Sami Hamdi – Gaza Impact The Awakening
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The speakers discuss the political and political climate in Europe and Africa, including the shift in public opinion towards requiring people to stand for change, the importance of unity in public opinion, and the potential for conflict between the United States and Saudi Arabia. They also touch on the Houthis move in the US and the importance of protecting privacy and privacy for non- Islam people. The speakers emphasize the need for strong personal and political beliefs to achieve Islam's values and discuss the success of the Islam movement in Europe and the importance of protecting people's identities and privacy. They also touch on the "monster" of Islam, which causes people to wake up and wake up. The conversation also touches on the Houthis move in the US and the importance of protecting victory and showing faith in the upcoming election. The speakers emphasize the need for strong personal and political beliefs to achieve Islam's values and discuss the success of the Islam movement in Europe and the importance of protecting people's identities and privacy. They also mention a meeting with
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Without further notice, I want to just give a short bio about our
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brother Samia Hamdi is managing director of the international
interest, a global risk and intelligence company. He advises
government institutions companies
and advise government institutions, global companies and
NGOs on the geopolitical dynamics of Europe and Africa and the
Middle East.
He has significant expertise in advising on commercial issues
related to volatile political environment and their implication
on the market entry,
market expansion and management of the stakeholders. Sammy is a
second guest on many outlets, Al Jazeera, English and Arabic, Sky
News, BBC and other outlets, our honor guest,
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Are you ready? Brother? Sammy, yes.
So
our first question is actually based on the title that we gave to
this conference, the Gaza the Gaza impact and the awakening of
consciousness the world here, Abu Asmaa,
assala festival, salaam, Alaikum. To everybody here, just amalaki
for having me, JazakAllah, everybody for giving me the time.
And mashallah, this country is very big, very big. Masha Allah
and your flight times are three, four hours, which is bigger than
Europe, which has been quite a experience for me.
I think that the direct answer to question is that it's clear that
Gaza has caused the Great Awakening. First of all, it's
clear that there is a spirit in the Ummah that has suddenly
emerged, which is now causing tectonic political shifts.
In the world in terms of public policy and public opinion.
The first example of that is the clear shift in public opinion that
we're seeing, first in the Western world, for the first time, we're
seeing people who are supporting Israel yesterday, now supporting
the Palestinians. There was a poll that came out on the 26th 27
October, a Gallup poll, which was later affirmed by another poll
that came afterwards, which suggested that Biden was falling
behind his rivals in six or seven swing states,
Reuters reported that the fascinating thing about these
polls was that Biden was falling in the polls, not only because of
the economy, but also because of his stance with regards to
Palestine and Israel. And they said the Republican and Democrat
polls said, they said the shocking thing about these polls was that
Biden was falling in the polls over an issue where American
troops weren't even on the ground. The point being is that usually
when a president is losing in the polls or falling in the polls,
it's usually because American troops are dying abroad in Iraq or
Afghanistan, and the American citizen is upset that their boys
are dying and struggling with no real benefit coming from those
wars. But the fascinating thing about these polls is that Biden is
falling over an issue where American troops are not dying on
the ground, meaning what's causing the shift in public opinion is not
to self interest, that people are concerned about the lives of their
soldiers. What's making him fall in the public opinion is that
people are genuinely changing their minds about an issue that
they had very firm opinions on. Only yesterday, those who were
supporting Israel yesterday were now starting to stand with
Palestine because they were now seeing the very real images of the
atrocities and genocide and ethnic cleansing being live streamed on
their screens. The point being is that while Israel was telling the
world what was happening, the Palestinians were showing the
world what was happening, and that broke Israel's monopoly on the
narrative, especially given that the Muslims, in particular, the
1.9 billion Muslims around the world, they rushed to amplify the
voice of the Palestinians, which broke the algorithm of social
media. For those who don't know, the algorithm is designed to show
popular posts, so when something has billions of views, it
naturally puts it at the top of the home page. It naturally shows
the video on Tiktok and beyond, meaning that social media which
bypasses mainstream media, which bypasses CNN, which bypasses BBC,
which bypasses NBC and MSNBC, and all these algorithms, all these
abbreviations you guys have for everything, like epic Masjid. When
I, when I was told about epic masjid, the My first reaction was
that's a bit of an arrogant, brazen thing to say, like to call
it an epic masjid. And everybody kept telling me epic Masjid is
epic. And then I only realized that epic was an abbreviation when
I turned up to Epic masjid and it said East plain or Islamic center.
And I went, Oh, that's why. But then I realized, I think somebody
did it on purpose, you know, to make sure that the abbreviations
would be epic. But the point is that with all these abbreviation
of these channels and Irving,
of course, the reputation is, I think number one in Dallas, they
say, apparently, masha Allah, in any case, don't worry. When I go
to Epic, I won't say the opposite. But in any case,
the point is that as a result of the social media, which bypass
these channels, people are now seeing the truth of the matter
that was happening, which resulted in Biden falling in the polls. And
because Biden fell in the polls, what resulted is a policy shift in
which Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, went from
banning the State Department from using the word pause or cease
fire, to rushing to Netanyahu in Tel Aviv and breaking all those
climate change policies by burning the air miles in order to for
genocide and ethnic cleansing, because climate change and ethnic
cleansing and genocide. But the point is, he went to Tel Aviv, and
he said to Netanyahu that we need to change the marketing strategy
for genocide and ethnic cleansing. And Netanyahu was so frustrated
that, according to Axios, he told Blinken that I don't want to do
this humanitarian pause unless I'm sure that it's not a trap by Biden
to lure me into a ceasefire. The idea being that Allah subhanaw
taala says, you think their hearts are united, but qulobuham
Shattered Hearts are divided. The point is that shift in policy, in
the American policy, was brought about by an ummah that refused to
be quiet, by an ummah that chose to move by an ummah that chose to
raise its voice, amplifying the voice of the Palestinians,
breaking Israel's monopoly over the narrative by breaking the
algorithm, which resulted in the message reaching new corners of
the world, people who'd never heard the Palestinian voices,
which resulted in them changing their minds on Palestine and
Israel, which resulted In a shift in public opinion, which resulted
in Biden falling in the polls, which resulted in the Democrats
panicking and going to Netanyahu and saying, We can't keep
committing genocide and ethnic cleansing in the manner that we'd
like. We have to adjust the way we do it, because the ordinary Muslim
refuses to be quiet. And that's the point of this chain.
Faith. And the reality is even when you look at this chain
effect, you see it even in the sin of the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, in that the Prophet sallam, in the
first 13 years, doesn't have an army, he doesn't have money, he
doesn't have a media, but he keeps presenting his Dawa and calling to
Allah, which results in a public opinion shift. That means that
Omar rattab leaves the army and the money and the media to go and
join the weak and persecuted Muslims, Musa abuna, who would go
down the roads in Quraysh, he would smell his perfume as a
result of the shift in public opinion in Quraysh, where people
were seeing that the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu sallam, that
his message was correct, even though he didn't have an army or
media or money, they left the elites of Quraysh to go and join
these weak and persecuted Muslims. And that's what we're seeing
today, in that the Palestinians don't have the army the way that
Israel does. They don't have the money the way Israel does. They
don't have the media the way Israel does, but as a result of
the mobilization, or this great awakening, as you called it, we're
seeing a shift. That meant Blinken went to Israel and told Netanyahu
that we need to shift from no ceasefire to humanitarian pause to
hostage truce to sustainable ceasefire, to reports today that
came out in Haaretz that there's a two month truce about to be about
to be announced between hummus and between the Israelis. So the point
here being, is that the reality is, when we talk about this great
awakening, there are many people who want to underplay the role
that public opinion plays in the wider political game. But here you
can clearly see a direct correlation between the loudness
of your voices in speaking about Palestine and the impact that has
at the highest levels. And the reason why I emphasize this
particular point
is that there's a reason why billions were spent to shadow ban
accounts, to close down social media accounts, to shut down
pages, to limit the reach of hashtag Palestine, because the
Netanyahu and Blinken identified a threat in these voices that needed
to be contained, and that threat was so great that they needed to
spend billions of dollars on that. But even though they spent
billions of dollars on that PR narrative, the Ummah broke that
narrative for free. And that's the point that I want to emphasize
here. And we were talking about this great awakening that's taken
place, what we're seeing is that foreign governments are now having
to adjust their policy because of the shift in public opinion. We
saw Kamala Harris come out, and she announced the program, the
first in American history, she says, to counter Islamophobia. The
reason that she introduced this program was not because she
suddenly felt guilty about the Muslims or the like. The reason is
because the Democrats got together, and they said there's a
problem here. While we it's true that Biden is behind his rivals in
a number of swing states, the problem is the swing states that
he's behind his rivals happen to be the states where the Muslims
potentially have the deciding vote. Axios reported that if Biden
loses, quote, even a sliver of the Muslim vote in any of these swing
states he loses. And they on political reported that if Biden
loses 100,000 votes in Dearborn al Mubarak, then he will lose
Michigan completely. The point here being is that while many
Muslims want to undermine the role of speaking out in public opinion.
I remember one Sheik, who stood next to me once we had a talk, and
he said, after I finished speaking and telling people movie, ay, bad
Allah, speak loudly. He said, Sami wants to liberate the Ummah via
WhatsApp. But the point is that this but the reality is that while
many Muslims don't appreciate the value of their voice, the reality
is that those who say the voice doesn't matter, those who say
public opinion doesn't matter, are directly rejecting the Hadith of
the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, when he said
belly Huanyu Alayah, convey from me, even if it's just a verse,
many people want to read this hadith as a spiritual Hadith in
which when you hear it, you Say, Qul, Allah, Ahad, and you feel
good about yourself. But the emphasis in this hadith is on the
Walo convey from me, even if it's just a verse, what the hadith is
saying is, if you do not have any power to advance the cause, if you
do not have any ability to advance the cause, if you don't have an
army or money or wealth or influence or any of these talents,
then he said, Don't be an ummah that's quiet. Don't be an ummah
that does nothing. Don't be an ummah that doesn't mobilize.
Convey from me, even if it's just a verse, Be an ummah that raises
its voice, even if it doesn't have any other power to do anything
else. And what we're seeing today is a manifestation of that hadith
in that when we're raising our voices and everybody said, we
don't have the power to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing
physically, but we will use the powers that we have within our
means to try to make a difference. The Ummah took one step. Allah
took 10 steps in according to the Hadith al qudasi in.
Which that voice was amplified to the extent that as a result of the
decline in public opinion, Biden told Netanyahu in the fifth week
of the genocide, according to CNN, that quote, as a result of the
bombardment of the videos of the atrocities being committed in
Gaza, I can no longer support you in the way that you want. You
don't have months. You probably only have a few weeks. And Eli
Cohen, the Israeli Foreign Minister, said in the following
day that our that we have only two weeks left before international
pressure comes to bear down on us. We're seeing Macron come out call
for a ceasefire, the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium, calling for
sanctions on Israel. We're seeing Spain say it's ready to recognize
a Palestinian state. We saw David Cameron today say we need an
immediate ceasefire. We saw the Finnish foreign minister from
Finland saying, This self defense is finished. This is now needs to
end. Right now we're seeing this shift that is taking place to such
an extent that the Zionist writer in the Hill wrote that while
Netanyahu may win the battle, Netanyahu has lost public opinion
in such a way that he has caused permanent damage with our allies.
And he writes, I fear that our allies will no longer come to our
rescue in the manner they did before in future conflicts. The
point here being, and to wrap up on this particular point is when
we talk about the Great Awakening, the Great Awakening is not just
within the Ummah itself. The Great Awakening is amongst the world,
where, when you look at the polls, they show that a new generation of
Americans, non Muslims, no longer side with Israel. They side with
the Palestinians, and that's because the Ummah that thought
itself weak decided to manifest its power and roar. And they broke
the algorithm. They broke Israel's monopoly on the narrative. And the
reality is, and I finish on this particular point when Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam broke courageous control over the
narrative, when he spent those 13 years and shifted public opinion
and caused raptures it called ruptures in the foreign policy
ties between Quraysh and habasha then ausaj turned up 13 years
later. They knew the Prophet Sallam had no army. They knew he
didn't have money, they knew he didn't have a media. They knew he
was persecuted, but because of the shift in public opinion in Arabia,
they agreed to give him their full support. The point being, is those
underestimating public opinion know that the shift in public
opinion is what creates the environment that creates new
opportunities that leads eventually to the justice that you
desire and that you seek.
My next brother, Sammy, is that I think you already talk about the
help global wise, but I want to explicitly say what Nelson Mandana
said. We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the
freedom of Palestine. So in your view, why is South South Africa a
pioneer in condemning Israel or genocide,
are there parallel between South Africa and the Palestinian cause?
I think, first of all, I think it's one of the greatest tragedies
of modern times that we have. How many Muslim states, and it took
South Africa to bring the case to the ICJ in support of the
Palestinians. And I think it's a terrible stain on the Muslim
leaders and the Muslim nations, the idea that there is an Arabic
saying it's Asmaa that my brother is a lion when he fights me, but
he's an ostrich in war, in that he puts his head in the sand when he
has to face somebody other than me. Regardless, I think South
Africa deserves huge plaudits for bringing that case to the ICJ. And
I think one of the reasons why it's significant that South Africa
did it is because South Africa knows what apartheid feels like.
It knows what apartheid looks like. So when it looks at Israel,
it knows emphatically that it is an apartheid state, and it knows
emphatically that what's happening to the Palestinians is almost
identical to what happened to the blacks in South Africa, the way
the whites used to persecute them, the way the whites used to make
them go through, make the blacks go through all these various
different checkpoints they were they would violate their rights
and the like, and the way they would render them not second class
or third class, but fifth class citizens. And I think that's why,
for South Africa in particular, they have a very strong affinity
towards populations that have suffered something very similar to
them, and that's why I think it's significant that South Africa did
so. I also think, of course, that when it comes to South Africa as
well, we're seeing this, you know, the world shift to become a new
multipolar world as well. There are new orbits that are forming
together. The US is no longer the hegemon that it once was, which
allows the space for many of these nations to now manifest themselves
more and more, but I think that when it comes to South Africa in
particular, South Africa knows what apartheid feels like. It
knows what genocide feels like. It put this case in the ICJ, and it
started the domino effect in that Chile and Bolivia have launched
their own case at the ICJ against Israel. Indonesia felt a bit of
shame that a non Muslim country did it, so they decided to put the
case in the ICJ.
As well, against Israel as well. There's an iCj ruling expected
tomorrow for the South Africa case tomorrow at the time of this
recording, but the point is that they're expecting that maybe the
ICJ will issue a temporary order that will suggest that there's
enough grounds to indict Israel on genocide. There's deep concern.
Netanyahu today met with his legal team. The US administration is
concerned about the implications of being seen to be associated
with a genocide in legal terms, which is why John Kirby came out
and said that we haven't actually done investigation into whether
Israel has committed war crimes, and that's to create plausible
deniability in the case that, in case Israel is found guilty of
genocide, the US can say we had no knowledge about it because we
didn't investigate it all alike, although now they're struggling
today, because there was the video yesterday that went viral that was
caught by a Western media organization of a Palestinian
holding a white flag in the Israels, they sniped him down
instead. So I think Nelson Mandela was right. The Freedom is not
complete without the freedom of the Palestinians. Mandela had a
very warm relationship with the Muslim world. Mandela, when he
came to the US when he was alive, they said to him, why do you have
ties with Libya and Cuba and these other places as well? He said, We
judge our relations based on those who acted to give us freedom, not
those who gave us empty rhetoric. And I think that's what we're
seeing here in that South Africa knows that the Muslims played a
very heavy role in the liberation of South Africa. They played a
very prominent role in the liberation of South Africa.
