Suhaib Webb – Love to Lebanon & Points To Consider

As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

First and foremost, I respect and admiration to

the people of Lebanon, who have been holding

it down forever and our brothers and sisters

in Palestine.

Antum usul al-ummah wa abtal al-ummah.

And wa naftakhiru bikum alhamdulillah.

Like you are the lions and the heroes

and sheroes of the ummah and we are

proud of each and every one of you.

We ask Allah ﷻ to give you victory

over this maniacal, psychopathic army, which is the

most immoral army we've seen.

I have family in Lebanon.

So my family is directly impacted by this.

They are in areas that are being bombed

up in the north.

So I ask you to please make du

'a for them, to pray for them, as

well as all of the Lebanese people and

our brothers and sisters all over the world.

Just a few quick thoughts on things.

I don't want to take a lot of

your time.

But the first is that people that I

know who have been active on social media

since October 7th suffered professionally.

I know even imams whose families were threatened

from Israel.

The FBI discovered that the threats were coming

from Israel.

A lot of things are happening.

Man, be patient with these people.

They may make mistakes.

They may say things that might be out

of pocket from time to time.

Man, push in with love.

It is tremendously psychologically taxing, especially for people

directly impacted, explicitly impacted by the conflict, not

implicitly impacted.

It is devastating when you talk to someone

who lost 22 family members in a weekend.

That's going to take a toll.

So push back and love.

Let's not destroy people that have been doing

great work and try to build, grow, and

really model what it means to carry one

another when we need to be carried.

Alhamdulillah.

Number two is avoid people that are trying

to amplify the sectarian differences right now.

The bombs that are falling, the missiles that

are following, the violent aggression towards Muslims approaches

us in ways which we fail to recognize

strategically, and that is that the enemies of

Islam attack us like we're one ummah, and

we try to respond as a divided community.

Be very careful of the Sunni, Shia, Shiite,

Sunni stuff.

We have our differences, but this is not

the time to get into these academic discussions.

Right now, la ilaha illallah, Muhammadur Rasulullah.

We need to stick together.

The third is that for those of us

outside of this genocide, we need to start

having serious questions about how we run our

organizations, run our non-profits, run our national

organizations, and begin to ask very serious questions

about a resume of results as well as

building power, and power that addresses the need

to protect our own community and protect Muslims

overseas.

Looking at things like political capital and power,

looking at things like the academic, you know,

capital and power, social, economic, as well as

the role of our non-profits in the

religious areas.

Alhamdulillah, organizations are doing well, but we need

to have a discussion about how do we

improve those things.

BarakAllahu feekum, may Allah increase you.

Dua's for everybody there.

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah.