Shadee Elmasry – Should Muslims Join the Green Party – NBF 384
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Welcome everybody to the Sabine Society's Nothing But
Facts live stream, on a Tuesday in which
we begin this week's live streaming with news
from Israel on missiles coming down you hear
all this missiles coming down on on Israel
from Iran now are they are I'm gonna
send you some footage right here just just
just play this for us if you can
download it let's see if this is the
real deal this time or is it something
that is just some soft blobs going in
so that Israel can intercept them and it
could be said that you know that Iran
did something but hey listen at this point
they've did ten times more than any other
Sunni nation so let's be honest it's not
like we have some kind of great lines
besides from the people of Gaza that's it
and they didn't even have nothing right they
can't even blow give much of a blow
to their enemies but we'll see because last
time with the US it was like a
for like for show an attack on paper
hey we're coming in in six hours we're
gonna blow up this this this this like
to save face and you let your enemy
save some face so they can calm down
a little bit after Suleiman he was killed
oh so I'm gonna load up some of
this footage that were we got here and
it's going all over the place now on
Twitter on X or whatever on telegram the
footage is everywhere you all see it but
just so that you could all see it
for yourselves we'll play it here not much
reporting can be done yet because we're still
in the initial phases and yeah play this
so they're
they're getting some but they're not getting most
and that one lands so you know that
my position on politics is purely situational like
who you support is purely situational and Allah
knows best it's just my what I feel
is common sense my opinion it's purely situational
so when hezbollah was in Syria they were
the enemy like they did you know atrocities
committed atrocities in Syria they're the enemy with
their help of the Assad regime and Iran
and putting down all the Syrians and I'm
with the Syrians I'm with those people Sheikh
Mohammed Ali Aqoubi was one of those leaders
most outspoken of all in terms of the
shoe of course there were others there are
other a lot of other groups but that's
who we supported at that moment when Israel
went into Lebanon Lebanon if so with them
here against them in another situation why can't
we compartmentalize our minds and when it comes
to when it comes to support doesn't have
to be I'm with somebody a hundred percent
and I'm against them a hundred percent that
doesn't make any sense doesn't work in the
real world either when we deal with our
neighbors as a neighbor you can love someone
as a great neighbor doesn't make noise cleans
their property cleans their lawn right there they
never bother us they wave don't talk too
much don't talk too little like talking too
little is weird too someone just walks right
by and never even waves that's some weird
energy too then you have the type of
neighbor that if you run into them you're
like oh no I just lost 20 minutes
in my life right they just talk too
much talking too much is terrible talking too
much usually has to do with somebody who
nobody in there they were coddled in some
way and nobody told him to stop so
he never learned norms you know like I
was thinking about this the other day and
a kid was talking too much and his
dad said enough so someone said oh that's
mean I said yeah it might be a
little bit mean but does transfer some important
information to that kid which is how much
is enough is enough right and how many
kids who were raised only by moms the
mom never she said a lot of patients
so she never says enough stop talking stop
this nonsense right that information transfer never happens
homeschoolers who never interact with kids who don't
really care about you I think that's important
to interact with kids who don't care about
you because they're honest right they'll just don't
mean they're mean but they're honest by the
way the more meanness the more nastiness you
can tolerate the more information you get the
better decisions you make people who want to
be coddled from critique they you don't get
information you don't get knowledge of what's out
there in the world so we compartmentalize our
support I can I compartmentalize it at least
so when Israel is at Lebanon I'm with
the Lebanese now Iran on Israel I'm with
Iran but is it gonna be well we'll
see if this was a real attack or
not because in the past it really wasn't
but I'm being told that it looks like
it's I'm getting being told both opposites things
anyway we'll see okay we'll see what his
war monitor says never to never team airbase
is gone never team airbase is gone hmm
you want that footage here Omar I'm gonna
send it to you right now so you
can put this okay yeah that's what they
said I'm gonna keep sending you this stuff
on rain you start you actually just go
to my Twitter feed right yeah see I
don't I don't I don't have I don't
really believe in this honestly I don't believe
in the full-scale support of one nation
in international politics right let's just put it
this way I'll put it this way so
people can understand modern people can understand if
the Mets want to make the playoffs right
and the hated Yankees are playing the Braves
hypothetically I don't know you need the Braves
to lose to make the playoffs you're a
Mets fan you're gonna root for the Yankees
on that day right on that day you're
with the Yankees so that the knock the
Braves down a bit and Mets could get
in the playoffs right same thing you are
a hated you are Bill Belichick and the
Jets need to defeat the Dolphins so that
the Patriots could get the number one seed
and win the division you're gonna root for
the Jets as much as he hates the
Jets right so it doesn't matter who you
love and hate it's what's actually use your
brain what's better for me for the situation
yes Allah like yeah and which which party
you're gonna support in in every situation is
just which one is more beneficial to the
world right so that's what we're having all
right Omar let's let's hear some let's see
that footage yeah
that's that's that's what the keep keep scanning
Omar my what I've shared no no in
Twitter I've shared a bunch yeah let's look
let's look at that one Mossad commentary Diaz
got a format each one no problem sorry
about that no problem expands there all right
let's see that one so they must be
really far in order to be being perceived
that slow like an airplane I guess although
how many feet does a missile go why
is this person's camera like as if he's
all right go down Omar go down scroll
down did you get that the second one
look at that second one yeah is there
anyone let's see what the in the news
agencies are saying this is all new let's
see Al Jazeera first Iran fires ballistic missiles
UN chief Gutierrez condemns escalation of shut your
mouth he condemns it who cares what with
these with does
not sound Palestinian sounds Yemeni actually oh they're
hitting so what is what is the US
gonna do now they're hitting
too injured in Tel Aviv so far Israel
prepared to defend and retire of course they're
always defending themselves attack the whole world to
defend themselves if the day comes that they
ever attacked America American politicians would say they
have the right to do so tell you
the brainwashing is so we don't have much
news yet except the this live footage that
we're getting through telegram that's being reposted to
X it's mostly coming through telegram originally the
original sources are usually through telegram and then
here we have all but I'm gonna send
you another one from the airport is as
well send you this one on tell on
what's up and then we're gonna talk about
the Green Party letter was the other piece
of news yep no other people sending it
to me I got the exclusive yeah mom
I'm on all the Palestinian telegrams by the
way that's why I have forty six thousand
seven hundred unread messages on telegram and nausea
times and must it is one of the
best ones he's a self-made journalist I
think I guess yeah play that one there's
too many messages on telegram to download I
mean at this point just it's just flooding
coming in all the footage of the but
all we're seeing is the same type of
footage basically of these missiles landing it's daytime
so okay all right guys uh all right
since you on telegram to okay I have
to find you on telegram here yeah I
got through through I'll just send it to
you on what's up here because it's easier
for me to save it and find you
on what's up and they're celebrating in Gaza
of course right they're celebrating big time in
Gaza oh here you are Omar sent sending
you this one they're celebrating in Gaza so
play that one from telegram actually we're doing
a pretty decent service to the people on
the live stream because we're transmitting all these
all this footage it's like aid in Gaza
no it's lagging of course yeah just wait
till it completes and then we'll play the
whole thing let's say we see an innocent
live update no injuries reported from the attack
and citizens can leave shelters the IDF says
Iranian mission to the UN Tehran's response has
been duly carried out u.s. base told
to prepare to deploy to the Middle East
that's the important news here during the election
time all right what
else we got here tonight there's a VP
debate time would what's your what are your
thoughts on the VP debate yeah pointless right
I agree with that eight people come
no I mean we should I guess Jerusalem
Post or what let's see what is the
best background for global news network what's their
background what's their their their take on their
slants on things more footage of
the aftermath emerging this time they can't hide
the fact they got humiliated Iron Dome became
the paper dome a definitely Canadian when you
say a right so our
market can you send this to Omar and
Omar can can can play that it's basically
showing the rubble in parts of like Tel
Aviv all right Jerusalem Post let's see what
the juice Jerusalem Post is saying and then
we'll get to the prepared topic of the
day Jerusalem Post Iran warns it would launch
another massive missile strike if the IDF responded
to Tuesday night's attack and they have done
so watch as missiles launched by Iran streak
over Jerusalem during a barrage of 500 rockets
fired on Tuesday night which is only a
few hours ago or well currently right now
Israel's airspace has been reopened after the attack
attack from Iran I guess the attack has
stopped you know IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari that's
the funny guy who he's the guy who
came in and had a report that was
so hilarious and how stupid it was when
he said that they discovered where the Hamas
took the hostages right and he says there's
a calendar right remember that one as if
it's some nurses station in a hospital yeah
all right yeah terrorist number one you got
you're gonna get room room one tonight all
right terrorist number two you're gonna get room
three tonight please anyway this guy says we
do not see other aerial threats from Iran
so we issued instructions to the Israeli populace
to leave safety areas so I don't get
that if you're truly under in war it
could come at any time right you're like
stay there yeah
that's why here to open this mm-hmm
Omar open up the mics so that these
