Tom Facchine – Remembering Aysenurs Courage

Tom Facchine
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The speakers emphasize the need for political involvement to avoid political chaos and emphasize the importance of pushing for change and being mindful of political actions. They also emphasize the importance of addressing political issues to avoid political chaos and provide examples of political science topics, including the dean's proposal to submit the state for political review and the success of political science and political theory. The importance of learning about the Q par and spending time with a good person is emphasized, as well as the importance of following social norms and learning about the Q par for success. The segment ends with a plan for the week and a discussion of the homework and a schedule for the week.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah everybody.

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This is Yaqeen Institute's weekly live stream.

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I'm your host, Imam Tom Fekhini.

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Welcome to the program.

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A very, very important show that we have

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tonight.

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Obviously, our sister Aishah Noor Ezgi Aghi is

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on all of our minds here in the

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U.S., our latest martyr from our community

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who was murdered in cold blood by the

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IDF in the West Bank.

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We'll be talking extensively about that.

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We're going to have a guest from CARE

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to help talk about the situation who's local

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to that area.

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I know a lot of people who have

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either knew her directly or new people who

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knew her have reached out to me in

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the past week, giving me a portrait of

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her courageous life.

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We'll be talking a lot about her legacy

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and what we can all learn from her.

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May Allah shower her in mercy and accept

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her sacrifice.

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We're also going to be talking about some

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of the tensions that are boiling over when

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it comes to the lack of, let's say,

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people have run out of patience.

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There are some people such as in Jordan

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and in other places, I think now Egypt,

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that have taken on vigilante acts despite their

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government attempting to suppress them.

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We'll talk about that.

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We will have our normal segments on the

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Qur'an and tafsir going over today, Surat

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al-Ikhlas, and then also the Atomic Habits.

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We'll be talking about how to make our

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habits more attractive and specifically the power of

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social norms.

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Before that, as always, let's hit the chat.

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This is your opportunity to ask whatever questions

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you want.

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Let's say hi to everybody.

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As someone has said, we'll say hi to

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the whole ummah because the whole ummah usually

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shows up.

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Mashallah, Tabarakallah.

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Atiyah is first in the door.

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Zaheer Younis from London.

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Thank you for tuning in tonight.

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Shayma Budadi.

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I hope you're well.

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Commentaries here, Zaheer Younis.

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Yes, good to have you with us.

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Nasir Mahmood.

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Rahmatullah.

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Rahmatullah from Durham, North Carolina.

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Alhamdulillah.

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All things considered, we thank Allah for the

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opportunity to distinguish ourselves and to try to

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work to what He is happy with.

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Sara is back.

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Happy to have your great questions with us

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as always.

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Starting right away, Sara asks, Have you ever

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heard of Graham E.

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Fuller?

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Your opinion on him and his book, A

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World Without Islam?

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If so, your thoughts?

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Nope.

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I mean, I vaguely, vaguely, vaguely heard of

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the book.

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I haven't read it.

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Not really familiar with the author, so I

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plead the fifth.

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Rick Rashid.

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Rahmatullah from Canada.

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Good to have you back with us.

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Mohamed Aziz Al Rahman.

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Yes, okay.

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Munira Hayati Muhtar.

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Rahmatullah from Malaysia.

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Salamat Datang.

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Wonderful place, wonderful people.

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Glad to have you with us.

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Amina.

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Welcome back.

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Fatima Muhammad from Trinidad.

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Who else do we have?

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Someone who's a bunch of numbers for your

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username.

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Welcome to the program.

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Saliha from Atlanta.

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Good to have you back again.

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I see a lot of familiar faces or

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familiar usernames at least.

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Nabiisa.

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Welcome to the program.

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Dark Phoenix from Baltimore, Maryland.

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Good to have you with us.

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Okay, so here, Eunice, is a question.

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I've been reflecting on Aishah Noor's martyrdom and

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its broader implications.

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How can we better understand the legacy of

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figures like Aishah Noor in the context of

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current geopolitical tensions?

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We're going to talk more about this.

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This is a dedicated segment of the program,

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but one of the things that I've been

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hitting on last weekend, I was in Houston

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and then to Chicago, meeting with a lot

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of the youth, meeting with a lot of

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the Muslim American community's leaders, and discussing martyrdom

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as a paradigm.

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We need to be prepared to sacrifice and

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to pay the ultimate sacrifice.

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I firmly believe that.

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I don't think anything gets done if you

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don't have that attitude.

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That's, I think, one of the main takeaways

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from Sister Aishah Noor.

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I know that one of her final requests,

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or maybe not requests, but something that she

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said to someone that she knew that she

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was in contact with, was that we need

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to do more.

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I don't think that you can really effectively

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make change if you're not willing to pay

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the ultimate price and to sacrifice everything.

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Not that every single one of us will

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have to end up sacrificing everything, but that

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is definitely—if we're talking about tearing down the

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system of the power structures of Zionism and

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Islamophobia and everything that is securitizing Muslims across

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the world, and criminalizing Islam, and criminalizing us,

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and creating this sort of plausibility structure within

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which Palestine can be occupied—if we really want

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to help bring it to an end, then

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we need to be prepared to sacrifice everything.

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I ultimately believe that wholeheartedly.

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So that's my biggest takeaway, but I'm sure

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there's others, and we'll talk about it.

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Suzy Baroud, from Seattle.

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So I know that Sister Aishah Noor was

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part of the Seattle community.

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We have over on our side, on this

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coast, the east coast, we have some people

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who are also part of the Seattle community

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that come here seasonally.

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So welcome to the program.

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Seattle was a nice city, by the way.

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I was able to visit it this year,

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mashaAllah.

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Fatima 77, says, on the anniversary of 9

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-11, wanted to see what's the best way

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to engage, want to express sorrow for lives

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lost while also being outspoken about the countless

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Muslim victims of the U.S. war on

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terror.

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Yeah, 100%.

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Well, here's the main point and the main

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takeaway, Ayatollah Qadri, and that is that the

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United States, the most dangerous thing to the

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United States of America is its own foreign

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policy, period.

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Put it up on the wall, put it

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in lights, put it on billboards, whatever you

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need to do.

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That message has to be, of course, Islam

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does not condone the targeting of civilians, true

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civilians, not fake civilians like some people like

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Israel try to fudge those boundaries and use

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human shields and these sorts of things.

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We're talking about actual civilians.

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Islam is completely against the targeting of civilians.

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However, the United States has to have a

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reckoning with its own foreign policy.

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There is no doubt that 9-11 does

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not happen without the foreign policy of the

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United States.

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How do we know?

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We have the explicit writings of the person

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who masterminded the attack, Osama bin Laden, who

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wrote a whole manifesto, and what he is

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complaining about, as many people learned this year

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on TikTok, many young people, Gen Zers and

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below, learned that his main complaint was the

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foreign policy of the United States of America.

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As Muslims, we've obviously gone through the process

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of condemning that particular act, and that's not

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something that we support.

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It's not something that's legitimate Islamically.

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However, if the United States does not want

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to make itself a target, then it has

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to stop destabilizing the Middle East.

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It has to stop, get out of the

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Middle East, all the military bases, all of

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the meddling, all of the intervention within its

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politics and the coups and everything that it's

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doing, it has to get out.

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And that is the absolute safest way for,

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or that's, I say, the best way for

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people in the United States to stay safe.

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Zahir Yunus says, how can individuals and communities

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effectively apply the principles from Atomic Habits to

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create positive changes?

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Well, let's talk about it when we get

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there, inshallah.

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I mean, it's a good question, but it's

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kind of deep.

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Nusaybah Qasim, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.

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Welcome.

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Seamus says, seems like Netanyahu has decided, by

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the way, wa alaikum salam Seamus, good to

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see you.

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Seems like Netanyahu has decided it is perfect

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time to implement plans that will secure long

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-term security for IL.

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I'm not sure when these people use these

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little letters what they mean.

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They did airdrop mission for Syrian-Lebanese border

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and kidnapped a scientist.

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You know stuff that I don't know, Seamus.

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I haven't been paying attention to that.

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Okay, for Israel.

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Okay, I see.

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Yeah, I mean, well, there's a game of

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chicken that's being played.

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I mean, it's like sort of a high

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stakes situation where Netanyahu is, he is an

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accelerationist of sorts to say that, you know,

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he's going for everything.

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Okay, either he's going to win everything or

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he's going to lose everything.

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And I think one of the hopeful things

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about the last 11 months is to see

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how quickly the house of cards of support

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for Israel is falling apart.

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That doesn't mean that we're even halfway there,

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but we've seen the political support and the

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mass be ripped off and all these things.

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You know, Israel is under the highest scrutiny

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or the most amount of scrutiny and the

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most fundamental scrutiny, like scrutiny about the very

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idea of Israel, whether it should have existed

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in the first place.

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We haven't seen this type of thing, at

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least in Western discourses.

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The Overton window has shifted.

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Okay, and that's a positive thing and we

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should welcome that.

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Nope.

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Your username makes me laugh.

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Let's see, we have Wasi Ahmed.

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Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what you want

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us to do there, Wasi.

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Are we supposed to continue watching this slaughter

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on our phones and just say meaningless words

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that fall on deaf ears?

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I mean, come on, dude.

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Like, that's very rhetorical.

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Like, am I going to say, yes, actually,

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we're supposed to keep saying meaningless words?

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No, but there needs to be a critical

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assessment of strategy and how we're going to

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get to the objective that we want to

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get to, right?

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And there might be discourse involved in that,

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and those words are not meaningless.

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Yes, there are some people that are just

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saying thoughts and prayers, raise your hands, dua,

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and we're not denigrating dua here, but there

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are some people that make it a false

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dilemma, saying that the only thing that we

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can do is dua, where we have rights,

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we have political options in the United States.

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The United States is where the genocide is

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coming from and being supported and funded by,

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and we have duties that we have to

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absolutely do when it comes to building political

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power and doing everything possible to change the

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foreign policy of the United States.

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That is completely granted, right?

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However, people might criticize some of the steps

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involved in that process and say, well, what

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you're just doing is useless, etc., and that

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would not be true.

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So if by gathering the 313, if by

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that you mean getting people together to exercise

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our political power to stop the genocide, to

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change the foreign policy of the United States,

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then I agree with you.

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All right, let's see what we got.

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Julia, good to have you back with us.

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Fatima 77 has a question.

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The hypocrisy of the United States leaders is

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right in our faces.

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Is there an Islamic perspective on this?

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Yes, absolutely there is, and I've just turned

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over a blog post for editing that should

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be out early next week, inshallah, talking about

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the way that American Muslims approach politics has

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to completely change, that we are in election

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season, and in election season you see this

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dynamic where people are forced to settle, or

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at least they are told that out of

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fear of the other side and what the

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other side is going to do, that they

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have to settle for less.

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You can't have principles.

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You can't expect everything to change at once.

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You can't expect the end of the occupation

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or an arms embargo on Israel.

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You have to just get in line and

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get behind the one party that they're trying

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to tell us to support, and then we'll

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talk about that later.

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That's completely false thinking.

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It's thinking that has tricked us time and

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time and time again, election after election after

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election.

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We need to change the way that we

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deal with politics.

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We need to look at politics as an

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exercise of building power and not trying to

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just ingratiate ourselves, which literally usually means humiliating

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ourselves, to people who are in power and

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expect them to do what we want later

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on.

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There's a very powerful example from the Seerah

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of the Prophet ﷺ that I use that

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I'll go into when the blog post is

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out.

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It's the example or the situation where the

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Muslims were marching on Mecca, and they were

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about to conquer Mecca, and Hatib ibn Abi

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Balt'a, who is a companion of the

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Prophet ﷺ, and he's a veteran of Badr,

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and he is somebody who has esteem, and

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his intentions are beyond question.

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We know that he is in Jannah.

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We know all these things.

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However, he made a political mistake during this

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time.

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He had family that were in Mecca, and

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he attempted to send a letter secretly through

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a servant to the Quraysh to warn them

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that the Muslims were about to march on

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Mecca and conquer it.

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The Prophet ﷺ was given revelation, and he

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ordered Ali and al-Muqdad to go track

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down the servant and apprehend them and the

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letter.

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And so, this is something that was a

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major deal.

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Once they brought it back, the companions were

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upset.

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The Prophet ﷺ asked for an explanation.

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Hatib explained himself, and he was ultimately forgiven

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because he did it out of a good

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intention.

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However, it was definitely a political mistake, which

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is why the Prophet ﷺ acted against it,

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first of all, and secondly, why companions like

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Umar ibn al-Khattab wanted to basically execute

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him for treason, even though, again, they were

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stopped.

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They didn't actually end up doing that because

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that particular act showed a lack of sound

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political thinking.

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Hatib was basically assuming that if he did

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a favor for Quraysh, that Quraysh would do

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a favor for him, yet he had no

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leverage or no guarantee that this would be

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true.

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It was pure, you know, wishful thinking.

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This is exactly the political thinking of the

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Muslims in America up until now.

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We think that if we do favors for

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somebody, support somebody, prove our loyalty to somebody,

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that then they will like us and then

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they will protect us and do something for

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us, and that has not happened.

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Look at how loathsome we are to both

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parties.

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Look at how each party and each presidential

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candidate competes in demonstrating their love for Israel

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and demonstrating how little they care about Muslims,

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and Aishah Noor is a perfect example of

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that.

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How little, you know, Biden not reaching out

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to the family, nothing going on when it

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comes to that.

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This is a slap in the face, but

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we allow them to get away with it.

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We allow them to get away with it

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by not holding out, by not punishing them

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politically, by not approaching power in the proper

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way.

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So there's definitely an Islamic perspective on that.

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Michelle Rousseau, welcome to the program.

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Who else do we have?

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Okay, who else we go?

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Yeah, I mean, you got a point there

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when you're talking about taking our lexicon back.

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You talk about jihad and things like that,

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but jihad, and we'll talk about that.

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Actually, we're about to do a video with

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Yaqeen Institute.

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If you go into any book of fiqh,

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jihad is bringing honor to the deen, bringing

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honor to the religion, and that has several

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practices tucked inside of it.

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Some of those practices are warfare and military.

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Other of those practices are not.

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There might be a situation where you're picking

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the most sound and the most likely to

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succeed tactic, and that is something like exercising

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political power in different ways that are not

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military or warfare.

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So it is true we do not characterize

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jihad.

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Sometimes there's a caricature.

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The Islamophobists would want us to think that

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all jihad is just like Osama bin Laden

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and this sort of terrorism and things like

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that.

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That's not true.

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But then the other extreme is to say,

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oh, jihad is just washing the dishes, which

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is also not true.

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No, jihad is bringing honor to the religion,

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and there are many practices tucked within it,

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and those practices are selected due to their

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appropriateness given the circumstances.

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But I agree with you that we should

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not give up that word or surrender it

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to people who want to tuck it into

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the war on terror discourse, because if they

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criminalize jihad and they want to criminalize jihad,

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then it's just a stone's throw away to

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criminalizing Allahu Akbar, criminalizing the Qur'an itself,

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as some people have stated is their objective.

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Aisha Mukhtar, welcome to the program.

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Yes, we have a lot to talk about

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today.

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Glad you're here with us.

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Seamus brings up Shireen Abu Aqla.

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Yes, we're going to talk about her as

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well.

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There's a pattern of behavior here.

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Aziz from Denver.

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Watermelon786 from Detroit.

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I might be coming to Detroit in October,

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inshallah ta'ala.

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MOR, also from Michigan.

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Let's see what we got here.

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Yes, that's a good point, Aisha.

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Aisha brings up, you know, she's talking about

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the highlighting of her Turkish heritage as a

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way to distance the United States from any

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sort of responsibility and the fact that she

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was an American citizen, but that highlights the

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fact that her life is viewed as inconsequential

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and unimportant by the United States government, and

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we'll talk about that.

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Fatima Ghali from North Carolina.

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Yes, Fatima77.

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Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11

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whatsoever.

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Sariha asks, how can we make our voices

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stronger?

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By clicking up, by organizing ourselves.

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Laura from Al-Maghribah.

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Hope you're well.

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Let's see.

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Abdulwahid says, convey message of Islam to all

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people of the world and to everyone who

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will come.

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Also convey message of Islam to all world

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leaders.

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Yes, however, one of the things we have

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to make sure we get straight is that

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politics is not da'wah.

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If people come to Islam, alhamdulillah, and we

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always want even our enemies to come to

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Islam, but the Prophet ﷺ also did politics

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that was not da'wah or was, you

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know, dealing with the reality on the ground.

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So we have to, sometimes we make mistakes

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by assuming that we approach all politics and

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political situations the way that we approach da

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'wah.

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And this is Biryani diplomacy, and that's not

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good.

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And we'll talk about that, and I'm writing

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about that.

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MB from Hershey, PA.

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A Kamil from Minnesota.

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Seamus.

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Oh, I got you.

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I got you, Seamus.

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Valerie De Leon.

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Good to have you with us.

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I'm in Dallas next weekend, actually.

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I believe, if I recall correctly, that you're

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from the Dallas area.

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There's actually going to be a conference on

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educators or for educators on educating about Palestine

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that I'll be part of, inshallah ta'ala.

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Jane Da Silva saying, vote for Jill Stein

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2024.

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She is for stopping the genocide and stopping

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all wars.

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This is Yaqeen Institute.

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This is 501c3.

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I can't tell you who to vote for,

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but listen to Jane.

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Nusayba Qasim says, I would never underestimate the

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power of du'a either.

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Yes, very good.

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Who is really in control at the end

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of the day?

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I've become ever more reliant on Allah for

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the smallest of things since 10-7.

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That's beautifully said.

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And of course, I would never, ever seek

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to belittle the power of du'a.

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What I'm afraid of is certain da'is

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and religious leaders who push du'a at

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the expense of taking care of their fard

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al-kithayah, because we also have fard al

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-kithayah when it comes to building capacity and

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building power and doing those other things.

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Everybody knows.

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I've never met a person that says that

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du'a won't work in the Muslim community.

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I don't know if that person exists, right?

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Everybody agrees that du'a works, and Allah

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is ultimately in control.

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However, we are responsible for doing more than

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that, and there's a lot of people not

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talking about what those other things are.

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What else we got?

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Shayma says, some tried to use Bedri Sahaba's

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story for an excuse for those who do

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similar actions today.

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Yep, that doesn't work.

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That is

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true.

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Okay, we shouldn't go into that.

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There's a lot to say about certain candidates

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and their politics on other issues.

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There's a difference.

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I'll say this, Shayma, because Shayma brings up

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Jill Stein's attitudes and policies and positions on

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Syria, which she has retracted, by the way,

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officially.

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However, there is an important distinction to be

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made between voting for somebody like you think

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that you're just turning over everything to them,

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and that's the person that you want to

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implement all their policies, versus voting for somebody

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because you know it's going to have a

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certain effect on the terrain, the entire terrain

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of political calculus of everybody.

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So those are two things, right?

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And there are separate things.

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Juju from SoCal, welcome back.

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Sam Ahad, welcome back.

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We have Mariam from Kuwait, Shafi from Florida.

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Zaheer Yunus says, let Aisha Noor's story be

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a call to action for greater awareness and

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meaningful change, as we strive to confront the

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systemic issues that perpetuate such tragedies.

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Boom, put it in lights.

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I like it.

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Very good.

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Nope asks, what podcast did Imam Tam say

00:29:05 --> 00:29:06

he had shared his election opinion on recently?

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LOL.

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That would be Dr. Shadi Al-Masri's podcast,

00:29:09 --> 00:29:10

Safina Society.

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I think he calls the podcast nothing but

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facts.

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Salam says, Imam Tam, was my question inappropriate?

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I think you skipped me.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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I didn't mean to.

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I didn't see your question.

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Ask it again.

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Someone told me it's halal, but there's ikhtilaf.

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I wanted to make sure by asking.

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I'm sorry, I didn't see it.

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Could you ask it again?

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Thank you, Valerie.

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A Qadri says, really don't understand the mentality

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of Muslims who are voting for Kamala.

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Yeah, me neither.

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Well, actually, I can't say that.

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I do understand it.

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It's just wrong.

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Just because she made token gestures doesn't absolve

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her of complicity, 100%.

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She is actively in power.

