Shadee Elmasry – The Palestine Movement; Religious or Secular NBF 300
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have a couple housekeeping items. First of all I want to make I want
to say something. It's very important for our discourse. And I
have to say this many, many times. now and going forward, we have to
understand that there are three types of Messiah
in our religion, it's Marisa it is like an issue a question, a
discussion point. The first one is that which renders you a Muslim or
a Kaffir. Right. And that which is related to what is known in
religion by necessity, okay.
When you how do you enter into Islam? How do you How are you out
of Islam by the same way you came in? How does someone come into
Islam? You come in by saying that ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasul
Allah and what is known about the word Islam, right, you know, that
there's five prayers. So we call that what is known in religion by
necessity, when you entered Islam, that's what you entered into which
what you know, you're entering into those discussions.
Those disputes would render someone either Muslim or Kapha.
All right, next level is that which is very crystal clear and
explicit in the religion. All right, very clear, crystal clear
and explicit in our religion and in our faith that has no
discussion, you cannot go against it, but it's not very well known.
Okay, it's cut, cut it in it's, it's absolutely explicit in its
transmission. And in its meat in its indication, its meaning, if
you go against those things, and that discussion is what we call
orthodoxy and heresy, a heretic is inside of Islam, he is still a
Muslim, but his good deeds are not accepted from him and he could be
punished severely in the, in the afterlife for changing the
religion of the Prophet.
Now, the bulk of questions and discussions is of this the third
one, the next one down? The next one down? Is our matters, when you
discuss them, you're discussing correct or incorrect? And that is
everything that speculative everything either the transmission
of the text is we could say not whatsoever to not certain or it is
certain, but the implications are variable.
Or very good, they could they could have different meanings.
And the reason I say this is because you all know Jake, your
brain Catella had a very good discussion with him the other day,
okay. Now, the nature discussion was private, but the fact that we,
we had a discussion that's fun, I can say that right. Now, one of
the things that he said he brought up which is very important is this
point is sometimes when we talk when I talk, I may not
necessarily may assume that the people in front of me are aware
or people that are that you're you're posting to are aware that a
matter is merely about correct or incorrect. It's not heresy and
orthodoxy, sunnah and Buddha, Islam and cover, right, but it's
rather a sob. Is he correct or incorrect? Okay, and you might
believe strongly and it may be important, but the one who differs
with you. You're not saying he's a heretic?
You're not removing them from the faith. Okay. And I think this is
so important for Muslims to become literate about because when we
talk about matters of doctrine, aka, much of what's even Taymiyah
Zadie debated, for example, okay, may Allah have mercy upon them
both. Even the discussion I had last week on time, that much, if
not all of it would be in this third category, that there we do
believe there is a correct answer. But we can differ upon it. And
there we cannot say anybody is damned by this is not something
Allah is going to ask you about on the Day of Judgment doesn't mean
it's not important. There are many important things that Allah will
not ask you about. Having a Khalifa is or a good Muslim ruler.
It's very important, but Allah is not going to ask me why didn't I
establish one? No, I believed in one, that's enough. I said, we
transmitted that we should have one that's an author, Allah asked
me to do. Okay, it's very important. But it's not something
there's Heaven and * on this subject. So it's very important to
know that
in FIP, in policy in activism and in politics, a lot of that exists
too. Right? And that's where like, I almost think you get a rude
awakening when you realize not everyone's on the same page and
recognizes that there are correct and incorrect issues. Heresy and
Sunnah issues, Islamic cover issues.
If you the way that we we proceed in our responses to things.
Okay, activism, and in many cases, if you want to call it that, I
don't necessarily call it that. But we if you want to call it
that, no problem. Okay?
How we proceed in those things.
There, it's all it's all opinion.
But a whole lot of it, most of it is opinion. But today, what I want
to talk about is where is the line that's above that? Where is the
line that is not a matter of opinion is a matter of a certainty
that we have to insist upon. And for that, I have a wonderful guest
today. He is a young man from Staten Island, which is really to
be part of New Jersey, it's tell the truth.
It's right across 30 minutes up north from us. His name is
Abdullah Ockel. And he's one of the biggest organizers of pro
Palestine, a rallies and other types of things related to pro
Palestine has been extremely active. He comes to me with a
great reference from Imam Tom for Kenya who should be here, but he
couldn't I really wanted him to be here. Right. But he couldn't
today, unfortunately. All right, so All right, let's bring him on.
All right, Abdullah, welcome to the Nether effects live stream. So
I want to come ship Shadi. Just like Well, thank you for having
me.
Welcome, welcome. It's a pleasure to have you and why don't you
start telling us about yourself? Are you still a college student?
Are you out of college now? Yes, I'm a college student handleless
studying at Harvard University. I'm completing my master's in the
field of government. Masha, Allah so you so you finished your ba now
you went up to Harvard, and you're in government. So you're actually
talking to us from Boston right now? No, I'm speaking from Staten
Island. did yesterday and Hamdulillah. So I'm still in the
online portion. Okay, good. Good. Good. All right. So Masha, Allah,
so you're in. So you're in Harvard. That's an environment
that recently underwent a lot of controversy and its own president
tell us? Can you give our listeners a synopsis of what
happened? Why the President ended up resigning and how that affected
the pro Palestinian rhetoric and
protests and all that. On the Harvard definitely feel Harvard
like Columbia and a lot of the ivy League's were considered a hotspot
for a lot of the student activists. And we saw them all
over the news, Harvard, Columbia, and a few other universities. But
what we saw in Harvard was that the Muslim Student Association
along with a student, was the Students for Justice in Palestine,
created a coalition of over 100 student organizations that bonded
together over Palestine. And this somewhat protected them in the
sense that if you take down one of us, you're going to have to take
down all of us. And so this was a very smart mentality that student
activists came up with that gave us some level of protection, of
course, but not complete protection. As many of you guys
may have heard that a lot of students ended up getting docks,
and a lot of names were getting leaked as well. But what we saw
from the President and administration was some level of
backlash against these students, but also some level of protection
where, for example, President gay at the time when in front of
Congress and defended this right of freedom of speech, but it was
only limited freedom of speech where we were able to say
Things to a certain level. And phrases like from the river to the
sea, were still somewhat controversial to many people. But
what we also saw, and this was really important, was her support
for Zionists. Her support against Palestinians wasn't enough for the
Zionist lobby. And so they came up with accusations of plagiarism,
and so many others that ended up having her resigned within the
week of her being in front of Congress. And so for Palestinian
activists and activists at Harvard, it was a two sided thing
where, number one, President CIA did not do enough to protect
Palestinian students to protect the Palestinian movement at
Harvard. And at the same time, since she was getting removed
anyways, she should have went out in full support of what was the
reality, at least at the very core of it, calling for a ceasefire,
but that was really the culmination of it. And what we saw
was within a week of her being removed, a Zionist white man was
replacing her. And so we are expecting that definitely in this
semester, there's going to be some kind of repercussions against a
lot of the Harvard students that support Palestine. So she ended up
neither going one side to save herself, nor go on the other side
to at least be a martyr for a cost. Exactly. And what's funny
enough is that she's actually still getting paid her full
salary. And that's what some folks are a little bit skeptical about
is that she's still getting paid her full salary. But she was
called out for plagiarism. And in a normal world, if these
accusations, accusations were true, she would be blacklisted
from every major university, especially Harvard being at the
core of it. And she is still teaching at Harvard to write
exactly she's keeping her posts. So it's almost like, it sounds
like a plea deal. where neither are you innocent, nor are you
guilty, fully guilty. Yep. Yeah, that's just putting her on the
sidelines, I think is what was intended. All right. Tell us about
your history, your past, how did you get involved in this? And and
since October 7, what were the leaps and jumps the in terms of
your personal activity? Yeah, definitely. So I was born and
raised in Brooklyn, New York, and recently moved to Staten Island,
very close to New Jersey, where sometimes called the backyard for
Jersey or vice versa, you guys can pick whichever one. But
hamdulillah after I graduated, or during my time, in Long Island
University, Brooklyn, I studied political science and
international affairs. And there, I started getting a better
perspective from the academia side on what it means for conflicts and
what it means for mediation, and so on. But in the year of 2021,
when we saw what was happening and shift genre, for example, in
Palestine, I really almost got activated is how I think about it
is I continued to go out into the streets. And I wanted to combine
my academia with my activism is that there's definitely
intersectionality between the both. And in being someone that
grew up in masajid, it was something very victime that like,
my activism is not something that was optional. And I said this to
him at the time not too long ago, that my activism is actually
something that is instilled in me. It's something that I find
intertwined with my religion Hamdulillah. And so what ended up
happening in 2021, is that I joined the organization within our
lifetime united for Palestine. And that organization actually has the
goal and aspiration, also followed by the action to become part of
the group or to lead the group that inshallah frees Palestine,
within our lifetime, through advocacy, through protests, and
through education, as well as we have like, st ends all across the
year, but specifically to October 7, what we saw on October 7, was a
mobilization till today that we have never seen before, that over
100 days into this genocide, people are filling the streets
almost every single day, not only in New York City, or in these
major cities, but really all across the world. And so what we
saw was that we had to elevate, escalate, our disruptions, our
protests, and that we had to make sure that the world knows what is
going on in the USA, but also the world is willing to take action on
it as well, because education is one level, but then also taking
action is a whole other level as well. And so that was a big piece
in a lot of our protests, and a lot of our framing even moving
forward right now, as we just passed the 100 day mark. Now,
every
activism, every action essentially has a philosophy. Right? This is
what I'd like to talk about know if you heard in my introduction, I
said that in Islam, we have three tranches of discussions, right.
It all depends upon how clear and how much room there is visa vie
the sources given to us from Allah. So now I want to talk about
the foundational purpose of any Muslims involvement in it in the
world of politics, in the world of rights.
That foundation has to be that we're upholding either the right
of Allah, or the right of slaves, and the only
meaning,
source of meaning. All right, is Allah Himself in terms of who has
what rights? What is good and what is bad. It only can come from
Allah subhana wa, tada. That philosophical point is sometimes a
disconnect that I feel occurs is not occurring. It's like we may be
talking about a crisis, the Uighur crisis, the Palestinian crisis,
the police brutality. So we may happen to agree on some of these
things with with some people out there, but
down below, at the foundation of that is what's more important to
discuss where the rights come from. Okay, right. I think this is
really good. Because like I, even when I was speaking with you, I'm
Tom, I mentioned that our brothers and sisters and the guys that made
the dot that's so powerful, they said Lahoma Indian or the autodoc?
