Tom Facchine – Hypocrisy at the DNC
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So now
I want to come up to law. We're back. Everybody, live with yakin
Institute. I'm your host, Imam, Tom fakini, and it's a pleasure to
have you with us. We took a week off last week
because, you know, I need breaks too, and but we're we missed you
all, and we're happy to have you with us tonight. We have a very
exciting show prepared for you. As always, we've got some very
important current events that are going on. The political sort of
race in the United States is heating up and taking shape.
Somebody takes a swipe at myself and Sheik marsili Man. We'll talk
about that.
We'll also continue going with our books. So we've got Teps here
today of swords and NAS and of course, we've got atomic habits.
But first, let's go to the chat and see who we have tuning in with
us tonight. First one in Ruslan,
off to lot asks, How do I stop being angry at people?
There's a lot to say. So there's like, some attitudinal shifts,
right? That's like, how are you making sense of what you're doing
in this world? And
then there's sort of like techniques. And there's techniques
that the Prophet saw them told us, such as, for example, ones you
might already know, making wudu when you are, you know, making
your sort of ritual purification when you're in a state of anger,
changing your position, if you're standing to sit, and if you're
sitting, to lay down, and these sorts of things. Those are sort of
techniques, but there's a broader world worldview that I think is
really important to bring up. Why are we angry, right, maybe. And
we're assuming here that what you mean is like excessively angry.
Are we displeased with Allah's Qadr?
Are we having false expectations as to how other people will be?
And I think there's something that's going to come up tonight.
So come up tonight about having realistic expectations. Not
everybody in the world is your friend. People are going to
disappoint you, and so you have to prepare yourself and arm yourself
accordingly. What are you angry about? I think is sort of the
question here. But if you realize that everything in life is just a
sort of test, the last point out is throwing at you things
constantly, like he says in one eye. And Surah Adam Ron about how
you're going to hear, I think we're going to cover this
actually, we will cover this, Aya, later, so I'll save it for then.
But you're going to hear a lot of people test you, say bad things to
you, say harmful things to you, right? And this is all part of
what Allah wills, okay. He needs to distinguish from decent to good
and from good to better, not that he doesn't know it already, but in
order to demonstrate to you so that you don't have any argument
on the Day of Judgment. So every negative thing, quote, unquote,
negative thing that happens to you is this type of thing. So some
people not saying it's you Rasna, but some people, if they're overly
angry, or their anger is exaggerated. It could indicate
perhaps sort of
too high expectations for what this dunya is, right?
Omar Hayato, dunya, Ila mataa, this worldly life is nothing but a
fleeting deception.
I like the comment from discord being after that you can't learn
to stop being angry. From Tom, he's a conservative in America,
their whole brand is senseless anger, man, you got me pegged. I
don't know what to do anymore. If you think I'm an angry
conservative, you should check out the guy who we're going to show on
a clip later. And
hey, caudry, why they gonna set.
Driving. Glad to have you with us as always. Siti Fatiha, walaykum,
as salaam. Ala Tala, one of our wonderful viewers in Malaysia that
I was pleased to meet. Happy to have you tuning in. Seamus, with
the excellent viewpoints and tidbits to add to the
conversation. As always. Walaykum, salam, what often to Allah. Amanda
Walker, also a return. Return viewer, walaykum as salaam.
Warahmatullah, welcome saliha. Ahmed. Salaam Warahmatullah from
from Atlanta. I believe I recognize you as well. Safra, I
believe walaykum, salam, we have a camel from Minnesota, the land of
10,000 Lakes. Wahalakam. Salaam, warah katu,
magical girls, Hans just prayed Fajr. May Allah. We just prayed
Maghrib here in our part of the world. So that shows you how this
ummah covers every inch of this earth. Does here. Ena says,
walaykum, salaamu, katu, my dearest Brothers and Sisters in
Islam. And then I know you saw you popped a question, and later you
said, did anyone read this disgusting article about the
Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman, has called on Israel to
carry out a full blockade, because that includes cutting off food,
water, medical supplies. Imam Tom, what are your thoughts about this
article? It was on the Middle East eye. How can we cope with such
barbaric statements like this? Though, this gets to my point to
Ruslan about expectations. This doesn't surprise me. I don't know
why it surprises anybody. At this point, this stuff has been stated,
not just constantly for the last 10 months, this has been stated
for the last seven decades. Right now, whether we had access to it
or not, whether we knew it was being stated or not, that's a
different issue. But when you understand, you go through the
Quran, you see how Allah span Tara divides different people into
different sort of categories. And we shouldn't be surprised by this
sort of thing, right? We should expect that from people who swear
to be our sort of mortal enemies for no good reason except that we
say that our Lord is Allah. And so the question is not, what's our
attitude towards them, but what are we doing? That's what they're
doing. Like they they're, they're, um, their methodology and and
mandate is clear. They know exactly what they're up to. What
are we doing like? What are we doing to prepare, to build power,
to help, to help our brothers and sisters, both in our own backyards
and across the world, and to contribute to the societies that
we exist in, and to make them better and more just places good.
Dan Wolf, wadding.
Who else? Nope, why? Nope. Brings up a comment here later, I saw
them scroll to it. I wanted to, again, ask you to bring the lack
of captions for the deaf or hard of hearing on your videos up to
your team. Jazacha, okay, nope. I know. I know nothing about
technology zero, so I'm gonna, this is my bringing it up to the
team, because I know that other teams watching guys. Can we figure
out captions? Can we figure out this sort of thing? We've got way
smarter people than me that are capable of doing that. Or if it's
a YouTube thing, I don't know if YouTube does that for you, or
whether that's something on our end either way, guys in the studio
are going to follow up on that. Thank you very much. What
else do we have? Safina, kosa, walaikum, salaam, ala talahi,
Barakatu Amin, beautiful dua. Thank you. Ya Allah, make our uma
strong in your deen and give us strength to follow your deen,
properly. Wonderful. Sada wa da NAFTA, Allah,
what else we got? Dion, from Canada, wadding. Salam,
oh, from Canada. There we go. It's Rick Rashid wedding. Saddam,
welcome back to the program. Random thoughts. Wedding. Salaam.
ALA,
yes, a cadre says was so upset seeing that poor hijabi getting
hit over the head with
a we love Joe banner. Wallahi. Wallahi. Wallahi. If there wasn't
a better
visual symbol of American politics right now than a hijabi getting
hit over the head with a we love Joe sign. Many of you have seen
this on social media. Care said that they're going to try to press
charges. This is not just any hijabi. This is, this is Nadia
Ahmed. We had her on this program back in, I believe, the spring, if
not the winter, as a guest. So she is somebody who's very
accomplished, someone who is a delegate for the Democratic Party.
And she has,
she has demonstrated great courage and at great risk to her own sort
of in this case, health and also safety and also to her position
and to her professional life. She has been constantly outspoken when
it comes to to Palestine, and she deserves a ton of credit for that.
So she was the person on the receiving end of that act of
aggression and that assault, and we ask Allah to deal with it
fairly.
7m 8m waiting Salamat, Salah,
Seamus, I'm not sure which.
Amit, you're talking about getting removed.
Amina kasupovich Tala from Bosnia Inshallah, inshallah. I hope to
visit Bosnia this year, hopefully in May, inshallah. That will be a
first for me. Hopefully. Amir Nordin Walen from Minnesota,
Minnesota, in the house I lived in Minnesota for a time. Some people
know. Some people don't. CD, noriatti Studio. Akatu from LA,
I'll be in LA in the end of November, last week in November,
Inshallah, no say. Bakasam from Worcester, walaykum as salaam. Ra,
you have a new Imam who's a good friend of mine. So exciting times
for Worcester, I'm going to have to, I think pay you guys a visit.
Adi ware from Iceland, Allahu, Akbar, we've got Iceland in the
house. Sada says critiques of Halak. I think I've heard interim
leader of Bangladesh's secular Nobel laureate and the like. So is
Bangladesh not going the right way? Well, that's, that's sada
always brings up our, I think our, she you're the MVP, Sada for
questions on this program. And we've talked a lot two weeks ago
when we last had our program about Bangladeshi politics. And
obviously I'm not an expert. However, I do know people in the
diaspora and people in Bangladesh itself that are sort of educating
me and trying to give me the lowdown it. I think it depends on
your perspective at this point.
One perspective is incrementalism, okay? And that perspective is
basically saying that if you go too fast, right? If you go too
fast, then you provide an easy pretext for somebody to
destabilize, you intervene, military coup, etc. They point to
Egypt as an example. That's one school of thought. The second
school of thought is what you're sort of saying. It's like, hey,
wait a second. This ruler is secular, and they they aren't
really so much of a break from the past, perhaps, perhaps. So this is
not satisfactory. Allah knows best what's going to happen. This is a
very, very sensitive time. There's another video that Imam Omar
Suleiman put out about addressing the situation in Bangladesh, and
addressed to the people of Bangladesh, saying that, don't let
your revolution be hijacked. And certainly, normally, how these
things happen is that there's this sort of gray period where
different factions are sort of tussling for power and trying to
outmaneuver one another. And this is a very, very critical moment in
Bangladeshi history. And we ask Allah to protect everybody there
and to make the Muslims, and we talked about this issue two weeks
ago, to make the Muslims a means of everybody, they are being
protected, right? Because this is one of the Hindutva sort of,
let's say, tropes, that the Muslims, having Muslims in power,
having Islamic governance, is somehow going to endanger the non
Muslims. And yet, we've seen time and time again, Muslims sticking
their neck outs to try to defend Hindu temples, to defend religious
minorities.
