Tom Facchine – Leftist Gatekeepers

Tom Facchine
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The hosts of the Theraqeena Institute's weekly livestream discuss political unfoldings and recent protests in the United States, highlighting the political crisis and the importance of the political crisis. They stress the need for the United States to recognize the right to resistance of Israeli Israeli supporters and stop support for the candidate's anti- admissionist stance. They also emphasize the importance of fear and hesitation in Islam, as it is essential to stop terrorist behavior. Additionally, they emphasize the need to prioritize system over goals, improve habits, and focus on system and habits for long-term success.
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Assalamu alaykum ras tala. Welcome to Yaqeena Institute's

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weekly livestream program. I'm your host, Imam Tom

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Fakini.

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Welcome to what should be a jam packed

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and spicy session of our livestream,

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where we're going to talk about the politics

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and political unfoldings of the week, some very

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contentious stuff, in addition to a blog post

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that was put out by yours truly, which

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is stirring up some controversy,

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and we'll also start new books today. We've

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got the 2 segments of, test your item

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where we'll be asking questions from the audience,

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where we're gonna start a, part of a

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a hadith book Sahih Muslim, actually, in a

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long forgotten,

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sort of long forgotten part of Islamic knowledge,

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and we'll be starting a brand new book

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on personal development

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called Atomic Habits, a very, very popular book

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and 1 that I recently finished and benefited

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from tremendously.

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But without further ado, let's get to see

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if we have any q and a right

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now. Anybody in the comments,

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tell us where you're viewing from.

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Give us a shout out. Let us know

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what's on your mind. If you've got any

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questions, we'll be taking them first.

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Mister DIII

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appreciate you. I appreciate you, mister d.

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We

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we don't have all the answers, but we

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try to point out what Allah shows us.

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So may Allah accept from us.

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I too was someone who spent years years

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years on the left, so this is something

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that is

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not necessarily,

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it's very familiar to me. Right? And so

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something that I care deeply about is not

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something that is,

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you know, foreign to me or that I

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have no familiarity with.

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Muhammad Jahid from California,

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The Sunshine State or is the Sunshine State,

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is that California or is that Florida?

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From LA, Siti Nuriati.

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Hoping to

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be in LA, what is it, on

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October, November? I can't remember for Mass

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LA. They have a a conference in the

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fall. Mister d from Yakarta,

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Indonesia. Welcome. Welcome.

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From Karachi, Pakistan.

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Falta Magali from Egypt. Umadunya. Welcome.

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We've got Tahira Martin, if I'm saying that

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correctly, from New Jersey.

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I, myself, am a native of New Jersey.

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Welcome. We've gotten

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a to Bande

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from New York.

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I'm a man. Thank you. Give salaams to

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everybody from Karachi. I think it's gonna take

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you the rest of your life.

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It's our Tasha Zainab from Greater Toronto Area.

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Inshallah, I'll be in Toronto in the fall

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as well. And if not in the fall,

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then definitely by December, InshaAllah Ta'ala.

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From the USA with return Muslim 604 returned

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from Hajj a few days ago. May Allah

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accept your Hajj, and we hope that you

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prayed for the liberation and success and victory

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of the people of Gaza and Palestine.

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Congratulations. I hope it was a positive experience

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and that Allah accepts it from you.

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From SoCal. Welcome back to the program. You're

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a regular.

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We know each other by now.

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And we got from Malaysia, the Gigahut.

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Welcome. Welcome to the program. Inshallah, I'll be

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in Malaysia this time next month in July.

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From

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Worcester.

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Welcome to the program. I need to get

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back to Worcester. Worcester was nice.

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Shafi'i m,

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from Florida.

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Mohammed Saeed Khan from London, a Sharif.

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Atika from Indonesia.

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Very welcome to the program. I don't I

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see a lot of introductions. I don't see

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any questions. Nobody has any questions to drop

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or discussion points.

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Everyone's waiting waiting for the rest of the

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program or what? M y from New York.

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Good stuff. Well, if nobody has any burning

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questions, then the chat is always gonna be

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open for your questions. We encourage you to

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use

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we'll get right into it. Nihah Khan from

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Calgary, Canada.

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Welcome. Nerimen Nurai Mateen from Texas.

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Good stuff, everybody.

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Well, let's get to the program. 1st, we're

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gonna talk a little current events, and it

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was a very, very packed week. As you

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know, the political scene across the world, but

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also especially in the US,

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is in,

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an extremely contentious state. It's still primary season

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for many people,

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and this is something that wouldn't normally necessarily

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get so much attention. But for us, it

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has specific and special emphasis and attention because

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the United States is

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complicit, if not directly

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contributing to the genocide and slaughter of our

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brothers and sisters.

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And so it becomes very, very contentious and

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an important thing to keep tabs on and

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to discuss what's going on in the political

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scene because it is directly going to affect

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what is going on in Gaza and Palestine.

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Let's see.

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Welcome. My name is Salaam Raflatul from Birmingham.

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Zartasha Zainab, there's gatekeeping on both the left

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and the right organizing, but also gatekeeping.

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Looks like you got cut off there, but

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I agree. It's definitely not just a left

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issue, but we do have to talk about,

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the particular things that are going on, which

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is gonna directly relate to what we just

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had. Bring that that asset right back. We

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had so this week, we had,

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there was a rally held in the Bronx.

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The Bronx is a neighborhood of New York

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City

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where

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AOC,

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Bernie Sanders,

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and Jamaal Bowman had a rally. Now this

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rally was held in support for Jamaal Bowman

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because he is 1 of what's known as

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the squad, sort of 1 of the rep

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the progressive,

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democrats.

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He's got a lot of popularity nationally, and

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he has called for a ceasefire. So he

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was

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up for

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reelection when it comes to,

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the primary election. So this is within the

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Democratic Party. Now, why it became

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an extremely

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interesting thing this week was because there were

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actually people

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from within the Palestinian

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movement and Palestinian advocacy movement here in the

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US that were protesting

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at this rally

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against Jamaal Bowman. Now I'm gonna explain it

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to you, but this is very, very, very

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significant,

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the anatomy of what was going on.

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Side 1. So there's 1 side of the

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issue that was very, very upset that such

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protesting

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was taking place. They were represented by DSA,

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Democratic Socialists of America, and many people within

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the Muslim,

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sort of political

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circles, people who are more invested in electoral

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politics that are used to thinking of Bowman

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in a very positive manner. They say, wait

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a second. What are you guys doing protesting

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him? He is a progressive.

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He is someone who's called for a ceasefire,

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and he's running against and here's the stakes.

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He's running against someone by the name of

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Vladimir who is completely propped up by APAC.

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APAC obviously is the lobby that coordinates its

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policies and candidates with Israel.

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So an untold amount of

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dollars was thrown into this race from APAC

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in order to to take it away from

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Jabal Bowman and put it towards Latimer because

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Latimer was going to,

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be solidly in support of Israel. So 1

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side was saying, what are you guys doing

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protesting? By the way, the protest was by

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an organization that we have had some of

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their members on this show called Within Our

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Lifetime.

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Now

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the other side, such as within our lifetime,

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they said, wait a second. Hold on. We

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have a very, very clear and reasonable

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purpose for protesting

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that this is about principles

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and accountability,

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that politicians

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aren't our friends, that we owe them our

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support no matter what. And in fact,

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this sort of attitude from the Democratic Party

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or any of the parties

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telling us basically

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that we have to support them no matter

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what when they keep giving us garbage candidates

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and garbage candidates and garbage candidates

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is something that we have to change

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1 way or another.

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And what is even further than that is

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that they had very specific demands. Right? So

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they weren't just protesting to protest. They had

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specific demands.

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3 of them, as a matter of fact.

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1 of those demands was they were calling

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on Jamaal Bowman

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and AOC and Bernie Sanders to refuse to

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endorse Biden in the upcoming presidential election. Now

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that's very significant because

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Biden is directly responsible for the genocide that's

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going on. And Bowman has not rescinded any

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support or indicated

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that he does not support or does not

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endorse, Biden, which is something that is problematic.

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Right? This is a person that okay. Yes.

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They're running against somebody who's propped up by

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APAC, but they're still supporting

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the person who is genociding our people.

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Now the second demand that they have

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was that

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we demand that these representatives

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who paint and portray themselves as being progressive,

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we demand that they stop conflating, that they

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oppose the conflation of anti Semitism with anti

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Zionism.

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And I'm going to circle back to this

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because this is a very, very important and

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specific demand that they made. The third demand

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that they had was that we want these

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representatives to recognize the right to resistance of

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the Palestinian people, which is granted by international

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law and recognized by everybody. Now these are

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first of all, these are 3 very, very

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reasonable reasonable demands.

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And the second point is that

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the last 2 especially

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are extremely

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significant if you understand the terrain of advocating

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for Palestine in the United States or in

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much of the western world.

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Let's circle back to that second demand that

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they had, which was opposing demanding that these

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representatives

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oppose the conflation of anti Zionism and antisemitism.

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We want them to come out and say

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that

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antisemitism

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and antisemitism are 2 different things, that we

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can criticize Israel

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and it's not antisemitic

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at all. Those 2 things are not necessarily

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true, right, or necessarily the same thing. So

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there was a, an exhibit at a museum

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in Brooklyn,

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and this exhibit was something that basically portrayed

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Israeli's version of events that happened on October

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7th, etcetera, etcetera, filled with Israeli propaganda,

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and within our lifetime held a protest about

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this particular,

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this particular

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installment or this exhibit.

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Now these supposedly

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progressive

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representatives

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actually

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came out and criticized within our lifetime, and

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not just criticize them, but called them anti

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Semitic, tried to smear them, tried to say

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that they were engaged in hate speech

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simply for criticizing

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the sort of Israeli propaganda

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and criticizing Zionism.

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So before everybody sort of falls in love

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and says that Bowman was a hero for

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the Palestinian cause or something like that, yes,

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he did call for a ceasefire.

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But he still kept intact

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the entire

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route of persecuting

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Palestinian activism on the grounds of hate speech,

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that basically any criticism of Israel

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amounts to hate speech and that this now

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becomes a legal issue. So that's a very

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reasonable and significant demand. Now, the last demand

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that they have, we're going to circle back

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to that as well, recognizing the right of

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Palestinians, especially in Gaza, to resist, this is

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a right granted them to them by international

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law,

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is extremely important again because

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the Zionist

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forces within the United States are trying to

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go the route of portraying

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anybody who supports Palestine

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or even Palestinian resistance as being terrorists.

