Suhaib Webb – Bye Bye Biden
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Muhammad.
Like everyone today. Actually, I was in an
area close to,
former
nominee Biden's home
in Delaware, and my my family actually going
to protest,
in front of his home today.
And we received the message that he,
he had stepped down,
and, thought I would share just a few
thoughts
as they they were able actually to go
by his house with a Palestinian flag, Hamdulillah,
hanging out of their car.
A,
a fitting send off
to a complete catastrophe
and failure of leadership,
when the opportunity was given to a person.
That being said,
I think there's a few reflections that can
can be, made, and then
we'll let everybody go.
And then we'll see everyone this week as
we start our summer nights program again on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Tuesday night is faith and Ihsan. Wednesday night
is contemporary issues,
and then Thursday nights are issues of the
heart.
But number 1 is that it's perfectly acceptable
to
be politically active
and to be
happy or upset
based on political things.
I know sometimes we we we get this
idea from people that, you know, religion means,
you know,
you have to be very careful about where
you put your emotions. Absolutely. But if our
emotions are placed
in a way that is Sharia compliant, whether
in happiness or sadness, then that is in
fact
commendable.
And we know that in the 30th chapter
of the Quran,
Allahu
mentions
that the believers were pleased
when the Romans were defeated.
Allah
says
That on that day, when one of those
two armies will defeat the other,
the believers will be be be joyous. They
will rejoice. That is a political military victory.
That is something that is going to accomplish.
As we know later on, as Islam begins
to spread, that victory will come between the
Romans and the Persians and back and forth,
something that will bring happiness to the believers.
But the point is
that the the verse shows that we
certainly,
naturally,
are expected to celebrate
issues related to the administration of humanity,
what we call politics.
What will they be celebrating on the on
that day, the hope of
Allah related to,
this political
outcome.
And Allahu
in the Quran, he locates us as the
administrators of the earth.
When he says with
Allah
informed the angels that he's going to make
a khalifa.
Some people attribute the the tafsir of khalifa
as being a a person who administrates
and looks after the
the earth as being
something that was cooked up by Sayyakut, but
this is incorrect.
Some of the early scholars of tafsir, they
said Khalifa is the one,
who is going to Mudir, is the one
who's going to manage the affairs of the
earth. Obviously,
that that is going to have a political,
economic, cultural, religious sort of connotation.
So that's the first thing. Like, it's per
perfectly acceptable to say
to to this day and to thank Allah
for
for whatever good has come and and and
bringing about,
the demise of a politician
who, as we'll talk about
in my next point,
is is is is really the victim of
his own evil.
And we believe this. Jazam and Jinsil Amal.
Says that what you what you what you
have inherited is because of the evil that
you've done.
The evil that you've done to yourself.
So the first, alhamdulillah,
for people who are saying alhamdulillah, people are
feeling a sense of of joy at the
help of Allah
in this moment as it is associated with
a a political outcome
as we celebrated in 2011
on the streets in Egypt when I was
there, alhamdulillah,
when, Hostin Mubarak was overthrown.
We celebrate
with the by the help of Allah with
the help of Allah.
The second thing is I think it's important
for us to look historically at people of
oppression
and
unhinged
sort of attitudes tour towards the weakest and
most vulnerable in society,
whether Muslim or non Muslim, and see what's
happened to those people.
And that's why Allah says
by time. Time means all time.
From the the beginning of time to the
end of time, people are going to be
bankrupt. Here, a is
is really the context of bankruptcy.
Because Allah created us for worship. And if
we fail to use the house money that
Allah has given us in creating us and
giving us all we have to worship
him, then we are putting ourselves in bankruptcy
in the hereafter. We ask Allah and
that's why the Quran says
guide you to a
a profitable,
transaction that will save you from a previous
punishment. But historically, like, whether you look at
Shaytan.
Shaytan, he tried to oppress Adam, and he
tried to oppress the wife of Adam, and
he became rajeen. He became the one who
is rejected.
Right?
The one who is is is is rejected
and thrown in in into the hellfire and
and and is going to be held accountable
for anyone who follows him and his path.
We can continue. You look at at at
the people who oppose the message of Allah
salallahu alaihi wasalam
on yamulbadron, yamuluhid,
and even later on. Many of those people,
they they were the most powerful people
in their communities, but they they
they waned away and and they lost their
power and their authority in ways that were
unimaginable.
You look at Hajjaj.
You look at the killers of imam, Al
Hussein, who we talked about just a few
weeks ago. Read what happened to the people
that killed Sayna Imam Hussain, his children, his
wives,
17 members of the prophet's family,
and
we we are astonished, you know, at what
happened,
to those people.
