
mistake. I believe that when the Prophet saw him, gave his final
khutbah, if you notice what he said, a lot of it was about the
personal issues, and we believe that to be because it was about
spiritual No, it's the personal issues that build nations and
states. And this is the Hadith I finish on Ahmed salah. Anhu was
once an enemy of Islam,
but the way the Prophet saw him, forgave him and encouraged him and
incorporated him in Islam was such that the * became convinced that
he was the dearest person to the Prophet, Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam. So he said, I'm going to go ask him. So he went
and asked him. Said, Ya Rasulullah, who is the dearest
person to you? He was convinced it was him. And he said, It's Ha ish
brothers, his wife was the dearest person. I'm just saying all those
wife jokes, be careful.
And he said, amongst the men, he said, her father,
and after her father, Oman and after Oman Othman. And he realized
he didn't even make the top
10. The point of the hadith is the Prophet Muhammad SAW was so had
the capacity for accepting human beings for who they are, and
lifting them up when they trip over, and forgiving them, because
he knew that Allah would protect him from the evils of when of
human beings that he said, I will embrace them even with their
flaws. And it was Amro bin as who took Islam to Egypt, ibad Allah,
when the Ummah is ready to and I promise this fine example I give,
sometimes I feel, you know, when community leaders take
initiatives, we are a lot like benisrail. We are like, if have
enter wala Bucha, show me a victory first, and then I'll come
with you on the initiative. Show me first your strategy is going to
work, and then I'll join you. And he says, I don't know, like if
it's going to work, but I need your support. No, no, no, I'm not
putting my money. What do you think I am? And so Allah prevents
us from succeeding in these initiatives. I think when we
become an ummah that says, You know what, just like the Prophet
sallallah When he walked out in Badr and he turned around to his
army before he gets to the battle, and he says, Ashira Alayah, advise
me. And the Ansar said, muharra says, As if you're talking to us,
ya rasulallah, as if you're seeking reassurance from us. This
is the prophet, and he says, and if I am, and Saddam Wah says, ya
rasulallah, whether you win or lose, we have sworn to have your
back and to stay with you. When your community leaders tell you
that I want to punish genocide, Joe and I need you to stand with
me. Are you an ummah that saying, Bismillah, we're with you. Let's
see what we can do. Are you Ummah saying, Wait, show me a victory
first, and then I'll go with you. Don't complain about the state of
an ummah when you're doing the opposite of the Ummah that you
claim to love.
I didn't say vote for Trump. What I said was this, some people are
asking, Who should we vote for that's the wrong question.
Why are the Zionists considered powerful in American politics?
It's not because they deliver candidates. If it was that they
delivered candidates, then the candidate would win and then
betray them, the way that bush betrayed the Muslims when they
delivered him in Florida. The power of the Zionists is in their
ability to punish candidates that if you do something the Zionists
don't like, they will throw every resource to topple you and then
discuss what to do afterwards.
The Muslims have never been able to show a power to punish a
candidate. The only other minority with the ability to punish is the
black caucuses. This is the first time in American history where, as
a result of the swing states, where the Muslims are concentrated
in, the Muslims now have the ability to punish. It doesn't
matter who comes after. The point is you set a precedent that you go
from being a minority that they only visit on Eid to a minority.
That is feared like the Zionist, because you finally showed the
ability to punish right now, when the Congress person comes to visit
you, they don't research what Muslim, what Islam is. They sit in
the car and ask their secretary, what can I say to make these
Muslims like me? And the Secretary will go, they have as greetings,
as salaam, as so the guy will say, okay, Assam, so he stands here in
the masjid and he goes, Assalamu alaikum. You see Masha Allah, it's
Asmaa. Assalam, ASAM. Asmaa may come okay.