Well, John, the John duck, well, abracadabra, well, colonialism is
from surah, Dasan, azizan. That should be super common for me,
because that is so powerful, because like, as the world rallies
behind the FISA law as the saying all of this, this land is your
land, everyone is telling us that this land is ours. We know this
land is ours. But we are here standing in front of you say, this
is yours. The armies are yours as well. And the fate is yours as
well. You are the only one that can protect us. And that's
something that's so beautiful. It's like it's something that's so
missing in our movement. Yeah. So tell me
when a lot of times when when we talk about when you meet with
other Muslim activists, does this come up? Because even the term
activists, I'm not saying it's wrong to use, right? I'm just
saying that it comes in the language of Quranic language would
be almost like a little bit different. But it's irrelevant.
terminology is irrelevant, right? But I'm just saying that even the
seems like there are two models, right? There's a purely a Quranic
model. And that's what their priorities are almost.
There are many things to be active about. Right? And the world. Like
being active in the world, changing the world, it's almost
like the prerequisite of that is that you have changed yourself
first. Right? Not even change yourself, at least you're working
on yourself while you're working on the world. A lot of times, the
opposite side of that doesn't possess that same pie artistic
element. Because again, this the framing is not Quranic, the
framing may be whatever else. So when you're dealing with those do
with your colleagues in this field? Does this subject come up
with do they resist your Quranic framework of things? No, I think
this is something that actually comes up a lot. And I'm glad you
brought this up. Because like 100, I like within our organization
within our lifetime, where majority were majority like Muslim
base, but we obviously work with a lot of groups that are are not,
and they could just be allied groups as well. But they're also
pretty big within the movement, they do a lot of really good work.
But at the same time, it always falls back on that question,
where, for example, someone, it's a lot of time during a rally, and
we're bringing up we have to stop for so long, but they're like,
you're gonna kill the momentum. The rally is gonna end right then
and there. But this is something that we look back to them. And
we're like, this is a non negotiable. This is This is what
our brothers and sisters and guys are doing. This is our foundation
from before October 7, you know, come to us after October 7, and
say this is how we organize. And so it's definitely something that
comes up and there is some resistance, I'll be honest, there
is some resistance from some groups that they prefer that La
ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasul, Allah, those kinds of chants
aren't brought up during rallies, they're saying you're taking away
and you're separating the movement. One of the reality is
that this movement, at the core of it, as we're mentioning, there's a
foundation to it. And if the foundation is some of these like
worldly means, then these worldly means will always change. And
there will always be something meaningless to fight for, but the
foundation of it is something divine, is something that we are
all able to rally behind at least the Muslims, then we have
something to hold us to hold us afloat regardless of what comes
against us. And that's really what I what I what I tried bringing up
when I mentioned it to colleagues or people within the movement.
Do you see the future of the pro Palestine rallies to be more on
this side or the socialist side?
I want to say that where we are right now, we're at a turning
point where it could be one or the other and I feel like it heavily
relies on
On the people that have the knowledge, the students of
Ireland, for example, to show up in these rallies to lead some of
these rallies, like I always encourage our local shield shaqab
Diamond by the way, Sheikh Mohammed by the way, Imam Tom even
to show up in these rallies, because at times will will have a
rabbi there will have a priest there and there is no Imam. And so
at some point that will lead us towards the direction towards not
having religious figures at all at these rallies. But that is because
of the nature of what these priests and rabbis say, compared
to what an imam says, As soon as an imam speaks at a rally, he
mentions that exactly that same argument that our foundation was
Allah subhanaw taala, and Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
rabbis and priests as good as what they say is important. They don't
mention that foundation. And so for me, I find that that we're at
a turning point where I really push our shoe, our students of
knowledge to show up and be at the frontlines of these rallies,
because that is really the means of us changing the direction and
preventing us from going down a route where Islam religion is not
even talked about at these rallies. And there's a huge
disconnect for people.
What about the critique that from from all the past
reactions, or resistance movements, the secular resistance
movements are not very successful in in all the Arab world, like
wherever secularism came Iraq, Syria, Egypt, it did not produce a
wonderful, fruitful culture, right, that succeeded over its
enemies. Because I think that just the reality of it, it's like,
there is a mindset that secularization will lead to
flourish. It's a it's a means of moving forward. And it might be
whether it's like a Western mentality of doing so. But the
reality is that when we look at the opposite, and even throughout
the Muslim empire, and throughout the Muslim ummah, in general, we
realize that when we are led by a religious movement, we're led by
religious figures, we actually get very far academically and even
economically as well. And so that's something that I think
people fear, when they hear that we're going to put religious
religion in the forefront, they automatically think of the extreme
rather than making it the norm is that religion is at the forefront.
And this is who we are, you know, the irony of it is that the
secular Arabs, when they
are protesting their protests from an anti colonial perspective,
right. And their view Europe as the colonizer, right. The irony
though, is by casting off religion and being secular, and sometimes
even directly atheist, by the way,
they've taken on the European mentality of European psychology,
a European epistemology of reality, like without realizing
their mind is European. When they do that, while they're trying to
push on you, and you inherit the other. Yeah, exactly. So it's
almost like an irony that they're so anti colonial, but their mind
is colonized 100% I think at the core of it, if, if you're, if
you're anti colonial, and you properly understood what anti
colonization means, yeah, then then you are anti secular, you are
going to be pro pro religious, pro pro religious societies all across
the world, because you realize that inherently that means an anti
colonial world. Yeah. And the philosophic religiously our
explanation of it is that when people are on a false religion,
that false religion is holding you back. It's superstition. It's
things that are not real, that you hold to be real, therefore, it
messes up all your plans.
The DNA of when the deen is true, it aligns you with reality, and
therefore you become more successful as a result. So
whenever people leave off religion and advance such as the Europeans,
it's because they left off what is false of religion? Right? They
left off an outdated religion and a religion that's not in tune with
reality anymore. Right. Whereas when Muslims left off their Deen,
which is true, they left they became out of tune with reality.
And as a result, you see their faith starts going down. 100% And
we see that in Arab countries that have tried secularization, as you
mentioned, where it's like you, you see their demise on their own,
and you see that people are waking up to realize how far they have
gotten. Yeah. So the key a lot of the phrases, I'd like to discuss
some of the phrases, not to nitpick phrases, but to ask what
are they pointing to correct the foundation that they're pointing.
So when we want freedom for Palestine, that we all want that
we want this country to be free. But freedom as philosophically
speaking
is not the
direct goal, it's not a direct goal of of the Quranic paradigm,
right not to say that freedom, we want the opposite of freedom, we
don't want the opposite of freedom. But the goal of a Muslim
is to attain submission, as opposed to freedom to do whatever
I want to do. Alright, so I think this is also another.
It's another, it's a, it's nothing but a phrase, it shouldn't be
really, that big of an issue. But we also there's nothing wrong with
being introspective about the language we're saying, right?
Because freedom, just freedom just to do what I want freedom to be
nationalistic freedom,
is what the Israeli is doing just wrong, merely because they're
constricting us, or is it also an evil? Right, so what do you think
of some of these found the foundations of some of these
chants and phrases? No, I think that submission has become the
goal. But the issue is that freedom has become a means of
reaching to that level of submission. And the issue is,
especially right now, is that if people are truly looking for
submission, the submission that they are facing right now is not
sufficient to Allah subhanaw taala. Its submission to an
occupier for example, for our brothers and sisters in Palestine,
where even when they want to live freely, when they want to express
their religion, and they want to submit to Allah subhanaw taala.
Their messages are being raided, their their messages are being
bombed, even their houses are being destroyed. And so for them,
their goal has always been submission. For us, our goal is
freedom to submit. And so it's, it's considered a means a means to
an end. That's a great answer. Yeah. And I think that's that's
how most activists I hope are taking care of it is it's truly a
vehicle. And it's not, and it's not really the endpoint, we don't
stop freedom. It's a stop on the train, the train is going to stop
at submission.
Tell me now, when you're organizing marches, tell me what
you've organized so far. Yeah, So alhamdulillah, we've organized I
want to say, over 50 marches, I could almost double that. I think
it was almost 100 marches. From October 7, it's almost been two to
three consistent marches every single week, all the way until
this week, some of them ranging from regular Aw, protests, where
we start in a location, we ended up another others where we cross
over bridges, and we attract communities from all over. Others
have multiple different points that multiple different meetup
points are there's a huge transportation hubs, where it's at
Penn Station, for example, going ahead train station, and these are
places where a lot of people congregate. But I think most
recently, we have another of this one, just this Saturday, actually,
is a rally taking place at airports all across the country,
where they are where we are advocating for people to flood
their airports here in New York City, at least into JFK, where IDF
soldiers are being flown out almost on a daily basis, from
terminal four, to go directly support this genocide that is
happening to our brothers and sisters. Tell me about the Where
do you communicate this? Like? How would somebody know about the
latest? Yeah, so we post everything on W O L Palestine, and
we posted on Instagram on Twitter. And we are very active in our
posting, even when a rally is happening. We post updates every
15 minutes with our location. And so our community is very big at
Hamdulillah. I think we have a little bit over 100,000 followers
that usually are very consistent in in sharing our posts and
showing up to our rallies of Hamdulillah. And what is who stand
for that's within our lifetime united for Palestine. Okay.
Are you involved in the big ones in Washington, too? Are you one of
the organizers? Yes. 100 is still being part of the Muslim American
society. Here in Staten Island. We're connected to the Muslim
American Task Force, for example, which led the most recent rally
that took place in DC while I wasn't directly affiliated, there
was a lot of the organizing that I was involved with and making sure
that people show up and organizing people in that way. Okay, good.
Now,
when you when you organize a new, go to airports and things, what is
the main goal that tells you that this was successful or are not
like what is your goal? At the end of the day? You say we succeeded
and we didn't succeed? Yeah, I think at the core of it is
education. More people need to know that what's happening is
still happening. Like we know, at least like Muslims, and people
that are involved in the movement know that there's still a genocide
taking place in Gaza, but a regular person where they pass
through the regular news stream where it's not talking about Gaza
anymore. They need to be constantly reminded through these
protests that people are that that what's happening is still
happening in Gaza. And so education is at the core of it,
but also disruption like when we're talking about
terminal four, for example, this is a reminder to Zionist airlines
that maybe this isn't a place for us to fly out. IDF soldiers for
example, this is something that they are forced to reconsider by
sometimes hurting their money where each delay each minute of
delay to them or for them landing an airplane, for example, can cost
1000s, if not hundreds of 1000s of dollars, because JFK is one of the
most expensive landing strips in the world, just for them to land
their airplane. And so we know that by creating a level of
disruption, we are inherently costing the Zionist lobby we are
costing Zionist corporations money that they have to reconsider their
tactics, I guess. Okay, so let's talk about disruption. Now. That
makes sense. How do you actually disrupt a flight though?