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She is actively part of the administration that

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is committing the genocide.

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She has stated her goals and her support

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for Israel time and time again.

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There's really no mystery going on here.

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Some people are looking for the smallest excuse

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to run back to their abusers.

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Very good.

00:30:00 --> 00:30:02

Seamus reminds us of Nooruddin Zengi's actions before

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Salahuddin.

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Good.

00:30:05 --> 00:30:05

Nice.

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Juju says, I see Muslims giving others nasiha

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on social media, maybe with good intentions, but

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it sometimes comes off as hypercritical.

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How do you draw the line between nasiha

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and staying quiet?

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Good.

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Well, what nasiha means literally is loyalty.

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That nasuha is sincerity and loyalty, right?

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That's why the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ

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where he says, what is nasiha?

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It's not nasiha lillah wa li kitabihi wa

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li rasulihi, right?

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So how do you have nasiha to Allah

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if nasiha is just advice?

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That's not correct.

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That's an overly specific translation.

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Nasiha is loyalty and sincerity.

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And so part of your loyalty and sincerity

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to somebody is to, if they're in error,

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to attempt to guide them away from error

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in the most beautiful way possible, in a

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way that's most likely that they would accept

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that sort of admonition, okay?

00:31:01 --> 00:31:03

Which I think answers your question.

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Furoha Mousi, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah wa

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

barakatuh.

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MB says, since Linus Lobby is behind the

00:31:13 --> 00:31:14

politicians, we will need definitely to change our

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strategy to make our voices heard.

00:31:16 --> 00:31:18

Yes, there's a scenario where we need to

00:31:18 --> 00:31:20

tackle campaign finance, okay?

00:31:20 --> 00:31:23

The reason why AIPAC can buy politicians is

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because money buys elections.

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

That's it.

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That's the way that the United States election

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law is set up.

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Money buys elections.

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If you're able to change that so that

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money no longer buys elections, AIPAC disappears.

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Iman, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.

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Joining from the Maldives.

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Excellent.

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Apologies for the late hour for you, but

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welcome anywhere.

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We're happy to have you with us.

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Aliya Kojak, you came to see me in

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

Houston, alhamdulillah.

00:31:48 --> 00:31:49

I'm glad that you were able to catch

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

the program.

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Qadi Aladeen, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah wa

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barakatuh.

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Murad from Allentown, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah

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wa barakatuh.

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Yes, 100%.

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

Very good.

00:31:58 --> 00:31:59

So we've run through all the comments.

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Allahu Akbar, only took us 30 minutes this

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time.

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Salam to the ummah.

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You know, we do have the whole ummah

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in the house, and we love the ummah,

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and the ummah, you know, we are with

00:32:06 --> 00:32:07

the ummah, and the ummah is with us.

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

That's true.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

Seamus brings a good point.

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Some people treat non-malicious, ignorant Muslims and

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hostile enemies with the same tone, right?

00:32:18 --> 00:32:18

Right?

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Allah says in Surah Al-Kahf, to be

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patient with the people who call towards Allah

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ﷻ.

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However, that doesn't mean that we don't have

00:32:28 --> 00:32:31

standards and hold people accountable, especially when they

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have sickness in their hearts, and they love

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the dunya too much.

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Iraj Khan, good point.

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It's 538.

00:32:39 --> 00:32:40

That's not that bad, Iman.

00:32:40 --> 00:32:41

It's Fajr time.

00:32:42 --> 00:32:43

You're part of your Fajr routine.

00:32:43 --> 00:32:45

Miracle Quran, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

You're 100% right, Leticia.

00:32:48 --> 00:32:50

Last point about the mediation team.

00:32:50 --> 00:32:52

Yes, the United States, it's a lie for

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

the United States to pretend like it is

00:32:54 --> 00:32:55

a mediator in this conflict.

00:32:55 --> 00:32:57

The United States is perpetrator in this conflict.

00:32:58 --> 00:33:03

They do not have an unbiased sort of

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

role to play.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

They are on one side.

00:33:06 --> 00:33:08

And so how are you going to let

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

somebody who's on one side be a mediator,

00:33:10 --> 00:33:11

quote-unquote.

00:33:12 --> 00:33:13

Anyway, here we go, guys.

00:33:13 --> 00:33:14

Let's kick it to current events.

00:33:15 --> 00:33:19

Our main headline, Sister Aishah Nur, Ezgi Egi,

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

may Allah shower her with mercy and bring

00:33:21 --> 00:33:25

sakr and solace to her family, and to

00:33:25 --> 00:33:26

all of those who knew her, everybody who

00:33:26 --> 00:33:29

I've talked to the past week has said

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

what an amazing and inspiring person she was.

00:33:32 --> 00:33:35

Aishah Nur was gunned down in cold blood

00:33:35 --> 00:33:36

by the IDF in the West Bank.

00:33:37 --> 00:33:39

She is a US citizen and activist.

00:33:41 --> 00:33:43

She was murdered during a protest by a

00:33:43 --> 00:33:45

single sniper bullet to the head.

00:33:46 --> 00:33:48

This is not an isolated incident.

00:33:48 --> 00:33:52

This is something that is a regular practice

00:33:52 --> 00:33:56

of the Israeli occupying forces.

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

However, as we're going to see very, very

00:33:58 --> 00:34:02

soon, the response has been completely weak because

00:34:02 --> 00:34:06

the racket that is the military industrial complex

00:34:06 --> 00:34:10

and its intersection with the occupation of Palestine

00:34:10 --> 00:34:15

is too lucrative for most politicians to even

00:34:15 --> 00:34:16

pretend that they care.

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

So let's go.

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

Oh, awesome.

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

Excellent.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

Wonderful.

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Let's cut folks in the studio.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:24

Let's cut to the images or the video

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

of her funeral.

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

So one of the most powerful things that

00:34:27 --> 00:34:30

I saw was Sister Aishah Nur was given

00:34:30 --> 00:34:33

her last rites in Palestine, allahu akbar.

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

And I have to say, seriously, goosebumps when

00:34:38 --> 00:34:39

I first saw this.

00:34:41 --> 00:34:46

May Allah give us all a good end

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

like Sister Aishah Nur.

00:34:47 --> 00:34:50

When we look at it from a materialistic

00:34:50 --> 00:34:53

perspective, we say that yes, there is a

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

tragedy to this.

00:34:54 --> 00:34:55

However, think about it.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:59

You are somebody who went to Palestine in

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

solidarity with the people of Palestine, and now

00:35:01 --> 00:35:05

you die a hero and you're buried in

00:35:05 --> 00:35:05

Palestine.

00:35:08 --> 00:35:11

Honestly, it's something to aspire to, in a

00:35:11 --> 00:35:11

sense.

00:35:11 --> 00:35:13

It is something that is very, very humbling

00:35:13 --> 00:35:14

and touches the heart.

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

Now, we also have a reaction from somebody

00:35:17 --> 00:35:20

who was on the ground with her that

00:35:20 --> 00:35:24

will describe to us sort of the circumstances

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

and the situation.

00:35:25 --> 00:35:25

Let's cut to that, gentlemen.

00:35:27 --> 00:35:30

There were two shots fired from the rooftop.

00:35:31 --> 00:35:32

I've been doing this for 20 years.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:36

I know the difference in sound between tear

00:35:36 --> 00:35:39

gas, rubber-coated bullets, live ammunition.

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

These were two separate shots of live ammunition,

00:35:43 --> 00:35:44

shot one after the other.

00:35:45 --> 00:35:48

The first one hit a metal object, and

00:35:48 --> 00:35:51

then a young man from the village, and

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

he's dying.

00:35:52 --> 00:35:54

And then I heard another shot.

00:35:54 --> 00:35:58

And then I heard people calling my name

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

in English.

00:35:59 --> 00:36:02

I found her lying on the ground beside

00:36:02 --> 00:36:05

the tree, bleeding from her head.

00:36:06 --> 00:36:11

I put my hand under her head to

00:36:11 --> 00:36:13

try and stop the bleeding.

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

I took her pulse.

00:36:15 --> 00:36:16

She had a very weak pulse.

00:36:16 --> 00:36:18

We called the ambulance.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:25

From there, we evacuated her to the village's

00:36:25 --> 00:36:28

medical center, where the doctor came into the

00:36:28 --> 00:36:33

ambulance and continued into the hospital, where they

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

tried to resuscitate her but failed.

00:36:41 --> 00:36:48

Now, given this horrendous act, which obviously it's

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

not horrendous for her afterlife, but it's horrendous

00:36:50 --> 00:36:54

in the sense of the injustice that her

00:36:54 --> 00:36:58

demise is predicated upon, the response to the

00:36:58 --> 00:37:02

United States government has been complete cowardice and

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

unaccountable nonsense.

00:37:04 --> 00:37:08

The same sort of deflection and denial and

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

gaslighting that we have seen and come to

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

get used to for the past 11 months

00:37:11 --> 00:37:15

was on full display when it came to

00:37:15 --> 00:37:17

reporters questioning the White House and the White

00:37:17 --> 00:37:21

House staff representatives about what was going on.

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

Let's cut to the clip where we have

00:37:23 --> 00:37:27

a confrontation between the—well, we have the response

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

from the U.S. White House representative.

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

Each circumstance is unique and different.

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

Anytime an American citizen or a civilian loses

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

their life, it is incredibly tragic.

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

The circumstances around how that happens is important.

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

The facts matter.

00:37:44 --> 00:37:46

I am just not going to get ahead

00:37:46 --> 00:37:49

of the process as it relates to this.

00:37:53 --> 00:37:56

So, look, what you just heard me say

00:37:56 --> 00:37:59

to Simon, we expect Israel to make their

00:37:59 --> 00:38:00

findings public.

00:38:01 --> 00:38:04

We expect those findings to be shared transparently

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

and as thoroughly and as soon as possible.

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

Beyond that, I'm just not going to get

00:38:08 --> 00:38:12

ahead of what those findings determine and should

00:38:12 --> 00:38:16

that require any additional steps needing to be

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

taken.

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

To get this straight, the United States is

00:38:21 --> 00:38:25

willing to perpetuate and the United States president

00:38:25 --> 00:38:29

is willing to perpetuate atrocity propaganda, things that

00:38:29 --> 00:38:32

never happened on October 7, such as beheaded

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

babies, such as babies in ovens, such as

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

all this nonsense.

00:38:36 --> 00:38:37

Yet, when it comes to one of its

00:38:37 --> 00:38:41

own citizens being taken out by a single

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

sniper bullet to the head, that all of

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

a sudden we throw our hands up in

00:38:45 --> 00:38:49

the air and we become become overcome with

00:38:49 --> 00:38:49

it.

00:38:49 --> 00:38:51

We have no idea what happened.

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

We're going to allow Israel to investigate itself.

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

How many times has Israel been allowed to

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

investigate itself?

00:38:57 --> 00:39:00

This is a very, very structurally similar thing

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

to when police brutality happens in the United

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

States and we allow an internal investigation to

00:39:05 --> 00:39:06

take place.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:09

I wonder what is going to be the

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

result of that internal investigation where people are

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

shuffled around and there's some sort of PR

00:39:13 --> 00:39:17

around it, but nothing is done, which demonstrates

00:39:17 --> 00:39:20

to you the callous nature of the United

00:39:20 --> 00:39:24

States government and how indebted and controlled they

00:39:24 --> 00:39:28

are by their interests in the occupied territories

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

and the Israeli project.

00:39:30 --> 00:39:32

This is something that even Dwight Eisenhower, the

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

former president of the United States way back

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

in the 50s, warned people about as he

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

exited office.

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

He warned people about the military-industrial complex.

00:39:41 --> 00:39:44

He warned what would happen if war became

00:39:44 --> 00:39:45

profitable.

00:39:45 --> 00:39:47

You see the money, the guns, and the

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

bombs flowing in one direction.

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

Israel is a racket.

00:39:51 --> 00:39:55

The occupation of Palestine is a racket in

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

which many U.S. politicians and their friends

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

make a whole lot of money.

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

Then, when a United States citizen dies, that

00:40:03 --> 00:40:07

United States citizen is not worth stopping the

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

racket.

00:40:08 --> 00:40:10

We will do whatever political cover we have

00:40:10 --> 00:40:13

to do in order to maneuver around to

00:40:13 --> 00:40:14

keep the racket going, the money flowing, the

00:40:14 --> 00:40:16

bombs flowing, and everything else.

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

That's not to say that everybody is just

00:40:18 --> 00:40:18

about the money.

00:40:18 --> 00:40:19

There's other people who are in it for

00:40:19 --> 00:40:22

ideological reasons and things of this nature, but

00:40:22 --> 00:40:27

for sure, the Israeli occupation of Palestine is

00:40:27 --> 00:40:30

so lucrative to the United States and to

00:40:30 --> 00:40:33

the elite of the United States that they

00:40:33 --> 00:40:36

are willing to allow American citizens to be

00:40:36 --> 00:40:39

murdered in cold blood and not do a

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

thing about it.

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

Just like we talk about the governments in

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

the Middle East being against the interests of

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

their people, the government of the United States

00:40:46 --> 00:40:49

of America is absolutely no different when it

00:40:49 --> 00:40:54

comes to being completely indifferent to what is

00:40:54 --> 00:40:57

actually good for their own citizens.

00:40:57 --> 00:40:59

Now, this is not, again, an isolated incident.

00:41:00 --> 00:41:03

Aisha Noor, Rahimahallah, belongs to a long list

00:41:03 --> 00:41:08

of American citizens that the U.S. government

00:41:08 --> 00:41:11

has done nothing about and has allowed Israel

00:41:11 --> 00:41:14

to murder in cold blood, to act with

00:41:14 --> 00:41:17

complete impunity, and not be held to any

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

standards whatsoever, not even an independent investigation, just

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

to be told, trust us, bro, it was

00:41:22 --> 00:41:25

a mistake, we don't know what happened, it

00:41:25 --> 00:41:26

was confusing.

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

So we have Rachel Corey, obviously, and then

00:41:28 --> 00:41:31

Shirin Abu Akhle, and then now Aisha Noor,

00:41:31 --> 00:41:32

and there were others, there have been others.

00:41:33 --> 00:41:37

So we don't expect much from the United

00:41:37 --> 00:41:39

States government when it comes to holding Israel

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

accountable.

00:41:40 --> 00:41:43

However, what we do know is that politically

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

we need to make the support of the

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

Zionist occupation of Palestine so politically costly to

00:41:50 --> 00:41:52

the politicians of the United States that they

00:41:52 --> 00:41:56

will start holding these incidents accountable and will

00:41:56 --> 00:41:59

end them and will actually end all support

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

for the genocidal occupation.

00:42:02 --> 00:42:03

And to join us, oh, we have one

00:42:03 --> 00:42:05

more thing to cover, we noticed, okay, let's

00:42:05 --> 00:42:07

go to the tweet by Sami Hamdi, our

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

brother Sami Hamdi.

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

One of the ways in which the media

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

responded was to attempt to portray her as

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

foreign.

00:42:14 --> 00:42:17

Now, it's true that she and actually, there's

00:42:17 --> 00:42:22

a very powerful video of Erdogan commenting on

00:42:22 --> 00:42:24

the issue and expressing his dismay.

00:42:25 --> 00:42:29

Whatever you think of Erdogan, the fact that

00:42:29 --> 00:42:30

you're being mentioned by heads of state in

00:42:30 --> 00:42:32

solidarity is something major.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:35

However, her Turkishness was used to distance herself

00:42:35 --> 00:42:38

from her American-ness and to basically explain

00:42:38 --> 00:42:44

that she was dispensable, that she was killable.

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

And this attitude was taken even further by

00:42:47 --> 00:42:48

the Florida Republican.

00:42:49 --> 00:42:50

Do we have that, guys?

00:42:50 --> 00:42:53

Do we have the Florida Republican's tweet when

00:42:53 --> 00:42:56

he said basically, he called her a terrorist

00:42:56 --> 00:43:01

very, very, very brazenly and said, let them

00:43:01 --> 00:43:02

fire away.

00:43:03 --> 00:43:06

And it's basically advocating to show you how

00:43:06 --> 00:43:09

crazy the situation has gotten and how nothing

00:43:09 --> 00:43:12

will change until we take back power from

00:43:12 --> 00:43:13

the people who are currently in power.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:17

That people are actually cheering.

00:43:17 --> 00:43:20

United States government officials are cheering on the

00:43:20 --> 00:43:25

murder of their own citizens in Palestine in

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

order to tap dance for their masters.

00:43:27 --> 00:43:29

What a world that we live in.

00:43:30 --> 00:43:32

But that being said, we have someone, a

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

very special guest with us tonight.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:36

He is somebody who, when we reached out

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

to the family of Sister Ayshanur, they directed

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

us to the executive director of CARE Washington,

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

Imran Siddiqui.

00:43:44 --> 00:43:47

Imran Siddiqui is a well-known human rights

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

advocate and advocate for Muslims on the West

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

Coast, up in the Pacific Northwest.

00:43:50 --> 00:43:53

And he has joined our program today to

00:43:53 --> 00:43:56

help talk about what's going on with the

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

family, how is everybody getting on, what are

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

the responses that we've seen from the government,

00:44:01 --> 00:44:02

and where we can go from here.

00:44:03 --> 00:44:04

Welcome to the program, Brother Imran.

00:44:07 --> 00:44:08

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

00:44:10 --> 00:44:13

So give us sort of a picture.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:14

I've heard a lot, but maybe a lot

00:44:14 --> 00:44:18

of people aren't familiar with Sister Ayshanur.

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

What was her sort of role in the

00:44:20 --> 00:44:21

community?

00:44:21 --> 00:44:22

What is she known for?

00:44:22 --> 00:44:23

And what is sort of the legacy that

00:44:23 --> 00:44:24

she leaves behind?

00:44:25 --> 00:44:28

Yeah, may Allah accept her and give her

00:44:28 --> 00:44:30

the rank of a martyr, inshallah.

00:44:31 --> 00:44:37

This is obviously something that was really difficult

00:44:37 --> 00:44:39

for a lot of local activists.

00:44:39 --> 00:44:40

I did not know her personally.

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

I moved here at the end of 2020.

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

I was in Arizona prior to this.

00:44:46 --> 00:44:49

But from all accounts of especially the younger

00:44:49 --> 00:44:52

folks that are here, subhanAllah, I mean, just

00:44:52 --> 00:44:55

to see the energy of the youth this

00:44:55 --> 00:44:58

past year during this genocide, they've really been,

00:44:58 --> 00:44:59

I think, leading us.

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

The older generation is what I probably belong

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

to now in terms of what they've been

00:45:05 --> 00:45:08

doing on college campuses with the encampments.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:12

And to a person, the fact that her

00:45:12 --> 00:45:14

name is Ayshanur, she was a beam of

00:45:14 --> 00:45:17

light to a lot of the folks in

00:45:17 --> 00:45:18

the activism community.

00:45:18 --> 00:45:22

Going back to not only standing for Palestine

00:45:22 --> 00:45:27

and Muslims, she was standing against the police

00:45:27 --> 00:45:30

brutality during the George Floyd protests back in

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

2020.

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

She was back doing that, and she was

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

probably in her early 20s during that time

00:45:35 --> 00:45:35

frame.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:39

During these latest encampments on campus, she was

00:45:39 --> 00:45:40

there, very visible.

00:45:40 --> 00:45:42

So many of the activists that I know

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

through my work at CARE that I interface

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

with a lot, they've come across her.

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

SubhanAllah, my nephew was up here visiting just

00:45:51 --> 00:45:52

a few months ago, and he attended a

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

book talk, and he actually met her at

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

that event.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:58

So every person that came in contact with

00:45:58 --> 00:46:02

her really speaks to just her level of

00:46:02 --> 00:46:04

determination, her principledness.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:08

And the thing is that we don't really

00:46:08 --> 00:46:11

think about just what level of thought and

00:46:11 --> 00:46:12

care she put into this.

00:46:12 --> 00:46:16

She went into this situation where a lot

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

of us don't have the intestinal fortitude to

00:46:19 --> 00:46:22

even put ourselves in the things we love

00:46:22 --> 00:46:23

in this dunya, in harm's way, or to

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

sacrifice to go out there.

