Tom Facchine – Empowering Student Activism
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The conversation covers various topics including ceasefire negotiations, political climate, and the "monaru of Islam." It emphasizes the need for accountability and criticism in political climate and the use of harangled culture as an excuse for actions. The return of children to school and potential negative consequences of the festival have caused damage to the region, but the speakers explore various topics related to Islam, including the use of Hasid, personal development, and addiction. They end with a reminder of upcoming events and a video.
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As-salamu alaykum wa-rahmatullahi wa-barakatuh.
Welcome back to our program Yaqeen Institute's live
stream every Wednesday night 8 p.m. Eastern
New York time I'm your host Imam Tom
and it's a pleasure to have you with
us tonight after a brief hiatus Now we
have a very interesting show for you tonight
We're going to be talking about a certain
Zionist sort of smear campaign against yours truly
we're going to be talking about ceasefire negotiations
or the lack thereof going on currently in
Palestine and We're going to talk about some
recent comments made by former president and currently
running for next president Donald Trump and the
whole dynamic of fear and the role that
fear plays in politics and When you should
take fear into account and when you shouldn't
or let's say who you should fear or
who is most deserving of your fear We're
going to talk about back to school It's
September Columbia University students first day back on
campus picketing and protesting As we have come
to hope and expect from them.
We're going to be talking about campus activism
how the terrain has shifted and What is
sort of in the pipeline and we'll also
be doing our normal program our normal segments
I should say on tafseer covering swords of
phallic and Then our personal development book.
We're going through atomic habits a really really
interesting chapter.
But first We're gonna go to the chat
and we're gonna see who is tuning in
tonight live We have Saliha Ahmed from Atlanta.
I think I'm sad.
I'm not a lot heard about the terrible
tragedy down in Georgia today May Allah make
it easy for everybody Details are still emerging
from that.
So we're not going to comment on that
very much one of our returning viewers Saw
that I think I'm sad.
I'm not a lot I see you've got
some good questions lined up for me Flaming
Eagle from Somalia.
Why they come as Saddam?
Welcome to the program shame.
Uh, well, I think I'm a Saddam what
off to law from Morocco.
Good to have you back with us Kadira
that's a leak.
Hope you're well We've got Rahma Baloch from
Durham, North Carolina Welcome to the program.
So Sarah asks here we go.
Let's get into it What do you say
to Muslims who are constantly talking about the
anti-dawah tactics of online dawah people and
that Muslims are the ones?
Making non-muslims in the West hate Islam
and Muslims and then there was a saying
a follow-up comment by Seamus Welcome back
Seamus.
Good to see you some of the beast
the recent Excuse me antics of quote-unquote
dawah bros have been repulsive to say the
least now.
I'll be very frank with you all I
don't follow this stuff very closely.
So I live under my rock I live
in the mountains and in the woods and
I keep to myself.
I'm like the the J Cole of the
dawah scene however when it comes to I
think the way that Sada Phrased and frames.
The question is interesting because there is this
recurring question That is sort of litigated in
the public sphere of either online or amongst
Muslims Who is to blame primarily?
Where does the primary blame lie when it
comes to negative perceptions of Islam are Muslims
ourselves primarily to blame?
Is it our own antics and our own?
you know either a lack of unity or
our sort of alienating behavior that sort of
You know causing people to despise Islam or
rather is it more heavy on the Islamophobia
industry and those people who are trying to
make a bad name for Islam and Muslims
and I Obviously, there's truth in both.
I don't think we have to have an
all-or-nothing black-or-white sort of
account of it however, my personal experience and
what I'm aware of I think that the
lion's share of the blame is on Zionists
and the Islamophobia industry and the way that
the media and the for-profit media is
complicit in this and how governments have aligned
especially after 9-11 fallen in line with
the whole war on terror framework in order
to securitize and criminalize Islam and Muslims the
world over I think that that is the
primary the primary cause of anti-islamic and
anti-muslim sentiment if we're to split it
up Okay, how much would I allocate to
that versus whatever antics Muslims are doing online?
Which by the way, there's life beyond online,
right?
A lot of life happens probably most of
life happens offline And so sometimes for the
very online the antics that happen online seem
to be like Oh my gosh Like like
the worst thing ever but many many people
live most of their lives offline and sometimes
We lose sight of that.
I would probably split split at 80-20
something around that.
I would say 80% of The blame
when it comes to negative perceptions about Islam
and Muslims it's only my opinion like, you
know, take it or leave it throw it
against the wall is comes down to deliberate
smear tactics misrepresentation orientalism, you know These types
of these types of very very deliberate smear
campaigns When it comes to Muslim behavior, that's
not to give us a free pass yeah,
of course when we look bad when we
are Excessively infighting and I don't mean by
that and I'll explain to you why I
think this is a Question that merits this
long of an answer and this thoughtful of
an answer when we come across as excessively
divisive or dividing on the wrong things and
Excessively critical or criticizing the wrong things then
yes that leaves a bad taste in some
people's mouths however, my personal experience is that
Most people encounter Islam through either personal experience
with individuals in their lives or Through mass
media not through the quote-unquote Dala bros,
which I don't really like that moniker for
whoever that's supposed to refer to Now, why
do I bring up the point about why
is it significant to talk about this because
sometimes sometimes some people use the antics of
some as a Justification to silence Important work
that's being done for criticism and for accountability
So accountability and criticism is is an important
aspect of Islam, you know, and now he
had a moniker Rejecting or forbidding the evil
and with speech and with knowledge and of
course it has its conditions.
It has a short No doubt, but there
are some people who act as if every
act of holding People accountable is a lack
of adab and that is an extremely problematic
thing as well So we can't have that.
Of course, we know that this is supposed
to be balanced We're talking about balance, but
I don't buy And I again I could
be wrong.
I stand the possibility of being wrong I
don't buy the idea that the Dawa bros
or our own sort of dirty laundry is
The primary reason why people have a bad
sort of experience or a taste of Islam
That's not how I see things and Allah
knows best Let's see if there's some follow
-up comments on that before circling back.
Let's see.
Sada says shames We've got problems sure, but
you can't ignore the environment that created it.
That's true Yeah, we're gonna talk about we're
gonna talk about the zoom the zoom clip
and these things like that Widespread, I mean,
I I don't know about widespread.
I don't know how much circulation the the
Israeli post I mean the New York Post
has I don't know how how many people
35 and under read that sort of stuff.
I don't think very many Ash 2020 while
they can sit down and off to love
from Concord, New Hampshire.
Welcome to the program We have Nabisa BV
while I can sign off to law Abdurrahman
Suleyman from Nigeria.
Well, I'm Saddam Sheila Aziz from Kuala Lumpur.
I said I'm at the time.
Well, I didn't sit down after a lot.
Welcome to the program Rick Rashid.
Well, I think I'm Sam.
Welcome back.
Hey Ali.
Well, I think I'm Saddam enough to law
Yes, making Sada says making the implicit somehow
explicit like people need to realize differences are
okay on implicit Yeah, that's definitely there to
MB.
Well, I think I'm Sam after law Welcome
back Okay.
All right.
Interesting.
So Han has an interesting question.
We're gonna circle back to that Let's see
What else we've got so we kind of
follow that thread about Dawa boat bros and
who's responsible for people's negative assumptions of Islam
Seamus says the NY Post going after Imam
Tom Elijah hair for the hafidh Allah.
I mean you're up Yeah, so that's going
to be our first sort of current event
the Israeli Post.
I'm sorry the New York Post Ran a
hit piece against me and some of the
other sort of conservative media doing the bidding
of Israel Ran some sort of pieces against
me.
We'll talk about that in depth in a
second So I said how unsurprising it was
to see the true face of BLM Sorry,
you're the second person to reference this and
I'm not in the know.
Could you tell us what exactly happened?
I infer from your comment and someone else
that they came out and supported or endorsed
Harris, but I I didn't read anything.
So if you could enlighten us what you're
talking about What else we have Han says,
first of all, why didn't sit on off
to La Han genuine question.
Do we have to do protests when most
of the time it involves remixing?
No, you don't have to do protests.
But yes, you have to do something for
Palestine.
So protests aren't going to be for everybody.
That's okay What can you do and what
are you doing?
You should not use your reservations about protests
be an excuse for you not doing anything
So there's lots of things to be done
and we'll talk about that when we talk
about campus activism and what's to be done
and different sorts of things so that's one
thing the second thing is that if protests
have free mixing and there needs to be
and I have yet to see a Precise
and exhaustive conversation about the definition of free
mixing.
Okay in the English language We talked about
this term free mixing as this as if
everybody understands what it means and we people
mean very very different things Is the free
mixing that happens at a protest the same
or worse as what happens at the grocery
store?
We need to have a conversation about that.
I don't see that conversation being had.
However, taking what you're saying at face value
If your concern is that there is free
mixing at a protest or other haram elements
Okay, then ask yourself Why is that so
and is there a way that I can
change it and what you'll find most of
the time I find Is that if Muslims
are more involved in actually organizing these protests
and demonstrations?
And I'm talking about a critical mass of
Muslims.
Not just your token Muslim or muslima.
