Tom Facchine – Falsehood is Bound to Vanish
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We have revolution going on in Bangladesh. Congratulations
to our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh, and
we pray for your success. We're gonna be
unpacking it and talking about it. Super exciting.
We have in the UK. The UK, there's
horrible riots going on, anti Islamic riots, anti
Muslim riots,
anti immigrant riots. We're gonna talk about that.
We also have a revamped version of RM
segment where we're going to be transitioning to
talk about tafsir.
And we've got some cool questions and polls
and some things that you probably don't know,
to talk about there. And finally, we'll be
getting into our self development book, which is
Atomic Habits, with some really interesting activities and
reflections about environment and the role that environment
plays on your habits. But first, let's go
to the chat. Let's see who we have
viewing with us tonight.
Drop us a line where you're from, and
if there's anything on your mind. I know
I've already took taken a peek, and I
see that Bangladesh
is in the house.
Great to see everyone from Bangladesh and, Bangladeshi
diaspora,
in the comments.
Rahima Armstrong from Cardiff,
Wales.
Welcome to the program.
From Bangladesh.
Thanks to Allah that saved you from the
dictator. Alhamdulillah.
Allah is capable. And you know your name
Al Ghaleb.
If I understand it correctly, if if I'm
correct here,
that there is no one who can prevail
except Allah
And there's so many benefits to take from
what's going on. Not that we're out of
the woods yet. Not that everything is peachy
and easy now. It's a critical time, as
everybody in Bangladesh knows.
However, we have we have reason to celebrate
our successes.
Very good. Welcome to the program.
Let's see. I have not yet learned how
to read
Bengali, so I can't pronounce that username. But,
yes, they kill a lot of people. We'll
be talking about sort of the lead up
to the best. I was able to have
some communication back and forth this week with
some people who are actually regular viewers of
the show that kind of gave me some
further background and detail about the political history
of Bangladesh
and the, Hasina Sheikh regime
and all the crimes that were committed.
So we'll be talking about a little bit
of that
as well. Nasia Alisha,
welcome to the program. Yes. Congratulations
To the people of Bangladesh,
Safina Khosar,
I really appreciate the back and forth between,
Safina and some of the other folks in
the chat that are pointing out, we're gonna
talk about this as well. So Safina cautions
people,
request to Bengali brothers and sisters to not
harm minorities and allow the Sunnah of the
prophet alaihis salatu salam to guide all the
decisions we take and some responses to that
in the chat about how this is a
trope. This is a narrative that is pushed
especially in India, especially by the Indian government
to in order to justify intervention violation of
Bangladesh's sovereignty
and establish its garrison state and its puppet
regime, we will talk about that as well.
Here we go. Yes. And so Shamim Haqq,
she, you know, intervenes and says no one
is harming minorities on the contrary
that Muslims are giving them protection and that
is very good to hear and we're not
surprised by it.
Bidayapit
or Bidayapit brought up a great point. Most
amazing part of this extraordinary revolution is that
a fully equipped government with all its armed
forces have severely failed
against unarmed youth. SubhanAllah, victory is for the
Braves. 100%.
Great comment there. Missus s Wa Alaikum Salam
Anaftalah,
Amin. May we all benefit
and unite upon what is true.
Doctor Salman and I had a great time
together in Malaysia.
And interviewing is something that wherever we've done,
I think we've had 3 interviews in 3
places. I was with with him and now
even more than that. We keep on running
across each other. And, he's a lovely brother.
May Allah preserve him.
Looks like you got cut off there.
Jannah to my mommy. So I appreciate your
comment, Jannah. From
Bangladesh as well about
how you made to point out your other
comment. Muslims are guarding the minorities. Don't worry.
They they want to spread rumors. We're gonna
talk about this. Don't listen to them. For
example, some Muslims are guarding the Hindu temples
just to protect them.
Thank you very much for that comment. I
appreciate that. Pastor 5 from the Muldays. Wa
Alaikum Salam, Raft Allah. Good to have you
back. I am Samiha Wa Alaikum Salam, Raft
Allah from Dallas, Texas. I will be in
Dallas for a very very short time on
Saturday Insha'Allah
for the MSA National slash column event,
and whatever else I have time for. So
if you're able to come through, come through.
From SoCal.
Good to have you back. MB from Hershey,
Pennsylvania.
Don't eat too much chocolate.
Yes, Ruhma. So you're from Durham, North Carolina.
Hope to get down there sometime soon. And,
yes, congratulations. I echo your your wishes of
congratulations to our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh.
May Allah allow us to witness the liberation
of Palestine, and these two things are related.
They are related, and we will talk about
it. And that is why some of the
interesting and powerful images come out of Bangladesh
in the last week. You have many of
the protesters, many of the young people having
Palestine flags right next to Bangladeshi, flags right
next to flags that have the shahada on
them. Very, very interesting and important things that
are going on.
Percept wisdom.
Saudi Ahmed from Atlanta.
Atlanta in the house.
Mom of 2 from New Jersey
Which part of New Jersey mom of 2?
I'm a I'm a Jersey guy.
Says my younger brother's birthday today, 39.
May Allah give him many more
healthy and happy years. Shorbon,
whoop whoop indeed. Sara,
from Canada. Welcome to the program. Atiyah Amir
from Pakistan's Indaba,
KB from London. London Sharif,
I hope you're well, KB. I hope that
things are going good for you. May Allah
protect you and all our brothers and sisters
in the UK.
Shorebone also from New Jersey. If you're if
you're tuning in from New Jersey, you have
to tell me where.
Tayba Chaudhry,
We have Sara from California. Welcome to the
program. Naf Khan from Bangladesh,
Congratulations.
Though the
congratulations are for everybody because we're 1 Ummah.
Happy to have you back with us again,
from Atlanta.
Chris m,
from Minneapolis.
Welcome to the program.
Nusayb qasam, Wa Alaikum Salam An Raffatullah.
Yes. Hope all is well. Phew. What a
saga. Saga is not over, Nusayb. Saga is
not over. We ask Allah for Khayr.
Sara asks I I always expect the good
the the the hard meaty questions that come
from Sara at this point. Are there any
valid critiques towards halakh? Of course, everybody. There's
valid critiques to everybody. Nobody is Masoom.
Also,
nationalism, patriotism,
a proper definition of them.
Okay. That's interesting. Let's shelve that for a
second. I'll try to come back to that.
That's
a good I I like the way you're
thinking though. Sarjil says, yeah, Allah, don't allow
corruption to exist anymore
anywhere anymore.
Beautiful du'a. Shafi'ul Islam, divine intervention was the
sole reason to cause tre tremor in the
heart of those in power in the country.
Well said. Allah has the ability and he
tells us this in the Quran. He tells
us this in other in many of the
Surahs,
such as Surah Al Infad
that
Allah is the one who can place fear
in people's hearts or take it away. And
you'll see when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes
some of the battles that the early Muslims
had to face, he describes it in terms
of removing fear from their hearts such as
at Badr and elsewhere
and placing fear in the hearts of the
disbelievers and the enemies of Islam.
Yes. Let's see. What do we have? Yes,
Talib al Chaudhry. We do. We make du'a
for Bangladesh. We ask for Allah's protection and
aid and help and for their
success.
Good. Excellent.
Seamus, welcome back.
Yeah. That's a point. That's a point. Seamus
has a point there. There's a larger discussion
for sure. And unfortunately,
this is how sometimes things get polarized. Right?
You have people reacting to
policies, and so sometimes these things run out
of control.
Zay Shan Milana.
From Richardson, Texan. Bengali from Richardson, Texas. I'll
be in your area this
weekend.
Richardson was lovely. I had a
a very pleasant experience there.
Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless you and may Allah
accept from us.
Yes. We'll talk about that, Jen, that's on
Moa.
The rumors and how they, function.
Is that
ash one k h? Why they must have
done from Bangladesh.
I love how many people are are tuning
in this week from Bangladesh. I'm so happy
that that you're with us.
It's true, Seamus brings up a good point.
Bengalis should study Egyptian and Sudan revolutions and
not make the same mistakes. We have to
learn and we have to learn fast. That's
definitely true. A lot of these things are
happening in real time and
we can't afford to not learn fast. Let's
just put it that way.
Barakovic, Ahmed Saleem official in the house.
Welcome.
Atlanta's finest.
Good to have you with a sheikh. I'm,
hoping to come down to Atlanta at some
point before too long. It's been it's been
too long already.
May Allah bless you and your family. Imam
Ahmed Salim,
a well known figure in Atlanta, and before
that, Canada.
Mom of 2 for okay. From Union. Okay.
That's a bit far away from my neck
of the woods.
When will the start? It's already started, Jannah
Tamoa. We're gonna get there. Insha'Allah.
Ismat Barakat. Do we have to collect all
the all the the folks who and around,
especially the people tuning in from Bangladesh. We've
got Ismat Barakat from Dhaka.
Okay. Sure bone from Howell. Very good.
Okay. Genetal Malwa. Wow. Awesome from Dhaka. Very
good.
Excellent. Excellent. Excellent.
From Los Gatos, California. Very good.
Welcome.
Looks like the politics are here in the
chat.
Yeah. Well, you know,
listen, we'll get into a bit of it.
We're not gonna be able to give an
exhaustive treatment of it, and people are going
to disagree for sure. But
there's a certain structure
to the way that the Muslim majority countries
are being managed
by India and the likes, and we need
to shine light on that structure and challenge
it.
Amin. Salahuddin is my hero. Amin.
Okay. Saladin gets right into it. What are
your thoughts analysis on?
I'm just gonna say this. I'm just gonna
say this, Saladin,
that
Israel
assassinating
Haniyah
to get sinwar
just demonstrates the arrogance and the foolishness of,
of Israel.
And, Allah
will will take care of the rest, InshaAllah.
Carol Ann Dugan.
Wa Alaikum Salam from Ireland.
I think I might,
I might know you.
That last name sounds familiar.
Halima Nasar Alaihi wa Salam.
Shahroz asked about
Islamic education. We might get to that, but
probably not. There's a lot of other things
to talk about.
Good to see you again. I remember, I
think, a few episodes ago you're with us.
Jahangir Ahmed, British Bangladeshi watching from the UK.
Welcome to the program. Human.
I'm trying to run to the end of
the comments so we can get into it
because I know that
I know that everybody wants to talk about
the nitty gritty.
So I'll just say a quick Walaikum Assalamu
alaikum
to everybody,
and let's get into it. So the first
issue we wanna talk about I will get
to the rest of the comments, don't worry,
but I'm gonna circle back to them. So
revolution
in Bangladesh.
As we already see in the comments, things
are very divided, but I think that we
have to celebrate our successes and look at
the positive, especially when we understand the structure
of these post colonial states that exist in,
the Muslim countries, the Muslim majority countries all
across the world, and how it has hindered
our capacity for pack for,
action on Palestine. And somebody in the comments
was talking about, oh, Hasina Sheikh did this
for Palestine that Palestine. And I would say,
what? Let's talk specifics. Are we talking about
lip service? Are we talking about actual action?
We have anything sort of boycotts,
any sort of diplomatic punishment.
What were the actual policies? Let's get into
the specifics, if we wanna get into specifics.
The reality is that the majority of the
countries, the nation states that are set up
across the Muslim world are meant to control
the Muslims and keep them down and keep
them from uniting as an Ummah, especially to
keep them from liberating
Palestine.
So anyway, in the past week, again, I
was mentioning that some of the people who
tune into this program regularly were in conversation
with me,
via email and otherwise, educating me a bit
about the history of Bangladeshi politics, about what
the movement
really sort of, it began as just talking
about the quota system, but really, it became
a a much larger movement with a much
larger cause that,
Hasina Sheikh was somebody who
weaponized
the framework of the war on terror after
911 and even Islamophobia and Islamophobic tropes in
order to do the bidding of India and
Bangladesh, and I don't think that that's very
controversial.
I know people personally here in the United
States
who are Bangladeshi,
who have relatives that have been arrested or
killed by the Hasina Sheikh regime. Okay? So
that's not fake news. That's not made up.
That this was a person who was a
dictator. This is a person who was relentless
against her opponents
and used the war on terror framework
and anti Islamic tropes in order to basically
cover up for what she was doing, that
anybody that was opposed to her, And we
can critique. This is not to paint in
a 100% positive light anything that, you know,
this group and that group, I know some
people are going to say, oh, Jamis al
Islam or this group or whatever, they have
their own excesses. This is nobody's perfect. This
is politics.
But two wrongs don't make a right. Right?
The the type of brutal crackdown and oppression
that Bangladeshis have suffered under under this regime
is not justified by even any of the,
let's say, excesses or possible excesses or alleged
excesses
of some of the other groups that were
on the ground.
Especially
understanding that, I think it's very significant to
notice that, and we can run the images,
guys, like, the the other images that we
have to show, that
where did
where did Sheikh Hasina flee to
when she was given 45 minutes to leave
the country and resign?
She left to India.
That is very significant. It's not incidental. It's
not accidental. That Hasina Sheikh, for all intents
and purposes, was India's person
on the ground controlling, managing,
Bangladesh.
That Bangladesh was a garrison state, like many
of the other Muslim nation states or garrison
states, not just once, but twice over. A
garrison state for India and the BJP. Right?
The sort of Hindutva narrative and the secularizing
narrative and the anti Islamic narrative, and was
also
with the approval of the United States. So
2 birds, 1 stone, that the current or
I should say the the former regime in
Bangladesh was doing the bidding of both India
and the United States. There tons of issues
of violations of sovereignty,
when it came to, Bangladeshi sovereignty
and India,
Indian encroachment upon Bangladeshi sovereignty.
So we see here something that is remarkable,
a popular movement, a youth movement that rose
up and put its foot down, even though
they didn't have, as some of our our
viewers pointed out,
they didn't have guns. They didn't have weapons.
They didn't have anything. All they had were
numbers and courage and faith in Allah
and
Allah gave them assistance. Now these things are
very, very sensitive,
and,
the specter of
violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh
has been a trope. Okay? That has been
used to justify
the policies of the previous regime and also
to justify Indian,
meddling into Bangladesh itself, which is not to
say that no instance is ever true. But
as somebody who's very familiar with the history
of politics in the United States, it is
also true that agent provocateurs is the easiest
thing in the world for a government to
put somebody in plain clothes and go have
them attack somebody to make it look like
a certain thing is happening. And that's not
to say that that's every single situation, but
definitely we know that this is something that
governments do. So
the important thing is that we are in
a super critical time in Bangladesh, and we
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to grant the
people of Bangladesh success and safety
and courage to not go down as one
of our viewers pointed out, the
way of the mistaken way of some of
the previous revolutions where things got out of
hand or things became paranoid or things, that
you end up becoming the oppressor
trying to
avenge the wrongs of what happened before.
We hope that
they are able to keep cool heads and
build a truly,
representative
Islamic society
that delivers justice and the best outcomes for
everybody.
Now Allah
you know, he says something in the Quran,
a very, very significant verse. Let's cut to
it, guys. He says in Surat
An amazing ayah, which always, I think, should
play in our minds when we think. We
look back
just a few weeks ago,
the regime of Sheikh Hasina seems maybe
impossible to topple. Just as at some point
the Zionist or the,
Zionist occupation of
of of Palestine seems unstoppable or a certain
sort of
political force seems unstoppable, but Allah promised us
something very significant that truth will always prevail.
Falsehood will always perish, and truth will always
prevail. Allah
just wants to see who is going to
support his cause. Right? So the
the fact that falsehood is going to fall
is already predetermined.
What side are you going to be on?
Are you going to be a person who
sort of cowered and tried to save your
own neck? Right? Or
worse than that, collaborated with the oppressors and
did whatever they asked you to do? Or
you're gonna be somebody who stood tall and
was part of the
the group that Allah
gave his
aid and assistance to that was an instrument
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in ending,
in ending falsehood. This was actually one of
the ayat, and I it was interesting as
we saw the
the video
of,
you know, the the statues being torn down.
Right? These statues and if we want to,
you know,
these are the idols of nationalism.
We'll just put it plain. These are the
idols of nationalism. Right? We know that this
type of statue making is already haram in
Islam. Right? Religiously.
Let alone the sort of hero worship and
cult like hero worship that that this is
sort of this is not anything to be
proud of, any sort of statues like this,
whether it's in Bangladesh or any other country.
Okay. So the idols of
nationalism being smashed in Bangladesh,
this was the same ayah that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam recited when he cleaned out
the Kaaba from the idols of the Quraysh,
when he took them and smashed them with
his bare hands. And we ask Allah
to allow us to cleanse,
all of the idols, both the explicit
external and the implicit internal idols that all
of us carry in our hearts
and in our countries.
Now the fact that she fled to India,
we have another verse here that came to
mind. We can cut to that guys in
I find this verse very, very instructive. Allah
said, those who disbelieve,
they are allies and supports of one another.
If you do not act likewise, if meaning
if you don't unite people of truth,
believers,
Umma, if you don't unite like they are
uniting, then there will be oppression
in the world and great corruption. You see
the Hindutva
regime, Modi's regime in India being able to
unite
with with
the Hasina Sheikh regime in Bangladesh
and be able to coordinate and look at
the type of facade and fitna that they
have caused for decades. Okay? So if you
don't unite if we don't unite, all the
brothers and sisters in Bangladesh, all of us
here across the world, across the Ummah, if
we don't unite, what kind of harm and
mayhem is going to result from that? So
we see that this is extremely significant. The
ability to be united as an Ummah
and to stand up for what is right.
And finally, and we'll end on this point
when it comes to Bangladesh before getting to
the comments. I know you're gonna have a
million comments and some of you gonna hate
my guts and some of you gonna say
that I'm wrong and I don't know what
I'm talking about, which is true.
But when we talk about solidarity for Palestine,
I challenge anybody to tell me what the
the sheikh regime did for for Palestine concrete,
Because the genocide still happened. The quote unquote
2 state solution, the quote unquote peace process,
the quote unquote the actual literal de facto
selling out of Palestine still took place
under
the watch of that regime. Okay? What were
the were there sanctions imposed? Were there boycotts?
Were there like, what was going on?