My raft Allah, Ahn NIS Amira, walam, salaam, Ratan Rahma Baloch
from Durham, North Carolina, trying to find a way to get to
Durham inshallah. Juju s from Orange County, California. Walai,
Salaam mohamedjazi While wadding was Saddam raftar from Houston,
excellent. Inshallah, tada will be in Houston. Oh, boy. I don't know
when am I going to be in Houston? We
definitely have something in Houston, and
if someone can figure out my calendar for me, then
I think it might be the first weekend of September, if I'm not
mistaken. Houston's a lovely city. I really enjoyed my last time
there.
Uh, Ashish, I
remember. Let's see what I said. I'm off to La it's Ashok from
Bangladesh. What's cooking? Nothing's in the kitchen right now
except a mocha pot. Uh, Tory J, wala M, salaam Seamus, yeah,
that's true. Seamus brings up a good point. Most leaders now are
secular. I think the question is, like purely secular, or like
secular front trying to incrementally push things like in
the same way, maybe like an Erdogan or something like that,
Imran Khan, or whether they're secular through and through, you
know what I mean?
Pestify from Maldives wedding. Saddam and raftala. Good to have
you back with us. You're a regular. We appreciate you.
Is there any way to know which week's podcasts would be scheduled
or not? Yes, once the keen schedulers talk to my scheduler
and they get on the same page,
next week, we'll be off. I'll be traveling again, and then I'm
going to be with my nose to the grind, and I'm not going to be
traveling for a while, so we're going to be off next week, but
then starting the beginning of September, we're going to be
going hardcore.
Okay, let's see. Ennismila,
what
is the meaning of being a man Allahu Akbar, coming with the hard
questions has that to do with protecting others. 100% men are
the ones that stand in between the world and chaos, 100% and that is
a burden that weighs on your back and mine, and we have to take that
extremely seriously, that we are the protectors of the weak.
We are the protectors of the poor. We are the protectors of our women
folk. We're the protectors of the children of the elderly. That is
what being a man means, and we have an increased responsibility
in from in front of Allah span to adda as protectors.
I do not read I believe that's Amharic, but I would love to learn
waikam Salaam from Ethiopia, glad to have you with us.
What can teenagers do to support a Gaza? Other than protesting? It's
a big topic, but I think in general, we need to be more
creative in our thinking about tactics and what we're doing. I'm
doing a lot of workshops and talks, you know, on my travels
about this particular issue that we can't just do the thing that's
closest in reach, such as protests and rallies and demonstrations.
There might be situations in which they're called for, but there's a
lot more that we can be doing, looking for opportunities, and
those are sort of site specific questions, right? Some things are
going to have to do with education. I think all teenagers
can participate in education when it comes to educating their
teachers and their principals and their, you know, superintendents,
and sort of, especially because they're all in schools working at
the school level to sort of get visibility right. A lot of people
don't realize how many Muslims, how many Palestinians, how many
Arabs there are in these schools. And then to look for local
opportunities, and opportunities might be a positive thing that you
can do, or the removal of a harmful thing or a harmful person.
In some cases,
good morning. Cara Ayad from Australian the guys I met in
Australia, excuse me, the guys I met in Malaysia that were from
Australia were very, very keen on me coming so Inshallah, hopefully,
I think 2025, it's going to look like roazi. Tama Abu Salaman, how
do you protect yourself from being victim of treachery? And Muslim
community, the believer is not stung through the same hole twice.
Okay? That being said, the Muslims were victims of treachery. So
you're not going to be able to if that's what Allah has found to
Allah has willed for you, you're not going to be able to avoid it.
He wants you to learn from it. However, you take as much
precaution, as you can
say, if Allah, may Allah accept, may Allah accept, I am just a
wretched sinner, just like everybody else. I have tons of
shortcomings and failures and faults. But we hope that the
little bit of good that we do, that Allah gives us Tawfiq to do,
that he accepts it.
Okay,
yep, 100% agree with you. Sada Juju says, I think care action
started a pack. That's true. Uh, whether it's similar to APAC or
not, that remains to be seen, depends on what your definition
and understanding what APAC is as well. It's through act blue. So I
think Democratic candidates are being helped. Do you think this
will be an effective strategy? Yes and no, I mean, like it's we
definitely have a gaping need for a community, grassroots political
action committee that is devoting 24/7, 365, attention to electoral
politics. We're in the learning phase, right? We're going to fail
a lot, so I'm not going to comment. I know Basim Nakara. I
know, you know the people I've talked with him personally, who
are running this I wish them success. There's going to be a lot
of mistakes in the beginning. The people I know behind it, i i
assume to be sincere. From what I know, they're sincere that doesn't
make them masum. That doesn't make them sort of infallible. We'll see
what happens. But whatever it is, we have to learn quickly. I've all
I've mentioned in other spaces, such as my interview with Dr
Salman, but in Islam 20 1c my ideas about sort of political
strategy in the pack space. So you can go see more details. There you
saw Adam Wade, salam, Raf talahi, but Kat from London, jolly old
London, it's the first time you're catching me live. I'm so happy to
have you with us. London is a lovely city. Totally surprised me.
I didn't have negative expectations. I just didn't have
any expectations. It was a very livable, walkable city. I enjoyed
my time there. Han wala, salaam, genuine question, how are we as a
citizen supposed to behave towards our own government, especially
when our government is not good, you change it. Habibi, the Prophet
SAW, as Adam said, if you see an evil, you change it with your
hand, and then you look at all the options you have for changing with
your hand, and you pick the one that has the most benefit and the
least amount of harm. Thankfully, in the United States of America,
we do have political processes that are, if you squint, look
democratic, right, so that you actually can sort of have a say.
If you organize yourself, if you organize your money, you organize
your message, you organize your people, you organize your action,
you can affect things. This is something that Muslim community
has dropped the ball on in the last 20 years, since 911 however,
we're waking up, and so we have a potential. And this is what I say,
Muslims in America have a potential to change the harmful
foreign policy, foreign policy of the United States of America. The
United States of America has foreign policy going back to at
least the 50s that is not just harmful to the Muslims the world
over, but is also harmful to the American people. It's also puts
Americans in jeopardy because it makes the rest of the world
basically hate our guts, right? So the most important thing that we
can do.
I believe as Muslims is to do what we can to change the foreign
policy of the United States of America. And that's an example of
something that you can do within your country, pebbles, 222, so I'm
struggling with expectations of this world, mostly because I'm
starting to feel like I hate this world. You're on the right road,
and I don't know how I'm supposed to live everything. Well, you have
to relate with Allah, not with the dunya. Okay, you're halfway there.
The Prophet sallallahu sallam, said that the dunya is melaruna,
melaruna mafiha, that the world is cursed, and cursed everything
that's in it, except the kraula, except for the remembrance of
Allah, right? And there's some narrations that add like what's
tied to it, or teaching, or knowledge, or things like that.
But the general idea is that, as said in another Hadith of the
Prophet sallallahu, sallam, the world is a prisoner for the
believers, and the world is Jannah, his paradise for the the
deniers. And so if you don't feel like a prisoner, you're doing
something wrong, perhaps, and Allah knows best. Don't mean to,
you know, cast stones there.
Okay, what else do we have? We've got Nazira, Begum, Wareham,
salaam, warahdahl, katu from India, Bangalore, happy to have
you with us. Thank you so much for tuning in. Sada asked, Do you
think that those Muslim intellectuals who do discussions
and talks and etc, won't have much effect if they don't follow
through with actions of projects? Yes, but I'll say this, Sada to be
a little bit more nuanced. We need connectivity between the different
types of people. Some people it's better that they don't do actions
that they don't have the stomach for it or the courage for it or
the savvy for it. Okay, some people are actually better off in
the ivory tower. However, they must have an interface with the
people who are on the ground. And rag baswahani says this in his
book of the Riyadh Sharia, when he talks about the different stations
of the Ulama, like there is the qadi and there's the Shaykhs, the
Adams, and there is the Khatib, and you actually need an interface
between they need to swap notes. They need to have opportunities to
come together and coordinate action so that the Khatib can take
that amazing stuff that the item is working on, but maybe he's not
the most eloquent speaker. Maybe he can't get on tick tock, right,
and then they take it and then they popular, popularize it,
right? So we need coordination between those different spheres.
We don't necessarily need everybody to do everything.
Nazir Begum says May Allah subhanahu wa Palestinians. Amin,
excellent.
Yeah, ekater brings a good point of that guy with we love Joe,
hitting her from behind like a coward, and then we was
confronted, stopping immediately, yeah, that was very cowardly
behavior. And we know what Islam says about men protecting women.
Alhamdulillah, I believe it was a Muslim brother. There was the
protecting sister, Nadia. But look at the cowardly, unmanly behavior
of the perpetrator of that crime.
Panji
waregam as Saddam rakat from Indonesia, Sodom at the time.
Welcome
AMI bay area in the house. Rokia, diri, Tria, my name is salamat
Allah. Abdullah says, regarding the live closed captioning, we
will look into it. Inshallah, YouTube does not support live
captioning at this time. Ah, see, I knew it wasn't our guys. I knew
it had to be YouTube. Come on YouTube. What are you guys doing?