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Right? And so if

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the representatives

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aren't going to

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stick their neck out for that and say,

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wait a second. You have the right to

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support

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first of all, Palestinians have the right to

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resist.

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2nd of all, you have the right to

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support the Palestinian right to resist, that this

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is not a controversial thing and this is

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not support for terrorism.

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These are very, very strategic demands that are

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very important to the long term continuity

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of pro Palestinian

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activism and advocacy.

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So, basically, we had these 2 sides, and

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they were criticizing each other. We had groups

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like PYM, Palestinian Youth Movement, SJP, and Al

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Aouda come out in defense and support of

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Within Our Lifetime,

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and you had other groups coming out and

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criticizing them. But I commend I commend within

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our lifetime from taking a principled stance

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and not being bullied into backing down from

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their principles. And I think that that is

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sort of the connection that we have to

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take when we are, as Muslims, trying to

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engage in the political sphere, that we are

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having a long term strategy. We are attempting

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to stand on our principles,

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and it is very, very, very easy to

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make concessions. And you can always find a

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rationalization

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to make concessions.

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But if you look at the attitude

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of the early companions and the attitude of

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the early Muslims,

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Latimer eventually won the election. Some people are

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obviously going to blame the protests,

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on Jamal Bowman for that. But that's probably

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not a likely reason for him losing. The

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district itself is a very mixed demographic.

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And a very important statistic that has emerged

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and 1 that is important for us is

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that

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the synagogues

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in that district were extremely important to getting

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the vote turnout. Some of the synagogues reported

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70% voter turnout, others 80%, others over 90%.

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And so this is significant for mosques and

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messages in the United States, some of which

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have become allergic to anything political, unfortunately,

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due to misinformation

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about their status as a 501c3.

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You are allowed to

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become a voting center. You are allowed to

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be this is perfectly within your rights. You

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are allowed to educate about politics. You just

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just can't come out and say you should

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vote for this person and you shouldn't vote

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for that person.

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So we call on mosques. I think that

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this is a very, very standard and easy

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ask to take this into consideration when it

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comes to the next round of elections that

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mosques should also similarly

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be

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centers of voting where people can come and

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we can leverage the population that we have

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in a way that is appropriate.

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But there's a larger issue at play here,

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and this is going to set us up

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for the blog piece and talking about some

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of the backlash and responses to the blog

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piece.

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Is the issue of Palestine and Palestinian Liberation

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best framed as a progressive issue or as

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a leftist issue?

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Are these allies that we have made or

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that some of us have made on the

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left or in progressive circles,

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is it worth it? Are the allies actually

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adding to what we're doing, or are they

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watering down and even taking away,

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especially when some of these allies are so

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quick to make concessions

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and abandon their principles? What kind of issue

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is the Palestinian

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Liberation or the Palestinian issue? That is something

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where we're going to be getting into it.

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But first, we're gonna circle back. I know

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we've got some comments and some people introductions

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here.

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Yes. We caught that. We caught that. Abdullah

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Ahmed from Nigeria.

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Okay. We got someone from the home team,

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Rabi Ajavad.

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Taha from ICPA.

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Courtney Gee from Ohio. Welcome to the program.

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Mom of 5.

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May Allah bless you and your family and

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your children.

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From Illinois. Amina Kasupovich

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from Bosnia.

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Saliha Ahmed from Atlanta.

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Hazara Mamnoon

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Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum

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Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum

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Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum

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Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum Assalamu alaikum. How do

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you equate my beliefs,

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what I thought was the left standing with

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human rights, with what the current American political

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class gives me for choices? Islam gave me

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the middle plat path. That is a wonderful,

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I don't know if it's a question,

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but it's more of a comment and I

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completely agree

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with where it is coming from, that Islam

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is the middle path and we see that

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Islam is neither left nor right, that

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if you look at,

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it's become trite

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to say, but very few people are willing

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to live with the consequences of it, that

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if you go issue by issue, Islam is

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about what is righteous and what is correct.

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And sometimes that happens to place us on

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the right politically and sometimes that happens to

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place us on the left politically, and we

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should not feel ourselves constrained to this side

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or that side or to this party or

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that party because at the end of the

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day we have our principles

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and we don't need to sign ourselves up

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to an entire agenda or a whole platform.

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So that now instead of just teaming up

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with some group on 1 issue, now we

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have to somehow accept 10 issues in order

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to have them participate even on 1 issue.

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I think that's a bad deal. I think

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that's a deal we should not accept. And

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that is something that we're going to be

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talking about quite a bit in the next

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few months.

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Niya Naim,

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and Abdul Rahman

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agrees.

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Okay. So getting into it, what did we

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have this week? We dropped Yaqeen Institute dropped

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a blog,

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a blog, please, that was written by yours

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truly called Intersectionality

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and Palestine Solidarity:

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Why Muslims Need to Lead the Gaza protest.

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We're gonna drop that link in the chat.

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I highly recommend that everybody give it a

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read and

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meditate on it and sip it in because

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I know that it caused some controversy, but

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a lot of people that I saw that

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were either upset,

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or otherwise didn't really necessarily demonstrate that they

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even read it in the first place. Nisreen

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from New Hampshire.

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Welcome to the program.

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Okay. So we have several different reactions, and

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we're gonna talk about sort of I'll give

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a very before we get to the reactions,

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I'll give a very, very, very high level

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overview though. I do definitely encourage that you

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read it for yourself,

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that

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Muslims should not allow themselves to be silenced

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or sidelined any longer by the political left

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when it comes to advocacy for Palestine,

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that unfortunately

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many people on the left, including

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Palestinians and including Muslims,

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are in fact gatekeeping

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and

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side, pushing Muslims to aside.

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And, and this is the point that we

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care about,

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hurting the movement, hurting the movement by doing

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that, by basically making Palestine into only a

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progressive clause, by making Palestine

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Liberation into only a leftist clause,

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basically that they are forcing us to either

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enter into a political space that is not

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indigenously Muslim

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and not indigenously Islamic

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and actually stands largely in many, many ways

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against our values or to supposedly

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just leave

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Palestinian advocacy and support to them, who supposedly

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know better. And we're going to get into

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the nuts and bolts of that in just

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a second. So let's go through. Wadham Salaam

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waftallahu ta'ala Tariq from Georgia. Welcome. Let's get

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into some of the reactions. There were both

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positive and negative reactions all over the place

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and we're happy to cause a conversation because,

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you know, these are things that need to

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be talked about. I personally, for 1, am

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a a type of person that loves to

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put everything on the table and discuss it.

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And I stand in the possibility of being

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wrong about everything. Right? But we're gonna get

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through it, and we're gonna talk about it

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explicitly, and we're going to try to,

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figure out and get to the bottom of

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it. I have spent we can keep rolling

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through the comments as we go here. We're

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not gonna read everyone out loud that I

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have spent

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most of my well, my entire adult life

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and some of my teenage years

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attempting to interrogate and get to the bottom

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of the things that I believed in, the

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things that I thought were true, the sensibilities

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that I had, what I thought was a

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good idea or a bad idea, both politically

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and otherwise.

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And I hope that people go through the

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same process. I hope that people go through

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the same process of critically self evaluating

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where their ideas and values come from, because

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we all know that there are a certain

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constellation or a certain group of values that

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are hegemonic in the world today, and are

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those are the values of the Western enlightenment,

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the values of the Western, quote unquote, democracies

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or the Western nations that have colonized most

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of the world.

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And so we have to critically reflect as

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Muslims

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how are we being perhaps infected by these

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types of ideas?

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How do these particular ideas shape the way

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that we think about issues and also shape

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the way that we think to resist,

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even when it comes to

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our own oppression, our own genocide, our own

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murder. It can happen.

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Ulysses

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Aparicio,

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You sent me links to become a better

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Muslim. I'm Mexican. Bienvenido.

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And I'm from a state where there's almost

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no brothers to help me out learn about

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the Quran. Well, he says you should check

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out Islam in Spanish. They have a lot

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of good stuff.

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Yeah. Islam in Spanish is a lot of

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good stuff, especially for the Spanish speaking Latino

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community. Welcome to Islam. I'm your brother.

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I hope that you're able to find some

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beneficial things there. Also, Eman Wesley Abu Sumayyah

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Lebron does amazing stuff

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for,

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for the Spanish speaking Muslim community. Definitely highly,

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highly like to shout him out. He's 1

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of my mentors.

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I would highly recommend his stuff for converts

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in general and especially Latino converts.

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Tariq Ahmed from Georgia.

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Very good.

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Tarek Tarek has the golden question here. Does

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the left undermine Palestinian Liberation? That is the

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golden question, Tarek. You hit the nail

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on the head, and we're about to get

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there, but not before we get through a

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very negative reaction first. We're gonna use that

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negative reaction

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to try to highlight and demonstrate what's wrong

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with this type of conceptualization. Let's bring it

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up here,

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And we will actually read through this comment

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a bit just because this is you know,

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it represents

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prevalent ideas. Right? And so prevalent ideas need

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to be deconstructed,

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prevalent ideas need to be evaluated, they need

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to be run through

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our values as Muslims, the Quran and the

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Sunnah, the understanding of scholars, our tradition,

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right, our indigenous ways of knowings,

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if you prefer that type of language,

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in order to make sure that this isn't

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another Western encroachment or a Western

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Ruslan from Singapore.

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So somebody said nobody is saying Palestine is

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not a Muslim cause. That's not true,

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but we'll keep going. But it's also a

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Christian and Jewish cause. I actually say that

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in in the the block piece with no

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problem.

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It's everyone's cause.

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We are asking non Palestinian Muslims

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to stop erasing us and distorting our struggle

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against settler colonialism

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as a religious issue.

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Interesting. So they're saying that that's not a

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religious issue, that it's really

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a settler colonial issue and not really a

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religious issue,

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playing right into Zionist hands.

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Palestine is also diverse with a substantial Christian

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population.

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Next slide.

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It's insulting and

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disingenuous that non Palestinian Muslims, such as myself,

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namely a white revert, such as myself, platformed

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by Yaqeen Institute slander our movement as exclusive

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when they are actually just trying to speak

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over Palestinians

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and hijack our cause in the name of

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Islam.

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Allahu Akbar. And, I think that's it there.

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Right? Okay. So this is a great comment

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because it shows a lot of what's wrong

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about leftist thinking. So thank you for that.

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The first thing that we should say is

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when you talk about centering Palestinian voices, the

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the devil's in the details.

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Who?

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Which Palestinian voices would you like to center?

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Would you like to center the Palestinian voices

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who work for Yaqeen Institute and who read

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the blog piece before we put it out?

