Shadee Elmasry – Do your job and leave the rest to Allah

Shadee Elmasry
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The speakers discuss the importance of actions and compassion in achieving success in political processes, as well as the use of words like " CC" and "ops," in relation to people's experiences and emotions. They also touch on the use of words like salted Bhuj and "the Brazilian culture" in relation to past struggles and problems. The segment ends with a discussion of the potential consequences of the use of words like "ops," and the potential consequences of their use.

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			The worst thing about this is
don't try to link this to
		
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			someone's Dean. Absolutely. That
doesn't make any sense. I mean,
		
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			the the issue, the thing is so
complicated. So I said there's
		
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			there should be specialists, like,
Isn't don't we have an
		
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			organization called
		
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			What's EMPAC? Yeah. Aren't you
supposed to be doing your job?
		
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			I've never hear anything from
these. It's the first time I hear
		
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			but most of them political action
committee or whatever, right? I
		
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			think they're based out of LA. He
should be based out of Washington.
		
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			Right. At least he should have an
office there. So I'm having in
		
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			Northern Virginia. My point is
that I'm a common guy, right?
		
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			Politics bores me, it's, it's not
in there. But I recognize
		
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			something's got to be involved.
You can't be in a country and just
		
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			just sitting there daydreaming,
right? You got to be involved,
		
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			somehow. But you guys, you guys
got to do your job. You're called
		
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			EMPAC. I never hear what these
people do. I have no clue what
		
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			these people do. And if they had
done something good, I was
		
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			supported behind it, you know,
100%. Right. And and this is why
		
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			when people try to make others
feel guilty about, you know, doing
		
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			work, right. This is why, you
know, I don't think that's the
		
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			right way to go about it, making
people feel guilty. When, you
		
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			know, if I wanted to get my street
paved, you know how much of a
		
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			headache that is in the local
Township, let alone changing these
		
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			humongous institutions, right, and
policies that have been in place
		
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			and will continue to be in place,
because their special interests a
		
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			million times bigger and more
powerful than you. Right? Doing
		
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			it. So that's why I'm a bit
critical about making people feel
		
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			guilty, that they're not part of
the political process when it's
		
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			not a defined practice. Oh,
absolutely. And I think you were
		
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			just saying this before, is a lot
of people hate the spiritual types
		
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			because they think that we're
actually the problem is a problem.
		
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			They think you're gonna sit around
in the masjid and pray all day.
		
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			But let me tell you something. Let
me tell you something. First of
		
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			all, the way of Prophets, they put
a lot more emphasis on the prayer
		
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			on obeying Allah and being unlined
with Allah in all of our success,
		
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			right? Worldly and otherworldly.
Right? than anything else. Okay,
		
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			and that now, they all said
action, okay. But they all
		
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			Prophets always gave us objective
action, not something subjective,
		
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			which I don't even know how to do,
you know, which I don't know how
		
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			to do. And I'm admitting I don't
know how to do it. I wish EMPAC
		
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			would actually do something or
whoever these people are. And I
		
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			told you before, people have
always asked me, I taught
		
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			politics, it bores the life out of
me, right. Someone else do. I
		
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			mean, you're, you're you're a
teacher of you know, we're, you
		
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			know, we're, we're studying the
dean here. Yeah, we were out busy
		
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			studying politics, and we couldn't
be doing this right stroke. So
		
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			each,
		
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			each person has their special and
that's what I see that
		
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			tests come to us for reasons,
right? We are supposed to have
		
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			tests in this life. When when I
saw a lot of people panicking. And
		
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			like I said, I want to look at it
with an eye of compassion, because
		
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			there are people out there and
Arkansas, St. Louis, Missouri, all
		
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			these there are Muslims out these
places, right? Absolutely. They
		
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			deserve compassion. Because
stinks. Get violent, right? There
		
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			already was Trump graffiti. What
did you tell me? Today? There were
		
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			struggles at NYU, NYU, at the
prayer in outside the prayer room.
		
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			They weren't like the day I think
they wrote Trump. Yeah, yeah,
		
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			they're all Trump on it. I mean,
that's, and that's, that's scary.
		
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			And I'm not putting that down at
all right. And I, to the point
		
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			that, you know, even my wife
before I left this morning, she
		
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			was like, you know, be careful
when you when you go to work. And
		
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			that's a scary thought. But at the
same time, right, I was talking to
		
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			my Arabic teacher is he's actually
in Egypt. And he was like, you
		
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			know, he's like, it's kind of
funny. When I look at Americans
		
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			and I see your election. He's
like, you guys, he just like even
		
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			American Muslims is like you guys
are complaining about, you know,
		
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			this not somebody calling you a
name out in the street. He's like,
		
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			we got CC.
		