Roast Tama from Bangkok, Thailand. Salamat salah, happy to have you
with us. I had good friends of mine that were neighbors in
Medina, that were students of knowledge from Thailand,
Mariam Mayman, malaysalam from Phoenix, Arizona. I believe I'll
be in Phoenix in October. Seamus comment was on this day, oh, he's
trying to get me in trouble. Sheamus killed 1400 civilians with
serene gas, exactly the same as ani massacre. And Gaza blamed the
rebels and committed the same crime hundreds of times throughout
the war, absolutely, absolutely. And our sense of justice is not
partial. Our sense of justice is not partial, nor do we fall for
the Cold War. You know, dichotomy of supporting some dictators
because they're the enemy of our enemies, that doesn't fly either,
right? And be very suspicious of people, to be frank, be very
suspicious of people who who do such a thing.
Okay? What about Addis Ababa Ethiopia, please come to reach out
to us. I would love to shoot me an email. Imam Tom [email protected]
Let's make it happen.
I mean, I mean a Hong waling of Saddam and off tadakatu from
Tokyo, Japan. That's amazing. I think you're our first viewer from
Tokyo. Welcome. We're very happy to have you with us. Mustafa
wedding, Saddam. This is s wadding. Salam Mustafa from
Djibouti. I knew some folks in Medina from Djibouti as well.
Lovely place. Lovely people. Walayum, salaam,
Julia, Wati, Abdul Jalil, walaykum, salaam alat, it's good
to have you with the program. Another lovely person we met in
Malaysia. Uh, yes. It's been almost a month since umax. Thank
you for tuning in and thank you for your excellent hospitality.
Good.
Sada says, Do you think Muslims are still lacking and having
support for new Muslims? Yes, absolutely, totally. 100% and if
you don't believe me, ask the Don ask Abu Sumaiya Wesley LeBron.
Shout out to mass Youth Center and reverse reconnect in New York
City. One of the people on the in the trenches, in the trenches for
a long time with convert work and convert care, he can tell you all
about it.
Adi, how can one give dawah to non practicing and ignorant Muslims?
The first thing is with your character, right? And trying to
remove obstacles. If they have certain barriers that sort of
stand in their way, maybe they had a traumatic experience with a
relative or a parent that represented Islam in a poor way,
right? That might take time to come to overcome. Maybe they have
an ideological association of Islam as something backwards,
right, and stupid. This is very common secularism spread this
across the world that's going to take time to overcome. So you need
a long term plan for how to overcome those things. So
here, Eunice asks, in light of the increasing Islamophobia worldwide,
how can the global Muslim Ummah remain united while effectively
countering these challenges? I mean, that's like a whole thesis,
but in short, you know, we can't fetishize unity because we don't
want to unite with the wrong people, right? If we just only
preach unity, then we'll also unite with the sellouts and the
hypocrites, and that will actually weaken us and be the cause for our
defeat, that we have to make sure that we unite with the right
people with the right goals, right shaykhaitim And Haddad in in the
UK, has been articulating something like this, and in some
of his recent books and talks, are talking about the people that are
for Islam, the people that want to see Islam win. You know, they want
the Muslims to win. You know, those are the people that we need
to sort of be drawing in and shoring up sort of differences,
finding out how to work along and then with Islamophobia worldwide.
And I, you know, people know that I'm not a big fan of the world.
The word Islamophobia, it doesn't really do justice to what's going
on. I think that the fight against Zionism as a political ideology is
probably the most important front in that battle, because Zionism
uses quote, unquote Islamophobia as its primary discourse to
criminalize being Muslim and to criminalize Islam and that's just
facts, right? So we're doing many, many things at once when we are
advocating for Palestine, a Hasid manic while salamat Allah from New
Jersey, but traveling in Ohio now I mean, I mean free Aqsa, 100%
Manza here, Eunice coming with the questions hot and fast, how should
individual Muslims balance the response between active engagement
and spiritual Alliance? Unite both. Tawhid, make them the same
thing. Seamus, learn your religion so you don't lose your religion,
being pulled into quid pro quo, activism and compromise for past
900% I agree. Ahang, our friend from Tokyo, how can I help and be
a support? Be a support a Muslim faith friend who has issues with
their Imaan and
are distancing themselves from Islam? Well, that's a big
question, and there's nuance to it, depending on what's the
reason, right? Like I just said, for the other person that asked
about converts, people have a multitude of reasons why they
drift from Islam. Some of it is emotional, some of it is social,
some of it intellectual, some of its ideological. So you have to,
and this goes with politics too. Everything we're talking about,
you have to study the problem. Sometimes we rush into action
before we properly study the problem. Study the problem
properly. First, what is the proper action to do will become
clear once you correctly study the problem. Good question, though.
Yeah. Seamus brings up the idea about, you know, politicians,
elected politicians, versus the deep state. But even that's
contested territory. Shamus, so one of the things that I was going
over with some lawyers is how the the process of designating
different groups as terrorist organizations is something that
does not it's it's the responsibility of someone who's
not an elected official. Okay, like you said, it's sort of deep
state. It's someone who it's put on the Department of Homeland
Security or the Department of the Secretary of State, I should say,
and that person is a cabinet member. They're not somebody who's
elected. So even jockeying to get these sorts of things migrating
back towards the legislative branch, where people are actually
sort of accountable, much more accountable than somebody who's
just appointed by the President, that would be a win, right? So
this is something that is being contested. Minami Islam Khan
walaykum as salaam Rafa from Dhaka, Bangladesh. May Allah bless
the people of Bangladesh, one of the people who's been a tremendous
help to to me in understanding the situation Bangladesh. Thank you so
much for all that you do. May Allah make you successful. Ashik,
I want to know, is there any Islamic teachings or a methodology
to fight procrastination and burnouts? Yeah, I think we'll talk
about it in atomic habits. Though it's not Islamic, Islamic in the
sense that it's not a treatise by Ibn Taymiyyah, right? But it jives
with Islam. Leticia Mohammed walaykum as salaam Warahmatullah
katu from Trinidad, masha Allah, welcome from Trinidad. I.
Mustafa, Imam, what is the reason behind our Muslim rulers
oppressing us? The ones that oppress us have sold out Islam, I
mean, and sold out the Muslims. They they either they're doing out
of fear for the dunya or love of the dunya. So May Allah guide
them, forgive them or free us from them. Salamulan. Salam from
Mauritius, good to have you back. Yeah, as walaykum, salam, please
answer the anger question. I think I did more specifically how to
deal with seeing injustice all around. Yeah. Well, here's where
the thing ra alsohani talks about this in his book that I mentioned
previously, Ed ilama, Sharia. Anger is good guys. Okay, anger,
we're not like, uh, liberals, where we think that, you know,
anger is a bad emotion, and we just have to make sure that we
make sure we're never angry. No. Anger can be a good emotion. Allah
created it in you. However, it's not supposed to stay the way it
is, nor is it supposed to go to extremes. It is supposed to drive
you to justice, right? Allah created the phenomenon the
possibility of anger in you so that you would develop it and
achieve justice by it. If you see oppression and you're not angry,
especially as a man, something is wrong with you. You are not
properly calibrated, you are not properly constituted. So this is
something that it needs to be nurtured, developed, focused and
applied, okay, not undisciplined, right? Neither the extreme of not
ever being angry at anything, nor the extreme of being a tyrant,
right? And being angry at everything. No, you're angry at
injustice. That's good. We shouldn't love justice. Justice
injustice. See me, we shouldn't love injustice. Injustice should
make us angry. But then you have to develop it, focus it, and apply
it properly.
Well done. Well done. We got Toronto in the house. Miss hamda
Ibrahim, walaykum, Salman of talah, Laura's back from Al
Maghrib. Dima Salam, Ketu Abu talik. Hope you're well,
hope there's lots of Moroccan tea in your present and your future.
Shaman says Israeli lobby, lobby is so powerful they get
curriculums in Gulf States. Yeah, they're powerful, but they're not
as powerful as they as they want you to think they are. And that's
one of the things that we see time and time again, that the Israeli
lobby, they pick easy they pick battles that are easy to win, and
then they project power, making you think that they're more
powerful than they are. And that's honestly a that's a tactic we
could learn from
you. Very good.
Here we go. What else we got? Yakubali wa Daegu salam from
Orlando. Very nice. Livingston, New Jersey. Wa dam is Amin.
Welcome to the program.
I hear you juju, that's not bad. That's not bad. You do 100% you
should feel comfort. So many people in the last 10 months have
said, Wow, I used to have this doubt, like, How could there be so
much punishment? And now I get it. Now I get why there's hellfire.
Now I get where there's eternal damnation. Because this amount of
evil that we've seen the last 10 months
demonstrates exactly what it's there
for, okay, Bangladesh being hit by severe floods, may Allah aid the
people of Bangladesh and protect them.
Walegim Salaam went off to lahiba. Katu the gigahat while from
Malaysia with love tedima kasih, right back at you.
I bet. I bet. Laura, well, drink one for me. Inshallah. All right,
so we've got a big program, plenty of stuff to get through. We're
going to transition to current events. I'll check in it with the
chat along the way, and especially between segments. First up in the
news today, we've got a $20 billion
approval, or a $20 billion military aid package that has been
approved by the US government, and specifically the president, part
of which a lot of it is going to Israel. Now this is significant
for several reasons. Firstly, let me go into some of the details.