Then we would be able to have more
Input and more say as to the culture
of these protests and demonstrations and how they
occur in core including excuse me including Eliminating,
you know making time for prayer Making sure
that there is some sort of gender division
in some way shape or form these sorts
of things Omi bakaba wa alaikum salam wa
rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Siti Nadhira Qasim wa alaikum
salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Seamus says very
high tensions in East Africa, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan
versus Ethiopia, RSF, UAE We live in times
of fitna subhanAllah May Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala strengthen the true believers of Taif and
Mansurah and give them victory.
Halim Nasir There's a shout out.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
How you doing?
Where are you tuning in from tonight?
Good to have you with us Tasman wa
alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi Very good.
Okay.
Pestify.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi.
Welcome back to the program.
Maldives, correct?
Yeah, well Seamus points out about BLM as
an organization has been distanced from movement for
a few years.
Yes and the co-optation right and the
infiltration and co-optation of movements is an
Extremely important part of the history of social
and political movements the United States of America
and one that must be studied One that
must be studied when you see what's happening
to Uncommitted the uncommitted movement and how essentially
they gave up all of their leverage these
sorts of things they happen every single time
So it's essential that we study these sorts
of things Courtney G.
Welcome back to the program Yep.
Okay.
I see they made a call for Some
of the resistance factions to release the hostages.
I see mashallah.
They pulled * out.
I see what you did there They pulled
in all lives matter Yes it uh All
right, mashallah What else do we have?
Amina?
What are you gonna say?
I'm not Allah.
Yes, Rick Rashid.
Absolutely May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala ease the
burdens of the people Sudan some of the
best people on the face of the earth
and some Of the most pious humble people
on the face of this earth May Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant victory to Allah's true
supporters in Sudan and Remove from them any
of the hardship and the affliction that they
face from those who would do them wrong
and oppress them.
I mean I Think I'm a son.
I'm not a lot.
Nope.
You got it All right, so let's get
into it many of you already brought it
up.
So let's get to it We've got a
problem with Zionist snowflakes there's a pant there's
a true pandemic a new pandemic, which is
different from the pandemic of COVID and we
have we have Zionist snowflakes that are that
are running amok in this country that are
not able to Take any criticism or Take
any of their own medicine.
And so some of you have pointed out
that there was some sort of Smear campaign
campaign against me.
Well, we got some we've got some images,
right?
Here we go.
The Israeli post.
I'm sorry I keep on doing this the
New York Post with a circulation of however
many boomers it says We'll get let's run
through that really quickly the Machinations who I
like that the fact that they humanized me
who enjoys espresso hiking and bird-watching According
to his bio at the Athene Institute are
indeed dangerous.
The professor said let's go to the next
item, please So basically what had happened was
this that we did an event or I
did an event in my personal Capacity with
some of the activists from some of the
colleges in New York City, ironically ironically None
of the people who put on the this
this webinar It was an online event this
webinar were from Columbia.
They were not Columbia students I don't even
know if any Columbia students were in attendance
There are other colleges represented City College, Brooklyn
College these sorts of things which I have
relationships with people student activists throughout, you know,
New York City and beyond now I brought
up an example of What it would look
like to push back against some of the
silencing Tactics and some of the intimidation tactics
that have gone on against Student activists because
as we know there are Zionist professors and
there are even Zionist administrators that are trying
to equate any criticism of Israel with anti
-semitism and get it brutally suppressed and brutally
put down even to the point of expelling
students and Harming them and their sort of
future prospects.
So I gave an example and just Feasibility
method or a stability method.
I brought up probably the most vitriolic of
The Zionist professors in New York City this
individual named shy David I and I said
for example if there was such a professor
as him then One would think about how
to get him removed from his position that
if he's a professor He's on a contract
that contract has to be up.
It has to have perform KPIs or key
performance indicators There has to be some sort
of board reviewing his performance.
And if this individual if this individual is
creating a hostile environment for their students and
this individual which he did For the last
10 months has been engaged in such flamboyant
and hateful rhetoric that created a dangerous Environment
for the students of his own institution to
the point where the student protesters at Columbia
were attacked by Vigilantes with chemical weapons with
skunk.
Okay.
This actually happened and even Columbia University itself
Implicitly recognized that he was a rabble rouser
and a troublemaker because they denied his access
to some of the buildings on campus for
a bit Which he threw a hissy fit
about now in the context of this, you
know explaining how Students might organize to push
back against professors like shy David.
I We have two quotes right here.
That's shy David guy.
How do we get him in trouble?
How do we create a situation which he's
in jeopardy?
They're able to take somebody out somebody like
that and make an example that might shut
up a hundred more and they were trying
to twist this and make it seem like
I was physically threatening him, which I wasn't
I was talking about in the context of
Getting him removed from his position because I
have this crazy idea.
I have this crazy opinion guys that If
you create a dangerous Environment for your students.
You probably shouldn't be teaching that at university
that if you want to Silence the free
speech of your students and create an environment
in which they might be attacked Contribute to
the likelihood that they might be attacked.
You do not deserve to be a university
professor.
So I didn't stutter When I said these
things and I refuse to stutter or apologize
them for them now Because I stand by
what I said a hundred percent people like
shy David I and other university professors have
no business teaching in colleges University in the
United States of America If you want to
do that, you can go teach in Israel
You can go somewhere else where it's a
it's an ethno supremacist state and you're not
allowed to criticize Israel Israel Here in the
United States of America.
We believe in free speech supposedly supposedly we
believe in academic freedom supposedly supposedly Universities and
colleges are places where you're supposed to hash
out these ideas and engage in protest and
to have somebody Who is however many years
your senior?
Basically using their leverage using their authority using
their connections.
His father by the way is heavily involved
in the arms industry To use everything that
they have to silence and to bully students.
I can't stand for that.
Sorry that makes you a bully and That
makes you a coward as well Because if
you're picking on college students not people your
own age, yeah, I'm 35 pick on me
Don't pick on college students.
Leave them alone.
I stand by what I said 100%
and I would I would not take back
any of it if you want me to
say it again I'll say it again, and
I didn't stutter then and I won't stutter
this time So what else do we got
guys?
Yeah, 100% Abdullah Zionists are allergic to
accountability 100% pestify.
I agree He is a drama queen a
hundred percent drama queen with a capital Q
Hey cards, are you good to see you
here?
While I can salam juju s from Orange
County It called it.
Yeah, I'm getting national notoriety.
I don't know what's happening.
I don't know what's happening.
You know, we don't well I'm a half
a little much alive Well, I'm a half
a little much alive and personally I don't
care about I'm I don't I don't like
drama I don't like to talk about myself,
but I understand that many University students are
going through the same thing and we're going
to talk about that in a little bit
when it's Specifically the the situation in Columbia
I understand that many young people are going
through the same thing and it can be
a scary thing To see your face and
your image pop up in a newspaper or
I've gotten some some hate email From some
boomers with too much time on their hands
At the keyboard it might be a very
scary thing, but I want you to know
That we're all together in this and we're
not backing down and in fact, in fact
We're not going to get past this until
we actually face it with bravery and honor
Let's see.
Let's go back.
Who else do we have coming through?
I think I saw Amina Kasupovich.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah, how are you?
I hope you're well Ishar Ali Welcome to
the program What else we got Samar Zia?
Yeah, typical right Sara?
Seamus brings up Netanyahu's speech today.
We will talk about that in a bit
Atika rahman wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah, bonjourno,
astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah Alhamdulillah, thank you very much.
Amin.
Minami Islam Khan wa alaikum salam from Bangladesh
Please don't ever stutter.
No, I'll try not to.
The only time I stutter is if I
haven't had my espresso All right, so Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, what the amazing thing
is, the amazing thing is this The more
you read the Quran The more you realize
that it's all there already.
It's all there already.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, we can
go to this guys يَحْسَبُونَ كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ
Wallahi, when I saw Shahi David I having
his his meltdown Thinking that I was, you
know, I think he said I can defend
myself and all this, you know Stuff like
that, which I didn't, I didn't personally threaten
the guy, you know, but He has a
guilty conscience.
He knows what he did is wrong.
And he knows what he's doing is wrong
He knows he has nothing to stand on
He knows that what he is supporting is
just supremacy, is ethno-supremacy in Palestine He's
a genocide cheerleader.
That's essentially what he is and deep down
he knows it and So any little Blip
that might be talking about him or might
be doing something.
He has to he has a meltdown يَحْسَبُونَ
كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ They think that every peep
and every shout is against them because of
their guilty consciences.
You stand on nothing You're not standing on
truth.
You're not standing on righteousness.
You're standing on supremacy and Allah has his
ways.
We'll see what happens Next up we've got
Ceasefire negotiations.
Okay.
Now we've got the fact one of the
excuses that Israel has been using from the
beginning of the escalation against the Gaza and
Palestine has been the hostages everywhere everywhere everywhere
Every Zionist outlet has used the hostages as
an excuse for their barbarity an excuse for
their genocide Supposedly according to them they have
said if only they would return the hostages
then we would stop Well, we know that's
a lie.
We know that is a bold-faced lie
because first of all Israel has demonstrated that
they care nothing about their own people the
Hannibal directive on October 7th when they were
responsible for the majority of the loss of
life on that day Second of all they
have demonstrated Knowing that the hostages exactly a
quality.