Like Israeli airlines, what is it called? What's lol? lol Yeah, we
can we can disrupt it. And this happened last time by disrupting
air trains, for example. And so these air trains transport
hundreds of passengers over to terminal four, by disrupting that
we inherently the gate that is flying out these people will
realize that maybe 5060 passengers are missing off a certain flight.
And especially from our last JFK action, they actually had to shut
down certain terminals, and certain entrances to terminals
that I'm sure eventually relate off to airlines that they have to
delay their flights. And just by delaying flights, you're costing
money. And so that, that that enables everyone to wake up, but
you're giving them a miserable time because they're not have to
rebook 50 passengers to Israel, there's so flights to Israel, I
get that federal government, they're directly involved in all
this, that I get those disruptions. Now, you know, I had
an opinion about this. And a lot of people got upset. What about
the disruption of a regular guy on the street. So the thing is, there
is I want to say there is no rally that can take place without
without disruption. Even when we're not doing a JFK rally, for
example, and we are just marching from A to B, we are going to be
disrupting all the street closures and things like that. But the
issue is that justice and this is how I think of it personally, is
that justice in and of itself has become something so controversial,
that it is disruptive, that anyone that stands up for justice has
become someone that is a disruptive person. And so just by
us saying that we plan a rally just by even doing social media,
outbursts and things like that you are being a disruptive person for
justice. And so I see that the way that I think about disruption is
that it is a means to advocate for our calls it as a means to
educate, and for people to find out about it as well. Okay, so how
are we in America? We're also many of us are very keen on Dawa. Yes.
Right? And part of Dawa is that it's to have a good impression,
right? It's to make a good impression. So how do you deal
with the contrast or the resistance that, yes, we need to
get attention, we need to get everyone's attention on the
subject that I can get that simultaneously. I don't want to
leave a bad taste in someone's mouth, who's a complete right
random person who just trying to get from point A to point B. And
you know, the New York Post made a big deal about it.
When it guy tried to get his daughter, you know, that story,
right? Yes. And I think that's, that's a that's a very big piece
about it is that when we are thinking about this, if it was the
if this wasn't a genocide that was happening, but where we are right
now, where we are over 100 days, there's over 30,000 people that
have been murdered, that your disruption for 10 to 15 minutes
while a rally passes is okay for your daily commute. I can tell
you, if someone comes out of their car and says I have to be
somewhere we are willing to pass by in 10 to 15 minutes. While
there is a genocide happening, and bombs are being dropped on people,
you can handle it. And especially in New York City, where this is a
disruption is regular, you're regularly running into
construction into delays, you can be okay with a protest that's
advocating for justice, a protest that's advocating for liberation
that you can you can risk your 10 to 15 minute delay. That's a good
answer. 1015 minutes is not the end of the world. Yeah, yeah. It's
not the end of the world. So that's a good answer. Now, let's
talk about a comment here from a guy to Sasa. Okay, she's very
outspoken, you could say, I think she's a Palestinian Muslim woman
but think she's more into rooted more in the Marxist worldview,
maybe than an Islamic brother but she's a Muslim, right? I've seen
her other stuff that she's a Muslim and she
she her other posts showed that but she sometimes has some of
these aggressive comments
that you makes you think she says fellow Muslims, if you care about
pals
Don't just because of an AXA
and distort our anti colonial struggle as religious. So you're
disturbed and not better than Zionists, you fantasize
Palestinians and are driven by your religious ideas. So I think
this is a, a nasty attack on the worldview of a Muslim. Who
is he he's
trying to go about this because of his religious belief, because
Allah subhanaw was out of commanded us about right and
wrong, number one, and about the special place of ducks. And number
two, so it's not solely because of OXA. x is not in China, but we
care about the Uyghurs upstairs, not in India, but we care about
the Muslims in winter production in other places. So it seems to me
that it's a bit excessive. Her thing is she's like, so if you're
not anti colonialist, in your mindset, you're nothing like
you're just like a Zionist, what are your thoughts on that? I'll
actually, respectfully correct the sister by saying that Zionism in
and of itself, is Islamophobic. And so by you standing in front of
Zionism, you have to be pro Islam, whether you like it or not, and,
at the core of it, Zionist aim to destroy the land, the Holy Land of
Muslims. And that's what we see from this current administration
is that they are bombing our masajid they are bombing our
places of worship, they are raiding them on a weekly basis,
they're not letting our brothers and sisters pray a regular dry
masala. And we know especially especially throughout the year,
that when it comes to Ramadan, when it comes to our most holy
times during the year, Zionist escalate their attacks. And so
from an activist point of view, from anyone that is standing, so
called against colonization, you have to realize that you have to
do counter attacks to that by supporting an actual so much more
by supporting our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and the
Muslim and the Islamic movement, so much more in and of itself. And
then also, I want to say that the media and you mentioned this has
played this idea of what a Muslim is, to so many people, that even
people within the movement fall into that a that you can be anti
colonial, and you can't be religious at the same time, which
is, which isn't true at all you can be you must be anti colonial
and pro Islam and pro liberation at the same time. And that is how
we achieved success. But if you're willing to take out one over the
other, especially religion, you can take out colonialism you can
you can be pro colonialism. And I've seen this can be broken up
colonialism broke pro religion, but because religion is that your
court, eventually you'll be anti colonial, because religion is what
dictates your movements moving forward. Yes, so did you do you
ever talk to someone like her? Do you? Do you communicate with her
and try to like,
get her to understand your perspective, very often, we're,
for example, we're at a rally. And this is a very, there's a very
regular chant that we sometimes say, we say La ilaha illallah wa
Shaheed Habibollah, for example. Yeah, and brothers and sisters
would come up to us after, and they asked us to something that
shouldn't when you ask them why they're saying, you're making the
movement to religious, and you're, you're pushing away people from
it. And the reality is, a lot of these people that actually come up
with these remarks are Muslim as well. But I am certain that they
are missing a certain piece within their faith, that requires
religion to be the foundation in anything that we do, regardless of
any kind of justice movement, if it is a justice movement that is
grounded in Islam, and you cannot remove the Islamic aspect, and
still call it a justice movement. And that is something that I try
for trained. To many people, a lot of them become very understanding.
But there's also a lot of them that were rooted and have the
foundation of on Islamic principles. And that really steers
them to a different direction. And let me ask something I can
understand when there's equal powers, that a person doesn't
think of Allah and realizes his own powers, right? We say you're
wrong, but I get it. It's human beings can do that. Right. But
when you are so weak in power, you have no country, no state will
support you, right?
The entire world and you see here, Elon Musk is supposedly one of the
most powerful guys in the world Cohen and doing the humiliation
ritual
with Ben Shapiro and Auschwitz and then saying, I don't know I'm
aspirationally Jewish I was Jewish. It's almost like my best
friend is black. Right? Right. You know, that whole trope? And I
think on my great grandmother was Jewish, what kind of like power
that are you facing? So when
you're the power distinction, is that great? It makes you think
where is real power right. Now at that time, you are ripe to
to actually realize what the real power is with all the so what I
would like to ask is, what is the perception of who has power to
these to the secular
view of the resistance? Like, where are they getting their power
from? Do they actually think that their material power is going to
stand up against Israel in the United States and Western Europe?
Right? I think that that is that is such a core point, because
they, a lot of a lot of those people that have those certain
views are coming from a place that the people are the only ones that
have the power, and we are going to be the ones that are going to
achieve liberation and justice, and so on and stop the Zionist
entity. But who has true power is a missing conversation in and of
itself. Like, it's not even something that comes up, where if
you ask someone who has a true power, you're going to go in
circles with them, they're going to tell you, the colonizers, the
people, and so on. And the concept of there being a higher power is
completely absent from the conversation. And I think that is
what is so missing. And I always mentioned this is that this is so
missing within the movement. And it's what we need to show you and
students of knowledge to talk about more, it's like in our
masajid, when we talk about rallies, talk about the religious
aspects within rallies, talk about why it is so important for one
extra Muslim for one extra share for one extra student of knowledge
to be there compared to 10 secular people, for example, where even
that one person can make huge waves, because we know that it is
it's like secularism versus like the religious societies isn't
something that is stagnant, but rather it is somebody that is
almost combative against each other, that as soon as Muslims
take a vaccine, secularism will take advantage of that, and we'll
move forward. And that's something that Muslims have to wake up to
that if you choose to take the vaccine, you're okay, with
secularization being the norm. And vice versa, where Muslims stepping
up in a very active way, will force that secularization to take
the back seat.
And I would go so far as to say without really sounding too
divisive, but IBLEES will love a secular pro Palestine movement,
right? Because you're impotent, right? And you're gonna rely on
yourself, and you're probably going to make things worse, right?
And when nothing will scare,
scare even your enemy,
then that you believe that something's greater than him.
Right? And when a person has that belief in Allah subhanaw taala,
that that's the real power at at a certain point, then it triggers a
lot of other things. So if this is the real power, then why is this
happening? Right? There must be a wisdom why it's happening. Right?
I think the triggering point that you mentioned, is really
important, because I was thinking about this, and I saw a post by
two different women whom I do, which I'm not sure if you've seen
her graduation speech, she was posted on the front cover of The
New York Times and attack a lot for her pro Palestinian speech on
her CUNY law graduation. But she recently posted something as she
was applying for, for jobs, to be a lawyer, she was saying a lot of
these Zinus threatened her that you're never going to find a job,
you're never going to find any means of feeding your family and
so called, but she wrote this post and she was mentioning she was
like, Does he not know that zap is who is going is the one that has
written my resume for them for the fourth time. And it's something
that is so missing is because when you fear nothing, but Allah
subhanaw taala, and you know that at the core of your movement, is
the loss of Hannah Medina, and he has the greatest power, then truly
nothing can come in front of you, that will truly scare you. And
those are the triggering aspects that are missing within the
movement. Without that without that first step of recognizing
that at the core of it is Allah is the Allah is the Greatest, when we
put up with a beautiful current when we put that at the core, and
as the foundation that Allah is the only one who has power. At
that point, really, every trajectory we go on is going to be
a little bit different than than one who doesn't have that,
actually, it's going to end up being a lot different. But one of
those things is that when I'm with somebody when I have an enemy, my
wanna judge with Allah, my of God, we actually believe that I can
talk to someone who has more power than this person. And Allah
subhanaw taala can take care of them, weaken them, bring them down
with through things I can't control, right? Through means that
I myself cannot cook could have never done and have or I could
have done them illegally. Right. I could have done them but Allah
forbade me but I could have done it illegally. Right. And I would
have suffered consequences from that and I would have lost
people's sympathy for that and lost Hello
We'll support and been as evil as them. Right? That's where the
materialists and the believers separate, because we will stop
where Allah tells us to stop because I know he's going to he
could take over anyway. Right? He could do far more than I can do.