Mandela had a very warm affinity for the Muslims, because the
Muslims throughout history have always been the sanctuary for
oppressed people. Just as when the Jews were persecuted in Spain by
Isabella, they fled to the Muslim lands when they were gassed and
slaughtered by the Europeans in the Holocaust, they fled to the
Muslim lands. When they were slaughtered in Warsaw, in Poland,
in the Warsaw Ghetto, they fled to the Muslim lands. South Africa
understands, just as Europe reluctantly does, that in history,
the greatest sanctuary the oppressed people always found was
always amongst the Muslims. Because Allah subhanho wa Taala
said, wala ya jalimena, Allah, Allah adilo, do not let a hatred
of a people lead you to injustice. Allah said, regardless of who the
person is in front of you, if there is a Haq that they are
entitled to be the ones on the front line to ensure their Haqq
whether they're Muslim or non Muslim, and South Africa
appreciates that, and we extend our thanks to South Africa for
returning the favor and launching this case in the ICJ.
So my next question, brother Sami, is that you already talked about
the ummah of Mohammed, our Ummah, what makes us weak, and why the
Palestinian cause, it used to be the cause of the whole ummah. Why
it starts resizing it, resizing it, until it becomes in a vasa.
I think that I often get posed this question, why is the Ummah
weak? And why is the Ummah in a difficult situation or the like?
And I think there's a difference between weak and difficult
situation. Difficult situation does not mean you're weak.
Difficult situation means you're in a battle, that you're
struggling. It doesn't mean that you're weak or defeated. And the
reason why I reject the idea that the Ummah is weak and that it has
I'm not talking about the Ummah as people. I'm talking about the
government. We'll get to the to the government, but in terms of
the government themselves and their interests, I think that when
it comes to the governments, the reality is that the governments
all have their particular interests that they're following.
And before I continue, I should stress that the opinions expressed
by the speaker belong to the speaker themselves. They do not
reflect the organization or those who invited me, or Irvine masjid,
or Irving masjid, or the likes. No, please. It has nothing to do
with them. It's all to do with me. I think that when we look at the
three major countries that or five major countries that are having a
major impact, ser UAE, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt, I think that
individually, they all have very conflicting interests that results
in them deciding not to join the support for the Palestinians, and
in some cases, in two of those examples, two countries in
particular, siding very closely with the Israelis. And what I mean
is I truly believe that, based on what we've seen in front of us,
that one of the reasons that Biden has not called for a ceasefire is
because Biden is genuinely confused. On the one hand, Biden
is being told that Muslims are angry. He's being told that
Muslims want to punish him and punish genocide, Joe and the like,
and that there's a rabble, Raza from London who's going around
telling people to punish genocide. Joe. On the other hand, he's being
told by his Muslim allies in the region too, in particular, that
genocide is not a red line. We're not really bothered by it. We're
ready to normalize ties. We're ready to keep talking about
normalization, as long as you give us a NATO style security agreement
against Iran, as long as you give us nuclear technology to build our
own nuclear weapon, and as long as you support vision 2030 because
when we try to bring Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea, we're making an
effort to de Islamize the kingdom. We've introduced alcohol, we
introduced a bikini beach as well into the land of the Holy Mosques,
and still you're not responding. We're ready to do more, but you
want to see genuine support for your as well. So I think that when
it comes to, for example, Saudi Arabia, I think that Saudi has
what it believes to be an economic, existent and existential
economic crisis and existential security.
Crisis, existential economic crisis, in that for those of you
who remember, in 2016
or 2015 Saudi Arabia burnt through 1/6 of its treasury in one year
because the oil price was so low, because the Americans were pushing
to try to take a larger chunk of the market, and the price was
going lower because of shale oil, or the like the Saudis realized
legitimately so that they badly need to diversify the economy, and
they need to do so quickly. And that's where vision 2030 comes in.
Vision 2030 is about diversifying the economy to make it less
reliant on oil, which is why they need new revenues. They need
Shakira concerts, pit bull raves in the desert. They need all these
other alcohol they need. I'm not saying they need it. They're
arguing. It's not me saying it the money to be careful. That
they believe that vision 2030 needs to open up. And as a result,
they made changes to the system whereby in the education
curriculum, for example, they reduced the hours that students
spend on Arabic, Islamic education and Quran. They reduced it from 38
hours to 25 hours, and they dedicated those extra 13 hours to
subjects of critical thinking, their words, not mine. The point
being is that there's been a reduction in the volume of Islam
in Saudi Arabia, and attempt to restrict it to Mecca and Medina in
order to allow the rest of Saudi Arabia to start to open up, to
build cities that, in the words of the Saudi Crown Prince, look like
Miami. He uses that as his model, not Shanghai or Moscow, and the
way that they do it, Saudi believes. Bin Salman says, Here's
a trade off. Muslims can land in Jeddah, they can go do to Mecca
and Medina and pray there and do their rituals that they want to do
about Islam, and the rest of Saudi Arabia will be free to do
whatever. And that, he believes that's a necessity in order to
become an economic power, because the country relies too much on
oil. The problem for Saudi Arabia, however, is that when the Saudi
Crown Prince came to power in 2017 he visited America. 2018
he met Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah, Winfrey, all these leaders, and he
told the Americans, come and invest in vision. 2030 all the
Americans were excited. There's a new Crown Prince. He's talking
about opening Saudi Arabia like the problem was the following
year,
Khashoggi entered an embassy and never came out. When he didn't
come out, there was a big, you know, huge media buzz about
Khashoggi. The Saudis believed that Khashoggi was a regime man.
He was part of us, and therefore, why is everybody making a big deal
out of him? This is an internal regime issue, but as a result of
issues with Qatar and the like. There was really media campaign
that really elevated the issue, and Erdogan also, you know,
started leaking some of the gruesome details. As a result,
companies didn't go to Saudi Arabia in 2018 2019 they still
didn't go because there was a Khashoggi issue. 2021 Khashoggi
issue was lifting a bit, and people are starting to forget
covid hit. When covid hit, companies still wouldn't come to
Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia because nobody was investing when 2021
covid started lifting a little bit, Biden wins the election. When
Biden wins the election, he says that the Saudi Crown Prince is a
pariah and I'm not going to deal with him. So companies are
hesitant to go to Saudi Arabia because they're worried Biden is
going to implement sanctions. So the Saudi Crown Prince reconciles
with Qatar. He gets Al Jazeera to be quiet about all of his affairs
and the like, something that's very important, even in the Gaza
issue, because you'll note, Al Jazeera doesn't talk about any of
the positions of the Arab countries because they want to
keep the peace with Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It's a red line. No
one is allowed to talk about it in Qatar. But the point is that after
2021 you get to 2022 five years in power and vision 2030 is not
moving vision. 2030 the economic diversification is not moving in
the way that you want, so much so that they had to take an extra
dividend from Aramco, and they had to change the structure of the
public investment fund to try to cover the losses that they made in
that year that might put companies off. So you get to 2021
you get to 2022 Biden comes to Jeddah. He wants a reset. But when
Biden comes to Jeddah, he asks for a reset, but then humiliates the
Saudi Crown Prince, because when he comes out of the meeting with
the Saudi Crown Prince, because of the American Free Press, all the
journalists come out and they say, What about Khashoggi? What about
Khashoggi? And Biden turns around and he says, I told the Crown
Prince about Khashoggi, and I let him know who I thought did it, and
the Saudi Crown Prince panics. So Saudi media, they say that the
Saudi Crown Prince responded and said, you're talking about
Khashoggi. What about sharin Abu akalah? What do you do about her?
Whatever you think about the Crown Prince, that's a touche. That's a
good response. In any case that it's clear that the tensions
between Biden and Saudi Crown Prince are still there. So we
enter the end of 2022 six years bin Salman has been in power
vision. 2030 is not moving. 2023
he gets so frustrated that he imposes tariffs on goods coming
across UAE to tell companies you can't be based in UAE and do
business in Saudi Arabia. And then he tells companies that whoever
doesn't have a headquarters el Riyadh, they will not be able to
win government contracts. And then he starts to essentially try to
squeeze those companies. The point being is Saudi Arabia believes
it's in an economic existential crisis, and it badly needs the
Americans and American support to help to invest into its economy,
the security.
Existential crisis is that when you open a map of Saudi Arabia and
imagine this is Saudi Arabia
to your north, you have Iraq, 23 militias that are pro Iran, that
have been firing missiles at the Saudi royal palace, and whose
leader, Abu mahdil Mohandas, in 2019 gave a lecture, who was
killed by Donald Trump. He gave a lecture in Tehran, where the
students said to him, masha Allah, you are a Mujahid who will
liberate Al Aqsa. And he said, No, no, not Al Aqsa. Riyadh. Riyadh.
That's our destiny. That's where we're going. It's anybody can find
it online. It's a viral video on the east. You have Iran itself,
which Iran can close the Hormuz whenever it wants. And the Saudis
are worried that the Americans won't do enough to the south,
there are the Houthis who've been firing missiles at oil facilities.
And when they fired the missiles at the abhid oil facility, the
Saudis expected the Americans to intervene. Instead, the Americans
didn't intervene, which is why the Saudis went to the Iranians and
said, Please, please, please, give me five years of peace. What do
you want? They said, I want Bashar Al Assad to be back in the Arab
League. They said, Hava. They said, I want investment in Syria
so I can get the money my compensation for rescuing asset.
They said, Hava. They said, I want you to talk to the Houthis and
make a deal with them and recognize them. However, I want a
compensation to be given to the OD he said, hav and then the
negotiations stalled. Why? Because Biden said that if you normalize
ties with Israel, I might give you a NATO style security agreement,
and I might give you nuclear weapons. So when Israel commits a
genocide in the Gaza, Bin Salman says to himself that I'm on the
verge of getting the Americans to invest in vision 2030, and to give
me protection against Iran from those militias. I'm not going to
compromise those two things for a bunch of Palestinians who aren't
even going to go anywhere anyway. They're going to stay in Ghazal
Netanyahu is not going to be able to kill them. I felt sickening to
say. But in any case, it is what it is that the Saudis believe that
as a result their vision 2030 Shakira, concert, Iggy, Azalea,
Gano and Tyson, fury, this opening up of the kingdom, introducing
alcohol, these are all very important things for vision. 2030
for the future of Saudi Arabia. I'm not jeopardizing that. And Bin
Salman also argues legitimately So, in my opinion. He says that
the first country to willingly normalize with Israel was Qatar in
1996 when Qatar normalized ties and they established an economic
office in Doha and the largest US military base, in exchange for the
Americans preventing Saudi from evading for those who don't know,
long story short, and the Emir is sick. He goes to Switzerland for
medical treatment. His son calls him in Switzerland and says, Baba,
don't come back. I've taken over this country. The father says,
What are you doing? What do you mean? He calls Saudi a new AE and
says, My son has done a coup. Please put me back in power. The
Saudis say, no problem. We can't have sons like toppling their
fathers. They get ready to invade Qatar. The Qatari emir who's taken
over the sun calls the Americans and the French and says, Wallahi.
If you stop the Saudis from invading, I will establish ties
with Israel. I won't do like Egypt and Jordan, where it's a peace
treaty. I'll willingly do it. I'll set up an economic office, and I
will set up the largest US military base. If you stop Saudi
and UAE from entering, the Americans get so excited. They
call Saudi they say, Don't you dare invade Qatar. The Saudi Crown
Prince says that the Ummah makes a million excuses for Qatar because
they have Al Jazeera and some ulama and their scholars and the
like. And they willing to turn a blind eye to other things UAE.
When it normalized ties, they got, you know, some Mashiach, we won't
name them, who came out and said that this is, you know, there is
hikma in this and the like. And there are some prominent American
mashay who also justified it as well. And there are many Muslims
who said, you know, maybe he has a point. The Saudi Crown Prince
says, if the Ummah makes excuses for Qatar and UAE, why wouldn't
they make excuses for me when I normalize ties for my own
interests, I'll keep my ulama giving dawah and durus and stuff.
And people can listen to it, and they can cry when they listen to
these Imams and say, masha Allah, I'm glitz and kosher to Allah.
They don't need to come to the concerts and raves when they land
in Jeddah. Whoever wants to go to the concert and make Toba
afterwards, they can go. And whoever just wants to go straight
to Mecca, then go straight to Mecca, lakum, dinosaur. In any
case, the point here being is the Saudi Crown Prince believes
Palestine is not worth it. There are some who will say that you
mentioned a lot about Saudi Arabia, but the reality is the
Muslim powers don't they don't have options. The reality is that
when Biden offended bin Salman, personally, Bin Salman squeezed
Biden. He cut the oil production, increased the prices, and he made
Biden come and beg him in Jeddah for a reset in relations. When the
Canadian ambassador accused Saudi Arabia of a poor human rights
record, Bin Salman kicked out the Canadian ambassador and ripped up
agreements with the Canadians, and the Canadians, eight months later,
begged bin Salman for a reset in ties. When the Germans said, we're
not selling anything to Saudi Arabia, Bin Salman cut off
investments from Germany, and last week, the Germans came out and
said, Please, please, please, we will give you the weapons that you
want. Please come back and invest in Germany when you offend. Bin
Salman, personally, he knows how to squeeze the Western powers to
beg him to make concessions. But when it comes to Reza, he doesn't
believe that it's worth it.
That's why I think that one of the reasons that Biden hasn't called
for a ceasefire is because Saudi Arabia has consistently and
proactively reassured the Americans that normalization is
still possible, even though a genocide of 20,000 people have
been killed. For the UAE as well, UAE says that normalization of
ties has meant that our militia that is rampaging in Sudan doesn't
get any scrutiny because Congress is too scared that if they
scrutinize this militia that is committing a genocide in western
Sudan, then UAE might get upset and reverse normalization. And
normalization is more important than countering this genocide
taking place in Sudan. The UAE believes that normalization is
what prevents Congress and the White House from putting pressure
on it. And for those who think that perhaps Sam is exaggerating,
there is an interview by the former Qatari Prime Minister with
France 24 in November, 2018 worth watching, in my opinion, around 36
minutes. 37 minutes into the interview, he says that, look,
when Arabs talk to the Israelis, it's not because they like the
Israelis. It's because they believe that Israel is the key to
the Congress and the White House. Now he continues, and he says, but
we in Qatar, when we normalize, we did it because we want to see
Israelis and Riyadh and Doha and these other places. But that's
irrelevant because they have Muslim scholars. The Ummah turns a
blind eye to what Qatar does. But in any case, the point here being
is that when you the UAE normalized, and believed that it
got 100% benefit from that normalization. Erdogan in Turkey
says, I have an economic crisis, because for 20 years I increased
interest rates, and then as I got older, I felt now is the time that
I make it haram, and I need to bring those interest rates down.
Now, after 20 years halal, and now suddenly I need to bring them
down. And as a result, the currency crashed. He says, I need
money. I'm suffering with an economic crisis or the like. So
Erdogan has been squeezed in the Mediterranean, squeezed by the US,
squeezed by Russia. So he decided to go to the Israelis and say,
Let's build a joint gas pipeline the Mediterranean. Let's share the
gas, and let's build an economic corridor that starts in Israel and
goes through Turkey to Central Asia and connects with Europe. And
that's why the week before October 7, the week before he shook hands
with Netanyahu and said, we're ready to establish a warmer ties.
And the like Erdogan believes that he doesn't want to jeopardize
those relations with Israel, but he's been told by Biden, and I do
believe this is Biden's position that Biden wants Netanyahu out. If
you notice, four days ago, when Blinken went to Tel Aviv,
Blinken met with Yahi Lapid and with Benny Gantz, two opposition
figures in Israel without the permission of Netanyahu. And if
you look at Netanyahu statement after the meeting, Netanyahu said
two things. He said, We reject a two state solution, and we don't
believe this is the right time to hold elections. It was a pushback
against the Americans demand to try to push Netanyahu out, which
is why, when you listen to Erdogan speeches, most of his speeches, we
can't work with Netanyahu. We can't deal with Netanyahu. We
don't want to talk to Netanyahu. The message being that Netanyahu
is going but we want to maintain that Sharad maawiya. For those who
don't know what Sharad mahawi is, it's the head of mahawiya.