You can look at also, for example, in
the time of Abu Masur al Maturidi,
who his his village was actually attacked by
Muslims,
and they were oppressive.
Abu Mansoor Amaturedi is one of the great
imams,
one of the great scholars of theology,
an incredible tafsir
of Quran, incredible books written in theology. And,
subhanAllah, he he,
he was very old. And at that time,
they tried to bring him out to shame
him. The opposing army, they brought him out
to shame him.
And as they brought him out, listen to
what he said. It's amazing what he said.
It should be written in gold. He was
very old at this time.
They said to him, who's going to protect
you from us? Like, who will protect you
from us?
And he said, dua
Allahajuz fijo filleil.
The the supplications
of the old women in the middle of
the night.
Subhanallah, the supplications of the,
old women in the night. Meaning those elderly
women who pray
and make dua.
He said, like, these will be like arrows
that will defeat the greatest army in the
world at that time. One of the greatest
armies in the world. And
a short time after,
that that army came back into the city,
and that same general, he began
to laugh
and make fun of,
the army of Abu Mansuraman Turidi.
And as he was doing so, his he
he he he was hit with a arrow.
And the arrow that hit him caused his
horse to run. And that that that man,
his brains like exploded on the rocks as
the horse is running.
And then they found on the arrow, written
on the arrow,
this is from the dua of the old
women in the night. SubhanAllah.
Abu Abu Nasura Matlulidi said what will protect
us
is the
dua of these elderly women in Tahajjud. And
then that man written on the arrow was
this is from the dua sent
from the Dua
of those women. Like, those those hands shot
this arrow at you.
Throughout history, like, you you look at history,
you look at the people of Vom, their
ending is never good. Allah says,
like oppressors are not successful. Allah says
The only ones who will be destroyed are
the people of oppression.
And there are two points to be made
here because maybe somebody says, but look at
the other oppressors in the world. They have
palaces. They have cars. They have jets. Well,
this is a reminder to them
that the most powerful person
politically
on the planet
has lost everything.
And if we were to ask people just
a year ago, even people now today who
are against
Joseph Biden, those people who encouraged him to
step down,
If we had asked him even 4 or
5 months ago, 6 or 7 months ago,
they would have said, no way. We support,
you know, president Biden. We're a 100% behind
him, but when Allah plans, nothing can stop
the decree of Allah. Nothing.
And so there's a very important lesson here
that one day you're the most powerful person
in the world, in quotes,
and the next day
you lost everything.
Who who else
has the power to do this except
Quran
says, say, oh, Allah.
You are the one who controls all power,
all dominion, and you give power and authority
to who you
and
you take
that power from who you want.
And you strengthen who you want.
And you weaken who you want. You shame
who you want.
In your hands is all goodness.
Indeed, only you have control over all things.
So the second lesson that we can take
is that
I have felt that
what we've witnessed happening physically to Biden, what
we've seen happening to him,
mentally, his inability even to
finish a sentence,
is the outcome
of
the genocide which he has sponsored,
the murder that he has funded,
whether in Palestine, whether in Congo through Rwanda,
whether what's going on across the globe.
If you attack this many,
if you attack this many people who are
making dua and fasting
and they are innocent,
you are setting yourself up unfortunately for
divine providence to kick in.
And it kicked in a way that
shocked people,
incapable of putting even a sentence together, incapable
of knowing where he was, incapable of of
of of, you know, basic human task.
Allah. All of the functions that you have
were given to you by Allah.
And if we employ
our our our our power, whether it's micro
or macro power
for wrong,
we may be punished in this life or
the next.
But there is a powerful lesson in this
moment
that the people of Makluba,
right, the people who love the dish that
is turned upside down
have turned the entire world upside down,
including,
quote, unquote,
the most powerful leader in the world.
And these people have very little weapons.
They have
almost a non existent infrastructure.
They are
being constantly pummeled.
Their neighbors have, hypocritically, except for in Lebanon,
turned their backs on them in Yemen
and Iran, and a few other places, turned
their backs on them. They have nothing.
But these people
were able to bring about
the demise of, quote, unquote, the most powerful
person
in the world.
If if if this is not a moment
of serious reflection
and to realize
says in the Quran
that
if it if it wasn't that Allah had
repelled some people with other people, there will
be corruption in the earth. Allah
is going to to to make this place
balanced. There's a different
Right? That Allah is literally using a people
to
push a people out,
to push them out.
So we see now, subhanallah, the the most
vulnerable,
the famous book, the Wretched of the Earth,
the most vulnerable,
the weakest of the weak, quote, unquote, militarily,
politically, at an infrastructure level, financially.
The people of Makluba,
yokallib,
are changing and flipping
the whole earth on its head
with their
incredible
drive and patience, and the same can be
said for the people of the Congo,
Sudan,
and other places.
That takes me to the 3rd point.
All of the Muslim leaders
all of the Muslim leaders
take a lesson from this.
You you may be
and the leaders of the world.
You may be intoxicated by your power.
But today, you learned a lesson. Just like
in 2011, you learned English. I remember when
Mubarak was gone.
I was in Egypt.
And people in Egypt
were shocked.
I was shocked.
He's gone.
Like, it was that fast.
So take a lesson. No matter how big
your castle is, how big your mansion is,
how powerful your military is,
quote unquote,
the world's most powerful leader
is now officially more or less out of
a job. He's a lame duck president.
If that is not enough for us to
realize that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the
one calling the shots,
And if that is not enough for people
who can stop this genocide
and stop the economic,
environmental
injustices in the world
just to lie in their pockets.
Right? Those who who collect their wealth and
count their wealth. There's a different
qira'a.
Like, they they
they constantly you're collecting wealth
because why? They believe
that it will make them live forever.
There is a lesson now in this moment
that when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants to
relieve you of your duties,
nothing can stop the plan of Allah.
And so for the leaders of the world
who may be
intoxicated
by their power and their wealth and their
military and their corruption and their evil and
their lack of checks and balances.
Understand that what you saw today could happen
to you.
The next, and I'll finish,
is
that
oppression is a very serious crime in Islam,
and oppression takes on different iterations.
Imam Rari al Aspahani,
he defines oppression as to
put something where it doesn't belong.
To put something where it doesn't belong. Whether
it's geographical,
like the Balfour Decoration, where they put a
country where it doesn't belong. They put a
people where it doesn't belong. But also, like,
even things like allocations
of funds,
your military.
If you live in America, the zoning that
happens in certain neighborhoods compared to other neighborhoods.
Why don't certain neighborhoods get liquor stores and
and certain neighborhoods don't get liquor stores? Why
do certain neighborhoods get churches and religious facilities
and other neighborhoods get casinos and gun shops?
Well, there it is very clear. There is
there is racism in architecture in this country.
There is a a form of systemic
bigotry in how things happen. So
putting things where they don't belong
is is a simple definition of what oppression
can be in its different forms. That's why
shirk in the shirk
is
a form of oppression, because it's to put
in something the qualities that don't belong to
them. It belongs to God.
But oppression is so serious
that we believe
in our theology
that even polytheists
that even people who reject god,
if they are being oppressed
and they ask Allah
to punish the oppressor
or to alleviate
the press oppressor in this life or the
next?
Their dua is answered.
This is one of the few exceptions.
The scholars say,
if they pray to god, okay,
that the prayer of the oppressed is heard.
The prophet
Right? There's no there's nothing that comes between
the dua of the oppressed
and Allah's answer.
So be very, very careful of oppression.
Right? Be very, very careful of
who you mistreat, but at a political level.
We saw that president Biden celebrated an infrastructure
bill that Trump couldn't pass.
And Biden, he he celebrated that and he
thought, well, infrastructure bill I thought about Sayidna
Amrul Khatab
Talk about infrastructure
who used to lose sleep and worry that
animals
would fall on the roads of Baghdad
if they were not taken care of by
the Khalifa.
And that those animals will complain to Allah
So this tells you sort of
how far away these people are.
The last point that I'll make, and I
don't wanna take a lot of your time,
but I think it's important that we bring
a theological
reflection into this.
Is that
while while Biden may be gone,
the system is still in place.
While Biden may
have exited stage left,
the donors,
the supporters
of the plutocracy known as America are still
in place.
And there is much work to do.
And for us as Muslims,
I want us to think about the following.
Number 1 is our relationship with Allah
Like, if we're seeing this incredible exhibition of
power
where some of the most powerful men in
the last 15 years have just fallen
in ways that no one expected it. And
it's proved that Allah's decree is real because
Biden didn't wanna step down.
Just today,
as as the press release came out, announcing
that he was stepping down, his staff was
still on the phone calling donors. Just yesterday,
I read that he was fighting with people.
I don't I don't wanna step down. He
he didn't want it, but it's not about
what you want. It's about what Allah wants
because Allah's will is immutable and unassailable.
And that's why Imam
says
Just because you're passionate about something, that passion
is not going to break through the ramparts
of what Allah has decreed. It's not going
to break through the fortress of Allah's decree.
