Sami Hamdi – Gaza Overcoming Complacency
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beautiful Hadith, the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu,
alayhi wa salam gives an analogy for this ummah, and at the same
time, he is also giving a quality of the believers. There are
multiple qualities in the Quran Hadith that Allah and His
Rasulullah talk about that are barometers for us to see if our
Imaan has reached that higher level. And so for amongst these,
the prophets, Allah AJ Salam has mentioned that the believers, the
true believers, are like one body, if one part of the body feels
pain, then the rest of the body spends the entire night in pain
and in fever due to that other part of the body. And so from this
beautiful analogy of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam, we learn
that every single one of us has Muslims should feel pain when
another Muslim or another group of Muslims are feeling pain as well.
And for this, we have to have some sort of knowledge about that group
of Muslims. We have to have knowledge about the current
affairs and what is going on with the ummah. And just to illustrate
this, we'll put pull this analogy a little further. Imagine you go
to a doctor because you have some pain in your body, so you go to
the doctor, and the doctor starts asking you questions. Now, where
is the pain? And you tell them, I don't know. Okay, how severe is
this pain? And you tell them, I don't know. Okay, what type of
pain is it? Is it shooting pain? Is it adult pain? And you tell
them, I don't know. Obviously everybody will think this person,
you know, their their mind is not in the right place. So in the same
way, how can we claim to be as one body when we don't even know
what's going on in the other part of the body? How can we claim to
feel pain for our fellow Muslim brothers when we don't even know
what's going on? So that's why it's very important for us to keep
updated with what's going on with the Ummah, so that we can feel
that pain and feel that concern for what's going on with the
ummah. And so the obvious means to do this is to go to the news and
go to news articles and other things like that, to get
information, however many times, just raw information. And
sometimes there are a lot of agendas at play, even within this
news as well. And so a person who does not have experience and does
not have that political acumen will be confused, because there's
a lot to take in and digest. You need to know about foreign policy.
You know. To know about how governments work. You need to know
about how politics works, even about how how wars. You know, what
does what does it mean to be successful in a war? You just
juxtapose the body counts of each side, and that's how you tell if a
person won a war or not. There's a lot of information. There's a lot
of analysis that is required is not just raw information that's
required for us to know what is going on within the Muslim ummah.
And so this is where brothers, like our beloved brother Sami
Hamdi, come in. And I'm just going to read a brief bio so that we get
an idea that brother Sami Hamdi is a managing director of the
international interest, a global risk and intelligence company. He
advises governments on the geopolitical dynamics of Europe
and the m e n a region, and has significant expertise in advising
companies on commercial issues related to volatile political
environments and their implications on market entry,
market expansions and managing of stakeholders. Stakeholders. Sammy
is also featured as a commentary, commentator for Al Jazeera, Arabic
and English, Sky News, BBC, TRT world and other outlets. So as we
see, the brother, masha Allah, has a lot of expertise when it comes
to political analysis, but on top of that, which is the most
important to us, because there are many political analysts, analysts
out there, but he is our Muslim brother and faith, Mashallah. He
has knowledge of the deen. At the same time, he has a great concern
and love for the ummah. And so when he speaks about the affairs
of the Ummah, he speaks with expertise, and he speaks with love
and concern. And Inshallah, we would love to benefit from his
words so that we can build awareness of what is going on
within our Ummah, and also build a concern. And also we can talk
about a way forward. What is us? What? What is something that we
can do as individual Muslims to help out the people in Raza,
obviously, besides what we already doing Inshallah, which is making
dua and also giving sadafah So Inshallah, without further ado, I
would like to
invite our brother to address
Salaam Alaikum. Salatu.
Salamani said no. Sula Festo Barak, allow vehicle for the
invitation. Barak, allow you can for having me a few caveats in the
beginning. First, a few disclaimers in the beginning. The
first is ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala says in the Quran bad Rajim and
canovida, those who seek glow, belongs to Allah subhanahu wa in
this Allah makes it clear he doesn't share it with anyone. And
it's important to note that when you are resonating with the words
of a speaker, whenever it comes to Islam or Palestinian or the like,
you are not so much.
Resonating with the speaker, but rather your fitter is resonating
with what is right and what is just.
It is Islam that makes Muslims great, not Muslims that make Islam
great. It is Allah who makes Muslims great, not Muslims who
make Allah Great.
Allah subhanho wa taala, if he so desired, could resolve every issue
on this earth as he wished. But Allah and His hekma has given us
the honor of competing to be vehicles through which he delivers
that outcome so that we might save ourselves those who speak of
justice and stand with justice, Allah elevates but if that same
person tomorrow speaks of injustice and defends injustice,
Allah will humiliate them just as quickly as he elevated them.
Therefore it's important that whenever people say Sami, don't
say Sami, say Allah, talk about Philistine. It is Sami who was
honored by Philistine, not Philistine which is honored by
Sami hasha, never.
The second caveat is the words expressed by me today reflect my
opinions alone. They don't reflect the people who invited me. They
don't reflect the people who are sitting here. I appreciate that
there are some sensitive topics whenever we talk about what's
happening in Raza. I appreciate that there are some people who
believe that if we talk about Philistine, we should not talk
about the betrayal of Philistine by some of our own I understand
the sensitivities for it.
What I will say is, I'll give you two quotes. The first is from Ibn
Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun said Al adlark Al Imran, just this is the
foundation of all dominion. Ibn Khaldun, when he was analyzing why
states rise and fall, he was talking about Muslim states as
well. And one of his arguments was that the Muslim state can have
messaged on every street. It can be full during Ramadan. It can
give as much charity as it has. But if it is a people that does
not stand for justice and does not condemn what is wrong, even
amongst itself, Allah will destroy that state, regardless of the
number of minarets that it has
Ibn Taymiyyah built on it, and he said. Ibn Taymiyyah said that
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.
Ya ibad, Allah, if you believe that silence in the face of
injustice by our own is the way forward, then know that the
scholars of the past emphatically disagreed with you. Know that the
scholars of the past believe that silence on Munkar and silence on
injustice is what leads to the destruction of a Muslim
civilization not calling out the injustice. And that's why the seer
of the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, and
those of the khlafa are full of examples of Sahaba openly
expressing their displeasure at what they perceive to be an
injustice, rather than keeping it within themselves. And that's why
Allah subhanahu wa if you think, why did he tell us the story this
way, it's to show you that this was the way of the people of the
past.
The reason why I say this is to highlight that one of the reasons
why we don't have a ceasefire in Ghazni today is not only because
Biden doesn't want one, or the Israelis doesn't want one, but
also because some Muslim states are telling Biden that genocide is
not a red line. Some Muslim states are telling Biden that we are
ready to normalize even after 30,000 Palestinians have been
killed, that certain Muslim countries are saying we will not
go back on normalization of ties. We will keep our Israeli
ambassador here, because genocide is not a red line. And therefore
Biden sits in his White House office, and he says they are
telling me Muslims are angry in New York, in Michigan, in Arizona,
in Detroit, in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, but I'm seeing the
Muslim countries. They are telling me it's not a red line. And I read
their Imams on Tiktok saying that we should not criticize these
rulers or the like, because it is a fitness so if they say genocide
is not a red line, Muslims should obey if they say that
normalization is possible after a genocide, massacre of 30,000
Palestinians, including 12,500 children. If the ruler says that
normalization is fine after this massacre, Biden says, I've seen
them give the fatwa, Muslims should follow them, right?
Yeah, ibad Allah, ask yourselves, do you? Would you want to be an
ummah that is silent in the face of this, or an ummah that condemns
it? And through that, you can determine whether the Ummah is
ready for glory or humiliation.
The reason why I start with this is because the latest news now
with regards to Gaza is that Egypt has begun constructing what looks
like from satellite images, a refugee camp to receive
Palestinians in.
Biden came out and said
that we oppose an Israeli offensive on a Rafa which is the
last area in Gaza where the 1.7 million Palestinians are now
gathered, having been turfed from their homes five times in the past
100 days. Netanyahu says this is the last stronghold, let me go in
it, and the next Gaza completely
the human rights organizations around the world are saying this
is going to be a horrible catastrophe, that this will be a
disaster, and the US must stop it. So Biden came out, and he said
that we're against it, if there is no plan for where the civilian
should go, essentially a green light.
John Kirby gave a press conference the spokesman for one of the
spokespeople for the White House,
and he said they asked him, Are you concerned about the imminent
disaster of a ground invasion on Rafa and he said, we will continue
to provide Israel with everything that it needs in order to defeat
Hamas. I say hummus, just in case the algorithm hears the other end.
They start to restrict it. We have to be careful. We're already using
watermelons to describe Philistine bit of hekma in the way that you
know.
Don't get offended some people, they hear some of these jokes. I
realize British humor is a bit more dry, but if you hear
something that sounds, you know, horrible, give me 70 excuses
first, because maybe you just didn't understand
the joke. Listen, I have a belief. Sometimes I think Allah in the
Quran, he said that, you know the Sahaba or Al kufari or Hama
obeying Him, that they are tough on the oppressors and merciful
between themselves. Sometimes, sometimes our Ummah is the
opposite. You know, they are the complete opposite. They will make
1000 excuses for the red pill movement, but they will make zero
excuses for Sheik, Omar Suleiman or somebody else, or the like. So
I do think this is also a disease in the hearts of a lot of our
ummah. But in any case, Let's bypass that issue. John Kirby said
that we will continue to give the Israelis everything they need in
order to defeat Hamas.
Joseph Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, when he was asked
about the offensive in Arafat three days ago, he said, How can
and he's talking about the Americans. How can you say that
you're against the killing of civilians and you deplore it, but
you keep giving arms and weapons to them. It makes no sense. But
the significant thing about Joseph barrel statement, aside from his
criticism of Biden in the US, is that he gave the indication the EU
is powerless to do anything. He said, we're all going his words,
not mine. He said, we're all going to Tel Aviv, begging Netanyahu,
please, please, please, don't do this, but it's clear he doesn't
listen. He doesn't take you seriously. At what point do we
send a clear message that this is unacceptable,
instead of some Muslim nation saying that? Now this is the red
line you've taken most of Gaza, you slaughter 30,000 instead
today, we had an announcement that's in Saudi Arabia. They're
having a new round of WWE tournament competition, uh, male
and female as well. The wheels you'll be able to see female
wrestling in Saudi Arabia. I don't know why. The adversary's own
Twitter account, he advertised it today. You should celebrate the
decision 2030 yesterday, there was an article that said that Johnny
Depp and the Saudi Crown Prince are very close friends, so they're
negotiating a six figure salary for Johnny Depp to now promote
Saudi Arabia, because they they both feel, quote, We were wronged
by the West, and the Saudi Crown Prince wants to promote his new
vision for Saudi Arabia. So there's a genocide in Raza. But
that shouldn't stop the promotion of the new version of Saudi
Arabia.
And if bin Salman is worried about Muslims getting upset with it. It
doesn't matter, because according to many Muslim communities, as
long as we can do AMR and Hajj
don't cause fitna in the land of the Two Holy Mosques.
If you land in Jeddah and you can see the concert next to you, just
say stuff for Allah and go straight to Mecca. You don't need
to see it.
We will be like the Vatican of Rome,
because the Muslim essentially, what they're saying
subconsciously, is that the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam wanted to spread Islam outside of Mecca Medina, but
there is no harm if we bring it back to the borders of Mecca
Medina, as long as we allow the raves and the like taking place
elsewhere at a time in which the Saudi Crown Prince could come out
and say, This is a red line. We're going to stop normalization of
ties with Israel. Stop the discussions. Instead, they're
talking about the next stage of discussions in normalization.
Because the Saudi crown prince told the Americans that, look
Gaza, for me, is not a red line. Just give me a NATO style security
agreement against the pro Iran militias, which is a legitimate
threat. I'm not denouncing that. As long as you give me
normalization, as long as you give me support for my vision 2030 for
my economic diversification projects, and as long as you give
me nuclear technology to develop a nuclear weapon, Raza, for me, is
not important.
The UAE could.
At the Israeli ambassador in protest at the offensive. Could
they or could they not?
When Paris
passed the law accusing the Ottomans of genocide in Armenia,
Turkey withdrew the ambassador from Paris.
When the French did a film on the Algerian army criticized Algerian
army. Algeria withdrew the ambassador and the like when the
Canadian Foreign Minister, when the Canadian ambassador to Saudi
Arabia, criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights record. Vincent man
kicked out the Canadian ambassador, and the Canadians
begged him for eight months for a reset in ties.
So there's a precedent for removing ambassadors or kicking
them out for something much less than genocide.
The Israelis are content that, as it stands, there's no opposition
from Washington, there's no opposition from Europe, and
there's no opposition from the Muslim world. Regarding the
offensive that is taking place, that is imminent, according to the
Israelis, going to take place at Rafa.
In order to reassure the Israeli public that there will be no
consequences for any offensive in Rafa, the Israeli Transport
Minister flew to India to one of the ports. She landed and she
filmed herself, recording saying
that although the Houthis are blockading our ships on the Red
Sea. We manage to deliver our goods by land. It starts from this
port. It crosses to UAE. It travels by truck from UAE, through
Saudi Arabia, through Jordan, and it arrives in Israel. So we are
able to bypass the economic blockade imposed by the Houthis,
thanks to who, thanks to Muslim countries.
So Netanyahu sits there, and let's think politically now. Politics is
not a very complicated science. Politics is the science of human
relations. The same way you feel love, happiness, anger, sadness,
concern, confusion, the same way sometimes you don't know much
about an issue. States operate in the same way,
I always argue that the seer itself is the greatest political
book possible that anybody could read, if only you would read it as
a political book as much as you read it as a spiritual book.
But the point that I'm saying is, let's put ourselves waiadu Bella.
It's a tough exercise, but just go and go along with me on this one.
Let's put ourselves in the position of Netanyahu. Where is
the pressure coming from to stop this offensive on Rafa? Is it
coming from the White House? Is it coming from Europe? Is it coming
from Raya? Is it coming from Abu Dhabi? Is it coming from Cairo? Is
it coming from Ankara, from Erdogan? Where is this pressure
going to come to stop, especially when you bombed the hospitals
everywhere else. What's going to make you stop this time?
The reason why I mention all of this is to lay the landscape in
that what's bringing about the complications for Israel and the
complications for Biden and the complications for Europe are not
the Muslim governments.
It's not the Muslim governments that gave a fatwa to Blinken to
help him out with what's happening. For those who don't
know what I'm talking about, when Blinken went to Tel Aviv,
he landed in Tel Aviv and he said, I'm here as a Jew.
Now, one thing Muslims that I want you to be aware of is aware of the
rich history and heritage that Islam has, particularly when it
comes to the Jewish population, and I'll explain what I mean.
When the Romans were ruling Jerusalem,
they kicked out the Jews from Jerusalem.
When Ahmed ibn Khattab Allah and entered Jerusalem, one of the
first things he did was bring the Jews back to Jerusalem because
Allah subhanahu wa taala in the Quran orders us to uphold the
rights of AHL Kitab, and even in a Muslim state, orders us to allow
them to adopt their own laws in a number of various different
issues, even when people talk about Ben quraida And what
happened in Benu, Qaida, Banu qurayva, they were asked, Do you
want to be punished by Muslim law or Jewish law? And they wanted to
be punished by Jewish law. It's the Jewish law that was
implemented because Allah allowed room for their laws to be
implemented.
When the Crusaders came in, years after Ahmed Rab had entered
Jerusalem, the Crusaders entered and they massacred 70,000 Muslims
and Jews, and they kicked out the Jews. Again, anti semitic Europe,
beware of this anti semitism label, because it's alien to
Muslims. Muslims have never been anti semitic. So when the
Crusaders kicked out the Jews, who brings them back Salah haddina
yobi, he enters Jerusalem, and again, he follows Omar Al Qatar
and and he brings them in. Why? Because he's copying, and he's
copying Muhammad Sallallahu, sallam, who entered Medina, and he
told the Jews that anybody who oppresses you is our and our
enemy. We will stand with you against whoever chooses to oppress
you, and we expect vice versa.
In Andalusia,
the Jews consider it one of the greatest periods of coexistence
between Judaism.
Islam. When Isabella of Spain went and marched against the Andalusian
kingdoms, because the Muslims had fell apart, fell out with each
other, Isabella kicked out the Muslims and the Jews. Where do you
think the Jews went after they were kicked out by anti semitic
Europe? It was Sultan Suleiman who sent the boats to receive them and
bring them to the Muslim lands, following in the footsteps of
Salahuddin ayobi, honorable Khattab and Muhammad Sallallahu,
alayhi wa sallam,
when the Holocaust anti semitic Europe came up with a horrific
means of killing people, something that in the whole history of the
Middle East has never existed, which is to put people in gas
chambers and gas them, and they killed 6 million Jews. So anti
semitic Europe massacres in the crusade, 70,000 Isabella
slaughters them in Spain, and then you have the Holocaust. Again,
based on your historical knowledge, where do you think the
Jews went after the Holocaust? They went back to the Muslim
areas. They went back to Philistine why they came on the
boats. They unfilled the banners, and they said, please don't do to
us what the Europeans did to us. And the Muslims responded and
said, We've never done anything remotely similar to what these
people have done. We always welcomed you. We were always your
sanctuary. So let noone ever tell you that the Muslim is anti
semitic because our history doesn't have anti semitism. It's
anti semitic white Europe that has all the history of antiSemitism.
The people claiming to be the loudest supporters of Israel today
are the ones with the darkest, most brutal history against the
Jews. The Muslims have no equivalent
in Warsaw, in Poland, the Jews used to live in one of the ghetto
areas. One day, they just got up and they went and they massacred
the Jews. The Warsaw pogrom, the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour
Declaration. Why do you think it was made? It was made because
Balfour wanted to kick the Jews out of the United Kingdom, which
is why the only Jewish representative of Parliament stood
up when the Balfour Declaration was made and said, You can't kick
us out in this way. The Daily Mail used to say that this is a good
way to kick out the Jewish aliens from our United Kingdom.
The anti semitism is a history that's unique to anti semitic
white supremacist Europe. It's not something that is alien to the
Muslims. Don't let them flip the history. Don't let them alter the
history. I know in America here, you guys are very good at
branding, and I'll give you an example.
You guys have a game that you've outrageously named, American
football.
And I watched a couple of matches of American football trying to
find, when do you use the foot?
And I found that they grabbed the ball with their hands, and they go
123, hut, Pat. The guy throws it underneath him. He catches it with
his hand, he throws it with his hand, he catches it with his hand,
and he touches down with his hand. And the American said football.
So I understand that you're capable. Americans in particular,
are capable of, you know, completely transforming ordinary
definitions, you know, like the foot became the hand and the hand
became the foot in the English in the motherland, we're not like
that. We call things as they are, and I appreciate that sometimes,
you know Americans, they like to be. For example, I was watching
Michael McIntyre. He had a very good observation. He said, In the
UK, we have glasses, but in America, it's eyeglasses, because
you need to know where to where to wear them. In the UK, we have
pavement. You walk on the side. You guys call it sidewalk because
you need to know where to walk on the part, otherwise you'd be
walking on the road. So, but all this branding is very important,
you know, like in turn. So I understand when now there's a an
attempt to rebrand the history of Jewish history, from one in which
Muslims and Jews always had, never had from one in which Muslims and
Jews never had problems to one in which they always had problems.
Now I used to say that if a Muslim says this, noone would believe it.
And then Muhammad Jalal, from thinking Muslim podcast, invited
one of the Israeli's most prominent historians, who teaches
at Cambridge University, avish name worth watching, by the way,
it's only 48 minutes, and he asks him, how would you describe the
Jews living next to the Muslims throughout the centuries? And this
historian replies, and he says there was no history of anti
semitism during the period where Muslims and Jews lived side by
side in the Middle East. He said the problems began after Zionism
came about and agitated the populations. And the Zionism came
from Europe. It didn't come from the Jews in the Middle East who
had been living side by side for year, for ages. Aybad Allah. For
those of you who get angry at the accusations of antiSemitism, don't
get angry. Get knowledgeable. Don't get angry. Learn your
history. Don't get angry. Learn your culture. Learn the history.
Learn and seek elm.
In modern days, we've separated elm, Elm. When we think of Elm, we
think of a bad *. When you read the seer of the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, sallam, you realize that for them, Elim was
everything. It's only a recent phenomenon that we somehow managed
to separate the two. We seem to think Imam can't be politics and
politics can't be Imam, even though.
Omar buchatab, Ravi Allahu, taala, and on his deathbed, he tells the
Sahaba, before I die, do not let the next Khalifa change any
governor for one year. And later they understood why. It was
because Omar buchatab was concerned that, because the Empire
was growing rapidly and the distances were great, he didn't
want to leave room for a governor to feel like he was wronged by a
Khalifa, or that the Khalifa had a grudge with that governor. So he
said, leave it for a year, because if you change the governor
quickly, he might take it personally and refuse the order,
and it would plunge the empire into a fitna.
Omar Al Khattab had that political foresight. One of the things that
used, I used to find fascinating about the seer of the Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, is that when he dies, you've all read
about the Ansar and muhajirin, when they get together in Medina
to decide who should be the next leader. And we all read it. And we
tell the story very lovingly that they all agreed on Abu Bakr satiq,
because when Ansara said, one from us, one from you. They said, you
know, Allah Khattab on this side, and another sahab on another side.
And then Abu Bakr Sadiq said, stop this between you guys. And they
said, Allah, I will not rule over Abu Bakr Sadiq because he's a
dearest person. But notice, Ram Rachael says something during the
debate that I found fascinating. Omsar Tell him, one ruler from us,
one ruler from you. Allah khatab says to him, ya ibad, Allah,
although Nah, we are equal, the Arabs will not follow anybody
except from Quraysh, because they are used to following Quraysh in
terms of its tradition. No one tells him it tak ALA. Rudu Bela.
How dare you say that? Everyone nods their heads and says, You
know what, given the political dynamics of the time, it is true.
I'm giving you that example just to show how sometimes you can read
the book as a political book.
One of the reasons why Biden is calling for a ceasefire, why, and
one of the reasons why there's an imminent offensive on Rafa is
because nobody is stepping up to stop it. But the reason why I lay
this groundwork of international acquisitions, international not
support, but negligence of what's happening, international apathy,
let's say apathy towards the offensive enough. It doesn't mean
that Netanyahu feels comfortable, or that Biden or Blinken feel
comfortable. But rather, there have been a series of
complications that have been brought about as a result of a
very unique, much more powerful dynamic. Unfortunately, this
dynamic doesn't appreciate its power, but we'll get into that.
The reason why I wanted to highlight that Muslim leaders are
not doing enough is because when Blinken landed in Tel Aviv and he
landed, he said, I'm here as a Jew, he was supposed to go back to
Washington, but instead of going back to Washington, he went
instead to Riyadh, to Abu Dhabi and some of these other Muslim
capitals, Washington Post, because I'm aware that as Muslims, when a
Muslim says it, it's not sahih, because of the inferiority
complex. When a Muslim says it, he looks like me. There's no way he
could know more than I do. So going to bring you sahih
Washington Post and sahih Axios, for those of you cringing at the
word sahih. Sahih in Arabic means authentic. So I'm using the
linguistic Arabic term of authentic. Washington Post
authentic Axios, meaning I'm bringing their headlines before
somebody clips it out and gives me headache.
Washington Post reports that Blinken went to Riyadh and Abu
Dhabi and these Muslim countries, to quote, get help to tamp down on
public anger. What does he mean? Public anger. Public anger. Public
anger. It means that Blinken and Netanyahu sat in a war room
together and they debated the progress of this genocide and
ethnic cleansing, and they identified that one of the
greatest threats that could manifest itself, one of the
greatest dangers to the ability to commit genocide and ethnic
cleansing was what public anger.
This is the first example that I want to give you of how Blinken
and I say this semi jokingly, but probably more serious, an example
of how blinking believes in the power of Allah, subhanho wa Taala
more than most Muslims do, because Blinken immediately identified
that these followers of the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
Sallam might be able to ruin his plan, and therefore he needs help
to contain them. But when you speak between ourselves, we say,
well, I have power, Takala, we're talking about our power. Blinking
believes you have power. You claim you don't. So who's the one who
recognizes Allah's power? More you are blinking, blinking,
blinking goes to Saudi Arabia. When he leaves Saudi Arabia, all
of the khutba in Saudi Arabia for the next three weeks are ya ibad
Allah make dua for Gaza at tears for added effect. But do not talk
about it, because you don't have the information that the rulers
have. And when you talk about it, your analysis will be burdensome.
So don't talk about between yourselves, because it's this fit
now will lead you to turn against your rulers, and it will lead you
to turn against your scholars. For ya, ibad Allah, do not talk about
Gaza
when he went to the UAE and he left the UAE issued a state.
Blaming the Palestinians for what happened
when Jared Kushner was invited for a keynote speech in Saudi Arabia
four weeks into the genocide, Jared Kushner, from the heart of
Saudi Arabia, said that October 7 was designed to ruin normalization
between the Saudis and between the Israelis,
but they will fail in doing so, and the Saudis did not respond to
him at all. They allowed him to say it from the heart of Saudi
Arabia.
When Israel cut the connection on Gaza and Mark does Aze tweeted
desperately, ya ibad Allah, they've cut the internet
connection. They're starting their ground offensive. When Hindu
khodari tweeted and said that the tanks are rolling into northern
Gaza, the ground offensive has begun. When plessia said, I think
this is my last day when all of us, you guys remember, because I
know you did it too. Jeremy, the hashtag Starling for Gaza, and
everybody was doing at Elon Musk. You all remember it because it
went viral. Everybody was desperately doing at Elon Musk,
Starling for Gaza. And he claiming, he said he came and he
said, I can't do Starlink. It doesn't work, but I can do comlink
conquer something like that. And paltel As always, trying to set up
a tower desperately on the border. On the night where you were all
tweeting at Elon Musk
and hashtag Starlink for Gaza, Shakira was beginning her concert
in Riyadh on that very same night.
When people ask the Saudi government online, it doesn't make
sense, why are we holding concepts when ghaza is being demolished?
They weren't criticizing. They were saying, Why are we holding
concepts? Shouldn't we at least delay them? Yes. Sid, I want to
tell you, it's haram. You want to bring the * models against
Alia. Bring them for those who are now thinking, semi How does he Why
does he talk about Shakira, Iggy Wallahi. I didn't know who Iggy
was until bin Salman introduced it to me, and I didn't know who Nicki
minhej was until he introduced it to me. And I didn't know any of
these people. Honestly, I did not know. I came home one day and my
daddy says to me, semi, school, who say easy.
And then we googled it.
Don't Google it, especially next to your fathers.
They said, Yeah, yeah, walila, yesumu, walila, yes, your crown
prince, please, at least. Can we delay these concepts and show
solidarity with Gaza Turkey al Sheik, the head of the general
entertainment authority, published on his Facebook. You can find it,
and he said, Why are you telling me to cancel concerts? Name me one
concert in the world that's ever been canceled because of a
political event. You cannot tell me to cancel a concert I've been
planning for many months with reality and Tyson fury and
ningano. For those who like MMA, they fought on that Sunday as
well. If you paid for that pay per view, may Allah forgive you. I
don't know how much sadaqah you need to give to clean your money
for that
one. The point is that it's abundantly clear that Blinken,
when he came back to Washington,
could reasonably expect that Muslim leaders are not really
interested in what's happening in Ghazal yes or no that he came back
and he told Biden, Mr. President, I met with the Muslim leaders.
They have assured me that what's happening is not a red line.
They've assured me that they're not going to get involved. And
Blinken was tweeting, I talked to the leaders about the necessity
not to expand the conflict, meaning I needed to stay out of
it. And they said, it's not our interest. I had you no problem.
What made the Americans change their position then? And this is
the point I want to get to, with regards to the topic, what made
them change their position? It's because when Blinken went back to
Washington on the 26th of October, a poll came out, a Gallup poll
that shocked the Democrats. It showed that the Democrats that
Biden was falling behind every Republican rival in six swing
states, and in those six swing states there happened to be a
large concentration of Muslims, and that's why they panicked. And
they said, Hang on a second.
Are we actually getting punished for genocide?
Are we actually falling in the polls
over Palestine surely not so just in case, Biden announced two days
later that he would no longer be pursuing the Congress bill that
was designed to give money to Egypt and Jordan to take in the
Palestinians. On the 20th of October, Biden went to ask for 14
billion to give to Egypt and Jordan to say, Okay, if the issue
is money, we'll pay for it. The US taxpayer will pay for the refugee
camps, for the Palestinians to to leave Gaza, so we'll help
facilitate the ethnic cleansing. So for those of you Americans who
can't afford healthcare, there's 14 billion available, but
genocide, ethnic cleansing is more important for those of you who are
struggling, you know, with, you know, rent or the like, there's
money to help resolve some of the homeless issues. I've been to New
York, I've seen homeless.
Very interesting contrast between Rockefeller building and the
homeless person downstairs. There's 14 billion to resolve
homelessness, but Genesis.
Ethnic cleansing are more important. But the point I want to
make here is what made Blinken get back on a plane, go to Tel Aviv
and tell Netanyahu, we need a humanitarian pause. Do you think
it's because Biden was suddenly hurt by what's happening in
Philistine? Do you think it's because, you know, suddenly the
Muslim leaders were saying, This is an outrage? Do you think it's
because even Europe was saying, dude, what you're doing. And it
wasn't that the Democrats said, Hang on a second. If this is going
to be a trend, we might actually lose the elections in November.
So let's get to humanitarian pause, to at least do a marketing
strategy for genocide. So we won't stop it. We'll just remarket it.
Instead of saying, this is Israel's self defense and Israel
committing a genocide, and we're going to kick out these animals
and kill them and slaughter them. We'll say that. We're going to
give them notice and say, Look, we have something very important to
do in Gaza. You're in the way. We're going to bomb your house and
take it. We're going to take your land, but we want to give you a
chance to leave. So we'll give you four hours every day to get your
stuff and to leave, and we'll make you go through humanitarian
corridors under the protection of the Israeli army. Netanyahu. What?
What do you think of it? Sahih Axios reports that when Netanyahu
heard this from Blinken, he panicked. He said to Blinken, why
the change in tone? You were with me in Tel Aviv last week, and you
were telling me, let's go ahead. Why? What happened in Washington?
That means you've come back and asked me for a change, and
Netanyahu says to him, exactly, according to the reports, he says
to him, I need to know that this isn't Biden being flaky, that this
isn't Biden buckling. I need to know this isn't a trick to lure me
into a permanent ceasefire. And that's why Biden turned around
after the humanitarian pause, which we correctly denounced when
he came off the plane and he said that better late than never
showing that you think the hearts are united, but kulubo Hum she the
hearts were divided.
The first evidence I want to prove here is what made Blinken and
Netanyahu start to fall out with each other was you,
because you raised your voice, because you kept talking. The
topic is about complacency. How can you be getting complacent when
you are the one who made Blinken buckle in the first place, and
when that humanitarian pause, you refuse to be quiet about it, you
started lambasting the hostage truce. Blinken said, look, it's
getting serious. The third poll is showing that we're now the lowest
of any president in the past 100 years against the rival were at
32% and it's falling not because of the economy. The economy is
supposedly improving. It's falling because Reuters is saying that
it's falling because people are upset about Biden's position with
regards to what's happening in Gaza, meaning that Americans are
turning on Biden, not because our boys are dying in American troops
are not on the ground. Biden is falling in the polls because 1.9
billion Muslims are talking about Ghazal Palestine, and that has
broken the social media algorithm. Kim Kardashian is no longer the
trending topic. Neither is Kanye West, neither is love Island,
neither is all of this other stuff that is apparently popular. What
is popular in the top five is Philistine and Gaza and Michelle,
Joe, David Samantha, are all now seeing the reality was happening
in Gaza, and they are turning against Biden.
The topic is about complacency. How does an ummah become
complacent when you are the ones who have shifted the political
dynamics in America itself?
When Blinken went to Tel Aviv three weeks ago, Netanyahu made a
very interesting statement. Netanyahu met with Yahi Lapid and
Benny Gantz, two opposition figures to Netanyahu. Netanyahu
came out after Blinken left, and he said,
We are against the two state solution, and this is not the time
to hold elections. Because Netanyahu was concerned that
Blinken was telling Benny Gantz and Yahi Lapid, look, we're
falling in the polls here in the US. We're trying to find a masjid
that will receive us. The messages are not receiving us. We're trying
to find Muslim community leaders to meet with us, but the ones who
meet with us are being derided as sell outs by their community. I
need to find some way to get you guys out of this mess, to end this
war. Can we hold elections to get rid of Netanyahu so we can end
this? So Netanyahu said this isn't the time to hold elections. When
Blinken went to Qatar to try to talk about the details of the host
issues and talk to the IDF chief to say this is a new deal that we
can get at least a two month pause while we try to heal our relations
with the Muslim community, Netanyahu refused to allow Blinken
to meet the IDF chief. And then when they held their meeting in
Cairo, Netanyahu did not give permission for the Israeli
security delegation to go to Cairo. Why? Because Netanyahu
feels that what's happening is that the Americans are buckling,
and they're trying to navigate some sort of truce that allows
them to say that Israel won so they don't lose the Zionist vote,
but that buys them enough time to try to win back the Muslim vote.
The point that I'm saying is.
What's driving the American policy? What's driving these
blinking trips? What's driving this Fallout between the Israelis
and the Americans? What made Macron call for a ceasefire when
Biden didn't want him to. What made the Deputy Prime Minister of
Belgium call for sanctions on Israel when Biden didn't want them
to. What made Spain say that they're ready to recognize a
Palestinian state when Biden didn't want them to what made the
ICJ, which we all grew up saying that it's in the firm hands of
America, what made the ICJ come out? 15 judges to two rule that
Israel must now stand trial for genocide and Biden and America,
with all its power, could not get the case kicked out. Why? Because
the political global environment has shifted so much. But why?
Because, when the Palestinians, they said that we're recording our
own genocide and ethnic cleansing. Yeah, ibad Allah, please tell the
world our story. And when the Ummah through its tears 1.9
billion, they said, what a what a shameful state. If only we could
do more, but at least if they say, Let's retweet, let's retweet, if
they say, Let's repost, let's repost, I need to do something. I
need to do something. I need to talk about Philistine. I need to
and these algorithms got giddy, and they started putting it on
everybody's social media feed, and that resulted in the shift, I
asked the French diplomat. For those who don't know what I do, my
job is a risk consultant. My day to day job is to advise mainly
corporate clients about the politics that's happening so that
they can make better decisions. For example,
when Trump killed Qasim Suleimani in 2019 many companies operating
in Iraq or who had ships in the homeless were worried there would
be war between Iran and Iran and the US. They really couldn't care
less about who's right or who's wrong. All they wanted to know
was, is there going to be war, or is there not going to be war?
Because if there's war, it will cost us 15 million to wind down
our operations and move somewhere else, and we don't want to spend
15 million million. So before we do anything, we want to know
first, is there going to be or is there not going to be a war?
Sometimes in the industry, you learn new things about how
politics works. For example, in 2014
I was working for a company. So before I set up my own, I was
working for a company, and one of the clients who was with that
company was a one of the world's biggest alcohol companies,
beverages, alcohol. They own eight alcohol companies, and they said
to me, Sammy, it's Middle East. You have to work on the project.
And I went in a little he went, Oh,
and I went to three Imams, Helio Jews, because my boss is telling
me Jews. And I was like, Yeah, but I don't want to lose my job,
because it's lucrative. I get paid. Well, I came up with an
idea. I said, Listen, I will go and to the first meeting to hear
what they're interested in. And to be honest, I wanted to know what,
how does an alcohol company operate in the Middle East? I'd
love just to hear what their experiences. Do they get backlash?
Do they get whatever? Like, how, like, what are the consumers that?
How do they make money in a country where alcohol is haram? So
I was interested in going to that first meeting just to learn, but I
would be sick during the project, so I won't actually have to do any
work. So I learned something, and I go when we went to the first
meeting, I'll never forget it. We sat in the first meeting. It's the
vice president of the global company, and he says, We want to
consult you on Turkey. I said, What's happening in Turkey? This
was 2013 they said, Erdogan has passed the law no alcohol after
10pm and I remember that law because on our WhatsApp group, the
brothers were like, the brothers were like, he wants to say alcohol
Halal in the day, haram in the night. Pan Allah, they can't be
drunk in but they can be drunk in tahajjud. There were all these
jokes going around. And, you know, we all clicking like as well at
same time.
So the vice president says, So Erdogan passed the law. No,
alcohol after 10pm and I was like, Okay, so.
And he says, this means a 35% drop in our profits, because most
people drink after 10pm
and I went, Okay. And they said, we just want one question from
you. What's the question next year is election in Turkey? Do you
think Erdogan will win or lose, because the peace process with the
Kurds is failing. Syria is now plunged into war. There's chaos
now taking place. Will the Turks punish Erdogan? Will he lose in
the next election? And I went,
if he loses, they said, If he loses, we'll take the 35% hit for
this year, and then we'll lobby the new government to reverse the
law, and that should be easy.
If he wins,
if he's going to win, then we'll just reel back our alcohol
business. We'll stop selling, you know, like a lot of the alcohol
that we're already selling, because we're not selling it,
we're not making money from it, and we'll just go and invest
somewhere else. And I went to my boss, I'll do this one.
Erdogan will be empowered until you feel inshallah.
The point is that I'm making is that part of my work is not just
corporate clients. Part of my work is also governments, state
department as well. I'm allowed to say it, because they let me say
but I'm not allowed to.
Say what I advise, don't but don't worry. I know that some people
online, they've been saying, Sam, he's an agent. He works for these
governments. I'm like, What if you knew what they ask? You would have
so much faith in this ummah. Because I grew up believing that
the Ummah was weak and that they control everything. But when you
sit with them in the rooms with these senior ministers, when you
hear the questions they ask, their questions are always, what if the
Muslim community does this? What if abdughan does this? What if bin
Salman does this? What if abdughan opens a military base in these
other Muslim countries? What if Pakistan does this? What if Imran
Khan comes back to power? What if, and you start going, Wait a
minute. Are you really worried about all these things? Walla ma
Imam tells me that everybody's weak, that we have no power. We
sit in the burger shop and we tell each other that we're used to the
um is humiliated. You're really worried the Ummah is going and I
go back to the measure. I tell brothers, you never guess what.
They're worried about, nahi, they're lying to you. Let me show
you the receipt. You know how expensive their lie was.
That's why I love my job and why I never like leave it. So I asked a
diplomat from Europe, you know, we worked together a few times. I
said, Why did Macron call for a ceasefire? And they were like, to
me, what do you mean? Why did Macron call for a ceasefire? It's
straightforward. I said, What do you mean, straightforward? Give me
the sophisticated, complex conspiracy theory, you know, why
Macron called for a ceasefire? You know, speak to me like my brothers
speak to me when I go and sit with them, you know, after football or
soccer, you know, and they come up with these sophisticated, you
know, Illuminati rules the world and stuff like that. They said,
Sammy man, what's wrong with you? Like Macron, it was just Macron
just got frustrated. I said, What do you mean frustrated? Macron
would go into the Sean Zee every single day the presidential
palace, and he would just hear the employees going, mostly president,
Please cease fire now. Cease fire now. And they would show him the
images, and he would ignore them. But then he'd go to Bordeaux, and
he'd hear ordinary French people, mostly president, don't. Cease
fire. Cease fire. Cease fire, please. He'd go to Leon monsidon.
Cease fire. Cease fire. He'd go to Calais, monsieur, President. He go
to Marseille, for those North Africans here, we all know
Marseille belongs to us, because all of our people are there. If
you go to Marseille, you don't need to speak French. Just go and
say salaam, Alaikum, and you'll find Lebanese, Algerian, Tunisian,
Moroccan, we all say in Algeria, Marseille belongs to us.
He would go to Marseille, he'd hear the same thing. So Macron,
after he got sick and tired of hearing it so many times, went
back to the palace, and he said, Call me a journalist. I'm going to
give an interview. I'm going to call for a ceasefire, but say
Israel has the right to self defense. I'm going to hold the
stick from the middle. When he did it, the media only focused on
which part the ceasefire part they didn't focus on the Israel has the
right self defense. Now the French. We know the French very
well in North Africa, and to give you an
indication what French I like, sometimes there might be some
French people here in the room, I think you'd agree with me. Think
you agree with me, actually, on this regard. If a Pakistani learns
Arabic, the Arabs are happy that the Pakistani and Arabic, right?
If I was to speak in Urdu, you know, like yahali or or speaking
Gujarat, Kem Cho maronam, Sami chair, you know, who, Muhammad, no
French, or, you know, things like that, you know. And then they,
they try to talk more in a Tikka. But I don't know more than that.
But everybody goes Mashallah. He speaks the language, not in
France. In France, if you go, you go into a pastry shop, bonjour,
bonjour. Blake. Can I buy croissant? And they'll notice your
accents. They'll be like, I speak English. And you're like, Whoa. I
was just trying to show sentiment, asking me the question, What's
wrong with you?
Like in Bosnia in 95 the French were the reason why NATO
intervened against the Serbs, because the French, eventually,
French are arrogant, but it's a unique arrogance. It's an
arrogance that sometimes works actually very well. The French
believe themselves to be so superior that they're even willing
to disobey the Americans if they feel that their dignity has been
hurt. So when Serbia committed the genocide, when laddish committed
genocide in Srebrenica in Bosnia, 95 the French believed they
offended all of their values and sensibilities, that they told
Clinton, we're going in. We're going in. Like, no, no, no, no.
Like, we can't have this. And that's why, when you land in
Sarajevo airport, they have a placard celebrating the French
intervention
Macron, when they did the ceasefire. Headline, Macron is
French, so he said, I'm French. If they say I said it and I said it,
I can't take it back, because we French. We don't do that. We go
harder, we go home. So he embraced it, and pro ceasefire.
The point being is what made Macron call for a ceasefire. It
was ordinary public opinion,
and this is where, because the topic is complacency, I don't want
to go too much into nitty gritty political details, but I want to
go now into the final strait so that I allow time for questions
and answers later
on. And in this I want to draw on the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. And I want to give an example of how sometimes
we can read about our blessed Prophet, sallAllahu sallam, but
not appreciate him. How we can say that he's hail Khalq, but we don't
appreciate him even when we say it, how we can celebrate His
attributes but discredit them in our daily lives and refuse to
adopt any of them.
The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam said, Bala.
Convey from me, even if it's just a verse. Now, you've all heard
Muslims. Some Muslims say we're talking, we're raising our voices,
but it's having no impact. Why are we wasting our time doing it? You
know, what kind of Ummah is this that all it does is talk? You've
heard it right or not,
let me tell you why these people
have discredited this hadith, because in this hadith, the
Prophet said, convey from me, even if it's just a verse.
I used to think growing up that what the Hadith meant was that
walk down the street and say, UL Hala, I had and you feel spiritual
high.
I didn't realize that the emphasis on the Hadith was on the Walo,
even if it's just a verse, what the Hadith means is ya ibad Allah.
Don't be an ummah that is quiet. Don't be an ummah that does
nothing. Don't be an ummah that gives up. Don't be an ummah that
sits at home for Wallahi. If you have no power to do anything
except to convey an ayah, then convey even an ayah. For in this
there is benefit. Those brothers who might I'm not looking in your
eyes, I'm not going to say which ones, but those brothers who said
the words are useless, go and take it up with the Prophet, Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, who said, don't be quiet. Convey from
me, speak out, even if it's just a verse The Prophet said, I'm saying
don't be your starting position. Should never be silenced, even if
you are being defeated, roar loudly. La ilaha. Illallah has
one. Allahu, Ana marwaki,
the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, Sallam also responded to these
people in
our community, those who see something that is wrong, let them
change it with their hands. Wala meta, if they cannot, not, if they
don't want to, if they cannot, if you don't have the army you want,
if you don't have the oil to cut off that you want, if you don't
have the millions to buy the ads that you want, if you don't have
the power that you think you need. The Prophet Sallam didn't say,
wait until you have that power. Prophet sallam said, then Billy
Sena, then condemn it with your words. Denounce it. Raise
awareness, talk about it, denounce it, and if you cannot, then
condemn it in your heart. And he said, That's the weakest of faith.
The one who does nothing is the one closest
to that ultimate weakness of faith. I don't offend anybody by
saying kufr, because he said the weakest of faith, weakest means
what, where are you closer to?
So in this hadith, the prophet Sallam is saying that speaking out
is an elevated form of resistance. Is an elevated form of resistance.
Explain to me, ya ibad Allah, how a Muslim can get away with saying
that our voices don't matter when our beloved SallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam put it as an elevated form of resistance.
The third example, many of us, when you read the Sira, or maybe
let me talk about myself, even though talking about myself, I'm
talking about you because buna Muhammad, the Canadian poet, has a
lovely line. He says, We are all reflections true. So I can't talk
about me without talking about you.
Whenever you read the seal of the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
hasam. Those first 13 years of the Dawah are quite difficult to read.
They are. I was watching a clip from the message today. It popped
up on my Tiktok about when Amar ibuyas is in front of the leaders
of Quraysh because he's become Muslim, and they are bullying him
and violating him. But they say something very interesting in
that, and I'll get back to it later on. Remind me if I don't get
back to it, because the store, the point is better made. After I make
the point.
There was a sheik in New Jersey. He says it's New Jersey, but in
the movies, it's New Jersey, some give it his proper name, even
though he doesn't like it. There was a sheik who sat with me in the
car. I don't know if he's giving me permission to say his name.
Someone say his name when we were sitting in the car. He said to me,
you know, Sammy Islam is fundamentally a problematic
religion. He told
me, Islam is a problem. Sheik, if you
repeat again, I'm gonna have to leave the car. He told me, relax,
calm down first. Wait till I finish first. There's no context
you can possibly give in which that statement is legitimate. Take
it back and Tobi
Allah, He said, wait
the first 40 years of the life of the prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam. So before the DA before the wahi, does he have any
problems with Quraysh?
What's his reputation amongst Quraysh? Sadaq Amin, trustworthy.
They would leave everything with him, right? They would love him
when he'd walk in. They say the noble son has walked in. They
loved his lineage. They loved his personality. They celebrated him.
When did his problems begin with Quraysh, when he stood up and
said, La Ilaha, illallah, Muhammad, Rasulullah, and society
has to uphold justice. And he wouldn't stop talking about it. He
would keep talking about it. They would beat him. And he would keep
talking about they beat the sahaba. He would keep talking
about it. They would keep persecuting him. And even though
he had no army or no wealth or no control over the media, he would
keep doing it. That's when the problem began. The promise began
when he stood up for justice. Sami is Islam, therefore not a problem.
I didn't say it was a problem for who it's not a problem for us.
It's a problem for society.
Society because it demands that justice be upheld when society
would prefer to uphold injustice. That pressure that you feel that's
leading you to complacency, that pressure that you feel where it's
not working, that pressure that you feel that you can feel the
Zionists start to cancel events, and where they try to suppress the
social media, where they try to shadow ban your accounts.
They are reacting to a threat. I always ask myself whenever I read
the seer of Prophet sallam, why did they persecute the Prophet
Muhammad SAW in those first 13 years, why he doesn't have an
army? They've got the whole army. He doesn't have the money to buy
people. They have all the money. They are secure in the elite of
why they they persecuting these Muslims and Bala for a slave and
Abdullah the shepherd, why are they bullying all these people?
And I realized that that question, in and of itself, showed there was
something wrong with my understanding in Islam, because I
was viewing the Muslims as weak when Quraysh knew they were
strong, even though they didn't have an army. I was coming from
the mentality that the Ummah is weak because they are being
persecuted. I didn't realize they were being persecuted because they
were strong. And Quraysh was terrified that if they continued
as they are, they would completely transform society. Think about it.
Quraysh had the had the armies, the Zionist, Quraysh had the had
the money, the Quraysh had the media, they had all of that right,
but um, still leaves the elite of Quraysh to join the persecuted
Muslims, even though they don't have any army, even though don't
have any wealth, even though they don't have any control over the
media,
the Zai, the Quraysh and I know I'm doing on purpose.
They have the army, they have the media, they have the money. Musa
bin Ramayana still leaves the luxury of Quraysh to join the
persecuted Muslims.
Are they joining a weak group, or have they recognized a power so
great that they are abandoning the weaker power for the stronger
power. And you see how suddenly, in your mind, you are the one who
is twisted. It's not the seer itself.
Why does Quraysh send the Amr ibn * to habasher to bring the
Muslims back? And Najah, she says in the Sira, I don't understand
why they're sending amruba, as for a bunch of runaway slaves,
it's because Quraysh knew that although these Muslims didn't have
an army or didn't have the money like they did, or didn't have
control over the media, they were now affecting foreign policy.
Najashi would become Muslim, and he would give haven to the Muslims
to give their dawah away from the persecution of Quraysh. The same
way that Macron broke ranks with the US to call for a ceasefire.
The same way the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium broke ranks
with the US and called for sanctions. The same way Spain
broke rank with the US and called for a Palestinian state. The same
way Australia, Netherlands and France refused to join that
alliance in the Red Sea to attack the ruthies, the same way that the
ummah of today, despite the fact that it didn't have the army that
you thought it needed, the same way that it is ruining foreign
policy for the Israelis and the Americans, so much so that a
Zionist writer writes in the hill that even if Netanyahu wins the
battle militarily, the damage he's done to Israel's image, from
transforming it from a haven for genocide victims to a haven for
genocide maniacs. Means, quote, our allies will no longer come to
our rescue in the way they did before, and now, Israel is on
trial for genocide by the International Court of Justice
that frightened Japanese companies so much that a couple of the
billion dollar Japanese companies cut their ties with the Israeli
companies because they're worried that Israel will be found guilty
and they don't want to be subject to sanctions. And harits comes out
with an article that the Israeli tech sector is now in danger
because of this iCj ruling, and you didn't even need an army to
bring that about. When you read the seerah of the first 13 years
of the life of the prophet muhammad sallallahu, if you read
that and you see the Muslims as weak, know that it is not those
Muslims who are weak, it's you, and you are projecting that
weakness on them. For Wallahi, Umar buchab did not go to join a
weak people. He went because he knew that Quraysh were inferior to
the message of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and for those of you who believe and are getting complacent
because you believe yourselves to be insignificant, let me tell you
firstly that there are some who say that Sami celebrates small
victories while the genocide is still happening. Ibad Allah say
that about Sami, but will you also say the same thing then about the
Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, who made the DUA
Allahu Islam. Abu Asmaa rain Allahu bless Islam with one of the
two Omars. And when Omar Abu Khattab became Muslim, the Muslims
celebrated despite being persecuted the next day, because
they knew what it meant for umm Khattab to join them, even though
they were still.
Being persecuted. But when Sammy celebrates something similar, you
want to say, oh, but Sammy, it's irrelevant, because we're still
being the genocide is still going on. You see what I mean now, when
you read the Sira and you realize that you're saying Masha Allah,
but you don't understand it. You're saying Masha Allah, but you
don't appreciate it. You're saying Masha Allah, but you don't
understand the implications or the relevance that it has today, you
say that the Prophet, Salla, Musa, rahmat al Alameen, a blessing for
all the worlds. But you struggle to see the relevance of what
you're reading politically in the Sira to what's happening today.
And that's why ya ibad Allah, for those of you who are becoming
complacent or fatigued or tired, or for those of you who say that
I'm just an ordinary person, the change won't come through me. I'm
just an ordinary person, it needs the generals and these people to
mobilize. Let me tell you what Heraclius said, who was the
equivalent of the United States of the time of the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Abu Sufyan is standing before the
Roman emperor, standing before the Roman emperor, and the Roman
Emperor asks him a series of questions about the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asking him a series of
questions. The Emperor of Rome is asking about what you're reading
in the Sira as the weak period of the Muslims. Hashem. Never were
they weak, especially when Allah is on their side.
Heraclius asks him a question that is phenomenal, and that's relevant
to you here.
He asks him, who are the people supporting this Muhammad
in he didn't say, sallAllahu sallam, I'm repeating his quote
before anybody gets upset,
who are the people supporting this Muhammad in the way that has led
you to panic this much.
You've all read the Sira. Does Abu Sufyan say it's the generals of
our army who might defect?
Does he say it's the billionaires?
Does he say it's foreign powers and foreign states? Abu Sufyan
responds to him, and he says he doesn't even say it's the ordinary
people. Says araviluna, it's the lowest to our society, they are
the ones delivering the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam to this
success.
Heraclius says something, which is why I believe the Ummah to be
great. Heraclius listen to his response. Heraclius says, if it's
the case that the lowest of society are the ones lending their
support to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, then this is
the way of the prophets, and it means that Muhammad will one day
come to rule the very land on which I sit,
that Muhammad's followers will come and they will defeat Rome,
and they will take the land on which I sit. Because Heraclius,
unlike some people in the ummah of today, Heraclius knew what's
required to make revolutionary change, and he knew that what's
required is for the ordinary Muslim to move the ordinary Muslim
not to give up, the ordinary Muslim to be loud, the ordinary
Muslim to struggle and to persevere. And yah. Ibad Allah,
how can it not be otherwise? Many of you will read the Quran. Many
of you know the A about the Dawah, right? Wamana, wa Salla and wakala
in Amin and Muslim in Is there any better speech? The one who calls
to Allah does good deeds and say, I am from the muslimeen. Growing
up, when I read that area, I thought about bake sales. I
thought about, you know, when my mother gives me couscous on aid to
take to my neighbors, and you take a copy of the Quran, where,
recently, we had the new king in the UK, and they want to do a
coronation on the street. Relax. Don't say, wait for the story.
They want to do a coronation for the king on the street. So I said
to my mother, I said, they're doing a coronation for the king on
the street. I'm going to stay inside and probably, you know,
play Nintendo Switch with my daughter. She's nine. One day I
took her to a play scheme. So she was about four or five, and they
had the Nintendo Switch Mario Kart, and she was demolished, and
they would mock her and bully her for it. So she came really upset.
I told her son, I was strong duty. She said, you know, Baba, there's
this switch, and they play America, and they were all
laughing at me, and then they wouldn't let me play, because they
said, I'm rubbish. What do you think I did? I went and bought a
switch. I went and bought Mario Kart, and I said, watch YouTube
videos about how to drift, how to get into the jet stream, how to
view which is the best character, the difference between using
Bowser and using Baby Mario and then that kind of stuff. And I
realized that in a one on one, you don't use Baby Mario. You have to
use the quick ones, Donkey Kong and Bowser. But in a eight man
race, you have to use Baby Mario. For those of you thinking, are all
the blaze talks America? No, no. When my daughter went to play
scheme the next year, she annihilated everybody on that
switch. And I told them, mashallah, my wife said to me, is
this the enemy you want to pass on to your daughter? I told her,
social status is important.
The point that I'm saying, Ya ibadalah, is that when it comes to
understanding the ability of the ordinary people to make a
difference, herakli said it's the ordinary people who make the
difference. Heraclius said that's the way of the prophets. That's
the way of the revolution. But when you think about Dawa itself,
when there was the coronation on the street, I said to myself, I'm
staying inside. My mother, she got five copies of the Quran.
She went and she set up her table outside on the front Porsche, and.
She took out some couscous and some Baba kalawa and the like.
They would come, and they would say, congratulations on new King.
And she'd be like, you know, he is the leader of the Church of
England. And you know, the church, you have Mary and Jesus. The Quran
also has Mary and Jesus come. You know, the only difference between
us is you believe Jesus is son of God. We don't believe Jesus son of
God. We believe Jesus is more than Son of His Prophet, you know. And
she'll sit there. They were all there going, you know, God saved
the king, and she was like, but you know, he is, he is leader of
the church. And I went, Masha, Allah, Ummah, Allah.
The point is, I used to think that dawah is only done in safe
environments, but I didn't realize the following area tells you what
Dawa can also feel like, and it's relevant to us here, Allah says,
wala, Testa will Hasanah to wala, sayyah, the good deed and the bad
deed are not equal. Meaning, what? When you raise your voice for
justice, when you give dawah, when you call for what is right in the
way that the Sahaba did, you will receive a backlash, and they will
use horrible tactics against you. The Aya means when they use
horrible tactics against you, don't use those same tactics for
the good deed and the bad deed are not equal. Stay on the example of
the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu, Sallam and the sahaba. And then
Allah says, following in the ayah, it fab, belitihi Asan, push back
with that which is best. It fab. Push back with that which is best
for Allah says, for either lalibana, kawaba and Nahu wa Leon
Hamid, this is relevant to us. Here for the one who is your enemy
today, the one who is Zionist today, the one supporting Israel
today, the one shutting you down today, tomorrow, might become your
warmest ally because you keep talking, because you keep
mobilizing, because you keep raising your voice, because you
keep arguing with them, because you keep I remember my first year
at university, or college, as you guys call it. Here for us, college
is the two years before University. So when, when somebody
tells you I'm in college, I'm like, Whoa, you're young. In any
case, the first year of university, there was a brother
called Benjamin, and the Albanian brother called Bihar. Benjamin was
not Muslim at this time, and Bihar was very No, no. Like, the Bible
is wrong. You guys changed it in Nike. And we tell Bihar, Bihar
man, like you're a bit aggressive, like in your Dawa. And he would go
with Benjamin. So we used to leave them to it. Benjamin, in the
second year, turned up, and we found him praying next to us in
the prayer room. We asked Benjamin, Benjamin, what happened?
And he said, I was looking in the Quran trying to find a way to beat
Bihar. And I came across an ayah. I said, What a was it? Listen to
the air. He realized,
he said, I came across the ayah Allah says that when he burns
Muslims in Jahannam, he puts the skin back on so they can feel the
pain.
Benjamin he telling me, became Muslim over a hellfire. Are you
mad? And he goes, No, no, no, like but think about it. How does an
illiterate orphan in the desert know that the nerves are in the
skin, not in the flesh, and therefore, if you don't have skin,
you can't feel anything, so the nerves have to be How did he know
that? I couldn't get out of my head, and I thought, you know,
I've read that a a 1001 times, and I never knew what it meant. I
never knew it in this aspect. I just thought it was just the way
Allah punishes people. I didn't know there was science in this
that you notice. And I didn't notice. He goes, that's why I got
an A in science. And you go, a minus.