Mahawiya once said that if I argue with my brother and we're on the
verge of cutting ties, and all that remains between us is a hair
and we're both pulling I will not pull on the head to make sure I
keep relations and contact and the way back to reconciliation. So
Erdogan is keeping a Sharad maawiya. I don't think Maia would
be happy if I ever used it in that context. But in any case, you're
using Charlotte Muay with the Israelis, and that's why I think
that when Netanyahu came out in the second week and said, We thank
our friends for understanding our position with regards to the
genocide, the friends he was referring to were the Muslim
leaders who were saying to the Americans that genocide is not a
red line, genocide is not problematic because we have these
interests that we need to do. Having said that, and this is
where I wrap up on this, having said that the public opinion has
affected Muslim nations as well. The reason Erdogan went from a
neutral statement to lambasting Israel is because the Turks got so
angry that they began to turn their anger at Erdogan, and
Erdogan panicked, and that's why he's been organizing rallies to
allow the Turks to vent off steam, to let them out and giving them
the speeches. Because there was a video that went viral in Turkey of
a Turk where he said, Erdogan, you called us onto the streets in 2016
to rescue you from the attempted coup. Call us out now for Gaza and
Erdogan panicked and went and went and organized that million man
rally in Istanbul, and he's been doing rally to let to at least let
the Turks feel like he's doing something, despite the fact that
trade has increased between Israel and Turkey 30% since the start of
the genocide, although there are reports that Erdogan might be
cutting ties or the like. But for example, the Ummah has also had an
impact on bin Salman in Saudi Arabia. So for those who haven't
been following Saudi Arabia and the de Islamization process over
the past couple of years, imams have been restricted in their
ability to make dua for Palestine or talk about current affairs. So
in the first few days after the genocide began, the Saudi state
television, for the first time in a year, broadcast the dua of the
haram.
In and they broadcast the DUA in Mecca, and the Imam was making dua
for Palestine. This was the Saudi Crown Prince concerned about his
population, and therefore trying to show that we are also on the
side of Palestine, while trying to balance it by mobilizing the
scholars to give fatawa to say that talking about ghaza is fitna.
Many of you will have seen the video Abdul Rahman is today. It's
the Imam of Mecca, where he said, we make dua for Gaza, but we don't
talk about it because it's a fitna. And obey your ruler and
obey your scholars. We saw the khutbah in Medina munawara, where
the Imam said, Make dua for Gaza, but don't talk about it. And
beware the rabble rousers from London who might turn you He
didn't say, rabous from London. But beware those who might turn
you against your leader. When my wife, my wife and I, we run this
travel company, we try to reconnect memories of the Ummah
taking people to different destinations. So she went to
present on a new theory about the industry in the world, halal
summit in Istanbul. When she went there, there is a friend of ours.
He was an advisor to Mahathir in Malaysia.
He said to her, Tell Sami that I'm going to Umrah in December, and I
received a WhatsApp message that says, when I go to Amra, please
don't bring a kefir, don't bring a free Raza sticker, and please
don't record yourselves making dua for Gaza. So I told my wife, I
can't talk about this because it's a rumor, and I haven't seen any
evidence of it. And trust me, American Imams have pushed back on
my videos before. I'm not interested in risking a backlash,
especially because I'm going to America soon, Inshallah, in any
case,
in any case, when I landed in LA,
in beautiful blue sky, sunny LA, 27 degrees Celsius, and the 25th
of November, for a guy who has five days of summer a year, and
they don't even come at the same time, I said to myself, Allah, I
will never spend winter anywhere else. But in any case, I should be
wary. Though, every place I go in America, it's always raining. It's
like Allah said, You didn't show gratitude for the weather. I'm
going to give you rain everywhere you go, even when I went San
Diego, I saw rain. So Allah, Ummah, I'm grateful for the
weather. Allah, fit for the rain. Well, hamdullah, Alhamdulillah,
well, in shakar to La azinakum, and I give you also better from
it. I'm thankful for the rain. So, Inshallah, when I go San Jose
tomorrow, I see the sun guru Amy. In any case, when I went to LA I
gave my talk, and then we went to have dinner in the evening. And I
said to the brothers sitting around, there were about maybe
1520, of them. And I said, you know, I heard a rumor that when
you go Umrah, you're not allowed to record yourself making dua for
Gaza. And one person stood up and he said, Sami, it's not a rumor.
Here's the WhatsApp message, I'm going Umrah next month. Here it
is. And the message, the message said, it's with a heavy heart that
we inform you that we've been informed by the authorities in
Saudi Arabia not to make dua for as I said, Don't record
yourselves, and not to bring kefirs. But public opinion was so
loud and so frightening for Bin Salman that although in the first
week, they were arresting people wearing kefirs. In Saudi Arabia
last week, there are many people wearing kefirs Because they've
been told by the Saudis that we're worried about the backlash. Go
easy in terms of your crackdown on kefirs or the like. The thing is,
they're trying to play it in both ways, because what bin Salman is
realizing is that the Ummah stands for Haqq, not Bartel. The Ummah
doesn't follow personalities. It follows Haqq. So when they see
personalities with Haqq, they stand with them. When they see the
personalities abandon Haqq. They tear them down. They loved Abdul
Rahman is today's. When he read the Qur'an and when he gave that
fatwa, they started to stop listening to Abdul Rahman is
today's. And that's the thing, and that's what bin Salman realized.
The point is. And I know I said I'm wrapping up already, but I
promise this is where I wrap up. But the point that I'm saying is
that while it's true that the Muslim leaders are demonstrating
their own interests with regards to Ghazal Palestine and therefore
betraying Gaza Palestine, public opinion is also having an impact
in that they're also buckling and having to offer concessions to
their people because they're worried about the backlash that
their support for Zionism will and for those who insist, why did you
say support for Zionism? I will give you two examples, and I
promise we'll go to the next question. The first example is
that in the third week of the genocide, the Saudis invited Jared
Kushner, Trump's son in law, to give a keynote speech at the Davos
in the desert forum. And Jared Kushner from the heart of Saudi
Arabia while the genocide is going on, he gave a keynote speech in
which he said that October 7 was designed to ruin normalization
between Saudi Arabia and Israel and they will not succeed. And not
a single Saudi in the forum said, How dare you say this in the heart
of Saudi Arabia? And he was allowed, and he said that
normalization is still very much possible, and the Saudis are
telling me that normalization can go ahead soon. The second example
is that on the night that Israel cut off communications in Gaza cut
off the internet and began its ground invasion, Shakira was in
Riyadh dancing in the Riyadh season concert, and the day
before, the Muslims were saying that, why is this concert going
ahead when Raza is being slaughtered and Turki al Shaykh,
the head of the general entertainment authority,
ironically, the descendant of Sheik Mohammed bin Abdul Wahab
Turki al Shaykh, said he wrote a Facebook post where he said, name
me one concert that has been canceled in the world because of a
political event.
It. How can you ask me to cancel it for Ghazal? And he didn't even
say at the end, may Allah have mercy on the Shoah and Raza. But
the irony was that when the Emir of Kuwait died Allah,
when the ehmir of Kuwait died, they had a huge concept planned on
the day that he died. So the Saudis were caught in a catch 22
if we don't cancel the concept. Because the Arab saying goes that
if you have a wedding but your neighbor has a janezah, you delay
the wedding.
If we don't cancel the concert, we will have a diplomatic crisis with
Kuwait. And Kuwait are good friends, but if we cancel the
concert, the ummah will know that we don't care about Raza, because
we didn't we cancel it for the Qur'an, but you don't cancel it
for Gaza. In the end, they felt they didn't want to risk a
diplomatic crisis with Kuwait, so they canceled the qur canceled the
concept for Kuwait. So Toki al Ashi was talking nonsense when he
said, We don't cancel political events. They canceled the concepts
for two days in solidarity with Kuwait, but have not canceled a
single concept with regards to Gaza. But having said that, public
opinion is making a difference, even on Saudi Arabia, even on UAE,
UAE blamed the Palestinians for what happened, but as a result of
public pressure, they allowed their commentators to criticize
Israel, and they were the first to send aid to Gaza. And also, while
the UAE were reassuring Biden and Israel that they will not reverse
normalization, it was the UAE that let the CNN presenters into Gaza
to cover the reality, because bin zay had said that I'm struggling
with this public pressure coming from the ummah. Biden has told me
Netanyahu will go. Let me try to accelerate it by humiliating
Netanyahu in front of the Americans, so that Netanyahu can
go, Benny Gantz can come to power, and these Muslims can go back to
their, you know, going back to, you know, just, you know, I want
to make Hijrah. I want to live a Muslim life, you know, in the UAE,
you know, in a country where you know the government is massacring
Muslims abroad, but because you can take Instagram selfies and of
your Salat in Sheik Zayed mosque, that's the pinnacle of deen and
the pinnacle of Islam for you. So, you know, Bin Zayed says, I know
that what the Muslim ummah is like. They love to come to the
UAE, because they love my masajid and they love the Islamic schools
that I have, because for them, Islam is not like the Sahaba,
where you uphold justice. Islam for them is peace, security and
comfort. To do your five daily prayers in the massage and go to
Islamic schools and not be bothered with what's happening in
the world. The dream of the Muslim today is to die in Medina, even
though only a minority of Sahaba are buried in Medina. The majority
are buried outside of Medina because their interpretation of
Islam was that Allah will give victory to an ummah that stands
for justice, whereas the interpretation of the Ummah today
is that Allah will give victory to an ummah that does the rituals but
abandons the justice.
I think,
I think everybody got the message. My next question is, do you agree
that freeing Palestine can be seen as freeing the world from
capitalism, ego, desires and greed, while calling humanity to a
higher purpose in life? I think that Palestine, when people talk
about, what does Philistine mean to people, I think for the Muslim,
it's abundantly clear in terms of its holiness that I Barak na
hawlahu, we know we made it a blessing. Around it, Al Aqsa being
the mosque where the prophet muhammad sallallahu Sallam led all
of the other prophets in prayer, where the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam ascended the seven heavens, where he received the barakah of
prayer, where he received 50 rakaat. And then Musa al assalam
said to him, I was the prophet of Beni Israel, and Beni Israel could
not even do three. Yeah, Muhammad, go back to your Lord and ask for
less. So he went back Rasulullah, and he was given 45 then he came
down. Musa alaihi salam said, I know Beni Israel, they couldn't do
three. Go back and ask for less, and the Prophet Salam came back
down. But I think also, what Philistine represents more than
anything else is this
deficiency in the moral consciousness of the world, in
that a people can be driven out of their homes, turfed from their
land, slaughtered in cold blood for no other reason than a random
group of people turned up from Europe after being persecuted and
said that I want to live in this house in the words of jab from
Brooklyn, if I don't steal it, somebody else will. The point
being is that it's a glaring deficiency in the global
consciousness, because although people recognize that the
Palestinians have been unjustly treated in being turfed from their
homes and their lands and slaughtered after they welcomed
the Jews who had been persecuted from Europe, after they embraced
them and said that, just as we embraced you when you were kicked
out of Spain, just as we embraced you when you were kicked out of
Poland, just as we embraced you when anti semitic white
supremacist Europe was so racist and so brutal that they declared
the Balfour Declaration because they wanted to kick you out
because they saw you as aliens. We are Muslims. They are not our
teachers. We have.
Tolerance from Islam, not from them. We welcome you. And instead
of saying, Thank you for welcoming us and let's live side by side as
we always have, they decided to pick up a gun and go and shoot
them instead. I think the reason it's a glaring deficiency in the
moral consciousness is that although the world recognizes that
the Palestinians have been wronged unjustly, though, instead of the
world saying, let's come together to give redress and justice to the
Palestinians, instead the international community has come
together and said, Let's talk about a two state solution. The
point being, instead of the world saying, let's give these
Palestinians their homes back, they came together. And instead of
saying, let's give them their homes back, and let's get justice.
They said, how can we legalize the illegality? Let's talk about how
much theft of land we can legalize under the two state solution.
Let's not make the negotiations about justice. Let's make it and
say that, because we like these guys better than you, we want to
acknowledge and recognize their theft of the land, and we want to
legalize it. Please tell us how much theft you're willing to
swallow, how much theft you're willing to tolerate, and we'll
call this the peaceful two state solution. The point being is that
as long as Palestine is changed, the moral consciousness of the
world Muslim and non Muslim is tainted and undermined by the fact
that we're trying to legalize an oppression and immorality. And for
the Muslim who says that Al Aqsa is special to the Muslims because
of the masjid itself, I also remind them that the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the blood of a
Muslim is dearer than a brick on the Kaaba, that the blood of a
Muslim that the Prophet saw him in hot metal a in his last speech
that he gave to the Muslims, he said in a demo to yo me, come
here, the Baladi, come here, the fishery, come here. The point
being is that the Prophet sallam said that your blood, your wealth
and your honor are sacred between you, the same sacredness, the same
sanctity as this holy land that you're on, in this holy month that
you are in, in this holy place that we're in. The
point being is the prophet sallam was even when you read in the
Quran about why Allah, Subhanahu wa so angry with Quraysh. He
always talks about in the area, those kick driven out of their
homes, those driven even when he tells us Sahaba about what they
should do to get their justice, he says, drive them out from where
they drove you out. But don't transgress beyond that. The point
is Allah insisting on the justice. And the reason why I mentioned
this point is is to wrap up on this particular point, which is
that Muslims understand and non Muslims need to understand that
what the Muslim is looking for is not revenge. The Muslim is not
driven by revenge. The Muslim is taught that the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, entered Mecca, and instead of
taking revenge, he forgave Hind, who had cut open the body of his
uncle Hamza and mutilated it and ate his organ, ate his liver. He
forgave washi who threw this spear that killed his uncle Hamza. He
forgave the leaders of Quraysh who had boycotted him and kicked him
out of his land and ward with him for 23 years. He forgave all of
them because the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam was
not sent as a curse to mankind, but as a mercy to guide them out
of darkness into light. And that's why, when it comes to Palestine
and what it means, the reason why I mentioned justice and moral
consciousness and not revenge, is because when umm Abu Khattab
entered Jerusalem, He is the one who brought the Jews back who had
been kicked out by the Christians. When Salah Haddin ayyubi entered
Al Aqsa entered Jerusalem, whereas the Christians, 100 years before,
had massacred 70,000 Muslims. Salah ad din ayubi ordered that
every Christian home was to be safe and protected, because he
said, they are not our teachers. The Prophet Muhammad is our
teacher. And the reason we use these examples in Islam is to
emphasize that Palestine, for us is not about revenge. It's not
against the Jew. It's against injustice and oppression. And
that's why, when the Muslim sees the Jews stand up for the justice
of Palestine, we embrace them like the cousin, and we say, welcome to
the cause of justice, and remember that we celebrate those Jews who
did the sitting in Congress calling for a ceasefire. I've been
to the protest for Palestine. I've seen the Jews at those protests
celebrating the justice of Palestine and saying, We stand
with you as well, because the fitrah that Allah created in every
human being resonates with the justice that the Muslims call for.
Because remember, and this is the final point I promise that I leave
on even in global history, there are three examples that are used
objectively to describe the coexistence of religions. They are
Andalusia under the Muslims. They are Sarajevo, which is called the
Jerusalem of Europe under the Muslims. And it is.
Jerusalem itself, which was only the epitome of coexistence when
the Muslims ruled it. The West talks about its values when in
reality, coexistence and tolerance. It comes from the rich
history of Islam. It doesn't come from the history of white
supremacist, anti semitic Europe, which put which has the history of
the Holocaust, of the Inquisition, of the Warsaw Ghetto, of the of
the Knights of the Long Knives, where they destroyed Jewish
buildings. It's Islam that has the rich history where it doesn't have
any equivalent to the Holocaust, any equivalent of Spanish
Inquisition, and which saved the Jews every single time they were
persecuted. Which is why, when the Muslim says to the Jew Why are you
doing this to the Palestinians? They're not saying it from a state
of revenge. They're saying it we rescued you from Europe so many
times. Why are you doing to the Palestinians what these anti
semitic Europeans did to you? So
I'll give you two three minutes to bring some water. So while
incident bravshala, invite our man come and do some nasheed for us.