brothers can talk on this I'm gonna follow
this station here but that's totally right I
totally agree with that because this is really
weird when you're at war when you get
bombs you just tell your people the way
you don't know what's gonna happen next they
might be preparing another attack it's as if
he has he has inside knowledge insider information
that okay this is it and nothing else
that's why people are doubtful about these attacks
that doesn't make any sense Antonio this is
Daniel Hagari UN Secretary Antonio Gutierrez or his
pay attention to that missiles light up the
skies over Jerusalem Tuesday night plus we saw
that a strike hit Tel Sheva impacting Abu
Srihan's family home all right now what is
the response gonna be like if you are
Israel you should be so because you now
have an excuse that's what they're looking for
all right all right let's turn to our
other topic for the day is there anything
else to say because I think we've covered
what there is to be covered right now
right we've is there I don't know if
you guys want you look up stuff and
if you find stuff we'll go we'll talk
about it more but other than that yeah
let's see that video this is from an
Israeli source saying that this is I don't
know if it looks it between construction in
the first place right okay there it looks
like it's demolished or anything it looks like
it was under honestly it looks like an
abandoned construction site right well we'll see but
as I said Allah knows best but this
is my personal opinion on things is that
who you support is always situational right if
I need the Mets to get in I
need the Braves to lose I don't care
was on the other side I'm gonna root
for them on this game when I play
them in the next game I'm against them
right in that's a game right of course
life and politics is not a game but
the point is it's not the game aspect
it's the situational aspect just called game theory
is this it's like I need to move
up leapfrog this car is in the way
I don't care who blocks it right I
need you to block this car so I
could leap right that's how people operate let's
look at the Sahaba did not the companions
root for the Christians and Allah says about
the Christians at that point in the Quran
he says that the head the mountains and
the earth and the sky seeks to come
apart when they say what they say that
God had a son yet what in that
situation it's it they they were leaning towards
the Byzantines over the Persians and that's my
position also in Islamic in Islamic countries when
you have a Muslim Party and a secular
party be it in Egypt this will get
me banned from going to Egypt but luckily
there are no more elections for me to
get banned over Egypt Turkey same thing I'm
looking from a 30,000 foot view I'm
not in this business I'm like I'm not
I don't know the details of what's happening
I'm just looking from a 30,000 foot
view I'm clearly going to just support anything
that leans towards what we believe in agree
in that's it yeah I think that
this this bombing is their their response that's
what and I think they are gonna continue
to all right let's let's reverse it by
the way was almost it was dr.
Harris a mic on yeah turn on his
mic okay well let's look at it in
the reverse who else is Hamas have right
well sorry who else is Hezbollah have you
know let's say Hezbollah is done you know
let's say let's say no one's willing to
stand up now because Iran didn't support Nasrallah
so if you can't support your your main
guy with a more robust response yeah I
mean who's gonna want to do the dirty
work and that is probably some issue that
they're gonna have but Hezbollah is standing up
anyway it's gonna continue existing it's got a
massive army and who's gonna fund them anyway
so but it may be like hold on
a second like we would have appreciated a
little bit more support right but then again
they're gonna say here we bombed them right
we bombed Israel all right let's go to
the letter letter then there are some other
questions on the seerah that I need to
to that I'm gonna read from okay so
yesterday there was a little kerfuffle that an
organization that I think up to this point
no one has ever heard of Texas for
Palestine well I appreciate the sentiment Texas for
Palestine I don't know anything else about them
however however they said that
we a bunch of us endorsed the Green
Party well this is not true at all
let me read you the letter that was
written was shown to me and I agreed
with it and I said yeah I'll sign
off on this letter it's a letter it
says Oh believers stand firm for justice and
witness and be witness as witnesses for a
lot even if it is against yourselves your
parents and your close relatives even if it's
against yourselves parents close loved whether they're rich
or poor Allah is best to ensure their
interests do not let your desires cause you
to deviate from justice if you distort the
testimony or refuse to give it then Allah
Ta'ala is all aware of what you
do starts with the Quranic verse for the
past year we watched in horror as our
brothers and sisters of Palestine are slaughtered in
cold blood we have also witnessed Israeli soldiers
destroy mosques desecrate copies of the Quran and
openly insult the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
all with the full backing funding and blessings
of the current administration this isn't just another
tragedy it is a deliberate calculated genocide and
an attack on the very tenets of our
faith funded with our tax dollars and carried
out with the full support and complicity of
the Biden-Harris administration now those responsible for
this bloodshed and destruction have the audacity to
demand Muslim American community to vote for them
to stop a Trump presidency hiding behind the
excuse of a lesser of two evils we
the undersigned call on Muslim Americans to refuse
this false binary none of this is endorsement
of Trump's vile racist agenda which includes advancing
the apartheid in general and genocidal interests of
a foreign state while falsely claiming to put
America first rather it is about prioritizing our
faith and humanity taking a stand for justice
rejecting anyone who has supported enacted or promised
to perpetuate such evil we are fully aware
of the threats a Trump presidency poses to
this country on the domestic front however we
also recognize that the oppression of tens of
millions within these borders is not limited to
one political party if it is a systematic
issue designed to repress those pushed to the
margins so it is a systematic issue designed
to repress those pushed to the margins from
the violent suppression of anti-genocide encampments to
the inhumane treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
a state-sanctioned murder of Imam Marcellus Khalifa
Williams we understand the oppressive hand of the
state operates beyond party lines our children here
too are hungry our schools are collapsing our
elderly are dying in debt our streets are
filled with families who should be warm fed
and under roof we have no money for
them but we have every penny in the
world to slaughter maim and decimate entire people
and so we are putting our faith in
humanity first rejecting anyone who has endorsed perpetrated
or vowed to further evil we are not
choosing between a lesser and greater evil we
are staring down two monstrous evils one that
is currently committing genocide and one which is
committed to continue the genocide both are poised
to finish the job next page says together
we understand together we understand together we stand
firm in our refusal to support any political
party or candidate that is actively participated in
and funded the unprecedented violence that has shocked
the world so that's a statement of negation
right it's a statement of techni a statement
of what would we call it negation basically
he's negating I'm not supporting any of this
we are not choosing between a lesser and
greater evil we are staring down two monstrous
evils okay he says we will not taint
our hands by voting for or supporting an
administration that has brought so much bloodshed upon
our brothers and sisters we didn't we may
not know what the future holds we want
to be absolutely clear don't stay home and
skip voting this is the section where apparently
they took it and ran and did a
tatooine where they're where they made their own
tatooine that this indicates support of the green
but doesn't support it we can't support the
Green Party non-profit organizations such as message
it when you when you work in one
such as myself you can't even ever endorse
a politician or a party you can't state
what happens you can't say how terrible this
is you can't say things like that and
we do after Juma we have a report
now every Juma now our executive director stands
up and gives us a report what politician
who had promised something and is doing the
opposite or or is supporting something that is
against the interests of Muslims etc yeah exactly
widowed woman on aid she can say I'm
not marrying this guy I'm not marrying this
guy I'm not marrying this guy it's exactly
a woman in her head to take this
man's mic she can say I'm not marrying
all these people I'm not marrying any of
them she can say I want to say
she wants she just can't contract a marriage
and she's on her and you can say
that you know it would be happy to
be married to her and like you in
the future exactly you can you can talk
about principles all you want and if the
people connect the dots that's up to them
you just cannot explicitly endorse someone in the
south all the mega churches they're all vote
one way mainly because of you know it's
their community you think some of these ministers
at the mega churches they're at the dinner
parties and the barbecues in Texas they don't
talk of course they do right all right
so let's see what else else it it
says here we don't say stay home and
skip voting when you take the position that
we're taking here you on one hand your
conscience is clear on the other hand you
do risk total irrelevance once you say you're
out you risk total irrelevance this year make
a statement by voting third party for the
presidential ticket the whole world that's the statement
that they interpreted and they interpreted because there's
only one third party out there that we
all know about that's probably why they interpreted
that but he didn't say the Green Party
said third party and there's Cornel West so
okay Cornel West is out there too so
you're basically referring to ever what is his
party called I don't know okay equally important
vote all the way down the ballot for
candidates and policies that stand for truth and
justice ensuring your voice is heard at every
level so that basically negates any specific party
endorsement I won't support the Green Party for
another reason because of how much in love
they are with Ligby Q when I touch
it there's not just one thing that's haram
in the world right it's not like there's
the number one bad thing in the world
that's happening now we're gonna play cozy with
everybody else Sheikh Hamza Maqbool talked about that
in his post and he said something similar
he said Shaitan is the enemy not Israel
Israel's one of them but Shaitan is the
main enemy what Shaitan is except just because
there is one really bad evil we're gonna
now all of a sudden get all fuzzy
-wuzzy with every other smaller evil no that's
the trick of Shaitan itself right that's a
trick of Shaitan itself so oh oh rabbit
there's a wolf over there so good so
let's go be friends with the Fox and
the and the the dogs you don't if
it's safe from the wolf then you'll be
in by those things too you know what
was interesting you can disallow knowing me yeah
after saying this in the political climate there
is a political scientist here at Rutgers yeah
right and he's a Muslim guy yeah and
I heard this from Salman you know the
young guy Salman he's been on NBF before
he does the Syrah series you know so
anyway he said that he this guy pulled
Muslims yeah and the more religious you are
the less you vote I just to leave
that yeah and I knew about this and
he had one of the scholars from three
men he was like yes I agree because
the thing is like I agree with that
observation because the the more you are morally
inclined to make decisions we end up not
supporting this and and that actually is the
tradition of the scholars from way back from
way back they wouldn't even sit at the
tables with these people I believe it was
Imam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal who asked his Khadim
to go get some food and he went
and he ended up getting some some some
bread and he said like where did you
get this bread from and he said oh
the governor he gifted it to me something
like that right governor gifted this bread so
he said no no get rid of it
we're not eating this so after he came
back he said where did what he's you
with that bread he said no one would
take it because they knew that you rejected
it so no one else with the poor
wouldn't even taste oh I've met him but
won't eat that bread I'm not eating that
bread so then he said well then what
did you he said I just threw it
in the river for the for the fish
to eat Imam Ahmed then said go and
inquire from the fishermen the average lifespan of
a fish he said it's seven years he
said all right don't cook fish for seven
years here so I don't know if that's
like like what is the rank of that
story but subhanallah the they had such a
water and the Prophet told us the book
and the and the Sultan would separate would
split now there needs to be I'm telling
you I've said this before a political class
you don't go for the to them for
fatawa you don't call them Sheikh or Imam
but like Sammy Hamdi he's like a political
he is the leader of the political class
no one's gonna go to them yeah Sheikh
Sammy what do I how do I pray
travelers prayer or my wife just got divorced
blah blah blah you don't go with those
things to him he's not gonna open a
live stream on the tafsir of the Quran
for example he's free to give to talk
politically and say guys this is what's best
for our community without this such scrupulousness is
being expected from him that's what we need
and those people should talk about and say
and they shouldn't be connected to as to
massage it as you know officially they could
say guys I'm looking at it the best
chess move we can make is vote for
this guy right and then and they go
around telling us all right this is what's
happening with this candidate we're having a meeting
with him and the meetings with candidates should
not happen with Imams of massage it who
don't even read the newspapers right and they're
just so happy that someone's being nice to
them it's a joke well I love him
it's a joke right I saw Cory Booker
come to the masjid locally and people jumping
up and down and telling him you got
our vote for president we didn't even negotiate
anything right it's like walking straight on to
the to a used car dealership and telling
the guy I'm buying today you don't do
that I remember when I was young the
first time I was buying a car and
I liked the car and I said to
my oh I love this one right she
said you keep your mouth closed right pretend
you ate it right because we're gonna negotiate
when you already played your cards so all
right so this is what they say so
you do risk irrelevance that's a problem the
Democratic Party's ongoing refusal to show any intention
of reform even as we witness the greatest
catastrophe in modern history along with the Republican
promise to only worsen this evil leaves us
no choice but to take this step we
ask Allah to guide us to righteousness who
signed this a lot of people for lists
of people out of three columns of people
in them all mud at the wheel yes
so hey web cameras out again well
eat best uni Tom for Cheney or for
Keeney I still don't know what it is
Omar Suleiman a lot of other imams I'm
not familiar with their names means nothing if
I'm not familiar with them but but that's
basically the summary of this the subject now
let's read a criticism by a brother who's
usually thoughtful brother his name is Shibley's a
man who knows should be I don't know
him I seen his name so much but
I know him I need to meet him
he's he says here this is a terrible
statement he says urging Muslim to vote third
party was almost immediately picked up by Jill
signs campaign as an endorsement they even shamelessly
started making flyers with the signatories pictures on
it this was not the way to go
Muslims being free of the bloodshed of blood
of Muslims take priority over being strategic in
American politics that is the question that's the
question that you take do you be strategic
about things and and make your moves regardless
or do you say I'm out of this
game completely so you're gonna take I think
that she heads are both there right he
continues to say that it absolutely is better
to stay home and not vote rather than
have to stand before Allah on the Day
of Judgment and say you threw your weight
behind an apologist for the * murder of
thousands of Muslims Joe Stein is a liar
who is now pretending she never supported by
shot at asset pretending is not an acceptable
repentance she needs to come clean and apologize
primarily to the Syrian people for supporting the
massacre of 200,000 of their people not
only did Stein openly support Iranian and Russian
intervention in Syria her running mate in 2016
a jamma Baraka one of the most flagrant
is one of the most flagrant apologists for
Bashar al-Assad and as recent as September
2019 she and Baraka went on a junket
trip to Syria basically a Syrian version of
the MLI if you guys know what MLI
was it was an Israel softening trip they
took some naive Muslims and to try to
soften them towards Israel they gave him a
nice beautiful tour of Israel and said let's
talk peace and let's be all wonderful of
course not a single Palestinian went on that
trip except one guy who then looked stupid
afterwards and repented from it all and publicized
that and then got ostracized humbler Allah guided
him to the truth then some people's careers
took off because now all the Israeli deep
-connected pockets to love you but MLI and
ended up blowing up by the way in
a terrible fashion it had nothing to do
with the politics of it had to do
with you know how it broke up Oh
had to do with a huge film Hindi
that occurred between two couples whose husbands and
wives actually put together a film Hindi yep
on the trip the one guy and the
wife of another guy put it together film
Hindi on the trip say Melona this trip
is cursed from the beginning so it totally
broke up that they were both prominent members
of MLI and it totally broke up went
to Egypt on vacation and got a girl
pregnant so I told my wife subhanAllah what
a vacation unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable these people so
this thing wasn't gonna it there was a
firestorm of protests of Muslims going on this
MLI trip to go get softened by Israel
you're you're being played you're being fooled it's
a tragedy and I see it's all Jenna
got the on my pop that's in the
tent okay so so then it got it
got it blew up in another fashion and
families suffered I mean those families suffered big
-time you got a guy who makes a
terrible political misguided decision you don't wish for
him to have to lose his family but
they ended up in fact losing their family
I don't know all right now let's look
at this says here that here murderous Syrian
Arab army website gloats about it that Jill
Stein is there do not vote for her
he says should be cement who thinks she
can pretend none of this ever happened and
lie to Muslims she has to acknowledge it
she has to acknowledge it was wrong she
must apologize and I don't speak from a
void he says people whom I personally love
and care about were maimed and murdered by
Bashar Assad so this is personal this is
valid opinion to me is anyone gonna disagree
with this basically you got two options in
life deal with the scenario as it is
or refuse to deal with it on principle
I don't necessarily think I think for sure
one is safer for your echo no doubt
about that at the personal level but if
everyone were to do that you sort of
sense that we would have problems at a
communal level which may lead to a worse
situation for the individuals you see how it's
like paradoxical so ultimately this is a debate
maybe we can have shibboleths a man on
maybe we could have somebody on and we
can discuss both sides but the first option
is here's the world I got to deal
with the world right and I have to
make decisions and be part of this yeah
what's the third option there's
no way for them to confirm that we're
gonna be we won't commit to anybody but
you say look we can vote this way
can vote that way the potential is what
we are actually offering to these parties so
offering the potential is not committing one way
or the other so you're basically creating this
perception that look we could vote for you
we could not vote for you we talk
you talk to everybody and unless they actually
have a way to tabulate the votes and
you say listen you'll never know and the
idea is also if you look at Trump
his election the you know obviously he probably
will let's see if he wins this time
but all the polling numbers said that they
were gonna vote against Trump but when they
went in he obviously won the election so
what's what's perceived before the election truth so
I say we say look you know you
don't know we're we're we're like well they
will leave you and leave in suspense exactly
I really like it sorry the truth did
you all hear what he said yeah go
ahead I don't know if this I like
you or not with you but you know
at a battle of bother right yeah prophets
also wanted to be merciful to the captives
right and yeah says that unless you've done
a lot of bloodshed you know on the
earth unless you've really shown your power this
you can't show mercy because this what's no
one's gonna believe in your mercy unless you
they can they know that you're powerful unless
they fear you I like Sami on these
idea that if enough Muslims vote for the
Green Party and give them 5% of
the vote and therefore they get federal and
state money you know and that shows that
okay the Muslims got you there right so
the Muslims hurt you I mean the Democrats
are going around and and and challenging the
Green Party in a lot of states to
keep them off the ballot so that this
doesn't happen so that would show that we
have the numbers to vote as a block
because unless you vote as a block it
doesn't really matter that's what Sammy Humdy said
right in that clip everyone said you got
to watch this live stream I hadn't had
a chance to watch it but he basically
says that that's what you can say yeah
a you have to vote as a block
be well firstly he's he's taken the trajectory