Okay, the President, Joe Biden, signed into law on Wednesday, $95
billion of war aid. Okay, so the total is $95,000,000,000.20
of that's going to Israel, the rest for Ukraine and Taiwan, and
also has a provision that would force the social media site Tiktok
to either be sold or be banned in the United States, which
demonstrates that the war is not just, first of all, it
demonstrates the globalist intentions of both the Neo
liberals and the neoconservatives right. A lot of people, they don't
realize that there's different. There's a war going on, like an
ideological war within the left and within the right, within the
Republican Party and within the Democratic Party.
You've got neoliberals and neoconservatives, and both of them
believe in sort of globalist ambitions, that the United States
should be having these military bases everywhere, intervening in
all these countries, supporting and spending billions and millions
of dollars for warfare in far flung places. Why we can't even
get jobs over here in the United States? This is a way of doing
things. And there's other groups on the right and the left that
don't believe in that that vision for various reasons. But the
interesting thing about highlighting Tiktok within this
warfare package is the implication and the admission that propaganda
is part of this war. Right the 90 billion spent, 95 billion spent,
and to tuck in something against Tiktok there that the United
States Government very much understands propagate propaganda
and the information war and censorship of free media as a
major part of their war effort. Right that they do not want people
on tick tock, having unrestricted algorithms, or algorithms that
show them the truth as it really is, or coming across people in the
Gaza that are going to give you the reality on the ground, and not
Zionist propaganda. They don't want that. And so there's a
situation here, and this is one of the differences between 2024 and
2016 or 2008 or other previous sort of iterations of this.
You know, of the aggression in Palestine is that now you've got
different media outlets. I think Trump was just on with a podcast
with Theo Vaughn. That's the second podcast he's done. This
didn't exist eight years ago where a presidential candidate would go
on a podcast right with some upstart person who's not heavily
curated, heavily sort of scrubbed of any sort of, you know, like the
legacy media is dying, and we're going to look at a little bit of
legacy media in a bit and Fox News in particular, but the generations
that trust the legacy media and that Watch sort of the old
traditional mainstream media is
definitely has a shelf life. It definitely is not going to last
forever, that the new way is through social media and the US
government thinks that realizes that it's such a threat to its
globalist ambitions that it wants to control it. So a bunch of
things are part of the package to Israel, in particular, 50 F 15
fighter jets. Right? All of this to demonstrate the
two facedness and the hypocrisy. And what we say is speaking out of
both sides of your mouth that the Democrat regime, the democratic
regime that is currently in power has given lip service at various
points to the suffer, suffering of the people of Gaza and the
suffering of people of Palestine as they send billions and billions
and dollars of military aid abroad to commit the crimes. Right? So
this is just appeasement. This is just lip service, and this is
a false neutrality. The United States is trying to present it.
The government is trying to present itself as this neutral,
you know, broker that's, oh, there's ceasefire. Blinken is in
the middle east again, trying to get a ceasefire. Oh, he came back
empty handed again. Well, gee, I wonder why you just spent $20
billion
arming Israel to the teeth, and you can't get a deal done, no
wonder you're not a good faith actor. You actually have a horse
in this fight. You're supporting one side versus the other, and so
you're not a diplomat. You're not actually bringing anything good to
the region. We have a quote here by Biden that stresses, sort of
the real face of the American administration or regime, my
commitment to Israel, I want to make clear again, is ironclad,
yep, and that is very on brand for him.
Now, what's the takeaway for all this? As Muslims, we've got
several ayat from the Qur'an that address this directly, but one
that struck me in particular, Allah says and sorted and fell in
the ledina kefau Jun fihnamwala Hum Leah suddu on
right, so that the surely that I don't like the translation
disbelievers will say, the people who the deniers, the people who
have denied, they spend their wealth to prevent people from the
way of Allah
fasayun, the kuna ha thumbna Ali him hasra thumb you. Spend.
Haven't we seen this mushad, right? This is something they're
currently doing. They will continue to spend and spend and
spend, and then there's going to come a day where they will regret
it, and then after that, they will be defeated, and the deniers of
the truth will eventually be driven into *. La ilaha,
illallah, Allah. Allah tells the truth that people who spend their
money in falsehood spend their money in oppression. It's not
going to last forever. You're going to have your time. God.
You, Allah, tried you with this opportunity to have wealth, and
what did you do with it? We've seen the images. We've seen the
videos, kids blown to bits, horrifying, horrifying images and
videos every day for the last 10 months. This is what you did with
the wealth that God gave to you. You're going to have to answer for
answer for it on the day of judgment, and your even your time
of power on earth is going to be short,
transitioning to our second point now. So we've got the Democratic
National Convention, which is happening. For those of you who
don't know, this is sort of like a political tradition in the United
States. It was actually sort of something invented in the 1800s in
order to get more buy in from people, as opposed to, just like
naming the ticket, here's the president, here's the Vice
President, to sort of come together and involve more people
in the selection of the ticket, who's going to be the President or
the Vice President that goes on to get to face the election in
November. So
just by, you know, the Qadr of Allah, the Democratic National
Convention. So the convention that will appoint you know that has
announced the formal ticket of Harrison walls, right? Um, happens
to be taking place in Chicago this year. Now, if you don't know
anything about Chicago, the second city of the United States, the
second largest city, Chicago has one of the, if not the biggest,
population of Palestinians in the United States of America. There
is, there are parts of Chicago called Little Palestine, okay, and
so this was a really
interesting opportunity, let's say, for the Palestinian
Americans, the palestin diaspora, the Muslims and other allies to
announce their rage and displeasure with the Democratic
administration and their attitudes and their policies towards Gaza
and Palestine. So a lot of stuff has been going down. A ton of
protests, some
of the biggest protests that we've seen all year. Protesters are
calling for an end to US military aid to Israel. Obviously, they're
highlighting the devastating impact on Palestine,
and they are expected to be the some of the largest protests ever
seen for this particular cause. Okay, anybody who's around, if you
happen to have some free time, they're centered around Union
Square Park, or Union Park on the near west side. The main process
activities were planned for today. Additional events are happening
throughout the convention. We've seen even some of the people were
referencing in the chat the unfurling of a banner saying,
basically, no more, you know, no aid, no military aid to Israel,
right? Stop arming Israel. And this was seen as such a threat
that the cowardly man behind our sister, Nadia Ahmed started
hitting her on the head with his we love Biden. Sign Lala. So it
runs from the 19th to the 22nd of August. So it's got one day left.
And there are have been events going all throughout
now. On the inside of the convention, the Democratic Party
is trying to portray this sort of, you know, united front, rah, rah,
rally behind our ticket. We're going to get him. We're going to
beat Trump. Trump's the bad guy, etc. But the protests have been a
thorn in their side, demonstrating that they are, they are not
united, and that their base and even the broader population, is
not happy with the policy of the current administration or the
Democratic Party towards Palestine and Gaza and SubhanAllah. It was
reminding when we're thinking about these protests, one of the
most appropriate ayaats, the Quran Allah, said, some people could
wonder, it's like, well, are these people just vandalists, or are
they troublemakers, or are they rabble rousers? I don't know. I
was accused of being a conservative at the beginning of
this program. This program, but I go to lots of protests. I don't
know how unclassifiable. I guess Allah spent, ala said quantum Bill
marufan, what took me on a bill Allah spent a said you were, or
you are, the best community ever raised out of humanity or also for
humanity, both translations are correct. Why? What makes us the
best ummah? You encourage the good, or in another translation,
command the good. You establish good in your societies, and you
forbid or prevent evil from happening. So the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa salam said, if you see evil, if any one of you
sees evil, then you change it with your hand. And if you can't,
meaning you don't have the power to do that, then at least you
speak out. And if you can't do that, then at least you hate it in
your heart. And he said, that is the weakest form of faith that
this, you know, idea of protesting in general. It's not, it's not,
it's not sort of revolt. It's not, you know, doing anything that's
explicitly illegal or violent or anything that's problematic, that
even within our own tradition, that this is one of the ways, one
of the tactics, of demonstrating, at the very least, that we hate
this thing in our heart. Yes, we are accountable in front of Allah
Subhan.
For demonstrating that we hate this thing that the United States
government is doing to Palestine. We hate it, and we will speak out
against it. And if it is possible, we will change it by our hand as
well.
It's essential that we keep up pressure on our elected officials.
They can't be allowed to sleep peacefully. Okay, they can't be
allowed to continue with business as usual. That the US foreign
policy is something that not just commits objective moral harm
across the world, it also endangers Americans. It also makes
people hate us, and actually makes people want to act out against us.
