Shadee Elmasry – How the War in Gaza Brought Unexpected Blessings

Shadee Elmasry
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The transcript describes a group of people waking up to the reality of Zionism and waking up to the
reality of Christians. They also talk about people waking up to the Bible and the
the importance of thanking God during this crisis. The transcript also mentions a woman who posted reviews on Tik prepays and a woman who has been a means of finding
the Quran and is now finding room to make it a priority to thank God.

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			Every one is now waking up to
reality of Zionism now. Yeah.
		
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			Right. Everyone's waking up to
that. That's one huge lesson is
		
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			coming out of this total, right?
They've lost the PR war. They've
		
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			lost it now and Israeli thing to
and came out and admitted, they
		
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			said that of all the protests
going around the world 95% of pro
		
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			Palestine, wow. 95% of profiles,
right? So they've lost, they've
		
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			lost that you can see also with
his un votes, how when they do so
		
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			in the General Assembly, it's like
140 or, and 50 countries. It's
		
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			Israel and us on the other side,
and a few other countries, even a
		
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			lot of like, vassal states of the
US like Britain and the EU.
		
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			They're abstaining.
		
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			They're losing that. Right. So
that's coming to the fore, but
		
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			something even greater than that's
happening. And I think I think
		
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			you've talked to some of our
guests about this, which is that
		
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			people aren't, people aren't only
waking up to the reality of
		
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			Israel, but they're also waking up
to the reality of Palestinians.
		
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			And they're saying what is it that
keeps these people going?
		
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			Right, like they've gone through
so much they've there's there's
		
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			people who've lost everything,
they lost their homes, they lost
		
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			her family, they have nothing.
		
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			But they're smiling and they're
single handedly low sugar Lillard
		
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			right there. How is that possible?
They don't get so what is that now
		
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			doing? So now they think, Okay,
well, they're Muslims. Okay. So
		
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			and then they're going and they're
trying to read a translation
		
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			report and they're trying to
		
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			put the pieces together. And it's,
it's happening like I think, I
		
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			think it was just a My friend has
and he's my co author from
		
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			depression anxiety, like he sent
me he sent me a video of
		
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			a lady from America is not a
Muslim, right blonde, who heard
		
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			that lady, not a Muslim. And she's
reading she's reading a
		
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			translation of the Koran, right?
I'm assuming is a pretty decent
		
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			one. previous conversation, right?
I'll see what okay, what.
		
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			But she put a little video saying
the Quran is helping me with my
		
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			anxiety. I have I have I have
anxious I have anxiety problems.
		
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			And she read. I think reading is
it's subtle.
		
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			Paula.
		
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			Me talking about Yeah. Jello
Maharaja.
		
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			Yeah, Tessa, wherever fears Allah
log him away out. vibrations in
		
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			the sun. So she's quoting this
idea that you close my eyes and
		
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			super Rockman.
		
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			And she's almost tearing up. Like,
she's not even a Muslim. She's
		
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			She's almost tearing up. And she's
saying, you know, with with
		
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			anxiety, she's saying with
anxiety. You know, people always
		
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			telling people I was telling you,
okay, that you have to learn to
		
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			let go, you have to learn to let
go. And don't Don't fret over that
		
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			thing. And then she said, But I
reading these reading these verses
		
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			and realizing
		
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			how can I let go of something that
I never really had in the first
		
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			place? SubhanAllah? How can I let
go, when a lot has been holding
		
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			all along?
		
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			Right? How do I do? How do I let
go, and she said so. So then I
		
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			realized, and then I realized,
wait a second, I'm actually part
		
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			of a larger system, a much larger
part or like a larger, you know,
		
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			apparatus or framework. And all I
can really do is act. That's all I
		
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			can do. Because Allah is in
control. And she says, This isn't
		
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			what I was taught, I always taught
that. It's down to you. It's
		
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			always down to you, right? So if
you're successful, because it's
		
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			because of you and your hard work.
If you're not successful. It's
		
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			because you're lazy. You're
stupid. You're this and that. It's
		
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			like, no, no, it's all in the laws
hands. So she said she said that,
		
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			that just that just gave me so
much. Just relief. Yeah. Just just
		
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			just to see that. So I think I
think to put all of that together,
		
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			I think I think for Muslims who
are getting really really anxious
		
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			and depressed situation of us a
look at the bigger picture, look
		
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			at the bigger picture, see what's
really happening. And then look at
		
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			these people aren't even Muslim
who are now coming back to or not
		
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			coming to a lot and now reading
your book.
		
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			And just seeing I mean,
		
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			they're seeing things that a lot
of muscle just haven't seen,
		
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			right. So something we all see is
bad in our world, but Allah has
		
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			has a hidden blessing in that and
one of them, you mentioned is
		
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			people Americans waking up to the
Quran. So waking up to Islam, look
		
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			asking, how are these Palestinians
keep going? I'm looking here at a
		
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			Guardian article. Young Americans
are picking up the Quran to
		
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			understand the resilience of
Muslim Palestinians. Then it has
		
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			here a woman who who started a
book club on Discord and she
		
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			posted reviews on Tik Tok. Right.
And she chit chats about a book on
		
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			Tik Tok. That's it and she's out
of Chicago. She's 34 years old.
		
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			Then when this crisis happened
that she has a big platform on Tik
		
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			Tok, start talking about
Palestine.
		
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			And then she started noticing that
picture that video of the brother
		
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			whose daughter died.
		
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			This is a he was you know, a
Palestinian man religious man, I
		
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			think is from the web Gemma of
Palestine and he
		
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			his daughter was brought to meet
us she has the two poufs like this
		
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			was brought to him and he was just
kissing her face. She passed away.
		
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			He's about to marry her. She said,
Yeah, that video once got so many
		
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			people wondering how is he doing
this? How was he not like yelling,
		
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			screaming and yelling Crazy,
right? So they started to pick up
		
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			the Quran. Here one lady says I
wanted to talk about the faith of
		
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			Palestinian people how it's so
strong, they still find room to
		
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			make it a priority to thank God
even when they have everything
		
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			taken away from them. She said in
an interview this lady her name is
		
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			Megan B rice.
		
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			She keeps posting these videos.
One thing Lex leads to the next
		
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			eventually she ends up all Muslim
and she posts it.
		
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			Somebody Allah subhanaw taala took
someone that you the last person
		
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			that you would ever even think of.
And this person has been a means
		
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			of hundreds upon 1000s if not
millions, to discover the Quran,
		
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			right? And really view the Quran
in a positive light. Okay, because
		
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			we have enough of bad press, but
she has amazing you know, good
		
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			press