I have two three questions. After the nasheed Inshallah, then we're
up a
promise,
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brother, I guess you can. So let's move inshallah.
Brother Sammy, you know better Malcolm Nabi, right? Of course.
Okay, so Malcolm Nabi said predicted, actually, that the West
hasn't expanded its value beyond its borders.
How does this statement mean in today context, especially
considering the current divide between the facts and the values.
I think that one of malekib Nabi said that, and also I think it was
Samuel Huntington who said that what the West fails to realize is
that their superiority did not come about by their values, but by
the sword. So they insist that Islam was spread by the sword. But
if Islam was spread by the sword, why is it that 1400 years later,
Islam is still the fastest growing religion, even in areas where
Muslims no longer rule those territories?
And the reason why I say that is that my mother is Algerian, and
Algerians are proud of where they come from, Mashallah. So one of
the things that the French what hurt them so much about losing
Algeria in particular,
was that 132 years of occupation, and for those who don't know what
the French is, the French were brutal. So the French would line
up hijab is in a line, and they would line them up every week, and
then they'd pull the hijab off and say, You are liberated.
And I'll tell you a story within the family of mine, for example,
we had, I had my great uncle, Tijani, Alaya rahmu. He was killed
by the French. But one day he was walking and his cousin was
pregnant, and she was walking on the street. Four French soldiers,
they saw her pregnant, so they took out machetes and knives and
they mocked her, and they said, let's see what gender the baby is.
So they were going to rip open her stomach and pull the baby up. He
panicked. He picked up a rifle, he shot towards them, and they ran
away. That night. They came into his house and they riddled him
with bullets.
The French wanted to eradicate Algerian culture to the extent
that they would insist that the Algerians have to speak French,
not Arabic. And so after 100 years, you could feel that there
were many Algerians who spoke French better than they spoke
Arabic, and the French were very happy about
that. What hurt the French about the liberation of Algeria is that
when Algeria was liberated, the French were upset that, firstly,
the Algerians could not understand the wonderful French values and
the superiors of French values. And not only that, Algerians, when
they took to the streets, they didn't say, Algeria. You know,
Algeria, and Algeria is liberated. They said,
Yeah, Muhammad.
Ya ya, Muhammad,
referring to Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. They said, Yeah, Muhammad,
mabuhay,
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O Prophet Muhammad. They yelled. They roared, oh, Prophet Muhammad,
congratulations. Algeria has been returned to you.
They were saying, Ya Rasulullah, we never forgot you. Ya
Rasulullah. They persecuted us, but we refuse to give you up. They
told us, if we abandon you and be French, they will let us live in
comfort. We said, No, we will never give you up.
They told us, if we become civilized like them and abandon
you, we will be free. Ya rasulallah, we prefer to be with
you than have their freedom.
Ya rasulallah, 132 years, we gave 1.5 million Shuhada,
and we are proud that we did it for you. Ya Rasul, Allah, Ya
Muhammad, Mabrouk, Alik Al Jazeera, Raja atliq,
the French, they said, How is it with all of ours, technology,
weapons, advances, poetry, culture, sophistication, what is
it about these people that means that when we commit genocide
against them, when we persecute them, when we chop off the *
of their women, when we rip off their hijab, when we riddle them
with bullets, when we abuse them, torture them and say to them that.
Could live in comfort, and we will stop doing this to them, as long
as they give up La ilahola and they speak French. Why do these
people refuse to give it up? Why do these people refuse to live in
comfort and choose to struggle for the sake of a man who died 1400
years ago and his Lord.
Why is Afghanistan a country that has never been conquered by
anyone?
But the only message to conquer their hearts and enter their
hearts was la Ilala, and they embraced it so much that when
every conqueror came into Afghanistan, the Afghans would
say, La Ilaha, illAllah Muhammad Rasulullah, I would rather meet my
prophet with a face that says I loved you and I struggled for you,
then give him up to live like you.
The French, they say that we colonize most of the Muslim world.
And I went to Paris, and I met a French journalist, and he said to
me, must you send me on our own problem. We have a big problem. I
said, Sikh problem of her. What's your problem, brother? He said, in
France today, the heroes of the new French generation. They are
the Muslim in Golo County, they are the Muslim Karim Benzema. They
are the Muslims in Edin Zidan, the Muslim Paul Pogba.
We have many French people, they are becoming Muslims. Sami, would
you accept, you know, country if Antoine griesman Was their hero? I
said it doesn't happen in Muslim countries, because we love the
Prophet Muhammad. He stood for it's you guys who have no you guys
are the ones struggling with this. It's nothing to do with us. Islam
remains the fastest growing religion, despite the fact that
you believe the Ummah to be weak, ibad Allah, the reason I gave the
example earlier of honorable Khattab leaving the elites of the
Quraysh and joining the Prophet and the Muslim, sallAllahu, alayhi
wa sallam, the Sahaba rat Allah, anhu, is he left and joined them.
When the Prophet had no power or army over Quraysh, he said that
the word and message of the Prophet, Sallam is more powerful
and greater to me, than the weapons and the army and the money
of Quraysh.
There's something powerful about the values of Islam. That means
that even when Raza, a genocide is taking place, when people are
seeing the Raza taking place, they don't say, what a weak people
look, how they're being killed. Instead, you get people on Tiktok,
non Muslim saying, I need to read the Quran, because I want to
understand how these people are so powerful that they are suffering a
genocide. And they are saying, has been Allah wa Allahu Akbar, and we
were standing with Allah subhanho wa Taala and our Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, which makes a girl open the Quran
on Tiktok and say, You know what, guys, every day I'm gonna go
through a page, and she goes through one week later, she pops
up on a Tiktok with a hijab, and she says, I tell you guys, I
entered Islam,
and we have a good news that sister, she's going to accept
Islam today, Bismillahi mashallah, because what attracts them to
Islam is not what you wish Islam would have, which is the armies
and the weapons. What attracts them to Islam is a power that no
tank can destroy, no missile can destroy, and no money can buy.
When Abu Sufyan sent a member of the Quraysh and said, Go and scout
out the Prophet sallallahu, Sallam and the Sahaba, and find me a
traitor that I might be able to buy. And he came back, and he
said, Wallahi, Sahaba of the Prophet sallam, will never give
him up, even if he gave them a mountain of gold,
because they love the message of the Prophet sallam. And they loved
Allah so much they would rather meet Allah and say, Allah, I
struggled for you. And say, I gave them up for a bit of comfort in
this dunya.
When they enter Islam, you insist that the Muslims or the Ummah
might be weak. These people are not joining a weak ummah. They're
joining a powerful ummah. They've seen a mighty power in the Ummah
that does not exist in the values of the West. When Aliyah is
zbegovich, the Muslim philosopher of Europe, president of Bosnia,
was asked by a news agency in 1993
Aliyah, you keep talking about this tolerance of coexistence
between the Croat Serbs and the Bosniaks, because, remember, the
Serbs were talking about only a Serbian state and eradicating the
Muslims the Croats. Were talking about Croatia only for the
Orthodox Christians and only for the Croats. The Muslim Izzet
begovich was the only one saying, I want a Bosnia where we all live
together and coexist peacefully. So the question was put, where
does this Europe? How do you How is it that you hold on to this
European tolerance? And he said, Excuse me, this isn't a European
tolerance. European tolerance is the Holocaust. European tolerance
is a Spanish Inquisition. European tolerance is the Serbian genocide
that seeks to eradicate the Muslims. The tolerance that you
celebrate in me is a Muslim tolerance. It was taught by my
prophet, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alaihi wasallam.
When he entered Medina, he told the Jews, I'm not here to
subjugate you. Whoever oppresses you, we will stand with you
against the oppressor.
So when we talk about the values, like Malik bin Nabi, when he says
the West doesn't realize that they didn't become powerful because of
their values. They didn't become powerful because of their values.
If they did, Islam wouldn't be the fastest growing religion in the
world capitalism would be, but it's not. And this is why, when we
look at the Algeria example, the Bosnia example, the Turkish
example, Ataturk comes to power, tells the military to do a coup on
every single person who tries to Islamize the state. They execute
scholars, they massacre the Kurds, who revolt because they want to
restore the Muslim rule. He bans the printing of the Quran in the
1950s and the like. But the Muslims, they keep going. They
keep teaching the Quran, they keep teaching Hadith, they keep
believing in Allah's. All these Turks had to do was give up La
Ilaha, illallah, Muhammad, Rasulullah, and they would have
lived fine, in comfort without any persecution. Why did they not give
it up? Because there's something so dear about the Prophet Muhammad
and the values of Islam and Allah subhanho wa taala. There's
something so dear and sacred and lovely about it that none of them,
they believed it was better to struggle for justice than to give
it up for some temporary dunya we gain. That's why Islam is so
terrifying.
There is a shirk. We were sitting in a car, and he said to me, you
know, Sami, Islam is a problem. I told him stuff for Allah. He told
me, Wallahi, Islam is a problem. Stop it.
He said, Listen to me first. I said, Go and tell me. How is Islam
a problem?
He said Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
for the first 40 years of his life, was he persecuted?
Was he oppressed? What was his reputation? First 40 years of his
life, sadhq Amin. They loved him. They spoiled him. They would leave
their goods with him. He was honored. They used to go to him to
mediate between different problems. They love them. They
celebrate him wherever he went. When did they have a problem with
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, when he stood up
and said, La ilaha illallah, Muhammad rasulallah, stop burying
your daughters alive. Give your neighbors their justice. Free your
slaves. Stop cheating each other in the market, when he stood up
for justice, that's when the problem came. That's when the
struggle came. Ibad Allah, the reason the world has a problem
with Islam
is not because they believe themselves to be superior. It's
because Islam exposes the injustices of their way of life,
and Islam demands the rights of everybody, Muslim and non Muslim,
and a world which is built on injustice is struggling to
tolerate those who call for justice.
The reality is what they dislike about Islam. Why Islam is attacked
in a way that Hinduism is not, in a way that Buddhism is not, in a
way that Christianity is not, is because whereas those three
religions are about the personal, spiritual, private in their
version of the masjid, where they don't go out. Islam demands you to
not only be in the masjid, but to be on the front lines of justice
as well. For Ibn Taymiyyah said, Allah will preserve a careful
state that is just, but will destroy a Muslim state that is
unjust, for Allah can tolerate kufr with justice, but will not
tolerate Islam with injustice. And that's why Ibn Khaldun said Al
aqmul, justice is the foundation of Dominion, because, and this is
a promise where I finish on this point for he go, because I know
people want to do Q
and A What if I was to say to you that the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu, alas, did not live to see liberated.
He did not live to see dawah being given in English.
He did not live to see Islam
in Texas, in YeeHaw rodeo, Texas.
Did he need to?
Does that mean he failed?
Why do you believe that he didn't fail despite finishing his life
only controlling an Arabian peninsula that the Romans and
Persians didn't think was worth conquering?
It's because the magnificence of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu
sallam
was not entirely in the material achievements he achieved in his
life, but in the spirit he left behind of the Ummah
that said, Never give up. Never stop moving. Never stop
mobilizing. When the world is against you, you keep moving when
the odds are against you. You keep moving when you fail in your
efforts, you get back up and you keep moving. When you trip over.
You get up and you keep moving, because the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu sallam, said to us, Allah is in charge of the outcome.
The honor is in the striving and being the vehicle.
How terrifying it must be to see an ummah that no matter what the
odds.
Are against it, because it loves Allah and Rasul. It is willing to
give up all the comforts of the world to establish justice on this
earth. That's why Islam is so terrifying. That's why Islam is a
problem, and may it always be a problem. Inshallah,
I want you to have the honor to support the sister to say Shahada.
So go ahead, make her say she was she did we say? You ready?
Inshallah, yeah, go ahead, tell her to repeat that for you. I
don't know what your customs are here, but it's Arabic first then
English, right? Yeah.
And you guys do the one time or the three times. One time, very
good
to make sure
Masha Allah,
first of all, sister, salaam alaikum. First of all, I want to
highlight, first and foremost, that one who enters Islam by their
choice, in my opinion, is superior,
and I tell you why, the one who enters Islam by choice
enters Islam knowing
that they are stepping away from
Sorry about
that
they recognize Allah and His Prophet SAW sincerely and so
certainly that they are ready to step out from a way of life that
the only way of life they knew to enter way of life that they know
is the haqqan the truth. And they know that when they take that
step, they know there will be unique struggles. But they say,
because they love Allah and the Prophet, they are ready to go
through those struggles, Sister, if you repeat after me,
Ash hadu,
Allah, ILAHA,
illallah, illallah,
anna muhammadan,
abduhu, Abdul
wa Rasulullah, I bear witness. I bear witness
that there is no God but Allah, that there is no God but Allah,
and that Muhammad, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah, is the
messenger of Allah. Sister, welcome to a beautiful, beautiful
family, and I'm humbled. I was born into Islam, and I had the
luxury of an environment where everything was conducive to
worship Islam. Believe me when I say this, you are better than most
people in this room, because you saw the Haq for what it is. You
took that step, and Allah entered your heart and the love for the
Prophet, ha Salam, and you recognizing you were willing to
take that step for the truth, and that is something ADAM, A bravery
that not many people can boast about. Masha Allah, Tabarak.
Allah, welcome to this family. May Allah make your path easy, and May
he make you a shining example to the rest of this ummah. That shows
that no matter how much the Ummah suffers, the Ummah continues to
grow. Because the Ummah is rooted not in tanks or armies, but in
justice and truth that you recognize with that pure heart of
yours. BarakAllahu, we have a new
sister, Allah, Visha. That's it. Hagar. Hagar Haiti, mashaAllah,
that's your sister, masha Allah. And for those of you who want to
really appreciate what it what it means when
someone takes the Shahada. Amr was the man sent by Quraysh to bring
the Muslims back from habasha.
Don't you think it's magnificent that that same amrable as is the
one who said
that one day I believed myself to be the dearest person to the
Prophet, Muhammad Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam,
because of the way that he used to treat me,
the Prophet saw him, in his capacity as a Muslim, as a mercy,
made somebody who once fought against the Muslims feel like the
dearest person to him. Of course, Ahmad bin AZ makes the mistake of
asking rasulallah, says to me, rasulallah, who is the dearest
person to you? He says, Aisha.
So Abu as says, okay, okay. Amongst the men, he said, Abu ha
her father. And he says, after her father, he says, ah. And he
realized he's not in the top 10. But the reason I mentioned that
hadith ya ibad Allah is so that you're aware that those who enter
Islam remember how we treat them? Remember the way the Prophet
Sallam used to treat the Sahaba used to treat them in such a way
he made them feel like the most valued of individuals, that not
only did they embrace him and Islam, they carried it to Egypt,
they carried it to Iraq, they carried it to sheb Khalid al muli
defeated the Muslims in uh, then ended up carrying it elsewhere,
becoming Muslim and carrying it. But why? Because the Prophet
Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, created an environment that
embraced them and brought them in Abad Allah, be gentle and
merciful. Do not be hard of heart. And I will say one thing.
I saw an interview about somebody giving his version of when he
became Muslim, and he said he noticed.
In the beginning, everybody kept telling him, this is haram, this
is haram. This is haram. This haram, this haram, until he got to
a point where he said, You know what? Maybe I should go out of
Islam and then come back to and I'm in my 50s and 60s, because
these guys are all about haram. He says, the reason that he embraced
Islam was that he bumped into somebody who taught him how to
love Allah, Subhanahu wa. And he said, When I learned who Allah was
and I grew to love Allah. I naturally gave up what Allah
hated, not because someone told me to, but because I loved Allah so
much. I did not want to upset Allah by continuing to do those
ibad, Allah, when Allah sends down his first Ayah IQ,
he didn't send down His first ayah and say you will all burn in
Jahannam or give up alcohol or give up Allah in his hekma chose
to give you a message of love and establish the relationship between
you and Allah, where Allah says, within Iqra, get to know me,
understand who I am, and you realize that Allah, out of the 99
names, he said, Alhamdulillah, Rameen, AR Rahman, Al rah
the word montachem is not used in it, the word al qawi, al Jabbar is
not used in Fatiha, because Allah had decided in his Hikmah that the
attribute he wanted you to associate most with him in every
Salat was the most gracious and the Most Merciful, so that you
might know that Allah, subhana wa Taala is a lord that wants to make
your life easy, not somebody who, not a being that wants to punish
you. MashaAllah, Abu Talaq, Allah is a very moving thing to see
somebody take the Shahada. Wanna open the floor for question? If
you have few questions, go ahead. Bismillah, one, two, yeah, three,
four, you have to choose one.