It's never been about the hostages the Barbarity
and the amount of firepower and ammunition that
they have used In Gaza demonstrates that they
do not care about the hostages surviving whatsoever
Look at the targeted assassinations that they have
carried out all over the world in the
last 30 years Against Ismail Hania just in
the last couple months Look at how targeted
that particular thing was Okay, and yet when
it comes to Gaza, they're throwing everything everything
everything out of Gaza They don't care anything
about their hostages and even many Israelis know
this Which is why they're protesting or one
of the reasons why they're protesting Exactly what
a quality just said bad faith that Israel
is operating in bad faith The resistance factions
know it anybody with half a brain cell
knows it that they are just trying to
use the existence of hostages as a an
excuse as a bargaining chip to prolong their
genocide as Long as possible as Shema said
100% Shema They killed the hostages themselves
and while they have our attention focused on
the hostages just like a call to be
said Now they are talking about annexing or
annexing the entire West Bank Netanyahu presented the
map of the United States or see me
a Map of Palestine with no West Bank
on it.
It was all in Israeli blue and Now
the media outlets are calling it controversial.
It's not controversial.
That's genocidal Okay, that means that what we
say from the river to the sea Palestine
will be will be free Okay, and it
we're accused of of being genocidal or ethnic
cleansing and they show a map with no
West Bank on it and Somehow this is
just oh, it's just controversial.
It has nothing to do with genocide or
ethnic cleansing whatsoever So we see that and
this is something that we've seen for ten
months that and everybody knows it He's been
paying attention that they yes exactly testify the
IDF the Israeli diaper forces They killed three
of their own hostages While waving a white
flag while waving a white flag, so what
do you think they're going to do with
those who are Underground or in a less
vulnerable position They're not acting in good faith
and it reminds us of one of the
verses in Surat Al-Baqarah We can cut
to that guys where Allah swt in Surat
Al-Baqarah He criticizes Benny Israel for many
of the things that they did and one
of them Was in acting in bad faith
when it came to their own Rules and
regulations and some of those were rules and
regulations of war.
So we have in verse 85.
There's a situation where Benny Israel was not
even allowed to take hostages in the first
place But once they had them they ransomed
them off according to the rules of their
of their scriptures this demonstrates a type of
interaction or a type of disposition a type
of orientation towards Virtues and values or the
lack thereof That basically you're only appealing to
things when it serves you you're only willing
to follow rules when it serves you But
when it push comes to shove It's all
about you and you will break any rule
That is out there if it means that
you'll benefit from it.
And this is the attitude that we see
Israel demonstrate Demonstrating consistently Finally for current events,
we've got Trump tweeted out this week.
Here we go Meet your neighbors if Kamala
wins vote Trump, okay So we've got you
know, what looks like Afghani men and someone
said maybe this is Taliban or something like
that burning the American flag so we see
Trump using this type of fear tactics and
of course Everybody who wants to support the
genocider Kamala Harris Uses this also to justify
why you can't let this person win You
have to just suck it up hold your
nose and vote blue.
Now again, this is not the place to
be Mentioning my endorsement though.
I did the other day on the Safina
Society podcast with dr.
Shadi al-masri I did give my official
endorsement For what I believe Muslims should do
come November in the general election So if
you have not seen it yet You should
check that out in your spare time after
you're done with this program Go to Safina
Society and see the live stream we did
yesterday.
I make my recommendation about what should be
done But we see here both sides what
I want to point out here is that
both sides Engage in fear-mongering that that's
all that they have that the United States
right now is under a death grip They
are cut they are caught in the clutches
of a an oligarchy That has two parties
that are part of that oligarchy that are
making that are Barely different to be honest
with you, especially when it comes to Palestine,
especially when it comes to you know Foreign
policy are very very very the same very
much the same more similar than they are
different so What we need to do is
we need to find a way out of
this particular problem and going with either one
of these particular Parties that already is the
problem itself.
Well, if you keep on doing the same
thing Then you can't expect any results But
we wanted to point out we'll cut to
this guys in the studio.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala talks about the
role of fear Okay, and fear is an
act of worship at the end of the
day I mean, there's certain parts of fear
that are natural that happen when you encounter
something in the creation that is Terrifying in
a natural sort of way, okay, but a
certain degree of fear should only be kept
for Allah alone Which is why Allah subhana
wa ta'ala mentions this situation الذين قال
لهم الناس إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فخشوهم
Okay, so there are a type of people
that when things are about to go down
Okay, and the forces are gathering against you
There's one type of person who's a weak
-hearted person that is going to basically try
to Get you to capitulate because of the
fear.
They're going to say to you Look at
all these people who have gathered against you.
There's no way you're gonna win There's no
way out of this you might as well
give up And what does Allah subhana wa
ta'ala say should be the attitude.
فَزَادَهُمْ إِمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَلْ وَكِيرًا The
attitude of a properly calibrated believer is That's
when we smile.
That's when we say no, I believe in
Allah We rely on Allah and he is
the best of Disposer of affairs.
He's the best person or the best, you
know The best entity the best deity the
best one these words don't translate well from
Arabic to English He's the best one to
take care of things Disposer of affairs is
how it's translated here So we can't capitulate
to fear we have to act on principle
we have to do the right thing Worry
about doing the right thing know that your
decisions whether it's what's happening in November or
before it or after it That you will
be asked by Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
What did you contribute to?
and Allah subhana wa ta'ala Can decide
to have anything happen exactly Sarah like Sarah
just said victory does not always come from
numbers It comes from Allah subhana wa ta
'ala.
In fact, we have many examples of the
Quran coming fitting could be a lot of
bets Sorry, come in fitting quality and a
lot of bits He doesn't get there It'll
be in the left, right How many a
small band has defeated a larger force by
the will of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
when Allah and surat al-baqarah?
Talks about the story of follow-ups the
story of Saul and his army and he
was not concerned with numbers He was concerned
about having the true believers the faithful loyal
believers with him and then doing the right
thing Let's hit the comments.
Let's see what we got before we go
on to talk about the Return to school
back to school and what an important school
year it is.
What do we have here?
Muhammad Ibnu asks does feeling is feeling hopeless
a bad thing.
Yes.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us to
not despair despair is Not an appropriate behavior
because it indicates We're trying to shame you
I mean people can fall into it but
what we're saying is that it indicates a
Bigger problem, which is a lack of internalizing
How Allah is in control of things?
Right.
Look at the people of Gaza How much
they've been through and many of them are
still?
I'll say I haven't seen any of them
blaming Allah saying why Allah why Allah or
why me?
That's powerful Because they understand who Allah is
They understand that these things what till kill
a yam No doubt we'll have been a
mess that these things happen They can happen
in the creation any bad horrible thing that
could possibly happen to you.
It's part of the dunya and everybody takes
their turn every individual takes their turn every
group of people takes their turn and So
to be hopeless and to despair.
Yes is Not something that Demonstrates that you've
properly internalized who Allah really is and what
the afterlife is and how Allah subhana Taala
rewards the patient in the face of these
types of adversities.
So it's not like, you know, it's an
opportunity I don't want you to just say
oh, it's a bad thing.
I'm wrong Oh, you know and get further
into a rut take it as a as
an opportunity.
It's an opportunity to Rely upon Allah subhana
ta'ala to confess your utter need and
dependence upon Allah azawajal and Demonstrate your belief
that he is the only one that can
save you whether it's in this dunya or
the next Let's see.
I'm glad you liked that Courtney genocide cheerleader
100% Yes, what do we got?
Yes, all of that.
The crimes are endless.
They shot a child on rollerblades They killed
they killed boys playing soccer on the beach.
The crimes are endless Let's stop pretending and
this is one of the things that I
you know I said, you know pushing back
against shy and the Israeli post.
I mean the New York Post when they're
talking about Intimidation since when do you care
about intimidation you guys all you do is
intimidate.
Oh He's advocating for the end of somebody's
career since when do you care about ending
someone's career?
All you do is dox Let's be real.
Let's be real.
You don't have any values.
You're only upset when it happens to you
and Whoever builds a house of cards the
house of cards will fall Muhammad if no
asks are banning Israel formerly part of Islamic
people in the Prophet ages I'm gonna try
to retranslate that comment in my head We
understand that when Allah subhana discusses Islam He's
talking about there's Capital I islam and lowercase
islam.
There is Islam as the continuous religion that
Allah subhana Has given everybody that is referring
to the Akita that has been the belief
and the theology of one God and only
worshipping one God that has been communicated to
every authentic and legitimate messenger in the entire
history of humanity We call that Islam We
also call Islam the Sharia of Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam the last messenger given through
the Quran and his Sunnah Okay, so that's
why this term is what they call fancy
word multivalent.
Okay, Islam can mean the bigger sort of
Perpetual Islam that has been communicated throughout time
where the Akita was the same But the
Sharia as might have been a little bit
different as Allah says in Surah Al-Ma
'idah Well, he couldn't minkum John if Shara
Tom and Minhaja Or we could be talking
about this particular umma of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and the Sharia that he brought
I need to stop to Salaam.
So if we're talking about Benny Israel Benny
Israel, okay Israel is one of the names
of Yaqub Okay, so the people before Yaqub
such as Ibrahim Isalam are not part of
Benny Israel.