And that's where invocation the invocation of Allah, we actually
believe it brings down fear. It literally brings down fear on the
enemy, and Sakina on the one who says it. And we actually believe
that we can invoke this Akina for the people of Gaza, that they will
feel it in their hearts, because we invoked it for them through
No, and that that piece of a subpoena is so important, because
like, it brings comfort to us, as we are doing this movement is 100
days into what is happening, obviously, we know that this has
been going on for over 75 years. But especially in these last 100
days, I can almost guarantee that some of the leading activists came
to a breaking point within themselves, realizing and
especially the more religious ones, realizing that what is
grounding to me is my five daily Salah is my dua, is my connection
to Allah subhanaw taala. And without it, I am truly lost. And I
could say that on a very personal level, that I feel so much closer
to Allah subhanaw taala in these last 100 days, so I started making
more dua when I started taking my solo so much more seriously. And
we were doing food for our brothers and sisters, that was
that the aspect of a Sakina came so much stronger than I could have
ever imagined. And it's something that I truly hope our brothers and
sisters that are in this movement, get that feeling. Because without
it you're like I say this with all with all honesty, we are lost as
an Allah without it. That was out that comfort. And without that
certainty that we know that Allah subhanaw taala, our homage to our
feet is in his hands. And only in his we know that we are secure.
And so I truly hope that is a direction that we are moving
forward to and we are getting closer to. Let's move to another
point that's part of specifically this crisis, or Philistine in
general, in specific I mean, is that we know the endgame of it.
Those who believe in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi, wa salam, and
Surah till Israa, according to some of the toughest here,
we do know that this land is to be liberated by a certain people who
have a certain description, that description is that the Fed is
overflowing with people in the mosques. That description as Allah
calls them a bed, Alaina. They are great worshipers, holy Betson,
shredded and strong in this world. So they're strong in this world.
They're rich, they have power, they know how to communicate, they
know how to mobilize their bully backs and Chedid they have real
power in this world physical power, financial power, but they
are first and primary description is a bed that Olenna they are
worshipers so when you see them, you see it, you see worshipers,
their secondary quality, they're very powerful in this world,
right? So we know that Philistine also that that will be in war. And
there will be a guided Imam that the Muslims unify upon. And we can
even say that the return of a seven Medea is a directly portion.
Part of that. Good. Now there could be success before that we
shouldn't say that's the only six there could be success before
that. But what we do know, that's a description. So we have a lot
going for us when we're believers, and we take the spiritual
perspective on this pro Palestine movement. Contrast that the the
other side, I wish that I hope that you can continue talking to
them. And explain to them like that we have such a rich
perspective. It's not what you imagine some
you know, religious, that's something that's holding you back,
you materialism is holding you back. Right? You know, I really
like what you mentioned, because when I explain, especially the
organization that I'm part of within our lifetime, when I
explain it to be one there, and the name behind it, and everything
I usually say within our lifetime in sha Allah, even though that
just the name of the organization, but especially I was just talking
about those two, that idea that you mentioned because we have an
aspiration when we say within our lifetime, to be of those that
Allah subhanaw taala mentioned in the Quran of a better learner. And
the honor that that comes with that you are a group of people
that Allah subhanaw taala mentioned in the Quran, and it's
very rare to be a group of people like that is an honor in and of
itself that each and every single Muslim regardless of how religious
they are, must strive
A for each and every single one of us must strive to be part of those
that ALLAH SubhanA. Allah mentioned in the Quran in one of
the best ways possible. And so when we talk about the movement,
we have to talk about it in that way. And we have to talk about it
even more in that way, like you mentioned with those that aren't
religious with those that are leaning more on the secular side,
that we tell them that we have an end goal that is so clear to us,
Allah subhanaw taala was very descriptive of it, that it is
going to come back to us, regardless of how big these
lobbies are, regardless of how big their armies are, and who they're
backed by or anything that they have. We know that Allah subhanaw
taala has almost guaranteed it for us. But if we can have certainty,
in the Quran being guaranteed and not being changed until the end of
time, we must have the same certainty in Palestine being free
in the same exact way. Let's talk about the current situation. Give
us the update. What is the latest happening now?
Are there still bombings happening? Is the idea of pulling
out what's going on? Yeah, we we saw that right now we are over 100
days into this genocide. We recently just heard last night
that one of the leading journalists Martha's is leaving
because and he just arrived in Qatar this morning, right as a US
as the whole world knows him now one of the most well known
journalists, but he's leaving because he's truly fearing for his
life. So he knows that especially the IDF targets journalists, in
this last 100 days, they have killed more journalists than
they've ever killed in the last 75 years. And so journalists are
truly fearing for their life. And they're fearing to document what
is going on son of 100, as so many are brave to document it for even
this last 100 days, each day is a day of bravery. They have courage,
mashallah for each and every single one of them. But also what
we are seeing is that on the ground, we recently just heard of
one of the largest IDF brigades actually losing on the ground. And
this is something that brothers and sisters all across the world
to take note of is that on the ground, what is happening is that
Israel and the occupation is losing in many different kinds of
ways. And they are resorting to missiles, and bombing our brothers
and sisters from a very far length in order to protect themselves.
And so this is something that our brothers and sisters should really
take note of, as we are looking into this that while 30,000 of our
brothers and sisters or more in counting, have been murdered by
this occupation, we know that Allah subhanaw taala guarantees us
and he tells us what I said. And then, of course, you do visa vie
light and what is like Do not worry about them. They are not
dead, but are here and they're alive. And so this is something
that brings us comfort, that seems again, that we are talking about
is that 30,000 of our brothers and sisters have lost the weight, a
lot of people can break down and it's okay to break down based upon
that, but you are comforted all over again, by Allah subhanaw
taala telling you that he has even a much better place for them that
they are truly the victors amongst us. And so that's how I think
about the last 100 days beautiful. Tell me what is your main source
of information? Where do you go for your for your news and your
updates? Yeah, so I definitely look at who well Palestine they
share activist stuff, but they also share about what is happening
in Palestine. I look at I on Palestine as well, a very well
known Palestinian journalist page that shares a lot of that shares
out a lot of information but I also prioritize a big thing for
me, especially encourage people to do is to share Palestinian
activists directly or our Palestinian journalists
photographers directly. I know there's a lot of sub pages that
share them, but I like sharing directly from the source to
elevate them so people know about what is going on. Even after this
aggression is over, as we know that inshallah It'll be over soon
inshallah.
You said who well what was the other one? Who well Palestine is
the first one second one is AI on Palestine
Twitter handles are yes sir on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
they're everywhere. And what's good about iron Palestine is that
they share they share all the journalists and cameramen pages
for the people that are on the ground in Gaza. So you could
actually follow those as well from directly on Palestine who are the
some of the journalists and the photo journalists that you like to
go to directly so mark that was definitely a very big one for me I
was I still continue to follow him and I'm sure he's going to
continue sharing but besides is also a very well known I think her
Instagram handle is wizard besides on Instagram, I'm sure on Twitter
as well, but those two are the big ones. I also follow solid. I don't
have his his last name written down, but I'm sure you'll find him
on many of their pages as well. But those are the three that
really share
Some of the most actively and I follow them and share and reshare
their posts Malta's last name spell Isaiah.
Okay, and Bisson is that bis N? Yes. Okay. So these are the ones
you'd like to follow directly from, and they're all over the
social media and everything easy to find. Good, good, good. All
right, Semi.
Hamdi was around, give it to her. Part of his tour spoke very
eloquently part of his tour was
we have to punish Biden.
And the Muslims have to make sure that they never give a president
who approved of a genocide a second term,
regardless of whether the one comes after is worse or not,
because it sends a message that you could smack us and get away
with it. Right. Right. So have you formed a position on this?
Personally, on a very personal level, I'll say that there is no
way any Muslim can go out in this election with a clean heart and
say, I will be voting for for for President Biden, because it has
become very clear that where we are right now, over 100 days in,
it's not only just calling for a ceasefire, at this point, you are
complicit, especially as the President of the United States,
where you actively supply to their military arms, you actively punish
countries like Yemen that just do a naval blockade, and didn't
actually attack anyone, but you're punishing them just for their
support of the Palestinians. And so it has become very clear that
President Biden is no friend of the Palestinian people, and is no
friend of the Palestinian lobby anywhere across the world, or
Palestinian activists or Palestinian allies. And so we have
to be very clear in our reaction to what he did, because at the
hope of it, that the next president realizes that maybe
100,000 300,000, whatever the number is, of Muslims in the
United States, chose to say, I will not stand for this genocide,
I will not be complicit for it. The next president rethinks that,
even if President Biden were to be reelected, he were to rethink his
decisions, knowing that the pressure is on from the muscle
lobby, you think that he's actually not going to run and this
is going to be Michelle, instead?
I think it's I think it's very likely that Biden is to run the
Democratic Party in and of itself has become a party, that, and we
just know this as politics in general, the United States that
it's a party that is very arrogant in general, that if they if they
fear that if they take Biden out, then it is a loss from within the
Democratic Party, especially when the statistics show that usually
an incumbent should win. For most scenarios. It's very rare that an
incumbent doesn't win. It happens here and there, but an incumbent
especially one that the economy didn't completely decline, and
especially the economy actually rose, amongst many other things. I
know a lot of people say that the economy started dropping, but the
statistics show that the economy did okay, during Biden, he should
win statistically. But because what is happening right now, it is
very real, we see the studies coming out saying that what is
happening in Gaza is a turning point whether Biden likes it or
not. And when he is asked about this by reporters, he keeps
telling us, You should fear the alternative. What happens if you
don't like me? Go look at Trump, for example. Have you seen some of
this chatter that
Michelle Obama might come out? I have seen the chatter but yeah, I
know that the Obamas and the Biden's are, are very close, that
if it were to happen, it we're going to be very coordinated, that
it won't, it won't be something that Michelle runs behind. Biden's
back, for example, it'll be something that is very well
coordinated in a way that keeps up the Democratic Party.
Because that would that would probably swing everything. A lot
of the anger would dissipate towards the Democratic Party,
people will be very excited about her. And it would be a massive
clash with Trump because she, you bought it, it seems like so, like
he's so weak and impotent, almost like he's so old and semi even
aware of what's happening. Yeah, I think Democrats are hoping for an
alternative to Biden, especially one that's coordinated by Biden or
someone that Biden can get behind. But I think for Muslims, at least,
a lot of them will be aware, but there is a huge piece where we
know that Obama in in and of himself was also a huge supporter
for the occupation where he gave them some of their largest arms
deals, you gave them some of their largest military weapons, and gave
them their most recent Iron Dome, which they use to defend against
missiles and so on. And so this is just something to keep note of for
a lot of the Muslims that are
least listening on or when they're watching the progressions in
American politics. How about yourself in the media? Have you
done a lot of media? Have you done? Have has local media or city
media reached out to you? Yeah, I'm the most rallies, we see that
there are multiple outlets there. Most recently, I spoke with
Jazeera, which is also going to be covering the Saturday's rally,
which is a national rally now taking place in many airports
across the country. And I just need is going to be covering
covering as as as much as many others as well. I've also spoken
to Middle Eastern I and many of the local ones as well. So the
like radio 88, for example, you know, anyone in the tri state area
knows that that's your your your general, your standard news at CBS
Radio idiot? Have they given you guys any coverage at all? Yes. So
I want to say that they've given us solid coverage. In the
beginning, I want to say it's mostly been very biased, as many
know, where they label us as Pro extremists, protesters are so on.