Your honor. You come here
and ask the question
I've been listening to you for quite some time. I'm very sorry,
and I'm really this is a good I knew about that you coming here
yesterday, so it was a very good, very good, and a pleasant surprise
that you showed up here. I know
I listened to most of your talks I had, if you don't mind, this two,
two questions, very, very quickly.
You, you mentioned about what we can do and the stuff that we can
do, and I, I have been saying this for almost 20 years,
and that
we should, as Muslims,
be proactive and not wait for something like Gaza to happen, and
we should be planning ahead. Unfortunately, our Muslim Alama,
they seem to be at least 50 years behind to react to some of the
atrocities in the Muslim country. So the point is, I've been
calling, I'm not going to say fatwa, because I'm not a Mufti.
I've been calling for a movement where Muslims have to boycott hajj
and umrah as a way to protest against the atrocity that has been
happening in the Saudi Arabia, especially for the past five to
seven years,
by killing the Ulama dealing and now we are evident in front of us
how the Saudis are siding with the Israelis. We know the history of
the Saudis and the Wahhabis. There's no, no doubt about it,
they are.
I'm not going to lecture people about this, but this is one point,
and this is very passive thing we can do. It's not going to cost a
lot of people a lot of money. Actually, it's going to save you
some money. And it's not, you are not, you know, carrying arms. It's
not going to be a movement that is not peaceful. And imagine that all
the Muslims for the next two years will boycott, you know, am Iran
had? I think that will send a message. That's this one point the
I know you had one of the videos calling for that similar, but I'm
just paraphrasing, but which I agree 100% agree about this for
the past 20 years. The other question I have is that
most of, if not the vast majority, of the Islamic movement that had
liberated
land, lands of Muslims
came from movements like asharis or Sufis, mainly Sufis, for
example, desire Abu Hamid bin badis. He's a Sufi. All the Sufi
and none.
Ever, and I challenge everybody here to prove me wrong. There was
not a single hero or a leader or a single Salafi movement through the
Islamic history. I'm talking about the new Salafis. I'm not talking
about Ahmed ibn Abu that had ever liberated an inch of Islamic land
actually, the majority of them actually are Sufis or matrides.
Mohammed Al fat his matridy Salah Haddin laiubi is a Sufi who's
sympathizer with asharis so on and so forth. Even the most recent
ones that we have in Iraq,
in El faluja, they were a Naksha Bindiya movement, which is a Sufi
movement that started the revolt against the American forces. I
think this my so
God, brief answer, brother. I think that with the first issue,
with regards to Hajin Amra, there are two things here. The reason
why I don't encourage boycott is for two reasons. The first is,
Professor Salem wanted to do Amra when Makkah was under the control
of the Quraysh. The second thing is, I
don't know how many of you guys, because I know here you have, you
know your branding is excellent. So you branded handball as
football, but when I say football, I'm actually talking about a game
that uses the feet like kicks the boyfriend soccer.
So for those of you who follow it, you'll know that the Ballon d'Or
winner last year was Karim Benzema. Karim Benzema, when he
won the Ballon d'Or, the Saudis, they invited him to come and play
in Riyadh.
He rejected Riyadh, but he decided to play in Jeddah. He gave an
interview to the athletic where they asked him, Why did you go and
play in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia? He said, I'm a Muslim, and I chose
Jeddah because I wanted to be close to Mecca and Medina. When
the interview came out, Bin Salman's Twitter army was so angry
and so upset. They said, Benzema does not understand why he's been
brought to this country. He was brought for vision 2030 not Mecca
Medina. And what is he saying? That all Saudi Arabia has his
Mecca Medina. Why is he not celebrating the rest of the policy
vision 2030 when I saw how upset they were that somebody celebrated
Mecca Medina, in my opinion, Muslims should keep going just to
scarafeom, just to, you know, make them feel even, even worse, that
for all their vision, 29 concerts, Hajin Omar are still way more
important. More people go to Mecca Medina than they go to watch. You
know, Shakira Iggy is ADIA. I do think there is some hekma In this
first so I very cautious about the boycott. The second point is,
I understand why people dislike Al Saud.
What I will say is that King AbdulAziz el salud was a haven for
the scholars who were persecuted by the Italians in Libya, who were
kicked out by Ataturk in Turkey, and King AbdulAziz,
when people say backed by the British Sharif Hussein was backed
by the British Abd Al Aziz goes and takes over Saudi gets to the
Iraqi border and then the British panic and warn him not to cross
the Iraqi border.
Abdulaziz is on record as sending aid to a lot of the Sufi movements
that you mentioned, to help them in their liberation movements as
well, and he was very generous in providing that assistance as well.
Omar Al muqtad is also on record as having said that Abd Al Aziz is
sincere in this as well, of the Libyan movement as well. So I
would say that while I understand the Sufi, Salafi debate,
I do also think that
it doesn't add to what is necessary at this particular
moment in time. And I understand why people are angry at some of
the internal debates that take place. But also, having said that,
I will caveat. I'm the kind of person who listens to a debate on
tawassul and go, guys like did Arsenal win against Chelsea,
though I'm the kind of guy who listens to it and, you know, but
guys like Ibrahim alaihi salam said, you know, Rabbi JAALI mukhi
masala, to Amin doriati, can I say that like, just and, and, you
know, hamdullah, be done with it. They're like, but are you saying
to us, to this haram? I'm not saying. I'll ask about arsenal.
And I asked, Can I make a Do I like Ibrahim alaihi salam? I'm not
in anything else. So I think it's true. But I think that, you know
all these historical details is worth a debate, but in this
particular instance, okay, let me Sorry, brother. Brother, yeah, but
I'm just brother. We don't wait, brother, we have to give just to
the sister. The sister want to have a question. Also, go ahead
ask your question, sister,
first, I want to welcome you in Texas, and I want to request that
next time you consider making allocating special time for the
youth,
and I want to ask you to say a word for us, the moms our kids are
going to college to high school.
What do you advise?
Says In times like this.
So buna Mohammed says, the poet from Canada, he says a nice line
that I used to like, he goes, I'm not a scholar or a preacher. I'm
just a regular dude who makes mistakes too, but I can't talk
about me without talking about you. Is Max and good in any case,
the
point is that we all have shared experiences. The most dominant
presence in my life was my mother, Zubaydah bint Amar.
I am a grown man with kids, and I have to message my mother when my
plane is about to take off and when I land, and if I do not, she
does not talk to me for two days.
I am the kind of person who my mum insists that I have to call her
every day, even I'm abroad, or if I drive from Houston to Texas to
Dallas, I have to tell her when I leave, and I have to tell her when
I get
there. My mother is always a very dominant player in my life and the
source of great inspiration. My mother's the kind of woman who
she'll enter a city and she'll see five problems, and she won't leave
the city until she fixes all five problems, until a Yama ish dahlik,
like, why are you getting involved in affairs that have nothing to do
with you? She tells me, sir, mate,
you, why are you talking to your mother like this? You know your
mother. She carries you nine months. Ma, please, please avoid
it. Please. Like, don't get a voters, and she'll sit, she'll
resolve that. She'll go to see a land dispute. So you are fighting
over, how many hectare, two hectare, Okay, why don't you give
it to him? Like, just as a you have, you already have 20, and he
has five. Give him two hectare. What does it cost? What business
is it of yours? Allah sent me,
you know? Like, why is it, you know what? Yeah, my like, my
mother will go and for example, when we were in high school, she
would, before the school starts, she would get the books for the
year, for the curriculum, and she would memorize the curriculum. She
would learn it to make sure that after fajr, at 6am in the morning,
she would sit and make me go through the curriculum. I tell
Amma, like, why can't I go, like the other kids, go play
footballers. Kids, go play football.
We do it. A
lot of kids are going to high school, to college or university.
For us, college is the two years before University. So when people
say college, I always think little kids, but apparently, for you guys
as big kids, it's the kids going to university. University is a
rough time for students. I always use say that when you go
university, you either come out non muslim or you come out Muslim.
There's no in between. You know, like you're always under pressure.
Your identity is always under pressure, like non stop, even when
I played for my football team, and I remember when I traveled with
them, it was like, Oh, your prayer sounds nice. Oh, it's really
lovely. You pray. Oh, you think you're better than us. Oh, why do
you have to always do it like this? Oh, no, no. And you said,
whoa, whoa, whoa, I remember reading the road to my Ah, here's
a good pin. Put the road to Mecca Muhammad, as in his hands before
her hands before they go to uni. I tell you why. True story. So, my
father came to me before my father. His relationship with me
is like, you know, we talk and everything, but you can feel it's
like a general and lieutenant, you know, like so my father, when they
had the book and he went, he put him went, he put in my hand, he
went, read it, said how the Bible came. So I read the book. Rule to
make it by Muhammad as anyway, I came across an instance. He's in
Jerusalem, and he meets a farmer. And he's not Muslim, yet he's
still a Jewish journalist. So he meets a farmer who's missing a few
teeth, and you know, who's what, and the farmer is praying. So
Muhammad esed wants to wind them up. So he says to him,
what use does your Lord have for these actions that you do in your
prayers? Why can't you be like the sophisticated Buddhists, where
they focus on spirituality, where they clear their hearts and where
they focus on what's internal?
He says, the farmer sitting the floor looks him and goes,
Allah, created body and soul, right? Muhammad essa says, yes. So
how does it make sense to worship with half and leave the other
half? When
I went to Union my first year, I was praying in front of the
football team by a tree before the match starts, they said, Sammy,
like, prayer is all well and nice and stuff, but like, why don't you
guys do like the Hindus, or like the Buddhist, you know, like them
in your heart, in your heart, you know. And I didn't know how to
respond, so I went,
Allah created body and soul, right? How does it make sense to
worship with only half? I didn't understand the argument very well,
but I just said it, repeated it, and the whole team went, Ah,
that's true, you know, yeah, not really. The book empowered me,
like, really, like, it gave me, like, so many arguments. So for
example, even when I went through uni Muhammad, as it has a quote in
his book, it's not, it's not Muslims that make Islam great.
It's Islam that makes the Muslims great. When Islam was the
inspiration for Muslims to take action, Allah gave them glory. But
when Muslims relegated Islam to rituals and habits, Allah took
away that glory. So I would go to university and I'd be like, No, I
read Muhammad as his book, Allah will humiliate me if I just stay
and with the rituals. I need to go out and tell people, this is guys
football team. Come on, man, like no alcohol in this room. Would you
be no alcohol in this room? Guys? Come.
Man like and you'd feel the pressure, but you know, Muhammad
ES will give you that confidence to do so. To answer your question
shortly, make sure he sends you a message when he's leaving, and he
sends you a message when he arrives, and punish him if he
doesn't always be part of his life. And the second point, put
the buchare to make it in his hand, and when your son or
daughter buckles in university,
give them space to come home.
Give them give them a reset button. Don't make it so they find
comfort in another environment that will lead them astray,
lambast them, shout at them, rebuke them. But at the same time,
Allah said to Prophet, Salim, wala, Kunta, Father, if you are
hard and hard of heart, they would have fled from you. So punish them
and rebuke them like my mother, for example, would never let us
sleep while she's angry.
So eventually it developed into custom, where we just developed
that at night time we always knew she was ready to forgive us like
she'd never sleep on it. She used to say, you know, if I sleep angry
with you and I die, you know, Jannah, you will not smell it,
you know, and you will be like,
you know, if I am unhappy with you, yes, Sammy, you know. And we
grew to be but later on, as we grow older, we realize that, you
know, your mother ended up your best friend, that your friends
would go, I'll say, but your mother ended your best friend. And
the kids will realize that later on. But what I mean when I say
leave a haven, so when they do something wrong, lambast them, but
leave that room where you are lambasting them in the comfort of
your home and lambasting them with a way back, and lambasting them
with an avenue back. And may Allah make it easy, my wife says to me,
sometimes I have two kids now, my wife says to me, how can we make
sure that they don't make mistakes? I said, Look, Wallahi,
like
Allah says, everybody will face their fitna on their own. And you
know, we all went through high school guys, right? Like there
were situations where not even our parents, they weren't with us, and
the choice was ours, whether we fall into the fitna or not, right?
I
always argue that the best thing a parent can do is prepare the
individual to face the fitna as much as you can, by reminding them
Allah, by giving them avenues, by trying to train them ways, but
ultimately, the choice will be theirs. But one thing that I
always loved about Allah is that Allah and Sura, he says, wakahima,
saya to Aman, Taka, saya to your maiden, faqadra, himta and Allah
erase their sins. The angels are saying to Allah, for the one whose
sins you've erased, they have got the greatest of victory fozen,
word foes Ali, this is the greatest victory. And I always
find it fascinating that Allah gave the greatest victory, not to
the perfect Muslim, but to the Muslim who made the mistake,
repented and got back up. Sometimes, as an ummah, I feel we
are harsh on ourselves, but merciful to those who perhaps
don't deserve that mercy.
Sometimes we lambast and rebuke and we tell we lambast somebody
make a mistake, but remember that mercy part at the end, when they
come back and a mother is always full of mercy. MashaAllah, anyway,
I hope some of that made sense. But in any case, go ahead,
brother. Short question, short answer, mashallah, short answer
by Salaam. So you mentioned that Gaza is causing an awakening.
Three facts, and then I'll ask the questions. Still, the top 100
defense companies, three are Muslim. 95% of the capital in the
world is nothing to do with the Muslims, although we are 25% of
the population, and except for Al Jazeera, there's we don't know
each other's stories. Like I go to Sarajevo, I can see we can connect
Istanbul. You can connect Baku. I'm from lahar, Pakistan. So if
the things will happen with Imran Khan, people don't know I faced it
anyway. So how would this pressure actually translate into actions?
What are some tangible, tangible things that will start a process
that actually causes us to be somewhere with these things?
The short answer to this question, everybody has a unique set of
capabilities, and it's put a unique set of environment where
Allah will see what they use their powers in that environment to
advance the cause. And I'll tell you an anecdote, even though
anecdotes are bad form, but it's the only way I know how to answer
this question. One day, I sat in my home for three months. I was
depressed. I sat at home my wife, she came to me, she sent me,
Sammy, what's wrong with you? Keep moping and sitting in the room.
And he said, Because arsenal, keep losing I told her, No, no. I said
to her, you know, Somaya, I'm a man of fitna. She goes, What do
you mean. You're a man of fitna. I said, my job is just politics. You
know, Bin Salman's doing this. Bin zay is doing this. Erdogan do
this. By doing this. I don't unite the ummah. I divide the ummah. You
know, like when I say, Bin Salman is the islamizing people, they
respond, they say, but we want to do Amra, don't cause instability
in sardia. I'm semi fatal. AMD.
It.
She goes to me, calm down. Live anyway. One day she came to you
with an idea. She said to me, Sammy, you know you keep saying
that the revival of the Ummah comes from reconnecting the
memories of the ummah. That's my theory. I'm not saying that. I'm
right. I told her, What's your point? She goes, I got an idea how
we can do a project to reconnect memories of the ummah. I told her,
What's this project? She brought me a laptop PowerPoint
presentation, and she said to me, the Muslim market is worth $250
billion they're currently 8% of the World Travel Market. What if
we took people to these places around the world and we showed
them what the Ummah looks like? I told the Sumaya, I know my ummah.
