Tom Facchine – Empowering Student Activism

Tom Facchine
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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.

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Welcome back to our program Yaqeen Institute's live

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stream every Wednesday night 8 p.m. Eastern

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New York time I'm your host Imam Tom

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and it's a pleasure to have you with

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us tonight after a brief hiatus Now we

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have a very interesting show for you tonight

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We're going to be talking about a certain

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Zionist sort of smear campaign against yours truly

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we're going to be talking about ceasefire negotiations

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or the lack thereof going on currently in

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Palestine and We're going to talk about some

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recent comments made by former president and currently

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running for next president Donald Trump and the

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whole dynamic of fear and the role that

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fear plays in politics and When you should

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take fear into account and when you shouldn't

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or let's say who you should fear or

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who is most deserving of your fear We're

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going to talk about back to school It's

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September Columbia University students first day back on

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campus picketing and protesting As we have come

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to hope and expect from them.

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We're going to be talking about campus activism

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how the terrain has shifted and What is

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sort of in the pipeline and we'll also

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be doing our normal program our normal segments

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I should say on tafseer covering swords of

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phallic and Then our personal development book.

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We're going through atomic habits a really really

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interesting chapter.

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But first We're gonna go to the chat

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and we're gonna see who is tuning in

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tonight live We have Saliha Ahmed from Atlanta.

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I think I'm sad.

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I'm not a lot heard about the terrible

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tragedy down in Georgia today May Allah make

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it easy for everybody Details are still emerging

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from that.

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So we're not going to comment on that

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very much one of our returning viewers Saw

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that I think I'm sad.

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I'm not a lot I see you've got

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some good questions lined up for me Flaming

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Eagle from Somalia.

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Why they come as Saddam?

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Welcome to the program shame.

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Uh, well, I think I'm a Saddam what

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off to law from Morocco.

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Good to have you back with us Kadira

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that's a leak.

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Hope you're well We've got Rahma Baloch from

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Durham, North Carolina Welcome to the program.

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So Sarah asks here we go.

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Let's get into it What do you say

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to Muslims who are constantly talking about the

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anti-dawah tactics of online dawah people and

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that Muslims are the ones?

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Making non-muslims in the West hate Islam

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and Muslims and then there was a saying

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a follow-up comment by Seamus Welcome back

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Seamus.

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Good to see you some of the beast

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the recent Excuse me antics of quote-unquote

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dawah bros have been repulsive to say the

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least now.

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I'll be very frank with you all I

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don't follow this stuff very closely.

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So I live under my rock I live

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in the mountains and in the woods and

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I keep to myself.

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I'm like the the J Cole of the

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dawah scene however when it comes to I

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think the way that Sada Phrased and frames.

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The question is interesting because there is this

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recurring question That is sort of litigated in

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the public sphere of either online or amongst

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Muslims Who is to blame primarily?

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Where does the primary blame lie when it

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comes to negative perceptions of Islam are Muslims

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ourselves primarily to blame?

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Is it our own antics and our own?

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you know either a lack of unity or

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our sort of alienating behavior that sort of

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You know causing people to despise Islam or

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rather is it more heavy on the Islamophobia

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industry and those people who are trying to

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make a bad name for Islam and Muslims

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and I Obviously, there's truth in both.

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I don't think we have to have an

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all-or-nothing black-or-white sort of

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account of it however, my personal experience and

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what I'm aware of I think that the

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lion's share of the blame is on Zionists

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and the Islamophobia industry and the way that

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the media and the for-profit media is

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complicit in this and how governments have aligned

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especially after 9-11 fallen in line with

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the whole war on terror framework in order

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to securitize and criminalize Islam and Muslims the

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world over I think that that is the

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primary the primary cause of anti-islamic and

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anti-muslim sentiment if we're to split it

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up Okay, how much would I allocate to

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that versus whatever antics Muslims are doing online?

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Which by the way, there's life beyond online,

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right?

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A lot of life happens probably most of

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life happens offline And so sometimes for the

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very online the antics that happen online seem

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to be like Oh my gosh Like like

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the worst thing ever but many many people

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live most of their lives offline and sometimes

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We lose sight of that.

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I would probably split split at 80-20

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something around that.

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I would say 80% of The blame

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when it comes to negative perceptions about Islam

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and Muslims it's only my opinion like, you

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know, take it or leave it throw it

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against the wall is comes down to deliberate

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smear tactics misrepresentation orientalism, you know These types

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of these types of very very deliberate smear

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campaigns When it comes to Muslim behavior, that's

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not to give us a free pass yeah,

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of course when we look bad when we

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are Excessively infighting and I don't mean by

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that and I'll explain to you why I

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think this is a Question that merits this

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long of an answer and this thoughtful of

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an answer when we come across as excessively

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divisive or dividing on the wrong things and

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Excessively critical or criticizing the wrong things then

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yes that leaves a bad taste in some

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people's mouths however, my personal experience is that

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Most people encounter Islam through either personal experience

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with individuals in their lives or Through mass

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media not through the quote-unquote Dala bros,

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which I don't really like that moniker for

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whoever that's supposed to refer to Now, why

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do I bring up the point about why

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is it significant to talk about this because

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sometimes sometimes some people use the antics of

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some as a Justification to silence Important work

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that's being done for criticism and for accountability

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So accountability and criticism is is an important

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aspect of Islam, you know, and now he

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had a moniker Rejecting or forbidding the evil

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and with speech and with knowledge and of

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course it has its conditions.

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It has a short No doubt, but there

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are some people who act as if every

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act of holding People accountable is a lack

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of adab and that is an extremely problematic

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thing as well So we can't have that.

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Of course, we know that this is supposed

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to be balanced We're talking about balance, but

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I don't buy And I again I could

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be wrong.

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I stand the possibility of being wrong I

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don't buy the idea that the Dawa bros

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or our own sort of dirty laundry is

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The primary reason why people have a bad

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sort of experience or a taste of Islam

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That's not how I see things and Allah

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knows best Let's see if there's some follow

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-up comments on that before circling back.

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Let's see.

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Sada says shames We've got problems sure, but

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you can't ignore the environment that created it.

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That's true Yeah, we're gonna talk about we're

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gonna talk about the zoom the zoom clip

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and these things like that Widespread, I mean,

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I I don't know about widespread.

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I don't know how much circulation the the

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Israeli post I mean the New York Post

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has I don't know how how many people

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35 and under read that sort of stuff.

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I don't think very many Ash 2020 while

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they can sit down and off to love

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from Concord, New Hampshire.

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Welcome to the program We have Nabisa BV

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while I can sign off to law Abdurrahman

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Suleyman from Nigeria.

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Well, I'm Saddam Sheila Aziz from Kuala Lumpur.

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I said I'm at the time.

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Well, I didn't sit down after a lot.

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Welcome to the program Rick Rashid.

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Well, I think I'm Sam.

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Welcome back.

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Hey Ali.

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Well, I think I'm Saddam enough to law

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Yes, making Sada says making the implicit somehow

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explicit like people need to realize differences are

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okay on implicit Yeah, that's definitely there to

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MB.

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Well, I think I'm Sam after law Welcome

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back Okay.

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All right.

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Interesting.

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So Han has an interesting question.

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We're gonna circle back to that Let's see

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What else we've got so we kind of

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follow that thread about Dawa boat bros and

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who's responsible for people's negative assumptions of Islam

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Seamus says the NY Post going after Imam

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Tom Elijah hair for the hafidh Allah.

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I mean you're up Yeah, so that's going

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to be our first sort of current event

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the Israeli Post.

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I'm sorry the New York Post Ran a

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hit piece against me and some of the

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other sort of conservative media doing the bidding

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of Israel Ran some sort of pieces against

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me.

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We'll talk about that in depth in a

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second So I said how unsurprising it was

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to see the true face of BLM Sorry,

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you're the second person to reference this and

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I'm not in the know.

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Could you tell us what exactly happened?

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I infer from your comment and someone else

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that they came out and supported or endorsed

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Harris, but I I didn't read anything.

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So if you could enlighten us what you're

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talking about What else we have Han says,

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first of all, why didn't sit on off

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to La Han genuine question.

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Do we have to do protests when most

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of the time it involves remixing?

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No, you don't have to do protests.

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But yes, you have to do something for

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Palestine.

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So protests aren't going to be for everybody.

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That's okay What can you do and what

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are you doing?

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You should not use your reservations about protests

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be an excuse for you not doing anything

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So there's lots of things to be done

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and we'll talk about that when we talk

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about campus activism and what's to be done

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and different sorts of things so that's one

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thing the second thing is that if protests

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have free mixing and there needs to be

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and I have yet to see a Precise

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and exhaustive conversation about the definition of free

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mixing.

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Okay in the English language We talked about

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this term free mixing as this as if

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everybody understands what it means and we people

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mean very very different things Is the free

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mixing that happens at a protest the same

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or worse as what happens at the grocery

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store?

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We need to have a conversation about that.

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I don't see that conversation being had.

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However, taking what you're saying at face value

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If your concern is that there is free

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mixing at a protest or other haram elements

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Okay, then ask yourself Why is that so

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and is there a way that I can

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change it and what you'll find most of

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the time I find Is that if Muslims

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are more involved in actually organizing these protests

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and demonstrations?

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And I'm talking about a critical mass of

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Muslims.

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Not just your token Muslim or muslima.

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Then we would be able to have more

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Input and more say as to the culture

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of these protests and demonstrations and how they

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occur in core including excuse me including Eliminating,

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you know making time for prayer Making sure

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that there is some sort of gender division

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in some way shape or form these sorts

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of things Omi bakaba wa alaikum salam wa

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rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Siti Nadhira Qasim wa alaikum

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salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Seamus says very

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high tensions in East Africa, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan

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versus Ethiopia, RSF, UAE We live in times

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of fitna subhanAllah May Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala strengthen the true believers of Taif and

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Mansurah and give them victory.

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Halim Nasir There's a shout out.

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Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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How you doing?

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Where are you tuning in from tonight?

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Good to have you with us Tasman wa

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alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi Very good.

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Okay.

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Pestify.

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Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi.

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Welcome back to the program.

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Maldives, correct?

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Yeah, well Seamus points out about BLM as

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an organization has been distanced from movement for

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a few years.

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Yes and the co-optation right and the

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infiltration and co-optation of movements is an

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Extremely important part of the history of social

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and political movements the United States of America

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and one that must be studied One that

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must be studied when you see what's happening

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to Uncommitted the uncommitted movement and how essentially

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they gave up all of their leverage these

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sorts of things they happen every single time

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So it's essential that we study these sorts

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of things Courtney G.

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Welcome back to the program Yep.

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Okay.

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I see they made a call for Some

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of the resistance factions to release the hostages.

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I see mashallah.

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They pulled * out.

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I see what you did there They pulled

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in all lives matter Yes it uh All

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right, mashallah What else do we have?

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Amina?

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What are you gonna say?

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I'm not Allah.

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Yes, Rick Rashid.

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Absolutely May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala ease the

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burdens of the people Sudan some of the

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best people on the face of the earth

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and some Of the most pious humble people

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on the face of this earth May Allah

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subhanahu wa'ta'ala grant victory to Allah's true

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supporters in Sudan and Remove from them any

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of the hardship and the affliction that they

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face from those who would do them wrong

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and oppress them.

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I mean I Think I'm a son.

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I'm not a lot.

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Nope.

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You got it All right, so let's get

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into it many of you already brought it

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up.

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So let's get to it We've got a

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problem with Zionist snowflakes there's a pant there's

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a true pandemic a new pandemic, which is

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different from the pandemic of COVID and we

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have we have Zionist snowflakes that are that

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are running amok in this country that are

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not able to Take any criticism or Take

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any of their own medicine.

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And so some of you have pointed out

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that there was some sort of Smear campaign

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campaign against me.

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Well, we got some we've got some images,

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right?

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Here we go.

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The Israeli post.

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I'm sorry I keep on doing this the

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New York Post with a circulation of however

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many boomers it says We'll get let's run

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through that really quickly the Machinations who I

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like that the fact that they humanized me

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who enjoys espresso hiking and bird-watching According

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to his bio at the Athene Institute are

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indeed dangerous.

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The professor said let's go to the next

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item, please So basically what had happened was

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this that we did an event or I

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did an event in my personal Capacity with

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some of the activists from some of the

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colleges in New York City, ironically ironically None

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of the people who put on the this

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this webinar It was an online event this

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webinar were from Columbia.

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They were not Columbia students I don't even

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know if any Columbia students were in attendance

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There are other colleges represented City College, Brooklyn

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College these sorts of things which I have

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relationships with people student activists throughout, you know,

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New York City and beyond now I brought

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up an example of What it would look

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like to push back against some of the

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silencing Tactics and some of the intimidation tactics

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that have gone on against Student activists because

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as we know there are Zionist professors and

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there are even Zionist administrators that are trying

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to equate any criticism of Israel with anti

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-semitism and get it brutally suppressed and brutally

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put down even to the point of expelling

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students and Harming them and their sort of

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future prospects.

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So I gave an example and just Feasibility

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method or a stability method.

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I brought up probably the most vitriolic of

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The Zionist professors in New York City this

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individual named shy David I and I said

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for example if there was such a professor

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as him then One would think about how

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to get him removed from his position that

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if he's a professor He's on a contract

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that contract has to be up.

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It has to have perform KPIs or key

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performance indicators There has to be some sort

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of board reviewing his performance.

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And if this individual if this individual is

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creating a hostile environment for their students and

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this individual which he did For the last

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10 months has been engaged in such flamboyant

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and hateful rhetoric that created a dangerous Environment

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for the students of his own institution to

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the point where the student protesters at Columbia

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were attacked by Vigilantes with chemical weapons with

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skunk.

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Okay.

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This actually happened and even Columbia University itself

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Implicitly recognized that he was a rabble rouser

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and a troublemaker because they denied his access

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to some of the buildings on campus for

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a bit Which he threw a hissy fit

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about now in the context of this, you

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know explaining how Students might organize to push

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back against professors like shy David.

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I We have two quotes right here.

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That's shy David guy.

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How do we get him in trouble?

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How do we create a situation which he's

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in jeopardy?

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They're able to take somebody out somebody like

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that and make an example that might shut

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up a hundred more and they were trying

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to twist this and make it seem like

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I was physically threatening him, which I wasn't

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I was talking about in the context of

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Getting him removed from his position because I

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have this crazy idea.

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I have this crazy opinion guys that If

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you create a dangerous Environment for your students.

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You probably shouldn't be teaching that at university

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that if you want to Silence the free

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speech of your students and create an environment

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in which they might be attacked Contribute to

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the likelihood that they might be attacked.

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You do not deserve to be a university

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professor.

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So I didn't stutter When I said these

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things and I refuse to stutter or apologize

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them for them now Because I stand by

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what I said a hundred percent people like

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shy David I and other university professors have

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no business teaching in colleges University in the

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United States of America If you want to

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do that, you can go teach in Israel

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You can go somewhere else where it's a

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it's an ethno supremacist state and you're not

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allowed to criticize Israel Israel Here in the

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United States of America.

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We believe in free speech supposedly supposedly we

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believe in academic freedom supposedly supposedly Universities and

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colleges are places where you're supposed to hash

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out these ideas and engage in protest and

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to have somebody Who is however many years

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your senior?

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Basically using their leverage using their authority using

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their connections.

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His father by the way is heavily involved

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in the arms industry To use everything that

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they have to silence and to bully students.

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I can't stand for that.

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Sorry that makes you a bully and That

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makes you a coward as well Because if

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you're picking on college students not people your

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own age, yeah, I'm 35 pick on me

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Don't pick on college students.

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Leave them alone.

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I stand by what I said 100%

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and I would I would not take back

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any of it if you want me to

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say it again I'll say it again, and

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I didn't stutter then and I won't stutter

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this time So what else do we got

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guys?

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Yeah, 100% Abdullah Zionists are allergic to

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accountability 100% pestify.

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I agree He is a drama queen a

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hundred percent drama queen with a capital Q

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Hey cards, are you good to see you

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here?

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While I can salam juju s from Orange

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County It called it.

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Yeah, I'm getting national notoriety.

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I don't know what's happening.

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I don't know what's happening.

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You know, we don't well I'm a half

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a little much alive Well, I'm a half

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a little much alive and personally I don't

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care about I'm I don't I don't like

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drama I don't like to talk about myself,

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but I understand that many University students are

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going through the same thing and we're going

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to talk about that in a little bit

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when it's Specifically the the situation in Columbia

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I understand that many young people are going

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through the same thing and it can be

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a scary thing To see your face and

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your image pop up in a newspaper or

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I've gotten some some hate email From some

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boomers with too much time on their hands

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At the keyboard it might be a very

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scary thing, but I want you to know

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That we're all together in this and we're

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not backing down and in fact, in fact

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We're not going to get past this until

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we actually face it with bravery and honor

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Let's see.

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Let's go back.

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Who else do we have coming through?

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I think I saw Amina Kasupovich.

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Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah, how are you?

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I hope you're well Ishar Ali Welcome to

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the program What else we got Samar Zia?

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Yeah, typical right Sara?

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Seamus brings up Netanyahu's speech today.

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We will talk about that in a bit

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Atika rahman wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah, bonjourno,

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astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah Alhamdulillah, thank you very much.

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Amin.

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Minami Islam Khan wa alaikum salam from Bangladesh

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Please don't ever stutter.

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No, I'll try not to.

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The only time I stutter is if I

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haven't had my espresso All right, so Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala, what the amazing thing

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is, the amazing thing is this The more

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you read the Quran The more you realize

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that it's all there already.

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It's all there already.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, we can

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go to this guys يَحْسَبُونَ كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ

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Wallahi, when I saw Shahi David I having

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his his meltdown Thinking that I was, you

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know, I think he said I can defend

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myself and all this, you know Stuff like

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that, which I didn't, I didn't personally threaten

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the guy, you know, but He has a

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guilty conscience.

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He knows what he did is wrong.

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And he knows what he's doing is wrong

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He knows he has nothing to stand on

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He knows that what he is supporting is

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just supremacy, is ethno-supremacy in Palestine He's

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a genocide cheerleader.

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That's essentially what he is and deep down

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he knows it and So any little Blip

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that might be talking about him or might

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be doing something.

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He has to he has a meltdown يَحْسَبُونَ

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كُلَّ صَيْحَةٍ عَلَيْهِمْ They think that every peep

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and every shout is against them because of

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their guilty consciences.

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You stand on nothing You're not standing on

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truth.

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You're not standing on righteousness.

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You're standing on supremacy and Allah has his

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ways.

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We'll see what happens Next up we've got

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Ceasefire negotiations.

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Okay.

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Now we've got the fact one of the

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excuses that Israel has been using from the

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beginning of the escalation against the Gaza and

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Palestine has been the hostages everywhere everywhere everywhere

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Every Zionist outlet has used the hostages as

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an excuse for their barbarity an excuse for

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their genocide Supposedly according to them they have

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said if only they would return the hostages

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then we would stop Well, we know that's

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a lie.

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We know that is a bold-faced lie

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because first of all Israel has demonstrated that

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they care nothing about their own people the

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Hannibal directive on October 7th when they were

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responsible for the majority of the loss of

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life on that day Second of all they

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have demonstrated Knowing that the hostages exactly a

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quality.

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It's never been about the hostages the Barbarity

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and the amount of firepower and ammunition that

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they have used In Gaza demonstrates that they

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do not care about the hostages surviving whatsoever

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Look at the targeted assassinations that they have

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carried out all over the world in the

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last 30 years Against Ismail Hania just in

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the last couple months Look at how targeted

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that particular thing was Okay, and yet when

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it comes to Gaza, they're throwing everything everything

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everything out of Gaza They don't care anything

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about their hostages and even many Israelis know

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this Which is why they're protesting or one

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of the reasons why they're protesting Exactly what

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a quality just said bad faith that Israel

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is operating in bad faith The resistance factions

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know it anybody with half a brain cell

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knows it that they are just trying to

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use the existence of hostages as a an

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excuse as a bargaining chip to prolong their

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genocide as Long as possible as Shema said

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100% Shema They killed the hostages themselves

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and while they have our attention focused on

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the hostages just like a call to be

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said Now they are talking about annexing or

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annexing the entire West Bank Netanyahu presented the

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map of the United States or see me

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a Map of Palestine with no West Bank

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on it.

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It was all in Israeli blue and Now

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the media outlets are calling it controversial.

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It's not controversial.

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That's genocidal Okay, that means that what we

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say from the river to the sea Palestine

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will be will be free Okay, and it

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we're accused of of being genocidal or ethnic

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cleansing and they show a map with no

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West Bank on it and Somehow this is

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just oh, it's just controversial.

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It has nothing to do with genocide or

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ethnic cleansing whatsoever So we see that and

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this is something that we've seen for ten

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months that and everybody knows it He's been

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paying attention that they yes exactly testify the

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IDF the Israeli diaper forces They killed three

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of their own hostages While waving a white

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flag while waving a white flag, so what

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do you think they're going to do with

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those who are Underground or in a less

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vulnerable position They're not acting in good faith

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and it reminds us of one of the

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verses in Surat Al-Baqarah We can cut

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to that guys where Allah swt in Surat

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Al-Baqarah He criticizes Benny Israel for many

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of the things that they did and one

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of them Was in acting in bad faith

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when it came to their own Rules and

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regulations and some of those were rules and

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regulations of war.

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So we have in verse 85.

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There's a situation where Benny Israel was not

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even allowed to take hostages in the first

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place But once they had them they ransomed

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them off according to the rules of their

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of their scriptures this demonstrates a type of

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interaction or a type of disposition a type

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of orientation towards Virtues and values or the

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lack thereof That basically you're only appealing to

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things when it serves you you're only willing

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to follow rules when it serves you But

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when it push comes to shove It's all

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about you and you will break any rule

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That is out there if it means that

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you'll benefit from it.

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And this is the attitude that we see

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Israel demonstrate Demonstrating consistently Finally for current events,

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we've got Trump tweeted out this week.

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Here we go Meet your neighbors if Kamala

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wins vote Trump, okay So we've got you

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know, what looks like Afghani men and someone

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said maybe this is Taliban or something like

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that burning the American flag so we see

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Trump using this type of fear tactics and

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of course Everybody who wants to support the

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genocider Kamala Harris Uses this also to justify

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why you can't let this person win You

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have to just suck it up hold your

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nose and vote blue.

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Now again, this is not the place to

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be Mentioning my endorsement though.

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I did the other day on the Safina

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Society podcast with dr.

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Shadi al-masri I did give my official

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endorsement For what I believe Muslims should do

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come November in the general election So if

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you have not seen it yet You should

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check that out in your spare time after

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you're done with this program Go to Safina

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Society and see the live stream we did

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yesterday.

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I make my recommendation about what should be

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done But we see here both sides what

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I want to point out here is that

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both sides Engage in fear-mongering that that's

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all that they have that the United States

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right now is under a death grip They

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are cut they are caught in the clutches

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of a an oligarchy That has two parties

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that are part of that oligarchy that are

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making that are Barely different to be honest

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with you, especially when it comes to Palestine,

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especially when it comes to you know Foreign

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policy are very very very the same very

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much the same more similar than they are

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different so What we need to do is

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we need to find a way out of

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this particular problem and going with either one

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of these particular Parties that already is the

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problem itself.

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Well, if you keep on doing the same

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thing Then you can't expect any results But

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we wanted to point out we'll cut to

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this guys in the studio.

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Allah subhana wa ta'ala talks about the

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role of fear Okay, and fear is an

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act of worship at the end of the

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day I mean, there's certain parts of fear

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that are natural that happen when you encounter

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something in the creation that is Terrifying in

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a natural sort of way, okay, but a

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certain degree of fear should only be kept

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for Allah alone Which is why Allah subhana

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wa ta'ala mentions this situation الذين قال

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لهم الناس إن الناس قد جمعوا لكم فخشوهم

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Okay, so there are a type of people

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that when things are about to go down

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Okay, and the forces are gathering against you

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There's one type of person who's a weak

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-hearted person that is going to basically try

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to Get you to capitulate because of the

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fear.

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They're going to say to you Look at

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all these people who have gathered against you.

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There's no way you're gonna win There's no

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way out of this you might as well

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give up And what does Allah subhana wa

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ta'ala say should be the attitude.

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فَزَادَهُمْ إِمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَلْ وَكِيرًا The

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attitude of a properly calibrated believer is That's

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when we smile.

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That's when we say no, I believe in

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Allah We rely on Allah and he is

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the best of Disposer of affairs.

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He's the best person or the best, you

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know The best entity the best deity the

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best one these words don't translate well from

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Arabic to English He's the best one to

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take care of things Disposer of affairs is

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how it's translated here So we can't capitulate

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to fear we have to act on principle

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we have to do the right thing Worry

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about doing the right thing know that your

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decisions whether it's what's happening in November or

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before it or after it That you will

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be asked by Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

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What did you contribute to?

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and Allah subhana wa ta'ala Can decide

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to have anything happen exactly Sarah like Sarah

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just said victory does not always come from

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numbers It comes from Allah subhana wa ta

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'ala.

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In fact, we have many examples of the

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Quran coming fitting could be a lot of

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bets Sorry, come in fitting quality and a

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lot of bits He doesn't get there It'll

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be in the left, right How many a

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small band has defeated a larger force by

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the will of Allah subhana wa ta'ala

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when Allah and surat al-baqarah?

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Talks about the story of follow-ups the

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story of Saul and his army and he

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was not concerned with numbers He was concerned

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about having the true believers the faithful loyal

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believers with him and then doing the right

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thing Let's hit the comments.

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Let's see what we got before we go

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on to talk about the Return to school

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back to school and what an important school

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year it is.

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What do we have here?

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Muhammad Ibnu asks does feeling is feeling hopeless

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a bad thing.

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Yes.

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Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us to

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not despair despair is Not an appropriate behavior

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because it indicates We're trying to shame you

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I mean people can fall into it but

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what we're saying is that it indicates a

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Bigger problem, which is a lack of internalizing

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How Allah is in control of things?

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Right.

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Look at the people of Gaza How much

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they've been through and many of them are

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still?

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I'll say I haven't seen any of them

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blaming Allah saying why Allah why Allah or

00:32:14 --> 00:32:15

why me?

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That's powerful Because they understand who Allah is

00:32:20 --> 00:32:23

They understand that these things what till kill

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a yam No doubt we'll have been a

00:32:25 --> 00:32:28

mess that these things happen They can happen

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in the creation any bad horrible thing that

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could possibly happen to you.

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It's part of the dunya and everybody takes

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their turn every individual takes their turn every

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group of people takes their turn and So

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to be hopeless and to despair.

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Yes is Not something that Demonstrates that you've

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properly internalized who Allah really is and what

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the afterlife is and how Allah subhana Taala

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rewards the patient in the face of these

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types of adversities.

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So it's not like, you know, it's an

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opportunity I don't want you to just say

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oh, it's a bad thing.

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I'm wrong Oh, you know and get further

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into a rut take it as a as

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an opportunity.

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It's an opportunity to Rely upon Allah subhana

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ta'ala to confess your utter need and

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dependence upon Allah azawajal and Demonstrate your belief

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that he is the only one that can

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save you whether it's in this dunya or

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the next Let's see.

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I'm glad you liked that Courtney genocide cheerleader

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100% Yes, what do we got?

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Yes, all of that.

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The crimes are endless.

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They shot a child on rollerblades They killed

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they killed boys playing soccer on the beach.

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The crimes are endless Let's stop pretending and

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this is one of the things that I

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you know I said, you know pushing back

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against shy and the Israeli post.

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I mean the New York Post when they're

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talking about Intimidation since when do you care

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about intimidation you guys all you do is

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intimidate.

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Oh He's advocating for the end of somebody's

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

career since when do you care about ending

00:34:05 --> 00:34:05

someone's career?

00:34:05 --> 00:34:08

All you do is dox Let's be real.

00:34:08 --> 00:34:09

Let's be real.

00:34:09 --> 00:34:10

You don't have any values.

00:34:10 --> 00:34:12

You're only upset when it happens to you

00:34:12 --> 00:34:15

and Whoever builds a house of cards the

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house of cards will fall Muhammad if no

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asks are banning Israel formerly part of Islamic

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people in the Prophet ages I'm gonna try

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to retranslate that comment in my head We

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understand that when Allah subhana discusses Islam He's

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talking about there's Capital I islam and lowercase

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islam.

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There is Islam as the continuous religion that

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Allah subhana Has given everybody that is referring

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to the Akita that has been the belief

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and the theology of one God and only

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worshipping one God that has been communicated to

00:34:52 --> 00:34:55

every authentic and legitimate messenger in the entire

00:34:55 --> 00:34:58

history of humanity We call that Islam We

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also call Islam the Sharia of Muhammad sallallahu

00:35:01 --> 00:35:03

alayhi wa sallam the last messenger given through

00:35:03 --> 00:35:06

the Quran and his Sunnah Okay, so that's

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why this term is what they call fancy

00:35:07 --> 00:35:08

word multivalent.

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Okay, Islam can mean the bigger sort of

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Perpetual Islam that has been communicated throughout time

00:35:15 --> 00:35:17

where the Akita was the same But the

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Sharia as might have been a little bit

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different as Allah says in Surah Al-Ma

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'idah Well, he couldn't minkum John if Shara

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Tom and Minhaja Or we could be talking

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about this particular umma of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

wa sallam and the Sharia that he brought

00:35:29 --> 00:35:30

I need to stop to Salaam.

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So if we're talking about Benny Israel Benny

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Israel, okay Israel is one of the names

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of Yaqub Okay, so the people before Yaqub

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such as Ibrahim Isalam are not part of

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Benny Israel.

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They are the ancestors of Benny Israel and

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Luton and others There are other prophets that

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are not part of Benny Israel such as

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hood such as Shoaib Right such as Salih

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These are not part of Benny Israel at

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least to my knowledge and Then there are

00:35:58 --> 00:35:59

the prophets that were sent to Benny Israel

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including Yusuf alayhi salam and Musa alayhi salam

00:36:02 --> 00:36:04

and Dawood alayhi salam and Suleiman alayhi salam

00:36:04 --> 00:36:08

and Isa alayhi salam Okay, now the extent

00:36:08 --> 00:36:12

to which the people followed those prophets What

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with what they brought those people are considered

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

Muslims in the afterlife in the Akita sense

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

of the word Meaning that they will be

00:36:19 --> 00:36:23

rewarded for their belief However people who call

00:36:23 --> 00:36:28

themselves Followers of them and they don't have

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anything to do with them and they don't

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have the substance of that belief then that

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is something that Those prophets are free from

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

them and you can see the discussion at

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the end of surah al-imran and at

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the end of surah al-ma'idah where

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Allah shows us a conversation That will happen

00:36:47 --> 00:36:49

between himself and Isa alayhi salam where he

00:36:49 --> 00:36:51

asks Isa alayhi salam Did you tell your

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

people to worship you?

00:36:53 --> 00:36:54

Did you tell your people to do this

00:36:54 --> 00:36:56

and that and he will make bara'a

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

from them He'll say no, I didn't tell

00:36:58 --> 00:37:00

people anything other than what you wanted me

00:37:00 --> 00:37:04

to tell them Okay, what else we got

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

Harm grotto says I think we should toughen

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

up with someone that didn't support a genocide

00:37:12 --> 00:37:15

To sacrifice discomfort then our brothers and sisters.

00:37:15 --> 00:37:18

I can't quite follow all that but I

00:37:18 --> 00:37:18

might agree with you.

00:37:18 --> 00:37:23

I'm not sure Let's see a cadre the

00:37:23 --> 00:37:25

rhetoric this is interesting comment The rhetoric is

00:37:25 --> 00:37:27

equivalent or worse than 9-11 you think

00:37:27 --> 00:37:29

10-7 happened on u.s Soil a

00:37:29 --> 00:37:31

hundred percent a cadre and that's because Zionism

00:37:31 --> 00:37:35

is losing That's because the whole thing might

00:37:35 --> 00:37:38

fall not just within our lifetime Within the

00:37:38 --> 00:37:42

decade and I seriously believe that because these

00:37:42 --> 00:37:43

are the I believe that these are the

00:37:43 --> 00:37:47

last gasps and the desperation Look at how

00:37:47 --> 00:37:51

much credibility or let's not use that term

00:37:51 --> 00:37:53

because you know, they were never credible But

00:37:53 --> 00:37:57

let's look at how much scrutiny Israel is

00:37:57 --> 00:38:00

under now and Zionism is under now more

00:38:00 --> 00:38:02

scrutiny than it has ever been under and

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

Allah has a plan and Allah's plan is

00:38:05 --> 00:38:11

always done Tazkiyah jewelry while I can sit

00:38:11 --> 00:38:11

down after a lot.

00:38:11 --> 00:38:17

Ahlan welcome Hey Carter, don't feel bad man.

00:38:17 --> 00:38:21

Don't feel bad Everybody needs a break sometimes

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

Somebody asked me this in person and and

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

you know I think that for us because

00:38:26 --> 00:38:29

so many people feel guilty about not watching

00:38:29 --> 00:38:31

every single video and every single photo that

00:38:31 --> 00:38:34

comes out of Gaza, okay, and obviously there's

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

two extremes with this.

00:38:35 --> 00:38:39

The thing is that We need to be

00:38:39 --> 00:38:41

functional right if you're doing work that's going

00:38:41 --> 00:38:43

to help the people of Palestine then you

00:38:43 --> 00:38:45

need to be able to function in that

00:38:45 --> 00:38:48

and so there's a certain sort of critical

00:38:48 --> 00:38:51

mass or appropriate amount where You're able to

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

stay motivated and you have your empathy and

00:38:53 --> 00:38:55

there's maybe a point at which it becomes

00:38:55 --> 00:38:59

debilitating now you being debilitated How does that

00:38:59 --> 00:38:59

help the people of Gaza?

00:39:00 --> 00:39:01

How does that help help the people of

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

Palestine, right?

00:39:02 --> 00:39:03

So you have to make sure that you

00:39:03 --> 00:39:14

strike that balance Okay,

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

Minami reminds us speaking of victory today marks

00:39:16 --> 00:39:18

exactly one month of our revolution in Bangladesh

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

allahu akbar We had a number of ups

00:39:20 --> 00:39:21

and downs through this whole time.

00:39:21 --> 00:39:24

And yes, and unfortunately Minami I was off

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

the one week when you actually suggested to

00:39:26 --> 00:39:29

me You filled me in about how the

00:39:29 --> 00:39:31

floods in Bangladesh if we had had this

00:39:31 --> 00:39:32

program last week we would have talked about

00:39:32 --> 00:39:35

the floods and how the floods are actually

00:39:35 --> 00:39:39

a Tool just like Israel uses starvation against

00:39:39 --> 00:39:42

the people of Gaza how India uses Floods

00:39:42 --> 00:39:44

against the people of Bangladesh in order to

00:39:44 --> 00:39:47

try to undermine the stability of the country

00:39:47 --> 00:39:49

that it controls the headwaters and the dams

00:39:50 --> 00:39:52

Of the rivers that are coming into Bangladesh

00:39:52 --> 00:39:55

and actually intentionally floods Bangladesh to create chaos

00:39:55 --> 00:39:58

So we know that Bangladesh is not out

00:39:58 --> 00:40:01

of the woods yet Please may Allah subhana

00:40:01 --> 00:40:01

ta'ala.

00:40:01 --> 00:40:03

May he assist the people of Bangladesh and

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give them a a just Government who is

00:40:06 --> 00:40:08

responsive to their needs and is a good

00:40:08 --> 00:40:17

a good end and result for all Yes,

00:40:17 --> 00:40:17

Allah, that's correct.

00:40:17 --> 00:40:19

Isn't there a saying where if you see

00:40:19 --> 00:40:21

Allah a certain way, then that's how he'll

00:40:21 --> 00:40:22

be for you Yes, that's correct.

00:40:22 --> 00:40:23

There's a hadith of prophet salallahu alayhi wa

00:40:23 --> 00:40:26

sallam It's actually hadith Qudsi where he mentions

00:40:26 --> 00:40:28

this the the phrasing of Allah subhana ta

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'ala Where he basically says that I am

00:40:32 --> 00:40:34

as my servant expects me to be So

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that is a very important thing.

00:40:35 --> 00:40:36

You have good.

00:40:36 --> 00:40:38

Hope in a lost bowtie.

00:40:38 --> 00:40:38

You have Raja.

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

You don't have to many you don't have

00:40:40 --> 00:40:44

empty hope or Vain, hope but you have

00:40:44 --> 00:40:45

good hope and good thoughts about a lost

00:40:45 --> 00:40:50

one Just another one billah as Allah subhana

00:40:50 --> 00:40:51

ta'ala says in the Quran a few

00:40:51 --> 00:40:51

times.

00:40:51 --> 00:40:53

Well, my father-in-law ha ha Qadri,

00:40:53 --> 00:40:58

they underestimated Allah right and In other parts.

00:40:58 --> 00:40:58

Yeah.

00:40:58 --> 00:40:59

Yeah, I baddy lady.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:00

No, it's awful.

00:41:00 --> 00:41:00

I don't lose him.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

La taqma to me.

00:41:02 --> 00:41:06

Rahmatillah Okay, do not despair of Allah's mercy

00:41:12 --> 00:41:15

Yeah, you're right a qadri Everyone knows that

00:41:15 --> 00:41:16

the Israeli post.

00:41:16 --> 00:41:19

I'm sorry The New York Post is trash

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

and gossip rag.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

That's right.

00:41:21 --> 00:41:22

Yeah, they contacted me for comment.

00:41:22 --> 00:41:24

Why would I why would I even bother

00:41:24 --> 00:41:24

man?

00:41:24 --> 00:41:26

They're not just like Israel's not good faith

00:41:26 --> 00:41:28

actors and hostage negotiations.

00:41:29 --> 00:41:30

They're they're not good faith actors.

00:41:30 --> 00:41:31

Why would I even bother?

00:41:36 --> 00:41:39

And Seamus reminds us of the of the

00:41:39 --> 00:41:42

precarious situation of the Rohingya and the subhanallah

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

one thing I learned in the last few

00:41:43 --> 00:41:47

weeks was the Hand that Israel has played

00:41:47 --> 00:41:50

in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar

00:41:50 --> 00:41:56

about how Israel traded basically, it's Myanmar recognized

00:41:57 --> 00:42:02

Israel internationally in exchange for Israeli assistance when

00:42:02 --> 00:42:04

it came to what they were doing there

00:42:04 --> 00:42:09

are So many conflicts and destabilizing events that

00:42:09 --> 00:42:13

Israel has its hand in But yes this

00:42:13 --> 00:42:16

problem of sort of on Soria we could

00:42:16 --> 00:42:23

say or of This problem of borders, okay

00:42:23 --> 00:42:27

and of Nationalism is a major major problem

00:42:27 --> 00:42:30

besetting the Oma maybe perhaps the most the

00:42:30 --> 00:42:33

most dangerous problem I think I'm Saddam Muhammad

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

Barry from Sierra Leone.

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Welcome to the program art for Jim admits

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to being feeling overwhelmed 100% Yeah, we

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we all are that's right.

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You'll ask are we in a mosque sort

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of?

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Shame on asks, how can we understand properly

00:42:50 --> 00:42:52

the concept of loyalty and disavowal in contemporary?

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That's a great question shame.

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I'm not sure a lot.

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Well, that will be raw Yes upon a

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lot.

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It really has to do and I'll put

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it like this There was a Palestinian uncle

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who I talked to in in Dublin Ireland

00:43:05 --> 00:43:08

part of the Diaspora who told me that

00:43:08 --> 00:43:11

How you feel in your heart as a

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Muslim about Mecca?

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Is a sign of your relationship with Allah

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subhanahu wa'ta'ala and how you feel in

00:43:18 --> 00:43:21

your heart towards Medina is a sign of

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how you feel towards the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

00:43:23 --> 00:43:26

wa sallam and his Sunnah and how you

00:43:26 --> 00:43:28

feel towards al-quds is a sign of

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how you feel towards the ummah and that

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is an appropriate metric that are of course

00:43:35 --> 00:43:39

our primary loyalty and love and affiliation is

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to is to Our people right and that

00:43:43 --> 00:43:44

is the ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

00:43:44 --> 00:43:44

sallam.

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We want Jannah for them We want Jenna

00:43:46 --> 00:43:49

for everybody but there are rights that other

00:43:49 --> 00:43:51

people that are part of this act part

00:43:51 --> 00:43:54

of this Covenant that we have with Allah

00:43:54 --> 00:43:54

subhanahu wa'ta'ala.

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They have rights upon us that other people

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don't have right and so definitely our loyalty

00:44:00 --> 00:44:02

first and foremost is to is to the

00:44:02 --> 00:44:05

ummah and To the people who are suffering

00:44:05 --> 00:44:07

in it and to do whatever we can

00:44:07 --> 00:44:10

to assist them I Don't know.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:11

That's a very big question.

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I'm sorry It's a very insufficient response to

00:44:14 --> 00:44:15

your question, but it really could take quite

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

a lot of time to answer in in

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full detail Hundred percent bread and za'atar

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at this point Islamic extremism is being used

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as an excuse to justify Israel's oppression I

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would say even further than that Islamic extremism

00:44:34 --> 00:44:39

was invented mostly as An excuse to justify

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Israel's oppression and we'll talk about that in

00:44:41 --> 00:44:43

a bit Fatima Ali from New Jersey Well,

00:44:43 --> 00:44:45

I'm so down off to law Jersey represent

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I mean Muhammad buddy.

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I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean

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Victoria's Drusilla.

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Welcome to the program Okay, let's turn to

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our next topic of discussion we've got You

00:45:01 --> 00:45:03

know, they're not kids, you know, but the

00:45:03 --> 00:45:05

kids are back to school or the young

00:45:05 --> 00:45:06

adults are back to school They're not kids

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

They're fully fledged adults and they are certainly

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

acting like it and we have a lot

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to be proud of when it comes to

00:45:11 --> 00:45:15

our young Muslims in in institutions like Columbia

00:45:15 --> 00:45:20

University and elsewhere who are Really on the

00:45:20 --> 00:45:21

front lines and we'll talk about that in

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a second So we see that students are

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back in in class at Columbia University and

00:45:26 --> 00:45:32

elsewhere and the first day heroically courageously They

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said we are picketing we are on strike.

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We are not going to classes until Columbia

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University divests from From Israel from the occupation

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

now this is a really important move that

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they made notice that they didn't go right

00:45:47 --> 00:45:49

back to encampments and this was a Sort

00:45:49 --> 00:45:52

of a chess match if you will that

00:45:52 --> 00:45:55

was being played played out all summer where

00:45:55 --> 00:45:58

the Zionist lobby groups and university administrators were

00:45:58 --> 00:46:01

working together to try to find ways to

00:46:02 --> 00:46:07

Disrupt and prohibit encampments protests things like this

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on campus So it strikes me as significant

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

that the club the Columbia students are smart

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enough to realize that Tactics might have to

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change because it's going to be a lot

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

easier and I think TRT released an article

00:46:19 --> 00:46:26

all already right TRT released an article where

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I Think they called it a police state,

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right?

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You look around college campuses and It's like

00:46:33 --> 00:46:34

a police state there are police everywhere and

00:46:34 --> 00:46:37

there's barriers and blockades and barricades and things

00:46:37 --> 00:46:40

constructed to make sure that people don't protest

00:46:40 --> 00:46:43

to make sure that people don't you know

00:46:43 --> 00:46:46

gather together and Do these sorts of things?

00:46:47 --> 00:46:50

NYU one university in New York University changed

00:46:50 --> 00:46:56

its rules and regulations to basically include The

00:46:56 --> 00:46:57

use of the term Zionist as an expression

00:46:57 --> 00:46:59

of anti-semitism.

00:46:59 --> 00:47:00

So these are the sorts of politics that

00:47:00 --> 00:47:04

are playing out now Since they changed all

00:47:04 --> 00:47:07

of their rules in regards to encampments and

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

protests and things like that It's important that

00:47:09 --> 00:47:11

you would have to pick a tactic.

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That's going to be Appropriate to your situation

00:47:14 --> 00:47:16

and the Columbia students decide to go with

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a strike.

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They decide to go with a picket I

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think that's a really good idea I think

00:47:19 --> 00:47:21

it's a very courageous idea Of course, the

00:47:21 --> 00:47:23

police were called in yet again to arrest

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and to break and to brutalize and to

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break them up but what I think is

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significant is that every sort of analysis of

00:47:31 --> 00:47:36

power You have to understand What the other

00:47:36 --> 00:47:38

side needs what's going to hurt the other

00:47:38 --> 00:47:40

side and if you want to influence their

00:47:40 --> 00:47:42

policies again We've talked about this time and

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

time and time again.

00:47:43 --> 00:47:45

This is not about being liked it's not

00:47:45 --> 00:47:47

about building relationships and and you know warm

00:47:47 --> 00:47:49

fuzzies and things like that.

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This is about building power and With universities

00:47:52 --> 00:47:54

the two things that they need the most

00:47:55 --> 00:48:00

our money Okay, and reputation So all of

00:48:00 --> 00:48:03

the students out there Keep this in mind

00:48:03 --> 00:48:05

when you're approaching the new academic year You're

00:48:05 --> 00:48:08

wondering how to push back against the draconian

00:48:08 --> 00:48:12

policies the anti American and certainly not unjust

00:48:12 --> 00:48:15

the unjust policies of your university in your

00:48:15 --> 00:48:16

college, right?

00:48:16 --> 00:48:18

You have to find a way to make

00:48:18 --> 00:48:20

it so costly for your university either in

00:48:20 --> 00:48:23

terms of money or reputation That they will

00:48:23 --> 00:48:26

not mess with you anymore that they will

00:48:26 --> 00:48:29

allow it To go forth that they will

00:48:29 --> 00:48:31

eventually divest and there's a lot of ways

00:48:31 --> 00:48:33

to do that tuition strike right is one

00:48:34 --> 00:48:37

Organizing your alumni and withholding donations is another

00:48:37 --> 00:48:41

faculty strike is another these colleges and universities

00:48:41 --> 00:48:44

Vi and compete very very much So when

00:48:44 --> 00:48:46

it comes to these lists that come out

00:48:46 --> 00:48:48

every year the USA Today top 40 colleges

00:48:48 --> 00:48:49

and universities Right.

00:48:49 --> 00:48:51

They want to be high on that list

00:48:52 --> 00:48:54

What would you do to drop them down

00:48:54 --> 00:48:55

a few ranks on that list?

00:48:55 --> 00:48:57

What could you do to do that so

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that they would take you seriously enough to

00:48:59 --> 00:49:03

listen to you now that being said All

00:49:03 --> 00:49:05

of the students need to be very very

00:49:05 --> 00:49:09

careful because we need discipline one of the

00:49:09 --> 00:49:12

drawbacks of Mass mobilization and protests and things

00:49:12 --> 00:49:15

like that even encampments is that as we

00:49:15 --> 00:49:19

saw with UCLA and other places infiltrators can

00:49:19 --> 00:49:22

get in agent provocateurs Some Zionist puts a

00:49:22 --> 00:49:25

cafe on and goes into your encampment and

00:49:25 --> 00:49:27

then starts, you know shouting anti-semitic things

00:49:27 --> 00:49:30

This happened all across the country in Canada.

00:49:30 --> 00:49:33

There was actually a Hillel group.

00:49:33 --> 00:49:36

Okay, which is an approved Organization that does

00:49:36 --> 00:49:39

Israel's bidding on campuses all throughout North America

00:49:39 --> 00:49:42

that were slapping stickers on Things that were

00:49:42 --> 00:49:45

you know in praising of certain prescribed armed

00:49:45 --> 00:49:48

factions, right that this is What you need

00:49:48 --> 00:49:50

to expect and plan for and so it's

00:49:50 --> 00:49:53

extremely important that you both pick tactics that

00:49:53 --> 00:49:55

it's you're going to be able to sort

00:49:55 --> 00:49:56

of control the discipline of your group, but

00:49:56 --> 00:49:59

also to train your group to be disciplined

00:49:59 --> 00:50:02

and to not give any Unnecessary excuses for

00:50:02 --> 00:50:04

other people to dismiss you and smear you

00:50:04 --> 00:50:05

which they're going to be trying to do

00:50:05 --> 00:50:10

anyway now the message to the Muslim community

00:50:10 --> 00:50:12

who's not of college age or university age

00:50:12 --> 00:50:15

is To really really try to get behind

00:50:15 --> 00:50:17

these students and we had a little bit

00:50:17 --> 00:50:20

of an experiment of That in in March

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

and after when these things started up with

00:50:21 --> 00:50:23

the encampments we saw a lot of beautiful

00:50:23 --> 00:50:25

solidarity and a lot of beautiful support, but

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

we need to go even further than that

00:50:27 --> 00:50:30

because I Truly believe that these students are

00:50:30 --> 00:50:30

on the front line.

00:50:30 --> 00:50:34

There is so much at stake Right now

00:50:34 --> 00:50:36

with what these students are doing the idea

00:50:36 --> 00:50:38

of what a university is in the first

00:50:38 --> 00:50:41

place the idea of academic freedom the idea

00:50:41 --> 00:50:46

of You know having an institution that's dedicated

00:50:46 --> 00:50:49

to probing ideas and criticizing ideas and criticizing

00:50:49 --> 00:50:52

nations and criticizing ideologies that is at stake

00:50:52 --> 00:50:56

the Zionist elements would have it that none

00:50:56 --> 00:50:59

of these things could be discussed whatsoever The

00:50:59 --> 00:51:02

idea of academic freedom the idea of even

00:51:02 --> 00:51:04

American sovereignty the ability to have free speech

00:51:04 --> 00:51:06

Especially on the public universities the ability to

00:51:06 --> 00:51:09

have the right to assembly Right that this

00:51:09 --> 00:51:13

country shouldn't be infiltrated by the interests of

00:51:13 --> 00:51:13

a foreign nation.

00:51:14 --> 00:51:17

That is at stake and of course even

00:51:17 --> 00:51:19

more important than that or any of those

00:51:19 --> 00:51:22

things were is the struggle for Palestine itself

00:51:22 --> 00:51:26

that The occupation does not happen and the

00:51:26 --> 00:51:30

genocide does not happen without financial political and

00:51:30 --> 00:51:32

military support from the United States of America

00:51:32 --> 00:51:35

The universities are complicit in that and you

00:51:35 --> 00:51:37

all are at the front line of one

00:51:37 --> 00:51:40

of the most important fronts of trying to

00:51:40 --> 00:51:44

divest from the occupation and to isolate the

00:51:44 --> 00:51:47

Occupation forces to chip away at the military

00:51:47 --> 00:51:50

industrial complexes ever since universities have become big

00:51:50 --> 00:51:53

business on the neoliberal model They have been

00:51:53 --> 00:51:56

very very subject to the influences of the

00:51:56 --> 00:51:58

military industrial complex and all the investments that

00:51:58 --> 00:52:01

go on around about that Freeing the university

00:52:01 --> 00:52:03

from the clutches of the military industrial complex

00:52:03 --> 00:52:06

You all are on the front line in

00:52:06 --> 00:52:08

doing this and finally last but not least

00:52:08 --> 00:52:12

Making sure that when Palestine is liberated that

00:52:12 --> 00:52:16

it is liberated also through stopping the criminalization

00:52:16 --> 00:52:20

of Islam and The securitization of Muslims we

00:52:20 --> 00:52:22

do not take one at the cost of

00:52:22 --> 00:52:24

the other We are not going for a

00:52:24 --> 00:52:27

free Palestine But Muslims are still considered some

00:52:27 --> 00:52:29

sort of fifth column some sort of you

00:52:29 --> 00:52:33

know inherently violent existential threat No, we're here.

00:52:34 --> 00:52:35

It's it cracks me up every time You

00:52:35 --> 00:52:37

know these these people I try to say

00:52:37 --> 00:52:38

oh go back to where you came from

00:52:38 --> 00:52:40

Yeah, what New Jersey you want me to

00:52:40 --> 00:52:40

go back to New Jersey?

00:52:40 --> 00:52:41

That's where I'm from.

00:52:42 --> 00:52:42

I'm here.

00:52:42 --> 00:52:44

I'm Muslim I'm outspoken.

00:52:44 --> 00:52:45

You're gonna have to deal with it.

00:52:46 --> 00:52:47

Like this is America or like we say

00:52:47 --> 00:52:49

this is New York, baby Right, it's like

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

you have to like this is what this

00:52:51 --> 00:52:53

country is about There are people and forces

00:52:53 --> 00:52:55

and the Zionists are in the front line

00:52:55 --> 00:52:56

that want to take that away and stop

00:52:56 --> 00:53:00

that they want to make it and they

00:53:00 --> 00:53:04

have legally attempted to criminalize expressions of Islam

00:53:04 --> 00:53:07

and Expressions of being a Muslim and we

00:53:07 --> 00:53:11

can't forget this dimension to the struggle to

00:53:11 --> 00:53:13

free Palestine is also the struggle to stop

00:53:13 --> 00:53:17

the criminalization and the criminalization of Islam and

00:53:17 --> 00:53:21

the Muslims As Allah says we can cut

00:53:21 --> 00:53:25

to that and We take heart and I

00:53:25 --> 00:53:26

hope you all take heart in the words

00:53:26 --> 00:53:27

of Allah subhana wa ta'ala when he

00:53:27 --> 00:53:31

talks about The need for both the righteousness

00:53:31 --> 00:53:34

of the people who are oppressed only because

00:53:34 --> 00:53:37

they say Rabbuna Allah That's all that you're

00:53:37 --> 00:53:41

being targeted for okay, in addition to that

00:53:41 --> 00:53:45

the necessity of Pushing back the necessity of

00:53:45 --> 00:53:49

organizing the necessity of challenging these things These

00:53:49 --> 00:53:51

things are not going to go away until

00:53:51 --> 00:53:54

we Make it go away, right?

00:53:54 --> 00:53:55

Which is why Allah subhana wa ta'ala

00:53:55 --> 00:54:04

says He's saying that if it

00:54:04 --> 00:54:08

wasn't for people pushing back and people organizing

00:54:08 --> 00:54:12

and people doing what they can To stop

00:54:12 --> 00:54:14

the forces of evil then there would be

00:54:14 --> 00:54:18

no Mosques, there would be no synagogues.

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

There would be no churches.

00:54:19 --> 00:54:22

There would be no monasteries and These are

00:54:22 --> 00:54:25

specifically the words that Allah uses So this

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

isn't just about we're not we're not see

00:54:27 --> 00:54:29

Zionists have this projection problem where they think

00:54:29 --> 00:54:32

that we're like them They think that as

00:54:32 --> 00:54:33

Muslims we just want to benefit Muslims.

00:54:33 --> 00:54:36

That's not true But we realize that when

00:54:36 --> 00:54:39

Muslims are influential and Islam is influential it

00:54:39 --> 00:54:43

benefits everybody We care about justice and doing

00:54:43 --> 00:54:44

right for everybody.

00:54:44 --> 00:54:46

Whereas the Zionist only cares about benefiting the

00:54:46 --> 00:54:50

Zionist Back to the chat.

00:54:50 --> 00:54:51

What do we have?

00:54:55 --> 00:54:58

Okay, Abdullah is telling us Georgetown students also

00:54:58 --> 00:54:58

processes today.

00:54:58 --> 00:55:02

That's good to hear Julia what the Julia

00:55:02 --> 00:55:03

while I can sit down after a lot.

00:55:03 --> 00:55:04

So I'm at the tongue.

00:55:04 --> 00:55:04

Welcome.

00:55:04 --> 00:55:07

Good to see you Yes, it is true,

00:55:07 --> 00:55:09

you know the u.s. Has labeled these

00:55:09 --> 00:55:11

other nation's things for a long time and

00:55:12 --> 00:55:13

Chickens come home to roost as we know

00:55:22 --> 00:55:23

Servant of Allah.

00:55:23 --> 00:55:25

Well, you know, he says what he means

00:55:25 --> 00:55:26

sort of in the West.

00:55:26 --> 00:55:29

It's more complicated than that There are buildings

00:55:29 --> 00:55:31

in which there are there are mosques inside

00:55:31 --> 00:55:31

of buildings.

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

There are storefront mosques There are you know,

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

you might be under the same roof as

00:55:36 --> 00:55:38

a Musala or something like that But you

00:55:38 --> 00:55:39

might be in a different place.

00:55:39 --> 00:55:42

So actually it can be a little more

00:55:42 --> 00:55:45

nuanced than that Mahmood Mohammed.

00:55:45 --> 00:55:46

Well, I think I said I'm enough to

00:55:46 --> 00:55:52

Allah Well, I'm so now Mohammed a deep

00:55:54 --> 00:55:57

Welcome the program Let's see Be happy says

00:55:57 --> 00:56:00

Muslim country leaders should demand that's in Yahoo

00:56:00 --> 00:56:02

to provide details of how his iron dome

00:56:02 --> 00:56:04

was breached on October 7th When journalists have

00:56:04 --> 00:56:05

reported that the location and date of the

00:56:05 --> 00:56:06

festival was changed.

00:56:07 --> 00:56:08

Yeah, I wouldn't trust the Muslim leaders to

00:56:08 --> 00:56:10

do that Habibi Right.

00:56:10 --> 00:56:12

Let's keep them out of it, man.

00:56:12 --> 00:56:14

Like they're doing more harm than good Seamus

00:56:14 --> 00:56:17

says whilst whilst protests and sit-ins are

00:56:17 --> 00:56:18

commendable.

00:56:18 --> 00:56:20

It seems like structure in the West can

00:56:20 --> 00:56:21

handle it That's a good point.

00:56:21 --> 00:56:23

Unlike in the east where protests spiral into

00:56:23 --> 00:56:24

violence revolutionary.

00:56:25 --> 00:56:26

That's a that's a good point Seamus.

00:56:26 --> 00:56:28

That's true I agree with that that they're

00:56:28 --> 00:56:29

happy to let you protest.

00:56:30 --> 00:56:32

It's venting And it's really easy to again

00:56:32 --> 00:56:35

like plant Infiltrators and stuff like that in

00:56:35 --> 00:56:37

in big mass actions like that.

00:56:37 --> 00:56:39

So people have to be very careful I've

00:56:39 --> 00:56:41

been calling for four months where people have

00:56:41 --> 00:56:43

to Make sure that they select appropriate tactics

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

that are going to create the type of

00:56:45 --> 00:56:46

power and leverage that they want That's actually

00:56:46 --> 00:56:48

going to create change and not just get

00:56:48 --> 00:56:50

caught in the same spiral of just reaching

00:56:50 --> 00:56:53

for the same sort of Action that they've

00:56:53 --> 00:56:57

always done Just realized this started an hour

00:56:57 --> 00:56:59

ago the clock switch backwards already not yet.

00:56:59 --> 00:57:02

We have not yet fallen back It's not

00:57:02 --> 00:57:02

yet fall though.

00:57:02 --> 00:57:04

The weather's turning a little bit chilly.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:06

I Think it used to be 9.

00:57:07 --> 00:57:08

I think that we changed it to 8

00:57:08 --> 00:57:10

p.m We're just still too late for

00:57:10 --> 00:57:10

me.

00:57:10 --> 00:57:12

I'm a morning person, but you know, we

00:57:12 --> 00:57:13

try to give the people what they want

00:57:15 --> 00:57:17

Queen ebony Imam what days and time are

00:57:17 --> 00:57:19

you on I keep missing you don't worry

00:57:19 --> 00:57:21

because we were off for two out of

00:57:21 --> 00:57:22

four weeks in August so we were on

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

vacation and stuff like that, but it is

00:57:24 --> 00:57:27

Wednesdays at 8 p.m. New York time

00:57:27 --> 00:57:36

8 p.m Eastern Standard Time Okay, good

00:57:36 --> 00:57:36

stuff.

00:57:36 --> 00:57:39

Good stuff Yeah, you're right sought a free

00:57:39 --> 00:57:42

speech only when the state permits it The

00:57:42 --> 00:57:47

state of exception a call that I agree

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

100% these students have all my respect

00:57:49 --> 00:57:51

I See nothing but courage from the new

00:57:51 --> 00:57:53

generation, which is why I'm so confident in

00:57:53 --> 00:57:55

the end of Zionism These students aren't going

00:57:55 --> 00:58:12

to be bullied around like that Yep,

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

and I also I'm glad to about the

00:58:14 --> 00:58:16

the support of the Muslim community at Calgary

00:58:17 --> 00:58:20

That's true Good good so many of our

00:58:20 --> 00:58:22

immigrant parents just wanted us to put our

00:58:22 --> 00:58:24

heads down and not to create problems could

00:58:24 --> 00:58:25

be a cultural Thing, but I'm so hopeful

00:58:25 --> 00:58:25

now.

00:58:26 --> 00:58:28

I I mean even me as someone from

00:58:28 --> 00:58:29

an Italian American background.

00:58:29 --> 00:58:31

I can relate to that my father Was

00:58:31 --> 00:58:32

a working-class guy.

00:58:33 --> 00:58:35

Oh Just told me all growing up just

00:58:35 --> 00:58:36

get an education get an education get an

00:58:36 --> 00:58:38

education My mom was always like well, what

00:58:38 --> 00:58:39

job are you gonna get what job right?

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

This is the mentality that's drilled into you

00:58:41 --> 00:58:43

from day one Thankfully, I was stubborn enough

00:58:43 --> 00:58:45

and crazy enough to do something very very

00:58:45 --> 00:58:47

dramatically different with my life But it takes

00:58:47 --> 00:58:48

that type of courage.

00:58:48 --> 00:58:51

You're right The immigrant mentality is keep your

00:58:51 --> 00:58:54

head down play by the rules Be economically

00:58:54 --> 00:58:57

successful and that is not a formula for

00:58:57 --> 00:58:58

power.

00:58:58 --> 00:59:02

That is not a formula for Being self

00:59:02 --> 00:59:04

-sufficient and not being able to be messed

00:59:04 --> 00:59:10

with There you go, so Minami also brings

00:59:10 --> 00:59:13

up the intersection between Zionism and Hindutva So

00:59:13 --> 00:59:15

according to Modi and group we Bangladeshis are

00:59:15 --> 00:59:17

already fundamentalist with our revolution and many of

00:59:17 --> 00:59:19

our processors have been Pakistani agents Everybody's an

00:59:19 --> 00:59:22

agent, you know, that's the easiest thing if

00:59:22 --> 00:59:23

you call out this, you know You start

00:59:23 --> 00:59:24

to call out power all of a sudden

00:59:24 --> 00:59:25

everybody's an agent.

00:59:26 --> 00:59:27

They're gonna do the same with us They're

00:59:27 --> 00:59:30

gonna say that we're you know Right now

00:59:30 --> 00:59:33

they're gonna say we're materially supporting this group

00:59:33 --> 00:59:34

in that group in Madras.

00:59:34 --> 00:59:37

This is all nonsense Power has always done

00:59:37 --> 00:59:37

this.

00:59:38 --> 00:59:39

It's always it's it's snowball if you've read

00:59:39 --> 00:59:42

1984 It's like oh, you know, this is

00:59:42 --> 00:59:44

just the outside actor who's trying to persuade

00:59:46 --> 00:59:47

Jihad, you're welcome.

00:59:48 --> 00:59:49

Thanks, bro.

00:59:49 --> 00:59:56

Appreciate you man Mohammed Adib asks when it

00:59:56 --> 00:59:58

comes to advocacy should we ally with the

00:59:58 --> 00:59:59

left in a word?

00:59:59 --> 01:00:01

No, especially at universities when you can't really

01:00:01 --> 01:00:02

avoid these groups.

01:00:02 --> 01:00:03

How can we deal with them?

01:00:03 --> 01:00:04

I so I've written about this Mohammed.

01:00:04 --> 01:00:06

It's just not as simple as you frame

01:00:06 --> 01:00:06

it.

01:00:06 --> 01:00:08

It's not about really allying You need to

01:00:08 --> 01:00:12

renegotiate your relationship with your out allies to

01:00:12 --> 01:00:15

make sure that there's actual reciprocity A lot

01:00:15 --> 01:00:17

of what we call allyship right now is

01:00:17 --> 01:00:18

not real allyship.

01:00:18 --> 01:00:19

Really.

01:00:19 --> 01:00:21

We're just like Letting people speak for us

01:00:21 --> 01:00:22

and trample all over us.

01:00:22 --> 01:00:24

I've written about this on your keen Institute's

01:00:24 --> 01:00:28

website and the blog piece Intersectionality in Gaza

01:00:28 --> 01:00:32

protests or something rather like that EK asked

01:00:32 --> 01:00:34

do you feel all Islamic sects are aligned

01:00:34 --> 01:00:35

when it comes to Palestine?

01:00:35 --> 01:00:37

No, they're not but that doesn't stop us

01:00:38 --> 01:00:40

Sada asked I think though that way of

01:00:40 --> 01:00:42

thinking will disparage Muslims who've been oppressed for

01:00:42 --> 01:00:44

so long They've had enough and so first

01:00:44 --> 01:00:47

they they do nonviolent protests and then they

01:00:47 --> 01:00:49

have to defend Not sure what you're talking

01:00:49 --> 01:00:51

about, but that sounds reasonable.

01:00:51 --> 01:00:51

No Sabah.

01:00:51 --> 01:00:52

Why they can sit on up to law.

01:00:52 --> 01:00:57

Welcome Yes, pestify UK has gone 1984 censoring

01:00:57 --> 01:01:00

and arresting journalists like Sarah Wilkinson and Richard

01:01:00 --> 01:01:01

Medhurst freedom of speech does not exist in

01:01:01 --> 01:01:03

the West when related to Israel.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:03

Yeah.

01:01:03 --> 01:01:05

No, it's true I mean the UK is

01:01:05 --> 01:01:06

worse than the u.s. When it comes

01:01:06 --> 01:01:09

to this It's kind of ironic because the

01:01:09 --> 01:01:13

UK has stronger Label and slander laws So

01:01:13 --> 01:01:14

if someone calls you someone calls me a

01:01:14 --> 01:01:17

terrorist Then that's something that maybe I can

01:01:17 --> 01:01:19

even sue that person in the UK but

01:01:19 --> 01:01:22

the other side of the downside of that

01:01:22 --> 01:01:24

is That you don't have the same freedom

01:01:24 --> 01:01:25

of speech when it comes to criticizing it

01:01:25 --> 01:01:27

the way that the law is interpreted currently

01:01:27 --> 01:01:30

Now the same thing here We have more

01:01:30 --> 01:01:32

freedom of speech to be able to criticize

01:01:33 --> 01:01:35

However, we have very weak laws when it

01:01:35 --> 01:01:36

comes to slander and Label.

01:01:36 --> 01:01:39

So the Israeli post I Mean the New

01:01:39 --> 01:01:42

York Post can Call me a terrorist say

01:01:42 --> 01:01:44

that I'm I support this foreign group of

01:01:44 --> 01:01:46

that foreign group and I can't necessarily sue

01:01:46 --> 01:01:47

them, right?

01:01:47 --> 01:01:52

But we know that allows with us Yes,

01:01:52 --> 01:01:55

very good shameless alliances when others can't enforce

01:01:55 --> 01:01:57

their ideas on you Good.

01:01:57 --> 01:01:58

Yeah Alliance.

01:01:58 --> 01:02:01

Let's put it this way shameless Alliance implies

01:02:01 --> 01:02:05

sovereignty of each side you enter into an

01:02:05 --> 01:02:07

alliance when each of you stays sovereign and

01:02:07 --> 01:02:09

You work together on a certain goal.

01:02:10 --> 01:02:12

Okay, we don't have that right now Our

01:02:12 --> 01:02:14

alliances are like we give up all of

01:02:14 --> 01:02:16

our sovereignty to other groups and we're not

01:02:16 --> 01:02:17

even recognizable anymore.

01:02:18 --> 01:02:21

So that has to change I mean Saliha,

01:02:21 --> 01:02:23

I mean, oh I get what you're saying.

01:02:24 --> 01:02:24

So, okay, cool.

01:02:25 --> 01:02:26

Well, I give a salam what off to

01:02:26 --> 01:02:30

live a cut to Mehmet Kareem Yes, these

01:02:30 --> 01:02:35

all of these live streams are Posted to

01:02:35 --> 01:02:38

the yakin Institute YouTube channel under the live

01:02:38 --> 01:02:40

tab A lot of people go straight to

01:02:40 --> 01:02:42

the the videos tab.

01:02:42 --> 01:02:43

It is under the live tab.

01:02:43 --> 01:02:46

Not the videos tab Very good.

01:02:46 --> 01:02:50

So let's Roll to our next segment.

01:02:50 --> 01:02:51

We've got tough seer time.

01:02:51 --> 01:02:55

It's time for tough seer now the Sora

01:02:55 --> 01:02:58

that we are Okay, thank you for joining

01:02:58 --> 01:03:00

us Menami have a great day inshallah may

01:03:00 --> 01:03:03

Allah bless your risk and Protect people of

01:03:03 --> 01:03:04

Bangladesh and grant the victory.

01:03:04 --> 01:03:05

All right, here we go.

01:03:05 --> 01:03:06

Sora al-falaq.

01:03:06 --> 01:03:07

Do we have it up guys?

01:03:10 --> 01:03:11

Do we have a graphic for this or

01:03:11 --> 01:03:12

no?

01:03:12 --> 01:03:13

We only have a graphic of the of

01:03:13 --> 01:03:15

the word Okay, then don't don't jump the

01:03:15 --> 01:03:15

gun on me.

01:03:16 --> 01:03:18

All right, so sort of talk I would

01:03:18 --> 01:03:19

have been laughing in a shaytan al-rajeem

01:03:20 --> 01:03:23

Bismillah al-rahman al-raheem Well, I will

01:03:23 --> 01:03:24

do be robbed in the phallic I mean

01:03:24 --> 01:03:27

I'm sure we mahalo I mean, I'm sure

01:03:27 --> 01:03:28

we lost it in either one of them

01:03:28 --> 01:03:31

Shall bring enough father to feel our God.

01:03:31 --> 01:03:34

Well, you know, shall we hasidin either Hassan?

01:03:35 --> 01:03:38

So of all the words in sorts of

01:03:38 --> 01:03:39

we don't even have the translation.

01:03:39 --> 01:03:41

Do we guys know translation?

01:03:42 --> 01:03:43

We had Monday off.

01:03:43 --> 01:03:43

I apologize.

01:03:43 --> 01:03:45

So we're a little bit behind for this

01:03:45 --> 01:03:48

show Go to be robbed in phallic say

01:03:48 --> 01:03:49

it's an instruction.

01:03:50 --> 01:03:54

I Seek refuge in the Lord of the

01:03:54 --> 01:03:57

phallic phallic is the daybreak Mean shuddering my

01:03:57 --> 01:04:00

heart from the evil, which he created Well,

01:04:01 --> 01:04:03

I mean surely gossip in either waka and

01:04:03 --> 01:04:06

from the intense darkness when it falls Well

01:04:06 --> 01:04:07

mean shuddering enough father to feel our God

01:04:07 --> 01:04:10

and from the evil of those who blow

01:04:10 --> 01:04:13

on knots Well, I mean shuddering hasidin either

01:04:13 --> 01:04:15

Hassan and from the evil of the envier

01:04:15 --> 01:04:19

when they are envious of All these words

01:04:19 --> 01:04:22

at least three of them are unique to

01:04:22 --> 01:04:22

the Surah.

01:04:23 --> 01:04:26

I want you to Tell me what is

01:04:26 --> 01:04:30

one word in this Surah that is unique

01:04:30 --> 01:04:32

to sort of phallic that does not exist

01:04:32 --> 01:04:35

in any other sort of the Quran Go

01:04:35 --> 01:04:35

see what you got.

01:04:59 --> 01:05:02

What word or words in sorts of phallic

01:05:02 --> 01:05:07

are unique to it do not appear in

01:05:07 --> 01:05:14

Another sort of the Quran I can think

01:05:14 --> 01:05:29

of three one

01:05:29 --> 01:05:29

of them.

01:05:32 --> 01:05:33

Oh cool.

01:05:33 --> 01:05:35

We got a Mashallah, so we had a

01:05:35 --> 01:05:39

pole even mashallah excellent Very cool.

01:05:44 --> 01:05:46

The pole came through mashallah 84% of

01:05:46 --> 01:05:47

you got it, right?

01:05:47 --> 01:05:48

At least those who are on I think

01:05:48 --> 01:05:50

YouTube I think the pole went through YouTube

01:05:50 --> 01:05:54

84% the choices were Hasid, a'udhu

01:05:54 --> 01:05:58

or sharr Alhamdulillah, nobody said sharr because sharr

01:05:58 --> 01:06:00

comes multiple times in that surah.

01:06:00 --> 01:06:02

I just said it multiple times a Couple

01:06:02 --> 01:06:05

people said a'udhu, but they forgot that

01:06:05 --> 01:06:08

The surah after this surah an-naas also

01:06:08 --> 01:06:09

has a'udhu, qul a'udhu bi rabb

01:06:09 --> 01:06:12

an-naas Okay, alhamdulillah the vast majority of

01:06:12 --> 01:06:15

people They went with hasid.

01:06:16 --> 01:06:17

Okay of the of the choices that were

01:06:17 --> 01:06:20

given other words that are unique are Ghaseq,

01:06:21 --> 01:06:21

okay.

01:06:21 --> 01:06:23

Nafasat is also unique.

01:06:23 --> 01:06:24

But the one we're going to focus on

01:06:24 --> 01:06:28

right now is Hasid can we go we

01:06:28 --> 01:06:29

put that up guys?

01:06:30 --> 01:06:34

so we have hasid and Hasid means the

01:06:34 --> 01:06:37

envier it is ism fa'il right for

01:06:37 --> 01:06:39

those of you who are Arabic Learners or

01:06:39 --> 01:06:43

speakers ism fa'il when Allah subhana wa

01:06:43 --> 01:06:45

ta'ala uses the ism pay attention to

01:06:45 --> 01:06:47

this when you read the Quran, especially in

01:06:47 --> 01:06:51

Arabic Notice when Allah uses nouns Verses when

01:06:51 --> 01:06:54

he uses verbs When Allah subhana wa ta

01:06:54 --> 01:06:58

'ala uses Verbs it indicates an action that

01:06:58 --> 01:07:01

someone is doing But it might not be

01:07:01 --> 01:07:04

an essential unchanging quality that they have.

01:07:04 --> 01:07:08

Okay When Allah uses nouns it means that

01:07:08 --> 01:07:10

this is an essential quality that this person

01:07:10 --> 01:07:12

has it is like jam it it is

01:07:12 --> 01:07:14

like Thabit, right?

01:07:14 --> 01:07:16

So when Allah says hasidin it is the

01:07:16 --> 01:07:20

envier is somebody who is gripped with envy

01:07:20 --> 01:07:25

somebody who envy is a Consistent relentless part

01:07:25 --> 01:07:26

of what they do.

01:07:26 --> 01:07:28

They are in the clutches of envy.

01:07:28 --> 01:07:34

Okay Why is Envy and jealousy so important

01:07:34 --> 01:07:36

to ask we could have Allah subhana wa

01:07:36 --> 01:07:39

ta'ala could have had us ask For

01:07:39 --> 01:07:41

protection from many things and a few things

01:07:41 --> 01:07:42

are mentioned in Falak.

01:07:42 --> 01:07:45

So he had he chooses very specific things.

01:07:45 --> 01:07:49

One of them is This envy why envy

01:07:49 --> 01:07:50

why not like murderers?

01:07:50 --> 01:07:53

Why not like, you know Burglars, why not

01:07:53 --> 01:07:56

like, you know genocide cheerleaders who teach at

01:07:56 --> 01:07:56

Columbia University?

01:07:56 --> 01:07:59

I don't know No, he had us ask

01:07:59 --> 01:08:03

for protection from the envious and It's really

01:08:03 --> 01:08:08

interesting because envy within the Quran is It's

01:08:08 --> 01:08:09

almost like a medicine.

01:08:10 --> 01:08:12

It's a sin that leads to many many

01:08:12 --> 01:08:15

other types of sins the first story that

01:08:15 --> 01:08:17

Allah subhana wa ta'ala tells us in

01:08:17 --> 01:08:19

surat al-baqarah is the story of Adam

01:08:19 --> 01:08:23

alayhi salam and as an Iblis and Essentially

01:08:23 --> 01:08:26

the story of Iblis is a story of

01:08:26 --> 01:08:30

envy and jealousy Why does Iblis reject Allah's

01:08:30 --> 01:08:31

commandment?

01:08:31 --> 01:08:34

Why does Iblis after having been raised due

01:08:34 --> 01:08:37

to his own merit to be hanging out

01:08:37 --> 01:08:37

with the angels?

01:08:38 --> 01:08:40

Why does he go through the fall and

01:08:40 --> 01:08:42

become so disgraced a regime?

01:08:43 --> 01:08:47

because of his envy of Adam alayhi salam

01:08:47 --> 01:08:49

and The pride that he demonstrates and other

01:08:49 --> 01:08:50

of the sorrows like sort of that off

01:08:50 --> 01:08:52

and other places where he says How can

01:08:52 --> 01:08:53

I bow to this one?

01:08:53 --> 01:08:54

I'm better than him.

01:08:54 --> 01:08:56

I'm created of fire.

01:08:56 --> 01:08:59

He's only created from clay, etc, etc now

01:08:59 --> 01:09:02

the other interesting thing is that Why do

01:09:02 --> 01:09:04

you think after telling the story of Adam

01:09:04 --> 01:09:05

and Iblis?

01:09:06 --> 01:09:10

Adam alayhi salam and Iblis In surat al

01:09:10 --> 01:09:12

-baqarah Allah subhana wa ta'ala goes right

01:09:12 --> 01:09:14

to the story of Bani Israel and most

01:09:14 --> 01:09:15

of the surahs taken up with the story

01:09:15 --> 01:09:21

of Bani Israel Because Bani Israel is also

01:09:21 --> 01:09:24

affected with hasid Allah subhana wa ta'ala

01:09:24 --> 01:09:27

says elsewhere in the Quran that the reason

01:09:27 --> 01:09:31

many of the people of previous prophetic nations

01:09:31 --> 01:09:34

have disbelieved in the Quran and disbelieved and

01:09:34 --> 01:09:36

rejected and denied the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi

01:09:36 --> 01:09:40

wa sallam is because they're jealous is because

01:09:40 --> 01:09:44

of their envy That they thought that they

01:09:44 --> 01:09:47

were special God's chosen people children of the

01:09:47 --> 01:09:50

light you could say Because God gave them

01:09:50 --> 01:09:52

revelation and prophets at a certain point in

01:09:52 --> 01:09:57

history Without realizing that the point of being

01:09:57 --> 01:10:00

given revelation is to follow God's guidance whenever

01:10:00 --> 01:10:04

and wherever it comes and So if a

01:10:04 --> 01:10:07

new prophet or a new revelation emerges, I

01:10:07 --> 01:10:09

should say a new prophet emerges or a

01:10:09 --> 01:10:12

new revelation is sent down Your relationship with

01:10:12 --> 01:10:14

Allah subhana wa ta'ala is Such that

01:10:14 --> 01:10:17

you follow that guidance you follow that prophet

01:10:17 --> 01:10:19

whether he's from you or not whether it's

01:10:19 --> 01:10:22

from your chosen group of people or somebody

01:10:22 --> 01:10:26

outside But if you are in the clutches

01:10:26 --> 01:10:29

of jealousy and in the clutches of envy

01:10:29 --> 01:10:31

That becomes impossible.

01:10:31 --> 01:10:31

You can't do it.

01:10:32 --> 01:10:35

You can't bring yourself to do it You

01:10:35 --> 01:10:37

will be prevented from following the truth because

01:10:37 --> 01:10:41

the jealousy and the envy has wrecked your

01:10:41 --> 01:10:45

heart and So it's a big deal, which

01:10:45 --> 01:10:47

is why Allah subhana wa ta'ala has

01:10:47 --> 01:10:52

us قل ومن شر حاسد إذا حسد You

01:10:52 --> 01:10:54

say it ask Allah subhana wa ta'ala

01:10:54 --> 01:10:58

for protection from the envier when they envy

01:11:00 --> 01:11:02

Go to the chat real quick.

01:11:02 --> 01:11:03

Sorry how you were right.

01:11:03 --> 01:11:09

Ghasiqeen is unique Good good Salah's right as

01:11:09 --> 01:11:09

well.

01:11:09 --> 01:11:11

It can cause lead to others.

01:11:11 --> 01:11:20

Yep Abdullah asked do you think there is

01:11:20 --> 01:11:22

a relationship between envy and bigotry?

01:11:22 --> 01:11:31

Absolutely Absolutely the coward and the person who

01:11:31 --> 01:11:33

is envious at the end of the day

01:11:33 --> 01:11:38

is Prone to this sort of Totalitarian streak,

01:11:38 --> 01:11:41

they can't tolerate any sort of difference and

01:11:41 --> 01:11:44

we see that play out Over and over

01:11:44 --> 01:11:49

and over again Bread and za'atar says

01:11:49 --> 01:11:51

envy is what caused me to be neglectful

01:11:51 --> 01:11:54

in my college searching during high school Khair

01:11:54 --> 01:11:56

inshallah The door of Toba is always open

01:12:00 --> 01:12:03

Julia you've just given me points to help

01:12:03 --> 01:12:04

my daughter Sara in her anti-bullying.

01:12:04 --> 01:12:05

I say Allah Akbar.

01:12:05 --> 01:12:07

That's great I'm happy to help her give

01:12:07 --> 01:12:12

her my salams Aziz you know Yaqub Bovna

01:12:12 --> 01:12:14

wa alaikum as-salam from Uzbekistan Allah Akbar

01:12:16 --> 01:12:17

Emerson, how are you?

01:12:17 --> 01:12:19

That's good to have any other P.

01:12:19 --> 01:12:22

I had a very good friend from Uzbekistan

01:12:22 --> 01:12:26

a Colleague and fellow student a classmate of

01:12:26 --> 01:12:30

mine in Medina Uzbekistan wonderful people wonderful people

01:12:30 --> 01:12:34

may Allah bless them Yeah, Sara Iblis was

01:12:34 --> 01:12:37

the first bigot technically and by bigot we

01:12:37 --> 01:12:39

mean you're taking characteristics that are Not chosen

01:12:39 --> 01:12:42

you don't have any control over and you're

01:12:42 --> 01:12:44

claiming supremacy based off of them So this

01:12:44 --> 01:12:45

is Zionism, right?

01:12:46 --> 01:12:49

Zion is a specific example of this Where

01:12:49 --> 01:12:51

we have, you know, we're God's chosen people

01:12:51 --> 01:12:54

and you can't really convert Actually, subhanallah.

01:12:54 --> 01:12:56

Yeah, that's a story for another time.

01:12:56 --> 01:13:00

Never mind Shayma says, how do we heal

01:13:00 --> 01:13:02

our hearts from the that disease?

01:13:02 --> 01:13:03

Allah Akbar.

01:13:03 --> 01:13:04

Thanks Shayma.

01:13:04 --> 01:13:06

Your questions are amazing tonight How can you

01:13:06 --> 01:13:07

heal your heart?

01:13:08 --> 01:13:13

From jealousy There are several ways One of

01:13:13 --> 01:13:16

them is to spend time with people who

01:13:16 --> 01:13:19

are lower than you spend time with the

01:13:19 --> 01:13:23

poor spend time with those who are injured

01:13:23 --> 01:13:24

in such a way where it is a

01:13:26 --> 01:13:29

Debilitating permanent injury paralyzed people things like this

01:13:30 --> 01:13:31

Spend time in their service.

01:13:31 --> 01:13:33

Okay, because at the end of the day

01:13:33 --> 01:13:38

jealousy is Tied to ingratitude and so if

01:13:38 --> 01:13:40

we're jealous of somebody else, we're not grateful

01:13:40 --> 01:13:42

for the the the nirma and the neom

01:13:42 --> 01:13:45

the Blessings that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has

01:13:45 --> 01:13:46

given us and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

01:13:46 --> 01:13:49

sallam said Make sure that you do not

01:13:49 --> 01:13:50

look to those people who are above you

01:13:50 --> 01:13:52

look to those below you So that you

01:13:52 --> 01:13:56

do not belittle Allah's blessings So spending time

01:13:56 --> 01:13:59

with people who are worse off than you

01:13:59 --> 01:14:02

is extremely important serving khidmah is the second

01:14:02 --> 01:14:04

thing Serving people and that could be serving

01:14:04 --> 01:14:07

people in your home in your extended family

01:14:07 --> 01:14:09

in your neighborhood at your mosque Whatever it

01:14:09 --> 01:14:12

is spending your time in service is one

01:14:12 --> 01:14:14

of the most important humbling things.

01:14:14 --> 01:14:18

That's out there and There are probably others.

01:14:18 --> 01:14:20

These are the two, you know, first ones

01:14:20 --> 01:14:25

that that that come to mind Yes, there

01:14:25 --> 01:14:27

are different words bread and za'atar for

01:14:27 --> 01:14:34

envy They have different shades Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah

01:14:34 --> 01:14:36

said that there are no true synonyms in

01:14:36 --> 01:14:39

Arabic take that as you will some people

01:14:39 --> 01:14:41

You know many people disagree with that, but

01:14:41 --> 01:14:43

he said that there are no true moradi

01:14:43 --> 01:14:46

fath There are no true 100% synonyms

01:14:46 --> 01:14:48

that every single word has a slightly different

01:14:48 --> 01:14:49

shade.

01:14:49 --> 01:14:52

So for example ribbed is a much lighter

01:14:52 --> 01:14:56

form of It's not really Hassan Okay, and

01:14:56 --> 01:14:59

there are other words as well that are

01:15:00 --> 01:15:05

Slightly different either or either in Degree or

01:15:05 --> 01:15:07

in kind or they're paired with something else

01:15:07 --> 01:15:15

or they're tempered by something else Yes, so

01:15:15 --> 01:15:17

runs out there says good point has it

01:15:17 --> 01:15:18

as the angry type of envy.

01:15:18 --> 01:15:21

Yeah Causes you to bring other people down

01:15:21 --> 01:15:23

exactly and many of the scholars when they

01:15:23 --> 01:15:25

explain these things they say that yes the

01:15:25 --> 01:15:28

type of envy where you want to Have

01:15:28 --> 01:15:30

something that somebody else has but they still

01:15:30 --> 01:15:30

keep it.

01:15:30 --> 01:15:33

That's that's okay Okay, or at least it's

01:15:33 --> 01:15:36

less bad the most advanced Stage of envy

01:15:36 --> 01:15:39

is to envy somebody you don't even want

01:15:39 --> 01:15:40

you don't want them to have it at

01:15:40 --> 01:15:42

all Even if you don't get it, right

01:15:42 --> 01:15:46

like it's pretty intense That's like maybe we

01:15:46 --> 01:15:48

could say envy mixed with spite or something

01:15:48 --> 01:15:48

like that.

01:15:48 --> 01:15:50

I don't know these words don't always translate

01:15:53 --> 01:15:56

good Any other comments?

01:15:56 --> 01:16:02

Let's go Art forges says I have had

01:16:02 --> 01:16:03

a theory that most of the evil in

01:16:03 --> 01:16:04

the world can be traced back to greed

01:16:04 --> 01:16:06

and arrogance Do you think this is any

01:16:06 --> 01:16:06

basis?

01:16:06 --> 01:16:06

Absolutely.

01:16:07 --> 01:16:07

Yeah, absolutely.

01:16:07 --> 01:16:09

I would add in there in gratitude mostly

01:16:09 --> 01:16:11

in gratitude to Allah subhana Ta'ala, but

01:16:11 --> 01:16:14

absolutely I think that I think that those

01:16:14 --> 01:16:15

are that's why I use the word meta

01:16:15 --> 01:16:17

I think there are like medicines that like

01:16:17 --> 01:16:21

other sins basically result or manifest from Sins

01:16:21 --> 01:16:23

of the heart that other sort of sins

01:16:23 --> 01:16:30

of the body follow from Yes hundred percent.

01:16:30 --> 01:16:32

So Seamus brings up a point that when

01:16:32 --> 01:16:34

it comes to not being grateful It's also

01:16:34 --> 01:16:36

not trusting Allah's qadr and your own naseeb.

01:16:36 --> 01:16:37

What is your rizq?

01:16:37 --> 01:16:39

What has Allah decreed for you?

01:16:39 --> 01:16:41

You're basically saying you're not happy with it,

01:16:41 --> 01:16:41

right?

01:16:42 --> 01:16:44

And this is I mean bit of Munasaba,

01:16:44 --> 01:16:44

right?

01:16:45 --> 01:16:46

Like we're talking about some sins are like

01:16:46 --> 01:16:48

medicines like sins of the heart and they

01:16:48 --> 01:16:51

can trickle down to other sins people who

01:16:51 --> 01:16:54

resort to magic People who resort to sorcery

01:16:54 --> 01:16:55

and fortune-telling and black magic.

01:16:56 --> 01:16:57

What's the vast majority?

01:16:58 --> 01:17:00

Of people what are they motivated by to

01:17:00 --> 01:17:01

do such a thing?

01:17:02 --> 01:17:04

They're not happy with Allah's decree for them

01:17:04 --> 01:17:07

They're not usually with a relationship or with

01:17:07 --> 01:17:08

kids or with a job or something like

01:17:08 --> 01:17:11

that They're not content with what Allah has

01:17:11 --> 01:17:12

decreed for them and they want more or

01:17:12 --> 01:17:18

they want different the signs bing-bang, bro

01:17:19 --> 01:17:21

Of an envious person is that you're not

01:17:21 --> 01:17:25

happy when other people are winning Okay, and

01:17:25 --> 01:17:27

this can happen in religion this can happen

01:17:27 --> 01:17:30

in Dean Haven't we seen there are scholars

01:17:30 --> 01:17:32

who are envious of their students There are

01:17:32 --> 01:17:35

students who are envious of other students this

01:17:35 --> 01:17:38

happens Okay If you're not happy our Shaykh

01:17:38 --> 01:17:40

Abdullah Shanqeet used to tell us if you

01:17:40 --> 01:17:43

think that people only have to be guided

01:17:43 --> 01:17:46

through you You've got this problem.

01:17:46 --> 01:17:49

You've got this sickness in you You're only

01:17:49 --> 01:17:51

free from this sickness when you're just as

01:17:51 --> 01:17:54

happy That someone is guided by somebody else

01:17:55 --> 01:17:57

then if they came to you and the

01:17:57 --> 01:17:59

Shaykh used to tell a story of somebody

01:17:59 --> 01:18:03

who used to teach in the Prophet's Masjid

01:18:03 --> 01:18:06

a Shaykh and Someone came up to him

01:18:06 --> 01:18:08

and it said with poor adab.

01:18:08 --> 01:18:10

Yes and said directly to him.

01:18:10 --> 01:18:11

It's like, you know what?

01:18:11 --> 01:18:12

I really don't like your lessons.

01:18:12 --> 01:18:14

I like this other Shaykhs lessons way more

01:18:15 --> 01:18:17

It's a fitna, right the Shaykh.

01:18:17 --> 01:18:19

It's time to demonstrate what he's made of

01:18:19 --> 01:18:22

and the Shaykh said alhamdulillah I'm so happy

01:18:22 --> 01:18:24

that you're benefiting from that Shaykh's lessons.

01:18:24 --> 01:18:27

May Allah put barakah in it So that's

01:18:27 --> 01:18:29

what we're after we're after it's all the

01:18:29 --> 01:18:31

same to you if someone Comes to you

01:18:31 --> 01:18:33

or comes to somebody else you can do

01:18:33 --> 01:18:33

the job.

01:18:34 --> 01:18:36

Someone else can do the job It's all

01:18:36 --> 01:18:38

the same Because you trust Allah subhanahu wa

01:18:38 --> 01:18:39

ta'ala you're content with what he has

01:18:39 --> 01:18:49

decreed for you So Aminah tells us according

01:18:49 --> 01:18:50

to the tradition that I know the word

01:18:50 --> 01:18:52

fed up is related to the story of

01:18:52 --> 01:18:54

Yusuf While he was in the well His

01:18:54 --> 01:18:55

story is about the envious.

01:18:56 --> 01:18:58

Ah, that's your last sentence is very powerful.

01:18:58 --> 01:19:03

Yes, so we take Yusuf's brothers Amina's drawing

01:19:03 --> 01:19:05

connections between a lot of things here I'm

01:19:05 --> 01:19:08

not sure I'm not familiar with Fed up

01:19:08 --> 01:19:09

being related to the story of Yusuf, of

01:19:09 --> 01:19:10

course, it might be true.

01:19:10 --> 01:19:13

It might just be my ignorance But certainly

01:19:13 --> 01:19:14

obviously I think the story of Yusuf is

01:19:14 --> 01:19:17

a really powerful example of envy and what

01:19:17 --> 01:19:19

envy can do How it can drive you

01:19:19 --> 01:19:24

to madness and other sins Amina Why don't

01:19:24 --> 01:19:24

you say I'm enough to love?

01:19:25 --> 01:19:27

We can also make sure we may do

01:19:27 --> 01:19:28

I thank you very much I forgot that

01:19:28 --> 01:19:30

one make do offer the one that you're

01:19:30 --> 01:19:31

jealous for excellent.

01:19:31 --> 01:19:39

Very good Love that Abdullah says is there

01:19:39 --> 01:19:40

a healthy kind of jealousy?

01:19:40 --> 01:19:41

Like I wish I was more like so

01:19:41 --> 01:19:43

-and-so Yes, the prophesy said I'm actually

01:19:43 --> 01:19:45

said that jealousy is permissible with two things

01:19:45 --> 01:19:49

with the Quran Right, so you're you're able

01:19:49 --> 01:19:50

to be like man.

01:19:50 --> 01:19:52

I wish I was a half of like

01:19:52 --> 01:19:53

that guy I wish I could recite like

01:19:53 --> 01:19:56

that guy and With someone who spends wealth

01:19:56 --> 01:19:58

in the way of Allah someone who spends

01:19:58 --> 01:20:00

wealth in a way that Allah subhanahu wa

01:20:00 --> 01:20:01

ta'ala likes in charity And they're like

01:20:01 --> 01:20:03

now you can say oh, I wish that

01:20:03 --> 01:20:06

I was wealthy like him So that I

01:20:06 --> 01:20:07

could spend my money in the way that

01:20:07 --> 01:20:09

he spends it so that I could help

01:20:09 --> 01:20:10

the Oma so that I could You know

01:20:10 --> 01:20:13

feed the poor this sort of thing Good

01:20:13 --> 01:20:15

stuff a lot to talk about.

01:20:15 --> 01:20:18

All right, let's pivot to our last segment

01:20:18 --> 01:20:21

for tonight personal development atomic habits We had

01:20:21 --> 01:20:21

homework.

01:20:22 --> 01:20:25

Let's see who did it your task was

01:20:25 --> 01:20:28

to Tie one of your habits to a

01:20:28 --> 01:20:31

piece of furniture or to dedicate one piece

01:20:31 --> 01:20:34

of furniture to one particular action You're not

01:20:34 --> 01:20:36

gonna read your phone in bed anymore.

01:20:36 --> 01:20:39

You're not gonna bring your laptop your work

01:20:39 --> 01:20:41

laptop to the kitchen table, etc Etc.

01:20:42 --> 01:20:44

I want to hear from people how this

01:20:44 --> 01:20:46

went were they able to do it.

01:20:46 --> 01:20:47

Did you run into any problems?

01:20:47 --> 01:20:48

Did you have any success?

01:20:54 --> 01:20:56

One thing that I've done is I've stopped

01:20:56 --> 01:20:59

reading in bed I used to read in

01:20:59 --> 01:21:00

bed a lot and sometimes I wouldn't be

01:21:00 --> 01:21:02

able to sleep because I'm just reading it's

01:21:02 --> 01:21:04

like yeah Okay, I'm ready to read more

01:21:04 --> 01:21:06

like the reading wouldn't make me tired.

01:21:06 --> 01:21:07

I would just be ready to read more

01:21:08 --> 01:21:10

so I tried to make sure that the

01:21:10 --> 01:21:15

bed is only for sleep and that If

01:21:15 --> 01:21:17

I read it's on a couch in particular

01:21:17 --> 01:21:19

one particular couch that I I read in

01:21:19 --> 01:21:22

read on I should say a lot I

01:21:22 --> 01:21:24

haven't been doing as much reading as I

01:21:24 --> 01:21:26

would like lately, but at least I've dedicated

01:21:26 --> 01:21:30

the Bed for sleep and tried to make

01:21:30 --> 01:21:31

that just the thing that I do there

01:21:31 --> 01:21:35

also my work, you know I've implemented this

01:21:35 --> 01:21:37

before trying to keep my laptop only at

01:21:37 --> 01:21:40

the desk at which I work and Not

01:21:40 --> 01:21:42

bring it anywhere else and I have had

01:21:42 --> 01:21:46

some success with that Art Forge asks, what

01:21:46 --> 01:21:48

is the ruling on star signs Libra Scorpio,

01:21:48 --> 01:21:50

etc I stay away from them, but some

01:21:50 --> 01:21:52

have told me it would only be haram

01:21:52 --> 01:21:55

if you're guessing the future with them Okay,

01:21:55 --> 01:21:57

so there's a couple things that we need

01:21:57 --> 01:21:59

to tease out here.

01:21:59 --> 01:22:05

So one is the concept of the constellations

01:22:05 --> 01:22:08

and Naming them after figures or figurines or

01:22:08 --> 01:22:09

animals or things like that.

01:22:10 --> 01:22:12

This is something that is permissible.

01:22:12 --> 01:22:13

It's not a problem It's not a problem

01:22:13 --> 01:22:17

that we say that Aries refers to a

01:22:17 --> 01:22:20

constellation in the sky that resembles a ramp

01:22:21 --> 01:22:24

that is part of and milf Alec where

01:22:24 --> 01:22:26

the calf is this sort of sort of

01:22:26 --> 01:22:30

about Astronomy and about the purpose of astronomy

01:22:30 --> 01:22:34

primarily is navigation Navigation especially at sea but

01:22:34 --> 01:22:37

also on land at night so being able

01:22:37 --> 01:22:42

to organize the stars into pictures and into

01:22:43 --> 01:22:47

Representations and even naming them Like many even

01:22:47 --> 01:22:48

of the English names that we use for

01:22:48 --> 01:22:50

stars and constellations many of them come from

01:22:50 --> 01:22:54

Arabic Beetlejuice comes from Arabic betelgeuse, and there's

01:22:54 --> 01:23:00

others I Believe Antares and others, okay however

01:23:00 --> 01:23:06

whenever you get into implying that The presence

01:23:06 --> 01:23:08

of these things or the absence of these

01:23:08 --> 01:23:13

things Has anything any causative effect on a

01:23:13 --> 01:23:18

personality on Events on this earth That's where

01:23:18 --> 01:23:21

you're in danger Okay, and that comes from

01:23:21 --> 01:23:24

the whole thing to horoscopes, which yes Seamus

01:23:24 --> 01:23:29

is saying avoid totally 100% like There's

01:23:29 --> 01:23:31

a hadith of prophesies that I'm what says

01:23:31 --> 01:23:35

that if you even listen to the fortune

01:23:35 --> 01:23:40

-teller then Your prayers will not be Meritorious

01:23:40 --> 01:23:43

for 40 days or accepted for 40 days

01:23:43 --> 01:23:46

Now that doesn't mean that you still don't

01:23:46 --> 01:23:47

have the obligation to pray you still the

01:23:47 --> 01:23:49

obligation to pray However, all the reward you

01:23:49 --> 01:23:52

would get from doing that is gone Right.

01:23:52 --> 01:23:53

So this is a major thing.

01:23:53 --> 01:23:57

It's a major deal in Islam because it

01:23:57 --> 01:24:02

infringes upon Tauheed The idea that these things

01:24:02 --> 01:24:05

have any causative power Which we don't have

01:24:05 --> 01:24:08

any evidence for so it's not like saying

01:24:08 --> 01:24:13

that When the earth tilts in you know

01:24:13 --> 01:24:14

This way in the spring in the northern

01:24:14 --> 01:24:16

hemisphere warms up and and and you know

01:24:16 --> 01:24:20

spring happens and that we have Evidence for

01:24:20 --> 01:24:20

causative power.

01:24:20 --> 01:24:24

So this does not infringe upon Tauheed Because

01:24:24 --> 01:24:27

the causative power is proven But if the

01:24:27 --> 01:24:30

causative power is speculative and doesn't have any

01:24:30 --> 01:24:33

evidence then this is something that encroaches upon

01:24:33 --> 01:24:37

Tauheed And what is only Allah's right?

01:24:37 --> 01:24:39

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one

01:24:39 --> 01:24:42

that determines people's personalities.

01:24:43 --> 01:24:44

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one

01:24:44 --> 01:24:47

that determines people's you know, this sort of

01:24:47 --> 01:24:51

thing and so when we That's the line

01:24:51 --> 01:24:52

that's the limit is what I want to

01:24:52 --> 01:24:55

say art is that when we you can

01:24:55 --> 01:24:57

call them You know, I have an app

01:24:57 --> 01:24:58

on my phone.

01:24:58 --> 01:25:00

It's called Stellarium or something like that, right?

01:25:00 --> 01:25:01

It's actually really cool.

01:25:01 --> 01:25:02

You hold it up to the sky You

01:25:02 --> 01:25:05

can see exactly what are the constellations you

01:25:05 --> 01:25:06

actually have Arabic on there.

01:25:06 --> 01:25:07

You can switch it to Arabic.

01:25:07 --> 01:25:08

It's pretty cool so if you wanted to

01:25:08 --> 01:25:10

ever which I always wanted to learn the

01:25:10 --> 01:25:12

constellations in Arabic and then you can do

01:25:12 --> 01:25:14

that and They're there they have different names.

01:25:15 --> 01:25:15

This one's the rabbit.

01:25:16 --> 01:25:16

This one's the snake.

01:25:16 --> 01:25:19

This one's that that's fine Even knowing when

01:25:19 --> 01:25:21

they appear some of the constellations they they

01:25:21 --> 01:25:22

disappear at certain times.

01:25:23 --> 01:25:24

They reappear other times of the year.

01:25:24 --> 01:25:28

That's fine What crosses the line is saying

01:25:28 --> 01:25:30

that these things have a causative power on

01:25:30 --> 01:25:32

what goes on on earth?

01:25:36 --> 01:25:37

Okay, what do we have here?

01:25:37 --> 01:25:40

Juju says I didn't do this all the

01:25:40 --> 01:25:43

time some days I kept my cell phone

01:25:43 --> 01:25:44

away from my bedroom at night.

01:25:44 --> 01:25:46

I bought an alarm clock Yeah, I set

01:25:46 --> 01:25:47

up but I need to buy another alarm

01:25:47 --> 01:25:49

clock with multiple options.

01:25:49 --> 01:25:51

Yeah, okay progress progress Juju.

01:25:51 --> 01:25:56

That's great Julia says my daughter has started

01:25:56 --> 01:25:57

school in a new school.

01:25:57 --> 01:26:00

May Allah Keep her among the righteous and

01:26:00 --> 01:26:03

may it be Blessed inshallah The drive from

01:26:03 --> 01:26:06

her school to my workplace has a six

01:26:06 --> 01:26:08

-minute standstill traffic I've made the situation my

01:26:08 --> 01:26:09

Quran memorization slot.

01:26:10 --> 01:26:10

Excellent.

01:26:10 --> 01:26:15

That is a wonderful wonderful habit Abdullah home

01:26:15 --> 01:26:15

team.

01:26:15 --> 01:26:17

I have stopped watching videos and snacking in

01:26:17 --> 01:26:17

bed.

01:26:18 --> 01:26:18

Lol.

01:26:18 --> 01:26:19

What did you used to snack in bed

01:26:19 --> 01:26:20

Abdullah?

01:26:20 --> 01:26:21

What are some of your favorite snacks in

01:26:21 --> 01:26:21

lightness?

01:26:22 --> 01:26:24

Only sleep now good has your sleep gotten

01:26:24 --> 01:26:25

better of the lie.

01:26:25 --> 01:26:28

I hope it has Okay, I mean it

01:26:28 --> 01:26:30

says I don't read in the kitchen anymore

01:26:30 --> 01:26:32

I used to read and take notes while

01:26:32 --> 01:26:32

eating.

01:26:32 --> 01:26:35

Oh, yeah, I'm guilty Sorry, I'm guilty of

01:26:35 --> 01:26:35

that still.

01:26:35 --> 01:26:39

I haven't stopped that A Hong says I

01:26:39 --> 01:26:40

bought a small olive tree to place it

01:26:40 --> 01:26:42

on my balcony and create a small sitting

01:26:42 --> 01:26:45

area for my reading That sounds amazing So

01:26:45 --> 01:26:48

far, this is working wonders on my drive

01:26:48 --> 01:26:50

to read more that I should do that.

01:26:50 --> 01:26:53

That's a really really fantastic idea Juju says

01:26:53 --> 01:26:55

I did end up stopping another habit since

01:26:55 --> 01:26:56

I limited time with my cell phone, which

01:26:56 --> 01:26:59

was reading about celebrities on my phone I

01:26:59 --> 01:27:00

appreciate your honesty and your bravery for being

01:27:00 --> 01:27:04

so honest 100% It happens even without

01:27:04 --> 01:27:06

you wanting to sometimes sometimes, you know, you

01:27:06 --> 01:27:08

open up your browser They have those stupid

01:27:08 --> 01:27:11

suggested articles and they're like, oh, I wonder

01:27:11 --> 01:27:12

what that person's up to.

01:27:12 --> 01:27:14

Oh, that's that's wild, right?

01:27:15 --> 01:27:17

And Then you fall into a bad habit.

01:27:17 --> 01:27:18

So that's great.

01:27:18 --> 01:27:23

Masha'Allah I'm done.

01:27:23 --> 01:27:25

You drink decaf and better you used to

01:27:25 --> 01:27:26

drink decaf decaf in bed.

01:27:26 --> 01:27:31

Well Glad that that habits were broken then

01:27:31 --> 01:27:33

I'll take I found Arabic so hard.

01:27:33 --> 01:27:37

I can't learn it consistently Sorry to hear

01:27:37 --> 01:27:41

that We explored before the possibility of doing

01:27:41 --> 01:27:46

some sort of Arabic something Instruction now, we're

01:27:46 --> 01:27:49

still sort of gathering interested parties in that

01:27:49 --> 01:27:51

We're not really sure what form that would

01:27:51 --> 01:27:54

take but if people are interested again reach

01:27:54 --> 01:27:56

out and confirm your interest and I'm keeping

01:27:56 --> 01:27:59

a list of names and emails and If

01:27:59 --> 01:28:02

we ever do something then we'll we'll reach

01:28:02 --> 01:28:04

out to you Because it's a common thing

01:28:04 --> 01:28:08

where people want to Of course Arabic is

01:28:08 --> 01:28:08

a better.

01:28:09 --> 01:28:11

It's worshiping and so it's important, but it

01:28:11 --> 01:28:13

takes getting used to you The scholars of

01:28:13 --> 01:28:16

the language they said Arabic is like a

01:28:16 --> 01:28:19

building the doors are made of iron and

01:28:19 --> 01:28:23

Everything else is made of sugar Because it's

01:28:23 --> 01:28:27

really hard in the beginning, but then after

01:28:27 --> 01:28:30

that it gets It gets easier.

01:28:31 --> 01:28:34

It gets a lot easier actually so if

01:28:34 --> 01:28:37

anybody is Particularly interested in that you can

01:28:37 --> 01:28:37

email me.

01:28:37 --> 01:28:40

Shoot me an email Imam Tom Fakini at

01:28:40 --> 01:28:43

gmail.com and I'll take down your thing

01:28:43 --> 01:28:45

and if we decide to do anything no

01:28:45 --> 01:28:48

guarantees But if there's enough interest and we

01:28:48 --> 01:28:52

find an appropriate vehicle We can maybe do

01:28:52 --> 01:28:57

something Josef Naim says what is the Aqidah

01:28:57 --> 01:28:57

of Yaqeen?

01:28:57 --> 01:28:58

Is it Ashari?

01:28:59 --> 01:29:00

Well, which question?

01:29:00 --> 01:29:03

What is the Aqidah or is it Ashari?

01:29:03 --> 01:29:05

Those are two you mix the two questions.

01:29:06 --> 01:29:09

You tell me Habibi All right personal development,

01:29:09 --> 01:29:14

here we go Atomic habit.

01:29:14 --> 01:29:15

So that was the homework from what we

01:29:15 --> 01:29:18

had last time today's chapter very interesting chapter

01:29:18 --> 01:29:21

We start the second chapter the second major

01:29:21 --> 01:29:24

law, which is the law of attraction Make

01:29:24 --> 01:29:25

it attractive.

01:29:25 --> 01:29:26

The first one was make it obvious.

01:29:27 --> 01:29:30

The second one is make it Attractive.

01:29:31 --> 01:29:31

Okay.

01:29:31 --> 01:29:35

Now he starts this This chapter with a

01:29:35 --> 01:29:37

really interesting Anecdote, which is this sort of

01:29:37 --> 01:29:39

it's not an anecdote is it's actually a

01:29:39 --> 01:29:42

science experiment where There's a type of gull

01:29:42 --> 01:29:44

seagull right a bird that it has a

01:29:44 --> 01:29:46

beak and the beak has a red spot

01:29:47 --> 01:29:48

All right.

01:29:48 --> 01:29:51

Now when this type of bird it has

01:29:51 --> 01:29:54

chicks in the nest and it flies back

01:29:54 --> 01:29:57

the chicks in the nest will start pecking

01:29:57 --> 01:29:59

at the red spot and the mother or

01:29:59 --> 01:30:02

the father will then give food to the

01:30:02 --> 01:30:05

chicks, so Check out how crazy this like

01:30:05 --> 01:30:07

experiment is wild like people are people are

01:30:07 --> 01:30:11

kind of nuts In a good way so

01:30:11 --> 01:30:14

somebody decided to make a very very poor

01:30:14 --> 01:30:17

imitation of a seagull right like cardboard basically

01:30:17 --> 01:30:20

and Make a beak and make a red

01:30:20 --> 01:30:22

spot on the beak, but make it huge

01:30:22 --> 01:30:27

make it larger than normal Okay Now when

01:30:27 --> 01:30:31

he held up that fake very very obviously

01:30:31 --> 01:30:33

fake bird to the nest What the chicks

01:30:33 --> 01:30:37

did the chicks started pecking at the dot

01:30:38 --> 01:30:43

very very vigorously more vigorously then at the

01:30:44 --> 01:30:47

At the normal sort of their mother which

01:30:47 --> 01:30:51

had a normal sized red dot okay, and

01:30:51 --> 01:30:53

what they found from this is that when

01:30:55 --> 01:30:57

Any sort of creature is exposed to a

01:30:57 --> 01:30:59

stimulus or used used to a stimulus.

01:30:59 --> 01:31:03

There's an end to it's an Anticipation of

01:31:03 --> 01:31:06

a reward and If the stimulus is increased,

01:31:07 --> 01:31:11

okay, or even exaggerated then the motivation is

01:31:11 --> 01:31:17

even higher even if even if The delivery

01:31:17 --> 01:31:19

of the food is still the same Okay.

01:31:19 --> 01:31:22

Now this is really really interesting.

01:31:22 --> 01:31:24

We live in they call this by the

01:31:24 --> 01:31:27

way super normal stimuli It's basically exaggerations of

01:31:27 --> 01:31:29

reality And once you Understand that there's a

01:31:29 --> 01:31:31

term for this You'll see that our modern

01:31:31 --> 01:31:34

culture has this everywhere every single bad habit

01:31:34 --> 01:31:37

that people are addicted to it essentially comes

01:31:37 --> 01:31:42

down to a super normal stimuli some exaggeration

01:31:42 --> 01:31:46

of reality Temptations that previous people of earlier

01:31:46 --> 01:31:49

times never had to face So if you

01:31:49 --> 01:31:53

look at the food industry, okay, you've got

01:31:53 --> 01:31:56

food that has no nutritional value whatsoever But

01:31:56 --> 01:31:58

it's got more sugar than any food has

01:31:58 --> 01:32:01

ever had it's got more fats and more

01:32:01 --> 01:32:03

You know this and that and salts and

01:32:03 --> 01:32:05

hydrogenated oils and all these sorts of things

01:32:06 --> 01:32:11

That it produces cravings for these foods That

01:32:11 --> 01:32:13

are exaggerated cravings.

01:32:13 --> 01:32:16

Okay more than would be natural for anything

01:32:16 --> 01:32:19

else We also fall into this with body

01:32:19 --> 01:32:19

image, right?

01:32:19 --> 01:32:21

And this is why many people get addicted

01:32:21 --> 01:32:24

to * that the images or the body

01:32:24 --> 01:32:26

images that people are exposed to through the

01:32:26 --> 01:32:32

media are Exaggerations, they're not real right They're

01:32:32 --> 01:32:33

exaggerated stimuli.

01:32:33 --> 01:32:37

And so people they get Addicted like their

01:32:37 --> 01:32:40

anticipation of the reward whatever it is They

01:32:40 --> 01:32:44

are super stimulated because of the exaggeration of

01:32:44 --> 01:32:46

the cue that's being thrown at them Social

01:32:46 --> 01:32:48

media is also another one that he points

01:32:48 --> 01:32:51

out where if you go throughout your whole

01:32:51 --> 01:32:53

day and you can try this go throughout

01:32:53 --> 01:32:56

your whole day at home and Count how

01:32:56 --> 01:32:58

many times someone compliments you or like praises

01:32:58 --> 01:32:58

you?

01:32:59 --> 01:33:03

then go online and make like two posts

01:33:03 --> 01:33:06

on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or something

01:33:06 --> 01:33:09

like that and Compare how many likes and

01:33:09 --> 01:33:10

comments of praise you get?

01:33:11 --> 01:33:13

Social media is essentially a super stimuli.

01:33:14 --> 01:33:16

It exaggerates how much praise and thanks that

01:33:16 --> 01:33:19

you get and So all of these super

01:33:19 --> 01:33:22

stimuli cause addictions whether it's addiction to junk

01:33:22 --> 01:33:24

food or addiction to * or addiction to

01:33:24 --> 01:33:27

social media or Addiction to other things smoking

01:33:27 --> 01:33:29

whatever it is drugs all of these things

01:33:29 --> 01:33:34

come back to an exaggerated stimuli now, how

01:33:34 --> 01:33:37

does This work when it comes to your

01:33:37 --> 01:33:40

body and anticipating things and and how does

01:33:40 --> 01:33:41

this what does this mean for our habits?

01:33:41 --> 01:33:43

We can actually if we realize what's going

01:33:43 --> 01:33:44

on.

01:33:44 --> 01:33:46

We can harness it for our own uses

01:33:46 --> 01:33:47

I don't know guys.

01:33:47 --> 01:33:48

Do we have that?

01:33:49 --> 01:33:51

Do we have that a figure from the

01:33:51 --> 01:33:52

there we go.

01:33:52 --> 01:33:53

So we have this This is a really

01:33:53 --> 01:33:55

really interesting find.

01:33:55 --> 01:33:56

So this is about dopamine.

01:33:56 --> 01:33:58

Many of you are familiar with this idea.

01:33:58 --> 01:34:01

It's this Hormone called dopamine dopamine that your

01:34:01 --> 01:34:06

body produces When it anticipates a reward, okay

01:34:06 --> 01:34:11

and anticipates is the key is the key

01:34:11 --> 01:34:14

word here, so What happens?

01:34:15 --> 01:34:20

When you're first exposed to a cue Okay,

01:34:21 --> 01:34:23

we know that all everything here with habits

01:34:23 --> 01:34:24

It has to do with four things cue

01:34:24 --> 01:34:27

craving response and reward number one You're exposed

01:34:27 --> 01:34:28

to a cue, but you're not aware of

01:34:28 --> 01:34:29

what that cue is.

01:34:29 --> 01:34:30

Okay?

01:34:32 --> 01:34:35

Second maybe you start to get a craving

01:34:35 --> 01:34:35

you see a commercial.

01:34:35 --> 01:34:36

Let's say you get it.

01:34:36 --> 01:34:39

Let's say you see a Pepsi commercial Okay

01:34:39 --> 01:34:43

That's the cue there's people they're young they're

01:34:43 --> 01:34:45

attractive they're having fun on the on the

01:34:45 --> 01:34:46

TV and you know That's how they make

01:34:46 --> 01:34:48

you want this drink.

01:34:49 --> 01:34:52

You start to get a craving Next time

01:34:52 --> 01:34:54

you go to the store the Bacala you

01:34:54 --> 01:34:57

pick up a Pepsi You drink it.

01:34:57 --> 01:34:59

You're blasted with sugar, right?

01:35:00 --> 01:35:03

And so your dopamine spikes Now that was

01:35:03 --> 01:35:05

the first time check out what happens the

01:35:05 --> 01:35:08

second time the second time The key at

01:35:08 --> 01:35:11

the level of the cue you see the

01:35:11 --> 01:35:14

commercial and you're already getting your blast of

01:35:14 --> 01:35:19

dopamine Because you're anticipating You're not even given

01:35:19 --> 01:35:19

the Pepsi yet.

01:35:20 --> 01:35:23

Now this anticipation drives you to go to

01:35:23 --> 01:35:24

the store Maybe you go out of your

01:35:24 --> 01:35:25

way to go to the store and get

01:35:25 --> 01:35:26

that Pepsi the next time you drink the

01:35:26 --> 01:35:27

Pepsi That's the response.

01:35:28 --> 01:35:29

That's the reward.

01:35:29 --> 01:35:32

Okay, and Now but notice what happens with

01:35:32 --> 01:35:34

the dopamine you don't get it when you

01:35:34 --> 01:35:36

actually Experience the thing when you get the

01:35:36 --> 01:35:38

reward this time you actually experience the dopamine

01:35:39 --> 01:35:42

early When you're anticipating the reward, all right,

01:35:42 --> 01:35:44

let's check out scenario number three scenario number

01:35:44 --> 01:35:47

three They said well what happens if somebody

01:35:47 --> 01:35:50

sees the cue and anticipates the reward, but

01:35:50 --> 01:35:53

then they don't get it What happens so

01:35:53 --> 01:35:56

let's imagine you see the Pepsi commercial you

01:35:56 --> 01:35:59

have this incredible craving for Pepsi You go

01:35:59 --> 01:36:02

out that's your response, but there's no Pepsi

01:36:02 --> 01:36:06

at the store you crash Your dopamine levels

01:36:06 --> 01:36:10

actually tank Okay, then what's gonna happen the

01:36:10 --> 01:36:12

last scenario the next time you see the

01:36:12 --> 01:36:13

craving?

01:36:13 --> 01:36:15

Sorry, you see the cue the Pepsi commercial

01:36:15 --> 01:36:17

you experience the craving you want one you

01:36:17 --> 01:36:18

go out and get it.

01:36:18 --> 01:36:21

You're not sure Your body is almost preparing

01:36:21 --> 01:36:22

you for disappointment.

01:36:22 --> 01:36:24

But this time they have it boom another

01:36:24 --> 01:36:26

spike and this is how habits are formed

01:36:26 --> 01:36:30

okay, this is the dopamine loop and The

01:36:30 --> 01:36:32

author points out that this distinguishes the difference

01:36:32 --> 01:36:36

about between wanting something and liking something and

01:36:36 --> 01:36:40

he argues that Wanting something is far more

01:36:40 --> 01:36:44

powerful than liking something on the body Okay,

01:36:44 --> 01:36:48

the hormones that we produce wanting something is

01:36:48 --> 01:36:51

way more powerful than actually liking it Anticipating

01:36:51 --> 01:36:54

a reward is actually better than getting the

01:36:54 --> 01:36:57

reward itself So what does this mean for

01:36:57 --> 01:36:58

us in our habits?

01:36:58 --> 01:37:00

Well That brings us to something that the

01:37:00 --> 01:37:03

author calls Temptation bundling now if we had

01:37:03 --> 01:37:06

earlier we had temptation we had habit stacking

01:37:06 --> 01:37:09

Which was you're going to tie a habit

01:37:09 --> 01:37:13

that you're already doing on To you want

01:37:13 --> 01:37:14

to add on to that a habit that

01:37:14 --> 01:37:14

you want to do?

01:37:17 --> 01:37:20

Temptation bundling is basically linking an action that

01:37:20 --> 01:37:23

you want to do with an action that

01:37:23 --> 01:37:26

you have to do Okay, so there are

01:37:26 --> 01:37:29

things that you're doing that maybe you're not

01:37:30 --> 01:37:32

They're not the best things that you're doing

01:37:32 --> 01:37:34

let's say you're watching television you watch Netflix

01:37:34 --> 01:37:37

you watch whatever a Show once in a

01:37:37 --> 01:37:37

while.

01:37:37 --> 01:37:38

Is it haram?

01:37:39 --> 01:37:40

No, is it the best thing to do?

01:37:41 --> 01:37:42

No, it's also not the best thing to

01:37:42 --> 01:37:42

do.

01:37:43 --> 01:37:45

Okay, but you want to do something like

01:37:45 --> 01:37:47

study Arabic or you want to do something?

01:37:47 --> 01:37:50

like Push-ups you want to get in

01:37:50 --> 01:37:50

shape a little bit.

01:37:50 --> 01:37:53

All right, how can you use temptation bundling

01:37:53 --> 01:37:55

to form new habits?

01:37:56 --> 01:37:59

Well, you basically link the action that you

01:37:59 --> 01:38:03

want to do to the action that you

01:38:03 --> 01:38:04

need to do So if I'm watching a

01:38:04 --> 01:38:07

television show and it's got commercials and I

01:38:07 --> 01:38:10

want to also get more fit I'm going

01:38:10 --> 01:38:12

to say I'm going to do 20 push

01:38:12 --> 01:38:16

-ups Every commercial break so I get my

01:38:16 --> 01:38:19

the show that I'm watching and I also

01:38:19 --> 01:38:22

get The fitness or the exercise that I'm

01:38:22 --> 01:38:23

trying to go for.

01:38:23 --> 01:38:26

Okay What happens when you link these two

01:38:26 --> 01:38:30

things is That you associate or your body

01:38:30 --> 01:38:33

begins to associate the thing that you kind

01:38:33 --> 01:38:36

of don't want to do Which is push

01:38:36 --> 01:38:38

-ups in this case It begins to associate

01:38:38 --> 01:38:40

it with the thing that you actually like

01:38:40 --> 01:38:43

to do So it gets a positive association

01:38:43 --> 01:38:45

and corporations use this type of thing all

01:38:45 --> 01:38:47

the time to manipulate you and to sell

01:38:47 --> 01:38:50

you their products But if you recognize it

01:38:50 --> 01:38:51

You can see when it's being used against

01:38:51 --> 01:38:53

you and you can also attempt to use

01:38:53 --> 01:38:55

it for you So everybody this is your

01:38:55 --> 01:38:58

homework for this week Think about something that

01:38:58 --> 01:39:01

you're currently doing That you like to do

01:39:01 --> 01:39:02

That's it's fun.

01:39:03 --> 01:39:04

It's a TV show or it's you know

01:39:04 --> 01:39:06

A snack that you enjoy you sit down

01:39:06 --> 01:39:08

and you have you know bar chocolate or

01:39:08 --> 01:39:13

something, whatever Tie something that you need to

01:39:13 --> 01:39:16

do whether it is reciting Quran or something

01:39:16 --> 01:39:19

physical exercise or it's reading more Whatever it

01:39:19 --> 01:39:20

is tie it to that thing.

01:39:20 --> 01:39:23

So here's your your your homework after I

01:39:24 --> 01:39:26

Blank the habit.

01:39:26 --> 01:39:29

I need I Will blank the habit I

01:39:29 --> 01:39:32

want and let's see what people come up

01:39:32 --> 01:39:42

with people giving Recommendations

01:39:42 --> 01:39:46

on Arabic study, that's good.

01:39:46 --> 01:39:53

Thanks everybody for helping out cool all right,

01:39:53 --> 01:39:56

and If there's no final questions, I think

01:39:56 --> 01:39:57

we're gonna wrap it up for the night.

01:39:57 --> 01:40:00

We're coming up on almost two hours It's

01:40:00 --> 01:40:05

been Very engaging as always appreciate everybody We'll

01:40:05 --> 01:40:06

check in next week.

01:40:07 --> 01:40:08

Yes, we are on next week.

01:40:08 --> 01:40:10

So we'll be back next week again Wednesday

01:40:10 --> 01:40:13

night 8 p.m New York time.

01:40:13 --> 01:40:15

We'll see you then bring your homework.

01:40:16 --> 01:40:17

We'll we'll see how we did But a

01:40:17 --> 01:40:19

coffee comes to panic a little bit will

01:40:19 --> 01:40:20

be Hamdik a shadow and la ilaha and

01:40:20 --> 01:40:21

to a stop philip.

01:40:21 --> 01:40:23

Oh, I took a lake Salam alaikum.

01:40:23 --> 01:40:23

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