Especially,
if it was working in cahoots with the
regime, the current regime in India. Let's talk
specifics.
Right?
These particular types of regimes, just like we
have in Jordan, just like we have in
Egypt, just like we have in, yes, in
Saudi Arabia, just like we have in many
many other places, Morocco, just like we have
in many many other countries in the Muslim
world, they have stopped the Muslim Ummah from
helping Palestine.
They have prevented us. They have tied our
hands. They have threatened us with imprisonment. They
have threatened us with torture. They have intercepted,
any sort of aid or any sort of
attempt to alleviate the people of Palestine.
This is what they were designed to do.
This is what a garrison state means. It
means that it's a state that is set
up in order to keep the people
under control, to keep them divided, to keep
them fighting, and as long as that is
our reality, then we will not have the
capacity that we need as an ummah to
do anything for Palestine.
Aid us. Let's hit the comments.
Let's see let's see what people are saying.
I know we we're gonna stir the pot
a bit here, but we don't stray away
from that.
Okay. We see Sharjah says even today some
goons have been attacking different parts of Dhaka
at night in groups. The people on army
have been on watch. It's 6:20
AM right now. Alhamdulillah.
Things have eased but just now. So it's
very very difficult, You know, in these times,
there's gonna be a lot of chaos. People
are going to be acting with different types
of motivations.
There are false flag operations. There are,
psyops. There are fake news. Right? We're gonna
talk about fake news in a second when
we get to the UK and this whole
sort of powder keg that exploded
with the, racist,
anti immigrant, anti Muslim riots that are going
on. It all started because of fake news.
Right? So we see that this is a
very, very, very important and sensitive thing.
So we see that in times of fitna,
the prophet told us what to do. Right?
In times of fitna,
you try to stay put. Yes. We want
to alleviate and end depression. Yes. We want
to build a better society, but you can't
act hasty. You have to verify things.
Ashik
said this is Ashik Khan. Okay. We have
outcasted
fascism from Bangladesh, but at what cost? I
often ask. I found out that doctor Muhammad
Yunus is running,
Grameen America Foundation, which is a prime donor
of Israel.
Yeah. That's that's a really important point. I'm
glad that you brought that up.
The post
the post revolution period is extremely critical.
Right? There are always
multiple factions, multiple motivations that are behind the
ouster of any previous oppressive regime.
Some of those actors
are
benevolent. They're sincere.
Some of them are not. Some of them
are trying to save their own skin. Some
of them are trying to establish something new
that looks new, but really is going to
be a continuation of the old. Okay.
The critical moment that you're in here is
trying to outmaneuver
and outflank each other when it comes to
this. So that's why the people of Bangladesh
need our du'a now more than ever
to come out on the other side with
having something genuinely different, something genuinely just, and
something that is genuinely pleasing to Allah
Yosse Evelina from Indonesia.
Welcome.
Car 13 a asked, salaam,
do you think she still has a chance
to repent or the door of Allah's? No.
Of course, everybody has a chance to repent.
She's not on her deathbed yet.
But there's a difference between someone repenting to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and someone receiving the
consequences
of what they've done.
Those two things are not
mutually exclusive.
You can oust the oppressor, and we hope
the oppressor repents. But we're not gonna wait
around for the oppressor to repent before we
get rid of them.
Okay. Who else do we have? Munif.
Arabic always comes out very, very
small, so I can't really see it. Ashik
is asking fascism out in Zionism in. Is
it? I wouldn't say so so far, but
hopefully not. But that's something for the people
of Bangladesh have to figure that out now.
They have to make sure that those sorts
of forces don't come in and take control.
Good point
from no.
There you go.
A
100%. She can repent anytime for death. Yes,
Sara. Welcome.
Glad to have you
back.
Sara says your thoughts on trying to have
a discussion with the dissident right or do
you think that it'd be like shooting ourselves
in the foot? I'm guessing you're talking about
the UK.
We'll talk about it, Insha'Allah, in a bit.
From
Florida. Welcome.
Modu wants to speak to me personal. Oh,
this is not a personal
livestream.
You can send any emails to imam tomfakiniat
gmail.com.
Mustafa Hamid
from Bangladesh. Congratulations to you, sir.
Nope. From the Midwest. Midwest is a little
general. Nope. I think Saddam enough to lot.
We're in the Midwest. You're talking about Wisconsin.
You're talking about Chicago. You're talking about
Seamus is a good point.
Ahmed,
Malaysian in California.
Welcome.
Hope you're well.
K b, we are definitely making du'a for
the UK. Things are things are very tense
right now, and I've seen some horrific videos.
Many riots happening right now, and they are
being targeted towards Muslims and ethnic minorities. In
fact,
one of the sheikhas that, you know, many
of us are you know, is one of
our colleagues,
Fatima Barakatullah,
posted some really scary stuff, harrowing stuff, about
something that she experienced today where people threatening
her life and things like that. So very
worrying times indeed, and we do pray for
peace. And all the people of the UK,
especially our Muslim brothers and sisters are definitely
in our prayers.
Salam gives us salaam,
Seamus. Yes. Okay. Watching from Cardiff.
Sharah Bangla, the tiger.
Nice username there.
Ahmed. Yes. That's correct.
Very good. Ifbal Hussain
from Bangladesh. I'm so happy to have so
many people from Bangladesh watching this program today.
May Allah,
elevate all of you.
Here we go. Mohammed Abdullah says every anti
national agreement made by fascist Hasina with the
Modi government will be revoked.
Hasina killed so many university students, but in
the end, the students ousted her.
As Allah says in the Quran. Right? We
hope for their repentance,
but when the oppressor is punished by Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
in the Quran and,
what Allah says in the Quran,
and the heavens and the earth didn't cry
for them.
The heavens and the earth didn't cry for
them. So you shouldn't necessarily either.
I mean, Shadojio.
Yes. 100%. Sara Lip Service.
Yeah. It's possible. It's possible, Seamus. Yep.
Yeah. Salah, that's that's great. I've got that
in my, in my watch later list. I
haven't been able to see it yet, but
Dilly from 5 Pillars, shout out to Dilly,
and our brothers in the UK, did a
really good video on it, on the thinking
Muslim. Yes. That's in my,
things to do.
People making great points.
Yep. Sara, she did try to get into
the UK. The UK
denied her and served the US, and I
find that rich, which shows you that crime
doesn't pay, Sara. It shows you the crime
doesn't pay. Trying to, align yourself with US
interest or UK interest or being a puppet,
you're getting played. Right? You might succeed for
a little bit, but in the end, crime
doesn't pay. They will abandon you. They will
abandon you, because they only use you for
however long they think,
you're useful for.
Obey the law? Yep. Hit it on the
head.
Very good. People making great comments.
Seamus, you're also right. India told her to
leave as well. So we have no idea
where she's going to go. However, it is
significant that she was led into India, and
India was her idea of where to go.
Good points by Nusayba,
Qasem.
Yep. There's this sort of, that's a great
point, Nusayba. I'm glad that you brought that
up. Calling people wartime traders, this type of
thing. Everything was sort of the manipulation of
any type of rhetoric in order to punish
your political opponents. That's what we saw from
the, the Hasina regime.
There we go. People drop them facts.
Thank you for educating us.
A lot of people turned,
the war on terror into a grift. That's
one thing we gotta know. And one thing
why why I tell Muslims in the United
States that one of the most important things
we can do is to change the foreign
policy of the United States from within,
because the war on terror
became a grift for many, many dictators across
the world. They realized that all they had
to do was call their opponents terrorists, and
then they could get blank checks from the
United States and from the Western governments to
do whatever they wanted, horrible oppression. All they
had to do was call their opponents,
Islamic extremists or Islamic fundamentalists,
and then they here come the weapons. Here
comes the aid. Here comes everything else. So
this has been a really, really difficult time,
but we see that the ummah, as Sami
Hamdi always says, the ummah is roaring. Right?
The ummah is coming back. Every time they
try to hit us and put us down,
the ummah keeps on coming back.
MB makes a good point. The problem will
be if there's not the right people ready
to lead. That is true. Removing a problematic
person from power is an entirely different matter
from putting someone that is a good leader
and a competent leader in power. Those things
are entirely different.
Yep. And we have people like Naseva pointing
out that doctor Yunus is kind of a
darling of the US, so people are a
little queasy about that, and I think you
have a right to be.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully,
the it is not
yep. I am Sameeha. Sameeha also points out
she's also feeling iffy about doctor Yunus.
Hopefully, there's room to negotiate here.
Yep. Sharia. Bangla also makes the same point.
And we've seen that. Let's learn from that
from the US. Okay? Let's let's take it
back to the US political
developments that are happening. Okay? Biden stepped down,
and then Harris was going to pick Shapiro,
who's a very, very sort of,
out there Zionist
for her running mate, due to backlash went
to Walls. Walls is not good either. He's
also something of a Zionist. However, he's less
bad. And so we see that with power,
you have to keep them on the run.
Right? And this is an important point. So
don't think that the job is over, people
of Bangladesh. It's just beginning. Okay? You may
be
clear the highest hurdle, but there are more
hurdles
that many times power is going to just
put present to you a little bit less
bad of an option and a little bit
less bad of an option, hoping that you'll
say, okay. That's enough.
Okay? And so,
tie up your lungi.
Right?
Tie up your lungi tight and and get
ready to work.
Human asks, are public protests permissible in Islam?
Many scholars say it's not.
By default, public protests are permissible.
There might be things that are particular
to certain protests
in which,
that would make them impermissible, just like anything
else.
But the default ruling for protests is that
they're permissible
because this is something that is not worshiped.
It is something that you do not need
a precedent for. Right? It is simply an
expression of popular sentiment,
nor is it accurate to say, as some
scholars have done mistakenly, that protesting is haruj
or rebellion against the government. That is not
true.
And so the default ruling, again, it can
be changed depending on the specifics. The default
ruling,
is that it is permissible and Allah knows
best.
Yes. A called 3 brings up a good
point about Algeria. Sometimes it takes a 100
plus years.
Seamus, 100%. Yep. I've been reading Enfel and
Toba a lot these days.
Enfel and Toba are very, very important these
days. So many lessons.
Yep. Ariana Akhtar. Good point.
You know you know things are not good,
let alone not Islamic, when some but a
leader's face and and portrait and
statue is plastered everywhere.
Nah. Good point, Naz. She doesn't care for
her own people, so she ain't helping Palestine.
Good point.
Thank you.
Yeah. Ashik, that's very possible. Okay?
C a CIA asset or something that's a
little bit less than that. That's definitely
we know that that happens. That happens all
the time. Okay? So,
that's why we're saying that.
It's just beginning.
Heumann makes a good point. Nationalism is such
a divide into reuniting the Ummah a 100%.
I agree a 100%.
So that makes a good point.
We got a very, very rich, conversation going.
I'm not gonna be able to, for the
sake of time, hit on every single comment,
but,
people are making great points. I I encourage
the conversation.
Yeah. Murad Ali asked about, my thoughts on
UK and far right pro Palestine folks. We
will talk about that in just a second.
That's up next.
From Maryland.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Human asked, will Yaqeen create a live program
for fic related questions like Huda TV,
etcetera?
Not really.
That's not really within Yaqeen's scope. We
we shy away from giving fatwa like that.
Thank you.
And I on previous programs, I've demonstrated or
I've I've spoken about how,
the quality of fatawa and religious advice
is dependent upon tosor is proper tosor. So
proper grasping of the details of the situation,
which I believe really can't be done online.
Right? It really takes sort of understanding of
the local situation.
Now, sad to say, sometimes the scholars that
available locally are inaccessible or are poor quality.
That's an issue. But I don't necessarily think
that the answer to that issue is sort
of globalized fatwa. I think that that's,
a little bit a skeptic on that front.
K. Great stuff. Yes. So the pogroms in
the UK apparently have memories of the seventies
eighties. Europe has a problem with pogroms. 100%.
Yes. You are right about that.
There you go. Mister Phee, if I'm pronouncing
that correctly, Hasina did lip service for Palestinians.
She bought spy software from Israel and
I'm not sure what that is. Azazira
had a show about it. Aljazira, I think,
had a show about it. Very good points.
Yes.
So many people give lip service to Palestine,
but follow the money, follow the weapons, see
what true sacrifice is.
I asked my thoughts on Mehdi Hasan's stance
to still support the lesser two evils.
He's an op.
My thoughts on that.
This is, this is Democratic party has ops.
And,
hey. Listen. Okay. What am I supposed to
say here? I have to be careful and
choose my words carefully.
How you act in November
will demonstrate how much you value Muslim blood,
and will demonstrate how much you value
Palestinian blood, specifically.
And that's all I'll say, and you know
from my other platforms
what I think about that. You can go
to that Islam 21 c interview that I
did with,
the esteemed doctor Salman, but
I don't think it's an issue of convincing.
Let's just say that.
Very good stuff. Good stuff. Okay. We've got
a lot of great comments.
Trying to just pick out if there's any
particular questions that we have before turning on
to the turning our attention to the UK.
Blue Maroon, someone just mentioned it a little
bit down the comments about buying a spy
software.
Ask Imam Tom, how do American Muslims
prepare for being used as a scapegoats? Yeah.
Well, that's definitely,
a question that's relevant also to the UK
thing. I mean, there's 2 there's 2 prongs
to this, and we're gonna talk about it
with the UK situation. Prong 1 is dawah,
that you do have to take a responsibility
to have relationships with the people around you,
so that the narratives that are spun by
Zionists or hateful sort of right wing media
don't have as much sticking power. Okay. If
people know you personally,
sometimes, not all the time, Wadiya, you know,
in Chicago proves that sometimes that's not enough.
Okay? But we do have to,
you know, tie our camel in that sense
and make sure that we do have active
positive relationships and contributions to our local communities.
And the second prong is to build deterrent
power that nobody should be able to mess
with you. You should be able to defend
yourself both as an individual
and as a community.
Yes, Sara. Good point.
Check out what Rafat
and also Finkelstein
have to say about
such a person.
Kristen Marie Myers.
Welcome. Don't leave me behind. I'll try not
to. The comments are coming fast and furious.
Please,
please forgive me if I I miss some
comments.
John Rahmah asks from New York City, can
you thoroughly explain what nationalism is, please?
It's more of a political imaginary,
Okay? That believes in
that that your fundamental sort of allegiance
is to this fictitious entity that is the
nation. Okay?
My family came from Italy to the United
States in 1905,
but Italy is a construct. Italy doesn't really
exist. Okay?
Venetians didn't think of themselves as in the
same thing as Sicilians as the same thing.
Even today, they don't really. Right?
But prior to 18/61, when Italy became a
nation state, definitely not. Right? And then if
you go back further than that, even among
Venetians, there's different
subgroups and sub ethnicities, and all of these
things are very historically contingent. They don't have
any basis
ultimate basis in reality. They have a contingent
basis in reality that that when people believe
in them and act on them, then they
start to have some sort of effect. But
they're not any sort of replacement for your
allegiance to Allah
and your allegiance to the Ummah. And in
fact, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam warned us
against nationalism, not by name because nationalism as
a word did not exist then, but against
tribalism
and sort of calling to, you know, even
fighting on the basis of tribe. Yeah. This
is something that, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
warned us against. He said there's one of
the 4 qualities
that the Ummah,
will not leave off. That is from Jahiliyyah.
That's from pre Islamic times.
So Chris m asks the big question. Has
the sun risen from the west yet? No.
There you go. That was the easiest question
all night.
What can Bangladesh learn from the Egyptian revolution
so they don't end up with Assisi? Saladin
asked. Similar to what other folks said, you
have to put someone in power who has
legitimacy, credibility, and also knows how to lead.
It's not compromised.
And if that's a lot of people are
very suspicious about doctor Eunice,
so it sounds like, you know,
this is the time where these things are
are made or
they fall
apart.
Okay. What else do we have?
So Seamus says, Sahaba and biggest scholars have
protested LOL, even Ibad Samia. Yeah. Under a
certain understanding, that's possible to say that.
Little Institute.
What's going on? You tell me what's going
on. Yeah. Little Institute. What's going on?
A 100%. Sharjah, I not only know what
a lungi is, I often wear lungis.
There.
Scott Ritter's home was raided. I didn't know
that, SubhanAllah.
Abby asked, how can we express
appreciation for the victory
without being overly naive? That's through doing what
pleases Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
From Orange County. Here we go.
Very good. Mohammed Abdullah still educating us. We
appreciate you.
Trying to get to the other comments here
so that we can move on to the
UK. I hate to feel it let anyone
feel neglected.
Wreck it, Filiq Felix. Wawd alaihi wa Salam
Raftel from Lubnan.
Yeah. That's a good point. Listen, everybody in
their local in their localities has different issues
that we face. That's absolutely true. And oftentimes,
politics is very antagonistic. So sometimes we start
supporting somebody or stop supporting somebody for very
antagonistic
reasons.
Yep. Okay. A colleague brings up a good
point about, you know, it's on it comes
to Harrison Walls and
Shapiro.
Yeah. Ashik brings up a great point. So
let's let's transition here. Let's transition to the
UK. Alright.
So let's go. We've got riots going on
in the UK. All of our beloved brothers
and sisters in UK are under a very
very,
sensitive time and a very very sensitive political
situation. We've got,
some images and some footage we're gonna play
for you. That
basically based off of misinformation yeah. We can
run the footage.
There was misinformation that there was an attack
on some young people, some children that was
carried out by a Muslim, and, of course,
it turned out to not be a Muslim.
In fact, it was all
it was all
fake news,
and but this started a perception
that this was another sort of classic sort
of case
of
so called immigrant violence or imminent immigrant criminality.
It sparked riots across the country. We've seen
the WhatsApp messages and the Telegram messages of
people
saying that they're going to click up and
group up here. There's been burnings. There's been
attacks. There's been attacks on mosques. There's been
attacks on Muslim graves.
Okay. So
they this is a very very sensitive situation.
It's very dangerous situation. We ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala to protect our brothers and sisters
in the UK.
Now a lot of people there's been a
little bit of a debate about
the far right
and sort of how do Muslims relate to
the far right, especially those people who are
very online, like you notice that some people
on the far right are
anti Zionist or at least against Israel.
Some of them for good reasons, some of
them for bad reasons or problematic reasons.
How do we deal with those sorts of
things? And I really appreciated
the intervention
today.
Both Paul Williams has a video on this,
but also,
the intervention of Mohammed Jada from the thinking
Muslim. Shout out to my my friends and
colleagues.
When it comes to the constitution
of the far right and the specific character
of these
riots that are going on the UK. Somebody,
or a few people
in the, in the chat here called them
pogroms, and I think that that is accurate.
That these are not
your average everyday sort of anti immigration sort
of rallies. This is very very bold racism,
very anti Muslim sentiment.
It's not even just about the sensitivities
of the,
the far right who are concerned with the
great replacement or being replaced, which honestly, you
can have a a tiny bit a tiny
bit of sympathy
for
those people in the sense that it is
true that local culture is under assault everywhere,
but
what they get wrong is that it's not
under attack or assault from Muslims or immigrants.
It's actually under attack and assault from neoliberalism
and neoconservatism.
These forces that bring in McDonald's and bring
in Dunkin' Donuts and bring in Starbucks and
bring in these sorts of different global brands
and replace the local stores and replace the
local ways of doing things. Right? That's the
thing that's actually threatening you to replace your
culture and stop or the neoliberal sort of
economics that squeeze more and more money out
of you so that you can't afford
to,
sustain your marriage or to have children or
to have large families or these sorts of
things. Right? That enact, you know, all of
the sort of social engineering that neoliberal regimes
have engaged in in order to stop people
from living, you know, comfortable lives and eroding
the middle class and making sort of working
class life impossible.
That's really your enemy, not the immigrant, not
the Muslim. And so I don't buy into
the discourse that, oh, you know, Muslims, they
should just, you know, they should be necessarily
more English or they brought it upon themselves
by not being English enough or not integrating
enough. I don't necessarily buy that. And 2,
that it doesn't account for the
Zionists
who are deliberately
manipulating the situation and fanning the flames. Tommy
Robinson
being one of them. Okay. We're talking about
here, an Israeli asset and the other Israeli
assets that are out there that are
fanning the flames to this mischief, coordinating it.
I thought it was funny that we saw
that Tommy Robinson, I guess, his accountant is
Muslim,
though she quit on him.
So we see that even they, they play
a double game.
So I don't think that yes. I think
let's see. Like, Asha says Tommy Robinson
is running pogrom in the cloak of original
British weaponizing emotions and nationalism. Yes. I think
that's that's a a very good,
summary of what's going on. So So I
don't necessarily think that this is a problem
of the Muslims,
not engaging with the right. I think that
the particular character
of these riots and the people who have
been fanning the flames such as the Naija
Faraj's and the and the Tommy Robinson's, other
people,
they are not the pro Palestinian right at
all, and that was Mohammed Jalal's main point.
These are people that are
very deeply anti Muslim, very deeply anti Islamic,
very deeply racist, these sorts of things.
And so
my advice
or my sense of what's going on when
it comes to, and this was asked just
a second ago,
is that you need a 2 pronged approach.
Approach number 1, and this is a long
term sort of a strategy, is to build
relationships and do things, you know, the sort
of
Biryani diplomacy,
which is a DAO tactic. It's not a
it's not a political tactic. Biryani diplomacy does
not work in politics, but it does work
in DAO, right, to give people sambusas and
and things like that. That that can work
in dua, but it's not enough. We have
to realize that there are always
people that are trying to
dehumanize Muslims and fan the flames, and that
these people are very dangerous, and at the
end of the day, you need to have
a certain deterrent capacity,
the ability to defend yourself individually and as
a community. That does not mean hooliganism.
That does not mean vigilantism,
but it does mean being able to withstand
attack and deter attack. And we have an
ayah from the Quran, If we can cut
to that, guys,
I believe swords of hajj.
Yes. So we see a says,
nope. That's not it.
That's that's the one for, for fake news.
Okay. So last month,
says
in. And to see right.
So
that you don't certainly
go to English that you should verify news
when it comes to you, especially when it's
brought to you by someone who's not trustworthy.
Because if you don't, right,
and
so that you would do something that you
would eventually
regret. This is not, something that you want
to do, but there's another ayah when it
talks about the term power, 2240. Do we
have that, guys?
Adam Ashoori,
from Newport News, Virginia.
Glad to have you with us.
Noe asked, how do we shift the Ummah's
mindset from waiting for Allah's victory to striving
for it in his deen? I think these
things like Bangladesh and Palestine are are waking
us up. So in Suraj Hajj, what do
we have here? Yes. From
and to the end of the verse. So
we have that. Allah says,
if it weren't for
Allah checking
people some by means of others, then what
would happen? All
houses of worship would be destroyed.
Monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, places where Allah's
name,
Allah's name is mentioned.
So, yes, a certain amount of deterrent capacity
is praiseworthy in our deen,
and it is important. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
also says, just coming off the top of
my head,
that you should prepare for them what you
can of power. Why? Is it because we
look for trouble? No. Muslims don't look for
trouble, but we also don't want people to
mess with us. And sometimes, establishing something of
a reputation stops people from messing with you.
Let's hit the comments before we move on.
People praising, Shaika Haifa Eunice. I appreciate that.
Give her a flower. She's amazing. May Allah
bless her and preserve her. Go to a
95. From Azad, Kashmir.
Welcome to the program.
Middle East ambassador.
Can you tell Ustad Nasr content prepare more
content about skepticism? Yeah. I'll get him on
the phone. I can actually get him on
the phone and prepare more content about skepticism.
Increased Turkish translations.
I wish not that's not something that I
personally do, but yes, Insha'Allah. It's definitely fitarik
Insha'Allah. It's definitely something we're working on.
Alright. Good. Great comments then, everybody. I appreciate
the conversation. We're learning. We're benefiting from each
other. This is grounding with our brothers and
sisters. This is what we're here for.
Nusayba brings up a good point about nationalism
and overpopulation
and the arbitrary nature of borders. A 100%.
That is yeah. They that's a great point.
I love the end there. They'll always blame
it on us having too many kids.
Right? As opposed to other factors, such as
the arbitrary the arbitrary,
the arbitrary drawing of borders. We know that
the British did this on purpose, and I'm
I would assume the French as well. The
French were perhaps even worse colonizers than the
British. That they drew borders around the countries
in such a way as to create
no clear majority or to play off different
tribes, ethnicities, even religions against each other.
Yeah. I called it. It is, SubhanAllah. I've
seen a lot of videos from, the UK,
and it it is scary.
Definitely, definitely, definitely, you are in our prayers.
Yeah. Seamus brings up a good point too.
He says it's only the in places where
Muslims are 1 in a 1000, pulling families
out of cars and, checkpoints. Right? So
part of deterrent capacity is just
numbers. You know, population is power. Right? Having
those many kids, Nusseba, like, that's what we're,
you know honestly, it's it's pretty smart. And
for 1000 of years, that's how humans operated,
where they knew that having,
that we knew that having many kids was
an insurance policy, and it was protection.
Sergio, yes. I promise you. I'm well acquainted
with the lungi.
Some people are,
not believing me.
Yep. Gojo,
100%. We we pray for Pakistan and all
the other Muslim nations as
well. Human brings up a good point that
anti Islam narrative is planted in society
in order to
for reasons. Right? It's definitely a strategic thing.
Now we got lots of people talking about
lunges now. That's great.
Okay. Sara says a lot of
Muslim leaders in the UK were urging the
youth to not follow along with violence, but
only to defend.
That's good to hear.
Because it can get carried away. You don't
wanna do anything and I've we've seen the
videos the couple of times where a Muslim
youth is, you know, with their face covered
and, like, being, like, sort of a thug.
Right? Or being sort of, like, you know,
a little bit too aggressive. Right? On principle,
out of control, then that's just fodder. That's
gonna just fuel the sort of, you know,
the far right is gonna say, look look,
we told you so. This is what they're
out for. This is what they do.
Noah asked, what is the Islamic ruling on
illegal immigrants and refugees?
That's funny.
Well, I mean, I would,
I would encourage people we talked about this
in Malaysia at the, UMATICS conference and and
many people, especially the Indonesians, but also the
Malaysians were
disappointed with how many people on the ground
treated the Rohingya
when they came to Malaysia and Indonesia. And
definitely, this is one of the consequences of
nationalism. Right? That nationalism
stops us from having the attitude that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam encouraged
the unsolved to have towards the Muhajirun.
Right, when he made
when he actually made them as literal brothers,
were a far cry from that.
When the attitude of refugee is, well, you
can maybe come here for a couple years,
but then you gotta find somewhere else to
go. That that is
not very Islamic.
Now it's true that in a population crisis,
there needs to be very very
well thought out policies for what to deal
what to do to deal with,
a large influx of immigrants or refugees.
However, right now, it's exposing our nationalistic
sort of constitution and programming.
And watch
from Egypt via Massachusetts.
Ashik asks, what do you think about the
great war that is looming over our head
between the West versus axis of resistance?
Parenthesis us Muslims and the effort of product
25. Well, we gotta disentangle a lot of
stuff there
because the axis of resistance
is not just us Muslims. I think it's
a little more complicated than that. But when
people say the axis of resistance,
they mean,
the different people that are challenging
explicitly, militarily,
the Zionist occupation right now.
So that's one thing. The Muslim world is
another thing. Right?
And the looming war or whatever, I mean,
listen. Sometimes you can only see one step
ahead of you, and you just have to
worry about that one step, and Allah Subhanahu
Ta'ala will show you what is the step
after that once you get there. Project 2025,
I mean, I think that it's yeah. It's
real, but I mean, these things are done
all the time.
This one just happened to be leaked and
hit the news.
Everybody makes their plans. And in fact, Muslims
should make their own plans. Right? What what's
our project 2025? What would we want if
we could achieve anything?
Unlimited money, unlimited support, etcetera.
Right? This is just scenario building and thought
planning. Right? So that you can feasibility study,
so you can actually think through how to
achieve objectives. There's nothing wrong with that. In
fact, this is a reaffirmation
of what we just saw in the
ayah. The enemies our enemies are already plotting.
If we don't plot similarly,
then we're gonna be sitting ducks.
Art Forge also asked about possibility of World
War 3. It depends on who's on what
side. I don't know.
I'm not really sure. We've we've heard a
lot about World War 3 for quite some
time right now,
and it still hasn't happened. So, you know,
a lot of times things seem inevitable and
they're not.
Juju asked, what do you think about the
mask ban in Nassau County, New York?
Do you think it will deter the protest
or have any
impact?
I'm not familiar with it, unfortunately.
I did hear something about it, but I
didn't read it deeply, so I'm gonna withhold
comment on that.
Have I ever been to Bangladesh?
No. Not yet. Though I want to go,
especially now. Even more even more so now.
I mean, does Shane say it?
Good.
KB brings up a good point. I agree
a 100%. We need to learn more about
history so we can understand the world better
and our place in it. History will all
will also
help us see what is to come a
100%.
I agree with that a 100%.
That's a good analogy, Seamus. So Seamus brings
up a a really good thought experiment. Imagine
Muslims backing Hasina equivalent, like Assad, in Syria
or US invasion and calling themselves resistance a
decade later. That's I think that's illustrative.
That's nice.
Excellent. Who? Missy and the comments. I really
appreciate it. Everybody, your, participation is most valued
and cherished,
But we've got more to talk about today.
We're gonna revamp our section. We're gonna we're
gonna pivot now to tafsir time. So our
section now, we're gonna pause our going through
the hadith book,
and we're going to focus on tafsir. So
it's a new sort of style of doing
our section. Hopefully, it's gonna be a little
bit more interactive
and a little more, boots on the ground.
So what we're going to do, here's how
it's gonna work. Every single week, we're going
to focus in on a Surah. We're gonna
go through the short Surah, started today with
Surah Al Fatiha,
and we're gonna ask you 2 questions.
Okay? It's always gonna be the same 2
questions, so you can actually anticipate and do
your homework ahead of time if you're sharp.
So question number 1 is going to be,
as many of you have heard,
one of the linguistic miracles of the Quran
is that
every single Surah
has at least one
word that is completely unique to it, meaning
that it does not exist in any other
Surah in the Quran.
Okay. So the first question is going to
be what is that word in the Surah
that we're covering,
today, then the second is going to be
simply what does that word mean. So let's
get to it. We've got,
well, there's the answers to find a lot.
Come on, guys. Please fill the beans. Okay.
The person was supposed to, to ask a
question about Surat al Fatiha.
What is the one word
or what is one what is one word
in Surat Al Fatiha?
That does not appear
anywhere else in any other Surah,
and there's 2 possible answers. Let's see. Well,
okay. So we we gave you one. What's
the other?
Number 1 is Al Magdub. Guys, do not
hit any buttons in the studio.
Okay? What's the second one?
There's another one, the source of the Fatiha
that does not exist in any other Surah
of the Quran.
What is that word? And we're gonna talk
about Magloob and what its meaning is and
what it's significance.
Okay. Seamus is already on it with what
it means.
Yeah. Gojo, that's not a serious question, man.
Like, the Israel that's mentioned in the Quran
is not the same as the Israel, the
nation state of today. It's ridiculous.
Benny Israel, the followers of Israel. Israel was
the name of Jacob, was a title given
to Jacob.
Oh, Yaqub,
a prophet.
Oh,
man. If I name my cat Israel, does
that does that make it the Israel that
Allah talks about in the Quran?
Oh, that's ridiculous.
But that's about how deep Zionist logic goes.
Okay. So we definitely have
and mawglu we've established. Yes. It means those
who have earned Allah's anger or those
whom Allah is angry at.
Alhamdulillah, testify. Thanks for your
feedback.
Okay. Nobody else hit the other word. Oh,
we got it. Mom of 2. Yes. Nastayin.
Very good. Excellent. Nastayin is the other word.
Yeah. Shout out to Nusayba. Let's let's highlight
Nusaiba's comment. Shout out to the guys in
the studio. The guys in the studio hold
this down.
We appreciate we appreciate them. And they very,
very seldom make mistakes, which is why I
have to joke because it's very rare that
I catch them doing something like that.
So a 100%. So we have no. Actually,
Baliel e Young is elsewhere in the court
in the Quran. But Al Magboub
and Nestein
are in no other surah of the Quran.
Okay. Now Al Magboub,
what does it mean?
It means,
as you said, many of you said,
those who Allah is angry at or those
who have earned Allah's anger, which is implied
in the first because nobody
gets Allah's anger except that they have earned
it. Allah always is just in his anger.
He's never arbitrary.
Okay.
So what's the significance of this word? Many
of you are probably aware that the way
that Surat al Fatiha ends is basically a
cliffhanger
setting us up for
the following to Suras to come, Surat Al
Baqarah and Surah,
Imran.
That
Allah doesn't explicitly
tell us who's he's who he is referring
to when he says
He said, we ask Allah
to not make us of those who are
to not make us of those who have
earned Allah's anger, and to not make us
of those who have gone astray,
But
who are those people? Right? Now there's a
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
where he was asked, who are those people?
And he gave the answer, the Jews and
the Christians.
However, this answer is
illustrative and not exhaustive. What that means is
that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was giving
an
example.
It means he wasn't giving a comprehensive list.
Okay. And so
an example of Magdub alaihi was that he
gave were the Jews and an example of
what a are
the Christians. But why? We have to get
into why because the Quran is not sent
necessarily
to Jews and Christians. Well, it is in
a sense, you know, but it's addressed to
everybody.
So when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said that
what makes somebody magbob,
the scholars of tafsir have explained
that it is somebody who
knows the truth but chooses to not follow
it, and that this is sort of gone
into in detail in the next Surah Surah
Al Baqarah where Allah explains what Bani Israel
did to earn Allah's anger. What did the
Jews, the historical Jews,
do to earn Allah's anger?
They had the truth with them, but they
chose to follow other than the truth. Okay.
Now what about Waleeduddin?
Who are they? The example that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam gave were the Christians. Why?
What makes someone
fall into that category
if you
basically lose the truth to the point where
you don't even know what's true and what's
false anymore. And if you go into your
average Sunday church service where you see the
rock band on stage, you know, doing their
thing, then you will see clearly
how with the statues and the, you know,
pictures of Jesus supposedly,
white, supposedly crucified, all these sorts of things
that nobody has,
well, we'll just say that they're not true.
That this is clearly what Al Bawlim, the
people who are astray and Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala correspondingly
goes into more detail about that in Surah
Al Imran.
So
the takeaway for us is that we also
we should not
relate to this verse and in an identitarian
way meaning that
we do
not say oh well the Magdubialayhim
are just the Jews and the bawling are
just the Christians and so we're safe for
cool
No.
You can do something. You can commit acts
that put you in either of those categories.
If you know the the Quran, you understand
the truth of Islam, and you choose to
follow something else,
then you have put yourself in the category
of Al Magboubi Alayhim.
If you don't educate yourself about Islam, so
that you don't even know anything, and we're
not talking about converts here. We're talking about
people that had every
reason. They're born to a Muslim household. They
had everything at their disposal and yet they
don't even know how to pray. They don't
even know how to make wudu properly. They
don't even know if their livelihood is is
permissible or not or pleasing to Allah or
not. Then you have put yourself in the
category of wudabalin.
And so we ask Allah and Surat Fatiha
every single day at least 17 times to
not make us of either of those categories.
K. We're gonna hit our personal development segment,
but first, let's go to the chat. I
know I saw Abdullah has a funny comment.
Abdullah is is,
is behind the scenes.
Oh, yes. And we're touching buttons. I know.
The buttons, especially the shiny red ones, man.
They're they're they're the the hardest ones to
to resist.
Abdullah says, you know, Tom, you have to
forgive me. I drink decaf. That's the reason.
That's the we just found out the reason,
Abdullah. Abdullah drinks decaf. That's the root of
all our problems.
Speaking of it, day 2 of asking you
to do a decaf review assignment. I mean,
I could I could
I could drink decaf right now and go
to sleep in a minute and be no
problem. I'll take a rough man while I
come Saddam. Buona notate. Buona Sarah.
Welcome to the program. Or for you,
Welcome back to the program.
Human. Breaking it down. Very good.
Excellent.
Abu
asked a question. I don't know the answer
to that one. I've heard in day of
judgment, the original form of the will
come upon us and be shown. Is that
true? I don't know. Never heard of that
before. Not saying it's not true. Just don't
know.
Shane Sayed asks, are these the end of
times?
Alaino's best man. It's possible. It could be,
but it could not be. If you look
into the history,
many many people you read stuff from a
1000 years ago. Right? You the people who,
lives at the time of the Mongols,
they swore that this is the end times
that were upon judgment day. Right? So
it's hard to tell. Right? It's hard to
tell, which is why we're not supposed to
know in the first place. It's less important
to determine whether these are the end times
or not,
as opposed to trying to do what Allah
is happy with. What what does Allah want
us to do? How does Allah want us
to respond to the challenges that we live
in?
Human brings up a good point. Yep. Christianity
is very tied to Roman paganism and to
white supremacy,
100%. That's very true.
Yep. And Seamus reminds us that all of
the, let's just say all of the,
apply to Muslims.
Right? They they,
they apply to Muslims. These things are not
just revealed for for other people. They're also
for us.
Sharon from Puerto Rico.
Hopefully, you're well.
Alright. Let's move on and wrap this up.
We've got our personal development section. We're gonna
talk about the next chapter in
atomic habits. As you know, I'm at war
with book covers. My dust jacket
has
landed in the bin a long time ago.
Now this chapter is really super interesting.
Very, very, very, super interesting. Yes, a 100%.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us to
focus on what we can prepare. Brilliant.
Love your intervention there. So,
the chapter in atomic habits were talking about
environment
versus motivation
we have habits we try to make habits
we fail in our habits hey let's get
back to it
For those of you who are with us
last time, we said that you were going
to attempt to start a new habit. Either
you were going to say, at this time,
I'm going to do this action.
Okay? Or you're going to stack your habits
by saying
after I do this, I have it that
I'm already doing.
I will do that. Okay?
How did it go?
M b.
I
try. I try.
It's not very good.
No estan bueno. But that's okay. We try.
All we can do is try. So what
were your habits of my habit I was
trying to do
my habit that I was trying to do
was to
work on my language study that I would
do it after Dohar. Okay? And my
the the the anatomy of my habit that
I had said is that, okay, in the
car
before I go back
to
from the mesh sheet to home,
I'm gonna sit in the car and do
my language study, like my language app, my
what words or whatever.
Okay? I totally failed.
Totally failed. So everybody can feel better. I
totally bombed it.
I bombed it for two reasons. Okay? 1,
because,
my car broke down. I actually got in
a minor accident this week. So the car
is no more.
So I wasn't going to the masjid for
for the door. And so that totally wrecked
my whole my whole habit. Now I was
able to sign
as motivation. I was able to get motivation
to do, it here and there, but it
was very sporadic. It was all over the
place. Sometimes it'd be at night, sometimes it'd
be at the morning, sometimes it'd be in
the middle of the day. Right? I did
not successfully execute this lesson. So I'm gonna
try again to
re,
let's say,
I'm gonna make my goal for next week
that I'll do my language study app.
Let's see. What's a good time?
I'll say
as soon as I stop work for the
day.
Okay. So before when I close my computer,
there we go. I'll use his sort trick
as I
close
my
laptop.
When I'm done work
sorry. I was told that that's a New
Jersey statement done with work.
That
I will do my language. That's gonna be
my my aspiration for this week. How did
you go you all do?
From Mali. Well, very good.
Let's see what we got.
Erfa Hrenner Kunde. Can you explain to the
viewers the three forms of disbelief
stating
it's not? Well, you just told us.
Great job.
So Mihas confesses I couldn't decide which one
to start with. Too many things I want
to change. Just pick 1, Samiha. Just pick
the easiest one because you want confidence. Right?
Pick the easiest one. I think that's what
I want. Before we end, I want you
to tell us in the chat which one
you're gonna do for this coming week, and
hopefully, my failure inspires you.
Mom of 2 says my habit failed because
of my kids. I tried to read 5
pages of Quran after each salah in the
office. They were too much distraction. Oh, okay.
Well, I have to say mom of 2
that,
5 pages after each is ambitious with kids.
So
maybe
we try to bump it down. You can
try to adjust your habit to be a
little bit less ambitious,
from 5 pages, and maybe you can work
your way up to doing 5 pages after
each salah.
Or
if the kids are distraction
let's see.
Maybe I don't know what time they go
to bed versus what time you go to
bed or what time you wake up versus
what time they wake up. But maybe there's
a time of day where they're kind of
engaged and busy
that you can tie your Quran reading to
that time of day versus,
the salah when they're
causing mayhem.
Human said I couldn't start any because I
didn't make ants
any peaceful ones. I'm not following.
Let's see.
Specific ones. Okay.
Jenna Tamoa meme, are all the habits mentioned
in the Atomic Habits book, are they habits
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to
do? No. Not at all. It's written by
a non Muslim.
However, it's a book to try to help
you be more effective in the habits that
you make, so there's really a lot of
application
for being a Muslim because our days are
very regimented. We have things that
we want to be doing that we're not
doing. So reading Quran and doing and doing
all these sorts of things,
or even just being a healthier person. Right?
So this is sort of,
in Maslaha Mursala territory. This is something that
the Sharia tells us to do in principle,
in general,
but not necessarily the individual specific things, that's
where this book is taking us.
Okay. Saga confesses. She says, I think I
failed after other things came up, though I
did become a bit more continuous with knowledge
getting good. Excellent. That's good to hear. So
sometimes, you know, again, the very first chapter,
1% improvement. That's all we're looking for. If
you're 1% better a day, you're winning.
Ashik says, as a computer programmer, I was
trying to achieve a 100 words per minute.
You mean, like, writing a 100 words per
minute? Typing? That's pretty that's pretty fast. Last
week, atomic habits helped me achieve that, though
I was trying for a long time.
Yes.
Success. Well, we're we're happy for you, Ashik.
Even those of us who failed, we will
take our inspiration from you. Good work.
Okay. Juju says I was able to memorize
more of the Quran. Good. I added it
to Fajit time. I read a small section
about 10 minutes. I decided to add 30
more minutes, 2 times a week, Sunday Wednesday
to memorize it. Works so far. Excellent job.
Juju, that's awesome.
Okay. Says,
I thought I could work out right after
Fedger. Moment of silence for that.
For that habit. Okay. Good. So you need
to so you're in my my situation, Shoreline.
You need to readjust.
Okay?
Working out right after FEDR didn't work. Why
though? Why didn't it work, Sherwin? I'm really
interested. Because he uses this idea of
this example of working out after Federer very
specifically, and he has some really interesting thoughts.
I'll I'll get ahead because he doesn't mention
it till later chapter.
But sometimes you need to only
make the smallest
queue,
like, a runway to the larger thing. Like,
working out is quite a
hard thing to develop the motivation to do.
However,
if you just look at getting change into
your workout clothes, you set out your workout
clothes ahead of time next to your prayer
mat. Right? And your shoes are by the
door and everything is very sort of ready
to go. Actually, we will talk about that
a little bit today. Right? That this is,
sometimes easier than telling myself I'm just going
to work out after FedR. You pray FedR.
You have to go in your closet. You
have to find something to wear. You have
to find your shoes. Right? All of those
little hiccups
are obstacles
to you being able to,
to succeed in your habit.
And b says, I stop listening to music
during workouts. Now I just listen to Islamic
content. Has been consistent. Great job, MD. MB.
Very good.
Okay. No. Seba says, I have been doing
my morning at the card with my tea
and coffee. Excellent work. No. Seba, fantastic.
Do you drink tea and coffee at the
same time? I'm really curious because you you
said like with my my tea and coffee
or is that like I'm interested.
But good job. That's fantastic to hear.
So it just says, what would you say
to someone who's trying to pray the 5
prayers daily always on time and is failing?
And sometimes, well, you need to look at
your habits. What's taking you away from it?
Right?
Will I teach you Arabic?
On this program, probably wouldn't work
though I'm happy to teach people Arabic. No
problem.
Abdullah.
I did my walks at lunch at the
park. Fantastic. Succeeding. You did better than me
this week, Abdullah.
Nice work.
New
excellent work.
Motivation is very important, Juju. I'm glad that
you mentioned that. However, there are other things
that are more important than motivation, and we'll
get to that today.
Reading 4 to 5 Ios translations.
Great. Good to hear.
Nice.
Sounds like we had a lot of success,
and that's really great to hear.
Vic are going up the stairs. I like
that idea.
You should do both
as much as possible.
Sayeda Islam from Sydney.
Yes. I was just accosted and ambushed by
tons of guys from, Australia
when I was in Malaysia. And they forced
me. They said, you have to come to
Australia in 2025. So Inshallah, I'm gonna try
to make it work.
Okay. So Meehaw gives us her her plan.
The habit I'll start with, I will read
one page of Quran right after I pray
prayer before I get up from the prayer.
That's excellent. Now I'll give you success.
We we look forward to hearing about it
next week.
Welcome,
Amy.
A new habit of reading 1 page of
Quran before I get on social media. Excellent.
Good. That's good. That'll tie it to social
media that actually provide almost a disincentive to
get on social media.
Okay. You switch them around. Okay, Nusayba. So
Nusayba, you're from the the group of people
who,
who thinks that tea and coffee is part
of the same category,
because I'm not. Like, for me, like, tea
is like fun. I drink tea for fun,
but I drink cough coffee is business. Okay?
It's also art, but it's also business.
Yeah. Elias brings out yeah. Audience tour. Let's
do it, Elias. Audience tour.
Okay. Atika. Great. Try to have make a
habit of working out right after Fedr. Good.
Again, I would suggest putting as much as
you can into making it as easy as
possible.
Samiha asked about vikr and sort of, doing
it in your head versus doing it with
okay. A lot of people interested in Arabic
classes. Anybody interested in Arabic classes, email me.
Email I'm Tom Fakhine,
f a c c h I n e
at g mail dot com. We'll see what
we can do.
But,
don't think of it semihas, like, counting or
not counting. It's better to do it with
your lips, because you're actually internalizing it then.
You're making it easy for you for you
to say. K. Because you want to be
basically train yourself to be able to
say it spontaneously
in a difficult moment. Okay. So if you're
only doing it in your head then that's
not really doing that work. Yeah. It's better
than nothing. Right? Like, doing it in your
head is better than nothing, but, doing it
in your lips
and even with your fingers is something that's
even better.
Ashik makes a nice new habit, reciting say
to us tikfar a thousand times, Alahaqbar, leaning
on my work desk after finishing my computer
work. Excellent work. That's it.
Looks like a potentially successful habit.
Attica's father,
used to have coffee and chai together.
I'm gonna I'm gonna try to follow that
sunnah.
Okay. So for this particular
for this particular chapter, we're gonna wrap up
after this. The author talks about environment versus
motivation. Okay? That motivation is important as Juju
said. Motivation is important. However, motivation falters very
easily.
Okay? Falters very easily that you're not always
gonna be motivated. You might be super motivated
at the beginning of a habit. You might
be super motivated when something happens in your
life.
Okay?
That causes you to sort of put more
importance or attention on something, but that motivation
will wane. It will falter. It will eventually
decrease. And so how do you actually overcome
that with your habits through those moments of
low motivation?
Okay.
The author talks about environment that you do
that through structuring your your environment to assist
your habits. Okay. So he gives some studies.
Some people they found that in a cafeteria
that when they placed bottles of water literally
everywhere, not just in, like, one cooler by
the checkout, but, like, literally everywhere, people started
drinking more water. Okay? That it was suggestive.
They didn't necessarily go into the cafeteria thinking
that they were going to drink water. Maybe
they want to drink soda. Maybe they wanna
drink juice, but the placement of water everywhere
got people to drink more water and,
drink healthier. Okay? The same thing with can
happen in a bad way. Okay? So office
snacks. If you work in an office, sometimes
there's a centralized place with snacks,
and this is usually where your poor healthy
your poor eating habits happen because that's sort
of this sort of habit you get into
where all this junk food is in one
place and you constantly go to it, even
when you're not hungry.
Now the author also makes the point that
of the different types of cues that we
have, cues are sensory, but they're also especially
visual that human beings are
more visual than
anything else. Other creatures, it's different. Okay? They
have a very strong sense of hearing or
smell or taste, but for human beings, we're
extremely extremely
visual. So you need to make the cues
for your,
the cues for your habits
visually
obvious. With so some of the people who
are saying that they want to work out
after Fedra leaving your workout clothes
right on your prayer rug, next to your
prayer rug so that you can pick them
up and do it, that's a great idea.
You're making the habit visually obvious. It's actually
a huge difference whether you leave it in
the closet or whether you put it out.
Right? That's the sort of type of environment
environmental design that we want to do in
order to assist us in our habits.
So there's lots of data on this.
For example, there was some people that they
you know, the electric meters that measure how
much electricity you're using.
They did an experiment where they put these
electric meters in the main hallway of people's
houses,
and they noticed because it's in an obvious
place,
they use a lot less electricity. Whereas if
the electric meter is outside the house, then
this is something that is out of sight
out of mind, You're going to forget about
it. So you basically have to figure out
how to make
your queue
a big part of your environment. Whatever your
cue is for you to do your habit,
whether it's a dhikr, whether it's,
working out, whether it's Quran, how do you
make that cue a big obvious visual part
of your habit?
One of the ways one of the ways,
to do this is
through context. He said often
that our cues are not limited to one
thing, but they're contextual.
Right? That they're spatial,
meaning that sometimes we get in the habit
of doing things just by the room that
we're in, just by the piece of furniture
that we're sitting on or that we're using.
Right? You have certain memories and experiences that
are tied to these specific rooms. So he
advises
basically
dividing up
your, tasks that you want to do according
to rooms. He says if you're able to
do it, if you have the space to
do it, have every room in your living
quarters dedicated to one purpose.
Right? And if you're limited on space or
even if you're not, even if you want
to subdivide,
have every piece of furniture in your room
dedicated to one purpose and one type of
task. This is huge when it comes to
people who deal with insomnia. A lot of
times people who can't sleep at night,
they don't have
any
context or cues from their bed that they
should be sleeping. They are on their phone
in their bed. They watch movies or TV
in their bed, and they eat in their
bed, and they do all these other things
that they read in their bed. And so
their
body has stopped associating the bed with sleep
or at least the association of the bed
with sleep has become crossed and confused with
all these other associations.
Make the bed just for sleep. Make your
desk just for work. Make your chair just
for reading, etcetera. This type of division will
really, really you focus and it will really
help you,
keep to your habit habits. Of course, habits
are easier to change when you move into
a new environment. Okay. If you move into
a new house or new apartment
or even if you are not happy with
a certain habit and you're doing it in
a certain room, maybe you need to change
rooms, you need to rearrange the furniture, maybe
you need to get a new piece of
furniture,
paint the walls, whatever to change and introduce
some new thing into your environment to disrupt
your habits that you're trying to get over.
He gives lots of different examples,
and one of the more, I think, relevant
to me examples, because I work remotely for
Yaqeen Institute and and otherwise,
is the author says that he had a
really, really hard time for a long time
distinguishing between his work and his non work
life. So he would find himself sort of
tucking in work
everywhere and anywhere, and it was creeping into
his life. It was putting strain on his
relationships.
He didn't he wasn't able to turn work
off,
and he realized that he was he didn't
have any specific
limitation to where he did his work. And
so he basically decided that he was going
to make one specific room
the only place
where we he was going to get work
done. Whereas before, he would take his computer
around with him. He would sit at the
kitchen table. He would go on the couch,
he would go upstairs, on his bed.
The context and the clue and the cues
were everywhere. So he eliminated that confusion, and
he only point he only put one room
and one piece of furniture to his work.
When he was done work, he shuts the
laptop, he leaves the room, And then he
was able to very, very easily
distinguish and delineate between what was work time
and what was not work time, which is
why and we'll end on this,
which is why
the smartphone is really, really bad for habits.
And that's part of perhaps, you know, people
who do language apps and things like this.
Yes. They're good,
but they're very bad for habits because
the context is too general.
The cues get confused and mixed up too
much. You do a lot of things in
your phone. You check your email on your
phone. You have social media on your phone.
You have messenger apps on your phone. When
you open your phone, you're now getting the
cues for all of these things. That's exactly
why you open up your phone sometimes, and
you wanted to check WhatsApp, but now you're
on Instagram, and then you close your phone,
and you're like, wait a second. I opened
my phone to check WhatsApp. I didn't even
check WhatsApp. That's why it happens because it's
too confusing. And a lot of people are
trying to think about now how to disentangle
all these things and, like, there's different things
like the light phone. There's different types of
phones now that are coming out that only
are used for calls or only used for
this, or they only use their
laptop for email,
and they only use maybe a different phone
for messaging apps and etcetera. Like, this is
how you can split up your,
tasks
in a way to make them more purposeful
and to keep your habits better.
Let's see what we got in the comments,
then we'll sign off for the night. People
talking about conquering galaxies in the chat. Alright.
Do your worst.
Yeah. Somebody throw my email down in the
chat, Abdullah or anybody else.
It's just literally imam and then my first
and last [email protected].
Shadrjil, may Allah guide you. Doesn't like either
tea or coffee. I don't know how you
live.
No Saba,
says, wow. Didn't know that was a category.
They're all caffeine. No. No. No. No. No.
No. No. No. No. No. They are not
all caffeine. It doesn't work like that. Coffee
is distinct.
Okay. Chai is fun. Chai is great, you
know,
but coffee is distinct. Are they gonna sign
it off to the other big tattoo? Chieftain.
Okay. What do we have? What we got?
Amin, does Shane say it?
Mohammed
Aftab.
It's it's nice to be on a first
name basis with each other.
Morning.
Awesome. Great to hear that. I'm happy that
it's working for
you. Alright.
We'll see what happens. Like I said, email
me your interest. I'll try to gauge interest,
and we'll see.
Allah
Samarduk. The book being discussed is Atomic Habits.
We do that every week.
There you go. Human. Pin that comment right
there. If you help yourself, you can help
the by getting yourself to be better and
going into the community.