What Allah has decreed will happen.
Nothing can stop it.
So in this moment,
as Muslims,
we are humbled by the Sultan of Allah.
We should be in awe of the power
of Allah
and that should inspire us. Number 1,
to renew
our worship and renew our obedience to Allah.
To to make touch deed of our iman.
To make a a a renewed commitment to
faith. I wasn't praying.
Let me start praying. Wasn't good to my
wife or my kids. Let me be a
better husband and father. Wasn't good to my
husband. Let me be a better wife and
mother. Wasn't good to my parents and to
my children. Let me do better. I have
been negligent, you know, falling into the haram.
Let me recommit.
Because I'm seeing sultan of Allah.
I'm seeing the Sultan of Allah in front
of me, and
no one could have done this or stopped
it.
The second
is we should be inspired.
We should be inspired by Allah's strength and
power. This should be a sense of motivation
because we see
they expected the Palestinians to fall in 5
days.
Like, they literally thought that everything would be
done in 5 days. Some said maximum 2
weeks. Some said 3 weeks.
But a Samud
and the suburb of the ummah
and the power of
and the power of Allah who will protect
this Ummah
is showing itself.
That should inspire us not not to cower,
but to push in to continue continue our
mandate to heal a fractured world.
Our job is not to terrorize as they
say. Our job is to build and heal.
The Quran is
The Quran is a healing wherever it goes,
it heals. I I'm proof of this. I
was someone that was not raised as Muslim.
So we should be inspired
to be engaged,
to push in,
to have asks,
to demand justice,
to make change in the Muslim world that
is going to impact it
in a better way.
The third,
our unity. Look at the democrats.
They're disunity.
Their inability to to unify
is is going to cost them the election
to a horrible human being.
Their their inability to to to work in
a unified way no matter how much talent
they have.
Is going to cause them to lose
to to a pathological liar. They're all liars,
but an open pathological
liar.
So what does it tell you no matter
how much talent you have and no much
how much strength you have?
If you cannot find unity
and the ability to work together and have
good assumptions of each other,
it doesn't matter.
Allah says,
like, if if
we
if we
are not together our our wind the Quran
says in
our strength will leave us.
People are asking me who they should vote
for. I'm not voting for Kamala for sure.
I'm not voting for none of them. But
I think down ballot, it is very important
that we need Muslim leadership. Those not me.
I'm a I'm I'm a as high trained
imam.
I I don't have a political science background.
I can think theologically about politics.
But Muslim organizations need to come out and
say, if you live in this state, this
is the most, you know, Muslim oriented candidate
that you have. This is the best human
being that you have running for office. Well,
it's silence because people are scared. I understand.
They're scared to say anything, but
we need leaders.
We don't need people that are quiet. We
need people to lead. And sometimes when you
lead, you take shots. It just comes with
the game.
I I I I think we have to
have a a set of serious asks.
And if people are not willing to entertain
or ask and listen to what we have
to say,
then that's their fault. That's not our fault.
But our own unity, if we are together,
we'll be strong enough really to make it
through anybody who's elected in office. We trust
more in elected officials than we do in
the power of our own unity.
And that's the problem. That's a misplaced trust.
And that's why we take each other for
granted. That's why you see some of the
the young folks in the audience understand the
impact about other people on Internet. They're attacking
me, attacking this person. Why, man?
Who who taught you to talk to your
elders like this, man? Like, have a talk.
Like, talk through it like men.
If you have some issues, step up and
ask people. But to come on social media,
attack this sister, attack that brother, tear some
of these people may be agents,
but we have to no longer tolerate this
anymore. We we have a mandate
that if we don't bring our collective power
together, it doesn't matter who's in office.
MLI started under Obama.
Don't forget that. Right?
Obama was supposed to be friends with a
Muslim community, although he wasn't.
If we're strong in our unity and strong
in building our communities and we have a
sense of purpose,
it's not gonna matter who's in office.
Because of our unity. And this applies globally.
Our unity
is power.
So ask Allah to,
to bless us with what's best in the
future,
to allow us to move into a place
where we can continue to spread the light
of Al Islam
and to heal a fraction world.
But there's a lot of lessons.
A lot of lessons to take from this
moment, man.
And that is that no matter how powerful
you are,
you cannot escape
injustice.
And it's a tribute to the Palestinian people,
the people of the Congo.
You need to look at what America's doing
to Congo people. Go read up on it.
People in Yemen
who had to deal with us an American
funded Saudi war against Yemen
for years that no one wants to talk
about.