They are the ancestors of Benny Israel and
Luton and others There are other prophets that
are not part of Benny Israel such as
hood such as Shoaib Right such as Salih
These are not part of Benny Israel at
least to my knowledge and Then there are
the prophets that were sent to Benny Israel
including Yusuf alayhi salam and Musa alayhi salam
and Dawood alayhi salam and Suleiman alayhi salam
and Isa alayhi salam Okay, now the extent
to which the people followed those prophets What
with what they brought those people are considered
Muslims in the afterlife in the Akita sense
of the word Meaning that they will be
rewarded for their belief However people who call
themselves Followers of them and they don't have
anything to do with them and they don't
have the substance of that belief then that
is something that Those prophets are free from
them and you can see the discussion at
the end of surah al-imran and at
the end of surah al-ma'idah where
Allah shows us a conversation That will happen
between himself and Isa alayhi salam where he
asks Isa alayhi salam Did you tell your
people to worship you?
Did you tell your people to do this
and that and he will make bara'a
from them He'll say no, I didn't tell
people anything other than what you wanted me
to tell them Okay, what else we got
Harm grotto says I think we should toughen
up with someone that didn't support a genocide
To sacrifice discomfort then our brothers and sisters.
I can't quite follow all that but I
might agree with you.
I'm not sure Let's see a cadre the
rhetoric this is interesting comment The rhetoric is
equivalent or worse than 9-11 you think
10-7 happened on u.s Soil a
hundred percent a cadre and that's because Zionism
is losing That's because the whole thing might
fall not just within our lifetime Within the
decade and I seriously believe that because these
are the I believe that these are the
last gasps and the desperation Look at how
much credibility or let's not use that term
because you know, they were never credible But
let's look at how much scrutiny Israel is
under now and Zionism is under now more
scrutiny than it has ever been under and
Allah has a plan and Allah's plan is
always done Tazkiyah jewelry while I can sit
down after a lot.
Ahlan welcome Hey Carter, don't feel bad man.
Don't feel bad Everybody needs a break sometimes
Somebody asked me this in person and and
you know I think that for us because
so many people feel guilty about not watching
every single video and every single photo that
comes out of Gaza, okay, and obviously there's
two extremes with this.
The thing is that We need to be
functional right if you're doing work that's going
to help the people of Palestine then you
need to be able to function in that
and so there's a certain sort of critical
mass or appropriate amount where You're able to
stay motivated and you have your empathy and
there's maybe a point at which it becomes
debilitating now you being debilitated How does that
help the people of Gaza?
How does that help help the people of
Palestine, right?
So you have to make sure that you
strike that balance Okay,
Minami reminds us speaking of victory today marks
exactly one month of our revolution in Bangladesh
allahu akbar We had a number of ups
and downs through this whole time.
And yes, and unfortunately Minami I was off
the one week when you actually suggested to
me You filled me in about how the
floods in Bangladesh if we had had this
program last week we would have talked about
the floods and how the floods are actually
a Tool just like Israel uses starvation against
the people of Gaza how India uses Floods
against the people of Bangladesh in order to
try to undermine the stability of the country
that it controls the headwaters and the dams
Of the rivers that are coming into Bangladesh
and actually intentionally floods Bangladesh to create chaos
So we know that Bangladesh is not out
of the woods yet Please may Allah subhana
ta'ala.
May he assist the people of Bangladesh and
give them a a just Government who is
responsive to their needs and is a good
a good end and result for all Yes,
Allah, that's correct.
Isn't there a saying where if you see
Allah a certain way, then that's how he'll
be for you Yes, that's correct.
There's a hadith of prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam It's actually hadith Qudsi where he mentions
this the the phrasing of Allah subhana ta
'ala Where he basically says that I am
as my servant expects me to be So
that is a very important thing.
You have good.
Hope in a lost bowtie.
You have Raja.
You don't have to many you don't have
empty hope or Vain, hope but you have
good hope and good thoughts about a lost
one Just another one billah as Allah subhana
ta'ala says in the Quran a few
times.
Well, my father-in-law ha ha Qadri,
they underestimated Allah right and In other parts.
Yeah.
Yeah, I baddy lady.
No, it's awful.
I don't lose him.
La taqma to me.
Rahmatillah Okay, do not despair of Allah's mercy
Yeah, you're right a qadri Everyone knows that
the Israeli post.
I'm sorry The New York Post is trash
and gossip rag.
That's right.
Yeah, they contacted me for comment.
Why would I why would I even bother
man?
They're not just like Israel's not good faith
actors and hostage negotiations.
They're they're not good faith actors.
Why would I even bother?
And Seamus reminds us of the of the
precarious situation of the Rohingya and the subhanallah
one thing I learned in the last few
weeks was the Hand that Israel has played
in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar
about how Israel traded basically, it's Myanmar recognized
Israel internationally in exchange for Israeli assistance when
it came to what they were doing there
are So many conflicts and destabilizing events that
Israel has its hand in But yes this
problem of sort of on Soria we could
say or of This problem of borders, okay
and of Nationalism is a major major problem
besetting the Oma maybe perhaps the most the
most dangerous problem I think I'm Saddam Muhammad
Barry from Sierra Leone.
Welcome to the program art for Jim admits
to being feeling overwhelmed 100% Yeah, we
we all are that's right.
You'll ask are we in a mosque sort
of?
Shame on asks, how can we understand properly
the concept of loyalty and disavowal in contemporary?
That's a great question shame.
I'm not sure a lot.
Well, that will be raw Yes upon a
lot.
It really has to do and I'll put
it like this There was a Palestinian uncle
who I talked to in in Dublin Ireland
part of the Diaspora who told me that
How you feel in your heart as a
Muslim about Mecca?
Is a sign of your relationship with Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala and how you feel in
your heart towards Medina is a sign of
how you feel towards the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and his Sunnah and how you
feel towards al-quds is a sign of
how you feel towards the ummah and that
is an appropriate metric that are of course
our primary loyalty and love and affiliation is
to is to Our people right and that
is the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
We want Jannah for them We want Jenna
for everybody but there are rights that other
people that are part of this act part
of this Covenant that we have with Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
They have rights upon us that other people
don't have right and so definitely our loyalty
first and foremost is to is to the
ummah and To the people who are suffering
in it and to do whatever we can
to assist them I Don't know.
That's a very big question.
I'm sorry It's a very insufficient response to
your question, but it really could take quite
a lot of time to answer in in
full detail Hundred percent bread and za'atar
at this point Islamic extremism is being used
as an excuse to justify Israel's oppression I
would say even further than that Islamic extremism
was invented mostly as An excuse to justify
Israel's oppression and we'll talk about that in
a bit Fatima Ali from New Jersey Well,
I'm so down off to law Jersey represent
I mean Muhammad buddy.
I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean
Victoria's Drusilla.
Welcome to the program Okay, let's turn to
our next topic of discussion we've got You
know, they're not kids, you know, but the
kids are back to school or the young
adults are back to school They're not kids
They're fully fledged adults and they are certainly
acting like it and we have a lot
to be proud of when it comes to
our young Muslims in in institutions like Columbia
University and elsewhere who are Really on the
front lines and we'll talk about that in
a second So we see that students are
back in in class at Columbia University and
elsewhere and the first day heroically courageously They
said we are picketing we are on strike.
We are not going to classes until Columbia
University divests from From Israel from the occupation
now this is a really important move that
they made notice that they didn't go right
back to encampments and this was a Sort
of a chess match if you will that
was being played played out all summer where
the Zionist lobby groups and university administrators were
working together to try to find ways to
Disrupt and prohibit encampments protests things like this
on campus So it strikes me as significant
that the club the Columbia students are smart
enough to realize that Tactics might have to
change because it's going to be a lot
easier and I think TRT released an article
all already right TRT released an article where
I Think they called it a police state,
right?
You look around college campuses and It's like
a police state there are police everywhere and
there's barriers and blockades and barricades and things
constructed to make sure that people don't protest
to make sure that people don't you know
gather together and Do these sorts of things?
NYU one university in New York University changed
its rules and regulations to basically include The
use of the term Zionist as an expression
of anti-semitism.
So these are the sorts of politics that
are playing out now Since they changed all
of their rules in regards to encampments and
protests and things like that It's important that
you would have to pick a tactic.
That's going to be Appropriate to your situation
and the Columbia students decide to go with
a strike.
They decide to go with a picket I
think that's a really good idea I think
it's a very courageous idea Of course, the
police were called in yet again to arrest
and to break and to brutalize and to
break them up but what I think is
significant is that every sort of analysis of
power You have to understand What the other
side needs what's going to hurt the other
side and if you want to influence their
policies again We've talked about this time and
time and time again.
This is not about being liked it's not
about building relationships and and you know warm
fuzzies and things like that.
This is about building power and With universities
the two things that they need the most
our money Okay, and reputation So all of
the students out there Keep this in mind
when you're approaching the new academic year You're
wondering how to push back against the draconian
policies the anti American and certainly not unjust
the unjust policies of your university in your
college, right?
You have to find a way to make
it so costly for your university either in
terms of money or reputation That they will
not mess with you anymore that they will
allow it To go forth that they will
eventually divest and there's a lot of ways
to do that tuition strike right is one
Organizing your alumni and withholding donations is another
faculty strike is another these colleges and universities
Vi and compete very very much So when
it comes to these lists that come out
every year the USA Today top 40 colleges
and universities Right.