And they want us to lean towards that direction, or they try
labeling us towards that direction. But we know that where
we are right now, they actually choose to not cover us at all,
because they want to move on to the next story. They realize that
them talking about what is happening in Gaza is supporting
our cause more than more than harming that it's it's achieving
the same success that we are hoping for, which is educating
which is bringing about awareness to what is going on. So every
single day that we are on the news stream is benefiting us. So
they're opting to not covering us. Yeah. And who's giving you
negative coverage is tabloids like the New York Post.
And we know that especially the New York Post, for example, has
been proven to have one of the largest sinus lobby and money that
has been coming in even the owner of the New York Post has is a very
clear Zionist, and he's sat down on multiple different occasions.
And we know that this that the New York Post in specific has helped
in the Daxing of activists and putting them under pressure and
hoping that they would fold but 100 I will see many of these
activists come out so much stronger after that kind of dogs.
So for those who don't know that the area here, Fox News, The New
York Post Newsmax
Who else, they all have one building in New York City, right,
right in front, right in the Rockefeller Center right across
the Rockefeller feller center. And it's owned by Rupert Murdoch, the
Australian, I think, or New Zealand or whatever. But they
moved here obviously, they live in New York, him and his two sons run
these these outlets. And literally it's they're on the same they're
the same building Fox has maybe two three stories. New York Post
has a couple of stories Newsmax, which is more like alternative
media. Who else? What else does he own.
I believe he owns a lot of the smaller tabloids as well. But we
also protested in front of him. Most recently, I want to say like
less than a month ago, actually, we went in front of the News Corp
building. And he made it very clear, one of the biggest slogans
that we usually say is that every time media lies a neighborhood in
the Gazette dies. Because we know that media in and of itself is
complicit. They take part in this, they have the opportunity to share
the truth. But because of lobbyists and money, they very
much choose to spread misinformation and to promote the
Zionist lobby. No, you're very active, does that affect your
situation as a student in Harvard?
It does in the sense that I advisors and multiple members of
faculty speak to me advise me to not continue to push my activism.
But Harvard in and of itself, over the years and historically, is the
place for activists, where we've seen whether it's BLM or many of
the or many of the Justice marches all across the United States
history, Harvard was always a hotspot for a lot of this. And so
at Harvard, the administration know that it's the norm for
protests and things like that to happen. And so I am not at fear of
that. I've known that Zionists have doxed me in the past, but at
some point, they can do so much that you tell them like what else
do you have, you have everything. And I am still continuing. And so
they'll give up at some point until well, thank you very much
like to have you back with with more updates in the law. So I'd
really like to have a connection and give our audience a connection
to to the type of work that you're doing and give us updates on what
you're doing. So hopefully this won't be the last time we talk.
Because like well, tight on Shadi. It was great speaking with you and
talking about all of this. Likewise likewise, luggage utopia
and your studies and your work and your future marches. Again, go to
W O L Palestine, you find them on Instagram on Twitter everywhere
and be supportive. We should be attending as much of these events
marches as possible, and making sure that we we bring our
worldview with it and bring our God and our dua with there and
bring those blessings there. May Allah subhanaw taala give you two
field I mean May Allah does that come look at some somebody
All right there you have it folks. You have here one of the top
leaders really from the new and up and coming leaders of the pro
Palestine movement and he is
Masha Allah young with many many years to co hopefully in Allah we
pray for him and those like him that are coming in with the right
mentality towards this
this kind of work and this activism alright let's go to your
questions let's take the first question here doesn't have to be
related to this subject
let's open it up to our q&a first q&a Here is on total we again
we're not it does not have to be related to Philistine or what's
happening now.
But I do need to mention this one question is came earlier today
Tada we and the medical school as you know that it were in the month
of Raja Shabbat, Ramadan is coming up graduate is when you start to
prepare for for the month of Ramadan and tada we excuse me very
simply
thought of it very simply is for the individual. Any amount of
ruckus,
at home or in the masjid at home is preferable for the individual.
Any amount of rock has to minimum after I showed before you sleep
with the intent of being pm Tara
for the massage and however,
it is sunnah
if upon the community to establish the Sunnah Aqeedah of tarawih
okay, and that is that they should establish it. As as soon as 20
raucous. They can establish any number they wish.
There is no set number however, since all of them will dub and the
Sahaba established 20 That is the best number to establish on what
happened Abdulaziz established it at 36 to short and each Africa
good
to shorten each Africa so that people could could
be more comfortable and coming and going. If DACA was long, then he'd
have to calculate Alright, can I do I want to stay for this next
longer DACA Should I just leave. But by increasing the number of
records to 36.
The the length of each rocker was shorter. So that actually proves
to us that the number is not the main mess of totowa. Okay, because
on what happened, Rob does, he's held to the Sun none better than
you and I and he had advisors in Medina and he was one of their
students. Okay, so we should understand that. So that is the
summary of tarawih. And that's the answer to the question on Tata we.
Rock says it doesn't matter if the movement is religious or secular,
as long as there's a movement.
Maybe, but I do understand I do hold that it's really important to
know who you're talking to, and why you're doing something.
Good.
Yes, if there's someone * somebody else, any movement
against the * is good. So in that respect, she rocks men or
female is correct, right?
In the sense that it will remove a harm. Okay. But this is a little
bit bigger than that. This is war we're talking about. So it is
important to know why you're going into it and have an intention. But
yes, she is correct or he is correct. If they mean by that,
like any movement against the harm is beneficial. However, you have
to understand though no one just comes in and removes harm without
bringing their own philosophy with it. Okay. And how many times have
we seen in human history? One harm came in, removed another harm but
brought with it
its own philosophy, which made things worse. I tell you, the
Marxist are number one on the list. They come in to remove the
terrible harm.
Inequality, financial inequality, you read what Karl Marx was
talking about at his time.
And you realize like he's totally right. But then what's his
solution is is far worse. Because it's far worse. Your solution is
far worse and go look at his countries.
Any country that his thought touched, has went down the drain.
Even China, the only way they rose up is when they abandon his ideas.
No, no one loves money more than them.
Where's the sympathy for the Kashmiris? The Uyghurs there
Rohingya Ian's
Is there any way to transform them into Arabs and trans Arabs so they
can get some attention
dang bro is right about this but this is a logical fallacy called
What about hurry? Right?
You know what about it's a logical fallacy, who's to say that people
aren't paying attention to the Uyghurs and the Rohingya ones,
they just happen not to be at the crossroads with the most powerful
group in the world.
Okay, that's really one of the main reasons so the Kashmir cities
are being fought by the Hindus of India. The Chinese
are attacking the Uyghurs.
Israel, this is the most powerful group of people in the world. And
because they're involved, now, Jews aren't haven't always been
the most powerful has only been the most powerful people. It's
just their turn. That's it. They're gonna go back to being
normal as they were before, on the edges of society, as they were for
2000 years.
Okay. You know, sometimes when I went when we're talking to Jews,
and they get a lot of attention, they're saying, You guys are
obsessed with us? Yeah, it's just your turn to be powerful. That's
it. The British had their turn. Does anyone care about the British
anymore? The French had their current Does anyone care about
them anymore? They the French at one point, they were the most
powerful people in the world. We go back to the Ottoman times, and
the Hungarians were the most powerful Europeans. How many
people can even name Hungary on a map? No.
There was a time when Austria was far more powerful than Germany,
France or England. At that time passed, okay, so nations rise and
they fall. And if they rise, and they respect themselves, then
their fall is moderate. Not so bad, like England, I think it's a
moderate fault, the USSR, right?
In a blink of an eye went down. Right? When it's Afghanistan, 10
years later, their economy is in shambles. And they doubt right so
it's simply a matter of it's simply a matter that it's their
turn. But that's the main that's one of the main reasons why
they're getting the attention of the world. The United States is a
nation whose politicians whose celebrities whose wealthy people
for one reason or another have humbled themselves and submitted
themselves to the Israel lobby, and there's a guy named Rabbi
Andrew here who, who said hold on a second. Don't say that we
blackmailed anyone. We didn't. Or that we're controlling anyone. We
didn't I don't see any gun to anyone's head. And I thought I'm
like he's right. These people willingly whether they have
something against you Epstein Island or not, who knows right?
Whether they have something against these politicians or not.
Okay, but these politicians, these businessmen, all these influential
people knighted states are willingly doing the bidding for
Israel. Why? Who knows? Okay, but they're willingly doing it. So you
have the greatest nation that was willingly submitted to Israel
okay.
That's probably it's thirdly, you have Al Aqsa is not like any other
land. So we will we do say that not all lands are the same. And if
there was a war if someone sent a missile to Mecca
and other ones sent a missile to OMA doorman in Sudan, is it going
to be the same? Of course not. Right?
So we shouldn't say well what about under men? Of course we love
them they're men that I know no one here
has anything against the Sudanese
but we can't say
that all lands are the same
doesn't mean that all human souls are the same but that land because
of the politics around it the power around it the religious
significance that's what's amplifying the crisis is not to
say one soul is more important than another.
All right, next question. What do we have here
I'm really interested as on this question is Michelle gonna run or
not?
Let's let's see here.
That is going to be a chaotic
is that is just going to be a nasty, nasty fight.
And all the racism is going to come out. Right? It's going to be
insane. Okay.
It's gonna be insane. For me the 2016 elections. Comedy 2016 with
Hillary and Trump 2016. I loved watching Trump take down some of
these other Republicans too.
Okay, and then taking the and then taking on the liberal media as
well, right.
But it's all over the news. It's been all over the news.
There's nothing official yet of course, obviously we know that.
But she's working on the economic times. It's nine hours ago
released.
Let's get this out of the way.
Shut up.
How do you get these ads out of the way? Oh my gosh, you have to
you have to watch an ad in order to get the article here.
Michelle is the one that ruined the school lunches. NEVER forgive.
What did she do? She's the one that made it all like terrible. So
what is it carrots and stuff boiled carrots just like terrible
food like it was terrible before she just like made everything
terrible. So that's what you do when you're
when you're first lady you just stuff like school lunches. I don't
even know.