They might come in and they say, Mubarak. Eid. You say it's
Mubarak. But thank you very much for you know,
I think, I think
that if they knew that the Muslim vote toppled a sitting US
president, I would not be surprised if Sheik Amar Shukri
invites me for Ramadan next year, and I pray to * with you here,
and I find the Congress person praying to *,
to us. I would not I would not be surprised. I would not be
surprised if I went to Michigan and I find the Congress person
standing in Deborah and saying, This time he's come outside of
Ramadan and Eid, he comes in, stands up and he says, and you
know, we gotta stick together. Because, you know, as the Prophet
Muhammad said in Imam Al abuni Ari, you know,
I would not be surprised if some commentators learned half of sulta
Fatiha, because they will know that the Muslims punished a
sitting US President. Now consider the alternative, which is that the
Muslim had the power to punish Biden, but chose not to, because
they're worried about the Muslim ban. Because genocide, okay,
20,000 Palestinians got killed, but yahik Muslim ban, you know,
20,000 Palestinians got killed, but yak you want me to be in
discomfort in my four bedroom house?
You want me to watch on TV and listen to Trump and feel the
discomfort in my stomach and his rhetoric? You want me to suffer
that because, you know, 20,000 Palestinians got killed. They
already show had that in the last panel. Tala, we don't need to do
anything in this. Dunya for them, there will be some Imams who say
that. Don't get twisted. I've heard some Imam say it. I've heard
some I had the Imam say to me, here in the US, you know, you
don't, don't do with emotion. Sammy, though he killed 20,000
he's still the better person for us? Yeah, he have a guy committed
genocide, a guy who might commit genocide in a court of law. You
condemn the genocide, not the one who might commit a genocide. But
if Biden wins when the Muslims could have punished him, let's be
brutally honest, if we were advisers to a congress person, and
we know that we killed 20,000 Muslims on the other side of the
world, and these Muslims got angry about it, but because they were
worried about some discomfort, they still voted for us anyway.
Are these people worth visiting? Are these people worth talking to?
Are they worth more engaging with, even when you go knock on their
doors? Are they worth wasting time meeting? You go away. We can
trample all over you. Can you still come and vote for us? You
have no dignity. And let me focus on the Zionist and the black
caucuses. They're people of dignity and tumma. You guys know,
we just build you a message and you celebrate and get happy about
that's why, when it comes to these elections, the focuses and the
views expressed other speakers own,
you have to say no to genocide. Joe rudu,
Bella, the fact I didn't see everybody's hand go up. May Allah,
You know what? Stuff you know I'm not going to make dry against you.
Go against you,
but I'm tempted to the reason being is ya ibad Allah, they are
worried that you will manifest the power. What I always say about
what Netanyahu and Blinken did is, what is the power they see in you
that you don't see in yourself? Why did they mobilize all these
resources to get you to be quiet? Why is it that they believe in
Allah's power more than you. Why did they believe the Ummah could
do something, and you believe the Ummah can't do anything? Why do
they believe the Ummah is capable of something, and therefore
billions needs to be spent to prevent the Ummah from doing it,
while you sit here looking in the eye and going, Sami, really, do
you really have power? I think you're exaggerating a little bit.
Why is it that I sit in a meeting with these diplomats and they're
worried about Muslim public opinion, and I go to my brother
and I tell him, guys, I was in a meeting with the diplomats. They
worried about public opinion. Yeah, public opinion. They said it
just to make you happy. They paid a lot of money. They just not
about making me happy. And Allah,
that's the thing, why I think sometimes our perspectives are
flipped. They see the Ummah powerful. We see the Ummah as
weak. And that's I think, when it comes to these elections, the
Muslims have the power to punish. Biden. I'm not going to sell your
false dream. Whoever wins the next election, your lives are going to
be difficult. And I confess I will feel some sympathy for you when I
sit in London watching Arsenal hopefully win the league, because
I won't suffer as much. You guys will be the one suffering, not me.
I'll be sitting in London. Yeah, don't tell me, Manchester United.
The point is that I'm not the one who's going to be suffering under
Donald Trump, but I know the older people things when the fire is put
under their feet. I believe now you've identified that for let's,
let's take this for example. And I want to emphasis on this question,
because this is important question. If I was to say to you,
give me a list of five people to send to CNN tomorrow to defend the
Muslims.