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Would you like to center the dozens of

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Palestinian voices

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who positively

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reacted to the blog piece and reached out

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to me and congratulated me on writing it?

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Would you like to center the Palestinian voices

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on the ground in Gaza who are resisting

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the occupation

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in a very, very

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real way?

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That's not who you're talking about. What you

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really mean but are too afraid to say

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is that you want to center the voices

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that you approve of. Right? So you're papering

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over the fact

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that your politics and values are actually very,

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very, very far away

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from the values and politics of those who

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are resisting the occupation on the ground. And

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I hate to break it to anybody, but

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you are not the movement. You don't get

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to assign yourself as synonymous with the movement.

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Now, unfortunately, we see this where many, many

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people want to talk about honoring the martyrs,

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honoring the martyrs this and honoring the martyrs

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that. But many of those same people don't

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actually share the values or principles of the

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martyrs themselves.

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And so there's a question to be had

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here for those people who are using the

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efficacy

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of the martyrs

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but really are kind of upstaging the martyrs,

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are you

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really supporting them, or are you more exploiting

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them and co opting the movement yourself?

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Using identity politics to control who can and

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can't speak about Palestine,

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first of all, is contradictory to what you

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said, that Palestine is an issue for everybody.

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And second of all, it will actually cause

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the movement to fail because identity politics, once

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you make something about identity politics, it's no

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longer about principles or values. And this is

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something, unfortunately, that the left struggles with a

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lot, where a lot of the issues and

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movements come back and collapse

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into

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into identity politics.

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And when it comes to identity politics or

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when it becomes about identity politics, there's no

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definitive

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authority for principles or what's right and what's

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wrong or who speaks for who or who

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doesn't speak for who. Identity politics, in other

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words, will always be very, very easy to

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infiltrate and co opt. That's why there's always

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Palestinians that are already being co opted. Haven't

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you seen? There are Palestinians who collaborate with

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the Zionist entity. There are Palestinians that get

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on CNN and, you know,

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make the same points that the IDF make.

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If it were ever just about your identity

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then we wouldn't have the problem of tokenization

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in the first place. Don't you know about

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the Palestinian Authority? Don't you see Mahmoud Abbas?

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Don't you see the other people who have

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already sort of been compromised?

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We even find this in the Quran, and

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this is really interesting why the divine guidance

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is eternal and good for all times in

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all places, that this is why the colonizers

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always rely upon and exploit identity politics to

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keep us confused and divided.

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Do you know that when it came to

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Bani Israel under the oppression of Firaoun,

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the person who was in charge

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of sort of keeping Bani Israel in place,

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his name is Khwarun and he's mentioned in

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the Quran, especially in Suratul Qasas.

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He was actually from Bani Israel. Allah says

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this explicitly in Suratul Qasas. And Ibn Kathir

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says

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that Qarun is actually the first

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cousin of Musa

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So

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as they say, all skin folk ain't kinfolk.

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Right? And just because

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you have an identity

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doesn't mean that you get to appoint yourself

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as the spokesperson or that you're jiving. Right?

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That it has to be based off of

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values.

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It has to be based off of values.

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If we do not base a movement on

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values, it will be corrupted

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and infiltrated

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and co opted

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so easily time and time again, and it

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will fail. Now when it comes also to

00:28:01 --> 00:28:03

identity politics, we don't use it to silence

00:28:03 --> 00:28:05

people. This is not the way in Islam.

00:28:05 --> 00:28:08

Malcolm X, who a lot of leftists like

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to co opt his legacy as well, said

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that I'm for the truth no matter who

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says it. And Allah

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in the Quran in Surat An Namal affirms

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the statement of Bilqis who at the time

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is an idol worshiper. She worships the sun.

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And yet she says something that's very true

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when she's considering going to war against Suleiman.

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She tells her sort of her crew. She

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says, listen, when we go to war, it

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makes the honorable people dishonored, and it's sort

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of a net loss. So let's try to

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avoid war if possible. And Allah

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says, wakadalika

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yafalun,

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which is an affirmation of what she said

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even despite her identity.

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Right?

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Now, so if we want to get into

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it and we'll we'll we won't spend too

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much on this. We got a lot to

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get through. When we think about who's going

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to liberate Palestine, who's going to free Palestine,

00:28:52 --> 00:28:54

who's going to stop the Zionist occupation

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of Palestine,

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is it going to be the Westernized elite

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no matter what their identity is, no matter

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where they come from, who their parents are,

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you know, whatever their last names? Or is

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it going to be the people on the

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ground in Palestine?

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Now if the answer is the latter, it's

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going to be the people on the ground

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in Palestine, then what is their

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paradigm?

00:29:15 --> 00:29:16

What are their values?

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And how do we measure up to that?

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Are we very, very similar to the values

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that they're espousing,

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or in fact, are we very, very far

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away? And we should also ask, who is

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a better ally? And this is where it

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circles back to our initial thing. Who's the

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better ally?

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The progressive and the radical left or perhaps

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the 2, 000, 000, 000 strong Ummah of

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Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, who are the ones

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who liberated Palestine

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under the reign of Omar in

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first place. Finally, last point, the idea that

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recognizing

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Palestine as an Islamic issue harming non Muslims

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is a nonstarter and actually, unfortunately,

00:29:53 --> 00:29:55

not just plays into Zionist hands, but falls

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for Zionist myths and the secular colonial myths

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about Islam's inherent violent nature and its inherent

00:30:01 --> 00:30:03

sort of oppositional antagonistic

00:30:03 --> 00:30:06

nature with other faiths. The reality is that

00:30:06 --> 00:30:07

both Christianity and Judaism

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flourished

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under Islamic rule, both in Palestine and outside

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of Palestine.

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So who's really playing into Zionist hands with

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this argument?

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And when we notice that if you go

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throughout the history of the European colonization of

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the Muslim lands, if you look at the

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moves they made and how their main and

00:30:25 --> 00:30:26

first job

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was to neuter Islam and to marginalize it

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and to strip Islam down as a political

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force and to render it

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not effective,

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then we have the right to ask

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who's doing the work of the colonizer today.

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Allah

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alone controls victory, which is why he said,

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And then in the next verse, he said,

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Allah controls victory. He grants victory to whom

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he wills, and he reminds us that our

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victory is not necessarily in finding the most

00:31:01 --> 00:31:04

people to support us, or the people who

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

tell us that they're going to support us,

00:31:05 --> 00:31:08

but that victory is in relying on Allah

00:31:09 --> 00:31:11

and relying on his messenger and the guidance

00:31:11 --> 00:31:12

that was communicated

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and relying on the believers.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

Next up, we've got a test a new

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

section of test year end. So we finished

00:31:21 --> 00:31:24

our previous book. But first, let's circle back

00:31:24 --> 00:31:25

and see what we got in the comments.

00:31:25 --> 00:31:26

We don't have a whole lot.

00:31:28 --> 00:31:29

Art Forged, they might as well have said

00:31:29 --> 00:31:30

your name. Well, they did. They did say

00:31:30 --> 00:31:32

my name, but that's fine.

00:31:32 --> 00:31:33

Tarek,

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Ahmed said, Nardin Qaswani led that, didn't she?

00:31:36 --> 00:31:37

We're talking about the protest that we mentioned

00:31:37 --> 00:31:39

in the very beginning from within our lifetime.

00:31:39 --> 00:31:40

Yes.

00:31:42 --> 00:31:42

Budadi

00:31:43 --> 00:31:44

Khaimah or Sheima.

00:31:51 --> 00:31:53

Very good. So now we've got we've got

00:31:53 --> 00:31:55

our next segment, which is test your in,

00:31:55 --> 00:31:56

and we're starting a new,

00:31:57 --> 00:32:00

idea here. Yes. EK. EK, hit it. Thank

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

you. Thank you. Thank you.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

Quality over quantity

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

always. This is Allah says in Surat Al

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

Baqarah. Allah says in Surat Al Baqarah when

00:32:07 --> 00:32:09

it comes to the army of Talut.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:13

Right? He takes the soldiers that are willing

00:32:13 --> 00:32:16

to forgo drinking the water at the river,

00:32:16 --> 00:32:19

and even they're apprehensive as being wildly outnumbered.

00:32:19 --> 00:32:20

But

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

the people who understand, Arasih Khunafarim, they tell

00:32:23 --> 00:32:25

them, listen, the people who are steadfast and

00:32:25 --> 00:32:26

trust Allah

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

will always be victorious.

00:32:34 --> 00:32:35

Who do we vote for? I can't tell

00:32:35 --> 00:32:36

you because this is Yaqeen program. Yaqeen is

00:32:36 --> 00:32:37

a 501c3.

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

But,

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

talk to me off

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

in a non Yaqeen platform, and I will,

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

I'll try to

00:32:45 --> 00:32:47

say my piece. From NYC.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:54

NYC in the house. From Maryland. Very old

00:32:54 --> 00:32:56

name there. Abdullah

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

Abu Mahfou says, how do we respond to

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

those on the left who ask us to

00:32:59 --> 00:33:01

show up to their rallies because they came

00:33:01 --> 00:33:03

to pro Palestinian initiatives? I say if that's

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

your idea of what a coalition is or

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

an allyship is then we don't need them

00:33:07 --> 00:33:07

because

00:33:08 --> 00:33:10

this is not a I scratch, you know,

00:33:10 --> 00:33:12

scratch my back, I scratch yours quid pro

00:33:12 --> 00:33:14

quo sort of situation.

00:33:14 --> 00:33:16

If you want to join up with the

00:33:16 --> 00:33:19

cause for Palestinian Liberation or liberating Palestine from

00:33:19 --> 00:33:20

Zionist occupation,

00:33:21 --> 00:33:21

then

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

you do it because it's the right thing

00:33:24 --> 00:33:26

to do. You're not doing it for favors

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

and you're definitely not gonna do it at

00:33:27 --> 00:33:29

the expense of our principles.

00:33:29 --> 00:33:31

Right? So don't expect that I'm gonna show

00:33:31 --> 00:33:32

up to a pride parade or if I'm

00:33:32 --> 00:33:34

gonna show up to to your issue, whatever

00:33:34 --> 00:33:36

your issue is, if it violates Islam or

00:33:36 --> 00:33:38

if it violates Islamic values. That's not gonna

00:33:38 --> 00:33:41

happen. Right? And Muslims need to get out

00:33:41 --> 00:33:42

of this mentality

00:33:43 --> 00:33:43

where we

00:33:45 --> 00:33:48

where we are only thinking of, oh, no.