that you have to actually be part of
you have to work with the system and
choose what is the lesser or strategically move
your way up Shibley's a man's point and
many others say that know what nothing at
all we're not even touching that you're all
corrupt I'm telling you the problem with that
is number one it actually may strengthen your
enemies and it may actually create a worse
future for your next generation none of these
people are ideal but yeah but until we
can actually show our power we're not going
to get somebody that's more ideal I agree
with that so so those are your two
paths let's call it the the so that
there is the purest path that's very good
for you personally but you actually can end
up with the world this far worse that's
number one number two oh by the way
you know what their argument is and I
can recognize this argument say they know we're
only talking about one field of affecting the
world which is from the top we will
affect the world from the bottom by altering
the culture by going to the poor by
giving dowel by having soup kitchens so that's
another perspective which that's extremely appealing because you're
fully morally sounds you're not dirty you don't
feel you did something dirty and number two
you still affecting the world right you're still
affecting the world by by affecting the the
grassroots level so that's one argument second argument
is Sammy Hamdi's argument no no we got
to be involved right you have to be
involved and that's what this letter the premise
of the authors of this letter though I
just read is that no we're gonna have
to be involved everyone has to be involved
we can also say these are not mutually
exclusive we can affect the people at the
grassroots level and we can be involved so
I guess tying to what you were saying
I agree with you saying that that is
an option this is it basically in a
sense but but what unless you have a
way to actually measure and I'm sure they're
probably ways that they have to measure who
voted for whom to some degree but unless
that's a hundred percent concrete why I guess
a third option like I said before is
creating the perception that we are putting our
votes in one way or the other we
can okay here it now let's now say
we're in this division of we're gonna act
in the world so now we bifurcate here
the bifurcation is do we all vote as
a block or do we scatter our vote
or do we just not say where we're
voting for the thing is if you vote
as a block you have to announce to
your people who you're gonna vote for so
for example let's say we put together our
own political action committee there are already some
fraud fraudulent ones I think they're fraudulent because
they don't represent the community they're not even
run by Muslims one of that one out
of LA which is a joke impact right
it's not even run by it at least
at least the social media at wing was
run by some kid who all he cares
about is a little bit of kill right
but anyway they're not really I hate to
say this I don't want to offend anyone
who's close to them but in the community
the fact of the matter is they're not
a fully accepted not even close to being
accepted so that's one thing Sammy Hamdi is
very accepted like he's like one of us
he prays he fast he's like walks in
the message like he's at home so that's
debate now you have to have do we
not say anything we're gonna vote but when
I say who in that case you can
never vote as a block so vote as
a block you have to say well can
you vote and say I mean it's I
call it the electoral college a process yep
is the Electoral College technically when a delegate
is sent to you know cast their vote
they technically do not have to vote for
the party that they're sent to represent so
if I say so basically what I'm saying
is we can say we're going to vote
yeah for the Green Party but in reality
we don't hmm now I don't that's very
hard to it's hard to move millions like
you got a movie that's true that's true
that's true yeah and then getting like let's
say New Jersey gonna go blue anyway yeah
right but if they if the Green Party
gets enough votes in New Jersey that it's
5% then it makes a difference for
them in the future yeah that's that's what
I'm saying no that pragmatically makes sense and
yeah pragmatically definitely they make sense that way
I'm just there is in Washington when I
went to school there at GW the Muslims
had so many amenities they had their a
massive prayer room massive they had a would
do room just for men I would do
room just for women and I and when
you got there you realize that there isn't
that many Muslims so how is it that
you guys got all these amenities so they
said at some point GW had made a
deal with Saudi to bring in a certain
number of students every year okay I think
it was like 50 well 50 times four
years that's 200 students right there plus the
Muslims that were around them the actual American
citizen Muslim students so it so happens that
they were found it pretty easy to form
blocks and the policy of the Muslim students
there was that when the student election happens
they just asked for one thing and whoever
guaranteed them that one thing they could have
that represent me like 8% and that
8% put you over because that 8
% is actually 16% because it either
you're it's not like you're getting it or
not it's you're getting it or your enemies
getting it right so it's it actually represents
16% if you think about it that
way so they ended up getting so many
amenities just because they operated as a block
and that is questionable in the first place
we're not gonna operate out of the blood
the biggest block for us probably what 40
% to get them all the Muslims to
agree on something what is it gonna be
first of all of all the Muslims that
exist in America or that are in America
how many are gonna vote what percentage 60
% okay that's a very generous number too
okay yeah let's now go to the next
step of them how many of their votes
matter because if we're all in if I
were for in New Jersey truth of them
most likely our vote doesn't matter so let's
shrink that down to the Muslims who are
in the swing states and let's say let's
cut it down from 60% down to
20% Michigan Pennsylvania what else oh and
the total vote it would matter yeah that's
true yeah okay so you got a vote
as a block I think you got a
vote as a block if you got a
vote as a buck who's directing this so
far it's gonna be democratically decided so far
the one that's emerged as the biggest voice
of course we can't say the only voice
but the biggest voice he's not even American
he's British he's Tunisian Brit right Sammy Hamdi
but his political analyst analysis even in the
for the worldwide political analysis doesn't matter what
where he's actually from but he's just not
around here talking all the time anyway most
stuff is internet-based anyway he's one of
the most prominent political site mm Tom is
one right I think he's probably best suited
in the political sphere even more so than
the mm sphere there's a lot of emails
right but he's probably like when I hear
him talk when he talks politics he knows
his stuff better than a lot of other
people so shoot say it's analogous to paying
taxes or or buying something at a grocery
store so for example if I go to
a grocery store and they are selling alcohol
in the grocery store but my intention is
that whatever I'm purchasing is going specifically to
what's permissible even though the grocery store collectively
is benefiting from the sale of alcohol and
what I'm buying is there an analogy with
respect to voting we say listen we are
voting specifically for these particular actions and our
vote is not connected to what's impermissible so
is that an analogous at all well that's
a good analogy so you go to shop
right and shop right sells 90% lawful
things 10% of things are unlawful for
us Muslims to buy and sell and sell
and make money off of such as all
their alcoholic products I think they have a
liquor section there I'm sure they have a
wine section at shop right and they have
beer obviously they sell that and they're gonna
sell right so we still are allowed to
shop a shop right we're not allowed to
shop if it's only wine like a wine
store we're not even allowed to buy peanuts
from there right can't do anything you can't
even be an electrician there so would that
be the analogy quite likely right quite likely
there will be the analogy that um but
ultimately let's look at it in a smaller
level let's say there's an HOA and there's
200 homes and there's a homeowners Association and
the homeowners Association you're on the edge you're
not gonna ever be part of it they
have their own parties you don't deal with
those people but now it's come time for
an election one guy he's saying he's gonna
put in two things that are unlawful out
of ten another guy he's gonna put in
five things that are unlawful out of ten
you have to go for the two right
you would have to go for the two
but just you keep you can abstain but
when you abstain you risk the guy with
five winning how is that benefiting right thank
you that's a great saying you're not interested
in politics but politics is is interested in
you and what do you mean by that
is that it will affect your your life
and your kids life whether you like it
or not so that's the argument against the
just abstain from everything in Syria I remember
people were criticizing one of the shoe it
was Koftaro back in the late 90s who
worked with who was the official Mufti and
his argument was that there will be an
official Mufti whether we all like it or
not so I'm here to block the people
who would have come in and given fatawa
to the whole nation that were terrible I'm
here to block that guy and give a
fetch what that is at least sound right
in whichever method so that was his logic
whereas many other she'll fit nope we won't
even touch the government we would never deal
with them okay that's again it's very good
for you personally but you actually open the
door for someone bad to come in and
make things far worse for everybody after that
and that's exactly why ultimately at the end
of the day I feel that the strategic
route should win a win out it's gonna
win out either way because chances are most
American Muslims are not that scrupulous right and
in fact the main reason people don't vote
is more of apathy than anything else right
it's more of apathy what else do you
guys think these problematic
issues that are you gotta focus on these
things you have to wouldn't the party what
I'm saying is that you I agree with
you but the idea of the block is
definitely something that pragmatically makes sense but still
if the party is concerned about the party
as a whole you still don't lose complete
all your impact if you just say look
we're voting we're gonna be supporting the local
elections only because the party thrives by the
smaller elections not just the national election so
you can say listen we may not be
able to wholeheartedly endorse you at the national
level but we on a case-by-case
basis will be looking at all the local
elections state elections and we will support those
candidates that are consistent with who we are
and the party say like the Green Party
will say listen you know we still have
to pay attention to them because that is
actually where the power is ultimately yet I'm
telling you that's the route it has to
go it and we do know some brothers