Is you would struggle to come up with the list. I mean
representative Muslims. I don't mean, you know, the ones, half
baked ones. We were like, That's all we got. The Zionist has a list
of 200 people ready to send. If I was to say to you, what's your
strategy for September, to wake up the Ummah that might forget that a
genocide took place? Do you have a strategy? No, the Zionist is
already ready. If I was to say to you, do we have you know the
social media hashtags? Are they ready? No. Do you know the areas
here in Texas where you can make a difference? I saw some areas in
Texas stuff for Allah, may Allah, forgive you. You guys need to make
Toba, not you, but some people. I've seen some areas where a
candidate wins by 2000 3000 votes, in an area where there are 15,000
Muslims, where only 3000 Muslims went to vote, that means if
another 3000 Muslims went to vote, they would have decided which
candidate would have won, and then the Muslim dares to say to me,
send me. The system is rigged against us. You didn't even try. I
had somebody say to me, Wallahi Sami, every time we vote, we get
representatives like, I don't know x and y. I'm not going to name
their names, though you know who I'm talking about, and I was like
to them, but when you put the question, when we always vote, you
act like you've always had this ability. It's a new phenomenon
that has been presented to you on the backs of the efforts of those
who came before us, who won the battles that we don't need to
fight today, they came and established these havens for us to
speak in. They set the pedestal for us. And instead of us saying,
we take the battle and let's go forward and make the difference,
we took the battle and went
and then you say, what?
And
then we say, why don't we have the representatives that we want? Ibad
Allah, that's why I said, Let me tell you about my ummah. The
Turks. They kept banging, banging, bang, and then they smashed it.
The Bosnians, they banging, banging, banging, and they smashed
it. The Ummah is not weak. You're weak and you're projecting it on
the ummah. The Ummah is strong, but it's you who's weak, or me in
particular. I'm rebuking myself first and foremost, and that's why
I'm saying that even now, if I was to say to you, where are the areas
where you can decide the next candidate? How many of you
honestly can put their hand up and say, I know where it is. I know
you do.
No, no. But for example, exactly.
The Zionist has a map in his home. The Zionist has a map in his home
of every single area where they're ready to go if I was to say to
you, have you prepared funds to send the team to Michigan and
Pennsylvania and Georgia to help out the Muslims there, to send
them for one month full boarding? Tell them with a campaign over
there, you'll be like, No brother, that's investing in risk. I want
to invest in charity.
You have all these things at your disposal that it's like when I
come from London. Look, it's like you choose not to do it, and then
you say, why is the Ummah the way it is? And that's why, in this
upcoming November, what Gaza has done is it's woken us up. Gaza
exposed our power, but also our limitations. But Gaza also exposed
that we actually have the resources to resolve our
limitations, if only, and I'll finish on this. Did you know that
if you really organize, you could actually punish Biden, according
to the data that I have,
you could punish Biden in the presidential election and deny
trump the
house. You could deny you could punish Biden in the elections and
you could deny trump the house, because at the end of the day, the
Muslims are not Democrat or Republican. Ali bin Abi Talib said
that the Muslims are judged based on the causes that they follow. We
don't judge a cause based on who is talking for it. We judge a man
based on whether they stand with a cause. So we can be a Republican
some areas, and we can be Democrat in other areas. It depends on the
issues that matter to us. How many of you have reached out to the
local representatives, those who call for a ceasefire, and said,
What are issues in the community that we can agree on and work on
together.
If I even told you guys go and approach a Republican, yeah.
But yeah, ibad Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala said in the
Quran about Dawa
woman, Asmaa, Salah Han wakala In any means Muslim. Is there any
better speech? The one who calls to Allah does good deeds and say,
I'm from the Muslims. We read that a and we go, Hala Sam taking
couscous to my neighbor. Hey, let me tell you about Islam which is
all very good, but Allah, in the following Aya tells you what dawah
really feels like, where Allah says, wala, Testa will Hasan atua,
Saya, the good deed and the bad deed are not equal. So that means
that when you do dawah which is good, you will receive a bad
reaction. Allah is telling you don't respond the way they respond
to you. Respond the way pastor Salim told you to do. So it fab,
it fahe means conduct yourself in that which is best, but it far.
Means when you push back it far, push back with that which is best.
Because Allah says for either Levi, Bena, kawabana, who are
Tonka and Hua Leon hamim, for the one who is your enemy today, as a
result of your Dawa tomorrow becomes your warmest ally. And
Allah says, When are you? Laqah, illa Ladin, a sabaru, the ones who
achieve it are the ones who are patient with the process of Dawa.