They want to be high on that list
What would you do to drop them down
a few ranks on that list?
What could you do to do that so
that they would take you seriously enough to
listen to you now that being said All
of the students need to be very very
careful because we need discipline one of the
drawbacks of Mass mobilization and protests and things
like that even encampments is that as we
saw with UCLA and other places infiltrators can
get in agent provocateurs Some Zionist puts a
cafe on and goes into your encampment and
then starts, you know shouting anti-semitic things
This happened all across the country in Canada.
There was actually a Hillel group.
Okay, which is an approved Organization that does
Israel's bidding on campuses all throughout North America
that were slapping stickers on Things that were
you know in praising of certain prescribed armed
factions, right that this is What you need
to expect and plan for and so it's
extremely important that you both pick tactics that
it's you're going to be able to sort
of control the discipline of your group, but
also to train your group to be disciplined
and to not give any Unnecessary excuses for
other people to dismiss you and smear you
which they're going to be trying to do
anyway now the message to the Muslim community
who's not of college age or university age
is To really really try to get behind
these students and we had a little bit
of an experiment of That in in March
and after when these things started up with
the encampments we saw a lot of beautiful
solidarity and a lot of beautiful support, but
we need to go even further than that
because I Truly believe that these students are
on the front line.
There is so much at stake Right now
with what these students are doing the idea
of what a university is in the first
place the idea of academic freedom the idea
of You know having an institution that's dedicated
to probing ideas and criticizing ideas and criticizing
nations and criticizing ideologies that is at stake
the Zionist elements would have it that none
of these things could be discussed whatsoever The
idea of academic freedom the idea of even
American sovereignty the ability to have free speech
Especially on the public universities the ability to
have the right to assembly Right that this
country shouldn't be infiltrated by the interests of
a foreign nation.
That is at stake and of course even
more important than that or any of those
things were is the struggle for Palestine itself
that The occupation does not happen and the
genocide does not happen without financial political and
military support from the United States of America
The universities are complicit in that and you
all are at the front line of one
of the most important fronts of trying to
divest from the occupation and to isolate the
Occupation forces to chip away at the military
industrial complexes ever since universities have become big
business on the neoliberal model They have been
very very subject to the influences of the
military industrial complex and all the investments that
go on around about that Freeing the university
from the clutches of the military industrial complex
You all are on the front line in
doing this and finally last but not least
Making sure that when Palestine is liberated that
it is liberated also through stopping the criminalization
of Islam and The securitization of Muslims we
do not take one at the cost of
the other We are not going for a
free Palestine But Muslims are still considered some
sort of fifth column some sort of you
know inherently violent existential threat No, we're here.
It's it cracks me up every time You
know these these people I try to say
oh go back to where you came from
Yeah, what New Jersey you want me to
go back to New Jersey?
That's where I'm from.
I'm here.
I'm Muslim I'm outspoken.
You're gonna have to deal with it.
Like this is America or like we say
this is New York, baby Right, it's like
you have to like this is what this
country is about There are people and forces
and the Zionists are in the front line
that want to take that away and stop
that they want to make it and they
have legally attempted to criminalize expressions of Islam
and Expressions of being a Muslim and we
can't forget this dimension to the struggle to
free Palestine is also the struggle to stop
the criminalization and the criminalization of Islam and
the Muslims As Allah says we can cut
to that and We take heart and I
hope you all take heart in the words
of Allah subhana wa ta'ala when he
talks about The need for both the righteousness
of the people who are oppressed only because
they say Rabbuna Allah That's all that you're
being targeted for okay, in addition to that
the necessity of Pushing back the necessity of
organizing the necessity of challenging these things These
things are not going to go away until
we Make it go away, right?
Which is why Allah subhana wa ta'ala
says He's saying that if it
wasn't for people pushing back and people organizing
and people doing what they can To stop
the forces of evil then there would be
no Mosques, there would be no synagogues.
There would be no churches.
There would be no monasteries and These are
specifically the words that Allah uses So this
isn't just about we're not we're not see
Zionists have this projection problem where they think
that we're like them They think that as
Muslims we just want to benefit Muslims.
That's not true But we realize that when
Muslims are influential and Islam is influential it
benefits everybody We care about justice and doing
right for everybody.
Whereas the Zionist only cares about benefiting the
Zionist Back to the chat.
What do we have?
Okay, Abdullah is telling us Georgetown students also
processes today.
That's good to hear Julia what the Julia
while I can sit down after a lot.
So I'm at the tongue.
Welcome.
Good to see you Yes, it is true,
you know the u.s. Has labeled these
other nation's things for a long time and
Chickens come home to roost as we know
Servant of Allah.
Well, you know, he says what he means
sort of in the West.
It's more complicated than that There are buildings
in which there are there are mosques inside
of buildings.
There are storefront mosques There are you know,
you might be under the same roof as
a Musala or something like that But you
might be in a different place.
So actually it can be a little more
nuanced than that Mahmood Mohammed.
Well, I think I said I'm enough to
Allah Well, I'm so now Mohammed a deep
Welcome the program Let's see Be happy says
Muslim country leaders should demand that's in Yahoo
to provide details of how his iron dome
was breached on October 7th When journalists have
reported that the location and date of the
festival was changed.
Yeah, I wouldn't trust the Muslim leaders to
do that Habibi Right.
Let's keep them out of it, man.
Like they're doing more harm than good Seamus
says whilst whilst protests and sit-ins are
commendable.
It seems like structure in the West can
handle it That's a good point.
Unlike in the east where protests spiral into
violence revolutionary.
That's a that's a good point Seamus.
That's true I agree with that that they're
happy to let you protest.
It's venting And it's really easy to again
like plant Infiltrators and stuff like that in
in big mass actions like that.
So people have to be very careful I've
been calling for four months where people have
to Make sure that they select appropriate tactics
that are going to create the type of
power and leverage that they want That's actually
going to create change and not just get
caught in the same spiral of just reaching
for the same sort of Action that they've
always done Just realized this started an hour
ago the clock switch backwards already not yet.
We have not yet fallen back It's not
yet fall though.
The weather's turning a little bit chilly.
I Think it used to be 9.
I think that we changed it to 8
p.m We're just still too late for
me.
I'm a morning person, but you know, we
try to give the people what they want
Queen ebony Imam what days and time are
you on I keep missing you don't worry
because we were off for two out of
four weeks in August so we were on
vacation and stuff like that, but it is
Wednesdays at 8 p.m. New York time
8 p.m Eastern Standard Time Okay, good
stuff.
Good stuff Yeah, you're right sought a free
speech only when the state permits it The
state of exception a call that I agree
100% these students have all my respect
I See nothing but courage from the new
generation, which is why I'm so confident in
the end of Zionism These students aren't going
to be bullied around like that Yep,
and I also I'm glad to about the
the support of the Muslim community at Calgary
That's true Good good so many of our
immigrant parents just wanted us to put our
heads down and not to create problems could
be a cultural Thing, but I'm so hopeful
now.
I I mean even me as someone from
an Italian American background.
I can relate to that my father Was
a working-class guy.
Oh Just told me all growing up just
get an education get an education get an
education My mom was always like well, what
job are you gonna get what job right?
This is the mentality that's drilled into you
from day one Thankfully, I was stubborn enough
and crazy enough to do something very very
dramatically different with my life But it takes
that type of courage.
You're right The immigrant mentality is keep your
head down play by the rules Be economically
successful and that is not a formula for
power.
That is not a formula for Being self
-sufficient and not being able to be messed
with There you go, so Minami also brings
up the intersection between Zionism and Hindutva So
according to Modi and group we Bangladeshis are
already fundamentalist with our revolution and many of
our processors have been Pakistani agents Everybody's an
agent, you know, that's the easiest thing if
you call out this, you know You start
to call out power all of a sudden
everybody's an agent.
They're gonna do the same with us They're
gonna say that we're you know Right now
they're gonna say we're materially supporting this group
in that group in Madras.
This is all nonsense Power has always done
this.
It's always it's it's snowball if you've read
1984 It's like oh, you know, this is
just the outside actor who's trying to persuade
Jihad, you're welcome.
Thanks, bro.
Appreciate you man Mohammed Adib asks when it
comes to advocacy should we ally with the
left in a word?
No, especially at universities when you can't really
avoid these groups.
How can we deal with them?
I so I've written about this Mohammed.
It's just not as simple as you frame
it.
It's not about really allying You need to
renegotiate your relationship with your out allies to
make sure that there's actual reciprocity A lot
of what we call allyship right now is
not real allyship.
Really.
We're just like Letting people speak for us
and trample all over us.
I've written about this on your keen Institute's
website and the blog piece Intersectionality in Gaza
protests or something rather like that EK asked
do you feel all Islamic sects are aligned
when it comes to Palestine?
No, they're not but that doesn't stop us
Sada asked I think though that way of
thinking will disparage Muslims who've been oppressed for
so long They've had enough and so first
they they do nonviolent protests and then they
have to defend Not sure what you're talking
about, but that sounds reasonable.
No Sabah.
Why they can sit on up to law.