Allah says that those who achieve the shift from Pro Zionist to pro
Palestine, the one from enemy to friend. Allah tells you who are
the people, and this is what I want to finish on. It's on this
point because we're talking about complacency today. Allah says that
the one who is your enemy today tomorrow becomes your warmest
ally. Wama, you. Lakaha, illa, ladina sabaru, the ones who
achieved this shift are the ones who are patient, and here is where
I finally understood what patience meant. Patience didn't mean
waiting at home for something to happen. Patience didn't mean even
being in comfort. Patience didn't mean being in your comfort zone.
Patience meant that when they're attacking you and when you feel
under the pressure, be patient with the process that brings the
pressure. Be patient with the process that brought the backlash.
Don't step back. Be patient in that storm. Be patient in what's
happening. Be patient if the results are not coming as quickly
as you want. Be patient, because if you're patient with it, Allah
will deliver an outcome better than the one that you think is the
one that is needed. And Allah finishes the ayah wa Maul ariem.
The ones who achieve it are the ones who are truly blessed by
Allah. Subhanahu wa Allah gives you what the process is like. You
call to Allah. You do good deeds. You say it's become, I'm from the
muslimeen. We raise our voice for Palestine. We do our good deeds.
We go out to the protest. We go to our local councils. We talk to the
representatives and the like. For those of you who say, What do you
mean, talk to the representatives. Ibad Allah, did you know that the
Prophet sallallahu, alas, during the season of hajj, he would go to
every tent of all the tribal leaders to ask them to hear His
message. It got to a point where Quraysh would laugh at him for
doing so. Ibad Allah, will you laugh at someone who reads that
part of the Sira and says, I want to go and find somebody who will
denounce the genocide. This is what I mean, ya, ibad Allah, for
the Muslim who says, there's no point read the Sira, you find the
Prophet sallallahu, sallam, did not pass up any opportunity for
the Dawah, no matter how simple he would go to the Kaaba and call
out.
Then he'd go for these meetings, and he tried to sit with them.
Then he'd go to the ordinary person and try to convince them,
and he would do everything possible. And for those of you who
think but Sammy, I feel like it's a waste of time. I feel like I'm
struggling remember that no salaam said in the Quran, Rabbi in need
out to call me Layla when ahazim Do I Allah Wan jalafi Adani, the
frustration doesn't mean you have weak Iman, because no Hala salaam
himself said, after 900 years of dawah Allah, I've called to my
people day and night, and when I call on them, they just run away
from me. And when I call on them, so you might forgive them, they
put their fingers in their ears and they cover their faces and
they treat me with arrogance. Abad Allah, by the end of NUS Dawa,
only a few people believe, will you say that NUHA salaam failed?
Hasha Napa? Why? Because you realize that the greatest honor in
the moment we are in today with Philistine and the genocide, the
greatest honor is not that you will deliver the outcome for Allah
has already decided the outcome, and he's decided when he will
implement it, how he will implement it, and through who he
will implement it. The reason you don't, you don't say that No,
alaihi salam failed, is not only because it's haram, but also
because, when you think about it, you realize that Noah's aim was
not to convince his people. Noah's aim was to convince the message
and to move and mobilize. That's what was the honor Allah gave him.
The same way, ALLAH is given us an opportunity to compete for the
same honor. Ibad Allah, if Allah wanted to, he could easily resolve
every issue. Allah has his day of judgment, where he will hold
everybody to account. Allah has the day of judgment where every
justice will be given. Allah knows a moment is coming where everybody
will be satisfied with the justice. What Allah is giving you
the opportunity is whether you want to be the vehicle through
which he manifests His justice, whether you want to be the vehicle
through which to raise awareness. And yeah, ibad Allah, let me warn
you. Do you know the only people that Allah sent a prophet to, and
they disbelieve their prophet, but Allah guided them anyway, the only
people who can
take a guess, you goes to his people and becomes frustrated the
way sometimes we get frustrated. He gets so frustrated he leaves
his people. So Allah makes him swallowed up by a whale. And then
eventually you Salam makes his Toba subhanica, and you Kundu,
mean of alimin, Allah
I was of the wrongdoers. When he comes out, he finds his people
guided. Why did Allah tell us this story, and why did he make this
particular example for Eunice to show us that if you think you are
the ones who make Islam great, if you think you are the ones doing
Allah a favor, Allah is telling you no one does me a favor if you
think you are the one who knows what the outcome should be, Allah
is telling you you don't know because you decide could not see
life. And that's why I say, yeah, ibad, Allah. Many people are
asking me, What do you think is going to happen next? The way I
respond these days is because only Allah knows the right I can only
make analysis based on the abub in front of me, based on things are
in front of me, but let me ask you, when the Prophet Sallam
fought in Badr, did he know what was coming when he fought? Did he
know khandak was coming? When Fonda Did you know hudaybiyah was
coming? When he signed hudaybiyyah? Did he know that less
than a year later he would be in Mecca?
The reason why I'm saying that ya ibad Allah is that Allah in the
seerah gives you examples of what it means to trust that Allah has
the outcome and what you should do based on that. Because the Prophet
Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, even when he marches out in Badr this
one, I mean, when you read the Sira, it's fascinating. As he's
marching out, he turns back to his army before he gets to bada. This
is the part I stopped on this part, and he says to his army,
Ash, advise me. And the muhajiri in our choir, they're confused.
He's clearly not talking to us. And sadden Muay of the ansa Rahu
says, Allah, as if you're asking us, Ya Rasulullah, asking for
asking for reassurance. And Prophet Sallam says, and if I am,
and sad Muhamad says, ya rasulallah, we've given you our
oath, our pact. We are with you whether you win or lose, we are
with you. Abut Allah, I took two conclusions from this. The Prophet
Sallam did not know what was going to happen in Badr, and the Prophet
himself, Salla Salam, is asking for reassurance from his community
that they will be with him. So when there's an initiative in the
community today for Philistine and they tell you, I don't know if
it's going to succeed, but will you at least lend me some support?
Don't ask him and say no, guarantee me the result. Tell him
to wahan, Allah, let's see where it goes. Because Allah said, in
the Quran, Allah, Allah, I cannot say, oh mash Qura, those who
strive for the way of Allah, and they believe in Allah. So they're
striving on the basis Allah has decided the outcome. So they're
striving on the basis that Allah will already resolve it. They're
striving on the basis that Allah will not let any of the efforts go
to waste. Allah says their striving is rewarded, not the
result, because Allah says the result will always belong to him,
the striving belongs to you and ya ibad Allah, I finish on this point
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, when he died, he never saw
courts liberated.
It.
The question is, did he need to see it?
Why? Because Allah was going to liberate it. The Prophet,
sallAllahu, sallam, before every prophet dies, they are asked by
the angels, do you want to stay in this earth and see the outcome of
your efforts, or do you want to go back to Allah? They all go back to
Allah. Why? Because they believe ALLAH is in charge of the outcome.
They were honored to be the vehicle, and they want to go and
receive the reward for being the vehicle is that your attitude, yay
about Allah. Because if the prophet Sallam never saw quotes
liberated, don't assume that it's destined for you, either. But that
shouldn't dishearten you, for that's not the outcome. The
greatest honor is to be the vehicle that Allah chooses. And we
ask Allah to make us the vehicles that he chooses. Because ya, ibad,
Allah, for those of you who believe that there are some
efforts, you know, we're talking, we're talking we're talking this
ummah is all taught. First of all, I gave you the examples of Prophet
Sallam in his Hadith. But also remember those who do even an atom
of good deed, those who mobilize even in the slightest for
Palestinian those who say even a DUA, those who tweet, those who
comment, those who use whatever is in their power, those who stick a
sticker on their window.
You say it's small, and it might be small, but Allah said, if even
an atom of good deed, Allah will see it and Allah will reward it,
and that sticker might be the difference. Ibad Allah,
we are in a battle in which something unprecedented is
unfolding before us. Ibad Allah, if you had told me five months
ago, Israel would be on trial for genocide, I've told you a madman
who who would have seen five five months later, suddenly, Israel be
on trial for genocide. Who would have seen that suddenly, Biden is
about to lose the November election because of Philistine and
Gaza. It's phenomenal. I didn't know Americans could care. People
used to say here that the Americans, the system is all
rigged against us. I've been all over America. I'm probably more
American than most of you here. I can't lie. I've been, I've been
to, I've been to every single state, and I'm driven across. I
drove from Dallas all the way to Florida, and I stopped in Carolina
on the way as well. And I went through these different cities. I
went, you know, I went. I went Mississippi and Tennessee and
Texas. I went to Seattle, which is a very interesting experience. I
went to Seattle. I went to all these places, hamdullah. Do you
know what I found? I not only found that the Muslims want to do
something for Philistine. I found non Muslims who had heard the
Muslims roar and respond to that rule. You all saw Megan rice in
that first week after the genocide, where she went on her
Tiktok lives, and she said, I want to understand where these Muslims
get their resilience from. I want to understand where these
Palestinians are saying has been Allah and Ahmed Wakil, even though
they're being bombarded. You were seeing weakness in them. She saw
strength. She said, I somebody told me it's because of the Quran.
I'm going to do a live every day for one hour, about one page of
the Quran, and we're going to go through it together. Two weeks
later, she appeared on her life with a hijab and said, La Ilaha,
illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah. You've all seen the articles the
phenomenon of people entering Islam in droves over what they're
seeing in Palestine and Gaza, because in them, they see
strength, even though you think you see weakness. They saw the
power of Allah, while you are unable to see the power of Allah
at this moment in time, because you fail to appreciate the efforts
that you're deploying, ibad Allah, don't be the ones who are blind.
Allah has decided the outcome. Let's not wrestle for that. Let's
wrestle to be the vehicles Allah uses. If somebody tells us there's
a protest, let's go. If they tell me there's a ceasefire vote in the
council and we need to show up, because 1500 Zionists are going to
show up. Let's go. Let's show up. We never know what, where the
opportunity might lead. If somebody says, yeah, ibad Allah,
the Zionists underneath a comment page they are slating Sheik, Omar
Suleiman or the like, open your Tiktok or whatever, and comment
underneath and show your support so that they can see on social
media that we care. If you know that Zionists are calling the
representative and hounding him to take a position against the
ceasefire, hand your own representative on the other side.
If this ear is red, make the other ear red. Go out and adopt these
tactics and go and call out to them, be like the Sahaba who went
out to stand for every opportunity for justice. There was a friend of
mine from El burush Press, a brother called Zaid on our way
back from Manchester, UK, he said to me, Sammy, did you know that
only minority of Sahaba are buried in Medina? Majority are buried
outside, because they interpreted Islam as going out. They
interpreted Islam as struggling out. They interpreted Islam as
going forth. He goes, why is it we always hear in our Ummah that we
want to go back, that we want to go in, that we want to be insular?
What is the interpretation we have today that is so contrary to the
interpretation they had back then? Ibad Allah. Don't be complacent.
All of the changes you're seeing is because you are being loud. All
the complications they're struggling is because you are
being loud. And ibad Allah, the reason I gave you the examples
about why the voice matters and the first 13 years of the Dawah is
to try and plead with you. Yeah, ibad Allah, never let anyone tell
you your voice doesn't matter. Never let anyone tell you the word
doesn't matter. Never let anyone tell you the social media post
doesn't matter. Never let anyone tell you, the sticker doesn't
matter. For it's not about Sammy. It's because the Allah said
wamaya, mankala, Vera ibad Allah, if you feel complacent of Fatih,
ask Allah to give you wisdom. For Allah said, Allah gives wisdom to
whom he wills, and if you get the wisdom, you will be able to read
wamayama, Mikhaila, varat in khayra.
And understand it. And the final I promise is the final point ibad
Allah. Allah has blessed us with Islam. Allah has blessed us within
Islam that leads us to take these initiatives. Muhammad, as said in
his book, wrote to Mecca. He said that when Islam was the impetus
for action, the Ummah became great, but when Islam became
habits and rituals and no longer inspired them into action outside.
That's when Allah removed the glory of the Ummah ibad Allah.
There is a frightening passage in Surat Al Imran.
It is about ullul Al Bab those who know Allah subhanahu wa, and this
is for those who are complacent about their Imaan with Allah
subhanahu
wa. Heavens and the earth and the change between the day of night
are Signs for those who ponder and Allah subhanahu Subhana, those who
ponder the creation of the earth, and those who ponder standing,
sitting and lying down, and they say, Allah, only you who could
have created it. Subhank, please protect us from the hellfire.
They say. Rabbanin, the ones you've entered into hellfire, they
are the ones who've truly been abandoned Omaha, menamin Ansar,
and noone can help them on that day. Arab banana. Listen to this
part. The reason I gave you the first three A's is to show you who
are ullul Al Bab. They are not people like Sami. They are people
who ponder Allah 24 hours a day. These are people close to Allah.
Ulu Al Bab,
Arab banah In Nana semi Ana, munadi, ayun Imani and Amin Oba
Rabbi confirm Allah. We heard somebody call out to us, a caller
with his words, a caller,
believe in your Lord. And so we believed in what the wafana
Malabar. We heard the call so, Allah, forgive us, pardon our sins
and make us pass away with those whom you have accepted.
It's this part which is terrifying. Rabban Allahu, banah,
bada Id had a wahabilan karama in Naka until Wahab, Allah, Ummah, do
not take us out of this, Deen, after you have guided us to it,
and bestow upon us Your mercy. Olu Al Bab, who know Allah, who know
him better than Sammy, who know the Quran better than Sami, who
know that hadith better than Sami, who know the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, sallam, better than Sami. They are making dua Allah.
Please, please don't guide us out of this deed. They don't feel
secure in it, in the way some of us here perhaps, feel secure in
it, because they know that it's a blessing from Allah, not alright.
They know that it's a gift from Allah, it's not alright, and
that's why Prophet Salam said, Ya Mukalla dinik, Oh, you who flip
hearts, make my heart firm on the deen, when somebody gives you a
gift, how do you show appreciation? Through action,
through gratitude. Allah said, irmalu Alad, when you show thanks,
do actions that show thanks. The way that you show thanks for the
blessing of Islam is to uphold what Islam called for. Islam told
us to be loud. Islam told us to stand for justice. Islam told us
to struggle. Islam told us to be patient. Islam told us to push
back against the backlash. Islam told us don't retreat inwards, go
out and stand for justice. That's what Islam told us. So if you
don't want to do it for Philistine, do it to save
yourself, lest Allah subhanahu wa see that you haven't appreciated
or showed gratitude for what you have. And that's why ya ibad,
Allah, I tell you, and I finish on this personal note, when I came
for the first tour in November and the second tour in December, and
this is the third tour, and Inshallah, next month, there is a
fourth tour, which I hope will be the final one. Because you all
get, I know everybody's getting tired of my face and the same
message twice, I tried to go home early. Why? Because I felt it's a
bit you feel that. You feel it. The articles written about you,
the difficulty of convincing the Ummah they have power. Watching
those pictures the genocide, watching a dad hold a garbage bag
with the limbs. He's shouting, he's holding a garbage bag, and
he's saying, has anybody seen my son's hand? Has anybody seen the
hand? I found the legs, I found the torso. I found his arm. I
can't find his hand.