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

And she didn't go to Gaza.

00:46:28 --> 00:46:28

She went to the West Bank.

00:46:29 --> 00:46:32

And even in the West Bank, she knew

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

that her life was in danger, and she

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

had somebody appointed, somebody who I know, friends

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

with who I've done a lot of work

00:46:39 --> 00:46:43

with, a campus leader who was her point

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

of contact in case any harm came to

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

her.

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

So she even thought, if I die, if

00:46:48 --> 00:46:51

some harm comes to me, I'm going to

00:46:51 --> 00:46:52

have all my ducks in a row, and

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

I'm going to make sure that I have

00:46:55 --> 00:46:57

the correct spokesperson for me.

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

I don't want my death to be made

00:46:59 --> 00:47:01

into something that it's not.

00:47:01 --> 00:47:02

I don't want the eyes to be taken

00:47:02 --> 00:47:05

off the genocide that's happening to our brothers

00:47:05 --> 00:47:06

and sisters over there.

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

Now, that's extremely significant.

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

So maybe walk us through that tussle, because

00:47:10 --> 00:47:12

as we know, when something like this happens,

00:47:12 --> 00:47:14

the government is trying to spin its own

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

narrative.

00:47:15 --> 00:47:18

The family is trying to represent, and the

00:47:18 --> 00:47:21

appointed representatives are trying to do justice and

00:47:21 --> 00:47:25

represent what happened and the way that the

00:47:25 --> 00:47:26

deceased wants it to be represented.

00:47:27 --> 00:47:28

How has that been?

00:47:28 --> 00:47:30

How has been the response from either local

00:47:30 --> 00:47:32

government or federal government?

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

And how has the family been trying to

00:47:34 --> 00:47:37

challenge the sweeping that's under the rug, essentially?

00:47:39 --> 00:47:42

Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, what we've seen over

00:47:42 --> 00:47:45

the past 11 months during this genocide, I

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

don't think anything is necessarily surprising to us

00:47:48 --> 00:47:50

in terms of the words that come out

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

of the government officials' mouths.

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

So I mean, first and foremost, I don't

00:47:54 --> 00:47:57

think anybody expected there to be just some

00:47:57 --> 00:48:00

miraculous turn of events.

00:48:00 --> 00:48:02

And this goes back, you know, you mentioned

00:48:02 --> 00:48:05

Rachel Corey, for example, you know, who was

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

martyred 20 years ago.

00:48:06 --> 00:48:08

You know, her family was on a call

00:48:08 --> 00:48:10

with me and many of the other local

00:48:10 --> 00:48:13

activists trying to talk them through, okay, this

00:48:13 --> 00:48:15

is what you have to do here, you

00:48:15 --> 00:48:18

know, leading us through, like, their trauma from

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

the past.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:23

And when Rachel Corey was brutally murdered 21

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

years ago, the government didn't really say anything.

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

There's a whole long line of people you've

00:48:29 --> 00:48:32

seen, Shereen Abu Akhla for Khan Dogan during

00:48:32 --> 00:48:35

the 2010 freedom flotilla.

00:48:36 --> 00:48:39

You have Tawfiq Abdul-Jabbar, who was killed

00:48:39 --> 00:48:41

in Gaza as well, and another American that

00:48:41 --> 00:48:42

was killed there as well.

00:48:42 --> 00:48:47

The government always, unfortunately, has a second set

00:48:47 --> 00:48:49

of principles when it comes to those who

00:48:49 --> 00:48:52

are Muslim or those who stand for Palestinian

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

rights.

00:48:53 --> 00:48:54

And so I was just looking back at

00:48:54 --> 00:48:57

Twitter right now, when there was a little

00:48:57 --> 00:49:00

scuffle that was taking place between Syria, Lebanon,

00:49:01 --> 00:49:07

and, you know, Israel, the Biden administration sent

00:49:07 --> 00:49:10

out a tweet saying, if you harm an

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

American, we will respond.

00:49:11 --> 00:49:14

And so when they're directing that ire towards,

00:49:15 --> 00:49:18

you know, a Muslim country, or those who

00:49:18 --> 00:49:21

they deem to be their enemies, their tenor

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

becomes, oh, we're going to take care of

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

every American that's out there.

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

But when it's an actual American that's killed

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

by their ally, where's that same energy?

00:49:31 --> 00:49:32

It doesn't exist.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:35

And there's been a response from, you know,

00:49:35 --> 00:49:38

some selected members of Congress, Pramila Jayapal, and

00:49:38 --> 00:49:41

some of the other local members of Congress,

00:49:41 --> 00:49:43

the first few days afterward, I mean, you

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

would expect something if an American is killed

00:49:45 --> 00:49:46

overseas.

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

As those of us who were born and

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

raised here, I think we've been told that

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

myth, you know, growing up that, you know,

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

if something happened to me, I have this

00:49:54 --> 00:49:55

American passport.

00:49:56 --> 00:49:57

And that's like, you know, this is like

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

gold basically across the world.

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

But we have to really sort of demystify

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

a lot of these these thought processes, you

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

know, there's a second set of rules when

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

it comes to us.

00:50:07 --> 00:50:10

And yeah, I mean, you know, the Biden

00:50:10 --> 00:50:11

administration was very slow and deliberate.

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

I think they've issued a few things today,

00:50:14 --> 00:50:16

it's still like very weasel words when it

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

comes to how they're they're talking about, you

00:50:18 --> 00:50:21

know, we deplore the death of they won't

00:50:21 --> 00:50:24

even like talking voice when Israel kills an

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

American, you know, they try to basically all

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

levels of plausible deniability when it comes to

00:50:29 --> 00:50:34

Israel and allowing themselves while they're conducting a

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

genocide to investigate themselves is one of the

00:50:36 --> 00:50:37

most laughable things.

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

And so I think the the family from

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

day one, you know, centering the family has

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

been extremely, extremely important.

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

That's why we've sort of taken very careful

00:50:46 --> 00:50:48

steps in how we've approached media and not

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

trying to be too out there and in

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

your face that the family really wants there

00:50:53 --> 00:50:55

to be an independent investigation.

00:50:55 --> 00:50:58

They don't want a Israel obviously to investigate

00:50:58 --> 00:51:01

their own crime and be like you said,

00:51:01 --> 00:51:03

America's providing the weaponry, it's providing the cover.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:07

They don't want America to necessarily investigate either.

00:51:08 --> 00:51:10

They want an independent investigator and they want

00:51:10 --> 00:51:13

some type of accountability on a world stage.

00:51:13 --> 00:51:15

And they've been communicating through a variety of

00:51:15 --> 00:51:15

channels.

00:51:15 --> 00:51:17

You know, we have these young activists who

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

are acting as their as their, you know,

00:51:19 --> 00:51:20

spokespersons.

00:51:20 --> 00:51:22

And so we're just trying to, you know,

00:51:22 --> 00:51:24

push, push the envelope as much as we

00:51:24 --> 00:51:25

can, inshallah.

00:51:25 --> 00:51:26

Yeah, inshallah.

00:51:26 --> 00:51:31

I'm amazed at how just deliberate it seems

00:51:31 --> 00:51:32

like Sister Aishanour was with everything.

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

Like, usually it's a moment of chaos.

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

But like you said, you really can tell

00:51:37 --> 00:51:39

that she had everything lined up.

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

That's really, really amazing.

00:51:42 --> 00:51:45

Now, when you talk about the family and

00:51:45 --> 00:51:48

the solidarity between the families of say, you

00:51:48 --> 00:51:52

know, Rachel Corey and Sister Aishanour, is there

00:51:52 --> 00:51:54

any sense or have you ever picked up

00:51:54 --> 00:51:55

on any sense of progress?

00:51:56 --> 00:51:59

I mean, Rachel Corey was murdered at a

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

different time, all right, when there was a

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

lot less scrutiny on Israel, there was no

00:52:03 --> 00:52:04

social media, right.

00:52:04 --> 00:52:07

And so these sorts of things, they have,

00:52:08 --> 00:52:11

I guess, let's say, they're much more easily

00:52:11 --> 00:52:12

accessible.

00:52:12 --> 00:52:17

And media has been more democratized since then.

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

Do we get any sense that any progress

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

is being made?

00:52:20 --> 00:52:23

Or is it pretty much the same stuff

00:52:23 --> 00:52:24

all over again?

00:52:25 --> 00:52:27

I think it's progress that's being made.

00:52:27 --> 00:52:30

I think the machinery of both parties, you

00:52:30 --> 00:52:32

know, both major parties, to be quite frank,

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

are, you know, the leadership within each of

00:52:35 --> 00:52:39

the parties continues to just run interference for,

00:52:39 --> 00:52:42

you know, the occupation and will continue to

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

do so.

00:52:42 --> 00:52:47

You see a continual growth of voices who

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

try to at least stand up, I think,

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

within the political system.

00:52:50 --> 00:52:53

You try to see people who are, you

00:52:53 --> 00:52:54

know, even on a local level, like a

00:52:54 --> 00:52:57

lot of times we look at, you know,

00:52:57 --> 00:53:00

sort of the federal level elected officials, they're

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

sort of, you know, stuck in their own

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

thing.

00:53:04 --> 00:53:05

They receive funding from AIPAC and a lot

00:53:05 --> 00:53:06

of these different sources.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:08

But we need to, that was one of

00:53:08 --> 00:53:09

the things that was in the chat as

00:53:09 --> 00:53:09

well.

00:53:09 --> 00:53:11

I mean, we do need Muslim PACs as

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

well.

00:53:12 --> 00:53:14

We need Muslims who are involved at all

00:53:14 --> 00:53:16

levels, you know, trying, if there's PACs that

00:53:16 --> 00:53:19

are out there doing, you know, spending billions

00:53:19 --> 00:53:20

of dollars to do evil, I think AIPAC

00:53:20 --> 00:53:23

spent $100 million in this last election cycle

00:53:23 --> 00:53:25

to spread evil.

00:53:25 --> 00:53:27

We need to, we have the money and

00:53:27 --> 00:53:30

the resources within our community, try to, you

00:53:30 --> 00:53:33

know, promote candidates who are doing good as

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

well.

00:53:33 --> 00:53:35

I think that's one lesson.

00:53:35 --> 00:53:36

And I mean, it may not work out

00:53:36 --> 00:53:38

at the end, but it's not about that

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

for us.

00:53:38 --> 00:53:39

You know, at the end of the day,

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

it's the effort inshallah that we make that

00:53:42 --> 00:53:43

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rewards us for.

00:53:44 --> 00:53:46

So even if we're not necessarily seeing the

00:53:46 --> 00:53:50

progress, you know, in our lifetime or in

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

front of our faces, we at least have

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

to use every mechanism at our disposal to

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

try and like move, move the meter.

00:53:55 --> 00:53:58

And I think, you know, just last thing

00:53:58 --> 00:54:00

I would say on that is that, you

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

know, here locally, I would say it's changing,

00:54:03 --> 00:54:05

you know, 70% of, you know, at

00:54:05 --> 00:54:07

least the Democrats that were over here in

00:54:07 --> 00:54:11

this state in Washington supported a ceasefire, which

00:54:11 --> 00:54:12

a ceasefire is not necessarily like the best

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

thing in the world.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:16

It was like stopping the, you know, the

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

mass killing that's taking place.

00:54:18 --> 00:54:20

And they voted to, you know, at their

00:54:20 --> 00:54:24

local Democrat convention to pass a ceasefire resolution.

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

So that means that I think a lot

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

of people on the ground level, at least,

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

their conscience is shifting.

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

So the mass conscience is shifting, because they

00:54:32 --> 00:54:34

have more access to information, they have more

00:54:34 --> 00:54:36

access to social media in terms of the

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

truth of what's coming out of Gaza and

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

worldwide.

00:54:40 --> 00:54:42

So inshallah, hopefully that's, it's heading the right

00:54:42 --> 00:54:43

direction.

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

But you know, there's a lot of corruption

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

still in the system.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:47

Yeah, and absolutely.

00:54:47 --> 00:54:48

I mean, some of your points are really

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

important.

00:54:48 --> 00:54:51

We have the duty to try, right, regardless

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

of, you know, whether we win or not,

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

like we definitely have, I believe, a religious

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

obligation to try super PACs and sort of

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

advocacy is one route, you know, electoral is

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

another route.

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

And there's other routes that, you know, for

00:55:03 --> 00:55:05

building political power, that we need to stop

00:55:05 --> 00:55:07

spectating and get in the game and do

00:55:07 --> 00:55:10

what we're, and I agree, like, very capable

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

of doing.

00:55:10 --> 00:55:11

Like, if you look at the money that

00:55:11 --> 00:55:13

we've splashed into relief, or the money we

00:55:13 --> 00:55:16

splashed into our masjids, or our banquets, or

00:55:16 --> 00:55:19

our big conferences every year, we definitely have

00:55:19 --> 00:55:20

the juice.

00:55:21 --> 00:55:23

As they say, we definitely have the ability

00:55:23 --> 00:55:26

to be putting 15% of our current

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

expenditure into political sort of avenues.

00:55:30 --> 00:55:32

I want to throw sort of like an

00:55:32 --> 00:55:33

open ended question to you.

00:55:33 --> 00:55:34

And you can take it or leave it,

00:55:34 --> 00:55:35

you don't have to answer it.

00:55:35 --> 00:55:38

But if imagine for a second, we reach

00:55:38 --> 00:55:44

a day where US politicians behave fairly, when

00:55:44 --> 00:55:47

something like this happens, right, that there is

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

justice, that they are treated the same.

00:55:49 --> 00:55:50

What is it going to take?

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

Yeah, I mean, that's a tough one.

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

I think it has to become politically toxic.

00:55:57 --> 00:55:59

I mean, it has to become politically toxic

00:55:59 --> 00:56:06

for somebody to just continue to support something,

00:56:06 --> 00:56:07

things that we've seen.

00:56:07 --> 00:56:10

I mean, we've all gone through collective trauma

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

this past 11 months.

00:56:11 --> 00:56:14

We've seen images that, and our kids have

00:56:14 --> 00:56:16

seen images that no human being should see.

00:56:16 --> 00:56:19

And our sense of fitra tells us that

00:56:19 --> 00:56:21

this is horrible, this is horrific.

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

And this is not normal for us to

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

witness.

00:56:23 --> 00:56:25

And our eyes are not lying to us.

00:56:25 --> 00:56:27

And I think the vast majority of people

00:56:27 --> 00:56:29

out there understand that our eyes are not

00:56:29 --> 00:56:32

lying to us at this point.

00:56:32 --> 00:56:36

But at the end of the day, the

00:56:36 --> 00:56:39

people within the party machinery and the leadership

00:56:39 --> 00:56:42

within these parties, they don't think that it's

00:56:42 --> 00:56:45

politically toxic to take these positions.

00:56:45 --> 00:56:48

You saw, you know, this Vedant Patel and

00:56:48 --> 00:56:49

the Matthew Millers of the world who are

00:56:49 --> 00:56:52

standing in front of, you know, people and

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

they just spit out the talking points, because

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

they don't feel like they're going to lose

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

anything.

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

But there has to be a tipping point,

00:56:58 --> 00:57:03

where supporting a genocide, supporting these, it's happening

00:57:03 --> 00:57:05

on a world scale already.

00:57:05 --> 00:57:07

And you've seen changes already happening in places

00:57:07 --> 00:57:09

like the UK, where the elections, you see,

00:57:09 --> 00:57:13

you know, pro-Palestine and Muslim candidates that

00:57:13 --> 00:57:15

are winning in these areas.

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

But there has to be a tipping point

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

where this is politically unacceptable.

00:57:19 --> 00:57:23

We're living through a very historic time, where

00:57:23 --> 00:57:26

we've witnessed one of the worst atrocities, and

00:57:26 --> 00:57:28

it's been broadcast in front of our eyes.

00:57:28 --> 00:57:30

So we cannot let these people forget, and

00:57:30 --> 00:57:32

we have to continuously remind them.

00:57:33 --> 00:57:33

Absolutely.

00:57:34 --> 00:57:36

And so, Panela, exactly what you said about

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

being politically toxic, we have failed to punish

00:57:39 --> 00:57:40

this behavior politically, right?

00:57:41 --> 00:57:43

And as long as we fail to punish

00:57:43 --> 00:57:45

it, we really can't expect anything different.

00:57:45 --> 00:57:47

That exactly what you said, it has to

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

be so, we have to get to a

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

point and reverse engineer it, what are all

00:57:51 --> 00:57:54

the steps to make it so politically costly

00:57:54 --> 00:57:56

to support the occupation of Palestine, that no

00:57:56 --> 00:57:58

politician would touch it, unless they were crazy,

00:57:59 --> 00:58:00

and they wanted to lose an election.

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

But until we get to that point, we

00:58:03 --> 00:58:07

don't ultimately have any right to expect anything

00:58:07 --> 00:58:08

differently.

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

And I don't think we're going to see

00:58:10 --> 00:58:11

anything different.

00:58:11 --> 00:58:13

So, you know, this is a super important

00:58:13 --> 00:58:16

dynamic with the upcoming election.

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

And you know, people are trying to, okay,

00:58:17 --> 00:58:19

get back in line, Muslims, get back in

00:58:19 --> 00:58:20

line, don't make too much noise.

00:58:20 --> 00:58:23

But we're gonna, there's gonna come a tipping

00:58:23 --> 00:58:24

point where we bite the bullet, and we

00:58:24 --> 00:58:27

basically say, this is our red line, this

00:58:27 --> 00:58:29

is where you stop pushing us around.

00:58:29 --> 00:58:33

And we will tolerate short term harm for

00:58:33 --> 00:58:36

a long term gain, if it means actually

00:58:36 --> 00:58:40

stopping, you know, making people respect us and

00:58:40 --> 00:58:42

realizing that you can't just do anything to

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

us.

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

Any comment on that?

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

Or any other final points that you'd like

00:58:46 --> 00:58:49

to add before, before departing?

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

Yeah, I mean, I agree with you.

00:58:51 --> 00:58:53

I think we just got to continue specifically

00:58:53 --> 00:58:56

on this story, I think, you know, continue

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

to make noise with these people.

00:58:59 --> 00:59:04

When you see, you know, these mouthpieces have

00:59:04 --> 00:59:09

a separate system of humanity for a person

00:59:09 --> 00:59:12

like Aishah Noor or other Muslims that have

00:59:12 --> 00:59:15

been killed or those who have been marginalized

00:59:15 --> 00:59:18

by genocide, don't can, you know, we've got

00:59:18 --> 00:59:19

to continue to push them forward.

00:59:19 --> 00:59:21

And that means your elected officials as well.

00:59:21 --> 00:59:22

If for those of you who are in

00:59:22 --> 00:59:26

the US, you know, why hasn't your member

00:59:26 --> 00:59:29

of Congress issued a statement, this is an

00:59:29 --> 00:59:33

American, you know, like, if this is supposed

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

to be the land of the free and

00:59:34 --> 00:59:36

the home of the brave as they purport

00:59:36 --> 00:59:38

to be, then we have to, we have

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

to hold them accountable.

00:59:39 --> 00:59:41

But yeah, I mean, it's going to take

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

a lot of work.

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

And I think we as a community have

00:59:44 --> 00:59:47

to be strategic, we have to continue like,

00:59:47 --> 00:59:49

you know, the ulama and the activists, we

00:59:49 --> 00:59:51

have to get together, we have to also

00:59:51 --> 00:59:54

have some type of, you know, sessions like

00:59:54 --> 00:59:56

this, where we sit down together and really

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

strategize, you know, like, on a granular level,

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

how we plot out, you know, the political

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

power of this community.

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

And so that's something we're trying to do

01:00:04 --> 01:00:05

from a CARE perspective.

01:00:05 --> 01:00:08

I know that as many, you know, nascent

01:00:08 --> 01:00:10

organizations that are starting, and Yapin is doing

01:00:10 --> 01:00:12

some great work in terms of the education.

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

So Anshela will be able to continue the

01:00:15 --> 01:00:16

conversation with you all.

01:00:16 --> 01:00:17

And I'm always happy to come and join

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

you all as well.

01:00:18 --> 01:00:20

Look forward to it, Imran.

01:00:20 --> 01:00:20

I agree.

01:00:21 --> 01:00:23

We are all we have, right?

01:00:23 --> 01:00:25

After Allah subhana wa ta'ala, we have

01:00:25 --> 01:00:25

us.

01:00:25 --> 01:00:28

Allah gave us each other to plot our

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

way out of this mess.

01:00:29 --> 01:00:30

I believe that wholeheartedly.

01:00:30 --> 01:00:31

And I look forward, pleasure meeting you.

01:00:31 --> 01:00:33

And I look forward to following up with

01:00:33 --> 01:00:35

you at some point and continuing the conversation.

01:00:36 --> 01:00:37

Thank you so much for joining us today,

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

Imran.

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

So there you have it, folks.

01:00:43 --> 01:00:45

Now we have some, I see that the

01:00:45 --> 01:00:47

guys in the studio have prepared some other

01:00:47 --> 01:00:48

things that we've discussed.

01:00:50 --> 01:00:51

Okay.

01:00:52 --> 01:00:53

We're going to talk about reflection on Sister

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Aishah Noor's legacy and her martyrdom.

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So let's just bring up real quick that

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tweet from the Republican congressman.

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Okay.

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

He's from Florida, which wouldn't shock a lot

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of people.

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No offense to our wonderful people from Florida.

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But we know that some of the politicians

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in Florida be wild and out a little

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bit.

01:01:11 --> 01:01:14

So he said, one less Muslim terrorist.

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And then he did a hashtag, I know,

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fire away and these sorts of things.

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And just to expose the corruption, whether this

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person is a true believer, he's ideologically motivated

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or not.

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The only type of person that acts like

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this is a person who does not fear

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any consequences for acting like this.

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And Muslims will not stop being humiliated until

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we impose, organize and impose political consequences for

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acting and speaking like this.

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So that's an extremely important thing to keep

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in mind.

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And you have to consider, from everything you

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do, from how you vote in November to

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everything that you do locally and politically to

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build power, where you put your money, as

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we were discussing with Brother Imran, what are

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you doing to create a scenario in which

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it is politically costly for people to, so

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people can't get away with this sort of

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stuff.

01:02:04 --> 01:02:06

We also, I think, have a quote from

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Aishah Noor.

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Can we run that, guys?

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Okay.

01:02:08 --> 01:02:10

So this was, I highly encourage, by the

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way, our dear brother, Muhammad Jallal, from The

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Thinking Muslim in London, the UK, has a

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great write-up on martyrdom.

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He offers reflections, Aishah Noor, Ezgi Ege and

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notes on martyrdom.

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Read it.

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It's really, and she's holding a quote there.

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You can really tell, SubhanAllah, you can tell

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that, I mean, I didn't know the sister

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personally, but she is super smart.

01:02:32 --> 01:02:34

And you can tell that she is super

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sharp.

01:02:34 --> 01:02:36

When you look at sort of all the,

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I mean, at such a young age as

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well, like all the things that she was

01:02:40 --> 01:02:43

taking into account, she understood international solidarity.

01:02:44 --> 01:02:46

She understood the way that many, many issues

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intersect, and she was fearless.

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SubhanAllah.

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May Allah have mercy on her.

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Okay.

01:02:53 --> 01:02:55

Oh, here's the, oh, so what that card

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says that she's holding is, wasat, so she's

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talking about, you know, Allah's statement in the

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Quran about being ummatan wasatan.

01:03:02 --> 01:03:04

Wasat, to me, is the ummah I need

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to support my journey in full submission to

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Allah, a community, a community, excuse me, dedicated

01:03:10 --> 01:03:13

to supporting each other to the straight path.

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And that's your sister and her advice to

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you.

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So may we all live up to that.

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Now, SubhanAllah, when I was reviewing the Quran

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and thinking about what was going on this

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past week, these verses came to mind, and

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we've talked about them before, but I want

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to bring them up to look at them,

01:03:31 --> 01:03:32

how they fit together.

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They're verses you've heard before, but as we

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know, sometimes, even the companions that happen to

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them, that things you've heard before and things

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that you know, when things, when different scenarios

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happen and play out, they take on new

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meaning.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and

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you know, this is true, وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ

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قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ إِلَٰهِ أَمْوَاتَهُ Don't say, or

01:03:52 --> 01:03:54

don't even think that those who have been

01:03:54 --> 01:03:56

killed in the way of Allah are dead,

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

بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ that they are,

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

instead, they are alive, that Aisha Nur is

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

more alive than you and me right now,

01:04:05 --> 01:04:07

that she has witnessed as a shaheedah, somebody

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who has witnessed the reality and gone through

01:04:10 --> 01:04:12

the steps, that she is more alive than

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you or I are alive right now.

01:04:15 --> 01:04:16

And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

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فَرِحِينَ بِمَا أَتَاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ فَضْلِ that pleased,

01:04:21 --> 01:04:23

she is pleased, they are pleased, the martyrs

01:04:23 --> 01:04:25

are pleased by what Allah subhanahu wa ta

01:04:25 --> 01:04:28

'ala has given them of His bounty, وَيَسْتَبْشِرُونَ

01:04:28 --> 01:04:32

بِاللَّذِينَ لَمْ يَلْحَقُوا بِهِمْ مِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ that the

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martyrs of old, all of them, all the

01:04:34 --> 01:04:37

way back, are gladdened by the martyrs of

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today, and are, we have a translation here

01:04:42 --> 01:04:44

on, they're receiving good tidings about those who

01:04:44 --> 01:04:46

will be martyred after them.

01:04:46 --> 01:04:47

So even the people that will come later,

01:04:48 --> 01:04:51

that after Aisha Nur, Aisha Nur will be

01:04:51 --> 01:04:52

gladdened by the fact that there are other

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people who are going to, to be joining

01:04:54 --> 01:04:54

her.

01:04:55 --> 01:04:57

أَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْسَنُونَ This is

01:04:57 --> 01:04:59

the promise of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

01:04:59 --> 01:05:03

The next ayah, okay, because we're going somewhere

01:05:03 --> 01:05:07

with this, okay, يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ بِنِعْمَةٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ Okay,

01:05:07 --> 01:05:09

they receive good tidings and favor from Allah

01:05:09 --> 01:05:11

and bounty, and Allah does not, Allah does

01:05:11 --> 01:05:13

not allow the reward of believers to be

01:05:13 --> 01:05:14

lost.

01:05:14 --> 01:05:17

Those believers who respond to Allah and after

01:05:17 --> 01:05:18

injury has struck them.

01:05:18 --> 01:05:21

And I found that significant when going after

01:05:21 --> 01:05:25

these ayahs, أَلَذِينَ اَسْتَجَابُوا لِلَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ مِنْ بَعْدِ

01:05:25 --> 01:05:28

مَا أَصَابَهُمُ الْقَرْحِ That we understand that there

01:05:28 --> 01:05:30

is going to be pain.

01:05:30 --> 01:05:32

They understand there is going to be lost.

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

We understand that there are going to be

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

martyrs, that we understand there are people going

01:05:35 --> 01:05:36

to be arrested, people are going to be

01:05:36 --> 01:05:38

thrown into jail, people are going to be

01:05:38 --> 01:05:39

put in solitary confinement.

01:05:39 --> 01:05:40

This is the dunya.

01:05:41 --> 01:05:43

And the Prophet ﷺ said that the dunya

01:05:43 --> 01:05:46

is a prison for the believer.

01:05:46 --> 01:05:49

And it is Jannah for the denier, the

01:05:49 --> 01:05:49

rejecter.

01:05:50 --> 01:05:52

Sometimes we act as if we want Jannah

01:05:52 --> 01:05:53

right now.

01:05:53 --> 01:05:55

If you want to stand up for what

01:05:55 --> 01:05:57

Allah loves, if you want to do something

01:05:57 --> 01:06:00

for Palestine and work towards a free and

01:06:00 --> 01:06:03

just Palestine, then you need to be ready

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

to sacrifice.

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

And you need to be ready to sacrifice

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

everything.

01:06:07 --> 01:06:09

That this is a celebration of Aishah Noor's

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

success, Aishah Noor's victory.

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

And what is on you and me now

01:06:15 --> 01:06:18

is to follow in her example of her

01:06:18 --> 01:06:21

willingness to sacrifice and to do it gladly,

01:06:21 --> 01:06:25

realizing that the dunya is absolutely nothing.

01:06:25 --> 01:06:26

Go to the next one.

01:06:28 --> 01:06:30

Now, this is amazing that this ayah comes

01:06:30 --> 01:06:31

after this.

01:06:31 --> 01:06:32

This is the last ayah we're going to

01:06:32 --> 01:06:32

end on.

01:06:32 --> 01:06:34

The last ayah in this tarqeeb at the

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end of the page, if you're using the

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Medina Mus'haf, الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِنَّ

01:06:40 --> 01:06:45

النَّاسَ قَدَ جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ فَخْشَوْهُمْ That Allah is

01:06:45 --> 01:06:48

contrasting this person, the martyr, somebody like Aishah

01:06:48 --> 01:06:53

Noor with somebody who they are hypocritical.

01:06:53 --> 01:06:55

They have disease in their hearts.

01:06:55 --> 01:06:57

They love the dunya too much.

01:06:57 --> 01:06:59

What's that person's attitude?

01:06:59 --> 01:07:01

They run to us and they try to

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

spread fear.

01:07:02 --> 01:07:03

They try to spread fear.

01:07:04 --> 01:07:05

They're fear mongers at the end of the

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

day.

01:07:05 --> 01:07:08

And they say to everybody, إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدَ

01:07:08 --> 01:07:11

جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ فَخْشَوْهُمْ Look at how much people

01:07:11 --> 01:07:11

you're up against.

01:07:11 --> 01:07:13

Look at how many people, how much money

01:07:13 --> 01:07:15

they have, how strong they are.

01:07:15 --> 01:07:16

You'll never change anything.

01:07:16 --> 01:07:17

You'll never do anything.

01:07:17 --> 01:07:19

You better just fall in line and do

01:07:19 --> 01:07:20

this thing and save your own self.

01:07:21 --> 01:07:23

If you look in the Quran, that is

01:07:23 --> 01:07:24

the attitude of the hypocrites.

01:07:24 --> 01:07:26

Time and time and time again.

01:07:27 --> 01:07:28

Just save yourself.

01:07:30 --> 01:07:31

We're afraid of fitna.

01:07:31 --> 01:07:35

And then Allah says, سَقَطُوا We didn't go

01:07:35 --> 01:07:37

out and sacrifice everything because we were afraid

01:07:37 --> 01:07:38

of falling into fitna.

01:07:38 --> 01:07:40

No, you just fell into fitna.

01:07:40 --> 01:07:41

That is the attitude of the hypocrites to

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succumb to fear.

01:07:43 --> 01:07:44

The attitude of the martyr, the attitude of

01:07:44 --> 01:07:46

those who Allah is pleased with is the

01:07:46 --> 01:07:46

opposite.

01:07:48 --> 01:07:52

فَزَادَهُمْ إِمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيرُ That

01:07:52 --> 01:07:55

they understand that no matter what they are

01:07:55 --> 01:07:57

up against, no matter the odds, Allah is

01:07:57 --> 01:07:58

in control.

01:07:58 --> 01:08:01

Nobody is in ultimate control other than Allah.

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

And if the situation happens, if Allah had

01:08:04 --> 01:08:06

decreed it, that you or I have to

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

die for a good cause, then الحمد لله,

01:08:10 --> 01:08:11

Allah has decreed for us good.

01:08:11 --> 01:08:14

الحمد لله, Allah has given us حسن الخاطمة.

01:08:14 --> 01:08:16

الحمد لله, Allah has given us a good

01:08:16 --> 01:08:17

end.

01:08:17 --> 01:08:21

And we rejoice and consider ourselves among the

01:08:21 --> 01:08:21

successful.

01:08:22 --> 01:08:24

So this attitude shift is absolutely important.

01:08:24 --> 01:08:25

And you're going to see a lot of

01:08:25 --> 01:08:26

people that are cowards.

01:08:27 --> 01:08:27

And that's just facts.

01:08:28 --> 01:08:29

Sorry, I have to say it bluntly.

01:08:29 --> 01:08:30

You're going to see a lot of people

01:08:30 --> 01:08:32

now, come out now, between now and November,

01:08:33 --> 01:08:36

now and after November, that in their hearts,

01:08:36 --> 01:08:37

they are afraid.

01:08:37 --> 01:08:39

And they will come to you like this.

01:08:39 --> 01:08:41

This is what they're essentially saying to you.

01:08:41 --> 01:08:43

Look at all of what you're up against.

01:08:44 --> 01:08:45

Don't be brazen.

01:08:45 --> 01:08:46

Don't be too idealistic.

01:08:46 --> 01:08:48

Don't be impractical.

01:08:48 --> 01:08:51

The practical way is to take the deal.

01:08:51 --> 01:08:53

The practical way is to support first and

01:08:53 --> 01:08:55

then hope for some crumbs later.

01:08:55 --> 01:08:57

And that's not what Allah ﷻ wants from

01:08:57 --> 01:08:58

us.

01:09:00 --> 01:09:01

I know there's probably a lot of people

01:09:01 --> 01:09:03

pinging us in the chat.

01:09:03 --> 01:09:04

Let's go see what we've got here.

01:09:05 --> 01:09:06

We've got some people from Minnesota.

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

Welcome.

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

Sarah says their dead are in * while

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

ours are in heaven.

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

Allahu Akbar.

01:09:11 --> 01:09:11

Completely true.

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

Their dead are in * and ours are

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

in heaven.

01:09:16 --> 01:09:16

Ameen.

01:09:16 --> 01:09:18

Latisha says may Allah grant victory to all

01:09:18 --> 01:09:19

the oppressed and get rid of the evil

01:09:19 --> 01:09:20

oppressors.

01:09:20 --> 01:09:20

Ameen.

01:09:20 --> 01:09:20

Yarab.

01:09:22 --> 01:09:22

Salmon roll.

01:09:23 --> 01:09:25

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Awesome username.

01:09:26 --> 01:09:27

Salmon rolls are delicious.

01:09:27 --> 01:09:28

Ryan Christian.

01:09:29 --> 01:09:30

You saw me in Houston.

01:09:30 --> 01:09:31

I'm glad that we were able to catch

01:09:31 --> 01:09:32

each other.

01:09:36 --> 01:09:37

Watermelon786 hits on it perfectly.

01:09:38 --> 01:09:40

Yes, the attitude of the government is Israel

01:09:40 --> 01:09:42

first even before American lives.

01:09:43 --> 01:09:43

100%.

01:09:43 --> 01:09:45

That is what they are teaching us.

01:09:47 --> 01:09:49

And their stock holdings like Fatima points out.

01:09:54 --> 01:09:56

People pointing out the lack of accountability.

01:09:57 --> 01:09:59

About the murderer investigating himself.

01:09:59 --> 01:10:00

Exactly it.

01:10:00 --> 01:10:02

You guys are sharp.

01:10:04 --> 01:10:05

Relying on Israeli findings.

01:10:05 --> 01:10:06

Exactly.

01:10:06 --> 01:10:07

Yeah, it makes my blood boil too, Zaheer.

01:10:16 --> 01:10:16

Be happy.

01:10:17 --> 01:10:17

Puts it nice.

01:10:18 --> 01:10:19

This guy is the epitome.

01:10:19 --> 01:10:21

You're talking about the White House correspondent or

01:10:21 --> 01:10:22

the White House representative.

01:10:23 --> 01:10:24

The epitome of a habitual gaslighter.

01:10:24 --> 01:10:25

A mouthpiece for Zionists.

01:10:25 --> 01:10:26

He will get what is due to him

01:10:26 --> 01:10:27

very soon.

01:10:27 --> 01:10:27

Inshallah.

01:10:30 --> 01:10:31

Yes.

01:10:31 --> 01:10:34

And Eman also anticipated us talking about the

01:10:34 --> 01:10:37

Turkish origin in order to sort of distance

01:10:37 --> 01:10:40

herself from being an American who presumably their

01:10:40 --> 01:10:41

life would matter.

01:10:41 --> 01:10:43

But even if she's an American, her life

01:10:43 --> 01:10:44

doesn't matter because it's not lucrative.

01:10:44 --> 01:10:46

It goes against the lucrative Zionist project.

01:10:49 --> 01:10:49

Yes, Sheyma.

01:10:49 --> 01:10:51

They only care about their own interests.

01:10:53 --> 01:10:55

And I want to put this out here.

01:10:55 --> 01:10:56

Nusaybah, you win.

01:10:56 --> 01:10:57

You win, Nusaybah.

01:10:57 --> 01:10:57

Put this up.

01:10:58 --> 01:11:01

What's worse is that Muslims amongst us would

01:11:01 --> 01:11:05

still pursue lucrative careers in Raytheon and others

01:11:05 --> 01:11:08

such as Lockheed Martin saying that Dean and

01:11:08 --> 01:11:09

Dunya are separate.

01:11:09 --> 01:11:12

Put it up in lights.

01:11:12 --> 01:11:14

A hundred percent correct, Nusaybah.

01:11:14 --> 01:11:16

Thank you so much for pointing that out.

01:11:16 --> 01:11:19

How can we expect anything to change when

01:11:19 --> 01:11:20

we don't hold our own accountable?

01:11:20 --> 01:11:23

When we look and see someone's working for

01:11:23 --> 01:11:26

the Department of Defense who's signing off on

01:11:26 --> 01:11:28

all of these arms shipments going abroad and

01:11:28 --> 01:11:29

we see that as a success.

01:11:29 --> 01:11:32

Nobody will question you at the Iftar parties

01:11:32 --> 01:11:34

and say, Oh, Mashallah, he works at the

01:11:34 --> 01:11:35

Department of Defense.

01:11:35 --> 01:11:36

Mashallah, Tabarakallah.

01:11:36 --> 01:11:36

Astaghfirullah.

01:11:37 --> 01:11:39

This is something that is a shame.

01:11:39 --> 01:11:42

It's a shame on the Muslim community that

01:11:42 --> 01:11:45

we will be so addicted to this Dunya

01:11:45 --> 01:11:48

and so addicted to status that we turn

01:11:48 --> 01:11:50

our nose down at someone with a humble

01:11:50 --> 01:11:52

halal job, whether a janitor, a street sweeper

01:11:52 --> 01:11:55

or anything, and we would praise somebody and

01:11:55 --> 01:11:58

not find it problematic for somebody to be

01:11:58 --> 01:12:04

responsible for the murder of Muslims across the

01:12:04 --> 01:12:04

world.

01:12:05 --> 01:12:06

Where are our priorities?

01:12:07 --> 01:12:09

We have to fix that first.

01:12:09 --> 01:12:11

I completely agree that.

01:12:15 --> 01:12:16

Mariam has another good point.

01:12:16 --> 01:12:17

It's not just that Muslims don't get the

01:12:17 --> 01:12:18

same treatment.

01:12:18 --> 01:12:21

We are accused without proof, and Israel, yes,

01:12:21 --> 01:12:24

well said, is defended despite the proof.

01:12:24 --> 01:12:30

A hundred Columbia students are terrorists with no

01:12:30 --> 01:12:33

proof, and their academic jobs can be put

01:12:33 --> 01:12:34

into jeopardy.

01:12:34 --> 01:12:35

We can have all the proof in the

01:12:35 --> 01:12:37

world against the IDF, and it doesn't mean

01:12:37 --> 01:12:38

anything.

01:12:41 --> 01:12:42

A Qadri is right.

01:12:42 --> 01:12:44

They will not value our voice until we

01:12:44 --> 01:12:45

withhold our vote and our support.

01:12:45 --> 01:12:47

Yes, agreed.

01:12:51 --> 01:12:52

Iman brings up a good point.

01:12:52 --> 01:12:54

Yes, Israel tells us who they are.

01:12:55 --> 01:12:57

Rachel Corey was run over by a bulldozer,

01:12:57 --> 01:12:59

and after her death, Zionists made pancakes with

01:12:59 --> 01:13:00

her face and mocked her.

01:13:00 --> 01:13:02

What have we seen in the last 11

01:13:02 --> 01:13:03

months?

01:13:12 --> 01:13:14

Yes, Madiha, that's a good point as well.

01:13:21 --> 01:13:22

I'm just trying to run through the chat.

01:13:22 --> 01:13:23

We've got a lot of things.

01:13:31 --> 01:13:32

The Israeli exception.

01:13:32 --> 01:13:34

That's a nice term for A Qadri, the

01:13:34 --> 01:13:35

Israeli exception.

01:13:45 --> 01:13:46

Seamus brings up a good point.

01:13:47 --> 01:13:50

Seamus says, politically, the Muslim community is very

01:13:50 --> 01:13:52

reactive and not proactive, unfortunately.

01:13:52 --> 01:13:54

However, I would like to say, I do

01:13:54 --> 01:13:55

have hope that the future is going to

01:13:55 --> 01:13:56

change, and I have two reasons.

01:13:56 --> 01:13:59

The last 11 months, I've seen a huge

01:13:59 --> 01:14:00

shift, and a lot of people have started

01:14:00 --> 01:14:03

paying attention, and they're opening up new ideas.

01:14:03 --> 01:14:08

Secondly, I have seen the youth, the Muslim

01:14:08 --> 01:14:11

youth of this country, and I have high

01:14:11 --> 01:14:11

hopes for them.

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

They are people who are not content with

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

the Biryani diplomacy.

01:14:15 --> 01:14:17

They're not content to do what everybody has

01:14:17 --> 01:14:19

been doing for the last 20, 30, 40

01:14:19 --> 01:14:19

years.

01:14:20 --> 01:14:21

That hasn't gotten us anything, to be frank.

01:14:22 --> 01:14:23

It has not gotten us anything.

01:14:23 --> 01:14:24

Stay tuned.

01:14:24 --> 01:14:26

Inshallah ta'ala, next week, my blog piece

01:14:26 --> 01:14:29

will drop going in on Biryani diplomacy and

01:14:29 --> 01:14:32

going in on how accepting our failure politically

01:14:32 --> 01:14:36

is an essential first step to getting it

01:14:36 --> 01:14:38

done, to changing it.

01:14:39 --> 01:14:41

Now, Madiha says, I don't agree.

01:14:41 --> 01:14:42

We will never be able to out-donor

01:14:42 --> 01:14:43

AIPAC.

01:14:43 --> 01:14:44

I want you to put that comment up

01:14:44 --> 01:14:45

here because she's not wrong.

01:14:45 --> 01:14:46

Madiha, you're not wrong.

01:14:46 --> 01:14:50

However, will we have to out-donor AIPAC?

01:14:51 --> 01:14:55

The truth requires a lot less support than

01:14:55 --> 01:14:55

falsehood.

01:14:56 --> 01:15:00

Falsehood requires so much work, so much money,

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

so much bribery, and buying people off to

01:15:03 --> 01:15:04

prop it up.

01:15:04 --> 01:15:07

But the truth, it has grassroots support.

01:15:07 --> 01:15:10

It has automatic support.

01:15:10 --> 01:15:13

Once it's a ball rolling downhill, it will

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

have much more momentum.

01:15:16 --> 01:15:17

I agree, Madiha.

01:15:17 --> 01:15:18

In her next comment, we need to work

01:15:18 --> 01:15:20

towards outlawing corporate donations.

01:15:20 --> 01:15:21

I completely agree with that.

01:15:21 --> 01:15:23

Citizens United has to be reversed.

01:15:23 --> 01:15:25

The entire election law has to be revised.

01:15:26 --> 01:15:30

I know it's not an attractive political issue

01:15:30 --> 01:15:31

to get involved in.

01:15:31 --> 01:15:34

Dealing with the issues of immigration and other

01:15:34 --> 01:15:37

issues are much more kept front and center

01:15:37 --> 01:15:37

for us.

01:15:37 --> 01:15:40

But I really do think that strategically, one

01:15:40 --> 01:15:42

of the places where Muslim Americans should start

01:15:42 --> 01:15:46

directing their political attention and building a coalition

01:15:46 --> 01:15:49

around is electoral reform.

01:15:49 --> 01:15:51

Because if you can change the way that

01:15:51 --> 01:15:54

decisions are made, you change the entire terrain.

01:15:54 --> 01:15:57

If you change just one decision, okay, you've

01:15:57 --> 01:15:58

changed that one decision.

01:15:58 --> 01:15:59

But if you change the way that decisions

01:15:59 --> 01:16:01

are made, you change a hundred decisions.

01:16:11 --> 01:16:13

Omar Dilan asks, I feel that I'm not

01:16:13 --> 01:16:14

doing enough for those suffering.

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

How can we set an expectation for what

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

Allah ﷻ expects us to be doing for?

01:16:18 --> 01:16:19

How do we know we're doing enough to

01:16:19 --> 01:16:21

not be held accountable on the Day of

01:16:21 --> 01:16:21

Judgment?

01:16:21 --> 01:16:23

I mean, I think it just has to

01:16:23 --> 01:16:25

be, first of all, you have your hearts,

01:16:25 --> 01:16:25

okay?

01:16:26 --> 01:16:26

What do you feel?

01:16:27 --> 01:16:28

Does this keep you up at night?

01:16:28 --> 01:16:30

Okay, now, you don't want to numb yourself

01:16:30 --> 01:16:31

with like, you know, we talked about that

01:16:31 --> 01:16:32

last week.

01:16:32 --> 01:16:34

However, you should feel angry.

01:16:34 --> 01:16:35

You should feel disturbed.

01:16:36 --> 01:16:37

You should feel frustrated.

01:16:37 --> 01:16:39

These are perfectly acceptable feelings.

01:16:40 --> 01:16:43

Now, what can you do or what is

01:16:43 --> 01:16:46

expected of you depends on your capacity, right?

01:16:46 --> 01:16:48

Anybody who has a higher capacity has a

01:16:48 --> 01:16:48

higher responsibility.

01:16:49 --> 01:16:51

And so, the Prophet ﷺ said, if you

01:16:51 --> 01:16:53

see a munkar, you see something that is

01:16:53 --> 01:16:55

evil, change it with your hand.

01:16:55 --> 01:16:56

Change it with your hand.

01:16:56 --> 01:16:58

Whatever you're able to change with your hand,

01:16:58 --> 01:16:59

whether it's in your family, it's in your

01:16:59 --> 01:17:01

job, it's at, you know, like with people

01:17:01 --> 01:17:03

who are around you, social media, whatever, then

01:17:03 --> 01:17:05

you have that responsibility to change it with

01:17:05 --> 01:17:05

your hand.

01:17:06 --> 01:17:08

And if you can't, then with your speech

01:17:08 --> 01:17:10

and what you say and what you write

01:17:10 --> 01:17:12

and even things, and then if not, then

01:17:12 --> 01:17:13

at least you hate it in your heart.

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

Yes, Valerie, I also agree.

01:17:18 --> 01:17:19

Thank you, Muslim.

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

He's the man.

01:17:20 --> 01:17:22

Actually, stay tuned for this, guys, crossover coming

01:17:22 --> 01:17:23

up.

01:17:23 --> 01:17:25

In October, Muhammad Jalal is going to be

01:17:25 --> 01:17:27

coming to the U.S. and build up

01:17:27 --> 01:17:29

to the elections, and we're going to be

01:17:29 --> 01:17:29

doing an interview.

01:17:29 --> 01:17:31

Inshallah, I'll be doing an interview with him,

01:17:31 --> 01:17:32

and he's going to be interviewing other people.

01:17:33 --> 01:17:35

So, much love to our brother Muhammad Jalal.

01:17:35 --> 01:17:36

May Allah protect him and his family.

01:17:39 --> 01:17:41

Selma Z asks, I wonder if there's legal

01:17:41 --> 01:17:43

ground for Aishah Noor's parents to sue that

01:17:43 --> 01:17:44

congressman from Florida.

01:17:45 --> 01:17:49

Whether there is or isn't, I think, you

01:17:49 --> 01:17:53

know, unfortunately, an even larger question or a

01:17:53 --> 01:17:56

larger issue is, what is the atmosphere that

01:17:56 --> 01:18:01

has made it possible to say such things

01:18:01 --> 01:18:01

in the first place?

01:18:02 --> 01:18:05

Again, someone who says that does not fear

01:18:05 --> 01:18:06

being politically punished.

01:18:07 --> 01:18:08

They think that they're going to get away

01:18:08 --> 01:18:08

with it.

01:18:09 --> 01:18:10

We have to make sure they don't get

01:18:10 --> 01:18:12

away with it, whether it's through a law,

01:18:13 --> 01:18:15

which I'm kind of, I guess, pessimistic about

01:18:15 --> 01:18:17

that because the law is sort of not

01:18:17 --> 01:18:20

neutral, but even just when it comes to

01:18:20 --> 01:18:22

votes and donations and things like that.

01:18:41 --> 01:18:42

Yeah, that's true.

01:18:42 --> 01:18:45

Miraj Khan demonstrates the lengths that the Biden

01:18:45 --> 01:18:47

administration will go to make it seem like

01:18:47 --> 01:18:48

an accident, right?

01:18:48 --> 01:18:49

This is getting to be like the guy

01:18:49 --> 01:18:51

who accidentally ate a shawarma while he was

01:18:51 --> 01:18:52

fasting, right?

01:18:52 --> 01:18:53

He fell on the ground and the shawarma

01:18:53 --> 01:18:55

just fell into his mouth, right?

01:18:55 --> 01:18:58

That's basically what the Biden administration and government

01:18:58 --> 01:18:59

is telling us when it comes to people

01:18:59 --> 01:19:01

who are obviously murdered.

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

Mohamed Fatouh asks, do you think America is

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

manipulated by Israel or that America merely shares

01:19:22 --> 01:19:23

their interests?

01:19:23 --> 01:19:25

Example, I don't buy that Israel violated Joe

01:19:25 --> 01:19:27

Biden's red line, but that it was all

01:19:27 --> 01:19:27

just play.

01:19:28 --> 01:19:29

Yeah, I agree with you in that particular

01:19:29 --> 01:19:30

example, definitely.

01:19:30 --> 01:19:30

I think it's both.

01:19:31 --> 01:19:34

I think that there are public statements from

01:19:34 --> 01:19:36

Netanyahu and others that demonstrate that they find

01:19:36 --> 01:19:41

Americans very gullible and American politicians very gullible

01:19:41 --> 01:19:43

and easy to manipulate.

01:19:43 --> 01:19:45

That's publicly available information.

01:19:45 --> 01:19:49

However, it is true that American politicians, the

01:19:49 --> 01:19:52

scenario right now, again, is that it's very

01:19:52 --> 01:19:55

lucrative to support the racket that is the

01:19:55 --> 01:19:56

Israeli occupation of Palestine.

01:19:57 --> 01:19:58

It is a way to launder money.

01:19:58 --> 01:19:59

It's a way to make tons of money

01:19:59 --> 01:20:00

on stocks.

01:20:00 --> 01:20:01

It's a way to make tons of money

01:20:01 --> 01:20:04

in the weapons industry, tech, AI, all these

01:20:04 --> 01:20:06

sorts of cutting-edge technologies that are tried

01:20:06 --> 01:20:07

out on Palestinians.

01:20:07 --> 01:20:11

This is a huge cash cow for a

01:20:11 --> 01:20:13

lot of people in the U.S. government.

01:20:13 --> 01:20:15

There are other people who are ideologically motivated,

01:20:15 --> 01:20:18

and so there's a share of interest in

01:20:18 --> 01:20:18

that way.

01:20:18 --> 01:20:22

But definitely, Israel manipulates the United States, their

01:20:22 --> 01:20:24

politicians, and their law.

01:20:24 --> 01:20:27

Israel has been shaping U.S. law since

01:20:27 --> 01:20:30

the 1960s when it comes to attempting to

01:20:30 --> 01:20:34

shape language and craft language that will criminalize

01:20:34 --> 01:20:36

the PLO first and then other factions later.

01:20:37 --> 01:20:39

This is where the United States gets its

01:20:39 --> 01:20:41

anti-terror laws from.

01:20:41 --> 01:20:42

If you look in the books, and I'm

01:20:42 --> 01:20:44

working on some things that will come out

01:20:44 --> 01:20:46

hopefully before too long, that will show the

01:20:46 --> 01:20:47

lineage.

01:20:47 --> 01:20:49

I think there's other articles out there that

01:20:49 --> 01:20:51

show the lineage of laws in the United

01:20:51 --> 01:20:53

States that are supposedly anti-terror laws.

01:20:53 --> 01:20:55

They are almost handed to us from Israel,

01:20:55 --> 01:20:59

specifically with the PLO and resistors to the

01:20:59 --> 01:21:01

Israeli occupation at the same time.

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

So it's both.

01:21:03 --> 01:21:04

Abdullah asks, how can we eliminate the fear

01:21:04 --> 01:21:06

in our hearts by causing our loved ones

01:21:06 --> 01:21:08

distress if we are martyred or suffer loss?

01:21:11 --> 01:21:12

I don't have a question for that.

01:21:12 --> 01:21:13

I don't have an answer to that question,

01:21:13 --> 01:21:13

Abdullah.

01:21:15 --> 01:21:17

Sometimes you might feel guilty by that.

01:21:17 --> 01:21:17

I agree.

01:21:18 --> 01:21:20

But I don't know.

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

We believe that Allah is al-razaq.

01:21:23 --> 01:21:24

That's all I can say.

01:21:24 --> 01:21:26

We believe that Allah has determined our wealth

01:21:26 --> 01:21:28

and where it's coming from and every single

01:21:28 --> 01:21:29

penny that we're going to get.

01:21:31 --> 01:21:33

So that too is part of our test.

01:21:34 --> 01:21:37

Zaheer says, her legacy calls upon us to

01:21:37 --> 01:21:39

unite and amplify our voices and work tirelessly

01:21:39 --> 01:21:40

for meaningful change.

01:21:41 --> 01:21:41

Yes.

01:21:42 --> 01:21:44

Salmonroll, do you have any comments regarding the

01:21:44 --> 01:21:46

protests against the Weapons Expo in Melbourne, Australia?

01:21:47 --> 01:21:49

I did not see the Weapons Expo or

01:21:49 --> 01:21:52

the protests, so I need to know more

01:21:52 --> 01:21:54

information about it before commenting.

01:22:08 --> 01:22:10

Okay, making our way, making our way through

01:22:10 --> 01:22:11

the comments.

01:22:14 --> 01:22:15

Good point, Mariam.

01:22:15 --> 01:22:16

Mariam says it very well.

01:22:16 --> 01:22:18

Our battle is that of conviction and belief.

01:22:18 --> 01:22:21

If we recalibrate and readjust our polluted perception

01:22:21 --> 01:22:23

of dunya in accordance to Qur'an and

01:22:23 --> 01:22:25

Sunnah, we'll overcome the centuries-old regress, inshallah.

01:22:26 --> 01:22:26

I agree.

01:22:26 --> 01:22:27

Well said.

01:22:31 --> 01:22:32

Mohamed Berri.

01:22:32 --> 01:22:33

Wa alaikum salam, Abdullah.

01:22:36 --> 01:22:37

Okay, we made it through.

01:22:39 --> 01:22:40

CM, yes she was Muslim.

01:22:40 --> 01:22:42

100% she was Muslim, bro.

01:22:42 --> 01:22:43

What you talking about?

01:22:44 --> 01:22:45

Ubaid Abu Bakr.

01:22:45 --> 01:22:46

Wa alaikum salam.

01:22:47 --> 01:22:48

Yes, 100%.

01:22:48 --> 01:22:49

Ubaid, thank you.

01:22:50 --> 01:22:50

Thank you.

01:22:50 --> 01:22:52

We need to stop normalizing Muslims joining the

01:22:52 --> 01:22:54

military and take Mohamed Ali as an example.

01:22:54 --> 01:22:56

Wallahi, there's nothing that makes me more sick

01:22:56 --> 01:22:59

than to see Muslims taking pride in their

01:22:59 --> 01:23:04

sons and daughters being tools for the imperialistic

01:23:04 --> 01:23:07

foreign policy of the United States and perhaps

01:23:07 --> 01:23:09

being in a situation where they would murder

01:23:09 --> 01:23:13

other Muslims for no good reason other than

01:23:13 --> 01:23:15

to, again, continue the racket that is the

01:23:15 --> 01:23:20

military-industrial complex and U.S. elite financial

01:23:20 --> 01:23:21

interests abroad.

01:23:21 --> 01:23:25

That is a stain, honestly, and if the

01:23:25 --> 01:23:25

shoe fits, wear it.

01:23:25 --> 01:23:26

Let's just say this.

01:23:26 --> 01:23:30

If you were organizing a conference or you

01:23:30 --> 01:23:33

were involved in some way in inviting somebody

01:23:33 --> 01:23:37

that matches this description, then if the shoe

01:23:37 --> 01:23:39

fits, wear it.

01:23:44 --> 01:23:46

Iman asks, what are your thoughts on loyalty

01:23:46 --> 01:23:49

oath law that forbid boycotting or criticizing Israel

01:23:49 --> 01:23:50

enacted in several states?

01:23:50 --> 01:23:50

Can it be reversed?

01:23:50 --> 01:23:51

Absolutely.

01:23:51 --> 01:23:52

Listen, here's one thing we have to understand.

01:23:53 --> 01:23:55

Everything can be reversed, okay?

01:23:55 --> 01:23:57

What happened when Roe versus Wade was passed?

01:23:58 --> 01:24:00

The Catholics plotted for 50 years to reverse

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

Roe versus Wade.

01:24:00 --> 01:24:02

If Roe versus Wade can be reversed, we

01:24:02 --> 01:24:03

can reverse anything.

01:24:04 --> 01:24:07

People misunderstand and they think that law is

01:24:07 --> 01:24:08

just etched in stone.

01:24:09 --> 01:24:12

No, the way that law is crafted, the

01:24:12 --> 01:24:13

way it's interpreted, the way it's applied are

01:24:13 --> 01:24:15

all battlegrounds.

01:24:15 --> 01:24:16

They call this lawfare, right?

01:24:17 --> 01:24:19

That is where we need to also be

01:24:19 --> 01:24:21

directing our attention, and this is where we

01:24:21 --> 01:24:25

need something like a CAGE, the UK organization.

01:24:25 --> 01:24:27

We have CARE, but CARE, for the most

01:24:27 --> 01:24:29

part, they work on anti-discrimination law.

01:24:29 --> 01:24:31

I'm not aware of any sort of thing

01:24:31 --> 01:24:33

that they're doing that is...

01:24:33 --> 01:24:34

I'll put it this way.

01:24:34 --> 01:24:36

We need organizations that are explicitly going to

01:24:36 --> 01:24:40

look to crafting the law and changing the

01:24:40 --> 01:24:43

terrain of the law, not just operating within

01:24:43 --> 01:24:46

the law, but looking for how we can

01:24:46 --> 01:24:48

shift it in the future.

01:24:48 --> 01:24:51

So these types of loyalty oath laws and

01:24:51 --> 01:24:55

Sharia is haram for them.

01:24:55 --> 01:24:59

They're going to make illegal the Sharia or

01:24:59 --> 01:25:00

you're not allowed to have halal meat or

01:25:00 --> 01:25:01

all these different things.

01:25:02 --> 01:25:06

These are purity tests that Zionists keep the

01:25:06 --> 01:25:08

politicians busy with, and if we were smart,

01:25:08 --> 01:25:09

we would do something similar.

01:25:09 --> 01:25:11

Like every single thing that happens, just like

01:25:11 --> 01:25:13

Brother Imran said, are you going to put

01:25:13 --> 01:25:13

out a statement?

01:25:14 --> 01:25:14

Are you going to do this?

01:25:15 --> 01:25:16

Here's something to vote on.

01:25:16 --> 01:25:16

Here's something to vote on.

01:25:17 --> 01:25:20

They put measures into Congress that they don't

01:25:20 --> 01:25:22

even plan on getting, that are purely symbolic,

01:25:22 --> 01:25:22

right?

01:25:22 --> 01:25:25

They don't have any enforceable action, but they

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

do it in order to test the waters,

01:25:27 --> 01:25:29

to see who is supporting them and who

01:25:29 --> 01:25:30

is not, so that they know who to

01:25:30 --> 01:25:32

primary and who to go after.

01:25:32 --> 01:25:36

That is how politics works right now, and

01:25:36 --> 01:25:37

we have to get in the game.

01:25:38 --> 01:25:40

So yeah, it can be reversed and it

01:25:40 --> 01:25:41

has to be reversed.

01:25:41 --> 01:25:48

Okay, so Samuel is educating me regarding the

01:25:48 --> 01:25:49

Melbourne Weapons Expo.

01:25:49 --> 01:25:52

Pro-Palestinian activists and anti-war protesters gathered

01:25:52 --> 01:25:54

to protest the role of the displayed weapons

01:25:54 --> 01:25:55

in global conflicts, particularly Gaza.

01:25:56 --> 01:25:59

Protesters accused companies at the Expo, especially Israeli

01:25:59 --> 01:26:00

firms, of profiting from violence against civilians.

01:26:01 --> 01:26:01

That's 100 percent right.

01:26:02 --> 01:26:03

That's 100 percent right.

01:26:03 --> 01:26:07

I mean, you know, the entire military industry

01:26:07 --> 01:26:13

is implicated in these conflicts and others, especially

01:26:13 --> 01:26:16

in the occupation of Palestine, and weapons are

01:26:16 --> 01:26:18

one of the biggest industries in the world,

01:26:18 --> 01:26:20

one of the most lucrative industries in the

01:26:20 --> 01:26:24

world, and we absolutely have to not normalize

01:26:24 --> 01:26:24

it.

01:26:24 --> 01:26:26

We have to stop it from being normal.

01:26:27 --> 01:26:30

People just coming here, you know, and showing

01:26:30 --> 01:26:33

their weapons as some expo, as if it's

01:26:33 --> 01:26:34

like a tech expo, and these weapons are

01:26:34 --> 01:26:36

now going to end up being turned on

01:26:36 --> 01:26:38

our brothers and sisters abroad.

01:26:38 --> 01:26:40

That's absolutely uncalled for, and we have to

01:26:40 --> 01:26:41

stop it.

01:26:41 --> 01:26:44

So props to them, to the protesters.

01:26:47 --> 01:26:49

Zaheer asks, what role can religious leaders and

01:26:49 --> 01:26:51

scholars play in ensuring that the legacy of

01:26:51 --> 01:26:53

martyrs like Aishah Noor is used to promote

01:26:53 --> 01:26:55

peace and reconciliation rather than further division?

01:26:56 --> 01:26:58

By peace and reconciliation, I infer from how

01:26:58 --> 01:27:00

you phrase your comment that you mean within

01:27:00 --> 01:27:04

the Muslim community, because as we know, quote

01:27:04 --> 01:27:07

-unquote peace and reconciliation is often the term

01:27:07 --> 01:27:10

that is used for gaslighting us when it

01:27:10 --> 01:27:10

comes to foreign policy.

01:27:11 --> 01:27:13

The so-called peace process in Palestine was

01:27:13 --> 01:27:14

a sham.

01:27:14 --> 01:27:16

It was only meant to give political cover

01:27:16 --> 01:27:21

to taking more Palestinian land and delaying and

01:27:21 --> 01:27:24

subverting, sort of dividing the Palestinian sort of

01:27:24 --> 01:27:26

factions and resistance and things like that, to

01:27:26 --> 01:27:29

create this dynamic of good Muslim, bad Muslim,

01:27:29 --> 01:27:30

good Palestinian, bad Palestinian.

01:27:31 --> 01:27:32

These are the good Palestinians that we'll work

01:27:32 --> 01:27:33

with.

01:27:33 --> 01:27:34

They're the ones who are amenable to Israeli

01:27:34 --> 01:27:36

interests, such as the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud

01:27:36 --> 01:27:39

Abbas and others, and the bad Muslims and

01:27:39 --> 01:27:41

the bad Palestinians are the ones who are

01:27:41 --> 01:27:41

outside of that.

01:27:42 --> 01:27:44

So that's not the type of peace and

01:27:44 --> 01:27:45

reconciliation we want, right?

01:27:45 --> 01:27:49

What we want is religious leaders demonstrating courage,

01:27:50 --> 01:27:52

standing up for the legacy of Aish Anoor,

01:27:53 --> 01:27:58

calling out their government officials, and helping guide

01:27:58 --> 01:28:02

their community to a sensible, reasonable, political strategy

01:28:02 --> 01:28:05

that will create a scenario in which, just

01:28:05 --> 01:28:09

like Brother Imran said, supporting Zionism is toxic.

01:28:15 --> 01:28:16

Letitia asks, why do Americans think they should

01:28:16 --> 01:28:18

only vote either Democrat or Republican?

01:28:18 --> 01:28:20

I think if there is no suitable candidate,

01:28:20 --> 01:28:21

just don't vote.

01:28:21 --> 01:28:23

Or protest, vote for somebody else.

01:28:23 --> 01:28:26

Yes, 100 percent, you're right, because people misunderstand

01:28:26 --> 01:28:27

what voting is for.

01:28:27 --> 01:28:29

I had a sister approach me with a

01:28:29 --> 01:28:31

question in Houston last weekend, and she was

01:28:31 --> 01:28:32

having this dilemma.

01:28:33 --> 01:28:34

She's like, well, I want my vote to

01:28:34 --> 01:28:35

count, and I had to tell her, like,

01:28:35 --> 01:28:40

sister, do you realize that the process of

01:28:40 --> 01:28:41

appointing the President of the United States is

01:28:41 --> 01:28:42

not through popular vote?

01:28:42 --> 01:28:44

It is through the electoral college.

01:28:45 --> 01:28:48

Your vote, strictly speaking, doesn't matter in the

01:28:48 --> 01:28:50

way that you think it does, in a

01:28:50 --> 01:28:53

sense that your vote does not actually put

01:28:53 --> 01:28:54

somebody in power.

01:28:54 --> 01:28:56

The electoral college and the elites put people

01:28:56 --> 01:28:56

in power.

01:28:56 --> 01:28:58

They've made sure to put safety valves and

01:28:58 --> 01:29:00

escape hatches in order to make sure that

01:29:00 --> 01:29:01

you don't have too much power.

01:29:02 --> 01:29:04

What is the election for?

01:29:04 --> 01:29:05

What does your vote do then?

01:29:06 --> 01:29:09

Your vote is an exercise demonstrating your ability

01:29:09 --> 01:29:10

to organize.

01:29:11 --> 01:29:14

When it comes to the Muslim American community,

01:29:14 --> 01:29:17

this is why I say it's better than

01:29:17 --> 01:29:18

staying home from voting.

01:29:18 --> 01:29:20

I don't think that staying home is necessarily

01:29:20 --> 01:29:23

the best thing, because we need a quantifiable

01:29:23 --> 01:29:26

way to register our dissent and a quantifiable

01:29:26 --> 01:29:29

way to register that we are not happy,

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

and not just Muslims.

01:29:30 --> 01:29:32

Do you know that the majority of voters

01:29:32 --> 01:29:34

in the United States of America are independent?

01:29:34 --> 01:29:35

They are neither Republican or Democrat.

01:29:36 --> 01:29:38

However, you would never know that, because the

01:29:38 --> 01:29:39

way that the legacy media talks about it,

01:29:39 --> 01:29:41

it only talks about it in terms of

01:29:41 --> 01:29:41

the two parties.

01:29:42 --> 01:29:43

The two parties are bought by the elite

01:29:43 --> 01:29:46

interests, and they don't want that to get

01:29:46 --> 01:29:46

out.

01:29:46 --> 01:29:49

They don't want the people uniting behind a

01:29:49 --> 01:29:52

third-party option or a different option, because

01:29:52 --> 01:29:53

that wrecks it for them.

01:29:53 --> 01:29:56

This is just like Coke and Pepsi colluding.

01:29:57 --> 01:29:59

They set the prices themselves.

01:29:59 --> 01:30:01

They are very, very similar.

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

They're hardly distinguishable whatsoever.

01:30:03 --> 01:30:06

The entire interest of the elites in the

01:30:06 --> 01:30:08

United States of America, the political elite, revolves

01:30:08 --> 01:30:13

around the chokehold of the two-party system.

01:30:14 --> 01:30:19

They want you to think that your vote

01:30:19 --> 01:30:20

doesn't have any say, or you don't have

01:30:20 --> 01:30:21

a say, or all your vote doesn't count,

01:30:21 --> 01:30:22

or these types of things.

01:30:23 --> 01:30:28

Until we act otherwise, courageously, boldly, then it's

01:30:28 --> 01:30:29

just going to be the same situation over

01:30:29 --> 01:30:30

and over again.

01:30:32 --> 01:30:34

Is American Israel preparing for Dajjal right now?

01:30:34 --> 01:30:35

I don't know, Habibi.

01:30:36 --> 01:30:37

I don't know.

01:30:40 --> 01:30:45

It might not be that deep, Siyam.

01:30:45 --> 01:30:47

It might just be about interests.

01:30:48 --> 01:30:50

But anyway, we need to move on to

01:30:50 --> 01:30:50

our next segment.

01:30:50 --> 01:30:51

We've got some current events.

01:30:51 --> 01:30:52

Thank you, everybody.

01:30:52 --> 01:30:53

Excellent commentary, as usual.

01:30:53 --> 01:30:56

We have a very special segment of the

01:30:56 --> 01:30:58

Ummah that watches this program, and I really

01:30:58 --> 01:31:01

cherish your questions and your commentary.

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

Moving on to current events, we're talking about

01:31:04 --> 01:31:06

the differences between governments and their populaces.

01:31:06 --> 01:31:09

That is on display very, very strongly in

01:31:09 --> 01:31:12

the Middle East, where we've seen sort of

01:31:12 --> 01:31:16

wildcat acts of violence against IDF soldiers.

01:31:17 --> 01:31:22

There was a gunman in Jordan, or a

01:31:22 --> 01:31:25

Jordanian gunman, who killed or gunned down three

01:31:25 --> 01:31:27

guards at the West Bank crossing.

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

This is an indication that the Jordanian people,

01:31:31 --> 01:31:33

who we know, and we've seen the protests,

01:31:33 --> 01:31:35

the Jordanian people are with the people of

01:31:35 --> 01:31:36

Palestine.

01:31:36 --> 01:31:38

However, it is the government of Jordan that

01:31:38 --> 01:31:40

holds them back time and time again.

01:31:40 --> 01:31:42

So you see the Jordanian government's reaction.

01:31:42 --> 01:31:43

They condemn the attack.

01:31:43 --> 01:31:44

It was just an individual.

01:31:44 --> 01:31:46

Please, Israel, don't think that this is the

01:31:46 --> 01:31:47

changing policy on us.

01:31:47 --> 01:31:48

It was just a lone wolf, a lone

01:31:48 --> 01:31:49

actor.

01:31:49 --> 01:31:49

It has nothing to do.

01:31:51 --> 01:31:52

We're free from them.

01:31:52 --> 01:31:53

We have nothing to do with them.

01:31:54 --> 01:31:56

Look at how controlled they are by Western

01:31:56 --> 01:31:56

Israeli interests.

01:31:57 --> 01:31:59

Of course, they coordinated with Israeli authorities to

01:31:59 --> 01:32:02

investigate and retrieve the body, and they're using

01:32:02 --> 01:32:05

the word escalation as a scare tactic to

01:32:05 --> 01:32:07

basically say, we don't want this type of

01:32:07 --> 01:32:08

behavior anymore.

01:32:10 --> 01:32:12

Now, in the public, of course, he's treated

01:32:12 --> 01:32:16

as a hero, because he had the courage

01:32:16 --> 01:32:17

to do something that even his government didn't

01:32:17 --> 01:32:19

have the courage to do.

01:32:19 --> 01:32:22

Many people who viewed it permissible, there's a

01:32:22 --> 01:32:24

difference of opinion, but they led Salat al

01:32:24 --> 01:32:25

-Ghaib.

01:32:25 --> 01:32:28

They prayed janazah prayer over him in absentia,

01:32:28 --> 01:32:30

and of course, they criticized the government of

01:32:30 --> 01:32:33

Israel, excuse me, the government of Jordan for

01:32:33 --> 01:32:35

siding with Israel.

01:32:36 --> 01:32:39

May Allah accept him as a martyr, to

01:32:39 --> 01:32:39

be honest.

01:32:39 --> 01:32:42

His name was Maher Diab Hussein al-Jazi,

01:32:42 --> 01:32:46

39-year-old Jordanian citizen from southern Jordan.

01:32:46 --> 01:32:48

He drove his truck to the crossing.

01:32:48 --> 01:32:50

He got out of his truck, and he

01:32:50 --> 01:32:52

unloaded.

01:32:56 --> 01:32:57

We've got some comments.

01:32:58 --> 01:32:59

Yeah, yeah, no, we covered that already.

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

Okay, good.

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

Mashallah.

01:33:04 --> 01:33:04

Let's see.

01:33:04 --> 01:33:06

Iman says, two Moldavian women were arrested for

01:33:06 --> 01:33:09

protesting in front of various embassies and their

01:33:09 --> 01:33:09

residences.

01:33:10 --> 01:33:12

Religiously, ambassadors are people given protection.

01:33:12 --> 01:33:15

Does this mean we should not protest against

01:33:15 --> 01:33:15

them?

01:33:16 --> 01:33:17

Sorry, I'm trying to follow here.

01:33:19 --> 01:33:20

They're protesting in front of embassies.

01:33:21 --> 01:33:23

Religious ambassadors are people given protection.

01:33:23 --> 01:33:25

Sorry, Iman, I don't understand the question.

01:33:29 --> 01:33:30

Who should we or who should we not

01:33:30 --> 01:33:31

protest against?

01:33:31 --> 01:33:32

I lost it.

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

Madiha points out, AOC smearing Jill Stein means

01:33:35 --> 01:33:36

they would rather you stay home.

01:33:36 --> 01:33:38

Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you, Madiha.

01:33:38 --> 01:33:39

Good point.

01:33:39 --> 01:33:41

They would much rather you stay home, because

01:33:41 --> 01:33:42

they're not going to report on how many

01:33:42 --> 01:33:43

people didn't vote.

01:33:43 --> 01:33:45

You never hear about voter turnout, which in

01:33:45 --> 01:33:47

some elections is quite low, right?

01:33:47 --> 01:33:49

What you're only going to see is so

01:33:49 --> 01:33:52

many voted over here, so many percent voted

01:33:52 --> 01:33:54

over there, so many percent voted over here.

01:33:54 --> 01:33:56

Okay, so that's how they also control that

01:33:56 --> 01:33:57

narrative.

01:33:59 --> 01:34:02

Nusrat Ghori asks, what do you recommend subject

01:34:02 --> 01:34:06

children should read in college to have political

01:34:06 --> 01:34:07

knowledge?

01:34:07 --> 01:34:09

They have to take a lot of electives

01:34:09 --> 01:34:10

besides their major.

01:34:10 --> 01:34:13

Nusrat, I'm offended by your question, because it

01:34:13 --> 01:34:15

presupposes that they can't be political science majors,

01:34:15 --> 01:34:17

and I was a political science major, so

01:34:17 --> 01:34:18

we need more political science majors.

01:34:18 --> 01:34:20

Break the trinity.

01:34:20 --> 01:34:23

Break the trinity of doctor, lawyer, engineer.

01:34:23 --> 01:34:25

That's the trinity in the Muslim American community.

01:34:25 --> 01:34:27

It doesn't make any sense strategically.

01:34:27 --> 01:34:29

First of all, doctor, lawyer, engineer, you're not

01:34:29 --> 01:34:30

as powerful.

01:34:30 --> 01:34:31

You're just an employee, okay?

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

And what good has being just an employee

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

done us when it comes to Palestine?

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

Not very much.

01:34:37 --> 01:34:39

If you want political understanding, then you should

01:34:39 --> 01:34:40

be a political science major.

01:34:40 --> 01:34:41

You should go into political theory and do

01:34:41 --> 01:34:43

these things and study these things, and you

01:34:43 --> 01:34:43

will understand.

01:34:43 --> 01:34:45

We have a very, very low political IQ

01:34:45 --> 01:34:47

in the Muslim American community.

01:34:47 --> 01:34:49

Your average doctor, lawyer, engineer is not going

01:34:49 --> 01:34:51

to be able to figure out a political

01:34:51 --> 01:34:53

strategy, and that's no shade to them.

01:34:53 --> 01:34:55

They can save people when they have a

01:34:55 --> 01:34:56

heart attack, and they can build bridges, and

01:34:56 --> 01:34:59

they can litigate and help us out legally,

01:34:59 --> 01:35:01

but when it comes to political strategy, we

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

need more people from the Muslim community, bright

01:35:04 --> 01:35:08

minds, valedictorians, people who ace their tests, straight

01:35:08 --> 01:35:08

-A students.

01:35:08 --> 01:35:10

We need them in political science.

01:35:10 --> 01:35:12

We need them in other areas as well.

01:35:17 --> 01:35:19

A Qadri hits it on the head as

01:35:19 --> 01:35:19

usual.

01:35:20 --> 01:35:21

My observation of American Muslims.

01:35:21 --> 01:35:22

I'll let you read it.

01:35:22 --> 01:35:23

True.

01:35:25 --> 01:35:26

Okay, so Iman is trying to make me

01:35:26 --> 01:35:27

understand.

01:35:27 --> 01:35:29

In Islam, ambassadors are people given protection by

01:35:29 --> 01:35:29

the leader of their nation.

01:35:30 --> 01:35:31

So does that mean that people of the

01:35:31 --> 01:35:32

nation can't protest?

01:35:32 --> 01:35:33

No, you're not attacking them.

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

This is a protest.

01:35:36 --> 01:35:40

Protest is your demonstration of your disapproval.

01:35:40 --> 01:35:44

So this is not analogous whatsoever to attacking

01:35:44 --> 01:35:46

messengers or ambassadors or things like that.

01:35:47 --> 01:35:51

Now, there's a situation if you're throwing objects

01:35:51 --> 01:35:52

at an ambassador.

01:35:54 --> 01:35:56

Then you could say maybe you have an

01:35:56 --> 01:36:00

argument, but when it comes to protesting at

01:36:00 --> 01:36:02

an embassy or protesting an ambassador, you're really

01:36:02 --> 01:36:04

protesting the government because they're representative of the

01:36:04 --> 01:36:06

government, and that's something that is understood politically

01:36:06 --> 01:36:07

as normal.

01:36:08 --> 01:36:11

Yeah, you see AOC and the other supposed

01:36:11 --> 01:36:14

progressive Democrats that people, even Muslims, used to

01:36:14 --> 01:36:16

be so in love with going hard against

01:36:16 --> 01:36:19

Jill Stein and trying to scare Muslims into

01:36:19 --> 01:36:21

running back to our genociders.

01:36:22 --> 01:36:24

A Qadri, you're a disappointment.

01:36:24 --> 01:36:24

No, I'm just kidding.

01:36:24 --> 01:36:24

You're not a disappointment.

01:36:25 --> 01:36:27

We love you, but you were political science

01:36:27 --> 01:36:28

but then ended up in finance.

01:36:29 --> 01:36:29

That LOL.

01:36:29 --> 01:36:31

I imagine like a tear rolling down your

01:36:31 --> 01:36:32

cheek when you say that LOL.

01:36:34 --> 01:36:35

There we go.

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

We got Abdullah.

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

Yes, we need filmmakers.

01:36:36 --> 01:36:37

We need educators.

01:36:37 --> 01:36:39

We need educative administrators.

01:36:40 --> 01:36:41

We need people writing curriculum.

01:36:41 --> 01:36:43

We will not survive or thrive as a

01:36:43 --> 01:36:45

community unless we have people covering all bases.

01:36:46 --> 01:36:47

So, let your children be filmmakers.

01:36:48 --> 01:36:49

Abdullah will take care of you.

01:36:54 --> 01:36:54

Yes, Sarah.

01:36:54 --> 01:36:56

Parents will say, then what can you do

01:36:56 --> 01:36:57

with that anyway?

01:36:58 --> 01:36:58

I'm living proof.

01:36:59 --> 01:37:00

Do we believe Allah is Ar-Razak or

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

no?

01:37:01 --> 01:37:04

Do we like seriously, do we believe that

01:37:04 --> 01:37:05

Allah is Ar-Razak?

01:37:05 --> 01:37:08

We act as if becoming an art major

01:37:08 --> 01:37:11

or becoming a humanities, a major in the

01:37:11 --> 01:37:11

humanities.

01:37:11 --> 01:37:14

Have you met somebody who's homeless?

01:37:14 --> 01:37:15

I really want to know.

01:37:16 --> 01:37:19

I've never seen a Muslim who their kid

01:37:19 --> 01:37:22

lives on the street in a tent because

01:37:22 --> 01:37:24

they decided to major in the humanities or

01:37:24 --> 01:37:26

political science or anything like that.

01:37:28 --> 01:37:30

100% Sarah.

01:37:33 --> 01:37:36

Imam Tom says, could you recommend a few

01:37:36 --> 01:37:39

fundamental books on politics, political science to build

01:37:39 --> 01:37:40

a decent base?

01:37:44 --> 01:37:45

Let me think about it.

01:37:46 --> 01:37:49

There's definitely a lot, but I have to

01:37:49 --> 01:37:51

think about it to make it concise because

01:37:51 --> 01:37:52

I could just start wrapping off things off

01:37:52 --> 01:37:54

the top of my head, but I would

01:37:54 --> 01:37:55

like it to be concise.

01:37:57 --> 01:37:58

Very good.

01:37:58 --> 01:37:58

Excellent stuff.

01:37:59 --> 01:38:01

Like Sarah says, Allah always exposing people, always

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

exposing people to a Sarah.

01:38:02 --> 01:38:05

Last 11 months, Allah has done us the

01:38:05 --> 01:38:08

favor of showing people, they're showing us people's

01:38:08 --> 01:38:11

true colors, whether it's our own community or

01:38:11 --> 01:38:14

elsewise, there is no pretending anymore.

01:38:14 --> 01:38:14

Okay.

01:38:15 --> 01:38:18

And so it's up to us to realize

01:38:18 --> 01:38:18

it.

01:38:18 --> 01:38:19

Exactly.

01:38:23 --> 01:38:26

Neutrino says, I believe the recent trend in

01:38:26 --> 01:38:28

most votes is that if every opinion is

01:38:28 --> 01:38:29

counted, did not vote would win.

01:38:29 --> 01:38:30

Yes, you're right.

01:38:30 --> 01:38:32

It seems to be a trend across the

01:38:32 --> 01:38:32

globe.

01:38:32 --> 01:38:33

People have stopped drinking the Kool-Aid.

01:38:33 --> 01:38:34

Yes.

01:38:34 --> 01:38:37

However, the problem with that is Neutrino, that

01:38:37 --> 01:38:39

does not translate into political power.

01:38:39 --> 01:38:40

And this is one of the things that

01:38:40 --> 01:38:42

actually exposes the lies of liberalism.

01:38:43 --> 01:38:47

Because liberalism is, among other things, predicated upon

01:38:47 --> 01:38:49

this idea of social contract theory.

01:38:49 --> 01:38:50

John Locke and others wrote about it.

01:38:50 --> 01:38:52

This idea that we enter into an agreement

01:38:52 --> 01:38:54

with the nation state, we give up some

01:38:54 --> 01:38:56

of our rights so that we receive protection,

01:38:56 --> 01:38:58

and the government is responsive to us.

01:38:58 --> 01:39:01

I ask you, I ask you sincerely, if

01:39:01 --> 01:39:04

everybody stayed home and didn't vote, would the

01:39:04 --> 01:39:06

government say, well, I guess we don't have

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

any popular support.

01:39:06 --> 01:39:07

I guess we have to quit.

01:39:08 --> 01:39:09

No, it's never going to happen.

01:39:09 --> 01:39:10

Okay.

01:39:10 --> 01:39:11

So that's a nice idea.

01:39:11 --> 01:39:13

And it was a nice justification for the

01:39:13 --> 01:39:15

nation state, but it's not descriptive of actual

01:39:15 --> 01:39:15

reality.

01:39:16 --> 01:39:17

The actual reality is that the nation state

01:39:17 --> 01:39:18

is about force.

01:39:19 --> 01:39:19

Okay.

01:39:19 --> 01:39:21

And it's about exercising a monopoly of force

01:39:21 --> 01:39:23

and violence, which it is what it is.

01:39:23 --> 01:39:25

Every nation state is like that, you know,

01:39:25 --> 01:39:27

but we don't do ourselves any favors by

01:39:27 --> 01:39:28

pretending that it's not.

01:39:28 --> 01:39:31

So if that's the reality, then does not

01:39:31 --> 01:39:32

voting really do anything?

01:39:33 --> 01:39:35

Well, voting doesn't do a whole lot either.

01:39:35 --> 01:39:37

Don't be tricked into that.

01:39:37 --> 01:39:40

But registering your vote in a strategic way

01:39:40 --> 01:39:42

in order to sort of at least take

01:39:42 --> 01:39:47

away the two-party monopoly is probably a

01:39:47 --> 01:39:47

good place to start.

01:39:50 --> 01:39:51

A hundred percent, you man.

01:39:51 --> 01:39:52

A hundred percent.

01:39:53 --> 01:39:54

All right.

01:39:54 --> 01:39:54

Let's go on now.

01:39:55 --> 01:39:56

We've got some other things that I suggest

01:39:56 --> 01:39:58

that you read, talking about reading suggestions.

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

We have a blog piece now.

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

Yeah, we do have a blog piece Institute

01:40:02 --> 01:40:04

about martyrdom.

01:40:04 --> 01:40:04

Okay.

01:40:04 --> 01:40:06

The martyrs of Gaza are soaring in the

01:40:06 --> 01:40:06

heavens.

01:40:06 --> 01:40:08

I recommend this by Dr. Omar Suleiman.

01:40:08 --> 01:40:09

I recommend it.

01:40:09 --> 01:40:11

It's something, if you have to brush up

01:40:11 --> 01:40:13

on what it is to be a martyr

01:40:13 --> 01:40:15

in Islam, what are the sort of the

01:40:15 --> 01:40:19

reward of a martyr, like what's the attitude

01:40:19 --> 01:40:21

of a martyr, then you can go to

01:40:21 --> 01:40:21

that.

01:40:21 --> 01:40:23

We'll drop that, try to drop it in

01:40:23 --> 01:40:24

the description or even the chat so that

01:40:24 --> 01:40:27

you can open that up and review it.

01:40:27 --> 01:40:30

And we also had a very, very nice

01:40:30 --> 01:40:35

guest article for Al Jazeera dropped today.

01:40:36 --> 01:40:39

Dr. Omar Suleiman, at it again.

01:40:39 --> 01:40:41

Very, very prolific op-ed writer and an

01:40:41 --> 01:40:42

effective op-ed writer.

01:40:42 --> 01:40:44

I highly recommend you read this.

01:40:44 --> 01:40:46

Israel continues to kill Americans with impunity.

01:40:46 --> 01:40:47

It just dropped this morning.

01:40:48 --> 01:40:50

So if we could also, gentlemen in the

01:40:50 --> 01:40:52

studio, link to that somewhere, either in the

01:40:52 --> 01:40:53

chat or in the description.

01:40:54 --> 01:40:56

And with that, let's do some tafsir.

01:40:59 --> 01:41:01

Pope Reese says we should have more media

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

-related strategies to counter the propaganda.

01:41:03 --> 01:41:04

100% right.

01:41:04 --> 01:41:06

And one of the great organizations that has

01:41:06 --> 01:41:07

come out of the last 11 months is

01:41:07 --> 01:41:09

the Unity Lab out of California.

01:41:09 --> 01:41:12

They have been doing work with billboards in

01:41:12 --> 01:41:15

very, very busy places in Times Square, in

01:41:15 --> 01:41:16

New York, and also in New Jersey, and

01:41:16 --> 01:41:17

also in LA.

01:41:18 --> 01:41:21

They have made such a dent in such

01:41:21 --> 01:41:24

a, what would I say, they have made

01:41:24 --> 01:41:26

such waves that now they're being targeted by

01:41:26 --> 01:41:29

Zionists because they're afraid, because they run billboards

01:41:29 --> 01:41:31

saying things like, stop funding Israel.

01:41:31 --> 01:41:32

This is how much Israel has been getting.

01:41:33 --> 01:41:34

And it's starting to make a difference.

01:41:34 --> 01:41:36

It's starting to actually get to people.

01:41:36 --> 01:41:39

So they're going through being doxed and things

01:41:39 --> 01:41:40

like that.

01:41:40 --> 01:41:42

So if you check out, if you're looking

01:41:42 --> 01:41:44

for a place to worship Allah through your

01:41:44 --> 01:41:45

money, there's many good causes.

01:41:46 --> 01:41:47

Unity Lab is one of them.

01:41:47 --> 01:41:48

I know the people who run it.

01:41:48 --> 01:41:48

They do good work.

01:41:56 --> 01:41:57

Yes, Eik Hazra brings up a good point.

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

The Sira, 100%.

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

But MB, I will say this, when we

01:42:02 --> 01:42:03

talk about the Sira and the Quran, we

01:42:03 --> 01:42:06

need to have scholars that are going to

01:42:06 --> 01:42:08

tease out the political implications.

01:42:08 --> 01:42:09

And that's a lot of the work that

01:42:09 --> 01:42:11

I've been doing over the past 10 months.

01:42:11 --> 01:42:12

And you're going to see a lot more

01:42:12 --> 01:42:14

stuff being published soon, inshallah.

01:42:15 --> 01:42:17

Sada says, nation-state only accepts your religion

01:42:17 --> 01:42:18

as long as they're okay with it.

01:42:18 --> 01:42:19

Otherwise, it's a no-go.

01:42:19 --> 01:42:21

The dean is being forced to submit to

01:42:21 --> 01:42:22

the state, 100%.

01:42:22 --> 01:42:24

You know, I have a feeling that you've

01:42:24 --> 01:42:26

seen my videos on blogging theology.

01:42:26 --> 01:42:29

Eik Hadri says, yes, that's also why I

01:42:29 --> 01:42:30

love this generation.

01:42:30 --> 01:42:32

This generation's fearless, the generation coming up.

01:42:35 --> 01:42:38

Yeah, let Canary Mission do what they...

01:42:38 --> 01:42:42

I got my Canary Mission profile last week

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

or two weeks ago.

01:42:43 --> 01:42:44

Let them do it.

01:42:44 --> 01:42:45

Let them do it.

01:42:46 --> 01:42:49

It's like, we're not afraid anymore.

01:42:49 --> 01:42:51

Back in the days before social media, this

01:42:51 --> 01:42:53

stuff had a lot more power, because you

01:42:53 --> 01:42:55

weren't able to tell who else was being

01:42:55 --> 01:42:56

doxed.

01:42:56 --> 01:42:57

You were very alone.

01:42:57 --> 01:42:59

And so they get you to self-censor,

01:42:59 --> 01:43:01

because you feel like you're the only one

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

going through it.

01:43:02 --> 01:43:03

Now we're able to link up, and to

01:43:03 --> 01:43:06

support each other, and to expose the exposers,

01:43:06 --> 01:43:07

and to watch the watchers.

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

All right.

01:43:08 --> 01:43:09

Tafsir.

01:43:09 --> 01:43:09

Let's go.

01:43:09 --> 01:43:10

What do we have this week?

01:43:10 --> 01:43:11

We have Surah Al-Ikhlas.

01:43:14 --> 01:43:14

Okay.

01:43:15 --> 01:43:18

أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن

01:43:18 --> 01:43:23

الرحيم قل هو الله أحد الله الصمد لم

01:43:23 --> 01:43:28

يلد ولم يولد ولم يكن له كفوا أحد

01:43:28 --> 01:43:30

Surah you all know and love.

01:43:31 --> 01:43:32

When you're, you know, in your salah, it's

01:43:32 --> 01:43:33

one of the go-to's.

01:43:34 --> 01:43:37

Say, He, Allah, is one, the Eternal.

01:43:38 --> 01:43:42

He does not beget, nor was He forgotten,

01:43:43 --> 01:43:44

and no one is comparable to Him.

01:43:44 --> 01:43:45

So we started the poll.

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

Okay.

01:43:46 --> 01:43:47

There's a poll.

01:43:47 --> 01:43:48

What is the unique word?

01:43:49 --> 01:43:51

What is the unique word that is found

01:43:51 --> 01:43:53

in Surah Al-Ikhlas of the choices that

01:43:53 --> 01:43:54

you have?

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

That's good to hear, Sara.

01:44:01 --> 01:44:02

Glad that you're watching those.

01:44:02 --> 01:44:03

I have to get back to, you know,

01:44:03 --> 01:44:06

if, Paul, if you're watching, I owe you

01:44:06 --> 01:44:06

a text.

01:44:07 --> 01:44:07

Sorry about that.

01:44:08 --> 01:44:09

I have to, uh, we have to keep

01:44:09 --> 01:44:11

going with restating Orientalism.

01:44:11 --> 01:44:13

I've been very, very busy, but I owe

01:44:13 --> 01:44:14

him another session.

01:44:23 --> 01:44:24

Give a couple minutes for the poll.

01:44:31 --> 01:44:33

One of the mistakes, I'll say this about

01:44:33 --> 01:44:35

reading in political science and political theory.

01:44:35 --> 01:44:37

A lot of people make the mistake of

01:44:37 --> 01:44:38

thinking that you just have to read the

01:44:38 --> 01:44:38

classics.

01:44:38 --> 01:44:40

Like, now you have to read everything by

01:44:40 --> 01:44:42

Locke, and everything by Rawls, and everything by,

01:44:42 --> 01:44:45

you know, Marx, and everything by, like, you

01:44:45 --> 01:44:47

know, you'll never finish.

01:44:47 --> 01:44:50

One of the important things about getting familiar

01:44:50 --> 01:44:53

with any discipline is to lock in on

01:44:53 --> 01:44:55

the most important works, and the works that

01:44:55 --> 01:44:57

will save you from reading other works.

01:44:58 --> 01:44:58

Okay.

01:44:58 --> 01:45:00

So that's how you are efficient when you're

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

covering ground.

01:45:03 --> 01:45:06

So, for example, you know, you can understand

01:45:06 --> 01:45:08

a lot Foucault by reading Talal Asad.

01:45:09 --> 01:45:09

Okay.

01:45:09 --> 01:45:12

Asad is based on a lot of Foucault's

01:45:12 --> 01:45:12

thought.

01:45:13 --> 01:45:16

If you read Sabah Mahmoud, you can understand

01:45:16 --> 01:45:20

Judith Butler without necessarily reading Judith Butler, you

01:45:20 --> 01:45:22

know, which is not very fun to do,

01:45:22 --> 01:45:22

by the way.

01:45:23 --> 01:45:25

Sabah Mahmoud, may Allah have mercy on her,

01:45:25 --> 01:45:26

is a lot more fun to read.

01:45:27 --> 01:45:28

So those sort of strategies.

01:45:28 --> 01:45:29

But I'll give it some thought and try

01:45:29 --> 01:45:31

to come up with a sort of a

01:45:31 --> 01:45:32

syllabus.

01:45:32 --> 01:45:32

All right.

01:45:33 --> 01:45:33

Poll is done.

01:45:33 --> 01:45:34

Here we go.

01:45:34 --> 01:45:35

We have three choices.

01:45:38 --> 01:45:39

We had 81%.

01:45:39 --> 01:45:40

We take it easy on you guys, to

01:45:40 --> 01:45:41

be honest with you.

01:45:41 --> 01:45:42

I mean, this is a pretty easy question.

01:45:43 --> 01:45:46

81% of people said that Asamad is

01:45:46 --> 01:45:46

the unique word.

01:45:46 --> 01:45:47

They would be correct.

01:45:47 --> 01:45:50

15% said which is not correct.

01:45:50 --> 01:45:55

Allah says, when he's talking about Ibrahim several

01:45:55 --> 01:45:56

times throughout the Qur'an.

01:45:56 --> 01:46:00

And then 3% of you said when

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

we had in the last weeks and the

01:46:02 --> 01:46:03

weeks before.

01:46:03 --> 01:46:06

So absolutely not, not a unique word.

01:46:06 --> 01:46:07

But maybe you didn't understand the question.

01:46:11 --> 01:46:12

And of course, Mariam.

01:46:12 --> 01:46:13

So Mariam brings up a good point.

01:46:13 --> 01:46:15

Sorry, real quick, we'll go to this.

01:46:16 --> 01:46:19

There's the Western political tradition, which we shouldn't

01:46:19 --> 01:46:21

sleep on, just to understand it.

01:46:21 --> 01:46:23

And then there's also obviously the Islamic political

01:46:23 --> 01:46:25

tradition when it comes to Siyasha, Sariyya, Ibn

01:46:25 --> 01:46:27

Taymiyyah, obviously has critical works in that.

01:46:28 --> 01:46:31

There are very important works that need to

01:46:31 --> 01:46:34

be, need to be mined and represented.

01:46:35 --> 01:46:37

Like the thing about our traditions, we have

01:46:38 --> 01:46:40

so much that's there, but it needs to

01:46:40 --> 01:46:44

be extracted, distilled, repackaged, and applied to today's

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

situation.

01:46:45 --> 01:46:45

All right.

01:46:45 --> 01:46:46

So Asamad.

01:46:47 --> 01:46:49

Asamad is a very, very unique word, not

01:46:49 --> 01:46:52

just in its occurrence in the Qur'an,

01:46:53 --> 01:46:54

but also in its meaning.

01:46:54 --> 01:46:55

Okay.

01:46:55 --> 01:46:57

Asamad covers a lot of different meanings that

01:46:57 --> 01:47:00

are not necessarily possible to translate within one

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

word in English.

01:47:01 --> 01:47:04

If you go to a website that, that

01:47:04 --> 01:47:07

collects English translations, like Islam Awakened, you will

01:47:07 --> 01:47:10

see multiple, multiple translations for Asamad.

01:47:10 --> 01:47:13

Asamad has to do with being eternal.

01:47:13 --> 01:47:16

It also has to do with being the

01:47:16 --> 01:47:19

one whom everybody relies on.

01:47:20 --> 01:47:22

It also has to do with being the

01:47:22 --> 01:47:24

one that is self-sufficient.

01:47:25 --> 01:47:25

Okay.

01:47:25 --> 01:47:29

So there's this, this idea of everything returning

01:47:29 --> 01:47:33

to Allah for aid and assistance and sustenance,

01:47:33 --> 01:47:37

and Allah not needing anything else or anyone

01:47:37 --> 01:47:38

else.

01:47:38 --> 01:47:38

Okay.

01:47:39 --> 01:47:42

It also has connotations of sort of like

01:47:42 --> 01:47:42

a leader.

01:47:43 --> 01:47:44

And as I said, sort of this eternal

01:47:44 --> 01:47:45

character.

01:47:45 --> 01:47:48

So all of this is here in Asamad.

01:47:48 --> 01:47:50

Some people translate it as the absolute, some

01:47:50 --> 01:47:52

people translate it as the self-sufficient master.

01:47:52 --> 01:47:55

You can sort of see how it charts

01:47:55 --> 01:47:57

and maps onto these sort of different connotations

01:47:57 --> 01:47:58

within the Arabic.

01:47:58 --> 01:48:00

However, for our purposes, you know, I think

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

that one of the significant things we were

01:48:01 --> 01:48:04

talking earlier about, a stealth for Allah becoming

01:48:04 --> 01:48:06

an art major or a political science major,

01:48:07 --> 01:48:09

or, you know, paying the ultimate price and

01:48:09 --> 01:48:12

going and, you know, putting yourself in a

01:48:12 --> 01:48:14

risky situation for a righteous cause, right?

01:48:16 --> 01:48:18

When we realize that Allah subhanahu wa ta

01:48:18 --> 01:48:23

'ala is the ultimate authority and the eternal

01:48:23 --> 01:48:25

and the one of whom everyone depends, even

01:48:25 --> 01:48:27

when we're talking about AIPAC, okay, we're talking

01:48:27 --> 01:48:29

about AIPAC, oh no, they have so much

01:48:29 --> 01:48:29

power.

01:48:30 --> 01:48:31

They don't really, first of all, but that's

01:48:31 --> 01:48:32

another discussion.

01:48:33 --> 01:48:35

We have to realize that everything happens by

01:48:35 --> 01:48:36

the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

01:48:36 --> 01:48:38

and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has the

01:48:38 --> 01:48:39

ultimate power.

01:48:39 --> 01:48:43

Sometimes we get spooked by not knowing the

01:48:43 --> 01:48:43

how.

01:48:44 --> 01:48:46

We know what we want to do, right?

01:48:46 --> 01:48:48

We know what the right thing to do

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

is.

01:48:49 --> 01:48:50

We know the issue.

01:48:50 --> 01:48:52

We know we want to support Palestine and

01:48:52 --> 01:48:54

end the Israeli occupation of Palestine, but we

01:48:54 --> 01:48:56

don't necessarily know how.

01:48:56 --> 01:48:58

Now, there's a certain degree to which we

01:48:58 --> 01:49:00

have to theorize and put our heads together

01:49:00 --> 01:49:04

and plan, but there's another sort of type

01:49:04 --> 01:49:08

of thought that maybe can get dominated by

01:49:08 --> 01:49:12

too much relying on material means, basically not

01:49:12 --> 01:49:16

recognizing Allah's hand of providence, to use a

01:49:16 --> 01:49:19

phrase in all of this, that Allah subhanahu

01:49:19 --> 01:49:22

wa ta'ala will deliver results in ways

01:49:22 --> 01:49:24

that you cannot anticipate, okay?

01:49:24 --> 01:49:27

So some people, they look at, you know,

01:49:27 --> 01:49:29

the situation, they say, oh, we're too empowered,

01:49:29 --> 01:49:31

there's no possible way we're ever going to

01:49:31 --> 01:49:31

do it.

01:49:32 --> 01:49:33

That's a similar attitude, by the way, of

01:49:33 --> 01:49:36

Bani Israel, when Bani Israel was led out

01:49:36 --> 01:49:38

of Egypt by Musa alayhi salam and was

01:49:38 --> 01:49:40

led to the gates of Palestine and then

01:49:40 --> 01:49:42

were promised it, all they had to do

01:49:42 --> 01:49:43

was go in and fight and take the

01:49:43 --> 01:49:45

means, and they were promised that they would

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

win.

01:49:46 --> 01:49:47

And what was their reaction?

01:49:48 --> 01:49:52

No, you and your Lord go and fight,

01:49:52 --> 01:49:55

we would rather stay home, okay?

01:49:55 --> 01:50:01

This is an attitude that demonstrates a lack

01:50:01 --> 01:50:04

of awareness of who Allah subhanahu wa ta

01:50:04 --> 01:50:05

'ala is, okay?

01:50:06 --> 01:50:08

And it is, if you have a lack

01:50:08 --> 01:50:09

of awareness of who Allah subhanahu wa ta

01:50:09 --> 01:50:11

'ala is, you will have a lack of

01:50:11 --> 01:50:13

reliance upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, okay?

01:50:14 --> 01:50:15

That's the main point here.

01:50:15 --> 01:50:17

So sometimes we don't have to figure out

01:50:17 --> 01:50:19

every single thing.

01:50:19 --> 01:50:22

Some of the things, sometimes we have to

01:50:22 --> 01:50:23

just worry about knowing what the first step

01:50:23 --> 01:50:24

is.

01:50:24 --> 01:50:26

We know that we need to be righteous,

01:50:26 --> 01:50:27

we need to fear Allah alone, and we

01:50:27 --> 01:50:29

know what the first step is, and we

01:50:29 --> 01:50:33

take the first step, and then Allah will

01:50:33 --> 01:50:35

open doors in ways that we can't even

01:50:35 --> 01:50:35

perceive.

01:50:36 --> 01:50:38

You can also notice this in the attitude

01:50:38 --> 01:50:41

of Musa alayhi salam, in the story that

01:50:41 --> 01:50:43

as it's told in the Qur'an, where,

01:50:43 --> 01:50:45

I believe in Surah An-Naml, when he

01:50:45 --> 01:50:47

is first, or is it Shu'ara?

01:50:47 --> 01:50:48

I believe it's Shu'ara actually.

01:50:49 --> 01:50:51

Yes, it's Surah An-Naml, where he is

01:50:51 --> 01:50:52

given his prophetic mission.

01:50:53 --> 01:50:58

At first, he demonstrates not unwillingness, but skepticism,

01:50:58 --> 01:50:58

right?

01:50:58 --> 01:51:02

He's finding all these sorts of reasons why

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

it can't work.

01:51:03 --> 01:51:05

Now, by the end of the story, he

01:51:05 --> 01:51:08

has seen Allah's providence, and Allah's sustenance, and

01:51:08 --> 01:51:11

Allah's support and aid, so much that when

01:51:11 --> 01:51:13

his back is up against the wall, or

01:51:13 --> 01:51:16

literally against the Red Sea, and the forces

01:51:16 --> 01:51:17

of Fir'aun are coming, and his people

01:51:17 --> 01:51:20

are They're saying, oh no, we are mudrakoon,

01:51:20 --> 01:51:21

they're gonna catch us.

01:51:21 --> 01:51:25

Musa alayhi salam says, no, my Lord will

01:51:25 --> 01:51:27

guide us, and will guide me, and that

01:51:27 --> 01:51:28

is the type of reliance that we're looking

01:51:28 --> 01:51:29

for.

01:51:29 --> 01:51:31

So, sometimes, we have to realize that we

01:51:31 --> 01:51:33

have to trust in Allah, and meditating upon

01:51:33 --> 01:51:36

Allah's name, As-Samar, will help us develop

01:51:36 --> 01:51:39

that realization, and also develop that reliance.

01:51:41 --> 01:51:43

My son has been trying to get into

01:51:43 --> 01:51:45

the film industry for the past 20 years.

01:51:45 --> 01:51:47

He books small parts, but when he gets

01:51:47 --> 01:51:49

a good part, his part gets cut for

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

the most stupid excuses that you can think

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

of.

01:51:53 --> 01:51:54

Maybe you can hook up with Abdullah.

01:51:54 --> 01:51:56

Abdullah, help him out.

01:52:00 --> 01:52:02

Abdullah's gonna hit the connects, inshallah.

01:52:09 --> 01:52:11

All right, we're going on almost two hours.

01:52:11 --> 01:52:13

Let's finish up tonight with our personal development

01:52:13 --> 01:52:14

section on atomic habits.

01:52:15 --> 01:52:17

We had a very, very interesting chapter on

01:52:17 --> 01:52:19

the pull of social norms, but first, I

01:52:19 --> 01:52:22

want everybody, if you can, to share your

01:52:22 --> 01:52:24

experience with the homework.

01:52:24 --> 01:52:28

The homework was the idea of temptation bundling.

01:52:28 --> 01:52:30

Taking the thing that you do, that you

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want to do, watch Netflix, eat ice cream,

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chocolate, whatever it is, and tying a positive

01:52:38 --> 01:52:39

habit to it.

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There's a couple ways to do it.

01:52:44 --> 01:52:45

One of the ways is after I do

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the thing that I have to do, then

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I will reward myself with doing the thing

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that I want to do.

01:52:51 --> 01:52:54

I do this at work all the time.

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I'll set my timer for 20 minutes, or

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for 30 minutes, or 40 minutes, or an

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hour, and I can shoot through for that

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amount of time without looking at any distractions,

01:53:05 --> 01:53:07

especially when I'm writing.

01:53:07 --> 01:53:09

Today, I cranked out a blog piece for

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Yachin Institute that if I'm able to sustain

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this with 100% focus, then I'll give

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myself a five-minute break to check messages

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or to go get a snack or something

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like that.

01:53:22 --> 01:53:23

Did you have any experiences?

01:53:23 --> 01:53:24

Did you try this?

01:53:24 --> 01:53:24

Was it effective?

01:53:24 --> 01:53:25

What did you do?

01:53:25 --> 01:53:27

Let us know in the chat.

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While you're letting us know, we'll talk about

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today's lesson.

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Abdallah, troll me with decaf.

01:53:36 --> 01:53:36

Come on, man.

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Today's lesson is part of making it attractive.

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We're under Law 2.

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Law 2 about building good habits, lasting habits,

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

is making it attractive.

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The first is make it obvious.

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The second is make it attractive.

01:53:58 --> 01:53:59

The second point about how to make it

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attractive is to use our social natures as

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human beings for us and not against ourselves.

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Now, when it comes to the pull of

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social norms, he breaks it down into three

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main categories, looking at who we follow.

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Who do people follow and imitate in life?

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We follow people who are close to us.

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Number one, that's the first category.

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Number two, we follow the many, the majority.

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And number three, we follow the powerful and

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the famous.

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These are the three main types of people

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that we imitate.

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When you see the hairstyles or the clothing

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styles or anything else that we have, these

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are the types of people that you see

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the youth follow and that even adults they

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follow them as well.

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So when it comes to the close, obviously

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that means the people who you are around,

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the people you surround yourself with.

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If you want to be a good basketball

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player, you need to befriend good basketball players.

01:55:03 --> 01:55:04

You need to hang out with other good

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basketball players.

01:55:05 --> 01:55:07

If you want to be a person who

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is, and I saw there was a question

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here about from a Muslim's point of view,

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if you want to get closer to the

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deen and learn Islam, socially you should surround

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yourself with other people who have that same

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goal, who also want to learn about Islam.

01:55:18 --> 01:55:21

It will become very, very easy and automatic

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to do so.

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If you want to be a good student,

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just good at studying, then you're not going

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to hang out with the flunkies, the people

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who don't take their studies seriously.

01:55:32 --> 01:55:33

You need to hang out with people who

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are serious students, and so on and so

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forth.

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The second, talking about the many, that people

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tend to follow the and so you have

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to recognize that when you're trying to construct

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a habit, that the habits that go with

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what society is already doing are way easier

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

to establish than habits that cut across the

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grain of what society is already doing.

01:55:57 --> 01:55:59

So for example, when beards became popular, there

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was a very, very distinctive time in American

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fashion where beards for men became very popular,

01:56:05 --> 01:56:08

and people would joke, but it was a

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valid point that now that the kuffar are

01:56:10 --> 01:56:12

growing out their beards, this is the perfect

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time, brother, you should grow out your beard

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too.

01:56:14 --> 01:56:16

Now obviously, the hope is that the beard

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stays no matter what, but just to get

01:56:18 --> 01:56:20

your foot in the door, just to get

01:56:20 --> 01:56:23

your foot in the door, this is a

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good opportunity to take advantage of.

01:56:26 --> 01:56:29

If dressing modestly becomes the next big thing

01:56:29 --> 01:56:32

in American society, then the sisters who are

01:56:32 --> 01:56:34

struggling with hijab or struggling with dressing modestly,

01:56:35 --> 01:56:35

here's your chance.

01:56:36 --> 01:56:38

Now is your entry point to start doing

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that habit, and hopefully then the habit will

01:56:40 --> 01:56:42

stick to the point where then no matter

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which way society goes, it'll be easier for

01:56:45 --> 01:56:45

you as well.

01:56:46 --> 01:56:48

And then the third point about the powerful,

01:56:49 --> 01:56:52

okay, that was an interesting time, yes, and

01:56:52 --> 01:56:54

the suit and the pants, the pants that

01:56:54 --> 01:56:55

were above the ankle as well, that was

01:56:55 --> 01:56:55

kind of funny.

01:56:56 --> 01:57:01

The powerful, okay, people are addicted to success

01:57:01 --> 01:57:05

for good reasons and bad reasons, okay.

01:57:05 --> 01:57:08

There's an assumption there, and it's an assumption

01:57:08 --> 01:57:12

that Allah refutes in the Qur'an, there's

01:57:12 --> 01:57:14

an assumption that most people have that the

01:57:14 --> 01:57:17

people who are successful deserved it, okay.

01:57:19 --> 01:57:21

We're taught in Surah Al-Qasas the story

01:57:21 --> 01:57:23

of Qarun, who was the most successful person

01:57:23 --> 01:57:25

for Bani Israel, and yet it was because

01:57:25 --> 01:57:26

he was a sellout.

01:57:27 --> 01:57:28

And so we know that this isn't true,

01:57:28 --> 01:57:32

but unfortunately the situation is that most people,

01:57:33 --> 01:57:33

they follow celebrity.

01:57:34 --> 01:57:36

Most people, they follow and imitate powerful people.

01:57:36 --> 01:57:38

Why do all the soccer players or the

01:57:38 --> 01:57:39

football players get imitated?

01:57:40 --> 01:57:41

Because they are seen as successful.

01:57:41 --> 01:57:45

Why do celebrities get imitated?

01:57:45 --> 01:57:47

Because they are seen as successful.

01:57:47 --> 01:57:48

So again, that's another sort of thing where

01:57:48 --> 01:57:51

we can pay attention to the good, like

01:57:51 --> 01:57:52

there are things that can be used.

01:57:52 --> 01:57:55

For example, some of professional athletes, and I'm

01:57:55 --> 01:57:58

very critical of sort of how sports is

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

so monetized in our society and the role

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

it plays in our society.

01:58:02 --> 01:58:06

However, there are really interesting parallels to the

01:58:06 --> 01:58:08

discipline and the habits that professional athletes have

01:58:08 --> 01:58:10

to have with being a good Muslim.

01:58:11 --> 01:58:13

And so sometimes you can enter that door.

01:58:13 --> 01:58:15

You can say, well, huh, I wonder how

01:58:15 --> 01:58:18

my favorite athlete approaches their day.

01:58:18 --> 01:58:20

What does their regimen look like?

01:58:20 --> 01:58:23

How do they balance their various commitments?

01:58:23 --> 01:58:25

Like you can use that for you.

01:58:26 --> 01:58:27

So this will be the homework this week.

01:58:31 --> 01:58:32

And we'll circle back to the chat and

01:58:32 --> 01:58:33

see how you did with the homework last

01:58:33 --> 01:58:33

week.

01:58:33 --> 01:58:35

But the homework for this week is going

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to be to befriend somebody or spend more

01:58:39 --> 01:58:42

time with somebody who is good at the

01:58:42 --> 01:58:44

thing that you want to be good at,

01:58:44 --> 01:58:46

or who has already the habit or the

01:58:46 --> 01:58:47

quality that you want to have.

01:58:48 --> 01:58:49

Okay, you understand that?

01:58:49 --> 01:58:51

So if you want to be a person

01:58:51 --> 01:58:54

of the Qur'an, the following week, this

01:58:54 --> 01:58:56

coming week, you need to spend some time,

01:58:56 --> 01:58:59

more time than you normally would, with somebody

01:58:59 --> 01:59:00

who is good at the Qur'an.

01:59:01 --> 01:59:02

Okay, that's going to be your challenge, and

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

I'll think of something that I'll do as

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well.

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

But I saw some interesting comments in the

01:59:05 --> 01:59:06

chat.

01:59:06 --> 01:59:09

Let's go back and see what people's experiments

01:59:09 --> 01:59:12

were with the previous homework.

01:59:13 --> 01:59:15

So Nusaybah says, treat myself with YouTube shorts

01:59:15 --> 01:59:17

after cleaning, which I abhor.

01:59:19 --> 01:59:21

May Allah make it easy for you, Nusaybah.

01:59:21 --> 01:59:23

I don't think I've met anybody who likes

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to clean.

01:59:24 --> 01:59:26

But yeah, that's a good example.

01:59:26 --> 01:59:28

Murad says, I usually do 50-10, 50

01:59:28 --> 01:59:30

minutes of deep work, 10 minutes to check

01:59:30 --> 01:59:30

messages.

01:59:30 --> 01:59:31

That's a good, nice, very nice.

01:59:32 --> 01:59:34

So that's a very common tactic.

01:59:35 --> 01:59:39

Ayman Tarib, from the greatest country on earth,

01:59:40 --> 01:59:40

Texas.

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

Come to you from the Dallas area.

01:59:42 --> 01:59:44

Inshallah, I'll be in Dallas this coming weekend.

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

No, stop for a while.

01:59:47 --> 01:59:48

Two weekends, I apologize.

01:59:48 --> 01:59:50

Not this weekend, the following weekend.

01:59:50 --> 01:59:50

What is that?

01:59:50 --> 01:59:52

The 22nd?

01:59:52 --> 01:59:53

21st, 22nd?

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

Inshallah, I'll be in Dallas.

01:59:55 --> 01:59:59

So if you're in the area, maybe there's

01:59:59 --> 02:00:00

a chance to hook up.

02:00:07 --> 02:00:08

Good.

02:00:09 --> 02:00:10

Okay, A.

02:00:10 --> 02:00:13

Khadri says, I'm an extroverted introvert, so I'm

02:00:13 --> 02:00:15

trying to go to more physical halakas and

02:00:15 --> 02:00:16

then reward myself with Yemeni coffee.

02:00:17 --> 02:00:19

Yo, Yemeni coffee is a great reward for

02:00:19 --> 02:00:19

anything.

02:00:20 --> 02:00:20

Inshallah.

02:00:21 --> 02:00:23

MB says, we need to stop associating education

02:00:23 --> 02:00:24

with a college degree.

02:00:24 --> 02:00:25

100%.

02:00:25 --> 02:00:27

Schooling gets in the way of education more

02:00:27 --> 02:00:27

often than not.

02:00:28 --> 02:00:32

You can read Paulo Freire's, what is it?

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

Unschooling Society.

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

Is that the book, or is that Ivan

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

Illich?

02:00:36 --> 02:00:39

Anyway, Deschooling Society is an important book, and

02:00:39 --> 02:00:42

it shows you how the education system is

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

kind of a racket.

02:00:43 --> 02:00:46

There are many out there with PhDs that

02:00:46 --> 02:00:49

can't think and have no knowledge, and vice

02:00:49 --> 02:00:49

versa.

02:00:51 --> 02:00:52

My father never got a college education.

02:00:52 --> 02:00:53

Very, very intelligent man.

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

May Allah guide him to Islam.

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

Okay, we'll end with this.

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

Pope Marie, okay, so last chance for questions.

02:01:03 --> 02:01:05

Anybody have any questions or final thoughts?

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

You can send them now.

02:01:06 --> 02:01:08

Pope Marie says, please make dua for my

02:01:08 --> 02:01:08

son, Ali.

02:01:09 --> 02:01:10

May Allah have mercy on him and grant

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

him generosity.

02:01:11 --> 02:01:12

Ameen.

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

Ameen.

02:01:13 --> 02:01:14

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have mercy

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

on Ali.

02:01:15 --> 02:01:16

Sorry for your loss.

02:01:16 --> 02:01:18

May Allah make it easy for you and

02:01:18 --> 02:01:19

grant you patience.

02:01:20 --> 02:01:23

Abu Hakim Hassan, coming in right at the

02:01:23 --> 02:01:24

end.

02:01:28 --> 02:01:31

Anybody have any final thoughts, questions?

02:01:31 --> 02:01:32

You're also free to share your plan.

02:01:33 --> 02:01:33

Let me think.

02:01:33 --> 02:01:36

What's going to be my thing that I'm

02:01:36 --> 02:01:36

going to do?

02:01:36 --> 02:01:37

Who do I want to be more like,

02:01:38 --> 02:01:39

and who am I going to hang out

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

more with?

02:01:42 --> 02:01:44

I want to be more like Sheikh Mohammed

02:01:44 --> 02:01:44

Shanawi.

02:01:44 --> 02:01:45

I'm going to hang out more with him

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

this week.

02:01:47 --> 02:01:48

That's easy, right?

02:01:49 --> 02:01:50

Inshallah.

02:01:52 --> 02:01:54

Okay, well, there's nothing else left.

02:01:54 --> 02:01:56

We've gone for two hours solid, so thank

02:01:56 --> 02:01:58

you everybody again for your excellent participation, your

02:01:58 --> 02:01:59

questions, and your comments.

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

Insightful as always.

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We will see you next week, inshallah ta

02:02:02 --> 02:02:03

'ala.

02:02:03 --> 02:02:04

I look forward to it.

02:02:04 --> 02:02:06

Until then, stay safe and take care.

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

Subhanakallahumma wa bihamdaka sharwan laila l-anta astaghfiru

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tubu ilayk.

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Until next time, salamu alaykum.

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