Well, she could have done I guess that's what they gotta do
something that's so politically like
neutral.
Okay, let's let's go to Michelle Obama see if she's running, which
she could win.
She but I don't think she could rally. No, you know what, I don't
think she can win. She can't rally the working class whites that the
Democrats need to win some swing states. Arizona, Michigan,
Florida,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, she can't win those states. I don't
believe she can win those states. Those are they're gonna go with
Trump. That's just Trump. And,
and her it's going to be her trump.
Alright, here's an article, basically saying reports in the in
the media telling us that she really is thinking about it. If if
they're saying she's thinking about it, that means she's already
concluded she's going to do it. Now she needs to manufacture the
consent. And try to see where she needs to deny it. So that it gets
in Biden's head without her says, Oh, I denied it. Right. That's how
they usually play those games and do things like that.
But I think that that's where it's headed. Because there's no way you
Why would you put
Biden in win? He can't even finish two sentences or walk two to two
feet. He can't walk two blocks, right? There is no way he's going
to end in October November. B be doing three four rallies a day.
Right? Because that's what a president presidential candidate
does. He gets on his plane on the tarmac of a private
private airport. They put up 1000 seats, right? The President lands
comes straight from the plane straight to the stage.
Gives a rally talks and talks and talks, shakes a few hands maybe
even
a couple of pictures back on the plane and those flights. Those
airplanes. They got even better oxygen than down here. Right? And
the reason that you're flying makes you tired no matter if you
took a two hour flight you come out tired right? Because the air
is no good.
The air on those airplanes are no good. I want to talk to you about
something else. That's weird that happened that to me that I think
can can benefit people. Okay.
cyber sickness.
cyber sickness. Okay.
What are the
cyber sickness is it's a motion sickness and electric
light related sickness. So what does it mean? That firstly, the
symptoms of cyber sickness are headaches.
Dizziness, your eyes hurt, okay?
It's a it's a unique type of headache. But it combines with
with dizziness too. It's really bad and really nasty. What's the
source of it? The source of it is using your phone while in motion.
Using your phone while in motion, especially watching a video while
in motion, or scrolling while in motion. When you do that you're
you confuse your mind and your body
and it actually produces a type of low level of dizziness that can
last you for 234 days on top
After that, because we are on our phones so much, your eyes can
start to hurt, they can, your eyes can even start to twitch, and you
get headaches. This is what cyber sickness is called. And also that
is very poor sleep schedules. Okay. So that's the idea of cyber
sickness, if you have your have these types of symptoms, the
solution to cyber sickness is to only use your phone while while
you're stationary. So not to text while walking, not to text while
moving, not to watch anything while driving in the car. Right,
so that your body only registers one motion, even scrolling.
While driving scrolling, while walking can produce this, you're
walking around the house and scrolling. Right, or driving in
the car and scrolling or watching a video while you're in the car.
All this actually contributes to the confusion in the body, that
leads to a steady state of dizziness for a period of like, it
could be up to two days, right? Three days even with a minor
headache, okay, you can treat it by regular headache medicine, but
also not using your phone while in motion. Just a little
health
tip for everybody.
A little health tip for everybody.
Instagram drop shipping. Yes, if there's a high level of certainty
that
which almost is that the product will be produced and sent to the
person after before they pay after they pay you, then it is
permissible to do so. Plus, you put the clause that you can return
the money if if it doesn't get through. Okay, that's in the case
of where someone is paying you before you produce the product.
And that's one of the ways that people save up on inventory is
that they know that they can produce the product for you. So
because you can't sell what you don't possess, in Shadia, you
cannot sell what you don't possess. But if you have the
ability to come into possession of it, you can pay the person the
person can pay you, that's you know, that's like It's like paying
somebody
a cook or something in advance, and then having them cook the food
afterwards. So it's acceptable. What the shittier is trying to
stop is from people selling something that they don't possess
and likely chance cannot come to possess. So in that case, it's
almost like
hurting the buyer in that respect. Good.
Go down to
Instagram. I think there was some other questions there.
epistemic doubt. What do you mean by epistemic doubt, the source of
all things is ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. The source of all certainty
is the Quran.
Particularly the explicit verses that have one possible meaning
there are many verses that can carry multiple meanings. The
second source of all truth is the messengers. And of course, that we
referring to the Prophet salallahu Salam, the only thing that we have
that's authoritative from the speech of previous prophets is
what the our messenger has said about them, or the Quran has said
about them. After that, the next source of truth for us is our
intellect.
And even you can put the intellect
even ahead of that, because we can't process the Quran without an
intellect. Right. So intellect is another source of truth. Fourthly,
the next source of truth is your own sensory perception. Good, but
it's of course, weaker. sensory perception tells us that shadows
aren't moving, but we know they're moving, right? So sensory
perception can trick a sensory perception has told people for
ages that the world is flat. Right, but clearly turned out not
to be flat. sensory perception tells us that the sun's moving
around our Earth. We now know that that's not the case either. Okay.
So
of course the Flat Earthers would disagree with that, but we're not.
We're not talking to the to the Reddit and subreddit crowd
come in, do you have a knife? Let's unbox this.
Okay, so those are the sources of truth. What else is a source of
truth?
A source of certainty is not a source of certainty, but it is a
source of direction which is the customs of people. Guide the
customs of people is not a source of truth, but it does give us
direction and helps us answer questions like that.
How much is excessive eating excessive spending too much
clothes, too many shoes, too expensive, the right amount of
financial spending, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et all that is
we can say that as
sources of truth and not sorry, not sources of truth, but they
help us answer
give a certain direction on things. That's called Auto. What
is not a source of truth but it is a source of wisdom.
sayings. Like
M Thal, and sayings and stuff like that. Whoa, whoa, what is this?
How gorgeous is this? The burrito? Yeah, with man. Yeah. Are you
paying attention? Come in and cook it.
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over here. Stand over here so I can see I'm not blocked. Yeah,
just push it over here.
Okay. Mashallah. From our Australian brother. Good.
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then I will drink if Okay. All right. Look at that gorgeous
coffeemaker here.
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touchscreen. Wow. So yeah, this is the series business right here.
All right. Thank you very much. Let's put that on the side here.
But
now listen up.
Mix your caffeine with decaf so you don't become a caffeine. Get
caffeine headaches and all that stuff. Go
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All right, next common next question.
Dang, bro. says thank you. Very good response. Good, good
information. That's good because I hope it did help understand why is
that?
Philistine is getting the attention that it's getting.
There's geopolitical and religious reasons for this. Scriptural I
should say,
LeBron James said, Hallmark Ramadan and his outreach to the
Shia community who is on Ramadan.
Never heard of no helmet?
No, never, ever, almost as a curse for the show.
I know that. I don't know what they say about that.
Yeah, they admit that say Norma named both of his sons, two sons
armor. Now this was it was the same. No, Ali, who did that. Name
two of his sons armor.
Listen,
when it comes to priorities, we can fight alongside a innovator
against
a an enemy, like design tests.
Okay, provided that we understand that. That's the limit of the
of the relationship. Okay. And what's the proof of that all the
Allamah of Pakistan, guys got together. And they agreed with the
united front
to demand that the Qadiani be listed as kaphas and Paxton
Qadiani. These are people who believe in another prophet. So
they're outside of Islam because of that.
Okay.
Something happens to people's intellect when they join that
group telling you,
the guy, the people on Twitter, I'm like, literally like the
nothing up here. There's nothing up here. Right? They assume
things, they read things into what you say. That's impossible. And
there's no point the only reason if you ever see me responding to
any Qadiani on Twitter,
it's for other people to see the answer. Right. For viewers, other
people reading the threads to see what the Sony answer would be.
It's not that I'm talking to him. Not talking to these people. So
tell them would it be like mindset they have?
Benjamin? Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, was pretty interesting. Yeah. But
these guys, it's there. They make leaps and jumps. And they read
into things that you said, that doesn't make any sense. It's like
they know it's not true. But then they'll find like a random
justification. Like convince themselves Yeah, okay, this is
true. Yeah. I'll give you an example. And something that people
could learn from.
It for us to say that a certain profit had a superior quality or a
unique quality more than anybody else.
That doesn't make them that doesn't take away that the Prophet
was the greatest messenger SallAllahu he was.
Right. So Satan and Musa talked to Allah in a way that the Prophet
Muhammad did it, saying it Brahim was the father of all the prophets
of Prophet Muhammad. I said it was the father of zero prophets
said he's a bit muddy, um, he has his own law that he upper that,
that he exists with, not that not his own Sharia, as a as a
worshiper and as a believer, but as a human being. That law clearly
began with his consumption.
Right, the law, the, the whole commodity, the known way by which
human beings are born, he wasn't born like that. He has his own
set of physical laws that he lives by, that Allah has ordained for
him.
What other human being Do you know that was raised up to the heavens
and will exist there? And who knows how he will exist there,
Allah knows best. Right? And it will be a better existence than on
this earth. Okay, who knows what he is aware of and not aware of?
And is he a lot of what his type of consciousness is like we don't
know. Right? And then he comes back to this earth as a Muslim who
is endowed with the knowledge of the Quran.
Okay.
And leads the Muslims
because we know that Salah does not happen except in the Arabic
language, and we know that the Muslims when he comes down, Imam
and Vandy gives him the position as Imam and he refuses it. But can
the Imam Maddy give the give the Imam to somebody who doesn't speak
Arabic? Of course not. Right because the prayers lead in
Arabic. So he comes down after having not known Arabic when
endowed with the knowledge of Arabic?
Is this not someone with a unique law to himself?
That doesn't make him superior to the Messenger of Allah when he was
on. superiority is not assigned by unique miracles. He elevate raised
the dead
sham of ninu.
He raised Shem Abner, who's the progenitor of all of the people of
the Mediterranean or the sham area, the Damascus levant all of
those that area is called Shem. Because that was the settling spot
of Shem Ibnu.
The son of Noah, another son of Noah went one way and other son of
Noah went another way.
Okay
so just because of that, that doesn't mean that he's
that doesn't make one superior. We got a super chat. Super Chat, read
it to me book. My books. Yeah.
Menacing was the point. So I sent him poisoned by Jewish women and
was that the cause of his passing?
Was the prophesy setting them poisoned by Jewish woman? Yes,
yes.
It was partially Yes. Because the man who also ate with him at that
time, also died at around the same time. There was a to
the prophets Allah Allah Islam and another Sahabi who took a bite
of that meat that was poisoned and they both datacentre
or rather we says Razavi says Salah behind someone who considers
photography is isn't permissible because he is considered facile
photography is the item that you photograph and the use of the
photograph is what may be halal or haram but to take a photograph we
don't hold it that to be forbidden
did any Muslims hold it to me we're gonna yes by he had though
but he had meaning that there's no direct cut he
texts that says photo photography something like photography is
good. The drawing is also valid because the Hadith against drawing
are speculative and equivocal. Why because the other meaning that's
drawn from it is sculpting. And not any old not any sculpting
sculpting idols.