Patient in the face of the enmity, patient in the face of the
struggle, patient in the face of the backlash. Ay, bad Allah,
sometimes I feel the.
Ummah wants to do jihad in comfort, wants to go for good for
for good causes, but in comfort when, soon as they feel
struggling, this feels wrong, because I'm struggling. No, ya,
ibad Allah, we have to struggle in these regards, and that's why I
leave it to you. I'm just a guy who's come from to be honest. I
can't lie to you. I don't really know what I'm doing here, because
the initial invite was three days in LA and it's somehow transformed
into a four legged tour. This is the third one. The fourth one is
in mash, inshallah. If they let me through the border, any lawyers
they want to give me their numbers to help me out Inshallah, because
I get stuck. But in any case, the point is that
I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing here, but I'm taking maximum
opportunity to do one thing. I'm begging you
first to see the power that you deployed. Second, to appreciate
that power, and third, to punish that Jid welding genocide job,
to punish genocide. I'm begging you,
because Wallahi, it breaks my heart that the Muslim world could
stop the genocide tomorrow, but chooses not to. The Muslim world
could stop normalization and kick out the Israeli ambassador and
make the Americans stop the genocide they choose not to. But I
know that, Allah, Subhanahu, wa taala, it's as if he put power in
your hands. The UK guys keep telling me, semi why, always in
America, come back here and help us. I said, No, no, the magic is
here. These guys, these guys have the ability to do it. And Wallach,
when I look in their eyes, I feel they don't believe me. They don't
believe they have the power. Yes, I tell them, guys, I told Muhammad
Jalal, it's February. They don't have a strategy. It's February.
They don't even have the data. It's February. They don't even
have the YouTube accounts ready. It's February. They don't even
have the hashtags ready. It's February. They don't even have the
training courses ready for how to give, you know, to talk on the
activism. It's February already, and they haven't even gathered the
resources to send teams to other areas, you know, to to help the
other strategy, the Ummah is like, it's like, it's like, the they
like, yeah, yeah, yeah, with what power, but they're not doing
anything with it. Move, yay. Bad Allah, move and do something.
Don't be an ummah that does nothing. And ya, ibad Allah, if
you try and Biden still wins, at least you have a face to show the
Prophet, Muhammad sallam, to say to me, Allahu, Allah, I tried, but
don't be the one, to be honest. If you don't try, then I don't know
if you ever see the face of the Prophet. So there's no point in
doing the opposite. But the point is Allah.
But the point is yay, ibad, Allah. Accept that Allah is in charge of
the outcome, and accept that Allah will fix it no matter what
happens. Surah keah, the story of Musa and Khidr. Hivr knows the
unknown. Musa doesn't. Musa still keeps objecting, but Allah
prevents Moses objection from leading to a conclusion that will
harm people. Musa says, Why did you put the hole in the boat? The
hole in the boat, risk is the family. Musa does what is order to
do, which is to mobilize to prevent it. But Allah intervenes
and makes hidden prevent Musa from preventing it. So Allah is saying
that mobilize, but trust that if you're making the mistake, I will
guide you out of the mistake. Ibad Allah, if we make, if you think
Sami is guiding you to something, to make a mistake yet, say, Yeah,
it sounds like a good idea. Let me try it, but guide me to make sure
it doesn't turn out to be a mistake. And that's belief in
Allah, Subhanahu wa that's belief that he's in charge of the
outcome. For Wallahi, the prophets knew Allah was in charge of the
outcome, but they still said, Where is the victory of Allah? The
prophets knew that Allah was in charge of the outcome, but they
still said, Allah, my efforts are not resulting in anything. The
prophets knew Allah was in charge of the outcome, but they still
felt that difficulty and that tiredness, the same way we feel.
The difference between them and us is they kept moving. Will we be an
ummah that keeps moving? And Ibn Khaldun says the Ummah is always
one generation away from glory, one generation away because he
says that the Ummah has always had power. The question is whether it
decides to use that power, and the only way to unlock that power is
to be in Ummah that is ready to mobilize without seeing the
outcome. Because you believe it's a just cause, and you believe that
if you start moving, Allah would open the doors that you are unable
to see right now.