Those of you who saw Siddha, the girl bombed with her legs blown
off and she's hanging on the wall, those of you who saw the kids
being amputated with that anesthesia. And you're telling
people, yeah, ibad Allah, keep moving. Yeah, ibad Allah, keep
mobilizing. Yeah. Ibad Allah, move. Don't be an ummah that gives
up. Move. Don't be an ummah that does nothing. Move. Don't be. And
you feel it, and eventually you think, you know, yes, I called my
wife so may I said, sumay, it's it's a lot, it's a lot. It's not
easy to go through this stuff. And then May Allah forgive us. She
said to me, if you come home early, you won't find me home,
because I won't be married to a man who runs away from
responsibility of Allah. And I met you. But in any case, the point
that I'm saying, yeah, ibad Allah, is this.
To feel heartbreak is not a sign of lack of Amen. To feel that
despair is not a sign of lack of Amen. To feel tired is not a sign
of lack of Amen. To feel complacency is not a sign of lack
of Amen. Because Allah said, for that kid, in the fact that they
can remember for remembrance.
Benefits you. All you need is a bit of remembrance. But what I'm
pleading with you, yay, ibad Allah, is to realize that the only
voice that is making the difference is your voice. You
change public opinion. Kamala Harris is pro Zionist. Her
daughter's raising money for Palestine. The latest polls in
America show under 30 fives are now pro Palestinian. Why? Because
they heard your Dawa. Don't think that Muslims are just Muslims. We
influence those non Muslims as well through our Dawa. That's why
Islam is the fastest growing group. That's why Biden is
concerned. Today, 13 pastors from the African American churches,
they came out and they said, We won't be voting for Biden if he
continues to support this genocide. Why? Because they heard
your voice, they heard your dawah, they heard your arguments. And
they said, You know what? You're right. We're going to stand with
you here as well. Allah says, Who is it? Kum kuwat and Ila
kuwatikum. Allah can increase strength. He can add it to you as
well. I'm telling you, ibad Allah. See the power of Allah the way
Netanyahu sees it, which means that he spends millions to try to
get you to be quiet. See the power of Allah the way Blinken fears it,
in the way that he's trying to get fatwas and these things to get you
to be quiet. See the world. See the Ummah, the way that the see
the Ummah the way the world sees it. What's the power they see in
you that you don't see in yourself yet? What's the power they fear in
you that you don't appreciate yet? What is this power that Allah
always gave the Ummah, that the Ummah is yet to see and tell each
other, you know what? We are actually strong. Let's just go and
manifest that power the world is shifting because of you a bad
Allah, keep going and be Ibn Allah will bless us as the vehicles, and
if we don't see goods liberated in our lifetime. Inshallah, when
we're sitting with the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu Sallam in
Jannat al through those somebody will walk into our gathering and
Inshallah, my hope is that when the Prophet Sallam asks that
individual, which generation are you from, they will say, We're the
from the generation that liberated Al Aqsa because Sami and the
people of New York and Masjid Hamza, they kept going and telling
the Ummah to kept going. They broke Israel's monopoly on the
narrative, and it resulted in a series of consequences ya
rasulallah that completely paved the way for us to liberate Al Aqsa
again. And we got to see ASA, alaihi salam and the lie and ya
Rasul Allah. I'm happy that I saw the people of Masjid Hamza sitting
around you over here, because but for their efforts, Ya Rasulullah,
I would not have been inspired to go and conquer myself the same way
that Salah had. Ayubi was inspired by those who came before him, no
Radin Zinke and Imam Al Ghazali, ibad Allah. I leave you with this.
Some people always focus. They say that the people of Jannah are the
people on the podium. Salah adubi, ibad Allah, if that's what you
think, why have you forgotten that Salah dinabi was the cherry on the
top? Why have you forgotten the cake, which is the Imams and those
who taught the Quran and the Hadith and the entrepreneurs and
the businesses that gave the money to the army that created the haven
that let Salatin ayubi emerge? Ibad Allah, let's keep moving.
Let's keep mobilizing. Allah has decided the outcome. Let's wrestle
to be the vehicle. Inshallah and Barak, Allah frequent apologies
for going
on a bit. I realize I might be taking liberties if I said Q A, I
know people can smell food. If there's any questions, people want
to put their hands up. I have no problem. If you want to go and
take food, there is no offense on my part. It's okay.
So this is like a two in one thing. So one country, one country
you didn't bring up, which I find a little surprising, is the Iran
factor. And I'm Palestinian myself, so I'm in tune with what's
going on there every hour. And the yellow and green party flag has
been hitting Israel from the north. And also Iran has been
giving some statements, I think, with Yemen. So my question, do you
think also Iran is playing a role that that's why the United States
is also being cautious, because they don't want to another war.
And then the last point is, as a Muslim who lives in who who's from
Palestine, I just find this sad that the Sunni countries, Jordan,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, that they're gladly participating. And I'm sad
that the people in those countries, I understand dictators
and they're oppressed. I trust me. But when is enough enough, when
it's going to be the breaking point that our Sunni brothers and
sisters, from mas, from Ordon, from Surya Darby, they're going to
come and help, because I find it offended. And you made one call
about Turkey, about ortogan, that the Turkish are going to change,
and Inshallah, the next generation, they're going to
change. But I'm from an area where we see the land theft on a daily
basis. They stole my grandfather's land. My great grandfather had a
heart attack and died because they stole his land, and they built a
settlement on top. And they said, We're coming for Jordan next.
We're coming from Egypt next. And when I see my people getting
bombarded, and there was one Palestinian, I'm going to end with
this one Palestinian on the border with with Egypt. He told the
Egyptian soldier, give us your weapon. Go fight. You don't have
to fight. And it's sad that we can't even send water. Forget
about weapons for a second. Not even water, not even food. The
Arab world is paralyzed. 56 countries paralyzed because they
fear the they fear America and the chair more than they fear Allah
and then ox on a daily basis. Is that?
Going in there. I went to alokside December, just walk around that
they desecrated, and still not one Muslim country has the balls.
Excuse my language, to do anything, to do anything when it
comes to
oxen Palestine. So thank you. I think
that when it comes to the Iran factor, there are two things worth
mentioning. The first is the Iranian proxies are having an
impact. Houthis blockade in the Red Sea has rattled the Americans,
and the Americans felt that cargo shipping is more important than
Palestinian lives, so they went and bombed Yemen instead.
Hezbollah from the north, they have been pressuring the Israelis
from the northern border. The reason why Israel is continuing in
regardless is because there was a report from Reuters three days
before Israel began his grand offensive. In the beginning,
Israel was hesitant because they didn't know what Iran would do.
Three days before the ground offensive, there was a Reuters
article which said that Haniya, the head of the Politburo, had
gone to Tehran, and he asked Khamenei, and he said to him,
Khamenei, like, Please, can you do more? Like, you know, like, we
really need support. And Khamenei said to him, You didn't consult us
before you guys did this. This is the maximum we're going to do.
We're not We're not ready. We're not in a position to go into all
with the Israeli. So when the Israelis heard that this, the
suggestion is that that's why they began their ground offensive in
the first place. That's not to take away from Iran. The reason
that I don't mention Iran too much is for two reasons. The first is,
although they're having an impact. They haven't slowed the genocide
because they've done the maximum they could do. The second reason
is that, in my heart, I don't know how to reconcile what Iran's
proxies have done in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon with their support for
Philistine. I do believe that they believe in Philistine
wholeheartedly. I've met Houthi leaders. When they talk about
Palestine, they talk about the same passion that you do.
But I don't know if those pro Iran militias in Iraq that entered
Diala claiming to fight ISIS and unfurled banners were here to take
the revenge of Al Hussain and then they massacred the Sunni
population, or Qasim Suleimani when he went to Syria. When he
would take the southern areas, he would add a clause to the
ceasefire agreements. He would say, I want the Sunni populations
put on busses and sent north and bring the Shia populations from
the north and bring them south to do demographic changes.
I appreciate that they are doing what the Sunni states are not
doing, and they should be applauded for that, I'll say it
bluntly, even though it's it's heavy on my heart to say it at the
same time, I'm wary of attributing success to them, because, like I
said, they haven't stopped the genocide. I do think that it's
good of them. In Yemen, for example, the internationally
recognized government, there was suggestion they would join the
alliance with the US to lift the blockade on the Red Sea, which was
so horrific that I don't think any sane person can now support the
internationally recognized government in Yemen, also the
Yemenis, they take to the streets and whatnot. And that's why I
think that, given that I can't say anything negative on what they're
doing for Philistine but my heart hurts about what they're doing in
Syria. These places in Syria, Iran lent its support to Bashar Al
Assad, who killed his people because they wanted an end to
family rule his him and his father, they ruled for the last 35
years. They said, We want freedom and to and you know, and we want
freedom and justice. And Bashar Al Assad says, I rule or I burn the
country. And the Iranians, they said, Because you are Alawi, even
if you are secular, that's dearer to us than if you were Sunni,
that's dearer to us than if you are. So we will send our militias
to support you and and fight with you. That's why, for me, if you
have nothing good to say, in my opinion, Sammy, because you know
it's on. On the point about why people aren't protesting in Saudi
and these places,
I think that it's fascinating to see the way that Islam is being
deployed in Saudi Arabia to keep Muslims quiet. I remember when I
was in in LA, my wife, my wife and I, we run this trouble company. We
take people to different destiny. I went through a period where I
wasn't sure if politics was the right career for me, because I was
like, oh, politics or fitna, you say something about somebody,
other guy gets upset. You say something this person, the other
guy gets upset. And I went through periods like, you know, I'm just
Sammy for 10 Hamdy, I'm just a man of fitna, you know, like, it's not
like it. So my wife, she said to me, why don't we just do a travel
company, take people to these different places, reconnect
memories of the Ummah, so everybody can learn about the
politics of them. You were mentioning earlier about learning
about the politics. People keep asking, What books did you read?
Books are introductions. You need to go out and see the Muslim
world. You need to go to Bosnia. You need to go to Uzbekistan. You
need to go to these places and be like a cup where the memories of
the Ummah are going to be poured into you. That's the way you learn
all this information, and that's the way you establish the ties
that lets you follow all these different things regardless. The
point that I'm making is that in Saudi Arabia, I remember my wife,
she gave a presentation in Istanbul on the travel issue, and
a Malaysian advisor to the government said to her, Tell
Sammy, I'm going to Amra in December. And I received the
WhatsApp, no, do not bring kefirs. Do not bring Free Palestine
stickers, and do not record yourself making dua for Gaza. So I
said to him, I said, I can't go in a room if I say some stuff like
these, imams are going to come out and be like, don't talk about
certain day. We want to do Ramadan Hajj. We don't want to compromise
it. So when I was in LA, I said to a group of brothers, I said, By
the way, you know.
The rumor, one guy said to me, no, no, no. Show me the WhatsApp
message. It's with a heavy heart that we inform you,
I think that in Saudi Arabia, they're using the religious card
to try to make sure Saudis don't come out that I know you're
hurting by Gaza. You might have problems with the government, but
fitna is worse. Don't cause instability. Just stay there and
you know, just, you know, go, stay in your make dua in the message,
but don't be loud about it, because the Imam say we need to
be, you know, one imam in America said we need to suffer in silence.
We need to learn how to suffer in silence. We that's the way of the
Sunnah. I've never read the Sunnah like that ever, but that's the way
of the Sunnah in Egypt.
I think it's more that anybody in Egypt, they're all saying that
Egyptians are boiling. I don't know if you saw today. There's an
image a man sees the truck going towards Gaza. He's selling
vegetables on the street, and he just starts grabbing his
vegetables and throwing it onto the truck. You know, just as the
truck is passing, he says, for Gaza, take it, take it, kind of
thing. And there was also a video that broke my heart of an Egyptian
guy walking through an apartment block, and yeah, Shad, because
they're too bad. Like, there's a genocide on the other side. Like,
you know, everyone is boiling and everybody in the apartment,
they're coming out the windows and they're crying as well. Sisi is
panicking about this. I don't know when it will explode. I don't know
what will be required for it to explode. I don't know what
Egyptians can do. I do think that the governments are deploying
their resources to repress the people first. And I think that
Saudi and Egypt in these countries and again, let me repeat the views
I'm expressing on my own. I don't want to get anybody in trouble. I
know some people, sometimes they get offended when I talk about
Muslim countries, but I believe you can't talk about Palestine
without the betrayal of Muslim countries because Wallahi. I
believe that tomorrow, the Muslim countries can end the genocide. I
believe they can do it even without an army. All CC has to do
is send in tanks into Rafa to force the aid through. He doesn't
even need to fight the Israelis send the tanks into Rafa. Vincent
man just needs to say that normalization process is finished
because genocide is a red line, and UAE just needs to kick out the
ambassador and reverse the Abraham accords. Americans will come
rushing to end the genocide, but they choose not to do so. That's
why my heart is broken. I know that the Americans want to support
genocide. I know I think that it breaks my heart that I'm asking
you to pressure America, not to pressure the Muslim leaders. It
breaks my heart that my first option, which is for Muslim
leaders to do something. I don't know how we can pressure those
Muslim leaders, because when I tell people talk about what's
happening in Saudia, talk about what's happening in UAE, they say,
Don't cause fitna, I'm going Omar next week. Don't cause I'm going
Hajj. I don't know. No, I don't want to. And I say to myself, I
don't understand an ummah that when Ummah Rabb says that the
blood of a Muslim is dearer than the brick of a Kaaba, that when a
Prophet, sallAllahu Sallam says in hota, in the dimer rather come
haram. Alaikum, ke Hurmati, Yomi, come here. FIBA, ladi kom had a fi
Shari, comm Heather, that your blood, honor and wealth are sacred
to you as the sanctity of the land, this holy land that we're
in, in this holy month that we're in. The Prophet Salim is saying
that the blood of the Palestinian is equivalent in sanctity to the
Mecca and Medina. And still, we come up with these, you know,
gymnastics, to try to justify our silence on the Golem that's taking
place. I think that for surad, there are some people genuinely
who believe that it's a religious obligation to be quiet and that we
shouldn't cause fitna and let the genocide take place, because to go
against your ruler is worse. I believe Saudis are caught 5050, in
this divide. I think the other 50 are worried that, as a result of
the crackdown on scholars, they've been in prison now for seven,
eight years. Many of you used to listen to them, but now they're in
prison. They've disappeared. Many of us, we don't talk about them
anymore because they were only good when they were fine, and now
that they're in prison, we don't want to raise justice for them. We
don't want to talk about them because we want to go land in Jad
and go through now three times he's been sent back. If that can
happen, she has a now, I want to go to I'm going to take pictures
as well of the cab inshallah. But, but the point I'm saying is that
Saudi I think it's tough UAE police state. You can't open him
up there. And I think in Egypt it's boiling. When will it
explode? Allah, noone saw the Arab Spring coming. So Inshallah, we'll
see how it goes. To be honest, I'm worried that Egypt are building
this camp ready to receive the Palestinians. I would have thought
that would be the red line that Egypt would go in. But to be
honest, don't think Allah is unaware. Something will happen.
Sorry, I'm calling for long. I'll try be brief.
Brother, I had
a question
so and I noticed in our communities, sometimes a lot of
careers are not in your career field, but I find it interesting
that I think the trend now will go in your career. And what would
your what would your advice be to Muslims who want to go into this
field of risk consulting? How can they get started? Because they
want to, they want to now get involved.
All Inshallah, to understand the Muslim world daughter. So what
role? What advice would you give Muslims who want to get involved
in your field of work and risk consulting, especially when it
deals with the Muslim advising government? I will say that I fell
into it by accident. I grew up in a political environment. My father
wanted me to do law. All four siblings, we did law. Not a single
one became a lawyer. He wasn't very happy about that. And then I
needed a job, and I ended up Middle East and this, and I
discovered I never knew it was there. But I want to expand the
question just slightly in that. I want to focus it less on how can
we do politics, and more that I think that one of the reasons that
we Muslims are not diverse in industries is because we read the
Hadith of the Prophet, saw them, but we added to it and explain
what I mean for anybody says Abu Dhabi, the Prophet, the Prophet
Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, said, Allah loves the hand that
gets his risk, that works and strives to get his and that hand
is better than the hand that takes charity. When I came to the US, I
wanted to buy Timberlands because they're cheaper here than they are
in the UK. And you know, my wife told me they support Zionists, and
I was deeply disappointed by her.
Somebody said to me, Sammy, but don't you think it's problematic
that we don't have Muslim equivalent of Timberlands? And I
don't mean muslim criminal who makes shoes, I mean a successful
Muslim enterprise, the equivalent of Timberlands, right? I'm not
talking about the bazaar. I'm talking the
so then we started talking, and I and I came up with a theory. And I
hope you'll indulge me with this theory. The Prophet Muhammad said,
Allah loves the hand that gets his risk, and that hand is better than
hand that takes charity. We looked at the Hadith and we said, Ya
rasulallah, Allah loves the hand that gets his risk, but we want to
add to it, because now we're in a modern context, Allah loves the
hand that gets his risk from law, medicine and engineering.
Because ya rasulallah, when I sit with my brother in my home, and my
brother's daughter is a surgeon, and my son makes shoes because he
heard Sammy say he wants to buy Timberlands. Ya rasulallah, do you
think people will respect me if I tell them my son makes shoes, even
if he's a multi millionaire surgeon over so ya rasulallah
loves the hand that makes the shoes, but I need my brother to
love the hand too.
Allah loves the hand that makes shirts that rival Marks and
Spencer. But I need my family to say that they love it too, because
Allah is not sufficient that he should love it. I need my family
to love it too, and that's why I think that when I look when
everybody cringe, but that's but what other explanation is there
for why we don't encourage it? But the reason why I say this is that
you think about it when you're boycotting now for Gaza, finding
alternatives has been a bit challenging, let's be honest, like
it has been a bit challenging, right in some place. But why I've
come to America, you have resources, you have talent, you
have educated generation, you have the means. You're not lacking in
this regard. What's lacking is you just don't want to do it, not you,
but specifically, but like people just don't want to do themselves.
The reason why I push back on the question the politics is, I think
the next stage for the community has less to do with whether we
should get involved in politics, but how we get involved in
politics, which is if designers can draw pools of money from every
industry because they have a successful company in every
industry, whether it's tech, whether it's clothes, whether it's
textiles or the like. Shouldn't we Muslims consider the next four
years diverting our resource and now we have mashallah, lovely
lawyers, doctors, engineers. We're full of them. We are like, let's
be honest. I've been to some of these fundraisers. They're always
loyal. Doctor engineer. I've seen it as well. But wouldn't it be
nice to consider next four years how we can expand and develop the
capabilities of the ummah. The same way that abdulham, who would
leave Medina go and find new goods and bring it back to Medina, to
make Medina a market that was worth people coming from Persia
and coming from place to he wanted to build that marketplace as well,
and he specifically did so. And one thing that will encourage
Muslims, and I encourage it as well, Abad Allah, read about Islam
in Africa. Read about Islam because Islam didn't spread in
Africa by the sword. Islam spread in Africa through trade. Islam
spread in Africa because Muslims were phenomenal entrepreneurs. And
the Africans when they embraced Islam, because they were also
phenomenal entrepreneurs. When they embraced Islam, they took
Islam to new financial heights, Sokoto, caliphate, Timbuktu, all
these other places. They took it and propelled them to greater
highs. Read about these people, and you will find that what made
the West and by the way, for Muslims who don't know, the West
African caliphates were so powerful and influential that, you
know, when we talk about Andalusia, a lot of the scholars
of Andalusia were taught by the West African caliphates. It wasn't
the other way around. Baba Ahmed would travel from Sokoto to
Andalusia to teach the Imams over there at a period where there was
even civil war between the Muslims, between the Moroccans and
between the the Sokoto Caliphate. It's phenomenal history when you
read it, when I hear your question after reading those books, I say
to myself, the issue has less to do with us being involved in
politics and more with our lack of imagination in terms of what we
can do with what Allah has given us, that we invested heavily in
one thing but neglected the others. I think it would be nice
that if you have someone in your community who has a new idea, be
patient with him if he fails the first time, invest in him again.
Because this is what I meant earlier. One of the things I find
fascinating is I promise I'm going to make his brief I promise you.
Was sent by the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu sallam, against the
tribe, and he transgressed against the tribe so much so that the
prophet has Salim is on record, Allahumma ini, abrai Allah I'm
innocent of what Khalid has done.
Let me give you two scenarios if Khalid ima was alive today and
made that mistake, and the Prophet Sallam had said that, what do you
think direction of the ummah of today would be Khalid? You're
never leading an army again canceled. Do
you know what the Prophet said about you? There's no way we're
ever sending you into the field again. No safe Allah. No nothing.
The Prophet, sallAllahu sallam, paid the deer forgive and sent him
back out. When the archers of Uhud, they led to the defeat,
Allah advised the Prophet, yeah, Muhammad, if you are hard on them
and harsh on them, the rest will flee from you the way, same way
someone we now flee from each other. Fat for anhu, pardon them.
Was tough for them, and ask me to forgive them. And here's the
curveball, here's the tough part, if we read the ayah up to this
part, because beyond it, we have a bit of an issue with in modern day
covid society. Because pardon them. I might Pardon them. Ask
Allah to forgive them.
Okay, Allah, Muslim, I won't mention by name,
Oshawa, humphilamma,
bring them back into your consultation. The ummah of today
would probably say these guys fail. They're the ones who led to
the law to bring them back in my consultation, Allah, as if he had
that concern, the AYA finishes for either azemta, Fatah, Allah, when
you've decided after you've brought into consultation to
wakala, Allah, trust that Allah will make sure the plan works this
time, and that those you feel will ruin the plan won't ruin it,
because Allah will protect the plan from those who ruin it.
I think that if the Ummah adopts these attitudes, even in business,
we were saying sometimes, that's why I meant sometimes the a is, if
the Quran is a phenomenal book, I give the guy 100,000 he fails his
first investment. I give him another one. He fails the second
time, the third time, he might make the Muslim version of Google,
because the story of Google is one of failure, failure, failure,
failure, failure. Than success. The story of meta is failure,
failure, failure. They have an appetite for failure. They don't
see failure as loss. They see failure as growing in development,
the same way that technically, the Seera, in some way, has parallels.
I won't call it failure, I wouldn't dare, but I do think
there is hekma in being persecuted in Quraysh. And then after 13
years, Allah doesn't send the Prophet Sallam an army. He tells
him, leave me 13
years. And he tells him, leave me. And the Prophet sallam, even
though Allah has ordered him, he's so hurt by it that when he leaves
Mecca, he turns around, looks at it and says, Wallahi, you are the
dearest land to me, and if your people had not driven me from you,
I would never have left you. He's heartbroken, even though Allah
told him to. Then he goes to Badr but loses in then existential
crisis in khandak, and then he has to sign a treaty of hudaybiyyah
where Sahaba refused to sacrifice on his order. When he tells him,
do the sacrifice, they all sit there. They don't do it. And he is
his wife, has to advise him and say, go and do it. First, they
will follow you. That's how upset they are at Treaty of hudaybiyyah.
And then Allah gives a Fatah. So I always tell people something.
There was a Imam once he told me. He said to me, if you think about
it, there are five stages right to the victory. Muslims should have
an appetite to allow someone to fail four times in the hope that
on the fifth they get it. And I think that if we can develop an
appetite for these things, the next four years will be tough.
If you punish genocide Joe, you might have Trump, although now,
with all these court cases going around and all the Atlantic today,
published yesterday, published an article that Democrats need to
change Biden, so Biden so Biden and Trump might not even be in the
ticket come November. You know, only Allah knows what will happen.
Subhan Arab. Things are moving quickly, but next four years,
regardless of who wins, the Muslim community will have the fire
underneath them. Right? We can do one of two things, retreat back
into our message,
or we can say, use our message as hubs, as incubators, to say, what
does our community lack? What do we need? Political analysts, let's
invest in institutions that will, that will train them. What are we
lacking? You know, a new version of target or whatever. Let's
invest in somebody who has the idea and that kind of and that's
why, in my opinion, the reason everybody loves Turkey so much,
Erdogan. What did Erdogan do? He built those Turkish companies are
Do you know how Erdogan is driving France out of West Africa. He's
driving them out economically, because when the Muslims find a
good quality Turkish product, not low quality, I'm talking good
quality. He sees bodron or Sofra next to delis and whatever he
says, Listen, Turkish quality is good, you know? And they're my
brothers. I'm buying Bodrum or I'm buying sofa, when you produce a
quality good the community actually go and invest in you. So
I would be very interested. You ask about politics. Get involved
in politics. Do political analysis. There are a number of
institutions coming together. You'll you'll hear about inshallah
in May, June and July, there are, there is, like, some courses that
are coming out in which we're hoping to train some new political
analyst in preparation.
For the next four years. So that, because I asked the question, if I
was to give you five, give me five names to send to CNN today, you
struggle. Zionist has a list of 200 like, really, we want to
create these kind of things, but I'd be very interested to see what
you create in the next four four years, 400 years, next four years.
Inshallah, sorry for the lengthy answer. I'll try better on this
one. Thank you for coming, and we're happy to have you here.
So maybe this might be an intersection between
normalization, which you said before, and what you're saying now
in terms of second chances
and forgiveness. I wrote a question down here. So do you
think it's worth calling out Muslims who align themselves with
Zionists in our communities, or should we focus on something else,
especially with rambun coming
and he where these Island Zionist politicians will want to come to
our masajid through these normalizers, as they have in the
past,
two fold question.
Oh,
something to avoid that part, for a reason
Biden
has been sending campaign teams to find groups of Muslim leaders to
meet with.
He met with a couple in Michigan, not his specific but his campaign
staff. But it's concerned that the Muslim community lambasted those
who went and met with the Democrats.
There is an imam who said to me, but Sammy, we should, you know, we
are people of Dawa. We should keep the lines of communication
open. I would like to consider a discussion about a particular part
of the Sierra which I believe might apply here better than what
some of these emails were saying, which is that when the Treaty of
hudaybi was broken, when the Treaty of hudaybi in which many of
you voted Democrat because you were scared of racist Trump when
the Treaty of adabi was broken, Abu Sufyan goes to Medina and begs
every Sahabi he can find for a meeting with the Prophet Muhammad,
sallAllahu, sallam, and they all turned their back on him. Not a
single one will meet with Abu Sufyan. He turns their back one by
one, even balabaho Abu asmaali, will meet with Abu Sufyan. I do
wonder about an ummah that focuses on some parts of the Syrah but
neglects other parts of
the Syrian I think that as November approaches, you will have
people who supported the genocide. They will come and ask you for
your vote. Now, the Arabs say that Al arikun Adeeb and like the one
who's come from foreign land, should be respectful and not
interfere in the internal dynamics.
So I won't interfere. All I'll say is this,
I cannot think of any context in which somebody can support openly
the slaughter of 30,000 of my brothers and sisters, including
12,500
children.
And you know, I don't know if some of you might not have kids here,
but for those who don't have kids, I promise you, when you have kids
and you see the the videos of the kids, it hurts 100 times more when
I saw the video of a four year old boy crying in the middle of the
street, crying for Mama Baba and the Palestinians are having to
like them, to say, yeah, they're here. We saw them. They're alive.
And the kid is smart. He's intelligent, like my Sulaiman,
who's four, the kid says, No, I saw their corpses. I know they're
dead.
When I see a girl nine years old, who's now has to look after her
two siblings because their parents have been killed,
I wonder about an ummah that still believes there can be a line of
communication with those who seek your vote come November.
And you know when I hear that some Muslims bear in mind, I've been
all over America. I won't lie to you, 99% of Muslims don't want to
meet with Democrats anymore. They're like, listen, we'll punish
him and suffer four years. I'm talking about the 1% Allah in the
Quran says Allahu alays Abu Allah, AB Allah is never oppressive to
his believers.
If Muslims can offer a way back for those who committed genocide,
Would you not agree with me that the Ummah then deserves to be
humiliated? Would you not then agree with me that the Ummah
deserves what it gets that we are complaining. Why are we this way?
But in reality, we've just demonstrated one of the most
ultimate betrayals, that they can kill 30,000
but because we might feel discomfort in our three bedroom
houses or whatever, but Texas much bigger, but in any case, because
we might feel and that's why I always put this question
they're coming to you after 30,000 not because they care about
Palestinians, but because when they started killing, they didn't
think you would do anything. And now when you say you got to do
something, they're like, Okay, we don't regret the genocide, but can
we clean it up? There was one Muslim who put on Twitter, may
Allah forgive him. He put Biden. There's still a chance to win back
some Muslim voters. If you could show empathy about what happened.
Ibad Allah, a I'm going to
give an example that's probably not good to give in a masjid. It's
not haram. But have you guys seen the Godfather film?
There is a scene in it where Don Corleone tells his son, Michael,
they're having a fight with the barzinis. The barzinis have
betrayed the peace. You.
So they're trying to figure out who's the traitor in the
community, who is the one that's going to sell them out sell the
blood to the Palestinians. So Don colony tells them the one from our
community who brings the message from the other side, that's the
traitor,
the one who brings the message. The reason why the Democrats are
wearing is because nobody wants to meet with them. But I promise you,
the Democrats now, the reason why they haven't called for a
ceasefire is they truly believe that you can be convinced by
November to forget the genocide, that because the other side is
Trump, you will say to yourselves, forgive genocide, to avoid Trump.
That's what they truly believe. I translate that as they believe
we're not a people of dignity, that we're not a people of karama,
that we're a people who love comfort. And I'll leave you with
this point,
whenever I ask people, people like people always put their hand up.
They say, but Sammy, you know, Trump is going to be really bad. I
tell them, Okay, better Biden, I don't endorse Trump. I think he
has a racist. I'm not telling people to vote Trump at all that
stuff for Allah. Some people have suggested that, saying that's No
I'm saying, I'm saying, punish genocide. That's what I'm saying.
But I ask people, I tell them, Okay, Trump is going to be worse,
right? What's the worst he's going to do in comparison to what was
done to the Palestinians? Are you going to get a knock on your door
saying, I'm handing this door over to this house now to Ben Shapiro,
and you need to leave now.
Is that? Is that what's going to happen? Is the National Guard
going to come suddenly and commit a genocide of Muslims in Texas? In
Dallas, Sharif
is Trump good like let's, let's take the worst case scenario
first, and you realize that it pales in comparison to what
happened to the Palestinians. And not only that, you actually find
that at the root of it, it has more to do with your discomfort
than any real harm to you. It has more to do with you enduring some
islamopho Somebody said, We know Islamophobia is going to get
higher. Islamophobia has skyrocketed during this period
under Biden, Trump is going to censor the campuses queens. They
canceled my talk under Biden, not over Trump, because they didn't
want to talk
about the point is, you're putting these examples. And I'm like, give
me the real, tangible difference. And that's why I think that when
it comes to
the idea of struggle, I think here is where the Muslim community is
worrying. I think this is the crux of the issue. I don't think it's
Trump or Biden, because even when people say, you know, the
democracy, we need to protect it, a democracy that produces a choice
between a genocide and a racist, that's already a democracy in
crisis, to be honest. And the fact that Democrats are put in a guy
who claims that he spoke to the French president of Germany, you
know, it shows you that there's something really wrong with it.
But here's the point I want to make, and I want to finish on this
point, with regards to struggle. The reason Allah mentions SABR all
the time is because sabar is not something done in comfort. Sabba
is done in something in struggle. And Ibn khadun has a theory. He
says that civilizations last three generations. The first generation
is poor. Has nothing to lose. It struggles from birth so it
develops. It's just it's because it's used to struggling. It keeps
struggling, and that's the generation capable of spectacular
feats, because they struggle, and so they they establish a state.
The second generation lives half its life in struggle, half its
life in comfort, in prosperity. But because they live through the
struggle, they know what's required to keep the prosperity.
So even in prosperity, they continue struggling, because they
know that's what brought the prosperity, and that's how you
keep it. The third generation is born in prosperity, so they've
never tasted what struggle feels like. They don't know what the
struggle feels like to maintain the prosperity. So because they
enjoy the comfort, they only they try to protect their comfort by
not struggling. They want to anything that's struggling. They
go back into the comfort that's the generation that ruins the
prosperity because they failed to do the struggle necessary to
uphold that prosperity. And that's the point. That's the point that I
always tell people your next four years is how you choose to
struggle, when you choose to struggle in dignity, or when you
choose to struggle in humiliation, and that's the reason why I always
say that the Ummah needs to what the question for the Ummah today
is, it's not about what is the best avenue, it's all the avenues
require struggle. Are we willing to struggle? And I think that's
what the real question is being asked. But no one dares to say it
bluntly, because the reality is, the moment you say it, you realize
what's wrong with our hearts. And I'll finish on this point. People
always when they want to say, the Ummah is weak, they bring the
Hadith about the prophet. He says, the foam of the sea. So I went
back to the Hadith because I thought, if that's the case, then
we're just destined to be weak for the rest of our lives. And then I
realized for Allah how the people misinterpreted the Hadith. You
know, the word weakness is not used in the Hadith at all. The
Prophet Salim said that one day, Allah will remove the fear in the
hearts of your enemies, and they will come to you as if you're on a
plate. They will come and gather on you as if on a plate. The
Sahaba asked, Will it because we're weak or strong? Will it be
because we are few or many? They're asking, Will it be a
reflection of our strength? And he Prophet said, you will be many,
but you'll be like the foam of the sea again. He hasn't used the word
weakness.
He said, because you will be afflicted with wahan, a love of
comfort and karahi til mode. You will hate death, but what the
meaning of it is, you will hate anything that requires struggle.
So you will.
Refuse to do the struggle necessary that requires to achieve
glory, prosperity and justice, and you will always retreat back into
comfort. The point is, the Ummah never actually becomes weak. The
Ummah never loses the capabilities to become strong. Rather, the
Ummah becomes disinclined to use its power, because in order to
unlock it and use it requires a struggle that the Ummah is not
does not want to do, and that's why in the upcoming election,
you've got two choices, a man who committed a genocide of 30,000
Palestinians. And the election system in this country is designed
in such a way that for the first time in history, Muslims
potentially have the deciding vote in those six swing states and
beyond. It's the first time people say, Why is the Zionist globe is
so strong? They're strong because they can punish, not because they
can deliver candidates. If it was only they can deliver candidates,
the candidate wins and betrays them. It's because they can
punish. So everyone panics, if I do something wrong, they're going
to put all their money to topple me. And that's why they listen.
Muslims don't do that. This is the first time we have the ability to
punish, and that's why I think that now you have the ability to
punish that's why now we're having a serious conversation about it.
And that's why I say is it's about whether you want to struggle in
dignity or humiliation and and I promise is the final example I
want to give. But when the Congress person comes here, let's
be honest. When they visit the Zionists, they know everything
about Judaism. They research it, right? Because these Zionists,
they know what they're doing, even though not all Zionists are not
all Jews are Zionist because it's the Jews who shut down Congress in
favor of Palestine. We didn't sit in. It's the Jews who are with us
on the protest. It's Jewish Voice for Peace who allowed it's the
Jewish historian Avila from Cambridge who's come, who came out
and did the thinking Muslim podcast and said, We Jews were
never persecuted under the Muslims. Generally. It was good
coexistence, a couple of flash points, but nothing serious. It
can't be said that we suffered anti semitism under Muslims. He
says it not me.
I imagine that if you were to punish a sitting US president,
when that Congress person right now, when they come, they research
you quickly on the way to the car. Give me something that makes
Muslims go well, you know, you know, it's like we have a guy
called a former health minister who, you know, he went to a
mission. He went as as may come like that. And we were all the
bosses they went. Amar shalali is trying, I
reckon, if you were to top of the sitting US president, when the
Congress person comes in the following year,
he will come to you, talawi, when you're all here, and he will stand
in front, he'll be like, salaam, Alaikum. He'll say it properly,
because he knows these guys punished the US sitting US
President. And he'd be like, I like to thank the Muslim community
for standing with us. You know, we gotta keep moving together for
what's right, even if it's tough at the end of the day. And then
everybody
will look at and be like, Whoa. He said the Hadith, you know? Point?
He goes, Yeah, yeah, of course. And it's going to be a tough road,
but as the Quran says in the Mount usri, USRA and and he will know
all of this, why? Because he knows that you are a community that
would that prefer to suffer in dignity than abandon your brothers
and sisters in philosophy. Now, imagine the opposite happens,
where the Muslim says that, to be honest,
I know it's a three bedroom with a plasma TV and that kind of stuff,
but I don't want to feel the discomfort in this. My brother has
a joke. So not a joke. I want to be my brother is a businessman in
Tokyo. Speaks fluent Japanese, the strangest thing you'd ever see,
but he was like, I said to him, was Yusuf, you know, hayati is not
all money. It's not all it's not all flus, you know, you know, it's
like the guy with that, do I, you know, flus, flus. So I said to
me, music, there's more to it. He said, Yes, yes, I know there's
more to it, but I'd rather cry in a Mercedes and even your Toyota's.
I feel like when Muslims talk about if, if you don't punish
genocide, do you think the Congress person is even going to
give you the time of day? Do you think they even going to be
bothered to take you seriously? They're going to say, guys,
they're coming to the killing of 30,000 people, and these guys
still go to Blue still voted blue, as in, they still voted Biden. I
don't even vote blue because I actually think there's a way you
can punish Biden in the presidential and deny trump the
house, if you're really good with your data and you can identify
Muslims, not Democrat, Republican Muslim is based on justice. In
July, for example, when the parents in Michigan protested the
LGBT in the schools, Fox News gave very positive coverage of the
Muslims. They actually said, you know, we need to be more like
these Muslims, to uphold the values Muslims, not Democrat or
Republican. There's actually a way in which you can identify seats
and reward the ones who stood with a ceasefire and punish the ones
who supported genocide. And
I think that there are some people who are saying, but Sammy, the
guys who supported the ceasefire, have dubious values.
That's true, and I'm not giving you any photo telling you what to
do here. All I'm saying is
analysis, which is if that person wins over the one who committed
genocide, they're going to ask themselves, where did I get the
surge of votes that let me win?
And when they analyze those votes, they realize they weren't votes
for the candidate, they were votes against the other candidate, and
then they're going to be like, How can I keep those votes? So then
they will come to you and say, I know you voted in protest, but
what can I do to keep your votes? So suddenly they're coming to you
to talk about the terms of your agreement in which you can say,
I'm sorry, like you support certain things which I will I
can't support in the next election.
I only did it this time because of the genocide. The reason why I say
this is that it's not theoretical. In the UK, in the political
system, I don't know how much you know about the UK, it's smaller
than Texas. But in any case, there's towards the north. There's
an area called the red wall, which goes from coast to coast. The red
wall, meaning they always vote labor, always left. For 100 years,
conservatives were never able to penetrate until the last election
because of Brexit. So they managed to win, like a lot of votes in
those areas, the Conservatives knew that the only reason they won
votes was because these guys were protesting the other side. So when
they went to ask them, what made you vote for us, they realized
that everybody said, Listen, we really don't like you. We just
we're just upset with our own party. The Conservatives changed
25 of their policies in a bid to try to maintain those new votes
that they got.
That's what I'm saying in that these are strategies that you
might want to consider. I'm not telling you which one is the right
one. I'm telling you to think broader. Ya, ibad, Allah. I'm
telling you to think about Allah. I'm telling you to take each
victory as it come. I know I criticize American football, but
there's one thing I do admire about it, which is, you know, when
they win 10 yards, they all high five each other. Yeah, really,
they all have they know that 10 yards has value, even though they
haven't got to touch down yet. If they lose five but gain 15,
they're like, it's okay. We rally, we get back together. They all
touch and they start again. They go. And I thought, You know what?
That's a really good way of looking at it, because
Subhanallah, if you're able to appreciate the victories Allah
says, wala in shakarta, celebrate what I give you. I give you more.
And wainto, I count the blessings of Allah that you have, you'll
find you always have the means to move forward. I know it's a long
winded question, but what I'm saying is, those who will bring
the people to come to you if they supported genocide. Does it make
sense, after 30,000 to receive somebody who committed genocide?
And I actually think that if we had made it clear earlier that
there was no hope for anyone who supported genocide, we could have
had a ceasefire by now. The Democrats wouldn't be talking
about maybes, ifs and buts, but unfortunately, the community, we
still need to try to find a way to unite everybody. So make the
message absolutely or my advice would be, because it doesn't
reflect the organization, or anybody who, you know, this is
just my opinion that I'm saying to you. My opinion is, make it clear
you want, you want reward genocide, but also move a little
bit. Yeah, ibadah, like calculate. You know, in your area where you
can punish those who supported genocide, don't be those who just
waiting for the presidential election. There's also things that
happen in the one final, final, quick story. There's an area in
Huntington, I think it is.
The council came out with a statement within the first few
days of October 7, supporting the Israelis. Do you know why? Because
the Delhi shop next to it came and put pressure on him. Muslims
didn't bother to call the council. They didn't bother to engage. They
didn't bother to say, you know, like, what? Because they shout
louder and the Muslims are quiet. That's why they get their way.
Listen, I've dealt with these members of parliament before in
the UK. I promise you, a lot of them don't know anything about
foreign policy. They can't even point to Palestine on a map. The
only reason they take the positions they do is because the
Zionists are far more engaged with them than we are. The Zionists are
there in their offices, knock on in the in the votes of the council
meeting. They're there in force. We Muslims. We don't go because
what am I doing? Yes. Pan Allah. There's a, you know, there's a
there's a good match on, why am I going to go spend five hours in a
in the Council for a ceasefire vote? And what's he going to do
anyway? It's just a local council. The Zionist that I think, is just
a local council. The Muslim only feels it when the Council supports
the Zionist and he starts encroaching on you. And you're
like, why are they encroaching? And because you didn't do anything
earlier. Sorry for the long with an answer.
That's it. Yeah, sorry, sorry. I'm really sorry. Brother, sorry,
sorry, baraka of in any case, barakallah for having me. But, and
to be honest, I will say this to encourage you. I've been all
across America. Everybody has the same fire in their eyes. Everybody
wants to do something. The only thing I'm worried about so far is
we are slow to develop a strategy. Ibad Allah, if you have an idea
for a strategy, engage your local community and go and do it. Ibad
Allah, if you find that somebody is is sort of messing your your
way forward, go around them in the UK, in the in Ilford north we have
a guy called West streeting. MP, he stepped to be the next leader
of the Labor Party. Next 10 years, we sat with a massage, and they
could not agree between themselves, Imam as a very
territorial and it was such a headache to do so. Eventually, a
group of people decided to take an initiative. They said, Who wants
to run against West streeting? Three people said, we want to run.
They announced online that they were going to do Hustings. The
three candidates, they stood here. 250 people from the community came
three hours and a half. They eventually agreed to support a
Palestinian activist, her name Leanne Muhammad. When they
announced it online, you know the Muslim community did in red
bridge, they all went, Yeah, let's go. Everybody behind that. And he
has only a majority of 5000 The point is, if the community isn't
moving, you move and watch the community move with you. Just move
and go and do something Inshallah, who wrote your efforts and protect
us inshallah and give justice to the Palestinian.