They're not ambitious. They're humiliated for a reason. When they
go holiday, they only go Morocco, Turkey, Malaysia, Dubai, they
don't they're not ambitious. My Ummah, she said to me, Sammy like
but honestly, I thought, I know my ummah. I love them, but I know why
Allah put them in this situation. It's because my ummah believes in
being insular. They don't go out. Two weeks later, I read an article
about when Netflix went to Blockbuster, and they'd said that
Netflix was going to be the next big thing, and blockbuster said
it's not going blockbuster said it's not going to be the next big
thing. Somaya came to me two days after I read this article, and she
gave me the presentation again. She said, Sami, I promise you,
this is the way forward for Muslims, at least, to open their
eyes and whatever. Now I didn't want to be blockbuster. So I
thought, even though I don't understand her idea, I don't want
it to be said I was blockbuster. So I said, Bismillah, let's do it
Allah. I have no idea what you're talking about or whether it's
going to succeed or not, but let's just do it.
Two years later,
we had like, a list of destinations, Bosnia, Barbados,
Turkey and Spain, and Uzbekistan and Korea, Japan, Malaysia,
Singapore. So I decided to my wife said to me, go and take your first
group. In the beginning. I didn't want to do the groups because I
was worried people recognized me from the bin Salman videos and the
likes. I was like, I didn't want to put the company in trouble.
Because, for example, I'll do a video, you know, saying bin Salman
is banning the loudspeakers. I'll get private messages from Mashiach
barakallahufit for doing it. But we can't support you publicly,
because I want to do Amar and Hajj and we get Muslims saying
BarakAllahu. I don't want to talk too much about it. I don't mind
the Shakira concerts as long as I can make dua and Medina. So I used
to be like, I don't want to cause problems for my wife's company. My
wife came to me and she said to me, Sammy, I need you to take this
group to Sarajevo in July. So are you sure she said? So I went 16
people. I'm very nervous. I've got to take them through like
whatever.
First day they did the rafting and that kind of thing. Second day, we
went to Sierra Bernice. Third day, they went to hazy Huzoor Bey.
Here's an example. They entered hazy Huzoor be Masjid in Sarajevo.
Now, I thought they were going to stay in the masjid for one hour
and then come. I said, this is my turn to have a break, to sit down,
relax, leg over leg by the fountain, drink my tea and watch
them enjoy Ghazal Huzoor Bay. Now, Ghazal Huzoor Bay Masjid is not
the most beautiful Masjid. It's not the greatest architecture.
It's lovely. It's just that Istanbul has nicer mosques.
So when the group came out after two minutes, the guy next to him
was like to me, whoa. They were quick. And I said, I think I know
what the problem is. He said, What do you mean? I said, Watch. I
said, Guys, do you guys know where you are? They're like, Yeah, it's
nice. We took some pictures for Instagram. I said, guys, in 1532 a
man stood right here where you guys are standing, and he made
dua. He said, Ya Allah, I have no children to come after me. And ya,
Allah, I'm worried about the Day of Judgment. So I have built this
Waqf. I built a masjid, a madrasa, and the library and Allah. Please
accept this work for me, Yom al qama, and accept it from me. Arab
in the 1600s the Ottomans are kicked out by the Austro
Hungarians. Mosque is destroyed here, mosque is destroyed here,
that mosque is intact. Yugoslavian kingdom comes about. They close
down this Masjid. They close this Masjid. They leave this Masjid.
It's untouched. The Communist regime comes about. They shut down
the mosque in musta and khanates. They destroy this one, whatever
this mosque is untouched. The Serbians come and they commit
genocide. They surround Sarajevo. They start shooting at the mosques
that minera is destroyed. This minute is destroyed. Ghazi azerbai
is untouched. I told me, ay bad Allah, would you not say the swaf
was accepted by Allah subhanahu wa they went back in one hour and a
half. They didn't come up
at the end of the tour. There's this girl from New York, she
started crying, and I thought maybe my jokes went a bit too far.
So I was like, sumay, is gonna they're gonna write a bad review.
Somebody's gonna kill me. This is my first time taking a tour and
whatever. And I said to her, Did I do something wrong? Whatever it
is, I'm really, really sorry. Like, she goes, No, I'm not crying
because of what you said. I'm crying that I live 33 years of my
life, and I never knew how my ummah suffered here.
Not only that, what I learned because you were saying, What can
we do? I'm telling you about you things within my capacity, because
I'm not a tech guide. There are things tech people can do that I
can't do, and they know what the opportunities are. When we started
taking people to Muslim countries, my wife was much more ambitious.
She said, I want to take them to non Muslim countries so they can
their presence can be Dawa, and maybe we can transform the
economy. I told the Sumaya, I know my ummah, my ummah not ambitious.
My Ummah will not go to these places. I know my ummah. I love
them, but they're humiliated for a reason, because they don't go out
Islam.
Inspires them to go in, not out. So she said to me, anyway,
regardless, I've emailed Barbados, and they've invited us to travel
to Barbados to explore it Allah. We sit with the tourism board.
What will it take to get Muslims to come halal? Me, what's halal?
And me halal and me is food. So where can we get it from? We have
Brazil like me. So if we order hella me, Muslims will come. Well,
like your hotels, kind of we can just call Hilton and say, for this
month, use hallema Because Muslims are coming. Really, is that easy?
Yeah, of course. What else do you need? Well, all your beaches are
bikini beaches, so you want a beach without bikini beach? Okay,
we'll shut off this part and make it families. What else? What else
do we need to get Muslims? I was like SubhanAllah. I thought they
hated Muslims. They're the ones Korea said that we introduced
Halal week every November. Halal week lasts for one month. In that
month, 40% of restaurants in Seoul, about 4030, 40% they
substitute haram meat for halal meat. Why? The Koreans calculated
that's the month where 1000s and 1000s of Muslims come to Korea,
and they said, these Muslims, when they come, they spend money
and they eat Allah. We're very good with food. We innovate in
restaurants and cafes. We don't innovate in Timberlands or shoes.
When I need Timberlands, I can't find the Muslim equivalent. And
when I need shirts other than Marks and Spencer, I can't find
and the reason why is because the father doesn't want to tell his
brother that when his daughter is a surgeon, he doesn't want to tell
people, my son makes shoes that pride gets in the way of my
boycott of Israel. I'm trying to boycott, but I can't find
equivalent shoes because somebody is feeling too much pride, because
he doesn't want to tell his brother, even when the Prophet
Sallam told him that Allah loves the hand that gets risk, he
responds, he says, Ya Rasulullah, okay, I understand that, but I
love the hand that gets as it is, through engineering, law and the
medicine.
But Allah loves the hand. I know Allah loves it, but I want
something Allah loves. And my brother loves stuff for Allah.
Stop for Allah, I should be careful how I put these things
staff for Allah. The reason I tell you this example,
when I saw Korea, the way they are going Spain. For those who don't
know Spain, one of the things that they notice is that, you know the
cathedral where they converted the mosque to the cathedral, they
noticed that even after they converted to Cathedral, the number
one visitors are Muslims. So you'll pay the Imam to give you a
tour, and then the Imam that evening has to take the cash, and
he does what's called the walk of shame. He has to go to the
priest's house, and he has to drop the cash off at the priest's
house. Then covid came. When covid came, he had to go cashless with
cards. So the church, they threw the Christian sink at the council,
and they said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because now the Imam
doesn't have to do the walk of shame, and I know things by cash
and and whatever. Anyway, Spanish Tourism Board
invited us.
We gave a presentation last year in the world Halal Summit. We said
that the Muslim market now is $320 billion it's 11% of the World
Travel Market. And what erturo In these series showed is that when
Muslims are exposed to stories, they will go out and explore the
cities related to the stories. So for example, saw it in three hours
from Istanbul before El Toro had only one hotel and didn't have a
taxi infrastructure. The Turks were shocked that Muslims were
landing in Istanbul, driving three hours in the morning to saw it,
just to see el Toro's capital. And they're like, why this? Do you
know what suwat is? It's a run downtown. They were like, for the
Muslim, it's the El Toro's capital. Now, when you go to saw
it 10 hotels, they've renovated air tools to they do a changing of
the guard with the Alps, and there's a taxi infrastructure, and
you can stay there for two, three nights, because they realize that
Muslims, when they want to reconnect with their identity,
they're willing to spend money to do so. So we argued that the next
stage of Muslim travel is not nation branding, it's city
branding, the same way the English person goes to Paris for six days.
The Muslim might go to buchara for six days and say, That's a
holiday. I'm in the middle. They might go to Samarkand. They might
go for Ghana. We can do it. And cordaba is well positioned for
that, because it was the capital of Andalusia. They said, Are you
sure Muslims would come to cordaba and spend because when Muslims say
they went to Andalusia, they go one they mean one day Sevilla, one
day Cordoba, two days Granada, and then they go to Madrid. So they
fill up gas in Cordoba and say, I went to Cordoba.
We were like, we think we could do it. They sent us all expense paid
to Cordoba.
They showed us all over Cordoba, all the halal oceans, all the
sides. They said, just come up with an itinerary to get Muslims
to come. The reason I'm telling you this story is based on me and
my wife's abilities and talents and knowledge that Allah has given
us the limited knowledge we felt that our contribution to the Ummah
is in the politics and in the tourism. In Sarajevo, there is a
hotel that is all Halal by the place where they do the Winter
Olympics. It's owned by a Christian Serb. They did an
interview with him. They said, Why are you a Christian Serb? And he
made a hotel all halal. And he said, because all my clients are
Muslims. But here's the final story I'll tell you about this,
about the power of the Muslim when they realize that where they
choose to do their holidays makes a difference in the market. When
we reintroduce our third Bosnia.
Itinerary. We were invited by USAID and the Sarajevo tour and
the Bosnia tourism board to go and explore new parts of Bosnia. They
said, why are your itineraries everything between Sarajevo musta,
we were like because we don't have the resources to explore
everywhere else, and your infrastructure is not great. They
said, We will fly out and pay everything and go with you 1000
kilometers across Western Bosnia and show you what Bosnia has to
offer. When they sent the list, they included the city of Banja
Luka. Banja Luka is the Bosnian Serb capital. 18 mosques. In 1993
they destroyed all 18 mosques. They turned them into garbage
dumps, and then when the smell got so bad, they turned them into
parking lots so they could say, we're always stepping over Islam.
I said to Somaya, Over my dead body. I'm going Banja Luka, no
way. And this is last year, by the way, no way. Sumaya, I will not
dishonor my Bosnian brothers and sisters by going to Banja Luka,
burden and mutt. I'm not going. She was like, okay, stop your
exaggeration, please.
She said, let's just go see it. We won't spend the night there.
Sumaya, I'm not going. No, just go. And then the guy from USAID
said to me, Sammy, please just look at it. And then go now. And
then Sumaya was like, enough now. And I said, Havre,
because, you know, we all know our wives are Mashallah.
In any case, as we're approaching banya Luka, I'm going towards it,
and I'm going stuff for Allah. Stuff. Allah, we approach banya
Luka. First
thing you see is, see is a minaret.
And I'm going, Allah, first thing you see is minaret.
The car stopped by the ferhadiya Masjid, and I'm looking it's a
full fledged message
I enter. And as you can probably tell, I'm somebody who puts their
foot in it sometimes. So I walked in. The Imam said, salaam,
Alaikum. We doing
here. Why are you here? This is he goes, What do you mean? This is
Banja Luka. He goes, so what? What's this doing here? And
he said to me, okay, brother lahat.
He said, in 2002 I was a 22 year old Imam, and the Bosniak
community gathered funds together. Why? Because they their grief was
so great that they had driven the Bosniaks from banyak Luka and
destroyed the masajid. They believed we cannot face rasulallah
If we die and don't restore these Masjid. So they gathered money and
they sent me as a 22 year old Imam to Banyan Luka with the sole
purpose of rebuilding all 18 messages, I said, But how did the
Serbs let you? He said, they didn't. Initially. They resisted
us and they threatened us. So one guy in the community came up with
an idea. He said, Guys, why don't we go to the UNESCO office and ask
them, what do we need to do to get it UNESCO protected? UNESCO said,
you need 90% of original materials. So we went back to the
Bosnia community, we raised money, and we bought all 18 parking lots
where the and we dug the materials out of the parking lots, and we
built the masurgy Brick by Brick to the exact architectural
dimensions that they were built before. And we got them UNESCO
protected, and we just finished building a madrasa, and we're
about to finish our 18th Masjid.
He said, Because meladic said he would kick Islam and the Masai and
out of these areas, we told them, no one turns off. The light of
Allah. This Ummah comes back and strives to rebuild it.
He said, we all got together. We even had help from Christians in
Ireland. They sent money to rebuild it as well. And yes, there
was resistance, but we stayed here in Islam here. He said, did you
notice when you entered the city? What's the first thing you saw? I
told him, Allah, the first thing I saw was the minaret.
He said, Mladic may have massacred and committed a genocide, but can
you say that he won? No, he didn't win because we are here. Sami, he
said,
I want to Allah. AJ, Oh Allah, many dear. I will bring Muslims to
Banyan. Luka. We will come to this place, wallaha, bring them here. I
tell everybody, go. I'll bring the Muslim market here. And then, as I
walked out and I calmed down, I said, but what if I bring Muslims
here and something happens to them? And as if Allah heard me,
not, as if Allah always hears
my wife is walking. She was hijab, and abeya, a woman grabs her in
the street like this, randomly goes, Excuse me, and I went.
And she goes, where are you from? And my wife says, I'm half
Algerian, half English. She says, ah, we have a joke about Mother
Teresa and Algeria. And she tells some joke about God, Mother
Teresa, alcohol and whatever. It was a funny joke, but I can't
remember it. And then she says, By the way, I just want to let you
know you're welcome here. Welcome to Banja Luka. And I went. And
then as I walked past the boulevard, there were huge
protests against the racist Serbian leader, Dodik. And I said,
Ya Allah, say no more Message received. I'm including Bania Luka
on the itineraries. The short answer to your question is, I
believe that in my capacity and my wife's capacity, this is how we
contribute to the ummah. I believe I do it by telling people this is
what's happening in the Ummah, with Imran Khan being imprisoned
for no other reason than they're scared he's going to win the
election, and if he wins the election, then Pakistan might.
Actually become a country that serves its people, not a minority,
elite establishment. They're terrified of the Pakistani people,
and they put him in prison. I believe that my role is to shout
on the microphone, yay. Bad Allah bin Salman is bringing igizale to
twerk and Riyadh yah. Ibad allahab like beware. You know, don't
telling you, just lower your gaze and go out to yay. But imagine RAM
received news that the governor was hosting a raven would react. I
always imagined he'd grab the person by the collar and drag him
out the palace and tell him, yo,
of course, I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but
my wife believes that her role, and Alhamdulillah, I'm part of it
as well, is to reconnect the memories of the Ummah, to tell
Muslims, yay, ibad Allah, don't go for the safe destinations. Choose
carefully where you're going to go for your destination, for Wallahi.
You might think you're only going for a vacation or holiday, but
everybody is watching you, and they are saying, How can I make
your life easier? Uzbekistan tourism joint, they said to us.
They were like so my wife gave a talk with Bank of Indonesia and
Uzbekistan Tourism Ambassador was there and said, you can do tours
to Uzbekistan. My job is to help people like you. How did I not
know you were doing it? What kind of So anyway, we ended up advising
the Ministry of Tourism, and they said, What do you think we could
do to bring more Muslims to Uzbekistan? Because in 2016 a new
president came. He lifted the ban on children and mosques, he lifted
the ban on hijab, he lifted the manner. And I was like, You guys
have something that many Muslim countries don't have do an Islamic
Golden Age tour from Tashkent all the way to Eva. And one guy said
to me privately, he went, Sammy, I'm a practicing Muslim, but
please remember, we're just shaking off the shackles of Soviet
Russia.