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			He's like, we have CC. For
decades. These people could not go
		
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			to prefetcher regularly without
thinking that you might get picked
		
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			up on they're better off here than
we are there from from being Yeah,
		
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			exactly. I mean, and forget, like
I'm you know, I'm from I'm from
		
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			India, and there are places in
India if you're a Muslim, you
		
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			can't do certain things. For them,
right. Yeah, it's, it's, it's
		
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			forget like, Oh, somebody's
calling you a name because like
		
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			your hijab was, you know, you're
wearing hijab, which is rough. I
		
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			understand. But come on now. Right
the Sahaba make a comparison.
		
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			Yeah, like let's make a comparison
here. Right the the prophets and
		
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			the Companions right they went
through torture Hmm. Now difficult
		
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			this is the thing that that
without being mean or or not being
		
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			losing compassion for people who
are you know, having feelings
		
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			Everyone has the right to have
feelings, right? Without that, but
		
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			I also want to make a comparison
because I've actually believe it
		
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			or not, we growing up William
		
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			memorizing the Quran you memorize
things like salted Bhuj. Right?
		
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			This is in Joe's AMA. It's in the
last Joe's. And he Sunday school
		
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			will cover the Tafseer of the last
Joe's right? And you look at Susan
		
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			Bucha, what did they say they had
us have a look, dude, these people
		
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			have the ditch. That means in the
past, if you're a part of an
		
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			ethnicity that they didn't want,
or a religion that they didn't
		
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			want around, they dug a ditch and
they got rid of you. They
		
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			ethnically cleanse that area by
digging a ditch filling it with
		
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			fire. And this was routine. The
era there was an epoch, an era in
		
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			which people did this to other
people routinely. And Allah told
		
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			us, they did it to the believers,
and the tafsir tells us they would
		
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			do it to the Jews. Pagans would do
it to Jews, or we would call them
		
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			Benny Israel, because they were
still believing people at the
		
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			time. Right? They were up they
were believing in their prophets.
		
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			And they would do it to the early
Christians, right?
		
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			And they would stop everyone at
the road at the main highway. And
		
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			they would say, Well, who was your
God? One simple question. If you
		
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			answered that it was ALLAH. Okay.
They threw you in the ditch. They
		
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			arrested you. They took you, they
threw you in a ditch, and they
		
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			lined them up on one at a time
pushed him into the ditch of fire.
		
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			Now think about this. I'm an 11
year old kid, 12 year old kid. I'm
		
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			reading this in the Quran. I'm
sitting repeating Lee repeatedly
		
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			reciting us how we look dude,
right and nary that record, no
		
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			matter how cold which means the
fire, you know, filled with, with
		
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			enough wood to light it up into my
lab code. They're sitting there
		
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			looking at this fire. Right? What
am I the man I don't even know
		
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			when we need it. So good. Okay,
and they're just then pushed one
		
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			after the other into this. And I'm
thinking to myself, this makes me
		
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			think we got problems. Trying we
don't have problems, no problems,
		
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			right? So Allah azza wa jal has
already taken us to the extent.
		
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			He's shown us what the spectrum
is. And the problem is, right,
		
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			this is when we forget what the
spectrum is. And not only that,
		
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			not only did that happen to them,
look at how they responded of the
		
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			few babies that ever spoke
		
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			is one woman who thought to
herself, I just have a newborn
		
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			baby. Maybe if I say that I
worship their god. Then I run away
		
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			and I raise my son and we worship
Allah together. Make sense? Right,
		
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			which is in our religion is called
what? takia is Hillel? This is the
		
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			cochlea. That's right. Okay, where
you're going to be killed for your
		
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			event, you could tell a lie.
		
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			And you have the baby. So what is
this baby Speaking section? No,
		
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			the baby said no, say Allah and
Allah take care of us. He said
		
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			Allah, they both went in there,
right? They both got pushed to the
		
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			fire. And they went agenda. So it
goes to show us right, not only
		
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			did they suffer something great
and Allah put it in the Sunnah
		
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			that the children memorize, so
that we have a perspective here of
		
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			what troubles and problems really
our but also they were they took
		
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			it with pride.