Shaun King – Are you a Muslim – Hard truths from the Prophets Mosque in Madinah
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The speaker describes a beast found in the Prophet's Mosque inrows, including the importance of peace and the need for people to be aware of their Prophet. He also talks about a woman who was killed by a group of men in a graveyard and how they were praying for her. Later, a man named Jesus talks about his donkey and how it is one of the boys in the story. He also shares a story about his father's success and how he was a military genius. He talks about his father's death and how he was a warrior and attracted men and women.
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As-salamu alaykum, you know, I thought long
and hard about not doing this video because
there's some things that I have to say
that are really hard to say and I'm
just gonna, I'm just gonna say what's on
my heart and what's on my mind to
say.
I believe I need to say it and
you need to hear it and I'm at
a point in my life where I feel
like I would be disrespecting Allah and even
disrespecting our Prophet, peace be upon him, if
I didn't say what I'm about to say.
Behind me is the Prophet's Mosque here in
Medina and it's so beautiful.
The mosque is beautiful and it's so special.
Yes, it's the people here and there's a
spirit here and the best way I could
explain it, this is how I explained it
to my daughter Savannah, I said, Savannah, have
you ever been in a place where you
thought like something's wrong here, this is not
safe.
It's not that someone told you it wasn't
safe, you just got there like something's weird
here, let's leave.
This is the exact opposite.
It feels like God is here.
It feels like angels are here and I
wouldn't have believed that unless I felt it
for myself and feeling it.
Several people told me, they said, Sean, and
this is not even what I'm here to
tell you, okay, so please just stick with
me.
Several people told me, they said, Sean, when
you get there you won't want to leave
and I just thought, I was like, I
don't know if that's true or not.
I don't want to leave.
We leave tomorrow for Mecca.
I'm nothing but honored.
Don't get me wrong.
Don't misunderstand me.
Tomorrow I will do Umrah.
I'll get to see and walk around the
Kaaba like I can hardly believe it but
this place meant so much to our Prophet,
peace be upon him and so much to
his companions and now I understand why.
I love it so much that I told
my wife, I was like, maybe we should
get an apartment here.
I don't even know if that's possible and
I don't even know if the government here
would let me stay here.
I have no idea.
I didn't even know if they were going
to let me in but it's beautiful.
Alhamdulillah, it's beautiful and something very heavy is
on my heart though because this is the
place where our Prophet, Muhammad, peace be upon
him, he and a small band of sisters
and brothers fled Mecca because they were trying
to kill them.
They were killing Muslims in Mecca and they
were trying to kill the Prophet, trying to
kill his companions.
They were torturing them.
They were doing the worst things imaginable to
them and they fled Mecca and came all
the way here to Medina for safety to
be able to just practice their religion and
so many powerful, beautiful things happened in this
space.
I got to see the tomb of our
Prophet, peace be upon him.
I got to see where his home was.
Today, I buried a man with my own
hands in the same graveyard of the Prophet,
peace be upon him, of his family.
His family is buried there.
Over 10,000 companions of the Prophet, peace
be upon him, were buried in this place
and today, with my own hands, me and
brothers, me and other brothers that I came
with, buried a man here.
From this place though, essential battles took place
and our Prophet, peace be upon him, I
have to say this to you.
Yes, he was a father, he was a
husband, he was a friend, he was a
teacher, he was a mentor, he was a
brother, he was a son, he was all
of those things but I need you to
understand he was a warrior.
He was a general.
He was a military strategist.
He was a fighter and he attracted men
and women who fought for what they believe
in and yesterday, I was praying.
Do you see this?
This masjid, masjid is the word we use
for mosque if you're watching this and you're
not a Muslim.
This masjid holds over a million people and
I was praying here.
I think there might have been a million
of us here and I was praying and
I was, I looked around and I thought
there are enough of us just here in
the masjid to free Palestine what, what are
we doing?
There are enough of us just on these
grounds that if we had the courage and
the strategy and the tenacity and the plan
and we acted on it, we could free,
we could stop this genocide ourselves.
We wouldn't need all two billion Muslims.
We could do it right here, right now.
We have the power and the strength to
do it and so I, I was here
and I was just, I was reminded of
there, there are three things that came to
mind and on some level, they've haunted me
and I, I have to say them to
you.
One of my, one of my friends who's
an imam in the UK, he sent me
a video and he didn't, there's a beeping
noise so if you hear it, it's not
in your house, it's, it's here behind me.
I have no idea what that is but
he sent me a video and he didn't
fully tell me what I was about to
see and at first I was like, oh
this is a beautiful video but it had
a punch at the end.
He sent me a video of this brother
in Gaza, a handsome young man and, and
in the video, the brother has a donkey
and he's petting the donkey and he was
like, he called the donkey by name and
I forget what he called it and he
said, I love this donkey.
He said, this donkey has been here for
us for 14 months.
Every single thing we asked this donkey to
do, it did.
He said, this donkey has carried bodies all
over Gaza, this donkey has carried tents and
clothes, this donkey has carried us, this donkey
and he said, it eats less than us,
it drinks less than us, it never complains.
He said, this donkey is so reliable.
He said, I don't even know what we
would do without this donkey and I was
looking at it and I was like, man,
I love this donkey and the donkey was
like, it was wild because the donkey was
acting like it was one of the boys
and like the donkey was almost like looking
at the camera and he was just petting
on it and it was like the donkey
was one of the crew, like he thought
he was human and he's like, I don't
know where we'd be without this donkey and
I was like, man, what a beautiful animal
and I was even thankful to Allah that
they had this donkey and he said and
he took a turn and he said, this
donkey has been more reliable for us than
every Muslim in the world and my heart
sank and he said, we've called on Muslims
over and over and over again.
I could cry because he said, we've called
on Muslims from around the world for 14,
almost 15 months.
They said, Muslims, where are you?
He said, my donkey is here and he
said, I would not trade this donkey for
all the Muslims in the world and my
heart sank because he might be the hundredth
brother that I have heard, the hundredth person
in Gaza rather that I have heard ask,
where are the Muslims?
Where are the Muslims?
Where are they?
Why are they not here?
Are they coming?
Where are the Muslims?
And I spoke last week in San Antonio
and in Dallas and in Orange County in
California and I shared this story and here's
what I want you to understand.
They've been asking for us for 15 months
and there is going to be a day
and a time where they stop asking for
us and woe the day, sisters and brothers,
where they just know we're not coming.
We're not going to show up.
We don't have the courage.
We don't have the strength.
We don't have the strategy.
We don't have the tenacity.
We're too afraid.
We're operating in fear.
I've shared this Hadith and I have to
share it again.
Here, here, our prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
him, looked at his companions and he said
something to them that shocked them because these
are men and women that had won battle
after battle, war after war.
They had fought for what they believed in.
He said, there will come a day, sisters
and brothers, where the enemies of Islam will
prey on us like food at the table.
They will, they will devour us like food
at the table.
And, and, and one of the companions was
like, scratched his head and was like, what?
And he asked a question that made so
much sense.
He said, oh prophet, will they devour us
because we will be so few in number?
He said, no, there'll be more Muslims than
you can count.
There are 2 billion of us right now.
Two, we're 2 billion stronger or 2 billion
a week.
I don't know.
And he said, no, it's not that he
said there'll be more Muslims than you can
count, but there'll be weakness in their heart.
And they will love this world in fear
death so much that our enemies will prey
on us and we'll have no fear of
us.
Sisters and brothers, what are we afraid of?
I had to Google how many Israelis live
in the state of Israel?
How many are there?
You would think there were 10 billion, a
billion, 500 million, a hundred million, 50 million.
No, there aren't even 10 million of them.
What are we talking about?
Their army, their army.
Listen, listen to me.
Their army has a few hundred thousand people.
I was here at the masjid with a
million Muslims and we're afraid.
Don't say you're not afraid.
If you weren't afraid, we would already be
there.
Our prophet peace be upon him said, our
enemies will devour us because there'll be weakness
in our heart and we will love this
world and fear death so much that when
our sisters and brothers need us, we don't
even show up.
And that's what he said.
And what he said, it broke my heart
when I heard it.
He said, we will be like foam on
the ocean.
Sisters and brothers, do you know, have you
ever been in the ocean?
Have you seen foam before?
It's nothing.
You can brush it away like it's, like
it's nothing.
It's a nuisance.
Have you ever been afraid of foam on
the ocean?
Have you ever even wanted anything to do
with it?
No.
Like what a painful thing to compare us
to foam on the ocean.
Please Allah forgive me if what I'm about
to say is arrogant, but sisters and brothers,
I didn't, I did not become a Muslim
to be foam on the ocean.
I know you, I've met you.
I've met, I've met thousands of Muslims here
in Medina.
You did not become a Muslim.
You are not a Muslim.
You did not come to Medina to be
foam on the ocean.
Our prophet was a warrior.
This is who we come from.
Do you understand me?
Our sisters and brothers are asking for us
and we are right at the brink of
them.
No longer asking.
I'm here.
Um, there's a brother here who was a
doctor that just got back from Gaza and
I told him what I just told you.
And he said, Sean, it's already happening.
He said, I'm talking to them.
He said he met Palestinians all over Gaza
who no longer even believe that Muslims are
ever going to show up.
And he said, most of them have stopped
asking for us already.
How shameful of us.
How shameful of me, my entire life.
When people have called on me, I've shown
up.
People said they needed my help.
I was there.
I've been this way since I was a
teenager and sisters and brothers are calling on
us and we can't even get a bottle
of water into Gaza.
We ought to be ashamed.
Are you a Muslim?
Do you love Allah?
Is Muhammad peace be upon him, your prophet?
Do you believe?
If so, sisters and brothers, we are failing.
Yes.
The world knows about Gaza.
Yes.
We've sent aid when we can't, we can't
even get sisters and brothers are starving to
death right now.
Are you a Muslim?
What are we waiting for?
As-salamu alaykum.