If we're going to go down this road, we have to convince the
President that it's a financial reason, not a religious reason, so
that there's no backlash from Moscow. I said, How can we do
that? He said, If we can get more Muslims to come to Uzbekistan,
then the numbers won't lie. We can just say no. It's not that we're
turning away from Russia. It's just that the market is so huge
that we want to capitalize on it. And re islama is Uzbekistan for
this reason. I said so if I tell people to go to Uzbekistan for the
holidays, we can he goes, exactly.
Don't go to wherever you're going. Everyone fly to Tashkent. Everyone
go, yeah. Ibadah, whoever doesn't go, may Allah, humiliate him.
Whoever doesn't go wherever. Sam, you coming to our Muslims like
that. Okay, but I'll find another way to tell them, ya, ibad, Allah,
go to these countries. You make a difference. Your money makes a
difference. The short answer to your question is, you know your
abilities. You know your environment. You know things I
don't know. You know your skills better than I do. I have
determined that my skills are in the politics and in the travel
industry. I'm going back to London for a week to speak at the Muslim
travel show to tell Muslims to fear Allah and to go to the
Balkans. And when Muslims tell me they went to Switzerland, I'm
like, why put your money in an economy that hates you when you
could have put it in Bosnia, where it's the same views as
Switzerland, but it's all halal and it's much cheaper.
Go. Your Money makes a difference, because when I see non Muslim
tourism boards come and say to me, we're ready to use halal meat.
We're ready to do all Halal hotels. We're ready to make sure
Halal is not so alcohol. If it means that we get a chunk of this
$320 billion market, that's 11% that's the fastest growing market.
And then I come to America and somebody tells you, But brother,
the Ummah is weak. I know you're weak, but don't project that on
the Ummah, because I've seen the ummah. The Ummah is strong. You're
the miserable wretch, but Wallah, go outside see the ummah. You'll
find it very strong. You're detached from the ummah. Go
reconnect with a you're the one in Dalal, not the ones you look down
on. I want to give
to the kid. Come here.
Say your name, okay,
my name is
rife. I had a question. I know that the Houthis are blocking
trade in the Red Sea, and I wanted to know, how is that affecting
Egypt, and what is Egypt doing about it?
Oh, who raised this boy?
Oh,
in
I worry about an ummah that ignored the Yemenis for nine years
when they said to you that the Houthis have plunged our country
into war for the seventh time, because they believe that if all
Yemenis come to a consensus about a ruler, it is still haram,
because in Islamic law, only the UTI family is allowed to rule
Yemen because they are Ahlulbayt,
I worry about an ummah where the Iraqis called out for 15 years to
say we're being massacred by pro Iran militias who are unfurling
banners that say we're taking revenge for Hussain, as if somehow
they're the ones who killed the Hussain, even though you know,
when you read the history, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, For
those interested in doing history, if you read Ali bin Abi Talibs in.
Says something about those who claim to love him that condemns
them. He says to them, Wallahi, I wish I had never met you.
He said, I tell you march with me in the day, in this in the day,
you march with me in the summer, you tell me it's too hot. I tell
you, March you in the winter. You tell me it's too cold. Wallahi, if
maawiya were to give me one of his men for 10 of you, I would gladly
trade.
The reason his son Al Hasan Radha ran who abdicated to maawiya, is
because when Al Hasan marched out with his army to fight maawiya, he
heard these people who claimed to love him. He heard them behind him
starting to curse Sahaba and the pricker in between themselves. And
the story goes that he looked at his army and said, You know what?
I can never defeat maawi with an army like these people. So he went
to Maori and made a deal in which he would abdicate and give maawi
al Khidr khilafa, and maawi would give it to him afterwards. But Al
Hasan died before maawiya And Al Hussain insisted that the
agreement was not between two men. It was between two clans. And
mahari said it wasn't between two clans. It was between two men. I
made a deal with Al Hassan, not with the family of Al Hassan. And
that's when the differences emerge.
When you're asking about the Houthis, there's Arabic saying,
which is in the filbi Inna, that it's when you see something that,
while you appreciate on the surface, it's good, but in your
heart is deep, deep unease,
because I appreciate that the Iranian proxies have made a
difference for Palestine. I appreciate that they've put
pressure on Israel. I appreciate that when the Palestinians were
abandoned, they at least did something I understand and I
respect what the Houthis say that if you claim we're doing this for
show, then why don't you put on a show as well? I appreciate when a
BBC presenter in Arabic speaks with the passion as if she's a
Zionist, where she says, Why are you getting involved in Palestine?
You're so far from Palestine and Muhammad Ali and Houthi turns
around and says, and says, and what's Biden doing? Well, he lives
in the flat next to Netanyahu. Macron lives in the same apartment
building. What are they doing if you're telling us that we're far
away?
I appreciate that. Yes, at least they're doing something. I also
appreciate that they're doing it because they genuinely love
Philistine. I've met Houthis. I have very good friends who are
Houthis? Not something you should say publicly. But in any case, I
know a lot of their spokespeople. I interview them for an Arabic TV
channel.
I know that they are sincere in the love for Philistine but that
blind sincerity and ideological ties has seen them massacre more
Sunnis than Israel has massacred Palestinians when Qasim Suleimani,
the Iranian general who was killed by Trump in 2019 when they were in
Syria, he used to add a clause to the ceasefire agreements whereby
he would agree to a ceasefire in certain areas, but on the
condition that Sunnis would be loaded onto busses and sent to the
north and Shia from the north be brought to the south, because he
wanted to Create a Shia bridge from Tehran all the way to
Lebanon.
I have been following Houthis since 2000 and whatever.
I don't know what to make of a people who kill their own but
stand up for Philistine. And I don't know what to make of it. I
remember there was a meme, a funny meme, when ISIS were in Iraq. Not
that ISIS were funny, but I'm saying it's a funny meme.
It was they showed a group of ISIS fighters, and they said, We are in
Iraq, but our eyes are on Al Aqsa. And they brought the Egyptian
comedian, Abu Imam, a picture of him, like, to say what the Iraqis
were thinking. They were like, Guys, you've caused us so much
headache. Why don't you go to Al Aqsa and leave your eyes on Iraq,
you
know.
And part of me feels part of me, and I know this sounds bad to say,
part of me feels that it might be better if the Houthis and stop
killing Yemenis and the Iraqi militia stop killing the Iraqis, I
would prefer that they do nothing for Palestine and they stop
killing the Sunnis, so that we in the Sunnah world can focus on
helping Philistine because I promise you, and this is making
this is going to make me very sick to say that my stomach hurts
saying it, when the Saudis say that Iran is a greater threat to
Saudi than Israel, politically, They are absolutely correct. Name
me one issue where Israel is a direct threat to Saudi Arabia. You
can't name anyone. Now look at Iranian militias surrounding Saudi
Arabia from the north to the east to the south.
Why did you have to ask me this question,
having said that the Houthis are doing more than what are these
other nations are doing so in a but I don't know what to do about
it. I don't know what. Okay, guys, we have three minutes.
So you have question come, brother, it's before you.
So my
question.
Question was along the same lines. I'm going to ask it a little
differently. So you talk about the opinion change and the impact in
the world
because of that. But don't you think, and I do not relate to that
group, whatever group it is, but if a small group can stand against
a large army like the superpower, don't you think if we can show it
to the world. It's going to give us the courage, especially as
Muslims, we have a lot of big countries with armies that we can
also stand against those powers. That was my question. Second
question is, personally, you can choose not to answer, did Saudi
Arabia already ban you or not? I think that your
question links very similar back to the question that you asked
earlier, which is that now there's a shift in public opinion, what
can we do that will set us on a route, you know, to liberate
Philistine or the like. The reality is that, I think that
there is a maxim in football soccer, so sometimes you have 90
minutes in the game, right? And there are certain sections of the
game where you just move the ball to see what the other side is
going to do. Does the fullback come forward too much? Do the
midfield? The midfielders press? Are they sitting deep? Are they
whatever? The reason why I say that is sometimes, even if you
can't see the road in front of you, keep moving, so that you open
up opportunities that you didn't know were there before. And the
reason why I say that is that the Ummah is an ummah that should
always be moving even if it can't see the outcome. And the proof is
that Allah in the Quran says that the Rasul and the Sahaba, zulze,
walaina, Aman, Omar, Mater, rasulallah, that they were shaken
until the Prophet and the Sahaba would would say, When is the
victory of Allah coming? Which means, according to the analysis
of the day, they couldn't see where victory would come from.
That didn't stop them from moving. The reason why I gave you the
example of things that me and my wife do is to say to you that
while I don't have the powers that I wish I had, I believe I'm trying
to deploy the powers that I do have in the hope that I will
either get greater power, or I will inspire somebody with greater
power, or I will create for myself a platform or opportunity through
which to deploy greater power. It's not necessarily these are the
end games, but this is the only way I know how to move the ball,
how to move in the hope that it will eventually create an
opportunity. And the best example I can give is when the Gaza broke
out for three days, I sat depressed in my house. My wife
said to me, Sammy, Sara, how you're becoming useless. You're
not helping with the dishes, you're not helping with the
Hoover. Either get up and go record a video or come and help
me. And I said, I'll go record a video. So anyway, when I recorded
the video, Muslim podcast called me for an interview I did.
Thinking Muslim podcast when I did that, yakin called me for the
interview when I did Yaqeen. I got invited to America when I did my
first tour. I got invited on a second tour, then a third tour,
and then suddenly people are talking about, how can we punish
Biden abandoned. Biden Allah took me from here to here.
I did one movement. Allah sent me 10 levels up.
Allah brought the efforts of different individuals together. If
someone told you four months ago, there's a random guy in London
called Sam, he's going to sit in front of you and Irving masjid,
you just
said, what's the heck am I behind there? Like, what's the use of it?
But Allah meant that I moved in London. You moved here, and we
ended up together. Allah ties those efforts together, but
there's nothing to tie if the efforts aren't already there,
which is why we keep moving. The Houthis move in their own way.
They created, you know, opportunities in the Red Sea, and
they put pressure on the Egypt, and they put pressure on Biden or
the like or the like. I'm moving in one way, and I ended up here.
You're moving another way. You ended up here. I'm here in
America. The UK guys are telling you why you're always in America,
not in the UK. I told them, because these guys can actually
punish Biden while you guys are still bickering between
yourselves. I'd rather be where I feel useful than to come there and
listen to the bickering that's taking place in London.
Truthfully, Alhamdulillah, that's why the answer to your question
when it comes to you know, is it worth a small army? Don't think
about in those terms. Think about that now that Gaza has taught you
that maybe you do actually, actually have more power than you
think you have, let's talk about how we can deploy that power. Sam
is complaining that he can't buy Timberlands because they support
the Zionists. We need a shoe company that makes good quality
shoes. Sammy is wearing these turtle tops because all his shirts
are Marks and Spencer because you could not find the Muslim
equivalent, somebody. Please make shirts so I can buy the shirts.
Then in 10 years time, when you become a mega business and we need
funding for institutions, I no longer have to ask only the
doctors, lawyers and engineers. I can ask the businessmen across a
whole range of industry, just like the Zionists, when they're able to
pool money from all industries, we're no longer pooling from a
little you know, well, we're pulling from a sea of money that's
available to us because we built power in the Ummah, because we
plugged those holes. For me, this is jihad fi Sabil, when I say,
what's your strategy for November, to punish genocide? Joe, again,
the views expressed by the speaker are the speaker's own. Have
nothing to do with the organization that invited me and
they didn't ask me what I was going to say, what's our strategy
for November? Have we gathered the data of the areas where we know we
can punish, you know the candidates? Do we know the areas
where we can vote? Do we know the margin of difference? Do we know
how many votes we need? Do we know how many Muslims are registered?
Do we know that there's an area in Texas where the deciding vote.
In the Canvas was 1500 votes, but there were 4000 Muslims that
didn't vote, which meant those Muslims could have decided who won
and who lost, and the candidate who won was the one who supported
the genocide, while the candidate who lost is the one calling for a
ceasefire. And because we were sitting we because we were sitting
at home sleeping, saying we don't want to use that power, we didn't
recognize it. And then we ask ourselves later, why don't our
representatives care about us? You don't even move here. You don't
even use the power. You don't even put the effort in. Have we
calculated the data where we can make a difference? Because it's
true. I tell people to punish genocide, Joe, but do you know
that if you're really organized and you gather the data, you could
punish genocide, Joe and make sure Trump doesn't win the house? You
could get the perfect scenario, because there's data that. Have
you got that data? The Zionists have the data already. For those
of you in areas where you can't make a difference, have you
decided to gather money to send some people to help those in
Michigan to make a difference? Because mashallah, you guys have
resources. I've seen your houses, mashallah, you know, when I went
back to London after seeing the houses in Texas, Sumayya said to
me, welcome home. I told sumay, I feel claustrophobic
when by the time we get to like April, what's our plan? You know,
I always say, let's get the data for March. Let's get the resources
ready by June. Let's get the training for the messaging and the
hashtags by August. You know, I tell you a story. Somebody said to
me, Sammy, I don't have in I don't have followers on Tiktok or social
media or the like. I don't I can't make a difference. Let me tell you
a story about an interesting individual during the Turkish
elections, I received a message from this particular individual.
They said, Sammy, I want to do something, because everybody is
against Erdogan. I want to do my part. I want to do a video. Can I
send you a script, and can you check the script and can you tell
me if it's okay or not?
Okay? They
sent the script. Now I don't know that. I didn't feel that my I knew
this person quite well, but I didn't feel like our relationship
was one in which I could tell this person my honest opinion. So I
said. I was like, You know what? Let me just give them a pat on the
back and say, Well done for the effort. It looks good. Bismillah.
And
they replied, and they said, This feels like one of those pat on the
back to Akka. Allah, Bismillah, can you tell me what you honestly
think about the script? Alhamdulillah, is good. They were
like in a FIK. Bienna,
there is something in this good that I don't like. Please, I beg
you give me honest opinion. I said the script is rubbish.
You've said in five lines what you could have said in one. Your main
point is buried in the middle of four different points. You use no
rhetorical devices like rule of three, the Ummah is not weak. The
Ummah is not bleak. The Ummah is not this is called pounding the
message into the people you need to use these rhetorical devices.
You have 10 seconds to win 30 seconds. You have 30 seconds to
win a minute. You have a minute to win two minutes, because people
scroll very fast.
Anyway, we worked on the script three days later. They published
it on their social media platforms. They don't have a large
following. They got 350,000
views within two days across all social media platforms. The
Communications Department of their country hired them immediately
after that video. The point that I'm saying is between June and
July and August. Do we have like these training programs ready,
where people are ready to you know how to convey the message and
deliver the message when September comes? Are we ready for the
information Blitz, in case the Ummah forgets that a genocide
happens. Are we ready for that information Blitz, the way the
Zionists will do? Are we ready? You know, do we have the hashtags
radio? Have we thought about these things
in November? Are we ready to, you know, what happens after Biden
loses, when those four years of difficulty come, the four years of
agef, you know, like Yusuf, alaihi, salam, the four years of
tough. You know, once we win that victory and we topple a sitting US
president, do we know what we're doing afterwards, how we're going
to entrench those institutions? You know, the Ummah loves to give
charity, even though the Prophet Salam said, the hand that gets
this is better. The reason that we make it like this is because we
don't trust our Ummah with our investment. The Zionists invest 10
times in a failure because they know on the 11th time he creates
Google. The Zionists invest 14 times in a failure, because on the
15th time, they'll create meta. We invest one time. When we say, we
tell the whole community, guys, don't invest in this guy. He's a
loser. Don't invest in him. He wasted 100,000 of my investment.
He's like, Dude, it was the first attempt. I don't care. It was
100,000 these people remind me when Khalid im Walid was sent by
the prophet, saw them to an area he transgressed. Against the
tribe, and the Prophet Salam raised his hands in the end, he
said, Allah. Um imma, fall it all I'm innocent of what Khalid has
done. You know, when I read the Hadith, what came to mind? I said,
you know the Prophet Salla said, Khalid, Wali, back into the
battlefield. You know the ummah of today would have said, Khalid,
you're canceled. Do you know what the Prophet said about you? You'll
never lead an army again. I don't care how talented you are, you're
canceled. That's the difference between the Ummah, the Prophet,
sallam, and the Ummah today, Allah says in the Quran that the Sahaba,
I should dare Allah, kufari, ruhamal, obey Nahum. They are
tough on the oppressors and repressors, but merciful between
themselves sometimes.