And this is despite now, what are people doing in response to these
protests? Well, rather than take a moment of introspection and soul
searching and wondering, Gee, I wonder what all these people are
upset about, what we find is that both on the left and the right, or
if you prefer, in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, we
see the same sort of fear tactics that they are trying to scare us
into silence and acquiescence. They are trying to scare us to
stay home and to not say anything, to let them continue with their
slaughter and all of the money that they make off of their
slaughter. Now the form of the scare tactics is a little bit
different. The Democrats are threatening us with Trump. They
say, Well, you have to vote for Harris, even if she doesn't gonna
do anything different from President Biden vis a vis
Palestine or Gaza, you have to vote for her. Otherwise you'll get
Trump, and that'll be the end of democracy. And the Republicans are
doing the same thing, just a little bit differently. They're
saying that if all these people who are protesting, they're all
terrorists, or they're all foreign agents, and they're using the
language of post 911 they're using the language of the war on terror
to try to intimidate and silence people. And that brings us to that
angry conservative that I promised that we would show you we've got a
hip piece that was written, and then this person was invited on
the Fox News to talk about these protests, and his big conclusion
is that we are all, you know, basically, foreign agents. Let's
roll the clip and let's see
what we got, telling that more than 150
extremist groups are either participating in or supporting the
DNC protest this week. Ryan Morrow is the investigative researcher
who put that report together. He's also an expert on extremist groups
and foreign threats. Joins me now to explain his findings, Brian,
break down exactly what your research shows.
Sure. So we looked at every group that we could find that is
publicly involved in these protests, and altogether, we found
over 150 almost 160
of the groups are actually extremist groups. And by
extremists, what I mean is they are groups that support Hamas or
another foreign terrorist organization, or they support acts
of terrorism, like the October 7 attacks, or they support a
revolution in the United States for the sake of communism or
anarchism, so really extreme stuff. And within that group, what
we found is that they are tied to or supportive of at least nine
hostile foreign governments, governments governments that don't
like the United States, like Iran, China, Russia, even North Korea,
and they also support our tied to almost 20 different foreign
terrorist organizations. So this is an extreme bunch. So to be
clear, what you're saying is some of our major enemies, North Korea,
Iran, China, check this out, could be funded funding. I should say
these groups, either directly or indirectly,
they might they may not even need to say that this group of
loyalists, this really big network that we've really drawn out at
Capitol Research Center, that they might just be able to operate on
their own. I don't even know if they have to get orders, because
they're going to act on behalf of these governments and these
foreign terrorist organizations anyway. But in fact, within that,
that overall network, there's a few groups that formed a coalition
to specifically disrupt and try to shut down the convention, and one
of the groups, samadun, where's my pearls? I gotta watch my pearls is
directly tied to a an Iran backed communist terrorist group called
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. I mean,
like the leader of it is also part of the leadership of that
terrorist group. So direct terrorist ties there to those that
are trying to shut this thing down at the end of the day, I do not
imagine all, or quite frankly, any of these protesters and the groups
that they are aligned with are going to be voting for Donald J
Trump. So what is their ultimate goal in protesting the DNC? I.
This is a mafia style Shakedown. What they are saying to the
Democrats is, well, first of all, they're lying. There's part of
your base. We, we've been your loyal voters. They haven't been
most of them have hated the Democrats because they're so in
the
Yeah, we can, we can. We can, shut it there you
so as you see, lots of great stuff, brilliant, brilliant man,
I'd like to see his SDC score.
You know, unhinged conspiracy talk from Ryan Morrow, which last name
seems to be also an Italian American with shatana Farina that
basically just absolute casting out accusations left and right,
which you can do in the United States. Apparently, you know you
can't really do anything, unfortunately, legally, if someone
accuses you of being a terrorist or being part of a terrorist
group, there's really nothing you can do about that. And now this
individual had a write up that his report is sort of being based off
of where he names myself, he names Omar Suleiman. He names other
people,
you know, as as basically being these big evil
these big evil people, terrorist sympathizers, you know, the normal
sort of post 911 War on Terror thing. Now I did some digging. I
went down the rabbit hole on this guy, and there's some interesting
stuff that I dug up. So I mean, his whole thing that he works
right now for what's it called
the Capital Research Center America's investigative Think
Tank. And that's a really nice, neutral sounding title for a not
very neutral, Islamophobic Think Tank. Now, before the Capital
Research Center,
this individual, Ryan Morrow, he worked for the Clarion project.
Okay, the Clarion project is founded by Canadian Israeli, and
as you can imagine, that they do a lot of pro Zionist stuff, that
they do a lot of also anti Islamic stuff. The Clarion project has put
out books. They were founded in 2006 so right in the heat of the
grift, right right after, you know, 911 where the grift is going
strong, where all these sorts of fake experts can pop up, and this
individual passes himself off as some sort of expert in Islam or
Islamic extremism, quote, unquote. So the Clarion project had
released books such as obsession, radical Islam's war against the
West, and another book called The third jihad, radical Islam's
vision for America, etc.
Now, if you dig even deeper, you know it's really interesting that
they,
let's say they incorporate or they make sure that they use certain
sellouts that claim to be Muslims
as part of their organization, so that nobody can, it's like
plausible deniability. Nobody can say that they're anti Muslim or
anti Islamic if they have their one token Muslim guy who is
outspokenly pro Israel and anti Palestinian. And that's exactly
what they do. However, their track record is very, very dirty and
very, very filthy. And actually, they're also tied to the Clarion
project and other groups in this particular individual, individual,
individual, Ryan Morrow, is tied to the training of police officers
across the country in the same sort of these quote, unquote,
counter extremist measures where he spews his anti Islamic
nonsense, the same types of conferences where Israeli
intelligence collaborates to militarize our own police forces.
And there's articles written about that. If you don't know, then I
recommend that you educate yourself. One of these such
conferences. I was, you know, surprised to read this, an article
written april 27 2016
took place in my own my old stomping grounds up near Utica in
Verona, New York. 800 police officers attended this New York
tactical offers, Association Conference, okay, and there were
dozens of workshops where they were trained in Israeli martial
arts SubhanAllah. Wonder why. And they on the last day of the
conference, Ryan Morrow, this individual, a national security
analyst, lectures about terrorism for six hours. And you can imagine
the sorts of things that he says. So this is all very, very cookie
cutter, okay? And this is very, very, you know, some of the people
in the comments were asking about, well, people are going to say
this. And people say that, how do we deal with all the Islamophobia?
I mean, I'm a firm believer that we have to deal with it head on.
We know that people are going to attempt to portray us as foreign
agents. That's a common tactic across the world, and especially
the United States government since the 20.
Yes, that anybody that they disagreed with those communists or
socialists, or in the anti war movement of the 1960s right, or in
the post 911
world, anybody that they sort of disagreed with. You know, the
common sort of tactic is to try to find mythical relations between
people from the United States. United States, citizens, United
States, people, Muslims, especially now, and organizations
abroad, okay, without going into sort of the dubious sort of
circumstances and processes by which the United States government
decides that certain certain groups are are terrorists and
others aren't right, like I find it very, very rich that, you know
we talk about where the Ryan Morrow talks about some events,
right? And we know that now maybe I'll leave that there. Let's just
say that the governments that the United States support
in a very, very parallel world could very well be considered
state sponsors of terror, right? The United States has this
designation. It's an official designation state sponsors of
terror. And there's no sensible reason why Israel's not on it. The
only reason is because of politics, because the US considers
Israel an ally for some stupid reason. So this is what we're
looking at. This type of thing. We need to be prepared. We're going
to be called foreign agents. They're going to say that we have
ties to foreign countries or foreign countries or foreign
groups, that we're part of this group, we're part of that group,
all of which is nonsense. It's all but it's all intended to silence
us. When you see your name on a dossier or being doxxed, or you
see your name, or, God forbid, you know your drug in front of
Congress one day in one of these witch hunts, you know this is
meant to intimidate you and to silence you so that they can keep
on making money from their wars and their brutality. And so I
personally think that we have to face this head on, that we're not
going to get through it unless we get through all of it. Basically,
again, changing the foreign policy of the United States, getting
money out of politics, doing these sorts of things that's going to
take the oxygen away from the entire Islamophobia industry, the
entire sort of Zionist industry, and all its related tentacles.
Now, the takeaway from this, and this is another I said I would
bring up what Allah spent. Allah says in the Quran. How do you
prepare yourself for hearing these things? Maybe you see yourself.
Canary mission puts out something against you, puts a dossier
together about you, maybe one of these groups. They put together a
doxing truck, and they put your name and your personal information
out there. Allah spans ala already told us towards the end of Surah
Al Imran, the tubula one fusicom, wala tesma, una mina la Dina. Utul
Kitab, me and kabari KOMO, Mina la Dina. Ashraku Aden Adam cathedral.
What in tasper do? What a takufa in the dari kamin Asmaa? No more
you're going to if you're a true believer, you will certainly be
tested in your wealth and in yourselves, meaning loss of money,
loss of job, being doxxed, yeah, totally possible. Or even harm to
yourself. You might get bopped over the head by somebody with a
we love Biden sign, or worse. And you will certainly hear many
hurtful words, accusations, harm, from those who are given the
Scripture before you, Christians and Jews, and from many people who
are sub idols. But if you are patient and mindful of Allah, then
that is a resolve to aspire to. So hang tight Inshallah, and Allah's
aid will come.
Let's circle back to the chat. I'm sure we had a lot of comments on
this. And then we have a an interesting article in yaki
Institute to highlight. And then we'll get into tafsir and our
book.
Shayna says richest of the enemies of Muslims put their money to
fight Islam. Richest Muslims give their money to these same people
as investments. Allah, well,
I don't see the lie. Seamus, I don't see the lie. Unfortunately.
Yaqub Ali, yes, we all have pain that's been Allah, come salamatu.
Ash 2020,
from New Hampshire, beautiful state. I'm gonna Dasha, why
I miss you too. South Jersey represent good to hear from you,
bro. It has been a lifetime. Inshallah, make it down to Jersey
soon and visit you and your lovely family may not protect you. Nas
all the billions of dollars and they still can't defeat the
resistance. Yep, 100% so a lot of times, power is about projection,
right? We're invincible. We're invincible. We're invincible.
We're invincible. You. Ain't you? Ain't that invincible, right?
Actually, look at what's happening.
Laura says reds is a new Palestinian startup rival for tick
tock, which started this week. That's good to know, Laura. Thank
you very much. I did not know that muhad Ad then are they gonna
Salam? What raft a May Allah, give you battle blessings. I mean, I
mean, I mean you're up
Seamus dropping Ayat Thank you, Amina, or Trump's Twitch streaming
with sneako Of all people, yeah. I mean, what a world we live in.
Subhanallah,
hopefully meaning it's Ansara, Katie Aladdin or Kadi, maybe
Aladdin of Tala from Maryland.
Nazia, Zuberi, walam salamatar, from Dallas. Inshallah, I'll be in
Dallas next month in the following as well.
Brett and zasar, awesome username while I'm Salaman, no worries.
Happy that you were there at the DNC protest, and with a username
like bread and Zatar, I would expect you to be at the protest.
Excellent. I bet it was crowded.
AOC praising Biden was hilarious, but we see what these people are
made of their true colors always show,
oh, the Democrats are the best at Tone, Tone shaming, Father, yeah,
the Obama's at the top of the chain there. I
uh Juju mentioned is about uh Trump and ceasefire, etc. Listen,
we've seen that Israel doesn't want a ceasefire at all, that they
have no interest in a ceasefire. They're literally just gaslighting
the even the United States, but especially every other group.
They've demonstrated absolutely nothing to indicate that they are
serious about a ceasefire.
Yes? Alhamdulillah, Laura, I agree. And fad is super important.
Listen The times that we're living in since last 10 months. Al Imran,
Nisa, maida and Fab and atoba read them like SubhanAllah. You see
Wow. Verses that you've been reading you've heard of before,
but you see them in a different light
now. I mean, I'll do all going on.
Let's see.
I will soft. Asks why we don't have a strong united Muslim
organization, because we're asleep, because we thought
we believe in America, right? The opening scene from The Godfather.
We thought as long as that we had, we would pay money to relief in
charity organizations, and we would just be good Americans, and
we would be quiet that people would leave us alone? No, it's not
true. Evil doesn't rest. So we have to have a little bit more
courage and do more bold action than that. We have to actually
challenge those people who are trying to criminalize us and make
us unsafe. You
Yeah, Saladin, exactly, expert on extremist groups. How many experts
on extremist groups? I want to see. Would you get your degree in
extremist studies, right? Like, did they fly you to different
parts of the the Middle East. Like, for four years, did you do,
like, a study abroad and, like, I don't know. Like, where did you
How do you get that credential? Like, just anybody can, can show
up and decide and claim themselves as a an expert on extremist
groups, masha Allah.
It's like, where's that meme of the always sunny guy with the with
the board. Yeah, conspiracy.
Good point. Seamus extremist is that Republican version of
khadiji, everybody's it's like the Oprah meme. You're an extremist.
You're an extremist.
Everybody's an extremist. Farah.
Yeah, exactly. Salah Haden says Imam Thomas, Italian descent,
Mafia links found. There you go. That's all it takes. That's all it
takes. You know, a lot of people talking in the chat about gray
zone, about people who are being paid by Iran, those sorts of
things. And, yeah, I mean, hey, look, these people aren't us,
right? So this is part of the tactic to lump everyone in, like,
the fact that he would lump in, like, extreme leftists, right?
With like, like, communist anarchists, with Muslims, with
like, all these different groups, very, very disparate groups,
right? It's just what he considers as people he doesn't like, and so
they're all of a sudden, enemies of America, and they're
extremists,
yeah, being tied to with ties to, I want to see. And it was
interesting how you know this Ryan Morrow guy, he knows that he can't
say that we're getting direct money, because then we would be
able to say, no, let's go into the books. Let's hit you know that we
got receipts. There's nothing there, folks. But he, he knows
that he can't say that. And that's why it was so interesting that the
interviewer actually like, so you're saying that, like people
are getting fun? Is like, Well, no, they don't even need to be.
They're just acting in the same way as North Korea or whatever.
Well, North Korea eats Cheerios for breakfast, and I eat Cheerios
for breakfast. Does that mean I'm taking orders from North Korea or
acting in their interests? Like, give me a break, right? But this
is how little proof they have, and how they're just going off of this
sort of you.
Collective suspicion in this sort of witch hunt to try to silence
people.
Yes, and exactly ekadri The same accusations against Bisan by
Zionists. They try to punish people. They try to punish people
and silence people. And they hope to go after people that they think
they can win with. They don't touch people that they know
they're going to lose. They try to go after people that they think
they can win with to intimidate and silence the rest of us.
Yeah, I wonder. Seamus says Krav Maga, pseudo martial art. I wonder
which country they stole that martial art from, like the the
hummus and the grape leaves that are really Palestinian.
Random thought says
it's essential to intensify our Dao is the non Muslims, I agree.
Stop making religion a profession. Maybe we must follow the son of
the Prophet, Ali said, Salam Sure, and the Companions who didn't take
money for teaching the Quran. Ah, that's a fiqh issue, and that's
tied to Muslim right? There are situations. There are situations
in which, if paying people and professionalizing a field is going
to lead to the success of that field, then it is a good thing.
However, your concern is real, but I think that your concern can be
decoupled from just monetary compensation. We don't want it to
be fakes. We don't want celebrity shape culture and this sort of
nonsense, right? But if professionalizing it and
compensating properly is going to help it, if it can be done in an
autonomous way where it's not under the control of like the
donor class or things like that. Then lebes, and this is a fixed
discussion that many people have had before us.
Ashik brings up a video circulating about Vlad Putin
kissing the Quran. Yeah, Putin plays both sides. Believe that
Putin is like the Obama is like Obama in the sense that he
understands the best way to control the best way to fight
Islam is to control it. That's why he has his Mufti of Dagestan, you
know, passing fatwa against nicob and things like that. Raha wala
gamkatu from Baltimore, Maryland,
people asking some very incriminating questions here. I'm
going to dodge some
of them. I
pebbles, 222, asked about Mahdi Hassan. I'm not going to take this
platform to do it, but you can check my interview with someone,
but on Islam 20 1c
check out. Here we go. I'll just say this. Check out. Rifaat el AR.
Look at what he said about matihasan. If you want to say if
you want to see
Norman ficklestein, see what he has said about Mahdi Hassan.
Yes, exactly. And Mariam brings up a good point. There's the same
tactic Arab countries are using against the Muslim Brotherhood,
baseless vilification and exaggerated fear mongering. That's
the tactic that Gulf nations such as the UAE are using in America to
try to lobby with Republicans to get the Muslim Brotherhood
designated a terrorist organization, which is ridiculous,
right? That's why one of the first things that Israel said after
October 7 was ISIS equals Hamas, because they're trying to tie
Hamas to ISIS and the entire by Hamas, the entire Palestinian
resistance to ISIS, and then tying them to the Muslim Brotherhood, so
that they can basically conflate all of those things as one with,
if you just even have a basic understanding of the region,
understand that those are very, very Different groups, okay, and
that they, you know, are extremely different in their goals and their
tactics and their ideologies and everything like that, right? But
the whole thing depends upon painting them all with the same
brush in order to criminalize them. Mm,
AF. I can't give exact
prescriptive guidance on the election, but if you think that
one of them is less evil than the other, then I don't know what
you're looking at.
Was Saddam. Seems like the Muslims in the USA want to back Trump if
he'll at least talk about a ceasefire. Not my read of the
situation, but I feel like we need to move from the two party system.
There's no doubt that this, the stranglehold of the two party
system on American politics is a limiting factor. I don't see I
don't see Muslims lining up behind Trump. That's just not my
experience. Like I think that people are very.
Inflicted a lot of people I know we're talking about voting third
party, probably the majority of people I know, I can't tell you
what to do. That's not yaquian Institute sort of platform. That's
not a thing to do in this platform. But just describing to
you what I see and from the people I know, most people are talking
about third party. Most people are not talking about any of the two
main parties.
Sam, I had asked a good question. Why can't we have our own social
network? Yeah, we need to. We need it. Long term plan.
Sad to hear Bella. Good
question. Bella, how can we expect support from others when there's
so much division in our own community? I'll just qualify that
by saying not all divisions bad. Okay, some division has to happen.
You don't want to have unity with the hypocrites, okay? But yeah,
that is true that that we need to clean up our own house at the same
time as reaching out to others.
Good point, Mariam, subhanAllah, tactic has been used by
disbelievers. And mentioned the Quran called the Prophet Musa
alaihi salam, a sorcerer, right? And claimed that he was the
teacher of, I love that, that the moment when, in Surah Sal Ashur
Ara, when you know, the magicians accept Islam, and firaun says
moose has got to be your teacher, right? This crazy conspiracy
theory, right? Is, it is a very old tactic, tactic.
I don't know that. I agree with Muhammad Yasser * Nur, at this
point, it's far better to not vote. I don't. I don't agree with
that. I think that voting, especially if you're not voting
for the two parties like it, would register as as a protest vote,
which is perhaps something but that's for to be debated in
another,
in another,
in another forum. And Mariam, thank you from Kuwait, glad that
you're catching us live. Kuwait's a wonderful place with wonderful
people trying to get to the end of the comments before we turn to our
call to action. We've got a really, really excellent article
yakin Institute, penned by
the indomitable Dr owemer enjem, if we could bring up maybe the
asset to that, or the link
where Dr owemer has written an article, everybody should read it.
If you're tuning in, please read that. Speaking truth to power,
Islamic rules for protests, civil disobedience and encampments for
Gaza, very, very important piece. I'm just going to read to you real
quick, the main subheadings. Okay, so one of the subheadings is that
all of this, what we do, fits under enjoining good and
forbidding evil. That's the frame that we're going with. We're
fulfilling a collective obligation to defend Muslims. That's super
important. We're also it's essential that we maintain Islamic
etiquette and avoid anything that's haram. Easier said than
done, but it's going to require us to get our own house together and
build our own sort of spaces. Number four, building intentional
alliances. I wrote more about that on my blog piece, and recognize
your right to oppose injustice. This is your divine right, and
ultimately, we'll put our trust in a loss of pound to add up to
deliver the results we're only responsible for the best action
that we possibly can.
Let's see what we got.
Sada asked having the Gulf rulers been funding anti Islam Muslim
laws in Western nations? Yes, they have, especially the UAE article
at man born Jordan, salamat Allah, stop benegrassi,
grazie, as we say, welcome to the program. Good to have you back.
One of our turn viewers,
you may as the end of congratulations. Very good.
All right, so let's move on. We've so we've got our call to action.
Go ahead and read that article. It's a very important piece. And
if you haven't already, read my article about intersectionality
and the Gaza protest, and also read that as well, sort of
articulating the sort of political philosophy that we need for this
time and a guidance for how to act now. Let's transition to tafsir.
We've got Surat Anas. Last time we did surat al Fatiha, and the
unique word was, well, there are several unique words. One of them
was El nag dub, and we talked about it today. We are going with
Surat NAS, and we're going to ask you, get ready. Get ready. What is
a word in, sort of, don't hold it up yet, guys, don't put the pillow
up yet. But what is a word in, sort of tenness that is unique? Or
start thinking about, what are the unique words? And sort of, to
NASA, don't occur in any other sword in the Quran, right? So sort
of NAS the final surah in the Quran, Abu asmaara.
Matter him, will
was West, I love you in
us, Min energy,
one, that's it. It's short, it's sweet, it's to the point. What
word in there we have now the option, guys, oh, let's, let's go
over what it means. Okay, do we have the translation up, or we
don't have that? That's cool say, Cool arrow, the cool arrow.
Benass, see, say, I seek refuge in The Lord of the people, Matic and
NAS, owner or controller or sovereign of the people, Ilahi,
Nasta, God or the deity of the people, mean Sherrill west, west
Ilhan Ness from the evil of the whispering Hanas. And there's a
couple different ways we could translate that, the one who
retracts, the one who sort of hides away, this, this, you know,
sort of imagery, right? He kind of makes his mischief and he runs
away, and he goes hiding back in the shadows, okay? Ella, the US we
Sufi sudur in as the one who whispers into the hearts of
people. Minaj Nati, one Ness from among the people and among gin. So
let's bring up guys we've got in the studio. What do we have? What
are the the
options here? We got multiple choice. You
No, we just have the answers. Okay? We don't have multiple
choice. We're good. All right, so give me your answers. What is the
word in Arabic that is unique to the surah that doesn't come in any
other surah? There's a few. So there are multiple right answers.
Oh,
people going in
West, west watermelon, that is correct. Al Hanas, Rukia That is
correct. Was we sue Busan That is correct. So no sudor appears in
other,
in other ayat
Hana, she Yep, whispering with the translation, yes,
West visufi, yes, very good,
excellent. So anybody who said anything to do with whispers or
anything to do with Hanas, you are correct. Those are the unique
words and sorts of Ness. So we're going to focus in on just one of
them, Al Hanas. Okay, and Al Hanas is a title something that only
occurs in sort of Ness. Allah swt is naming or giving a lock up,
giving a a nickname to
to shaitan, to Iblis himself. And as we said, that the meaning of
this word sort of indicating one who hides away or slinks away, or
basically, right again, causes the mischief and then runs that this
is one of the main points of the Surah, because it indicates to us
the method and mechanism by which the shaitan leads us astray. Okay,
there's a couple really interesting connections between
this surah and what we're doing in atomic habits. We talk about bad
habits, and some of the bad habits that we have might be sinful
habits. And why do these sinful habits keep on coming to us?
Because the shaitan by whispering, by being someone who basically
does it and then leaves. He basically just points out to us.
He makes us notice the possibility of committing a sin and notice a
justification for why it might not be that big of a deal, right? He
shows us the cues, if we want to use the language of atomic habits,
he's doing a process of naming, okay? And then he whispers to you
the justification that it might not be that bad if you do it, you
have a reason. Everything has a mustaha, right? There's always a
mustaha, a reason to do it. We can always justify. I'm just doing
Dawa, right? I'm just, you know, I'm doing what everybody else is
doing, right? It's not like I'm doing this. That would be way
worse. There's always a justification. The shaytaan is
ready to give you that justification, and then he'll
retreat and watch from a distance as everything blows up in your
face.
Okay? So this is the method that shaytan operates by, and so it
becomes really important to link it up with what we're about to
talk about in atomic habits when it comes to the how to minimize
our bad habits and how to disrupt them and how to break them, and
admitting that Some of our bad habits are also sinful habits. You
Asha,
guys, a question by listening to your recitation, am I ever able to
pray so that behind you pray that Allah grant this wish of mine. We
have to be in each other's sight if you want to pray behind me, you
got to be with me, right? You can't like, pray. You can't like,
play the video at minute 133 or.
Ever, and then, like, use it in your soul that you use that you
can't do that. Okay.
Very good. Okay, so many people were right on when it came to
guessing. Very good. We will continue to do this. So next time,
not next week, but the following week, we will talk about surat al
falaq. There's some interesting, unique words in that as well.
You
you Excellent, well stated, Bella, I appreciate that.
Yes, watermelon also brought up another one, my favorite. I'm not
doing obligation x because other people who do obligation X are
doing bad deed. Why? You know?
Why should I do? Yeah, span a lot the tricks will always have a
reason. Shaitan always gives us an excuse. But with that said, let's
transition to our final segment for the night, and that's our
personal development segment. We've been going through the book
atomic habits by James clear, very, very useful book for
Muslims, coincides almost one to one with some of the things that
we have to do in Islam, and it really helps us with trying to
with trying to get into the
maximizing our good habits and minimizing our our bad habits.
Favorite reciters, I'll get to that as a good question. I mean,
I'll get to it at the end of this one.
Okay, this one is all about self control. The title of the next
chapter is the secret to self control. And he brings up some
wild statistics. Okay, so he talks about drug addiction. I know some
of the people that were watching, uh, previous episodes wanted to
talk about drug addiction. Well, this is where he gets into it. In
the chapter on the secret to self control, he brings up a case study
of the Vietnam War, and when American soldiers were abroad in
Vietnam fighting the unjust war there that a whopping 35%
of US servicemen tried heroin while they were there. That's
crazy, and of those people who were there, 20%
of the soldiers were addicted to heroin? 20% that's one out of
every five soldiers in the US military fighting in Vietnam was
addicted to heroin. That's mind blowing. Now, even more mind
blowing that what percent of them with used heroin within one year
of returning to the United States. That's the open ended question.
What do you think
the answer will surprise you? Perhaps shock you,
only 5%
of those people who were basically addicted, they were heroin addicts
over in Vietnam, when they came back, only 5% used heroin within
the first year of being back. That's nuts. Why is it nuts? It
challenges a lot of our assumptions about addiction and
addictive behavior and how they work in our culture. In the United
States of America, we definitely tend to see addiction and drug use
as a moral failing, and it is a moral failing like, let's not be
unclear about that. However, what this study showed is that there's
a lot more going on than just willpower. Okay, it shows you the
power of context, the power of Environment and the power of cues.
Now let's do let's flip these sorts of things. Okay, imagine.
What are the what are the numbers? Do you think of people who get
addicted to heroin in their own homes, right in their own
homeland, where they live, in their residence? Okay,
what do you think if people go through a program to try to quit
heroin, we're gonna stick with heroin so that we minimize the
variables how, what percentage of people who go through these
programs relapse within a year.
90%
the numbers are almost flipped entirely so people who get
addicted to heroin
in their residences, like where they live, they can go through a
program. They go home. 90% of them are using heroin again within a
year,
the people who are abroad in a totally different environment were
addicted to heroin. They come back, change everything about
their lives. Only 5% used heroin within one year. Think about it.
That's the point that the author is making when it comes to the
secrets of self control. Ah, you're jumping the gun.
Watermelon. We're talking about we're
going to talk about
it. Okay, so what's the point here? The point is that unhealthy
behavior, yes, there is a dimension to it that is about self
control. There's a dimension to it about moral weakness. There's a
dimension to it that is moral choice. Okay, however, there is
another dimension to it that has to do with a discipline
environment. Okay? So he talks about the difference between a
disciplined person we are. We are used to thinking about things in
terms of disciplined.
People that there are disciplined people and undisciplined people
and disciplined people just have all the willpower in the world,
right? And they can just face any temptation, and they're
successful. They're successful at resisting that temptation versus
this idea that really successful people create disciplined
environments for themselves. They create environments where there is
no temptation, or where there's very, very, very little
temptation, so they don't have the chance to have a failure of
willpower. That's a really, really interesting proposition. That's
the proposition of the author. Basically. He says that the people
who seem that we, you and I, look at as the most disciplined are the
people who spend the least amount of time around temptation and
triggers and cues that would lead to negative behaviors and exactly
like
like bread and Zatar said, this reminds me the first thing that
came to mind was the Hadith of the 99 men, or the Hadith of the
person, excuse me, that killed 99 men. Okay, so he was a person who
had murdered 99 people. He went to a monk, he asked, will God forgive
me? And the monk said, no way.
And so he killed a monk, and he made it an even 100. And then he
went to a shaykh, and he said, I killed 100 guys. I killed 100
people. Can I be forgiven? Will Allah forgive me? He said, Yes,
but you have to change your location. You gotta get out of
your situation where you're at. You need to go and you know the
rest of the Hadith, he died on the way, but you know, Allah made it
so that, because of his intention
and his effort that he expended, Allah forgave him, even though he
didn't even make it to the place where he was at. So this is
exactly what the author's talking about. That Islam recognizes that
we want to not just build disciplined people, we also want
to build disciplined environments. And sometimes the key to building
a disciplined person is actually to build a disciplined environment
that the person who is the most successful is the person who
spends the least amount of time around temptation, which is also
borne out and other sort of ayat and examples in our tradition,
Allah said in surat al wala, takur Abu Zina, don't even come close to
illicit sexual *. Don't even get close to it, because if
you get close to it, there's a likelihood that you're going to
fall into it. And so you need a tuka, right? You need this sort
of, you know, taqwa literally means sort of like a wikaya is
like a protective barrier. You need to put enough of a barrier in
between yourself and that haram thing that you're not going to get
in a tempting situation, right? And then you look like a, you
know, like an alpha male, or a sigma male, or whatever the kids
are saying these days, you look like some big boss, like this,
person with amazing willpower. It's just that you don't have any
temptation. You have a situation in which you have no temptation.
Other examples, the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu said, I'm
talking about doubt. Doubtful matters right? The Halal is clear
and the Haram is clear. And in between them are are mushtabi hat,
the things that are doubtful. And then he says that
the example of a believer is like somebody who is
somebody who's grazing their flock around the
Hima Hema is like the pastures, right, the king's pastures. If you
graze your flock on the edge of that pasture. It's just a matter
of time before one gets in and then you're guilty of doing
something haram, that somebody who has Taqwa with Aya is going to put
a barrier in between themselves and the haram. They're not going
to be in a tempting situation. They're not going to put
themselves into temptation so that they will fail. And this is
exactly ashak Talking about your procrastination environment, we
so you can break a habit. One of his points in one of his quotes is
that anybody can break a habit, but it's much harder to forget a
habit. That habit lives on in your mind. And this is what the
shaytaan plays with with his whisperings, right? And so the key
to stopping bad habits is to make them invisible. Just like the key
to good habits is to make them visible and increase visibility,
the key to breaking bad habits, and especially sinful habits, is
to make them invisible, reduce your exposure, remove cues, and
make sure that you spend the least amount of time in temptation as
possible. Now I'm going to go into the comments, and I'm going to hit
everybody's questions and comments, but I want you to think
about this and State your intention. Our homework for the
next two weeks, because we're coming back in two weeks, is to
think about one bad habit that you have that you want to eliminate,
and how you are going to structure environment. How are you going to
make it invisible? How are you going to make the cues that
trigger that habit invisible, so that you are going to break this
habit. And if it's very private, obviously you don't have to share,
but any sharing will be encouraging to the Jama.
Let's go the comments, and then after we do that, we will wrap it
up. So.
Somebody asked me about my favorite reciters.
I'm definitely partial to the reciters of Medina, so the old
heads, like Muhammad, Ayub and Ali Jaber, right from the young guys,
bar Ajayan and Ahmed,
thought of Hamid. Those are definitely my favorites from
Mecca. I like Bandar balila A lot.
And from the Egyptians, I'd say Min shawi. And shawi is probably
my favorite from the Egyptian reciters.
Oh, can't forget, from Bahrain Ennis, what's his name, Omari, or
something like that. He's special. Masha, Allah, I really, really
like to listen to him. All
right, what do we got in the comments? I
Okay, very good people swapping tips. I appreciate that. It's
interesting also to see sort of the different things that we excel
at and the different things that we struggle with. Your struggle is
somebody else's triumph. Somebody else's triumph is your struggle.
Right? This happens. I interesting reflection, Amina, very
interesting about the different change of environments. Sometimes
home is too comfortable. Definitely, that's why people go
on in these retreats, right? And we always say at retreats, you
know, you got to go home and you got to stay, you know, you gotta
keep the changes, but there's some wishful thinking going on there,
because you really need to change your environment
when you get home. Ricardo rocho salamanov, to La welcome
bienvenido. What is that Puerto Rican flag? I'm trying to see what
your Abbot, your profile pic is,
let's see
Sam, Ah, says, I'm a slave descendant from Guyana, South
America. Went to England, UK, and now in the USA. Masha Allah, it's
interesting how we get around.
Yes, Earl, I agree. Recognizing the cues are definitely help
within itself.
We ask everybody who talks about who mentioned their bad habits to
May Allah strengthen you and make it easy for you to break your bad
habits.
Let's see. Attika says that Sheik saudim og is my favorite Masha
Allah, definitely he's one of the big ones thinking.
Okay, I'm
having a hard time Ashika understanding what you're saying.
Can't even complete my 1000 say to far too much coffee. I guess when
I made that, maybe when you made that intention, I'm guessing
you're saying so I tweak it to 500 and Pomodoro style. I don't know
what Pomodoro style is. Pomodoro means tomato in Italian. I'm not
sure what you mean by that.
Mehmed Karim asked what's hypocritical. You got to go back
and listen to the rest of the
episode. Ryan Christian Wade, um Saddam revert from Houston, lovely
city, well, I bless you
not controlling anger. That's a that's definitely a common habit.
I mean watermelon, I mean Boricua, okay? Ricardo bienvenido.
Excellent. Great to have you with us. I'm hoping you know about the
three Puerto Rican Imams and the work that Abu sumeya does with the
Puerto Rican community and the Latino community through reverse
reconnect and other sort of examples. He's a gem to the UMA
mela guide him and preserve him. Yeah.
Juju says creating distance from my cell phone is my biggest
challenge. That's 100% something that the author mentions. Author
mentions said, leave your cell phone in another room when you go
do to work right at least like in two hour three hour blocks, leave
that phone in another room. Entirely 100%
Abdullah says I worked with video game addiction. Oh, interesting
camps and those successful had to remove tech from their houses
completely. It doesn't surprise me whatsoever.
Atif Johan, do you recommend ebooks over physical books? Never
for people trying to develop a habit of reading. No way Jose,
read those books. Man,
never get that new book smell through a screen.
I.
That's what Pomodoro means. Amina working for 25 minutes, five
minute break, repeat, wow. I had no idea. Well, I benefited from
you all. Thank you for that.
Yeah, watermelon, I hear you working from home. Getting outside
is very important,
yeah? Abdullah keeps on wanting me to try decaf, and I don't
understand the point. Like, what would be the purpose of trying
decaf coffee? I'll be like, you know, I don't know.
Okay, interesting. People informed me about Pomodoro. That was a
total new thing. I thought you all learned Italian for a second.
We're just going to talk about pasta Pomodoro, or, you know,
whatever.
All right, good stuff. Everybody. Well, I appreciate everybody
sharing, especially those who made themselves vulnerable was
something that they're going to try to break. Geez, what's
something? What's the habit that I'm going to try to break? I think
I need to definitely be better about phone usage during work
hours, so I'm going to, I'm going to just take that as my challenge
for the next two weeks, I'm going to leave my phone out of the room
in blocks of, let's say, three hours, okay?
And I'll report back after that.
Yes. Claudia Ladin, as we did in the beginning of the program,
definitely do for Bangladesh, 100% Rukia diriyah asks Salah between
Maghrib and Aisha, is it considered clear? Male? Yes. Leal
begins with Maghrib.
Sam AHA says, Matthew Hassan, I went camping in Wales. I hear
Wales is beautiful.
Hussain, Hassan from Buffalo, Masha, Allah, welcome.
Attika asks, What do you eat? Polenta with
butter. Butter you can do olive oil. You can also do,
you can also do a sort of like tomato based sauce. But mostly in
the northern Italian cuisine, it's more like butter heavy, butter and
oil heavy than it is like tomato heavy.
I mean, I mean May Allah preserve everybody that tunes into the
program and everybody who watches it thereafter. Watches it
thereafter. Baraka malaysalam, we got people coming in the door just
as we're about to leave from California. We're going to sign
off before I have to give any more salams. Thank you, everybody until
two weeks time Salaam Alaikum to stop for the tuba Lake. See you
next time, salaam alaikum,
you.