who are who are involved in politics local
work if you can get a third party
to get state and local and federal funding
because without that no one can run an
election because you don't have $100,000 to
run an election right so that's why everyone
who is in the United States has run
with one party or the other they Democrat
Republican yep and they can't say well you
know we're gonna take this part of the
platform and not believe in that part of
the platform doesn't work that one question I've
always had again this is why I would
say that our community doesn't think outside the
box when it comes to many issues where
there's the entrepreneurial arenas or what-have-yous
that we have a tremendous amount of capital
we have a tremendous amount of resources why
is it we don't create our own third
party and and unify with those other you
know religious groups that may adhere to most
of the things that we adhere to because
we even even with even with the Green
Party we still ultimately look at it as
okay this is the this is the only
other option I'm telling you I said it
as a joke the other day right I
was just joking like since people sign up
for the Green Party as an experiment and
they only got about 250 to 300,000
members that's nothing right if all the Muslims
from Virginia from New Jersey down to Virginia
and Michigan were to sign up in one
night in one week you to be 50
% majority of the party right with that
I'm saying that as a joke not an
endorsement but then you could change the do
all whatever you want with the policies right
and the branding is already there for you
it's like literally on a silver platter for
you be hilarious the one thing that is
problematic with the Green Party which I guess
is the realm of politics going back to
what happened with the letter yeah is again
they are positioning themselves as being different from
the Republicans and the Democrats but it's very
clear at least from all indications that whomever
was involved with the Green Party lied about
what this letter meant I mean they manipulated
and used it that's what everyone's saying that
this the Green Party whomever the people who
are involved with it and ultimately the leadership
you're responsible for your acolytes right so if
they do things that are underhanded you're responsible
and you have to take the hit and
they deceptively took that letter and said this
is an endorsement of us which is not
true that Texas for Palestine were they a
separate organization or they affiliated no but I've
seen people who are upper levels of the
Green Party who are using running with that
without without validating or without looking and again
you have to ask yourself the question well
and if you look at someone like you
know Butch Ware for example who's posted on
his Instagram page that he cited the Middle
East I article and said and underlined it
now if you are positioning yourself as a
viable leadership candidate yeah wouldn't you think that
you should have done your due diligence they
listen is this what this means correct and
did these leaders actually say he obviously didn't
reach out to these people to say or
technically from a shoddy perspective he should have
reached out to everybody before making a blanket
statement to say listen this letter is approval
support of the Green Party he ran with
something without confirmation yeah so that would that
let's look at it from another angle if
this is all politics and politics is half
smoke smoke and mirrors and half fundraising the
Green Party got what they wanted we're all
talking about them better better all talking about
Muslims joining or not joining right and for
someone say I don't endorse the Green Party
you still talked about the Green Party the
Green Party is not such a party that
they need people to talk about them just
mention them they're not so out there that
and it's better to ask for forgiveness than
to ask for that's exactly what it is
yeah that's exactly what it is so here's
a question this is segment number three we
talked about the Iranian attacks on Israel we
talked now about the the Green Party and
by the way have you guys seen that
what costs he is really in on the
pink these days the this is that a
salmon pink right look at what costs is
lat latest it's all experimentation right he's in
on the pink let's see if it's working
I don't know he knows this stuff what
works and what doesn't work it's like yeah
I don't know how to describe it like
a salmony pinkish but if you look at
all of our thumbnails on the under videos
so what causes into the that pinky look
all right Rose Roo of Zah maybe anyway
so but let's see they're all experiments it's
all trying here's a question from Baxter Williams
on Twitter it's not directed to me it
was directed to somebody else and it was
more of a comment he's a bit surprised
why the Quran an eternal book of truth
and wisdom comments on how people should visit
the Prophet which says once you have eaten
then go on your way and do not
stay for casual talk it's a verse about
how to behave with the Prophet peace be
upon him all right such behavior is truly
bothersome to the Prophet yet he is too
shy to ask you to leave yes he
did all right so ebonite supremacist at Muslim
critiques says you know he tags me here
and you can comment on this so here's
the basic commentary on this is that anything
that is directed to the Prophet peace be
upon him or about the Prophet peace be
upon him or to the Muslims the the
companions of the Prophet is really to be
taken for all of us so this is
the manners to be taken with any person
of stature of course the Prophet has the
greatest stature on a salato salam if you're
going to speak like that about the Prophet
when the Prophet peace be upon him invites
you for food take the food and be
on your way and don't extend with too
much small talk because this bothers the Prophet
why did it bother the Prophet of the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam on this specific day
was just married right clearly any married man
wants to go to his wife right secondly
if he wasn't married is this Prophet not
the most busiest that is the busiest position
in the world to be a prophet you
don't have time for small talk right so
likewise you do have in in our communities
we have people who just got married leave
them alone we have people who are busy
in the world leave them alone don't do
too much small talk we have people who
are extremely pious these alia they don't do
small talk they're always remembering Allah and halas
they've given their kid met to the community
they've served the community they have done so
much for the community and now it's not
now it's not the time now at this
season's veteran age to be doing small talk
so they've graduated from small talk small talk
is useful at some point to get to
know your community get to know people but
at a certain point unless you graduated from
that people should come to you knowing you
have a stature your elder etc and now
don't have small talk with them it also
gives us general advice on when you get
in invitations invitations for dinner are extremely important
social nodes that glue community members together when
there is even a companion he says for
me to invite my just to cook a
meal and invite all my friends is better
than to spend the whole day in the
mosque all day in the mosque you benefit
yourself but if you were to invite people
you get charity that's charity charity is not
just for the poor and you also are
getting to bring people together to be friends
to alleviate each other's problems possible marriages are
from that how do people get married in
the community you but have a bunch you
have invitations a couple once a month once
every two months for years in that span
of time you pretty much know maybe 40
families from those 40 families someone will be
suitable to your son or daughter that's how
people get married in their communities so the
social invitations are extremely important these are some
of the adept meaning don't overstay what is
the basic off today coffee invitation is from
about 70 minutes to 90 minutes if you
get invited just as inviting you for tea
you go there you should stay an hour
to maybe 75 hour 15 minutes hour 20
minutes maximum an hour 30 minutes you should
leave because he's gonna invite you after dinner
in the first place these people need to
sleep if people invite you for dinner that's
gonna be an earlier invitation and that's three
hours I'm sure many people been a situation
they invited someone over who doesn't know these
etiquettes and they stayed four or five hours
it's just like I've up and you try
to signal oh man I got to go
upstairs real quick oh I got to take
this call they don't get the signal so
it's these are what we call customs or
are off or if I just pluralize the
Arabic right off or if it's customs of
how we behave right and these are important
that remember earlier in the stream I said
when a when a kid goes to a
school with people he doesn't like or who
don't know him those kids may be uncomfortable
for him but they provide him with really
useful information like kids who are mean and
you say something and they said that was
the dumbest thing I ever heard right kids
always say this to each other so that
was hurtful that was mean but it was
an important piece of information so maybe I
did say actually something dumb this is why
a chef he said he prays for the
ones I think he prayed for the one
who gifted me my flaws he's talking about
his enemies he with his wisdom found a
way to make use of his enemies the
enemies will say a whole bunch of stuff
80% of it may be misunderstandings or
lies 20% is actual valid criticism let's
take it it's benefit from that right so
that's where another situation where it's something uncomfortable
but it's useful information so that's how the
tough seat of that a regarding the prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam that I don't say along
with the Prophet and there is a question
did the Prophet peace be upon use the
revelation to get married that's not true at
all all of his marriages were by command
right it's all by command and if you
are saying revelation so you do believe that
there is some kind of divine thing and
they say the Prophet misused it okay so
in that case if you accept that there's
some divine command then you should also accept
that it's by divine order that he had
these marriages and if you don't believe it's
by divine commands then it's irrelevant the marriage
is irrelevant because you're actually not believing in
something far greater right so either way that
line of thinking it doesn't really work out
first put it put in some prophetic Sarah
yeah that if he was choosing this to
get women I mean you would get the
youngest most beautiful woman in the world you
wouldn't thank you settle for thank you know
older divorce you know if you look at
the Prophet's entire Sarah I mean it's just
on how many that's a dumb statement it's
it's an exactly a not a intelligent statement
for the simple reason of let's take a
look at who the Prophet married on a
salat was set up one of them was
never married before the first one he married
after firstly he had revelation for ten years
with say to Khadija and he never married
before that with her say to Khadija secondly
when he married say to Khadija this clearly
was not a marriage of desire in terms
