Suhaib Webb – Navigating Challenges as a Western Muslim Community

			I'm at protest, Alhamdulillah.
		

			But also we have to start to think
		

			about in honestly in the context of Western
		

			Muslims.
		

			We saw what happened in the UK where
		

			immediately the far right labeled the actions of
		

			that of a Muslim.
		

			We saw the reaction.
		

			We saw people that even we thought were
		

			allies of the community come out, coming out
		

			and attacking us, attacking our people.
		

			And the United States were constantly under pressure
		

			from different sort of layers of the world.
		

			And then we see internationally with the public
		

			slaughter of people in Gaza, the open execution
		

			of people who clearly these executions violate basic
		

			international agreed upon human rights.
		

			And we see that Muslim leadership, Muslim political
		

			leadership is silent.
		

			It can feel like a very difficult moment.
		

			But it's perfectly acceptable to feel that way
		

			because you can be upset and angered by
		

			the test of Allah.
		

			But not anger at the hukum of Allah.
		

			And that's why the Prophet ﷺ when the
		

			Qibla wasn't being changed, Allah says We see
		

			you keep looking up to see when the
		

			Qibla will be changed.
		

			ﷺ will turn you to a Qibla that
		

			will make you happy.
		

			That means before he wasn't happy.
		

			He wasn't happy with what happened to pray
		

			that direction.
		

			But when the command came, Alhamdulillah it changed.
		

			So we see here that it's okay if
		

			you speak Arabic, it's easy to have anger
		

			and to be sad and disturbed with Al
		

			-Maqdur, but not to be angry and sad
		

			with Al-Qadir.
		

			It's okay to be angry and sad with
		

			Al-Muqdi, what's been decreed in our lives
		

			as tests and challenges that contradict the Sharia,
		

			but we should never be upset with the
		

			one who Subhanahu wa ta'ala who decrees
		

			those things, which is Allah.
		

			I say that and I have to jump
		

			off because one of the things that I
		

			think I want to encourage us to think
		

			about are really the following areas.