Welcome Yes, pestify UK has gone 1984 censoring
and arresting journalists like Sarah Wilkinson and Richard
Medhurst freedom of speech does not exist in
the West when related to Israel.
Yeah.
No, it's true I mean the UK is
worse than the u.s. When it comes
to this It's kind of ironic because the
UK has stronger Label and slander laws So
if someone calls you someone calls me a
terrorist Then that's something that maybe I can
even sue that person in the UK but
the other side of the downside of that
is That you don't have the same freedom
of speech when it comes to criticizing it
the way that the law is interpreted currently
Now the same thing here We have more
freedom of speech to be able to criticize
However, we have very weak laws when it
comes to slander and Label.
So the Israeli post I Mean the New
York Post can Call me a terrorist say
that I'm I support this foreign group of
that foreign group and I can't necessarily sue
them, right?
But we know that allows with us Yes,
very good shameless alliances when others can't enforce
their ideas on you Good.
Yeah Alliance.
Let's put it this way shameless Alliance implies
sovereignty of each side you enter into an
alliance when each of you stays sovereign and
You work together on a certain goal.
Okay, we don't have that right now Our
alliances are like we give up all of
our sovereignty to other groups and we're not
even recognizable anymore.
So that has to change I mean Saliha,
I mean, oh I get what you're saying.
So, okay, cool.
Well, I give a salam what off to
live a cut to Mehmet Kareem Yes, these
all of these live streams are Posted to
the yakin Institute YouTube channel under the live
tab A lot of people go straight to
the the videos tab.
It is under the live tab.
Not the videos tab Very good.
So let's Roll to our next segment.
We've got tough seer time.
It's time for tough seer now the Sora
that we are Okay, thank you for joining
us Menami have a great day inshallah may
Allah bless your risk and Protect people of
Bangladesh and grant the victory.
All right, here we go.
Sora al-falaq.
Do we have it up guys?
Do we have a graphic for this or
no?
We only have a graphic of the of
the word Okay, then don't don't jump the
gun on me.
All right, so sort of talk I would
have been laughing in a shaytan al-rajeem
Bismillah al-rahman al-raheem Well, I will
do be robbed in the phallic I mean
I'm sure we mahalo I mean, I'm sure
we lost it in either one of them
Shall bring enough father to feel our God.
Well, you know, shall we hasidin either Hassan?
So of all the words in sorts of
we don't even have the translation.
Do we guys know translation?
We had Monday off.
I apologize.
So we're a little bit behind for this
show Go to be robbed in phallic say
it's an instruction.
I Seek refuge in the Lord of the
phallic phallic is the daybreak Mean shuddering my
heart from the evil, which he created Well,
I mean surely gossip in either waka and
from the intense darkness when it falls Well
mean shuddering enough father to feel our God
and from the evil of those who blow
on knots Well, I mean shuddering hasidin either
Hassan and from the evil of the envier
when they are envious of All these words
at least three of them are unique to
the Surah.
I want you to Tell me what is
one word in this Surah that is unique
to sort of phallic that does not exist
in any other sort of the Quran Go
see what you got.
What word or words in sorts of phallic
are unique to it do not appear in
Another sort of the Quran I can think
of three one
of them.
Oh cool.
We got a Mashallah, so we had a
pole even mashallah excellent Very cool.
The pole came through mashallah 84% of
you got it, right?
At least those who are on I think
YouTube I think the pole went through YouTube
84% the choices were Hasid, a'udhu
or sharr Alhamdulillah, nobody said sharr because sharr
comes multiple times in that surah.
I just said it multiple times a Couple
people said a'udhu, but they forgot that
The surah after this surah an-naas also
has a'udhu, qul a'udhu bi rabb
an-naas Okay, alhamdulillah the vast majority of
people They went with hasid.
Okay of the of the choices that were
given other words that are unique are Ghaseq,
okay.
Nafasat is also unique.
But the one we're going to focus on
right now is Hasid can we go we
put that up guys?
so we have hasid and Hasid means the
envier it is ism fa'il right for
those of you who are Arabic Learners or
speakers ism fa'il when Allah subhana wa
ta'ala uses the ism pay attention to
this when you read the Quran, especially in
Arabic Notice when Allah uses nouns Verses when
he uses verbs When Allah subhana wa ta
'ala uses Verbs it indicates an action that
someone is doing But it might not be
an essential unchanging quality that they have.
Okay When Allah uses nouns it means that
this is an essential quality that this person
has it is like jam it it is
like Thabit, right?
So when Allah says hasidin it is the
envier is somebody who is gripped with envy
somebody who envy is a Consistent relentless part
of what they do.
They are in the clutches of envy.
Okay Why is Envy and jealousy so important
to ask we could have Allah subhana wa
ta'ala could have had us ask For
protection from many things and a few things
are mentioned in Falak.
So he had he chooses very specific things.
One of them is This envy why envy
why not like murderers?
Why not like, you know Burglars, why not
like, you know genocide cheerleaders who teach at
Columbia University?
I don't know No, he had us ask
for protection from the envious and It's really
interesting because envy within the Quran is It's
almost like a medicine.
It's a sin that leads to many many
other types of sins the first story that
Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us in
surat al-baqarah is the story of Adam
alayhi salam and as an Iblis and Essentially
the story of Iblis is a story of
envy and jealousy Why does Iblis reject Allah's
commandment?
Why does Iblis after having been raised due
to his own merit to be hanging out
with the angels?
Why does he go through the fall and
become so disgraced a regime?
because of his envy of Adam alayhi salam
and The pride that he demonstrates and other
of the sorrows like sort of that off
and other places where he says How can
I bow to this one?
I'm better than him.
I'm created of fire.
He's only created from clay, etc, etc now
the other interesting thing is that Why do
you think after telling the story of Adam
and Iblis?
Adam alayhi salam and Iblis In surat al
-baqarah Allah subhana wa ta'ala goes right
to the story of Bani Israel and most
of the surahs taken up with the story
of Bani Israel Because Bani Israel is also
affected with hasid Allah subhana wa ta'ala
says elsewhere in the Quran that the reason
many of the people of previous prophetic nations
have disbelieved in the Quran and disbelieved and
rejected and denied the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is because they're jealous is because
of their envy That they thought that they
were special God's chosen people children of the
light you could say Because God gave them
revelation and prophets at a certain point in
history Without realizing that the point of being
given revelation is to follow God's guidance whenever
and wherever it comes and So if a
new prophet or a new revelation emerges, I
should say a new prophet emerges or a
new revelation is sent down Your relationship with
Allah subhana wa ta'ala is Such that
you follow that guidance you follow that prophet
whether he's from you or not whether it's
from your chosen group of people or somebody
outside But if you are in the clutches
of jealousy and in the clutches of envy
That becomes impossible.
You can't do it.
You can't bring yourself to do it You
will be prevented from following the truth because
the jealousy and the envy has wrecked your
heart and So it's a big deal, which
is why Allah subhana wa ta'ala has
us قل ومن شر حاسد إذا حسد You
say it ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala
for protection from the envier when they envy
Go to the chat real quick.
Sorry how you were right.
Ghasiqeen is unique Good good Salah's right as
well.
It can cause lead to others.
Yep Abdullah asked do you think there is
a relationship between envy and bigotry?
Absolutely Absolutely the coward and the person who
is envious at the end of the day
is Prone to this sort of Totalitarian streak,
they can't tolerate any sort of difference and
we see that play out Over and over
and over again Bread and za'atar says
envy is what caused me to be neglectful
in my college searching during high school Khair
inshallah The door of Toba is always open
Julia you've just given me points to help
my daughter Sara in her anti-bullying.
I say Allah Akbar.
That's great I'm happy to help her give
her my salams Aziz you know Yaqub Bovna
wa alaikum as-salam from Uzbekistan Allah Akbar
Emerson, how are you?
That's good to have any other P.
I had a very good friend from Uzbekistan
a Colleague and fellow student a classmate of
mine in Medina Uzbekistan wonderful people wonderful people
may Allah bless them Yeah, Sara Iblis was
the first bigot technically and by bigot we
mean you're taking characteristics that are Not chosen
you don't have any control over and you're
claiming supremacy based off of them So this
is Zionism, right?
Zion is a specific example of this Where
we have, you know, we're God's chosen people
and you can't really convert Actually, subhanallah.
Yeah, that's a story for another time.
Never mind Shayma says, how do we heal
our hearts from the that disease?
Allah Akbar.
Thanks Shayma.
Your questions are amazing tonight How can you
heal your heart?
From jealousy There are several ways One of
them is to spend time with people who
are lower than you spend time with the
poor spend time with those who are injured
in such a way where it is a
Debilitating permanent injury paralyzed people things like this
Spend time in their service.
Okay, because at the end of the day
jealousy is Tied to ingratitude and so if
we're jealous of somebody else, we're not grateful
for the the the nirma and the neom
the Blessings that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has
given us and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said Make sure that you do not
look to those people who are above you
look to those below you So that you
do not belittle Allah's blessings So spending time
with people who are worse off than you
is extremely important serving khidmah is the second
thing Serving people and that could be serving
people in your home in your extended family
in your neighborhood at your mosque Whatever it
is spending your time in service is one
of the most important humbling things.
That's out there and There are probably others.
These are the two, you know, first ones
that that that come to mind Yes, there
are different words bread and za'atar for
envy They have different shades Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah
said that there are no true synonyms in
Arabic take that as you will some people
You know many people disagree with that, but
he said that there are no true moradi
fath There are no true 100% synonyms
that every single word has a slightly different
shade.
So for example ribbed is a much lighter
form of It's not really Hassan Okay, and
there are other words as well that are
Slightly different either or either in Degree or
in kind or they're paired with something else
or they're tempered by something else Yes, so
runs out there says good point has it
as the angry type of envy.
Yeah Causes you to bring other people down
exactly and many of the scholars when they
explain these things they say that yes the
type of envy where you want to Have
something that somebody else has but they still
keep it.
That's that's okay Okay, or at least it's
less bad the most advanced Stage of envy
is to envy somebody you don't even want
you don't want them to have it at
all Even if you don't get it, right
like it's pretty intense That's like maybe we
could say envy mixed with spite or something
like that.
I don't know these words don't always translate
good Any other comments?
Let's go Art forges says I have had
a theory that most of the evil in
the world can be traced back to greed
and arrogance Do you think this is any
basis?
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
I would add in there in gratitude mostly
in gratitude to Allah subhana Ta'ala, but
absolutely I think that I think that those
are that's why I use the word meta
I think there are like medicines that like
other sins basically result or manifest from Sins
of the heart that other sort of sins
of the body follow from Yes hundred percent.
So Seamus brings up a point that when
it comes to not being grateful It's also
not trusting Allah's qadr and your own naseeb.
What is your rizq?
What has Allah decreed for you?
You're basically saying you're not happy with it,
right?
And this is I mean bit of Munasaba,
right?
Like we're talking about some sins are like
medicines like sins of the heart and they
can trickle down to other sins people who
resort to magic People who resort to sorcery
and fortune-telling and black magic.
What's the vast majority?
Of people what are they motivated by to
do such a thing?
They're not happy with Allah's decree for them
They're not usually with a relationship or with
kids or with a job or something like
that They're not content with what Allah has
decreed for them and they want more or
they want different the signs bing-bang, bro
Of an envious person is that you're not
happy when other people are winning Okay, and
this can happen in religion this can happen
in Dean Haven't we seen there are scholars
who are envious of their students There are
students who are envious of other students this
happens Okay If you're not happy our Shaykh
Abdullah Shanqeet used to tell us if you
think that people only have to be guided
through you You've got this problem.
You've got this sickness in you You're only
free from this sickness when you're just as
happy That someone is guided by somebody else
then if they came to you and the
Shaykh used to tell a story of somebody
who used to teach in the Prophet's Masjid
a Shaykh and Someone came up to him
and it said with poor adab.
Yes and said directly to him.
It's like, you know what?
I really don't like your lessons.
I like this other Shaykhs lessons way more
It's a fitna, right the Shaykh.
It's time to demonstrate what he's made of
and the Shaykh said alhamdulillah I'm so happy
that you're benefiting from that Shaykh's lessons.
May Allah put barakah in it So that's
what we're after we're after it's all the
same to you if someone Comes to you
or comes to somebody else you can do
the job.
Someone else can do the job It's all
the same Because you trust Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala you're content with what he has
decreed for you So Aminah tells us according
to the tradition that I know the word
fed up is related to the story of
Yusuf While he was in the well His
story is about the envious.
Ah, that's your last sentence is very powerful.
Yes, so we take Yusuf's brothers Amina's drawing
connections between a lot of things here I'm
not sure I'm not familiar with Fed up
being related to the story of Yusuf, of
course, it might be true.
It might just be my ignorance But certainly
obviously I think the story of Yusuf is
a really powerful example of envy and what
envy can do How it can drive you
to madness and other sins Amina Why don't
you say I'm enough to love?
We can also make sure we may do
I thank you very much I forgot that
one make do offer the one that you're
jealous for excellent.
Very good Love that Abdullah says is there
a healthy kind of jealousy?
Like I wish I was more like so
-and-so Yes, the prophesy said I'm actually
said that jealousy is permissible with two things
with the Quran Right, so you're you're able
to be like man.
I wish I was a half of like
that guy I wish I could recite like
that guy and With someone who spends wealth
in the way of Allah someone who spends
wealth in a way that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala likes in charity And they're like
now you can say oh, I wish that
I was wealthy like him So that I
could spend my money in the way that
he spends it so that I could help
the Oma so that I could You know
feed the poor this sort of thing Good
stuff a lot to talk about.
All right, let's pivot to our last segment
for tonight personal development atomic habits We had
homework.
Let's see who did it your task was
to Tie one of your habits to a
piece of furniture or to dedicate one piece
of furniture to one particular action You're not
gonna read your phone in bed anymore.
You're not gonna bring your laptop your work
laptop to the kitchen table, etc Etc.
I want to hear from people how this
went were they able to do it.
Did you run into any problems?
Did you have any success?
One thing that I've done is I've stopped
reading in bed I used to read in
bed a lot and sometimes I wouldn't be
able to sleep because I'm just reading it's
like yeah Okay, I'm ready to read more
like the reading wouldn't make me tired.
I would just be ready to read more
so I tried to make sure that the
bed is only for sleep and that If
I read it's on a couch in particular
one particular couch that I I read in
read on I should say a lot I
haven't been doing as much reading as I
would like lately, but at least I've dedicated
the Bed for sleep and tried to make
that just the thing that I do there
also my work, you know I've implemented this
before trying to keep my laptop only at
the desk at which I work and Not
bring it anywhere else and I have had
some success with that Art Forge asks, what
is the ruling on star signs Libra Scorpio,
etc I stay away from them, but some
have told me it would only be haram
if you're guessing the future with them Okay,
so there's a couple things that we need
to tease out here.
So one is the concept of the constellations
and Naming them after figures or figurines or
animals or things like that.
This is something that is permissible.
It's not a problem It's not a problem
that we say that Aries refers to a
constellation in the sky that resembles a ramp
that is part of and milf Alec where
the calf is this sort of sort of
about Astronomy and about the purpose of astronomy
primarily is navigation Navigation especially at sea but
also on land at night so being able
to organize the stars into pictures and into
Representations and even naming them Like many even
of the English names that we use for
stars and constellations many of them come from
Arabic Beetlejuice comes from Arabic betelgeuse, and there's
others I Believe Antares and others, okay however
whenever you get into implying that The presence
of these things or the absence of these
things Has anything any causative effect on a
personality on Events on this earth That's where
you're in danger Okay, and that comes from
the whole thing to horoscopes, which yes Seamus
is saying avoid totally 100% like There's
a hadith of prophesies that I'm what says
that if you even listen to the fortune
-teller then Your prayers will not be Meritorious
for 40 days or accepted for 40 days
Now that doesn't mean that you still don't
have the obligation to pray you still the
obligation to pray However, all the reward you
would get from doing that is gone Right.
So this is a major thing.
It's a major deal in Islam because it
infringes upon Tauheed The idea that these things
have any causative power Which we don't have
any evidence for so it's not like saying
that When the earth tilts in you know
This way in the spring in the northern
hemisphere warms up and and and you know
spring happens and that we have Evidence for
causative power.
So this does not infringe upon Tauheed Because
the causative power is proven But if the
causative power is speculative and doesn't have any
evidence then this is something that encroaches upon
Tauheed And what is only Allah's right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one
that determines people's personalities.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one
that determines people's you know, this sort of
thing and so when we That's the line
that's the limit is what I want to
say art is that when we you can
call them You know, I have an app
on my phone.
It's called Stellarium or something like that, right?
It's actually really cool.
You hold it up to the sky You
can see exactly what are the constellations you
actually have Arabic on there.
You can switch it to Arabic.
It's pretty cool so if you wanted to
ever which I always wanted to learn the
constellations in Arabic and then you can do
that and They're there they have different names.
This one's the rabbit.
This one's the snake.
This one's that that's fine Even knowing when
they appear some of the constellations they they
disappear at certain times.
They reappear other times of the year.
That's fine What crosses the line is saying
that these things have a causative power on
what goes on on earth?
Okay, what do we have here?
Juju says I didn't do this all the
time some days I kept my cell phone
away from my bedroom at night.
I bought an alarm clock Yeah, I set
up but I need to buy another alarm
clock with multiple options.
Yeah, okay progress progress Juju.
That's great Julia says my daughter has started
school in a new school.
May Allah Keep her among the righteous and
may it be Blessed inshallah The drive from
her school to my workplace has a six
-minute standstill traffic I've made the situation my
Quran memorization slot.
Excellent.
That is a wonderful wonderful habit Abdullah home
team.
I have stopped watching videos and snacking in
bed.
Lol.
What did you used to snack in bed
Abdullah?
What are some of your favorite snacks in
lightness?
Only sleep now good has your sleep gotten
better of the lie.
I hope it has Okay, I mean it
says I don't read in the kitchen anymore
I used to read and take notes while
eating.
Oh, yeah, I'm guilty Sorry, I'm guilty of
that still.
I haven't stopped that A Hong says I
bought a small olive tree to place it
on my balcony and create a small sitting
area for my reading That sounds amazing So
far, this is working wonders on my drive
to read more that I should do that.
That's a really really fantastic idea Juju says
I did end up stopping another habit since
I limited time with my cell phone, which
was reading about celebrities on my phone I
appreciate your honesty and your bravery for being
so honest 100% It happens even without
you wanting to sometimes sometimes, you know, you
open up your browser They have those stupid
suggested articles and they're like, oh, I wonder
what that person's up to.
Oh, that's that's wild, right?
And Then you fall into a bad habit.
So that's great.
Masha'Allah I'm done.
You drink decaf and better you used to
drink decaf decaf in bed.
Well Glad that that habits were broken then
I'll take I found Arabic so hard.
I can't learn it consistently Sorry to hear
that We explored before the possibility of doing
some sort of Arabic something Instruction now, we're
still sort of gathering interested parties in that
We're not really sure what form that would
take but if people are interested again reach
out and confirm your interest and I'm keeping
a list of names and emails and If
we ever do something then we'll we'll reach
out to you Because it's a common thing
where people want to Of course Arabic is
a better.
It's worshiping and so it's important, but it
takes getting used to you The scholars of
the language they said Arabic is like a
building the doors are made of iron and
Everything else is made of sugar Because it's
really hard in the beginning, but then after
that it gets It gets easier.
It gets a lot easier actually so if
anybody is Particularly interested in that you can
email me.
Shoot me an email Imam Tom Fakini at
gmail.com and I'll take down your thing
and if we decide to do anything no
guarantees But if there's enough interest and we
find an appropriate vehicle We can maybe do
something Josef Naim says what is the Aqidah
of Yaqeen?
Is it Ashari?
Well, which question?
What is the Aqidah or is it Ashari?
Those are two you mix the two questions.
You tell me Habibi All right personal development,
here we go Atomic habit.
So that was the homework from what we
had last time today's chapter very interesting chapter
We start the second chapter the second major
law, which is the law of attraction Make
it attractive.
The first one was make it obvious.
The second one is make it Attractive.
Okay.
Now he starts this This chapter with a
really interesting Anecdote, which is this sort of
it's not an anecdote is it's actually a
science experiment where There's a type of gull
seagull right a bird that it has a
beak and the beak has a red spot
All right.
Now when this type of bird it has
chicks in the nest and it flies back
the chicks in the nest will start pecking
at the red spot and the mother or
the father will then give food to the
chicks, so Check out how crazy this like
experiment is wild like people are people are
kind of nuts In a good way so
somebody decided to make a very very poor
imitation of a seagull right like cardboard basically
and Make a beak and make a red
spot on the beak, but make it huge
make it larger than normal Okay Now when
he held up that fake very very obviously
fake bird to the nest What the chicks
did the chicks started pecking at the dot
very very vigorously more vigorously then at the
At the normal sort of their mother which
had a normal sized red dot okay, and
what they found from this is that when
Any sort of creature is exposed to a
stimulus or used used to a stimulus.
There's an end to it's an Anticipation of
a reward and If the stimulus is increased,
okay, or even exaggerated then the motivation is
even higher even if even if The delivery
of the food is still the same Okay.
Now this is really really interesting.
We live in they call this by the
way super normal stimuli It's basically exaggerations of
reality And once you Understand that there's a
term for this You'll see that our modern
culture has this everywhere every single bad habit
that people are addicted to it essentially comes
down to a super normal stimuli some exaggeration
of reality Temptations that previous people of earlier
times never had to face So if you
look at the food industry, okay, you've got
food that has no nutritional value whatsoever But
it's got more sugar than any food has
ever had it's got more fats and more
You know this and that and salts and
hydrogenated oils and all these sorts of things
That it produces cravings for these foods That
are exaggerated cravings.
Okay more than would be natural for anything
else We also fall into this with body
image, right?
And this is why many people get addicted
to * that the images or the body
images that people are exposed to through the
media are Exaggerations, they're not real right They're
exaggerated stimuli.
And so people they get Addicted like their
anticipation of the reward whatever it is They
are super stimulated because of the exaggeration of
the cue that's being thrown at them Social
media is also another one that he points
out where if you go throughout your whole
day and you can try this go throughout
your whole day at home and Count how
many times someone compliments you or like praises
you?
then go online and make like two posts
on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or something
like that and Compare how many likes and
comments of praise you get?
Social media is essentially a super stimuli.
It exaggerates how much praise and thanks that
you get and So all of these super
stimuli cause addictions whether it's addiction to junk
food or addiction to * or addiction to
social media or Addiction to other things smoking
whatever it is drugs all of these things
come back to an exaggerated stimuli now, how
does This work when it comes to your
body and anticipating things and and how does
this what does this mean for our habits?
We can actually if we realize what's going
on.
We can harness it for our own uses
I don't know guys.
Do we have that?
Do we have that a figure from the
there we go.
So we have this This is a really
really interesting find.
So this is about dopamine.
Many of you are familiar with this idea.
It's this Hormone called dopamine dopamine that your
body produces When it anticipates a reward, okay
and anticipates is the key is the key
word here, so What happens?
When you're first exposed to a cue Okay,
we know that all everything here with habits
It has to do with four things cue
craving response and reward number one You're exposed
to a cue, but you're not aware of
what that cue is.
Okay?
Second maybe you start to get a craving
you see a commercial.
Let's say you get it.
Let's say you see a Pepsi commercial Okay
That's the cue there's people they're young they're
attractive they're having fun on the on the
TV and you know That's how they make
you want this drink.
You start to get a craving Next time
you go to the store the Bacala you
pick up a Pepsi You drink it.
You're blasted with sugar, right?
And so your dopamine spikes Now that was
the first time check out what happens the
second time the second time The key at
the level of the cue you see the
commercial and you're already getting your blast of
dopamine Because you're anticipating You're not even given
the Pepsi yet.
Now this anticipation drives you to go to
the store Maybe you go out of your
way to go to the store and get
that Pepsi the next time you drink the
Pepsi That's the response.
That's the reward.
Okay, and Now but notice what happens with
the dopamine you don't get it when you
actually Experience the thing when you get the
reward this time you actually experience the dopamine
early When you're anticipating the reward, all right,
let's check out scenario number three scenario number
three They said well what happens if somebody
sees the cue and anticipates the reward, but
then they don't get it What happens so
let's imagine you see the Pepsi commercial you
have this incredible craving for Pepsi You go
out that's your response, but there's no Pepsi
at the store you crash Your dopamine levels
actually tank Okay, then what's gonna happen the
last scenario the next time you see the
craving?
Sorry, you see the cue the Pepsi commercial
you experience the craving you want one you
go out and get it.
You're not sure Your body is almost preparing
you for disappointment.
But this time they have it boom another
spike and this is how habits are formed
okay, this is the dopamine loop and The
author points out that this distinguishes the difference
about between wanting something and liking something and
he argues that Wanting something is far more
powerful than liking something on the body Okay,
the hormones that we produce wanting something is
way more powerful than actually liking it Anticipating
a reward is actually better than getting the
reward itself So what does this mean for
us in our habits?
Well That brings us to something that the
author calls Temptation bundling now if we had
earlier we had temptation we had habit stacking
Which was you're going to tie a habit
that you're already doing on To you want
to add on to that a habit that
you want to do?
Temptation bundling is basically linking an action that
you want to do with an action that
you have to do Okay, so there are
things that you're doing that maybe you're not
They're not the best things that you're doing
let's say you're watching television you watch Netflix
you watch whatever a Show once in a
while.
Is it haram?
No, is it the best thing to do?
No, it's also not the best thing to
do.
Okay, but you want to do something like
study Arabic or you want to do something?
like Push-ups you want to get in
shape a little bit.
All right, how can you use temptation bundling
to form new habits?
Well, you basically link the action that you
want to do to the action that you
need to do So if I'm watching a
television show and it's got commercials and I
want to also get more fit I'm going
to say I'm going to do 20 push
-ups Every commercial break so I get my
the show that I'm watching and I also
get The fitness or the exercise that I'm
trying to go for.
Okay What happens when you link these two
things is That you associate or your body
begins to associate the thing that you kind
of don't want to do Which is push
-ups in this case It begins to associate
it with the thing that you actually like
to do So it gets a positive association
and corporations use this type of thing all
the time to manipulate you and to sell
you their products But if you recognize it
You can see when it's being used against
you and you can also attempt to use
it for you So everybody this is your
homework for this week Think about something that
you're currently doing That you like to do
That's it's fun.
It's a TV show or it's you know
A snack that you enjoy you sit down
and you have you know bar chocolate or
something, whatever Tie something that you need to
do whether it is reciting Quran or something
physical exercise or it's reading more Whatever it
is tie it to that thing.
So here's your your your homework after I
Blank the habit.
I need I Will blank the habit I
want and let's see what people come up
with people giving Recommendations
on Arabic study, that's good.
Thanks everybody for helping out cool all right,
and If there's no final questions, I think
we're gonna wrap it up for the night.
We're coming up on almost two hours It's
been Very engaging as always appreciate everybody We'll
check in next week.
Yes, we are on next week.
So we'll be back next week again Wednesday
night 8 p.m New York time.
We'll see you then bring your homework.
We'll we'll see how we did But a
coffee comes to panic a little bit will
be Hamdik a shadow and la ilaha and
to a stop philip.
Oh, I took a lake Salam alaikum.
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