of physical desire a 25 year one man
if all he's thinking about physical desire marries
a 19 year old right 18 year old
whatever so he married someone mature wise that
could handle his intellect and the depth of
his mission Allah brought him a say to
Khadija who was 40 years old let's now
go to the next marriage he had soda
soda was even more older than the Prophet
then Khadija was say to Khadija's 15 year
difference soda was even probably even more because
she was older and widowed and she was
known to be you can't I don't know
how to say this but I'm not gonna
say it just cuz in case it could
be bad man a debt with the most
of the mothers of the believers but we
do know she was of an older age
then say to Aisha and then and even
that how could you say it was through
power when he was in Mecca at that
time there was no power and say if
he married he used his power for marriage
he only married one unmarried woman one virgin
woman and he didn't marry he didn't have
power when he married her right okay
yes let's now go to the next marriages
all of them were previously married women whose
husbands were companions who had died or died
in battle or divorced for the sake of
Islam for example well Muslim as husband died
so she was previously married woman Hafsa it's
she had a tough personality like her father
even Sayyidin Omar has a narration a hadith
he said Hafsa why are you giving the
Prophet a hard time I know he doesn't
even love you I mean have father says
that to the daughter she must be really
rough around the edges I stop for a
lot to say that but a man says
that to his daughter right so subhanallah the
the Allah has made it in such a
way that it doesn't stand that attack doesn't
stand because if you marry for the sake
of pleasure then at least the the the
wives should be all young and not married
we don't see that yeah
he was in his 50s 58 57 by
that time so this is not the the
work of a young man trying to get
yeah how about this one when there was
finally a woman whom the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam married whom what who was considered the
most attractive of all of those women then
say to Aisha and it was perhaps a
dice to say to have said to her
if you want to impress the Prophet then
when you enter when he enters in say
I seek refuge of God from you he
will be very happy that was a trick
right so when she did she when she
did that and the Prophet enters he says
seek refuge from God from you the Prophet
said okay your refuge has been given go
back to your father so this was the
most attractive of women and the Prophet said
okay go back to your father so the
argument fails and yet again to say that
the set thirdly we these political the the
tribes needed to be united they were united
by these marriages are we gonna act like
we don't know what that means all of
European history is that right to make peace
with the Germans all right we'll marry someone
from the German royal family all right the
Russian we need to have a new deal
with the Russian to show that we really
am we're personally involved in this and we
need to earn your trust we'll marry someone
from your family and that's how the they
were all very young too yeah exactly well
for him anyway and if that were the
case why did he stop at the number
of wives that he married he could have
had as many as he wanted that's true
why why why that command to stop the
Quran is filled with commandments guidance to the
Prophet or commandments specifically to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasalam from Allah if it was written
by a human why would you show the
world how you're being what you're being told
right Oh messenger pay attention to the poor
over the rich Oh messenger sit with the
poor Oh messenger you cannot marry anymore why
would you put that in the book it's
it's direct opposite of your anyone's intuition mm
-hmm 100% the marriage
to Zainab was considered in their eyes what
they called scandalous or taboo and it was
something that it's almost in the same way
that today if a man in our community
here in Central Jersey announced that he has
now taken a second wife it would just
be like what everyone would just be like
shocked like is this what's gonna happen now
in our community like this is a problem
in many that's how it's gonna be well
enjoy your whatsapp group at night right that's
where you're gonna be sleeping right so in
the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam
marrying young was not scandalous or taboo marrying
multiple wives was not taboo marrying the ex
-wife of your of your adopted son that
was considered completely off but Allah Ta'ala
willed to show that this was that the
son is not that the notion knows Islamic
laws transfer between an adopted son a foster
son and if and a man to prove
that absolutely with no doubt the way to
do that was for the Prophet peace be
upon him to marry the ex-wife of
his adopted son his foster son Zaid Ibn
Haritha so for example when a man marries
a woman all of the sons or the
fathers will soon will put on of that
man can never ever ever ever ever marry
that woman that's the law in Islam let's
say a guy has five sons then he
marries again his five sons are alive his
dad's alive his grandfather's alive so one two
three four generations are living then he divorces
this woman none of those generations can ever
marry that woman that's the law that's how
it is in Islam so when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasalam when it was willed for
this law to be to show that this
does not transfer anymore for the adopted son
it only is for the biological son Allah
commanded him to marry the ex-wife of
his adopted son Zaid that is Zainab bint
Jahsh ex-wife of Zaid bint Haritha and
he did so and the community was just
silent even though that's their Prophet but nonetheless
people still have norms they have expectations there
is a disgust even we could say that's
built into every society every society has manufactures
its own disgust don't think that all of
disgust is universal no some of disgust is
universal it's born into its disgusting other forms
of disgust are manufactured by the society hating
on something so much that the society's you
grow to hate it so much personally this
was one of those that came about in
the society it was incestuous in their view
but it in truth it wasn't because that's
not your biological son so when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasalam married her it broke that
completely forever in a way that if it
was just legislation it wouldn't have been enough
sometimes words are not enough sometimes a community
absorbs some some something so much that words
are not sufficient I'll give you an example
of that it was a Ramadan fast and
they were on the way to one of
the battles and it was Fatimaka it was
Fatimaka no no I don't want to don't
quote me on which battle it was but
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam saw that the
soldiers are weary and tired and told them
break your fasts a you're number one you're
traveling so that's you're allowed to break your
fast what did they do they looked at
the Prophet the Prophet didn't break this fast
so we're not gonna break our fast next
stop the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam stood on
a high like a bar like a like
a cart or something in front of everyone
and he drank then everyone broke their fasts
another example is when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam at the sulh of Hudaibiya told they
didn't make Umrah they made the intention of
Umrah they had ihram on the the clothes
and the intention that are we're gonna do
this lesser pilgrimage smaller pilgrimage then they ended
up making a deal with Quraysh to come
back next year so what do we do
because when you enter into the sacred state
of ihram how do you exit it without
doing the rituals so the Prophet peace be
upon him told everyone shave your hair and
that's the sign that you're exiting the sacred
state of pilgrimage so this is the companions
though that they've never seen this before because
pilgrimage did exist before Islam like from the
time of Abraham it was corrupted and the
Prophet fix it but they do have a
concept that you enter into the sacred state
and you exit after the rituals so they
were a bit surprised by this how do
we exit this state the state of ihram
how do we exit that when we haven't
done anything so he told them shave your
heads nobody shaved their heads sometimes words don't
matter there doesn't affect somebody so the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam was given the advice you
go shave your head one of his his
wife who was with him said you go
shave your head and then they'll copy you
so he went in front of everyone and
began doing it and then they copied him
so certain things require action to actually prove
the point more so than words and that's
the example of it yes
good to have a coincidence in Islam yes
the sotofa does exist the sotofa is just
if of course everything is Allah's will but
the word exists the sotofa and the scholars
use it just by coincidence but usually if
there's a great benefit that results from it
they oftentimes have a much more favorable view
of it that this is a sign from
Allah right how do you there's a good
question how do you distinguish between a coincidence
and a sign I think it's the benefit
like what's the benefit is there a benefit
is there a perceived benefit there is there
no benefit right like we just purchased an
Acura and lo and behold there's an Acura
at the traffic light what's the benefit right
not much benefit as opposed to I really
wonder what is the meaning of a such
-and-such in al-imran and then the
first book I come upon the bookmark is
there I feel that Allah is connecting me
to the meaning and answering my question so
Allah knows best but I think that the
answer to your question is that the difference
between a sign from from Allah and a
coincidence is the benefit yeah yeah well that's
usually how it is right yeah yeah that's
usually how it is today more so than
a book it's on YouTube right you you
open up Instagram or YouTube and and it
answers that you find the answer there to
something you were thinking about it's either that
or you were thinking out loud and the
algorithm popped it up right and nonetheless that's
a good use it that's a good use
of the algorithm by the way not all
the algorithms are bad when I'm talking about
something and I need a product and then
Amazon pops it up for me why would
I be upset about that you actually just
saved me a lot of time all right
yeah yeah subhanallah Asrar of Rashid official
says Iran Lebanon Syria Yemen Palestine they have
the right to protect themselves why does only
one nation have the right to protect itself
all right what else let's go to Q
&A and then we'll wrap up let's see
what our Q&A says all right I'm
gonna give me a question
what's
the conversation that's going on in the chat
is that my marriage and stuff marriage what
about it they want to get married hey
why don't you fire up our starboard you
want to get married pre you want to
know how to be a good husband get
mentorship you need mentorship you don't know what
you're doing you really don't know what you're
doing you may be a good engineer you
may be good at electrical engineering computer science
computer engineering but you know nothing about husbandry
right you know nothing about husbandry what is
husbandry actually technically in the language it's raising
animals right yeah animal husbandry but I think
it should be a word wifery should be
a word and husbandry Syria be a word
we already
have people signing up for starboard and we're
gonna be launching this is our soft launch
soft launch has nothing to do with the
product side the product side is gonna be
the same you're gonna get mentorship soft launches
for us to see how our processes work
behind the scenes hey time or did we
did you figure it out do you see
you saw who they signed up for our
first mentor mentorship okay we're gonna so we'll
figure that out but we already have hum
de la our first client for mentorship and
we have a couple other people who have
expressed interests and it's gonna get rolling and
we're gonna do events at big Muslim populated
areas like Patterson we're gonna do small events
there we're gonna do small events in Michigan
we're gonna do small events in Dallas right
we should probably go to the column Institute
coffee shop because hey you're there already so
let's learn we might as well learn how
to be marriage learning about latte is not
gonna help you you're there to get married
we all know the drill with these Arab
coffee shops in these Muslim coffee shops right
let's teach you how to be married right
at Adam Center now has a coffee shop
everyone's dreaming up a coffee shop because the
margins are so big in coffee shops and
the product is so cheap right what are
you paying for milk beans from some country
that the currency is much lower right and
then you're getting some barista muscle like he
does not have a family to feed so
you can pay him a lot less it's
a great business model everyone's gone crazy for
the coffee shops plus you got repeat customers
like crazy because everyone's addicted to coffee plus
people go out for coffee they don't go
out for dinner anymore because they have any
money right so we're gonna hit up these
coffee shops and and give them lessons right
let's give them some lessons on how to
be a husband you're very good at ordering
coffee you're very good at starting up the
conversation with the sister probably unlawful but you
don't know how to be a husband you
don't know how to be a wife we'll
show you we'll teach you so it can
be before you get engaged like I'm about
to start the process but I need to
know how to be a husband I need
to know what to do there's financial aspects
there's health aspects there's physical there's how to
deal with in-laws then what is my
sharia responsibility in Islam sharia means legal in
Islam what does Allah command of me all
this stuff is gonna be taught to you
through your mentor which you'll be able to
keep in touch with on email as long
as you don't abuse it afterwards none of
our mentors are gonna mind if you shoot
him an email here and there right so
that like you you've done with the the
sessions with the mentor then afterwards you need
to have some emails right no problem with
that so go to starboard marriage.com and
and and get on with that so that
you can be a good husband sure take
your mic yeah just make sure to feed
your wife before she gets hungry you heard
that folks make sure when you're traveling you
know most guys can travel I can personally
travel all day without eating like I just
that do not need food but not everyone
else is like that right so make sure
he says make sure your wife eats before
she gets hungry any advice from someone who's
been married is good advice they know what
they're talking about okay what else you got
Omar what else you have on this chat
let me open up are you launching a
matrimony search service it's not a matrimony search
service you're asking separate like yeah separately it's
not that it's not a matrimonial per se
no it's not a matrimonial I don't even
know how those work to be honest with
you but this is I want to get
married I'm already engaged I just got married
all three of those hey time or can
you somehow we need to reflect that on
the website I want to get married no
it's okay oh oh we'll have it typed
up on the website I want to get
married I'm already engaged I just got married
all three levels need mentorship one of them
he's ahead of the game the second one
he's in the game right he's about to
enter the get the ring the third one
he's already in the ring and now he's
asking for coaching advice yeah he's got the
Maham says you know a lot of roofs
up in the roofs I'll make the couple
happy McCurry swag says mr.
Curry says is it permissible to accept an
interest-free loan from someone if you think
that the loaner's source of income is haram
the Sharia asks us about the one single
link right the single link so the loan
that acquisition is lawful acquisition we're not required
to investigate how a person makes his money
unless it's obvious we all know he's a
drug dealer for example and I'm not talking
about pain management they are drug dealers but
that's lawful legal I guess I guess it's
lawful and Sharia too we don't even know
right so what drugs that they're taking but
hum de la those guys are in the
community and they help a lot these pain
management gangsters medical medical drug dealers I tell
them straight to their face how's the drug
dealing going right and they laugh at it
they know I'm just kidding with them of
course on the internet you can't make a
joke at all nothing is funny everything is
everyone is so hyper serious on Twitter I
don't understand if a woman is involved in
Leon but she doesn't confess nor take the
oath does that count as a shubha okay
let's go over this Leon is when a
man accuses his wife that she committed zina
he swears by Allah that she committed zina
she swears that she didn't commit zina if
she doesn't swear nor confess and she simply
remains silent no she needs to swear that
she didn't she needs to swear that she
didn't Maheen Khan's brother has a fever may
Allah give him shifa I'm requesting a door
to cure my dysphagia I'd be so hungry
and can't eat because my throat won't let
me what is dysphagia are you a doctor
how do I go to the villa that
is a rough one and I didn't have
dysphagia but I had a throat a virus
a viral infection in my throat two years
in a row in the winter and it's
basically you have sores swallowing is a web
to swallow any food it's total it's like
torture so what ends up happening you can
only sip drinks only sip drinks now what's
the next here here's the crazy part it's
one domino that leads to others what's the
next thing that starts to happen you have
zero energy because you have no food what
happens when you have zero energy you just
fall asleep at some point in this sickness
I felt like I was asleep more of
the day than awake that's not nice it's
not fun why because you're when you sleep
a lot when you oversleep you literally your
eyes are hurting and then you get your
back your back gets sore your body gets
sore so it's from the one thing which
is the throat leads to severe eye pain
I'm telling you severe eye pain from sleeping
too much over the course of weeks because
this throat infection it lasted me for it
was like three weeks really bad type of
punishment or I should say like a type
of torture and then your back starts to
hurt too you're not walking you're not exercising
you're just so tired you can't sleep I
mean you can't eat at one point I
said I want I just I think I
want an IV to get nurture and nurture
nutrients in my body and then it was
cured and the amazing thing about it is
that when you're really sick you don't even
remember what being healthy feels like then when
you get healthy you don't remember what the
sickness feels like it's like a mentally I
know I was sick at that period of
time but can you remember so I feel
bad for the brother may Allah Ta'ala
give him shifa from his dysphoria Alex or
Rick says Savinas husbandry mentorship course that's exactly
what it is it's a mentorship course and
this is our response so that people don't
keep saying you know the community suffering marriage
is suffering I mean no one's getting married
people are getting divorced you need to learn
how to get married I think there's a
big big big spiritual side to marriage there's
a huge tragedy don't play around the camera
stay away from the camera there's a huge
Haroon this is you and your your copycat
this is like a copycat Haroon he wants
to look like Haroon mashallah come and sit
come and sit so so people are always
talking about the high divorce rates why should
there not be high divorce rates when there
is zero education that goes into being a
husband or wife let me ask you a
question Haroon you're you you like business if
50 guys went into business and 48 of
them failed then you came to learn that
48 went into business with zero education nor
mentorship in business do that do now are
you that alarmed at the epidemic of business
failures anymore or do you clearly know the
reason you know the reason I think we
should not be so alarmed by the high
rate of divorce once we learn nobody gets
mentorship on how to get married right they
don't get mentorship on how to be a
husband from the from just how to talk
to your wife a lot of guys talk
to his wife like a roommate she's there
she's there she's not there she's not there
like if I have a roommate I had
no obligation towards him I don't have to
entertain you I don't have to give you
attention if you do if we end up
getting along in something or eating together that's
all extra but I don't owe you anything
and you don't owe me anything right we
split the rent we also have to talk
about some of the people who go 50
-50 with their wife and that's not allowed
in Islam you know where it is allowed
to go 50-50 with your wife in
something that's not her right like what what's
something that's not the the expected obligation of
a husband in Islam like an extra purse
he gives us an example Tajudin I'm worried
about that camera don't come near that camera
that cameras is gonna be knocked over hey
how do you like this Yemeni threads yeah
this is this is New York Yankees Yemeni
thread firstly it's warmer for the winter to
its pinstripe white on navy blue I guess
he's sporting the Yankees right yep do that
more stock with white stripes would be nice
then more stock huh they have more in
stock for this open up many threads and
put their website on so people I'm curious
I want to see if that's stuck and
I also told him to do another thing
too which was take the Islamic these Muslim
designs but make it a regular shape scarf
like a that someone thing you could wear
yeah like a Western size these are all
Eastern sizes right so anyway if I told
you that 48% of the businesses were
failing you would be alarmed until you learn
48% or you learn 48 out of
50 of these guys enter business without any
education right then you're like oh we don't
have a problem like I know the root
of the problem once you know the reason
of the problem it's as if you don't
have a problem now I can solve it
and the way to solve it is through
mentorship you guys don't know how to be
husbands you go get married like a fool
you come crying three months later you know
I could say thing the thing about life
but I can't call women fools right but
you think same thing a woman goes gets
married never asked her husband did you ever
studied how to be a husband can I
go and get eye surgery dr.