It is what it is. These are dirty
wars. Read the book dirty wars. People in
Pakistan who constantly have to see the person
who they want to leave their country removed,
then now we see young students in Bangladesh.
And look, in almost some countries, those governments
do not hesitate to do the same thing
everywhere.
Especially with quote, unquote, the young people, the
future.
More than
250 something
250 brothers and sisters have been killed in
Bangladesh students. There is a complete,
you know,
shutdown of everything. I experienced that in Egypt.
I woke up in the morning in February
2011.
Everything was turned
off. Everything was turned off, but that's what
caused everyone to go to Tahrir Square, and
that's what actually led to the fall of
Mubarak. Look at all our plans. He thought
he could turn off all the technology and
stop Allah's decree, but Allah's decree can't be
stopped.
SubhanAllah.
So we we we need to pay attention
to what's going on in Bangladesh, man,
and and really support,
student movements there and what is happening.
These
these are important
moments.
And I like to tell brothers,
if you're more worried about Allah's throne,
then the thrones that are being occupied in
the Muslim world, we will continue to lose.
You keep having this conversation on what is
Allah's throne mean? What? These were con first
of all, these were conversations for high level
theologians.
Secondly, in 30 years, what is the conversation
done for anybody? You're so worried about Allah's
throne, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Just leave it at that. But you're not
worried about the thrones in the Muslim world.
So then that tells you where you are
today. You get a slaughter and ripped apart.
Nobody cares about you being this, I paid
that I paid this man have that man
have And the broader Muslim community, you gotta
start pushing these guys away. Not giving them
a voice. Don't give them attention because they
are leading us to destruction. We need the
and
who focus on what's important
and a a primary importance. No one's going
to heaven to * or heaven to *
over the issue of Arash.
But we have
very, very, very serious problems in the thrones
that occupy the Muslim world. Secondary
issues of are
not things that take anyone to *. Abdullah
in the comments,
that shows you right there why you shouldn't
even be talking about dear brother. Just stay,
learn, listen, take from your elders. But what
you're asking about is a secondary issue by
which no one may tuck fear of anybody
over. Nobody.
But you're so caught up in that because
you've been infected by this this this need
to
worry about the Muslims more than you worry
about what's going on in the world.
Worry more about their creed than what you
need to worry about what's going on in
the world. So Abdullah, he just signed on
to take it. I guess the bouncer just
threw him out. But we have to stop
tolerating this stuff, man. These brothers coming in
arguing on this issue that issue this issue
that issue. This is the same brother. If
you will be your wife was being raped,
your husband was being beat to death, and
they were robbing your house, and it was
a leader of the Muslim world, and you
tried to stop that leader, that brother would
join and fight the leader against you and
say you're not allowed to fight against the
leader. That's the poison that we're dealing with.
So, again, I don't tolerate it. I'll let
you leave.
But the last point is
that we have to focus on practical unity
amongst people who have the maturity and emotional
disposition to be unified, and who are actually
concerned
about the affairs that are impacting Muslims physically,
financially, politically,
and all that affects us religiously.
All that affects us religiously. So may
Allah
bless all of us. May Allah increase us
in. May Allah lead us to Jannah. Someone's
asking about my my position on this AD.
This AD is AD. Are Muslim brothers and
sisters? We have some differences with them, of
course, but those aren't differences to take anyone
out of Islam.
How how, allah, hamdulillah, there are Muslim brothers
and sisters.
We ask Allah
by all of his names and attributes
to protect the students in Bangladesh.
We ask Allah
by all of his
incredible
names and to protect
the brothers and sisters and students in Bangladesh
and to remove,
the oppressors from the Muslim world and to
replace it with leaders
who,
impacted,
and concerned with the true affairs of the
Muslims.
We ask Allah
to guide, especially our young brothers and sisters
who are very passionate,
but their passion is misplaced and misdirected.
And they spend all of their time dividing
the Muslims and attacking the Muslims, and they
have very little to contribute
to pushing back against the enemies of Islam.
To guide them and to make them on
the haqq. We ask Allah to bless the
people of Gaza.
I wanna encourage everyone in the DC area.
I'll be there inshallah as well on Wednesday
to show up to,
engage in a citizen's arrest
of, you know, who.
Benny's coming to town. Benny's gonna come through.
So, you know, we're gonna try to subpoena
him, at least with or try to arrest
him, excuse me, with the citizen's arrest. May
Allah bless and protect all of our allies
and keep us on the truth and protect
the people of Congo and Sudan.
We ask Allah to alleviate the suffering of
the people of Gaza. We ask a lot
that whatever happens in this country is best
for the good
of our
and the bless
blessings of the hereafter. Muhammad.