I feel we're the opposite. We make no excuses for our scholars, but
we give 1000 excuses for the red pill movement.
That's why I always argue and I finish on this point, I promise,
there's something that fascinates me about the Battle of Badr in the
Sira, which is when the Prophet sallam was marching forward.
Before he gets to the battlefield, he does something. He turns around
to his army, and he says, Ash, advise me, muhajiri and acquire
they're confused, as he's not talking to us. The Ansar, they
say, sad and muallahu says, Ya Rasulullah, as if you're talking
to us, as if you're seeking reassurance from us. Rasulullah.
SallAllahu, Sallam says, and if I am. And Saddam Wah says, Ya
Rasulullah, we've given you our oath that we're standing with you
whether you win or lose, whether you win or lose, we've given you
our oath, and we're ready to go for you, for the sake of Allah and
Prophet Sallam continues. If even the Prophet Sallam needed the
reassurance from the Ansar, why do you look down on those who when
they have an initiative, they call on you and you say, Why are you
asking me? You're done with the genius idea. Go and show like show
us first where the victory comes from. Ithab and tawara buchala in
Naha Huna, we say to them what Beni Islay said to Musa, go you
and your Lord and fight. We'll be here waiting until you show us a
victory. We don't support those who lose, we want to support the
winners without realizing that. We read the Sira. We read about the
Muslims being persecuted in Mecca and then winning in Badr, losing
in Uhud, existential crisis in khandak and signing the treaty of
hudaybiyyah. We read the Sira. We go, mashallah, look at the
perseverance. And then when something similar to the Sira
happens in our own community, we say, Ah,
so you say mashallah here, but you implement the opposite in your
life. You say mashaAllah on the Hadith, but you do the opposite in
your life. And then you ask why the Ummah is unable to achieve
things, even though it has the power to achieve it. Moving
forward, you're asking, you know, the question, which I forgot?
Moving forward, yay. Ibad, Allah, I don't know if we will
successfully punish genocide job, but I know there's a chance that
we might be able to do so.
I don't promise you that you will succeed in what you're about to
do, but I can promise you one thing, that Allah, Subhanahu wa is
always in control in every single second that passes on this earth.
And I promise you that Allah holds the faith of the world in his
hands. And I promise you Allah, who will never humiliate this
ummah, so long as it strives for what is right. And I promise you
that if today, we're about to make a mistake because we're intending
it in the way of Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah will make sure he
turns that road to the mistake, to the road to that which is correct.
All Allah asks of us is to move, and he will handle the rest. All
I'm asking you to do is try any idea that you might have for
Wallahi. It may be the idea that you think won't work, that turns
out to be the idea that doesn't work, but creates the opportunity
and path that opens the door to a possibility we didn't consider
that turns out to be the door that leads to the success for Wallahi
up until hudaybiyyah. Even after hudaybiyyah, the Prophet saw him,
did not know he would enter Mecca. The following year, he had just
signed a treaty for 10 years, but Allah had written that the victory
was close. They couldn't see it, but it was close, and Allah
rewarded them, because even though they couldn't see the outcome,
they kept moving. Ibad, Allah, we may fail miserably in November,
but let me put it to you this way, it's better to live four years of
hardship knowing you did everything you could than to live
four years of hardship in humiliation that you could have
done something but chose not to. I don't promise you the success.
This is where I finish. I don't promise you the success. I don't
promise you you will succeed, but I promise you there's an
opportunity. I promise you the data suggests you can do something
groundbreaking that you can do for the first time, you can punish a
candidate in the way design is punished candidates. I promise you
that I see an opportunity for us to transform this Muslim community
from a community that has no value to a community that has value.
Right now, when the congress people come to visit you in the
car, they tell the Secretary, what can I do to amaze he doesn't do
research. He tells the person in the car on the way to the Irving
Masjid here, and he says, What can I say to wow the Muslims? And
their secretary says, they have a saying, assalamma Assa, Asmaa may
come. So when the Congress person comes and he stands in front of
you, he says, As salaam, akum. Everybody and everybody goes,
you know, it's actually as cool as Sala. It's okay. And
then he might say, Mubarak, Eid. And you will mashallah, you know,
it's eid mubarak. But yeah. Thank you very much. If the Muslims
punish a sitting US president, you.
When I inshaAllah, am invited be Ibn LA to come and pray tarawih
with you next year, Ramadan, I would not be surprised if we find
the Congress person praying with us in the back. I would not be
surprised if a congressperson visits you the next year, because
you punish a sitting US president, and he stands where I'm standing,
and he says, Guys, we gotta do this together. Because, as the
Prophet Muhammad said in the mall bin Yari,
I would not be surprised if you
potentially can, but I would not be surprised if a congress person
comes here and you know, maybe you know, you're going through some
struggles, and he says, Guys, as your Prophet Muhammad said in the
maolo Street, strong.
Why? Because he knows that you have value. But if genocide, Joe
wins the second term, when you could have punished him, I promise
you, you'll go knocking on the door, and they'll be like, Excuse
me, there's somebody from the Muslim community is here to see
you. Yeah, tell him I'm not interested. But there are
community. Listen, there are community. Biden killed 20,000 of
their brethren on the side. Biden committed genocide, and they still
voted for him. Biden committed a genocide, but they were so scared
of four years of discomfort in their lovely, Big Four bedroom
houses.
Allah. Allah has said, May Allah increase you and give me one as
well.
The prices for your house is here, by the way, like someone showed
me, $350,000
can get you, like a three bedroom, four bedroom, you know, like a big
house, you know, a studio flat in the United Kingdom, in Wembley,
where I live, a studio flat. Starting price is $500,000
studio. Just
so you understand, like, why I'm so shocked about but May Allah
increase you and increase inshallah with you guys.
Inshallah. Okay, so two things. One is announcement that we are
going to have priyam inshallah. Brother Hamza, you are here. So
we'll give you 10 minutes to make although and relax and come back
for the priyam. And before that, we'll give our last question to
our Sheik, Dr sirada Shala,
last question, okay, and short answer. Inshallah, thank you,
Radin, thank you
brother. Shami,
I really feel honored to be in this congregation and listen to
you.
You have shared your knowledge with us, and you have educated us.
We have a serious issue that is going on in Palestine right now,
atrocities, genocide, whatever you want to call that.
My question to you is,
how is the international community dealing with this situation? And
number two, the has the international court of law has any
responsibility for this kind of atrocities going on.
I would like to hear from you on this particular issue, this, this
is a common question. Then the youngers will ask the holders, and
finally, they will ask, what is the Hikmah behind? What is going
on in Palestine? Thank you very much.
That last part of the question,
the first part about the international community today,
David Cameron said we need an immediate ceasefire. The Finnish
foreign minister from Finland said we need an immediate ceasefire.
Self Defense is over. Defense is over. We see now that the Israelis
have offered hummus a two month truce, which I think if the war is
going to end, it will be phased out. It won't be a ceasefire. It
will be phased out gradually. It will be an extended it will be a
faster pause, then extended pause, and eventually a de facto
ceasefire, because the Americans will not allow a ceasefire that
recognizes Hamas. So as a result, they will make sure that they will
keep a status where there is no war, but Hamas is not recognized.
So that's in terms of international community. They're
moving towards the idea of, we need the Israelis now to stop and
cease. And I think there's heavy pressure now on the Israelis. Now
the second point about the International Court of Law, we see
tomorrow what the ruling will be, and we have to see what the
reaction of the international community will be. Netanyahu is
worried. He met with his legal team today. The Americans are
worried they're debating because it seems that there will be a
meeting to discuss the Geneva Convention on genocide that Biden
has been delaying. They're apparently due to meet, I think in
the next couple of weeks, Biden has been delaying, but they're
insisting on doing so.
The ELI Kohen, the Israeli Foreign Minister, went to European Union
four days ago to meet with the 27 member states. He presented a plan
for an artificial island to put the Palestinians on the artificial
island. He was stunned that the 27 member states were so horrified
that the EU is meeting to impose consequences on.
Israel for what it's doing to the Palestinians and the Israelis are
confused that we presented this great idea. Why are you guys so
upset about it? The third point in terms of the hikma behind what's
happening in Palestine, and I know a lot of young people are asking
them, there are two books that I read before Gaza happened, that if
I had not read them in the two weeks before Gaza, I would not be
saying the things that I'm saying today.
The first is a book about the Algerian War of Independence. So I
was sitting with an Algerian guy, and we were talking about why
Macron never wants to apologize for what they did in France. So I
said, You know what? Enough complaining. I'm going to buy a
book by somebody who believes the French should have stayed in
Algeria. I'm going to buy a book by someone who loves colonization
and read what their take is on the Algerian liberation group. My wife
said, Why are you giving him royalties? I said, Let him have
the royalties. I just want to know why they won't apologize. He
identifies two turning points in the Algerian liberation movement.
The first, he says, was the 1920s when Sheik the Hamid bimbadi set
up the Council of Islamic scholars. He said the graduates of
those schools formed the rank and file of the FLN that would emerge
later, a generation that was well versed in Quran, well versed in
Islamic tradition, and that successfully reversed the damage
that France had done in terms of trying to de Islamize Algeria and
ruin identity. The second turning point is the one relevant to your
question. He said the second turning point that broke France,
that meant that they were going to be kicked out, was actually the
massacre of 1945
when the French, who were celebrating liberation from Nazi
Germany in Europe, massacred 30,000 Algerians from stiff
carrata and Germa.
I'm baffled. I was baffled that he identifies a massacre of the
Muslims as the turning point for their liberation. He argues that
the French were convinced, and so were the people around that that
massacre meant that Algerians would never resist again. It was
such a heavy like rivers of blood, he said that woke the Algerians
up, and the Ummah that woke them up from a slumber. That meant that
the next 17 years, there was such momentum that the French were
kicked out 17 years later, in 1962 even though the Algerians were
never at any point militarily superior to the French, he argues
in his book that if the massacre of 1945 had not happened, the
French who could possibly have survived much longer in Algeria.
So when the young people tell me that what's the hekma behind this
massacre, it's true. I'm uncomfortable with the framing of
it as hekma in death, even though I understand that Allah subhanaw
taala has said, well, at the Rofi Sabil lahimwata, don't consider
those who've been killed for the sake of Allah. As dead, they are
alive with Allah already happy. No punishment of the grave, no limbo,
no waiting for the book, whether it's in the right or the left, no
waiting or crossing the Salat, no watching the angels debate. You
know, he did bad deeds. He did good deeds. None of that. Straight
to Jannah with Allah, Subhanahu. Wa pay. No bums, no nothing. Allah
says, I've sorted them out. You will suffer the punishment of the
grave if you dare. They will never have to taste it. Allah said, I've
spared them that. But also, I feel like those who ask the question
don't study their history, and that's why I point to this idea of
the of the 1945 massacre. And I think that when you look at Ghazal
and the Great Awakening that is happening and the shift in public
opinion. Because one of the things that he describes in this book is
that during that decade after the massacre, the global public
opinion was also shifting. America was becoming a superpower and
wanted to see the British fail. They wanted to see the French
fail. They won't see the Italians failed. The global powers were no
longer helping each other, the same way we're seeing China,
Russia and all Europe and US all falling out with each other. It
resembles, very similar to the decade of when Algeria was
liberated. And that's why, when I read that book and I saw what
happened in Gaza, I saw the parallels immediately. So when the
Omar was saying, this a disaster, I was going, wait, wait, I've seen
this before. I've seen this before, and I know in history, it
ends with victory for us. The second book that I read was Surat
hood in the Quran. I was leading Salat, and I wanted to recite
Surah Hood. And for some reason, even though I know it, I was
making mistakes. I read two, ayah mistake on the third, I read the
fourth, ayah mistake on the fifth. Eventually I gave up. I just did
Raku Allahu Akbar.
So I went back to open surah who to memorize it, and I found in
Surah Hood, it's the story of prophets who, by your standards,
don't actually achieve any success. They call on their
people, their people don't believe ALLAH destroys them. Hood goes,
Salah. Goy goes, Nur goes, Lord goes, Lord even says, kalau and
Ali biwata, if only I had a powerful ally to it's a statement,
you like, if only I had power, I don't have power to resist. You
know, highly salami sul be in need out to call me. Layla. Wanna
music, don't do I. Allah Fira, when you call them a doubt only to
fill a long jalaun.
Allah, I've called on my people day and night, and every time I
call them, they run away. And when I call on them so you might
forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears and they
cover their faces. That Ayah remind when people said to me that
we keep talking about fall asleep, it's not making a difference. I
remembered Surah Nuh and his lamentation when people told me,
Oh, I'm despairing. I don't have power to do anything. I remembered
Lord alaihi salam and Surat hood, and I said, subhanAllah, people
are saying the exact things
that were said just before the victory comes. That's what changed
my perspective. Why people said, Why is Sami optimistic in the
midst of what's happening? It's because ya, ibad Allah, what I'm
seeing before me is an exact replica of what I read in the
Quran and in this book on Algeria, this was exactly the situation
just before the victory came in my heart. I truly believe we are
closer. And I truly believe that now the Ummah, this is great
awakening happening. All I have to do, in my opinion, I just have to
go to the Muslims and beg them and plead with them to see the Ummah
the way I do beg them and plead with them to see the power that
they have, that blinking fears in them, to appreciate the power that
Netanyahu fears in them, to appreciate the power that they
have, that Israel spent billions to make sure you don't use it, and
that's why, for me, it's always baffling. And I'll finish on this
point here. What bewilders me about my ummah
is my ummah is very powerful, and I've seen the power of my ummah.
What bewilders me is how a powerful Ummah believes itself to
be weak, but the enemies of the Ummah believe it to be so strong
that to this day, they're so desperate to try to repress it.
It's like they're coming in and saying, beware the strong ummah.
The Ummah goes, whoa, bro. What do you mean strong?
Like, we're talking about, where's this power you guys see in us?
Like, where do I we don't let them manifest it. And that's why I
think, and I always make this, it's a semi joke. I'm actually
being serious. Sometimes I believe Blinken believes in the power of
Allah more than most Muslims do.
Netanyahu believes in the power of Allah more than most Muslims do.
Because Netanyahu and Blinken showed that if you leave Muslims
alone and give them freedom, they will achieve extraordinary things,
because they have Allah. Who saw that Israeli analyst on that TV
who says, the Muslims have a concept called SABR,
and we don't have it in Hebrew. He said, Did you see it? He goes, we
don't have it in Hebrew. He said, the Muslims believe that because
they have Allah. It doesn't matter how many of them fall along the
road. They believe victory is coming because they have Allah.
They don't see they don't see Allah as a substitute the way we
do. They believe ALLAH is in the field. They believe because he's
in the field, they're destined to win no matter what happens. He
said this ummah is he's almost talking like a Muslim. He goes,
You need to understand what these Muslims are like. When I saw that
interview, that's when I said, Subhan Allah, the non Muslim,
appreciates Allah's power more than the Muslim does. He believes,
because Allah is in the playing field Israel is destined to be
defeated while the Muslim is looking and saying, When is the
victory of Allah coming? Why does Netanyahu and Blinken see Allah's
hand, but you fail to see Allah's hand? I see it. I want you to see
it. I want you to appreciate it. And may Allah give victory to us
all and by the soul of SHA. Allah, Bless you. Bless your wife. You
talk a lot about
Allah, bless your parents,
and may Allah make your resistance and summer on us. May Allah bless
you. We are going to give you five minutes to make although and we
come back Shala will make turaka and Duran Shala for our brothers
and sisters in Palestine.
Thank you very much for tolerating the long speech Allah
shahada,
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