Okay, so sculpting half a horse, or the bust of a human being would
be discouraged. Sculpting an entire mammal that could live or
fish or anything that could live
in that form is forbidden. Good.
That's what's forbidden.
sculpting some
thing that can't live discouraged. Drawing the full image of
something in its full form that can live is discouraged.
Drawing two dimensional no shadow,
something that cannot live like half a lion, half a horse, the
head of a lion, the head of a human is permitted.
So it does not have a shadow and it cannot live. Those are the two
conditions that you find in the books of Islamic law is does it
have a shadow? And can it live? Sorry, yeah. And can it live? Is
it drawn in a way that is the whole animal?
Those are the two conditions in the medical school. How does the
value ESA differ from other today because this has been
in its form today, I would have to say and really from the time of
saying that the member had died and even before that, and around
that time, it's so much emphasis on Dawa.
So much emphasis on Dawa can tell you
what is Sidra Tillman says Martin cidre tournament is a low tree at
the furthest point that any created being could go. There's a
lot of mystical things to said about said that it's in winter,
such as that it's the tree that reflects all of God's knowledge.
In other words, the will of people is written on that. Some Some have
said that, but essentially said that it's in winter is the low
tree at the furthest boundary.
And that is where the angel Jibreel had to stop.
And where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam past and spoke to
Allah subhana wa Tada.
And here come some matters of disagreement and I will tell you
what I hold to be the truth.
And that is that past that point is where the manifestation of
Allah's Will and speech came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, as opposed to the the residency of Allah's essence. And
that we say, we cannot say that Allah Tada is essence is not in a
location. It's not in any location. Why? Because things are
in a location if they have a physical reality to it, but the
manifestation of His Will occurred there. The manifestation of his
speech occurred there, when Allah spoke to Moses at the burning bush
does not mean his essence was at the burning bush. So we do not
apply attribute in essence, to the location to a certain location to
the essence of ALLAH. And this is a matter
that as long as a Muslim says there is none like Unto Allah
LASIK, admittedly he shade or remain silent about these
questions, then there are safe, okay.
And if somebody says the essence of ALLAH is there, because the
Hadith implicates that we also that also would be an innovation
because the Sahaba never said that the Tebay never said that. Okay.
Now they may say that, they also never said that the essence of
ALLAH isn't there.
So yes, they never said this. But at the same time, other texts do
tell us and inform us, according to the mid HD head of the shadow
and the Metro deities that ALLAH SubhanA which is everywhere by his
knowledge, not by his essence. And that is a well known principle.
Hua Hua, Malcolm, a nama quantum He is with you, wherever you are,
how is that to be, he's with us with his knowledge. And so that is
a known principle that Allah is everywhere with his knowledge, and
his essence does not have a physical location, because that
would bind him, he would be bound by that location. But in any way,
these are matters of differences and should not be elevated to the
point of
argumentation. And that's coming from someone who has argued more
than anybody else on this subject matter on the side of that shadow.
So I have reached the conclusion that you just saved the your
opinion, but also recognize where this discussion takes place. And
what is the condition if someone says, Dad, I don't like what
you're saying, but as long as the Muslim says LASIK? Admittedly, he
shaped right there is none like Unto Allah. And they negate tests
to be the right and the likening of a lot to his creation. And
most, if not all, Sunnis. Well, all Sunnis have to say that right?
And the group say this, and what comes after that? Yes, I do
believe there is a right and wrong, but would not be elevated
to the level of rendering someone an innovator and
by cutting them off and treating them harshly because innovators
are to be treated harshly
they're damaging the religion, but on a matter that has much
discussion, right and can be discussed.
We do believe there's a right and a wrong but it will be said that
is less than the level of innovation, then there shouldn't
be no harshness and no cutting off and no argumentation unless you
want to believe what you believe on that and you have your ultimate
who say that I believe that's wrong, but our brotherhood should
not be affected by it. Innovation is to say that the surah Mr. Raj
and ever happened in the physical body that we say is innovation
because that's a clear text innovation would be to say Allah
the Prophet never spoke to Allah
we say that's innovation so at that point we have to be harsh
with you and cut you off
be harsh with you cut you off means like we're have really have
to keep a distance from you you're way off right now, at this point.
Can I have questions God is not composed of parts which is meant
what is meant with the hearing of God's speech? Okay. We studied
Hamza says we say that Allah to Allah spoke to Musa by manifesting
a sound to Musa that he heard and there by through hearing that
understood Allah's speech, okay, so what is it that is of the
Sunnah that must be believed in that Allah spoke to Moses, what is
it now that is a matter of discussion amongst the theologians
of what is the correct understanding of the incorrect
understand, correct understanding of that is according to the shadow
on the metro media that Allah manifested his speech.
to Musa alayhis salaam through a created sound, sound is created.
Right It was created sound in the province I sent him described it
as a chain running over a rock, the 100 biller and some the other
side of the theological spectrum says no that is Allah sound of
Allah speech.
But what is what important what is and how does Allah hear and see
and speak without organs? We say?
We say that he hears and he speaks and he sees without the use of
orchids, Allah does not doesn't rely on anything. He is a summit
that is the Tafseer of his saying
Allah has summit he has known needs
he has no needs
that's what we said.
Can you talk about shipping nauseam? schicken Azzam was an all
natural type and free flowing spirit and loved the world of the
Quran world of spirituality and
that's what he was known for. And he had many many many cutomer
attributed to him and he was basically like I don't know anyone
more intense in in that world than him
Can I read the date in which said by unnoticed Yes.
All right, only one more couple more questions
inherited inheritance from a relative who was known to have
majority income from haram means yes, you can still take it because
all that's what's about by the Sharia is the the, the immediate
means, which is inheritance. Okay.
You don't now have to go into his methodology of how he attained his
wealth.
The city doesn't ever ask us to go two steps only one step this year
current step.
What about the saying Allah comes to the lowest heavens in the last
third of the night. This is a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam.
Allah subhanho wa Taala Yun ZIL descends to the lowest heavens
in the last third of the night, to answer the DUA and the prayer of
people. So how do we understand this? A as long as you believe
that that is what is unnecessary belief and you can just that that
Prophet said that and you don't have to interpret how. Okay, so
that's what is required.
As for now, the next step of understanding how do we understand
that correctly? Okay, here are the ASHA Ira had a different view, or
they had a more specific view, in that they negated the thought of
his essence moving around the creation, because this is a
doctrine called hold
of the Creator and during his creation. So what did they say?
They said that this is an expression of the prophets mercy
descending, or his command descending, and in one narration
from medic, that it means that Allah is sending a special angel
that writes your DUA exactly as it is and gives it to you
in the last third of the night,
and that is essentially affirming what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said while making tansy
or establishing God's transcendence beyond physicality,
which is the core theme of the machete doctrine, okay. And this
is not rooted at all in any Greek or nonsense as it usually it is
attributed, right and some well meaning they do believe that the
SATs are they come to their theology because of their Greek
basis, but I don't believe that God has nothing to do with the
Greeks as do with the text.
And, and staying consistent with the text if Allah subhanaw taala
does not enter His grace, and it doesn't just Krishna.
And he is now as he was before the creation, right? So therefore, he
doesn't enter his creation.
Neither is he connected nor disconnected to the creation, nor
is he entering inside of it, nor is he outside of it, because all
of that would imply a physicality to God. And we say this, while
simply telling you in the understanding of the shadow, which
are the Medicare and the Shafia, and the HANA enough, the Metro DD
hold the same view,
got to do the same view
without initiating a war with the HANA villa, or the SATs, they have
their scholars, they have their their bases and proofs. And these
aren't matters that we should be like, goats hitting each other
with the with their horns. But this is our belief that this is
what we believe is correct.
And again, what is the necessary belief here, they believed in what
the Prophet said, Allah subhana, WA, tada comes down to the last
the lowest heavens.
Okay, and now the corrective seed of that. That's up to the
theologians.
Does that hit the return in Africanism? Man,
I look good,
is a very unique person. First of all, in our RT, that you must
believe that there is someone called that
that's what everyone must believe. Why because the prophets spoke
about a fifth. The Quran refers to him as one of our servants.
And they know him and let them know Rama itema we gave him
knowledge.
Okay.
So that was you must believe what part is up for this discussion of
the scholars is the nature of this person.
And some of the scholars have said some unique things, but it has
been almost moto acid over time. That eliquid he lives as a as a
human being who is half in this life and half indeed, but his
lucky life, how about him? But what does that allow him to do? He
is as if he is living all the way until today. Because many, many
elements said that they met. So you don't know that this nature of
this person is very different and unique. Am I telling you he's
alive today? No, I'm telling you, many reliable scholars, even in
Nikka theater sites this that at a feather is unique. He's a unique
mock look of the humans
who many Alama have claimed to have met eliquid
even while
they're in the week, not in dreams. So do we know about this
stuff? No, we're just lowly transmitters of knowledge
and we just tried to transmit accurately what people think about
it you think that's a crazy idea? You think that's a whatever unique
never heard anything? Idea? Well, I never heard heard it either at
some point, but that's what the automat say, if I had the quotes,
I can get it for you. But I don't have the quotes right now.
What are the Sunon and the Noah Phil? After each prayer in the
medical school, and that'll be the last question. And we'll answer
the question as what is Elijah Miller Daniels
So
in the medical school
Sunnah prayer, the Sunnah prayer is that which the Prophet gave a
name
that which the Prophet did, but he did not give it a name is called
the nephila prayer.
nephila is just it's a lower level of desirability
sunnah is the most desirable in between them is a type of prayer,
which the Prophet sallallahu Sallam encouraged you to do, but
never named it
in give it a name. So for this for the daily every day there is only
one pseudonym, aka prayer, which is which, which is one Raka.
The condition of validity is to one raka but the condition of
perfecting it and doing it right is to pray to Rakas NEFT, and then
one raka which
the next category down is what the prophet praised her he encouraged
to do but he never named it
that's called the Riba and it is the two tacos before so lots and
fudge and those tacos are recited in it only sudut Alfetta
every other prayer Salah before though after the before us and
after maghrib
okay
isn't that fella
for example anytime you just waiting for the mmm nothing
anytime you want to pray extra prayers, nephila but not after
Feds or after us there is no Salah
nephila After fetch for us.
Okay, does everyone understand? That's how simple it is in the
medical school. three categories. sunnah Monica has one prayer in
it.
As well Heba has one prayer in it, the rest is never enough. It has
no numbers. If before the Imam comes in, the Imam hasn't come or
the Imam you see him late. You can pray 2468 1012
Maghrib after the Imam leaves, you want to pray some more 2468 What
you like
skipping so Nemo aapke
for no reason. Constantly, regularly, not acceptable.
We say that if you never pray, so number Ekena on purpose that
sinful if you miss it once or twice, that's not sinful. But if
you'd like as a policy, I don't do it. That sinful. Or we can say
what medic said there's a defect in your religion.
Okay, to leave sooner, more akkada without a reason
as a policy, but if you miss it once or twice, it's not a problem.
Okay.
There's a sheikh from Trinidad, who has extensive commentary on
alcoholism and
entertainment only
because the theories are me it vary. But anyway, my here's my
bigger question. What do you want us to do? The most important
question is what to do, how to lead? How do I lead our lives?
Right? Okay, so all this stuff is Africanism and it's coming. It's
like political commentary at some point. Okay. What do you want me
to do? Do I leave? Do I get up to a pack my bag and go to Mecca?
Because you didn't hear in Trinidad? Right. Do I pack my go
to Syria? Wait for the amendment D? Wait for the Prophet Jesus. No,
this is so the real question is what do you want us to do? Cap
Milsom says what is L L? L Dooney? L L Miller Dooney is a gift from
Allah subhana wa Tada
that Allah puts in the heart of a person regarding the meanings
of his revelation. It's not a different law. It's wisdom. How do
we attain it? By practicing what we know.
We pray we attain it by practicing what we know.
Is it permissible to ask for a specific time for the Duat to be
accepted? No, it's not permitted but what is permitted is if an
outside force is pressuring you, so
the the court date or the the surgery or what have you is
happening on this day and you need the money
For right? So you say Oh Allah, I need the money for that day.
Because it's not you who's putting that date and outside force. As
for me, I want for example 262 To get married. I can't say Oh Allah,
I need to get married. And I want to get married by next year. Give
me a wife by next year. You can say I'm trying to marry by next
year in your Munna jet, but you don't say oh Allah give me a wife
by next year.
I want to be a pilot, all the funded courses are by airlines
that serve alcohol and haram food. Is it hard to join the program for
them? Yes, it is.
I want to shock the world here by telling you that a few opinion on
on that. And I had just asked
multiple Hanafi scholars and they they did say that the job in which
you're generally doing the halal, but at one point or other you had
to serve something that was forbidden. They permit that job.
They permit that kind of job. Don't talk to me and look at me
and say he's said you saying crazy things? The Hanafi school? Okay.
There's nothing here. That's my opinion. That's why it's called
nothing but facts. I don't want opinion involved. If it's opinion,
say it's your opinion, because it's your opinions with a hill of
beans, right? You can say your opinion, we need to just know that
it's your opinion, because then we can discard it
or accept it. But halal and haram, it's not going to come from any of
us. It's going to come from the reliable source. It's not even
going to come from a coal you know, what a coal is. A coal is a
sank one scholar far off set it
that also is not the way we practice our religion, we practice
our religion on what all of the scholars are the bulk, the bulk,
the majority of a scholar of a school of thought,
Okay.
Say that opinion now has weighed when you're telling me that a
Hanafi scholar
from transaksi Nia, you know, in their books, that's what it says
right? Nobody knows what it is. It's like
bukata, some Africans in the fourth Islamic century Hmm. But
Afghanistan, and all those places, then fast forward and you have a
Turkish scholar from the Ottoman times, same thing, fast forward,
you have an Indian scholar, same thing, fast forward, a Jordanian
scholar, same thing, different centuries, different parts of the
world who don't even know each other. And they're coming to the
same conclusion. Now you know that it's a sound interpretation. But
you give me one code for another hub? No, we don't go by that. We
don't go by coal.
As a one off saying in the school of thought, No.
Even if everything about that scholar is righteous, even if it
was the great Imam Kotori himself, or the even if it was one of the
greatest Imams of the school of thought.
If he's isolated in that saying,
then he has to be like, really one of the leaders for us to even
consider it. That's what we're taught. We're taught go by the
mush, who the well known trodden path, that if you practice this,
someone says, who said this, I can give you a list of names? Not one
name. Why? Because Allah says let's talk format, so that could
be don't take a position unless you're certain and one person
saying something is not gain. Certainty does not yield
certainty. One scholarly opinion does not yield certainty.
Good.
Can I do for before us 2468 10 however you want to do,
but four is usually the number because there is a Hadith that
says, Whoever prays for before us, Allah have mercy on
God.
Why is the group triggered?
Is it a derogatory term, Sufi?
In some circles, it's a derogatory term and in some circles is a
praiseworthy term.
When a Sufi lives by the Quran and the Sunnah, and it simply means
that this person is very devoted to Allah and remembers Allah much
such as the old definition in the ancient times, and some today,
right? Then yes, that's a good term. But if it means someone who
leaves off the sacred law and dances around, like all these
Muslim heritage things, we got a whirling dervish.
I see, by the way, whirling around itself is not the issue, it's
making that religion that's an issue or doing it in a mosque,
that's an issue. Right? But local dances, cultural dancing is not
forbidden. And it's not but rendering that to be your form of
worship or a type of vicar that and maybe you're gonna get some
pushback for that. But Ren leaving off Sharia and doing all sorts of
innovation, innovative stuff, okay, that the scholars don't
accept. That's where it's used derogatorily So, it depends on on
who you ask. But basically around Sofia and society, we are trying
to uphold the the spiritual practices that are done according
to the sacred law. We believe in the great benefit
for people's hearts of these spiritual practices, they rot
things like that
okay, that's that's how we understand this.
What is a dua we cannot ask? You cannot ask for
something forbidden. You cannot ask for harm to somebody else. You
cannot ask for Corrado even if you don't need it, like for fun? How
could I do like a miracle you can just Oh ALLAH Well, I want to see
Mirko. This is if it's if there's a need for it. Then ask for your
need.
And Allah can bring it how he wants, but to simply ask for that
we say is from the
not good manners. It's not good manners and not something that
that is expected and draw. But none of these three are true
supplications in the first place. These three the person who does
these three, his intention is off. The first two being forbidden, the
third being like discouraged. Okay.
But we do believe in cut Ahmet, but we don't chase them and look
for them.
LeBron James says that he's praying southern in North America.
That's his name here. And he's wearing your Christmas hat too. Is
that a Christmas hat? Oh, no, that's LeBron James has bent.
Okay. Well, he said I was praying with my arms down and then the
people in the gym I left because I thought I was a shear. Yeah, so
you have to be careful with that. Okay. You got to be careful with
that because some people all they know is that only she has pray
like that. Okay.
The medical opinion the dominant school is to pray like that. Right
in the obligatory prayer and fold in the hands is permitted in the
nephila prayers that are long so that is the if you if you're
especially around the Indian subcontinent, they don't know what
a medic is, they know Shia so you have to be very careful. Right?
And you anytime that the people will get bothered by it, I would
recommend you not do it, because it's not worth bothering the
people.
It If it's like that now you come to mbyc you got 10 guys doing
that? I don't know sir. What is the court date about the goat
Believe it or not, I didn't have to go hamdulillah my lawyer took
care of
the drama from England hamdulillah Thank you very much appreciate it.
I mean
oh by the way, what is going on with
this we have to do and then we leave what is going on?
With Karima foundation.
Yeah.
Why are they going after Jews? The Jewish Chronicle as a tax Karima
Foundation, Karima foundation would like all of its friends and
supporters, us included to read the statement that they issued
us on Twitter. Kadeem, this is the last thing that we were wrap up.
Kadima foundation received correspondence from the Jewish
Chronicle, JC outlining their intention to publish an article
this week regarding our coverage on the ongoing genocide in the
Gaza. We do not intend to respond directly to an organization
lacking journalistic credibility
that provides cover to a genocidal apartheid regime. The the email
requests contain nothing but hardly racist some phobic tropes
and libelous misquotes
attributed quotes so sue them if it's libelous
attributed quotes from the speakers are completely out of
context in an attempt to weaponize the evil of anti semitism to
silence any criticism
them of Israel and its heinous crimes.
Here they are using anti semitism to shut everybody up.
We note further is that the editorial line taken by the JC has
been appalling in the continued bombardment of the Palestinian
people akin to being a PR arm of Israel, rather than a serious
media outlet their failure to document the genocide of his of
the Israeli standing in a slaughterhouse and
indiscriminately along with ignoring multitude of genocidal
statements made by Israeli leaders can leave no observer in any doubt
with regard to our assertions of vested interest. And it goes on
Kadima Foundation has served in the local High Wycombe area for
over 25 years. We just went there
and we stand for the prosperity and protection of all communities,
something that JC could very much learn from.
The JC has illustrate his position and his disdain for the sanctity
of human life. See, we don't know what the JC is the Jewish
Chronicle but apparently it's it's powerful enough to warrant a
response like this.
Okay.
So there you have it, that's the JC I mean the Karima foundation
so we'll say Kadima foundation
UK
under attack from Jewish lobby from Israel lobby
actually, let's just say from the lobby
and then put the Israeli flag
ladies and gentlemen
we have to go
ladies and gentlemen
says here that the Wu Tang Clan
they have entered Islam
Okay
here's the question the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
whoever placed praise 12 Rock cause Allah builds him apparent
palace in Paradise that's 12 Rock as of 200.
In the medical school,
not the 12 daily sunless
Okay, hold on
Wu Tang Clan. I don't know anything about them. Of course I
heard of them. Who didn't?
Right, but I couldn't tell you who they were. And I couldn't tell you
what their names were or what their songs were. Or what's the
big deal? But I'm happy to see look at they're standing here. A
number of guys one guy making a W with his arms. I guess he's that's
their logo descending with a scholar they're wearing thobes And
they're
a bunch of guys here and says Alhamdulillah praise due to Allah
I have been informed by dear brother, Chef Gilot, Amin in
Medina
that our Za and official kappa Dona have been given their shahada
while in Mecca, masha Allah. They have matured and grown to Islam.
From their Five Percenter teachings. Five Percenters is like
a group that
they believe that like 5% of humanity was actually part God.
The Five Percenters it's an NGO, it's a nation that they hold that
they are part of God, essentially.
All right.
Yeah, some nonsense. But anyway, guess that that they were part of
that now. They're actually Muslims. May Allah continue to
guide them on the path of learning and growing with this beautiful
Elif Me, My Allah continue to bless our beloved brother Sheikh
Khalid for his work in promoting Islam, Wu Tang Clan, whoo
Wednesday, Wu Tang is for the children and will change forever.
So this is basically like
they still after many, many, many years, have
a beloved following right
Okay,
so good for them entered Islam it's always good for anyone to see
shahada you should be happy for it regardless whether you knew them
or you didn't. Ladies and gentlemen Giselle Kamala Hara
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