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

They came out for us. Now I have

00:33:50 --> 00:33:51

to come out for them. No. No. No.

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

Not at all. That's how movements get co

00:33:52 --> 00:33:54

opted and watered down and fail.

00:33:56 --> 00:33:58

Where are you based?

00:33:59 --> 00:34:02

Wa Alaykum Salam. Beirut Khan. Hussein from Maryland.

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

Laiaheek,

00:34:04 --> 00:34:04

Laura.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

Okay. So let's keep going. We've got test

00:34:09 --> 00:34:12

your end. We're gonna ask some questions for

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

the audience, our our our viewers here tonight.

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

We're starting. Guess what?

00:34:16 --> 00:34:17

Kitab Assir

00:34:18 --> 00:34:20

from Sahih Muslim. Now there is a very

00:34:20 --> 00:34:21

good reason

00:34:21 --> 00:34:23

why we did this. Okay?

00:34:24 --> 00:34:25

Which is

00:34:26 --> 00:34:29

alaikum al Salam, legend 25 from Azerbaijan, mashAllah.

00:34:29 --> 00:34:31

There's a very good reason why we're going

00:34:31 --> 00:34:33

to start talking about Kitabajihat or Kitabasiir,

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

because most people, many people, misunderstand it. Right?

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

They misunderstand it, which is why they fall

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

prey

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

to

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

particular ideas, such as the ones that were

00:34:43 --> 00:34:45

voiced in that negative comment that Islam is

00:34:45 --> 00:34:47

somehow going to mean. Making it an Islamic

00:34:47 --> 00:34:49

issue means that somehow Christians are going to

00:34:49 --> 00:34:51

be wronged or that Jews are going to

00:34:51 --> 00:34:52

be wronged or that anybody's going to be

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

wronged. Right? This is a misunderstanding of Islam.

00:34:55 --> 00:34:57

And if you go into the books of

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

the Hadith or the tradition, you'll find actually

00:34:59 --> 00:35:02

tremendous justice and tremendous benevolence much more than

00:35:02 --> 00:35:03

what we have today.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

I completely agree, Laura. We need to find

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

our strength in our faith again. Exactly. All

00:35:08 --> 00:35:10

strength comes from Allah. We say

00:35:12 --> 00:35:14

Right? There's no might or strength except by

00:35:14 --> 00:35:17

Allah. But how many of us walk the

00:35:17 --> 00:35:18

walk?

00:35:18 --> 00:35:20

Okay. So let's do do we have a

00:35:20 --> 00:35:21

poll, guys, in the studio, or can we

00:35:21 --> 00:35:23

do a, are we doing just a question?

00:35:23 --> 00:35:24

Okay. We're just gonna throw it out so

00:35:24 --> 00:35:26

you can send your answer in the chat.

00:35:26 --> 00:35:28

We'll wait for some to come in. The

00:35:28 --> 00:35:29

question is,

00:35:30 --> 00:35:33

was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam required to

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

declare war before attacking his enemies?

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

That is the question.

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

See what you think.

00:35:57 --> 00:35:58

See what you think while I sip my

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

drink.

00:36:05 --> 00:36:06

I got 2 nose,

00:36:07 --> 00:36:08

3 nos, 4 nos,

00:36:14 --> 00:36:15

5 nos

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

and 1 yes.

00:36:19 --> 00:36:22

Here we go. Now it's getting interesting. We

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

always like like a little discussion, a little

00:36:24 --> 00:36:25

back and forth.

00:36:26 --> 00:36:28

Okay. Very good. This is the subject of

00:36:28 --> 00:36:29

the first hadith

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

in this chapter of Sahih Muslim,

00:36:33 --> 00:36:34

and it describes a situation

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

in which the prophet it describes a situation

00:36:37 --> 00:36:40

in which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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

permitted

00:36:41 --> 00:36:43

and did initiate an attack without

00:36:44 --> 00:36:45

announcing

00:36:46 --> 00:36:47

war. But

00:36:47 --> 00:36:50

there is a very, very key

00:36:50 --> 00:36:51

context to this hadith.

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

And first of all, the hadith demonstrates, number

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

1, that the default is that people have

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

to be made aware first. So, yes, that

00:36:58 --> 00:36:59

is actually

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

that is actually

00:37:01 --> 00:37:02

the default.

00:37:03 --> 00:37:06

But there are exceptions to that default, such

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

as when you're already in a known state

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

of war or in the explicit text of

00:37:10 --> 00:37:11

the hadith,

00:37:11 --> 00:37:14

when there are people who have been given

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

the message in Arabic to the point that

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

hudjah as a concept has been established upon

00:37:18 --> 00:37:20

them, that means that they have no reason

00:37:20 --> 00:37:23

to doubt or deny Islam except because of

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

their own their own sort of, like,

00:37:26 --> 00:37:27

what do you call it? It's like your

00:37:27 --> 00:37:28

own stubbornness.

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

Right?

00:37:30 --> 00:37:32

That in that situation that you don't have

00:37:32 --> 00:37:35

to you don't have to strictly announce that

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

you are going to attack. However, it remains

00:37:38 --> 00:37:40

must a habit, remains something that is always

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

praiseworthy

00:37:41 --> 00:37:43

and a better thing to do.

00:37:43 --> 00:37:46

And the default is that, especially in these

00:37:46 --> 00:37:48

days when you've got, you know, when that

00:37:48 --> 00:37:50

sort of situation isn't the situation that we're

00:37:50 --> 00:37:53

living in, that, yes, that the the general

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

default is that you have to announce war.

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

But

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

you but the strict answer to the question

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

was the prophet required to declare war before

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

attacking them? The answer is

00:38:06 --> 00:38:08

no. And that's, I think, what many people

00:38:08 --> 00:38:08

are,

00:38:09 --> 00:38:11

Zartasha has a nice it should be declared.

00:38:11 --> 00:38:13

Yes. It should be declared. Though if there

00:38:13 --> 00:38:15

is a group that you have obvious enmity

00:38:15 --> 00:38:17

with or where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

00:38:17 --> 00:38:19

sallam had obvious enmity with and they were

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

already in a state of sort of warfare,

00:38:21 --> 00:38:22

then it's not necessary.

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

Very good. Okay. Now let's go to the

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

second question, this 1 will get us into

00:38:27 --> 00:38:29

that was just a warm up. Alright? 2nd

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

question,

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

what would you tell this is gonna be

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

a little more involved, it's not a yes

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

or no. What would you tell a Muslim

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

general about to go to war? The second

00:38:37 --> 00:38:39

hadith of the chapter has a very, very

00:38:39 --> 00:38:40

interesting

00:38:40 --> 00:38:43

situation where the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam advises

00:38:44 --> 00:38:46

a a general about to go into battle

00:38:46 --> 00:38:48

and tells him several, several, several things.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

Now you could imagine, I'm sure, if you've

00:38:50 --> 00:38:52

watched any Hollywood films, you've seen sort of

00:38:52 --> 00:38:54

the the war movies and you see the

00:38:54 --> 00:38:56

dramatic speeches that are made and how, you

00:38:56 --> 00:38:57

know, they pump them up and all this

00:38:57 --> 00:38:59

other stuff. Now I want you to think

00:38:59 --> 00:39:01

about that in your mind as you see

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

the contrast

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

to what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

actually tells them to do.

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

Zartosh has a good point.

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

Well, I see Ahmed says the rules of

00:39:15 --> 00:39:15

war.

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

Ahmed Hamdan, free Palestine. I'm with you, brother.

00:39:21 --> 00:39:23

Nusayba says fear Allah. Very nice answer.

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

What would you tell? Imagine that you are

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

talking to the general and army about to

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

go into battle.

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

What would you tell him?

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

Said that did not target women and children.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

Wow. You all are really, really have a

00:39:51 --> 00:39:52

high religious IQ.

00:39:52 --> 00:39:53

Taqwa, Nasreen.

00:39:56 --> 00:39:59

Invite them to Islam first. Sadia. Very good.

00:39:59 --> 00:40:01

Wow. You all are on a roll. Everything

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

that's been mentioned so far is going to

00:40:03 --> 00:40:04

come up. Salamullan

00:40:05 --> 00:40:06

from Mauritius.

00:40:07 --> 00:40:07

Welcome.

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

Do not hurt women, children, elderly, destroy animals,

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

the environment, leave the worship places alone,

00:40:15 --> 00:40:17

but we're we're we're on the ball.

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Follow the Islamic rules of war and fear

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Allah, Laura, a 100%.

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Well, you all are really, really on the

00:40:23 --> 00:40:25

ball. That is exactly what the prophet sallallahu

00:40:25 --> 00:40:28

alaihi wasallam instructed his generals, which is why

00:40:28 --> 00:40:30

Imam Muslim included this hadith in this bab

00:40:31 --> 00:40:32

right at the top because he wanted to

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

make sure that it was very, very clear

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

that Islamic

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warfare is completely different from any other type

00:40:39 --> 00:40:42

of warfare. And this our first issue about

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

the left and, you know, different sort of

00:40:44 --> 00:40:46

frameworks. We're making it into a human rights

00:40:46 --> 00:40:48

issue, the issue of Palestine into a human

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issue.

00:40:49 --> 00:40:51

There is no framework out there. There's no

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ideology out there. There's no worldview out there

00:40:53 --> 00:40:55

that is more just

00:40:55 --> 00:40:58

than the Islamic framework and the Islamic worldview,

00:40:58 --> 00:41:01

that has more strict rules and clear guidance

00:41:01 --> 00:41:04

than the Islamic framework and the Islamic worldview,

00:41:04 --> 00:41:07

that will stop people from committing wrong. If

00:41:07 --> 00:41:08

I'm a leftist or if I believe in

00:41:08 --> 00:41:10

Marxism or if I'm an anarchist or if

00:41:10 --> 00:41:13

I'm some type of other leftist revolutionary,

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

I can always find a justification

00:41:15 --> 00:41:17

for the ends justifying the means to do

00:41:17 --> 00:41:20

horrible things, to commit actual, you know, terrorism,

00:41:20 --> 00:41:22

to to do bad things. But if I'm

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

a Muslim and if I follow a snap,

00:41:25 --> 00:41:27

then I am not

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it's not possible that I cross those lines.

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

It is absolutely

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not possible that I cross those lines because

00:41:34 --> 00:41:34

it will end

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

it'll end up very bad for me in

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

the afterlife.

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May

00:41:48 --> 00:41:49

I,

00:41:49 --> 00:41:52

may I be better than what you think

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

of me. May Allah forgive me for the

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

the gap in between, what you say of

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

me and what I truly am.

00:41:58 --> 00:41:59

I'm just a person. I try to do

00:41:59 --> 00:42:01

what's right. I'm a sinner just like you

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

are, and the rest of us are all

00:42:02 --> 00:42:05

sinners, and we try to get better every

00:42:05 --> 00:42:06

day. I try to get better every day.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:07

We'll come around to that in the next

00:42:07 --> 00:42:10

segment. We talk about 1% better every day.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

May Allah forgive us for our shortcomings and

00:42:12 --> 00:42:13

accept,

00:42:13 --> 00:42:14

the good from us.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:15

So

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the first thing the prophet

00:42:17 --> 00:42:18

says,

00:42:18 --> 00:42:21

fear Allah. So whoever said that, masha'Allah, right

00:42:21 --> 00:42:22

at the beginning he tells his generals to

00:42:22 --> 00:42:25

fear Allah. This is the overall skill,

00:42:26 --> 00:42:28

the ultimate skill when it comes to warfare,

00:42:28 --> 00:42:32

success, anything. That more than anything, you have

00:42:32 --> 00:42:34

to fear Allah, meaning that you have to

00:42:34 --> 00:42:36

keep with you the awareness that

00:42:37 --> 00:42:39

Allah is watching you, what you do every

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

single second of every single day. If you're

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

able to keep that awareness,

00:42:44 --> 00:42:45

then you will stop

00:42:46 --> 00:42:48

at Allah's limits, and you will not oppress

00:42:48 --> 00:42:51

people. You will not cross the line. You

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

will not do anything

00:42:52 --> 00:42:55

that would anger Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And

00:42:55 --> 00:42:57

that is something that no other worldview has.

00:42:58 --> 00:43:00

The leftist revolutionary or the leftist activist does

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

not have that.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

Islam has that, and that is why the

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

movement has to be Islamic.

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

And the way to free Palestine is Islamic,

00:43:08 --> 00:43:10

because only Islam

00:43:10 --> 00:43:12

keeps everything in its proper place without going

00:43:12 --> 00:43:14

too far to the left or too far

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

to the right or too far forward or

00:43:15 --> 00:43:16

too far backwards.

00:43:16 --> 00:43:19

The perfect balance, it is there

00:43:19 --> 00:43:21

All in fear Allah.

00:43:21 --> 00:43:23

Now the second thing that the prophet

00:43:24 --> 00:43:24

instructed

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was exactly like we said, don't deceive,

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

don't

00:43:29 --> 00:43:30

pillage, don't mutilate,

00:43:31 --> 00:43:33

do not kill noncombatants. And that includes many

00:43:33 --> 00:43:34

of the people that were mentioned already, women,

00:43:34 --> 00:43:37

children, the elderly, monks, religious folks, and the

00:43:37 --> 00:43:40

like. Right? Do not so we have not

00:43:40 --> 00:43:42

the first thing. Imagine again, remember, think about

00:43:42 --> 00:43:44

all those Hollywood movies that you've seen or

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

perhaps Bollywood movies where they're trying to, you

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

know, know, get all the guys to yell

00:43:47 --> 00:43:49

and, you know, climb their swords or whatever

00:43:49 --> 00:43:50

they're about to do to get them juiced

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

up for the battle, and the prophet sallallahu

00:43:52 --> 00:43:55

alaihi wa sallam is telling them what not

00:43:55 --> 00:43:55

to do.

00:43:56 --> 00:43:59

When you go, you are representing Islam. You

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

don't do this. You don't do that. You

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

don't do that. And that this is what's

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

going to carry forth the Dua. How many

00:44:05 --> 00:44:08

people have actually fought against Muslims and fought

00:44:08 --> 00:44:08

against Islam

00:44:09 --> 00:44:12

only to see how the Muslims conduct themselves

00:44:12 --> 00:44:14

and then join Islam?

00:44:14 --> 00:44:17

That's exactly what we're after. We're after the

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

long term. We have the longest view in

00:44:19 --> 00:44:22

the room. And that's why then when, as

00:44:22 --> 00:44:24

was mentioned, when you meet the enemy, somebody

00:44:24 --> 00:44:26

said it was completely right. The first thing

00:44:26 --> 00:44:28

that you do, imagine you never met this

00:44:28 --> 00:44:31

person before, you know, invite them to.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:33

Perhaps they haven't heard about Islam.

00:44:34 --> 00:44:35

If they accept

00:44:36 --> 00:44:38

Islam, then invite them at the time that

00:44:38 --> 00:44:38

the prophet

00:44:38 --> 00:44:41

said, invite them to move to Medina, which

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

is really fascinating. This is not gatekeeping. We

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

don't have any identity politics here. Sorry to

00:44:45 --> 00:44:47

say. We don't have any, wait a second,

00:44:47 --> 00:44:49

you guys are from Africa. Wait a second.

00:44:49 --> 00:44:50

You guys are from Eastern Arabia. Wait a

00:44:50 --> 00:44:52

second. You guys are from Persia. Wait a

00:44:52 --> 00:44:54

second. You guys are from Rome. We don't

00:44:54 --> 00:44:56

want you in Medina. No. No. No. No.

00:44:56 --> 00:44:56

No. The prophet

00:44:57 --> 00:44:58

didn't act like that.

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

He said offer them a stamp first,

00:45:01 --> 00:45:02

and then if they accept, offer them to

00:45:02 --> 00:45:03

come

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

to be in Medina and to live in

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

Medina.

00:45:06 --> 00:45:09

And if they accept, then, alhamdulillah, then they

00:45:09 --> 00:45:10

are entitled to things that not only Muslims

00:45:10 --> 00:45:12

are entitled to, but even the people of

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

Medina are,

00:45:14 --> 00:45:16

are entitled to. And if they refuse, that's

00:45:16 --> 00:45:18

their right. We're not the prophet did not

00:45:18 --> 00:45:20

force anybody to come to Medina,

00:45:20 --> 00:45:23

but then there's there's a more peripheral

00:45:24 --> 00:45:25

relationship there.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:26

Now

00:45:26 --> 00:45:29

let's say the situation that they refuse

00:45:29 --> 00:45:29

Islam.

00:45:30 --> 00:45:30

Fair.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:33

Laqraha fiddeen. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said in

00:45:33 --> 00:45:36

Surah Al Baqarah, there's no forcing people to

00:45:36 --> 00:45:38

believe in Islam, which is the biggest myth

00:45:38 --> 00:45:41

against Muslims and Islam, that Islam spread by

00:45:41 --> 00:45:44

the sword. It is just the projection of

00:45:44 --> 00:45:47

European Christianity that has that's responsible for that

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

myth because Christianity spread by the sword.

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

Islam did not spread by the sword. Islam

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

spread through dawah.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

Now there were conquests. Yes. There were conquests.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:59

But notice what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:45:59 --> 00:46:01

says to his generals. He says, if they

00:46:01 --> 00:46:02

refuse Islam,

00:46:03 --> 00:46:06

then offer that they are able to pay

00:46:06 --> 00:46:06

a tribute.

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

Pay us a

00:46:08 --> 00:46:10

tribute, and there's no fighting.

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

If they accept and say that they'll pay

00:46:12 --> 00:46:14

a certain tribute annually, then there's no fighting

00:46:14 --> 00:46:16

and you take it every year and done.

00:46:17 --> 00:46:18

If they refuse,

00:46:18 --> 00:46:20

then that's the situation in which you seek

00:46:20 --> 00:46:23

Allah's aid and you fight. And the last

00:46:23 --> 00:46:25

thing that he says, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, in

00:46:25 --> 00:46:27

this hadith, if you and I found this

00:46:27 --> 00:46:29

very, very interesting. If you besiege an enemy,

00:46:29 --> 00:46:31

understand what the siege is. It's like imagine

00:46:31 --> 00:46:32

they're in a castle and you're, like, you

00:46:32 --> 00:46:34

know, surrounding the castle and you're kinda waiting

00:46:34 --> 00:46:36

it out and trying to try to get

00:46:36 --> 00:46:37

to them and see who's gonna break first.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:39

If you're besieging somebody

00:46:40 --> 00:46:41

and they ask

00:46:41 --> 00:46:44

for you to give them Allah's protection or

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

Allah's ruling

00:46:45 --> 00:46:47

or the ruling and protection of the prophet

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

Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, do not offer

00:46:50 --> 00:46:52

that because you don't have the right to

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

offer that. Rather, you can offer them your

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

protection

00:46:55 --> 00:46:56

in a personal capacity.

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

You can offer them your ruling in a

00:46:59 --> 00:47:02

personal capacity, but you don't have any right

00:47:02 --> 00:47:03

to speak for Allah

00:47:04 --> 00:47:06

and you don't have any right to speak

00:47:06 --> 00:47:06

for the messenger

00:47:08 --> 00:47:10

that we have a certain amount of epistemic

00:47:10 --> 00:47:11

humility

00:47:12 --> 00:47:13

that Allah

00:47:14 --> 00:47:17

might rule differently or people who know more

00:47:17 --> 00:47:20

about the religion than you do might understand

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

something about the situation

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

in which you don't. And this is also

00:47:24 --> 00:47:27

dawah. As Lara said, everything's an opportunity for

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

dawah. This too is an opportunity for

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

dua. Because what would happen

00:47:32 --> 00:47:34

if someone says we want you grant us

00:47:34 --> 00:47:36

the protection of Allah and his messenger, and

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

you say, okay. Sure. And then you go

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

back to headquarters and they say, actually, you

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

know, these these people have been treacherous. They've

00:47:42 --> 00:47:44

said, you know, whatever. Like, we can't do

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

that. We're not going to accept it.

00:47:46 --> 00:47:49

Now it looks like you've deceived them in

00:47:49 --> 00:47:50

a religious way.

00:47:50 --> 00:47:52

Now it looks like you're not trustworthy

00:47:53 --> 00:47:55

as opposed to speaking in a personal capacity

00:47:55 --> 00:47:57

and saying, I will give you my personal

00:47:57 --> 00:47:59

protection, and then what's up to Allah and

00:47:59 --> 00:48:00

his messenger

00:48:00 --> 00:48:01

are different.

00:48:01 --> 00:48:03

And that brings us to the end of

00:48:03 --> 00:48:04

this particular segment.

00:48:05 --> 00:48:06

Let's see what we got.

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

And testify. We missed you. Welcome back.

00:48:09 --> 00:48:11

You you can catch up later, inshallah.

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

Abdullah points out, yes. Look at the spread

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

of Islam from Indonesia

00:48:18 --> 00:48:21

to from the Chinese Muslims. Yes. It was

00:48:21 --> 00:48:22

not done with

00:48:22 --> 00:48:25

any conquest or warfare whatsoever. Ayan Shaeed, alaikum

00:48:25 --> 00:48:27

Salam, alaikum salam, alaikum salam, alaikum salam, Rick

00:48:27 --> 00:48:27

Rashid,

00:48:28 --> 00:48:30

Victoria Stracilla, welcome back. Wa Alaykum Salam.

00:48:35 --> 00:48:37

So Abdullah Abu Mahfou brings up a good

00:48:37 --> 00:48:38

point. He says, what are your thoughts on

00:48:38 --> 00:48:39

Hezbollah

00:48:39 --> 00:48:42

saying they will wage war with no rules?

00:48:42 --> 00:48:42

Well,

00:48:43 --> 00:48:44

any obviously,

00:48:45 --> 00:48:47

we I don't have to say anything.

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

You compare

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

a statement which I didn't hear them make

00:48:50 --> 00:48:52

that statement, so I don't know if they

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

meant something different or if that they indeed

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

but if they indeed said that statement and

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

they meant what is apparently meant from that

00:48:58 --> 00:49:00

statement, then compare that with the hadith that

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

we just studied.

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

That as others have said,

00:49:05 --> 00:49:08

they are not our teachers. Right? The famous

00:49:08 --> 00:49:08

revolutionary,

00:49:09 --> 00:49:10

Omar al

00:49:10 --> 00:49:11

Mukhtar

00:49:11 --> 00:49:11

from,

00:49:12 --> 00:49:14

who was resisting the Italian colonizers

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

in Libya.

00:49:16 --> 00:49:19

Right, when he was asked by his own

00:49:20 --> 00:49:21

followers

00:49:21 --> 00:49:22

to

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

execute prisoners or torture prisoners in the way

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

that the Italians were doing.

00:49:26 --> 00:49:27

That,

00:49:28 --> 00:49:29

he said, no. We're not gonna do that

00:49:29 --> 00:49:31

because they are not our teachers.

00:49:31 --> 00:49:33

Yes, Bosnia as well.

00:49:33 --> 00:49:34

Congratulations,

00:49:35 --> 00:49:36

Jay Probat,

00:49:37 --> 00:49:39

on your reversion. May Allah accept you

00:49:39 --> 00:49:41

you and make it easy for you.

00:49:43 --> 00:49:45

Okay. Now let's go to our last segment

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

for today. We've got a personal development segment

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

segment, and we are starting a new book,

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

atomic habits. You know 1 of my pet

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

peeves?

00:49:52 --> 00:49:53

1 of my pet peeves is dust jackets.

00:49:54 --> 00:49:56

So I was gonna hold this book up

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

to see

00:49:57 --> 00:49:58

just for you to see the cover, but

00:49:58 --> 00:50:00

there's nothing there because I always take the

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

dust jackets off of all my books. I

00:50:02 --> 00:50:03

can't stand them. I even throw them out

00:50:04 --> 00:50:06

because I don't I don't find them to

00:50:06 --> 00:50:07

do anything but get in the way, you

00:50:07 --> 00:50:09

know, when you're paging through. And I'm someone

00:50:09 --> 00:50:11

who reads all the footnotes, right, and takes

00:50:11 --> 00:50:12

notes in the book and the footnotes. So

00:50:12 --> 00:50:14

between the pen in my hand and 3

00:50:14 --> 00:50:17

pages open and etcetera etcetera, it's a dust

00:50:17 --> 00:50:19

jacket. It's just 1 thing going on too

00:50:19 --> 00:50:21

many, so I get rid of it. But

00:50:21 --> 00:50:22

the book is a well known book called

00:50:22 --> 00:50:24

Atomic Habits by James Clear, and we're selecting

00:50:24 --> 00:50:27

the book because we I think that it's

00:50:27 --> 00:50:29

particularly useful for Muslims, and I think that

00:50:29 --> 00:50:30

it particularly

00:50:30 --> 00:50:33

gives voice to many things that are already

00:50:33 --> 00:50:33

in Islam,

00:50:34 --> 00:50:37

that are already Islamic values. And from the

00:50:37 --> 00:50:39

things that aren't strictly Islamic values,

00:50:39 --> 00:50:41

many of them are.

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

These things are it's not issue of Haram

00:50:43 --> 00:50:46

and Halal. It's just about benefiting from certain

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

techniques,

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

benefiting from certain techniques

00:50:51 --> 00:50:52

and attempting to use them as the prophet

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

said, it was reported to say, and there's

00:50:54 --> 00:50:56

some weakness in the hadith that that wisdom

00:50:56 --> 00:50:57

is the lost property of the believer.

00:50:58 --> 00:51:00

Nilsayba is probe dust jackets.

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

It does look nice, but my books are

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

not for looking nice. My books, I mark

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

them up. I write. I underline. I do,

00:51:06 --> 00:51:08

you know, all sorts of stuff in my

00:51:08 --> 00:51:09

books.

00:51:09 --> 00:51:12

So different strokes for different folks as we

00:51:12 --> 00:51:12

say.

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

Okay. Pestify has read this book. So now

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

I want us to start off thinking about

00:51:18 --> 00:51:21

this and benefiting from it together. So I

00:51:21 --> 00:51:22

want everybody to think and hit us in

00:51:22 --> 00:51:23

the chat.

00:51:23 --> 00:51:25

You don't have to

00:51:26 --> 00:51:27

tell us, but I want you to at

00:51:27 --> 00:51:29

least think. And if you're comfortable sharing it,

00:51:29 --> 00:51:31

then please send it in the chat. What

00:51:31 --> 00:51:34

is 1 habit that you want to start

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

and 1 habit that you want to stop?

00:51:38 --> 00:51:39

Let's think about it right now. 1 habit

00:51:39 --> 00:51:41

that you want to start

00:51:41 --> 00:51:43

and 1 habit that you want to stop.

00:51:43 --> 00:51:44

Go.

00:51:45 --> 00:51:47

I'll tell you what is what are mine.

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

Okay.

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

When it comes to a habit that I

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

want to start,

00:51:52 --> 00:51:55

I want to get back into doing language

00:51:55 --> 00:51:57

study again like I used to.

00:51:57 --> 00:51:58

1 thing that I failed to do and

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

this is something covered in the book, is

00:52:00 --> 00:52:02

that when you have life changes or changes

00:52:02 --> 00:52:02

to your schedule,

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

sometimes your habits fall off because it disrupts

00:52:06 --> 00:52:07

your sort of system of cues and rewards

00:52:07 --> 00:52:09

and things like that. And so

00:52:10 --> 00:52:12

in a recent period, I was studying

00:52:12 --> 00:52:13

language.

00:52:13 --> 00:52:15

In particular, I was doing Italian, but I've

00:52:15 --> 00:52:17

done other languages as well for, you know,

00:52:17 --> 00:52:19

10, 15 minutes a day. I was doing

00:52:19 --> 00:52:20

it every day.

00:52:20 --> 00:52:21

Right?

00:52:22 --> 00:52:23

But I fell off recently. I think the

00:52:23 --> 00:52:25

last week or 2, I haven't even done

00:52:25 --> 00:52:25

once.

00:52:26 --> 00:52:28

So I want to get back on that.

00:52:28 --> 00:52:30

And what's something that I want to

00:52:31 --> 00:52:31

stop?

00:52:32 --> 00:52:35

I definitely have, like, nervous habits, like, especially

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

when I'm reading or if I'm stressed.

00:52:37 --> 00:52:39

Like, I'll, you know, play with my beard

00:52:39 --> 00:52:41

or I'll I'll, you know, do some stuff.

00:52:41 --> 00:52:42

I would like to stop that as well.

00:52:43 --> 00:52:44

What do we got?

00:52:45 --> 00:52:46

Abdullah

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

says,

00:52:47 --> 00:52:50

stop working after a set time. Nice. That's

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

a really important that's a huge 1. There's

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

a lot of good guidance in this book

00:52:54 --> 00:52:56

to help with that, and I have struggled

00:52:56 --> 00:52:57

with that as well. From somebody who works

00:52:57 --> 00:52:59

remote and works at home,

00:53:00 --> 00:53:02

stop when to stop work is very, very,

00:53:02 --> 00:53:02

very difficult,

00:53:03 --> 00:53:05

and there are very specific and important sort

00:53:05 --> 00:53:07

of things to help us with that.

00:53:08 --> 00:53:10

Music by Omar, praying Fadron and Mesheah, that's

00:53:10 --> 00:53:10

a great example.

00:53:14 --> 00:53:14

Okay.

00:53:15 --> 00:53:16

Well, I see it says stop smoking and

00:53:16 --> 00:53:18

start looking at things not emotionally. That's great.

00:53:18 --> 00:53:19

Well, I see it may Allah strengthen you

00:53:19 --> 00:53:21

and empower you. I'm hoping that with this

00:53:21 --> 00:53:22

book that you're gonna be able to help

00:53:22 --> 00:53:24

do that. Actually, he talks a lot about

00:53:24 --> 00:53:26

smoking because smoking is a very, very addictive

00:53:26 --> 00:53:29

habit. It's like the the habit par excellence,

00:53:29 --> 00:53:31

right, in some sense. It's very sort of,

00:53:31 --> 00:53:33

well known habit. United in Buonasera.

00:53:40 --> 00:53:42

I'm doing well. Thank you very much.

00:53:43 --> 00:53:45

Taybeh Hussein says, 1, reading Quran regularly. Excellent.

00:53:45 --> 00:53:47

Good. We're gonna get on that as well.

00:53:47 --> 00:53:49

That's 1 that I think we all have.

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

2, wanna stop arguing with family members. That's

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

I'm so glad that you mentioned that, Tlaib,

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

and you were willing to share that. That's

00:53:55 --> 00:53:56

a huge 1.

00:53:56 --> 00:53:59

Zartash Zainab says anger management, inshallah,

00:54:00 --> 00:54:02

also a huge 1, very, very important.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:04

Numa Ad Haqq says, I want to start

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

attending daily prayer every day again, and I

00:54:06 --> 00:54:08

wanna stop showing off in any way, meaning

00:54:08 --> 00:54:10

you wanna be more humble. Those are great,

00:54:10 --> 00:54:11

great habits.

00:54:12 --> 00:54:13

Saadia Abdullahi,

00:54:14 --> 00:54:16

start reading more and stop watching things that

00:54:16 --> 00:54:18

are not beneficial. We're gonna talk about the

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

smartphone.

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

Yeah. That the smartphone is a trap, and

00:54:22 --> 00:54:24

it mixes your signals up for habits and

00:54:24 --> 00:54:26

cues and everything this book goes into it

00:54:26 --> 00:54:27

in the best way that I've seen a

00:54:27 --> 00:54:28

book go into it. And I've read a

00:54:28 --> 00:54:30

couple books on habit forming and stuff like

00:54:30 --> 00:54:31

this, but this 1 is 1 probably the

00:54:31 --> 00:54:32

best 1 I've read.

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

Yes. Pestify. Stop doom scrolling for Palestine. Oh,

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

how many times have I done that in

00:54:38 --> 00:54:39

the last 9 months

00:54:39 --> 00:54:41

without thinking well about

00:54:41 --> 00:54:42

some problem?

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

Oops. Sorry. I skipped comments.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

Instead of sleeping early. Good.

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

How to sleep early. We'll talk about that.

00:54:49 --> 00:54:52

Sadah says start studying hadith. Excellent.

00:54:52 --> 00:54:55

Stop getting upset without thinking well about some

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

problem. Very difficult. That's true, Salaam. May Allah

00:54:58 --> 00:54:59

make it easy for you, but hopefully going

00:54:59 --> 00:55:01

through this book together will also help make

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

it easy for you. Nusayba says start a

00:55:03 --> 00:55:07

regular regime of morning evening of car and

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

stop raising my voice. Excellent. I love it.

00:55:09 --> 00:55:10

Nermin

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

says talking a lot.

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

I wanna stop.

00:55:14 --> 00:55:16

I want to start. Very good. Thank you

00:55:16 --> 00:55:17

for your honesty.

00:55:18 --> 00:55:19

Very, very good.

00:55:20 --> 00:55:21

What else do we have?

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

Azul Biryani Wasamosa.

00:55:24 --> 00:55:26

That's an amazing username, first of all. As

00:55:26 --> 00:55:28

long as it's not Biryani diplomacy or samosa

00:55:28 --> 00:55:31

diplomacy. It says start learning Arabic. Great. To

00:55:31 --> 00:55:34

understand the Quran, stop investing in time and

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

things of no benefit. Excellent.

00:55:37 --> 00:55:38

E

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

e muftia

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

is jump on my bicycle after fajr. That's

00:55:42 --> 00:55:44

an amazing goal, a great, great habit.

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

Sadaldiya,

00:55:47 --> 00:55:50

Start being more intentional in prayer, increasing in

00:55:50 --> 00:55:52

dhikr. Stop being consumed by weapons of mass

00:55:52 --> 00:55:54

distraction. Oh, I love that. I've never heard

00:55:54 --> 00:55:56

of that before. Weapons of mass distraction. Yeah.

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

You know what that is.

00:55:58 --> 00:56:00

Lara says, Insha'Allah, I want to memorize Quran

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

and stop talking so much. Excellent. We will

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

talk about things that are very helpful for

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

that.

00:56:06 --> 00:56:08

Atika Rachman says, I'm learning Turkish and Italian,

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

and Turkish is so hard. 0MGI

00:56:10 --> 00:56:11

also agree, Atika.

00:56:12 --> 00:56:13

I found Turkish

00:56:14 --> 00:56:15

harder to learn than Arabic.

00:56:16 --> 00:56:18

I found Arabic much more

00:56:19 --> 00:56:20

intuitive, at least for a native English speaker

00:56:20 --> 00:56:23

and somebody who knows some Romance languages.

00:56:23 --> 00:56:27

Obviously, Italian is, you know, is fairly easier

00:56:27 --> 00:56:29

than than Turkish for me. I'm

00:56:29 --> 00:56:31

also trying to improve my Italian and Turkish

00:56:31 --> 00:56:34

skills, and it's difficult. But Insha'Allah, hopefully, we'll

00:56:34 --> 00:56:37

get some habits or techniques for how to

00:56:37 --> 00:56:38

keep to good habits and talk about the

00:56:38 --> 00:56:40

difference between goals and habits. We will in

00:56:40 --> 00:56:40

a second.

00:56:41 --> 00:56:45

Nafisa Tubande, start reading physical books. I'm guessing

00:56:45 --> 00:56:47

you mean as opposed to PDFs and articles.

00:56:47 --> 00:56:50

That's a huge thing. And stop procrastinating.

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

We're gonna get there. We're gonna get there

00:56:51 --> 00:56:52

together.

00:56:54 --> 00:56:55

Tayeeb says I want to start using the

00:56:55 --> 00:56:58

old Nokia 3210 and scrap my smartphone. That's

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

a great hey. We'll do it together, Tayeeb,

00:56:59 --> 00:57:01

you and me. We used to call them

00:57:01 --> 00:57:02

the brick phones.

00:57:02 --> 00:57:03

Amina,

00:57:03 --> 00:57:05

to start audiobooks.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

Excellent. I like that. And to stop eating

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

sweets. Oh, no. You hit on 1 of

00:57:09 --> 00:57:11

my problems as well.

00:57:11 --> 00:57:13

I've got a bit of a sweet tooth.

00:57:13 --> 00:57:14

May Allah help us.

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

And Courtney g has just given us love.

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

May Allah bless you, Courtney. Alright. So very

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

good. So let's get into let's get into

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

the book. This is gonna be the very,

00:57:22 --> 00:57:23

very we're not this is not just intro.

00:57:23 --> 00:57:24

We're gonna give you some

00:57:25 --> 00:57:27

beneficial stuff that you can take with you

00:57:27 --> 00:57:29

and hopefully apply, and we're gonna want to

00:57:29 --> 00:57:31

hear back every week. We're gonna want to

00:57:31 --> 00:57:32

hear back in how you're applying these things

00:57:32 --> 00:57:34

in your life. And I'm gonna give you

00:57:34 --> 00:57:37

my personal sort of struggles and also attempting

00:57:37 --> 00:57:39

to to deal with these things. So we've

00:57:39 --> 00:57:41

talked about habits we wanna start, habits we

00:57:41 --> 00:57:43

wanna stop. Let's go to,

00:57:44 --> 00:57:46

we're gonna talk about just the first chapter

00:57:46 --> 00:57:48

today. So chapter number 1. And if you've

00:57:48 --> 00:57:49

got the book or if you're gonna buy

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

the book and read it for the next

00:57:51 --> 00:57:52

week, it's a very, very easy book to

00:57:52 --> 00:57:54

read. The English is very easy.

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

We'll be covering chapter 1. So chapter 1,

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

we've got an illustration here, I believe. Do

00:57:59 --> 00:58:00

we have

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

no. No. No. I'm sorry. Not yet.

00:58:03 --> 00:58:04

He gives an illustration

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

of a melting

00:58:06 --> 00:58:08

ice cube. Think about it. Think about it.

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

Picture in your head a melting

00:58:10 --> 00:58:11

ice cube.

00:58:11 --> 00:58:13

Okay? Now what is he saying about the

00:58:13 --> 00:58:15

melting ice cube? He says that imagine that

00:58:15 --> 00:58:17

we have an ice cube on our table

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

here,

00:58:18 --> 00:58:19

and it is

00:58:20 --> 00:58:23

29 degrees Fahrenheit. Sorry for the Celsius people

00:58:23 --> 00:58:25

over the world. That would be what? Like,

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

let's say that it's negative 1, negative 2,

00:58:28 --> 00:58:30

negative 3 degrees Celsius,

00:58:30 --> 00:58:32

centigrade, if you like.

00:58:33 --> 00:58:34

The ice keeps not melting yet.

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

Okay?

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

You turn the heat up 1 degree.

00:58:38 --> 00:58:40

So in Fahrenheit, it's now 30.

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

In Celsius or centigrade, it's now

00:58:44 --> 00:58:45

negative 2 instead of negative 3.

00:58:46 --> 00:58:49

The ice still isn't melting. Alright? We're gonna

00:58:49 --> 00:58:50

turn the heat up another degree.

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

Now it's 31 degrees Fahrenheit, or now it's

00:58:54 --> 00:58:56

negative 1 degree centigrade or Celsius.

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

The ice still isn't melt melting.

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

This is not the time that we should

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

quit trying to melt the ice,

00:59:06 --> 00:59:06

but

00:59:07 --> 00:59:08

this is where most people stop

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

and quit their habits.

00:59:11 --> 00:59:13

That they don't see the ice melting,

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

and therefore, they assume

00:59:15 --> 00:59:16

that

00:59:16 --> 00:59:18

all their work is for nothing, and then

00:59:18 --> 00:59:20

they drop off their habit.

00:59:21 --> 00:59:23

But in reality, if you were to keep

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

going

00:59:24 --> 00:59:27

just 1 degree more to 32 degrees Fahrenheit

00:59:28 --> 00:59:29

or 0 degrees Celsius,

00:59:29 --> 00:59:33

then the ice would start melting. So just

00:59:33 --> 00:59:35

because you don't see results

00:59:36 --> 00:59:38

doesn't mean that you're not actually contributing

00:59:39 --> 00:59:40

to eventual success,

00:59:40 --> 00:59:43

and most people turn back because they don't

00:59:43 --> 00:59:44

see success

00:59:44 --> 00:59:45

fast enough.

00:59:46 --> 00:59:48

1 of the lessons from this illustration

00:59:48 --> 00:59:52

is the author's point about how habits work

00:59:52 --> 00:59:55

or even better how change works. Okay?

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

How does change work? How does improvement works?

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

Improvement works

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

1%

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

at a time.

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

Unfortunately,

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

most of us, we think about just about

01:00:06 --> 01:00:07

where we want to be, which is not

01:00:07 --> 01:00:09

bad. We wanna set goals. We wanna think

01:00:09 --> 01:00:10

about where we want to be after.

01:00:11 --> 01:00:13

And we only think that we have to

01:00:13 --> 01:00:15

put in a ton of effort all at

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

once, and then we get discouraged and we

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

quit.

01:00:18 --> 01:00:20

Amber Affna, the title of the book is

01:00:20 --> 01:00:22

atomic habits by James Clear.

01:00:23 --> 01:00:24

Last name is spelled just like the adjective

01:00:24 --> 01:00:25

clear.

01:00:27 --> 01:00:30

Okay? So getting truly better is not about

01:00:30 --> 01:00:32

putting in a ton of effort in 1

01:00:32 --> 01:00:36

day. It's not. It is about only getting

01:00:36 --> 01:00:36

1%

01:00:36 --> 01:00:38

better every day.

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

If you were to raise the temperature just

01:00:40 --> 01:00:41

1%

01:00:42 --> 01:00:43

every hour, eventually you're going to melt the

01:00:43 --> 01:00:44

ice cube.

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

If you're to if you were to improve,

01:00:46 --> 01:00:49

whether it's Quran, whether it's not eating sweets,

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

whether it's your diet, whether it's exercise, whether

01:00:51 --> 01:00:53

it's emotional stuff, whatever,

01:00:54 --> 01:00:57

if you were to improve just by 1%

01:00:58 --> 01:00:59

every day,

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

then

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

you would

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

very, very soon

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

be very, very close

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

to your goals. Now let's bring up I

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

think we got a graph here. Let's bring

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

up sort of, like, what we got here.

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

We've got the graph of here we go.

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

This is called the the valley of latent

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

potential. So the blue check out the blue

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

line on the graph here. The blue line

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

is how people think that change works.

01:01:22 --> 01:01:23

People assume

01:01:23 --> 01:01:25

that they're gonna continue to see progress

01:01:26 --> 01:01:26

every day,

01:01:27 --> 01:01:29

And that's why they quit their habits, because

01:01:29 --> 01:01:31

they don't see progress every day. They put

01:01:31 --> 01:01:32

in work. Let's say it's the gym. You

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

wanna do push ups. You wanna do stuff

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

like that. Right?

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

That, you expect to see progress. But in

01:01:39 --> 01:01:40

reality, you see the opposite.

01:01:41 --> 01:01:43

What's the first day feel like after you

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

go to the gym? What's the 1st day

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

feel like after you go for a run

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

or after you play basketball or do some

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

exercise or you're tired.

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

You're sore.

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

You're spent. You're exhausted. You feel horrible.

01:01:55 --> 01:01:56

Right?

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

And so

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

and so you actually

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

dip.

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

Your actual progress

01:02:03 --> 01:02:04

takes a hit

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

initially.

01:02:05 --> 01:02:08

But if you continue to persist,

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

you will actually

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

not only catch up with where you thought

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

you would be, but you would actually exceed

01:02:14 --> 01:02:17

it. You would actually go past what you

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

anticipated.

01:02:18 --> 01:02:19

So they call this the valley

01:02:20 --> 01:02:23

of latent potential. All of this is your

01:02:23 --> 01:02:25

potential is building up. You gotta imagine that

01:02:25 --> 01:02:27

you're cocking a gun or that you're pulling

01:02:27 --> 01:02:29

back a bow, that everything that you do,

01:02:29 --> 01:02:32

you're putting effort, effort, effort, effort, effort in,

01:02:32 --> 01:02:34

and you haven't seen the results yet. Now

01:02:34 --> 01:02:35

this is where it meets up with the

01:02:35 --> 01:02:37

deen, because Islam is a faith and a

01:02:37 --> 01:02:39

religion that gets us to think about

01:02:40 --> 01:02:43

delayed gratitude. It's not about instant gratification. We

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

want instant gratification and so we expect change

01:02:46 --> 01:02:48

to happen right away. No. That's not the

01:02:48 --> 01:02:49

way it happens. We suffer.

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

We suffer

01:02:51 --> 01:02:54

upfront, and then it pays off later, both

01:02:54 --> 01:02:56

in the afterlife and with our habits.

01:02:56 --> 01:02:58

We got another graph.

01:03:02 --> 01:03:04

Okay. There you go. It's a similar thing.

01:03:05 --> 01:03:07

Reality is that progress is not linear. You've

01:03:07 --> 01:03:09

got up and downs. You've got setbacks. And

01:03:09 --> 01:03:11

this is why and this is his second

01:03:11 --> 01:03:13

point. So point number 2. Point number 1

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

is change is 1 change 1 get 1%

01:03:15 --> 01:03:16

better every day.

01:03:17 --> 01:03:19

Okay? And expect to not see results until

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

later.

01:03:21 --> 01:03:21

Okay?

01:03:22 --> 01:03:24

There we go. There's if you were to

01:03:24 --> 01:03:25

get 1% better every day, I think what

01:03:25 --> 01:03:27

did he say? You looked like 37%

01:03:27 --> 01:03:29

better after a very short amount of time,

01:03:29 --> 01:03:30

it grows exponentially.

01:03:30 --> 01:03:32

Whereas if you were to go 1% worse

01:03:32 --> 01:03:35

every day, you would very quickly be close

01:03:35 --> 01:03:36

to 0.

01:03:36 --> 01:03:38

Alright. Now

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

our second point

01:03:41 --> 01:03:43

our second point, which is more reflected by

01:03:43 --> 01:03:44

the last graph, but that's fine,

01:03:45 --> 01:03:46

is that

01:03:46 --> 01:03:48

if you want better results,

01:03:49 --> 01:03:51

then you should forget about your goals.

01:03:52 --> 01:03:53

And I love this. Yeah. Let's go back

01:03:53 --> 01:03:55

to this graph. Forget about your

01:03:55 --> 01:03:57

goals. If you want to make real progress

01:03:57 --> 01:03:58

and you want to build habits.

01:03:58 --> 01:04:01

Now, this was shocking to me because I'm

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

like you, I'm used to thinking about, oh,

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

the first thing I want to do is

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

I want to sit down and write out

01:04:05 --> 01:04:07

what are my goals. I want to memorize

01:04:07 --> 01:04:09

10 Jews. I want to read,

01:04:09 --> 01:04:11

17 books. I want to learn this language.

01:04:11 --> 01:04:14

Right? That's what we're taught when it comes

01:04:14 --> 01:04:15

to improvement,

01:04:15 --> 01:04:18

the first set goals. But the author zigs

01:04:18 --> 01:04:19

while everybody

01:04:19 --> 01:04:21

else zags. He says if you really want

01:04:21 --> 01:04:24

better results, then forget about setting goals.

01:04:25 --> 01:04:27

Focus instead on your systems

01:04:27 --> 01:04:30

On your systems. He says, it's the systems

01:04:30 --> 01:04:33

that produce results, not your goals. Your goals

01:04:33 --> 01:04:36

do not produce produce results right, in and

01:04:36 --> 01:04:37

of themselves. So he brings up 4 points

01:04:37 --> 01:04:38

to justify this.

01:04:39 --> 01:04:41

Point number 1, he said winners and losers

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have the same goals. Right? You've never you

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go to a loser and then somebody say,

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well, you know,

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you know, I guess I never made any

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goals. You go to an Olympic runner and

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they run the race and the guy that

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came in last place, you go up to

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the guy in last place, you say, what

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was the difference? Like, did you you know,

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he's never going to say, well, I didn't

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make any goals. No. He had the same

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goals as the guy who finished number 1,

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and yet those goals didn't actually produce the

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results that he wanted. So it's not necessarily

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about goals. Winners and losers have the same

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goals. Number 2, he says even if you

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achieve a goal, it's just a momentary change.

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It doesn't encapsulate what we're after, which is

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really becoming a different person. And he's gonna

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talk about more on that in the chapter

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on identity, which I believe is the next

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chapter.

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The third reason he says is that goals

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actually restrict

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happiness,

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that when you set your goal, you actually

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also set your ceiling. This is something the

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prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam actually indicated. He he

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heard a man or overheard a man making

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du'a to Allah to give him just a

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place in the doorway of Jannah.

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And the prophet told him don't limit your

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dua because Allah

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might give you something way better than that.

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And you think you're being humble, right, and

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you're actually holding yourself back. Right? So goals

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are the same thing. Goals can actually hold

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you back from meeting your true potential, which

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might be way above what your actual goal

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setting, you know, especially if you're like me

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and you tend to sort of, like, be

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very self critical and maybe have a low

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opinion of yourself. Like, you might be capable

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of much more than you think. And

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that's leading into reason number 4, which he

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says that goals are at odds with long

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term progress.

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That goals really don't result in long term

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progress.

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In reality, you do not rise to the

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level of your goals. You fall to the

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level of your systems. Alright. Great. We're talking

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about systems. What what are we talking about

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systems?

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He talks the systems

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are your habits.

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Your habits are the compound interest of self

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improvement

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that you're trying to get 1%

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better every single day. Right? That this is

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what we're that's why the book is called

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Atomic Habits. That's why he's having us

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first think about habits and how we structure

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our day. And this is a very Islamic

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principle because in Islam,

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we are people of

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process or people of process. The prophet

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said, if the day of judgment were to

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happen like right now and you had a

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sapling in your hand, you plant the sapling

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because that's your process. It's the right thing

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to do. You do the right thing no

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matter what. Yes. Trust the process, Abdullah, no

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matter what the results are. And when you

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surrender that over to Allah,

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

when you trust the process,

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you actually get better results

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than if you had fixated

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on results in the 1st place. And that

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is 1 of the secrets

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of the idea of atomic habits in the

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first place. So it's gonna be a cool

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book.

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Let's

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stop there. I think let's go run through

01:07:30 --> 01:07:31

the chat, see if there's any sort of,

01:07:32 --> 01:07:34

comments or outstanding questions. Again, take advantage if

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

you have if you got questions, anything that

01:07:36 --> 01:07:38

your is on your mind, any reflections,

01:07:40 --> 01:07:41

and then we will

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wrap it up for the night.

01:07:44 --> 01:07:46

Let's see. Pestify says, this is like going

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to the gym or running for a month

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and expecting results. We need to push and

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keep going consistently. Yes. 100%.

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

MB says I want to stop talking about

01:08:03 --> 01:08:05

others if they are not present. Oof. That's

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

a really important 1.

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

Excellent.

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

And wanting to learn the Arabic language.

01:08:11 --> 01:08:12

Great goal.

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

Yes.

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Any topics as well, as long as they're

01:08:26 --> 01:08:27

halal.

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As long as I can talk about them.

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Don't get me in trouble,

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Naimo.

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Get it in now, and then we're going

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to,

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and then we'll we'll wrap up for the

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

night.

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That's wonderfully put, Amina. Wonderfully put. Winners think

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about doing the best they can at every

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given time, which is like, Amina,

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it's like they're in competition with themselves.

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It's like they're not even even aware at,

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like, what other people are doing. Whereas losers

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only think about how to win. Losers only

01:09:01 --> 01:09:03

compare themselves to others, and they don't think

01:09:03 --> 01:09:06

about the process. They don't think about committing

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

to a, a certain thing.

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K. All of my comments just completely disappeared.

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It's telling me I've gotta reload the page,

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so I think we're gonna call it here.

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