Amin who's here by the way we never
even plugged your ophthalmology thing a doctor
that's good which explains why you're off today
okay good but you're not gonna go to
dr.
Amin for eye surgery without asking when I
walk in I need to see at least
these degrees on the wall right I need
to know at least you got good Google
reviews I need to know a whole bunch
of things like that but when you get
married you're gonna marry a guy you're not
gonna ask him did you ever get mentorship
and what you're about to do no where's
this wing it let's wing the most important
thing in our life after our faith and
our Dean let's wing it yeah we give
certifications by the way if it's if if
it's ever needed some message it will not
give you a niqab unless you have studied
it I think we're near to that point
now yeah that we shouldn't give me gas
anymore until the guy has proven that he
said and the woman too it's easier because
the nature of our society we can hate
on guys all day no one's gonna say
anything say one critical thing about women and
all of a sudden you're the worst person
in the world right that's the nature of
society but it applies to women too sometimes
in the marital counseling you realize the woman
is at fault here the guy is totally
innocent or maybe he's 10% guilty and
she's 90% guilty so women also need
to get counseling now there are situations where
if there is a woman who is the
only child right or she's only one of
many girls she's never even lived with a
brother so she it's excusable she's not gonna
know what guys are act like what are
they like or if she didn't have a
dad at all how is she supposed to
know what a guy is like and what
is like for example what is the expected
rough humor of a guy right and what
is where his words mean nothing related to
his actions I grew up seeing that in
my household I grew up seeing my my
my mom grew up with three boys and
a dad right I grew up seeing my
dad saying stuff right and my mom just
he knows that she's trying to egg her
on right I know he's trying to egg
her on it's all entertainment for all of
us and then she knows how to answer
back she knows it's not serious right how
does she know it's not serious she lived
with four guys right she knows that there
is a time where they talk nonsense and
then there's real action and that there is
a gulf in between do you got to
learn that you got to be known what's
that like the second wife's talk all the
time all the time all that kind of
talk no I was like she knows how
to like go I'll be free I'll be
free from you so your mom must have
grown up with a dad and he has
like six brothers time I'm like four she's
got four brothers and a dad right so
she knows that there's a time I heard
one guy say New Yorkers have something called
talking right and it means saying a whole
bunch of stuff that you have no plans
to act upon ever yeah I can relate
yeah so we do have female mentors why
don't you go through our mentors please to
see who our mentors are ma'am so
it says there are cultural differences Oh huge
if you're marrying an Egyptian we need to
get you an Egyptian mentor if you're marrying
an Indian and you're Arab we need to
get you a daisy mentor no doubt about
that no no counseling it's just mentorship we
want to prevent the counseling yeah we want
no premarital mentorship yeah well premarital if he's
got issues before he got married that he's
really got issues right you got issues while
you're engaged no we need to teach you
how to be husbands so let's look at
a diplomatic merchant Sammy Katowick keep going down
okay what's what are you guys laughing at
with who Sammy's picture we we need to
get that was wrong we need to get
better pictures for Sammy Katowick for sure he
doesn't take a lot of pictures though no
it's real probably touched up by AI maybe
all right sister Sundas is out of Qatar
she's from California she's a Californian out of
Qatar now I believe Mohammed Hassan local Imam
Safwan and that's his niece so we have
two sisters and we have brothers and we're
gonna be adding another sister from New Jersey
so we have two Arab sisters we have
a daisy sister in case someone needs cultural
they're having a cultural marriage okay I'm telling
you people go in and get married and
they're winging the whole thing well like they're
winging it they don't know what they're doing
yep your tone tone is much more important
than anything you ever say hundred percent tone
is far more important than the content it's
all about tone tone is far more important
than actually what you say right it's more
important than the words yeah you know some
people when they listen to music the melody
is more important than the words some people
are like that in conversation I'm gonna look
at your body language if the body language
is positive I really feel I feel that
what you care about me you can say
whatever you want now you can criticize a
lot you can say we're headed down a
wrong path you could say everything stinks etc
but I know that you're you're not trying
to destroy me you're you care that's where
tone matters in it I know some foreign
brothers immigrant brothers when they text you you
feel like he's a he wants to kill
you right right but then when you talk
to them you feel relief because you realize
he don't he doesn't mean that but some
immigrants some moms and dads when they text
you're like oh my god I'm dead I'm
in trouble who is it oh she
wants me a mentor masha'allah you want
to be a mentor for daisy people that's
good you need to talk 50% of
the sessions need to be about food right
you need to know what is a Karahi
go what is a right to know this
stuff you need to understand that it takes
about three hours to make tea this is
not the Arab world anymore right property proper
chai what yeah a proper chai is there
a way to speak about someone to someone
else without it being backbiting well for emeralds
the rules of backbiting are suspended when it's
a matter of reference so for example any
situation where I could lose my interests for
example a roommate a marriage a job a
hiring travel partner alone all that stuff the
backbiting becomes obligatory obligatory meaning on that subject
so Haroon says that he wants to hire
someone for a job and I've hired that
person before it becomes an obligation for me
to tell him the truth of what our
business was like let's say that brother he
has other problems such as in his marriage
he's a terrible husband that would be backbiting
because that has nothing to do with your
position as a as an employee okay I
take Rahman out of Philly he says I
can mentor people on how to make proper
desi chai brothers I roomed with two Indian
guys one time temporarily when I moved to
Connecticut I needed to find a place to
stay and I ended up staying with these
guys for three weeks so they would cook
the food every day they would cook some
desi food and on the first day the
guys like who wants tea I said yeah
I'll make tea I'll take some tea play
the Jeopardy song by the time the tea
comes right this guy's stirring and stirring and
waiting and I'm like bro where's where's the
tea it's a three minutes three minute process
no no we got to do it right
the guy comes 50 20 minutes later and
my mug has like this much tea in
it right you know and they they serve
such a small amount of tea so that
was my cultural experience with chai all right
ladies and gentlemen we got to run a
slam dunk says I started a new series
on hanging out with scouts can you watch
my episode I emailed Safina side about it
all right we'll check it out I'll check
it out you once said istikhara that Allah
doesn't play tricks with believers that is true
we don't believe that Allah plays tricks with
us some people get this Shaitaan Shaitanic idea
in their head that that Allah may be
giving them something only to punish them with
it right like I got success I got
this job hum de la what if Allah
is setting me up that's a trick we're
not allowed to have those thoughts about Allah
what you should think of is when you
get this blessing how are you reacting are
you reacting by now becoming loose and overconfident
and disobeying Allah or are you being thankful
and still being obedient etc that's what you
need to think about you the job will
only be a punishment if you forget Allah
Ta'ala and you start doing things that
are haram that's where you that's what you
should be worried about not is a God
tricking me with this a lot of you
think that you're even worthy to be tricked
what do you think that your punishment is
entertainment stuff Allah Allah said we didn't create
this creation as a game knowing that some
people would think that it believes would put
that in people's mind it's not a game
when you pray for something as Bev open
up and then later everything closes up happens
a lot this person says it could possibly
be that it's an encouragement how many people
pray for a job next day I get
an interview so I feel like my prayer
is answered but that may mean not be
the one for me it's just that all
right you're on the right track we'll give
you a small sign that you're on the
right track and then I don't get that
job right so that's one possibility of what's
the sister's understanding is that that happens any
other comments I don't and your name is
Abdullah Mashallah your head winds friend from Rutgers
good good Mashallah Oh Abdullah what Abdullah Ahsan
Ahsan Allah will make Mashallah all right ladies
gentlemen we're gonna stop here subhanak Allah huma
will be Hamdik Nash hadu an la ilaha
illa anta nastaqfuruna tubu ilayk wa al-asr
inna al-insana lafee khusr illa allatheena amanoo
amilus salihat wa tawassu bilhaq wa tawassu bil
sabr wasalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh