Tom Facchine – We Need to Talk
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We're going to be talking about the assassination
of Hassan Nasrallah, we're going to be talking
about the escalation in Lebanon, the ground invasion
in the south of Lebanon, in addition to
Damascus getting bombed, and then subsequently the attacks
from Iran.
A lot of people want to know, the
most common question that I see in many
of the WhatsApp groups are, how should we
feel about this?
Why is it that the Shia governments or
the Shia countries seem to be outperforming the
Sunni countries when it comes to Palestine?
Is this the axis of resistance that the
left sort of talks about?
Is this for real?
Is this legit?
How do we deal with the crimes and
the sectarian violence that has been committed by
people like Nasrallah and Iran?
How do we make sense of that?
We're going to be talking about all of
that, but first, let's do what we do.
Let's go to the comments, and let's see
who we have tuning in live with us
tonight.
Sphere of History is first on the door.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Mrs. S., wa alaykum as-salaam, welcome to
the program.
Footballer, 503, wa alaykum as-salaam.
Commentary, you were on time, we were not.
Apologies for that.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Zahir Younis, wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
May Allah bless you.
You're always so kind and generous with your
du'a.
May Allah accept and make us all better
than what you think of us, and majooran,
insha'Allah, on the Day of Judgment.
Sariha Ahmed from Atlanta, wa alaykum as-salaam
wa rahmatullah.
Good to always have Atlanta in the house.
Julia Abdul-Jalil from KL, Malaysia, salaam at
the time.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Hope you're well.
Watermelon786 from Detroit, Michigan, wa alaykum as-salaam
wa rahmatullah.
Insha'Allah, October 18th, I will be in
Canton, giving the khutbah at Imam Dawood Waleed's
masjid, insha'Allah ta'ala.
A lot of stuff going on in Michigan
these days.
Salman Sayyid, wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullahi
wa barakatuh.
Newark, California, probably very different from the Newark,
New Jersey, that I'm more familiar with.
Welcome.
Let's put that comment up in lights.
Wednesday low-key my favorite day of the
week because of the live stream.
Walillah al-hamd.
Nope, wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Waiting for the bus while tuning in, alhamdulillah.
I feel like I'm there with you.
Nope, insha'Allah.
Seamus, wa alaykum as-salaam.
Seamus, you dropped a comment that is lightning
and dynamite as usual.
We're going to be talking about that.
You provocatively called Nasrullah, Nasr al-shaytan.
We're going to be talking about it, insha
'Allah.
Minami Islam Khan, wa alaykum as-salaam wa
rahmatullah.
Yes, it has been a while since you've
joined.
Welcome, our sister from Bangladesh.
May Allah bless you and the people of
Bangladesh and guide their footsteps.
See you later.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Question, when will the Yaqeen study about Muslim
vote preferences be published?
I don't know.
You've got to ask Sheikh Uthman.
I just had lunch with him.
I should ask him.
But probably soon.
I think what it's going to be is
that because there's such a time crunch, we're
going to be like leaking little bits here
and there.
We're probably not going to just like put
it out all at once.
Oh, it's out.
Our buddy Omar in the studio, he's saying
that it's out.
Where can we find it, Omar?
Yaqeen website.
Blogs and articles.
Alright, it's out.
Go.
Run.
Hasten.
After the show.
And enlighten yourself.
As to voting attitudes, etc.
Our Muslim children.
Alright, alright, alright.
We'll get there.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Welcome back.
With some life lessons right there.
When my wife says we need to talk,
I know I'm in trouble.
Yes, all of you are in trouble.
No, no, no.
In sha Allah, we're not in trouble.
Sakina Hassan, the home team in Philly.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Just wanted to say that I appreciate the
fact that you take time to say as
-salaam to everyone.
As-salaam to you, Sakina.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Philly in the house.
Always a pleasure.
Brotherly love.
Worcester is present.
Nusaybah.
Welcome.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Moaz Othman from Chicago.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
We've got Flower King Alt.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Sameeha.
Wa alaykum as-salaam.
I'm in your turf.
Last time I met your brother.
That was a great opportunity for myself.
Let's see.
You've got a nice question.
We'll get back to.
Coach in the house.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Ghofar Al-Tundaas.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
From Australia.
Down under, mate.
Very good to have you with us.
The brothers in Australia have been trying to
bring me out there for a long, long
time.
I'm hoping maybe 2025.
But it's a far, far, far trip.
It's a far trip.
Zee Sher 7.
Wa alaykum as-salaam.
I'm from Singapore.
Welcome.
Abdel Nasser from * Rapids, Minnesota.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
I have been there, believe it or not.
Abdul Qader Sharif.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Ameen.
May Allah bless you too.
Mustafa.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Good question, Watermelon.
We'll come back to that.
Mariah Watson from Seattle.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Welcome.
Good to have you with us.
Seattle's a lovely city.
Yes.
Abdullah.
Abdullah also in the house tonight.
Sahib Al-Dikaf.
Sahib Al-Qahwa Al-Mankusa.
He did not even bring my decaf.
I've been pounding coffee all day.
He didn't even bring me decaf, bro.
We'll try.
We'll try again.
Ashley.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
What else do we have?
Fatih.
Abdul Majeed.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Magana in the house.
Some of the best students of knowledge I
ever met were from Magana.
They rolled up in Medina University.
Very, very strong brothers.
Hamoka or Yamoza or Hamoka depending on which
language that is.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah from Germany.
I don't know anything about Germany other than
Defogulfiqt.
Minami Islam Khan.
Yes.
Okay.
We'll get to that.
From Washington.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Old Miss Nan from Malaysia.
Salamat datang.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Apa khabar?
Rahma Baloch from Durham.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Irene Sanchez Rivera.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
From Mayus.
Mashallah.
May Allah bless you.
Glad that you're tuning in.
MB.
Wa alaykum as-salaam from Hershey, PA.
Let's do it.
Muhammad.
Okay.
Muhammad Yasin from Utica.
I miss you too, bro.
May Allah bless you.
May Allah bless you.
Amin Ya Rabb.
Ashley comes from Gambia.
One of my first shaykhs was from Gambia.
Al-* Jalloh.
Mustafa from Djibouti.
Ashik from Bangladesh.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Ryan Weegee from Indonesia.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Indonesia.
Mashallah.
Okay.
So Mariah, you did get to see us
earlier in the year.
That's good to hear.
Fahmi Sharaq.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Abdul Qadir Sharif from Philly as well.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Sarah's in the house.
Wa alaykum as-salaam.
Hamda from Columbus, Ohio.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Mariam from Kuwait.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Yes.
Regular attendee.
Good to see you.
Someone's asking, okay, we'll talk about the jail.
Why not?
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
We'll get there.
We'll get there.
Siti Nuriati.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Good to have you back again.
Salahuddin is my hero.
Wa alaykum as-salaam.
Good to see you again in SoCal.
Okay.
We're going to be talking about that.
Patience.
Sabr, sabr.
A250.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
From Raleigh, North Carolina.
Do you have any plans to come down
here?
I would love to come to Raleigh.
I know some of the brothers in Raleigh.
I think we reached out to the brothers
in Raleigh or at least one of the
communities some months ago, but I don't think
we got a response.
No problem.
No grudges.
Let's shoot for 2025.
Reach out.
imam.keeneyajima.com.
And I would love to go to Raleigh.
All right.
All right.
Good to have you back.
Asfi.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Clyde Donovan.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Books Beyond Words.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Asfi's in Atlanta.
AP World History Homework.
Abdi Nasr.
Masha'Allah.
You're tipping us off to your age.
It's been quite a while since I took
the AP History exam.
Fatima Mohammed from Trinidad.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Farheen Farhana.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
ArtForged.
Wa alaykum as-salaam.
Welcome back.
Rosyati Yaqub.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
From Brunei.
Excellent.
Tahira from Nueva York.
Presente.
Nisab.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Abdul Hassan from Somalia.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Sana Rahman from Madison, Wisconsin.
I lived in Madison, Wisconsin for a bit.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Here we go.
Jidu.
Wa alaykum as-salaam.
Nisab from South Africa.
Welcome.
Yolanda.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Columbia.
Bienvenido.
Columbia.
Great people.
And Islam is spreading in Columbia.
From what I understand.
EarnOnline.
Very, very suspicious username.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Danish Revert.
Welcome.
We won't hold that against you.
Mrs. S says, have you ever tried Molokhia?
Yes, and I cannot stand Molokhia.
Ma'alech.
Afwan.
Afwan.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just offended Omar and all of his
ancestors.
I have had Egyptian Molokhia.
I can't do it.
I can't do it, guys.
I'm sorry.
God forgive me.
But at least I don't have to speak
that.
Brooklyn in the house.
Omar A.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
AM.
I would love to come back to Atlanta.
Inshallah.
Lion City, Singapore.
Fareed Hassan.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Yes, Sana Rahman.
He is one of the Imams.
I used to frequent that mischief.
I'm close to it, Sana.
Aisha Siddiqui.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Welcome to the program.
First time.
All caps.
You don't need to hit that cap.
I'm clear.
But inshallah.
Fast?
Okay.
We can try to talk about it.
We'll see.
Kakusti?
Was that a Kakusti I got?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Bosnians in the house.
Bosnians.
Chacha.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
North Carolina.
Fatima Ghali.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Mom Sami.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Pius Ali.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Abraham Suwari.
Wa alaykum as-salaam wa rahmatullah.
Here we go.
Portland, Maine.
That's one place I have not been.
Pius Ali.
Inshallah, one day.
Okay.
Let's try to get to the bottom of
this.
Let's try to get to the bottom of
this.
Zainab Azam from Chicago.
I'll be in Chicago in November and in
December, inshallah to Allah.
What time do we ask questions?
I'll show you ask questions right now and
I'm going to come back to them.
Kamoka asks, what country has the most and
which the least shapes?
I would guess the least amount of shapes
would be on one of those islands that
doesn't have anybody living on it.
Felipe Felipe.
Molokhia is Bamiya.
Yeah, but it's more than Bamiya.
Molokhia is like a leaf.
It's different.
Bamiya, I can deal with Bamiya even though
the Jamiya traumatized me from Bamiya.
They used to have in the cafeteria in
Medina Bamiya every day.
You know, it's like if you pick it
too late, if you harvest it too late,
it's like fibrous, woody.
Can't you like chew it?
To this day, it kind of ruined it
for me.
Ibrahim Zaini from Orlando.
Ahlan wa sahlan wa marhama bik.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Good to see you here, Habibi.
Okay, okay, alright.
Let's go.
Okay, Muaz is with me on Molokhia as
long as I have someone with me.
Salahuddin, we can agree.
Yes, I tried the Egyptian version.
We can agree to disagree.
Felipe Felipe says, Molokhia is slippery.
And that's the problem I have.
It's slippery, man.
I don't like my food to be slippery.
It's nothing, you know.
It's like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did
not like Dab, right?
He didn't like the desert lizard.
Nothing against it.
It's not my preference.
It's not my preference.
Be Happy from Georgia, wa alaikum salam.
Shrez Ukache from Nova Scotia.
Welcome.
No, A250, I have not tried the Palestinian
version and I'm always willing to try something
twice.
Amsterdam, wa alaikum salam.
Can't sleep?
Glad you're with us.
Aryan Muhammad, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
How does Allah choose people for his love?
We'll talk about it, we'll talk about it.
Felipe Felipe from Morocco.
Ahlan wa sahlan.
Morocco has Molokhia, sah?
I did not know that.
I don't know.
I've got Egyptians over here giving you the
thumbs down.
Moroccan food is very good.
Mashallah tabarik Allah.
Rafisa and...
Mashallah tabarik Allah.
Very good.
Excellent.
Moroccan food, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Alright, we've got a question.
Lebanese Molokhia is better, I have not tried.
Laura from Morocco, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Shabji, wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Yeah, AQadri, 100%.
Ibrahim and some other people are saying that
the sound is choppy.
Can we work on that, guys?
Is there anything to make it choppy?
Gazillion...
Okay.
Okay.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Thank you.
We love the Egyptians, of course.
100%.
Ummat dunya.
Alright, very good.
Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah.
Let's get back.
We have some really juicy questions.
No pun intended for the Molokhia fans out
there.
And we're going to be getting to a
lot of what you've already asked about.
How significant is Hezbollah or has Hezbollah been
when it comes to checking the tide of
Israel and Israeli aggression?
A lot of people are saying that Hezbollah
was going to open up a second front
for Israel in its genocide against Gaza which
would relieve the people of Gaza a little
bit.
On the other hand, Hezbollah as an avowedly
Shia and backed and forced backed by Iran
has committed atrocities along sectarian lines that's a
fact they have committed atrocities against Sunnis in
places like Syria and in places like Iraq
and so how do we make sense of
these competing things okay so put that in
your back pocket for a second number two
after the assassination of Nasrullah Israel prepared for
a ground invasion of Lebanon and this was
a scary thing where people were preparing for
a lot of violence we weren't sure what
was going to happen this was another sort
of escalation tactic that we've seen from Israel
which is trying to draw in other countries
especially the United States into a more obviously
supporting role and then in response to that
Iran fires 200 300 missiles and it makes
contact with some of the military bases in
occupied Palestine taking out some of their air
capabilities so how do we understand this as
was mentioned by the one commenter and many
of you later we've got Seamus calling Nasrullah
Nasrullah Shaitan and we've got you know our
Muslim children saying the Shias seem to be
doing better than the Sunnis when it comes
to Palestine how do we view this there's
a couple things here and I think that
the overall general thing brothers and sisters is
that I think as we said last week
this is not a comic book okay that
there are no pure heroes and there are
no pure villains usually oftentimes it's rare that
you get a pure villain let's put it
that way not never but rare oftentimes things
are more of a mix or we could
say that reality is messy and I believe
that the Quran in the Quran Allah calls
us to have in soft he calls us
to be just he calls us to be
fair and you can see this in multiple
instances one of those instances and sort of
lemon when Allah subhana wata'ala is telling
the story of Bilqis and the people of
Saba and Suleiman and Bilqis is basically trying
to test out the idea or think through
should she go to war with Suleiman and
his people or not she asks her advisors
they say hey whatever you want to do
we're ready to go if you say and
she says basically that well when two nations
go to war the honorable people the the
noble people among them are humiliated and they
are made low it's basically a brain drain
situation and Allah subhana wata'ala ends the
verse by saying what kathalika yafaloon and upon
one of the tafseers of this verse Allah
subhana wata'ala is actually confirming as true
the thing that Bilqis is saying despite the
fact that she worships the Sun despite the
fact that she is thinking about going to
war with one of Allah's prophets that she
made a statement that was true and Allah
subhana wata'ala confirmed that and affirmed that
okay now the opposite is true as well
when it comes to Allah subhana wata'ala
telling us to be just even if it's
against ourselves so if someone is a Sunni
with the proper aqeedah according to what your
understanding of that is if they commit an
atrocity we're not going to sweep that under
the rug just because one of our own
did it right that's up it that's that's
tribalistic thinking and Allah calls us to put
truth over tribe truth over tribe always which
is why Musa alaihissalam when he was invited
by someone from his own clan Bani Israel
to get involved in a fight right with
one of the people from the tribe of
Firaun he got involved in the fight on
the side of the person from his own
tribe however after the fact he found out
that the person from his tribe was wrong
and what was the proper response that Allah
subhana wata'ala taught us through that interaction
was to repent that basically that I got
involved in this and that was that was
wrong I should not have gotten involved in
this okay so we see that we have
to have in soft we have to be
fair okay when someone does right or they
don't do something good we don't hold it
against them who they are or what team
they're part of or anything like that we
have to be just and recognize the good
that people do and when somebody does wrong
even if they're from our group or our
tribe or our preferred whatever then we have
to call them out and hold them accountable
and that was the way of the prophets
and messengers in fact if you find the
example of Ali radiallahu anhu when he was
the Khalifa okay that this was there was
a situation in which he found something that
was stolen from him okay and he was
I believe it was his it was his
armor and he saw his armor was taken
from him and he went down to the
marketplace and he saw somebody it was a
Jewish man was selling his armor he said
hey wait a second that's my armor he
tries to take him to court and basically
say this guy stole my armor there was
no evidence or proof and so the judge
ruled against Ali and in favor of the
Jewish merchant merchant and the judge when he
said and delivered the hookah he called Ali
by his Konya he said yeah Abel Hassan
and Ali frowned now the judge started to
say you're you were frowning when I gave
you the the ruling is this because you're
not happy with the ruling that I ruled
against you and Ali said no I'm happy
to me I'm frowning because you called me
by my Konya and you didn't call him
by his Konya so you expressed familiarity with
me but you treated him like a stranger
this is not fair you showed favoritism to
me even though you ruled against me you
showed favoritism to me and how you spoke
to me this is Islam okay this is
real Islam this is not identity politics this
is not ideology politics and so we can
recognize in a very very real sense if
there was if you subtract some of the
forces okay that are Shia forces from the
map you just like take them off the
map right now what's going to happen to
Israel's capabilities Israel would probably have an easier
time taking over Palestine there will be less
of a threat against them less of a
deterrence you can say that's the right word
that Hezbollah and Iran and etc whether you
think that they're doing it for the right
reasons or ulterior motives whether you think that
it's mostly been empty talk or hot air
or whatever there's no doubt that their threats
or potential threats of consequences to Israel's occupation
has had some deterrent effect it's also true
that Iran and the Houthis and Hezbollah have
a committed atrocities against Sunnis ethnic cleansing replacing
of Sunni populations with Shia populations in Syria
in Iraq horrible horrible crimes which is why
that we shouldn't necessarily sanitize that and paper
over that and act like it never happened
just to basically say just to basically say
oh this is the axis of resistance they're
the only one standing up for Palestine does
that mean that all of our standards go
out the window does that mean that we
can't hold them to account for anything whatsoever
no that would not be in soft that
would not be in soft that would not
be being thorough about this and being just
and being fair all right let's see so
Seamus says simple two bandit projects clashed after
there was no more Sunni land to usurp
I mean to your do may Allah bring
hair out of this and protect the Muslims
on my screen a bunch of the comments
got wiped away so please don't hold it
against me if I missed your comment your
question I don't know what happened there but
no worries some man say it says saw
a familiar name for the Muslims for Harris
Walls campaign his or Han still shocked this
man was being invited to mainstream American Muslim
conventions well I'm not gonna comment too much
about that some man say it but I
will say that the convention scene and the
conference scene is something that needs purification that
unfortunately the logic of the conference is usually
just who's going to bring the biggest crowd
that's who we're going to invite and I
don't think that's a very smart decision for
strategic community building I don't think that bringing
the largest crowd is an effective of enough
goal it might make a lot of money
it might attract a lot of donations it
might feel good to invite people who have
proximity to power and proximity to politicians and
things like that but is that what we're
going for for our community is that what's
going to build a strong community I don't
think so I don't think so and so
I have relationships with some of the people
who run these conferences RIS and mass and
these sorts of things and I think that
people are starting to realize that we need
to shift to a quality over quantity sort
of metric when it comes to evaluating these
conferences that really these conferences are unique opportunity
to build a community in a specific way
and to communicate things to the community in
a specific way and rather than just reacting
to whatever is trending I think that we
need to start utilizing these conferences in a
more strategic way that's going to pay dividends
what else
do we have somebody asked about signs from
the job yeah there's tons of signs of
the job but that's for another program let's
see here yeah no I've got the comments
back I wonder if the old ones came
back or no Fatima Mohammed says did you
meet my test which Martez we have a
Martez here in studio our Martez not the
one you're probably asking about so I've just
says you also try Bengali aloo burta okay
sounds good simple is what I like surgery
I'm a simple man I don't want anything
too too crazy I said Sadiq he says
can we ask about doubts over here like
anything related to Islam yes you can and
I apologize all the comments before that got
erased from my browser so just ask something
if you had a repeat question I appreciate
I appreciate that Moses he said a lot
of them said I'm off to luck sounds
getting worse no sound okay hopefully it's back
on it's good we're alright guys they can't
take us down not that easy because he
says the IOF again yeah they follow us
around all right
and they'll save across some * what good
does a Muslim advisors to the White House
do for us double zero no Sabah double
double zero on that nothing because most of
the time these people are just tokenized puppets
that are meant to give what's the word
plausible deniability when it comes to the government
to say we don't have any anti how
could we have any anti-muslim sentiment we
have a Muslim advising us how do we
have how could we have any anti-islamic
sentiment we have a Muslim advising us whereas
they pick the worst house Muslim if you're
familiar with the house Muslim field Muslim divide
they pick the most well healed and well
trained house Muslim and I pronounce that intentionally
as Muslim in order to to check a
box which is why identity politics is a
big failure what advice would you give to
the next one appointed by either of the
parties I think that it would be more
powerful to withhold our participation so that we're
not tokenized until we actually get some we
actually get some trade-off what are we
getting out of the relationship if we're not
getting anything out of the relationship that it
would be a wonderful day if we had
a community that could say we're not going
to participate in that until X Y &
Z is met yeah I did read that
as well Seamus Seamus brings up Financial Times
said that the his involvement in Syria got
them infiltrated by Israel and that is very
likely right so I mean I hate to
say what goes around comes around but Minami
Islam points out all these orders were issued
while Shaitan Yahoo was attending UNGA at New
York yes they do that they do that
very intentionally we've seen that before that's true
Seamus about the Russia-Syria connection Sada asked
I think I've heard that Israel wasn't even
ready for doing a land invasion but I
wouldn't be surprised what with soldiers being incompetent
yet remains to be seen salam walaikum salam
from Montreal welcome Ashik says Bashar
the butcher yep but enemies of my enemy
is my friend now I don't know maybe
maybe not footballer 503 Salvadorian here what I
can set up enough to lobby and Veneto
how can I deal with my family who
are evangelical and refused to end their stereotypes
on Islam and their ignorance towards Palestine and
blind loyalty to Israel who they mix with
the Bible yeah it's a really really tough
issue especially evangelicals are sort of tough to
crack in that sense because a lot of
the evangelical dawah is based off of feeling
and emotion rather than textualism right rather than
an adherence to the scripture so it makes
it kind of difficult to argue against without
knowing more details about your situation means I
can only say so much but in general
you know they you have to demonstrate to
people especially if they are family members that
you are a better person that Islam has
changed you for the positive okay and everybody's
different there are people who are intellectuals there
are people who are simple they're not intellectuals
they're not academic people right you have to
speak to what people know and what people
take as sort of authoritative and impactful so
you're not going to speak to a day
laborer in the same way that you would
speak to a professor and that is no
shame on the day laborer the day laborer
will be ahead of the professor on the
day of judgment you know all else being
equal however you do have to talk to
them in different ways right you have to
realize what makes them tick and attempt to
do the best you can but play the
long game play the long game and know
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam was in
the same position you were he had to
deal with family members it pained him very
greatly that did not accept his mission and
he had it worse than you do because
his family members knew that he was a
prophet right and they still rejected him so
imagine how he felt alayhi salatu salam so
you can't guide whom you love all you're
responsible for doing is you're responsible for yourself
you're responsible for your conduct you're responsible for
doing the best that you can and then
you turn over the results to Allah because
the results are not up to you so
some I'd say I said are we gonna
discuss the sellouts I mean Muslims for the
Haras wall camp walls campaign yeah absolutely so
there was that that graphic going around with
a bunch of names on it and it
was not a surprise I was not surprised
by any of the names and faces on
that on that graphic they have been people
that have cozied up to the Democratic Party
for a long time for various reasons and
motivations the least bad of which is just
poor strategy and thinking that they're going to
get something out of it the probably worst
motivation for which being that they fall under
the ayats that Allah said in sort of
the ma'ida that they take as awliya
the kuffar instead of of the Muslims and
that is moheef that is something that's very
very scary so people have a variety of
intentions but the very least we can say
is that it's very very poor strategy you
have absolutely no leverage and no relation no
such relationship has yielded any results for Muslims
let's be clear about that no such type
of politics which I have been calling biryani
diplomacy the idea that basically that you're going
to prove your loyalty first and then get
something in return down the road has never
worked it does not work that they will
give you breadcrumbs they will give you leftovers
they will give you tokens they will give
you lip service and they will you literally
train them to give you as little as
possible while you are left in a position
of indignant begging chill be diva walaikum salam
wa rafatullah okay we're back we're good qadi
al ad-din from Maryland walaikum salam wa
rafatullah so Sara says true can't take away
that Iran and Hizb have really helped the
resistance and can't ignore the oppression they did
same with the Sunni leaders most of them
are traitors and didn't even help yeah I
mean especially with the Sunni leaders this isn't
like again this isn't sports it's not a
game it's not a football match right it's
like we're not looking we don't I don't
know about you but I don't see myself
as represented by Sisi or MBS or the
Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas or any of these
people so it's not like I'm keeping score
and be like oh man come on guys
do better no these guys are traitors these
guys are sellouts and their their affair on
the Day of Judgment is between them and
Allah I'm not gonna sit here and make
takfir of anybody but politically a disaster a
disaster and so I'm not rooting for them
I hope that Allah replaces them with that
which is better right but I also hope
the same for the other side I hope
that Allah replaces all of them with people
who are better all
right good good good what else we got
Faduma Hassan says despite our differences there are
many times in history Shia and Sunnis fought
under the same army may Allah unite us
in seeing our real enemy may Allah rid
us from sectarianism there's some nuance to that
comment right like there are certain times where
first of all not all of what we
call Shia are the same like even classically
there's a difference between to say you're right
and Roth right various there's various beliefs and
practices that come under that banner so again
we have to be fair and we have
to be specific I mean that makes a
nice do I I mean red beard says
while I go son I'm off to luck
although you may have answered this I have
a question when the Holy Quran refers to
whom your right hand possesses what does this
mean and why is it referred to what
who does it refer to sexually masha'Allah
you can ask your local your local Sheikh
on that and get an off off-record
answer this yeah keenest to have you here
you know says Imam Tom I recently purchased
a brand new Android device but the Play
Store doesn't have the a keenest to app
download Habibi I got no idea what you're
talking about I don't use the a keenest
to app though if it's there go ahead
download it I don't I it's not there
they took it down okay so inside information
so they took it down tell Steve Siddiqui
why they said I'm also from Germany Regensburg
is the Muslim community really organized and serious
to hurt Democrats like Sammy Hamdi wants to
yes and no I mean it's something that's
in play okay it's something that is still
being jockeyed over okay it's a possibility at
this point and the proof is in the
pudding whether someone is hurt politically or not
we will tell after the fact in in
November be happy says Imam they just bombed
in Syria my best friend's family's house was
destroyed and her niece died five other females
were also critically injured ages 60 to 12
didn't see any mention in the news today
yeah that was unfortunately one of the items
that got dropped from the news headlines in
between the ground invasion of Lebanon and the
the response attack by Iran was that Israel
is trying to plunge the whole region into
a larger conflict in order to try to
bait the United States get involved more directly
and more heavily and part of that was
bombing Dimash bombing places in Syria complete violation
of their sovereignty may Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala reward the slain with martyrdom and grant
subtle and patience to the families my eyes
of man says is it fair to compare
the current situation with Salahuddin working with the
Fatimids I don't know man the father was
what kind of traitors like that it's it's
very it's difficult to say he kind of
played them you know what I mean right
so we got to ask her Sam the
historians in the house we got to ask
her Sam that's a question for her son
we should get him in here next time
so how do you as my hero said
someone in my group chap said that Trump
would be worse for Gaza tell them which
fortune teller did they use because politics isn't
about fortune-telling nobody knows Moby invade has
a really good sub he's a good substack
I recommend people subscribe it's called occasional reflections
the most generic name for a substack you
could ever have occasional reflections will be invaded
very very sharp thinker not sure let me
I'll preserve him where he deals with this
question like would Trump have been worse for
Gaza and he plays out scenarios and there's
certain scenarios in which that would have been
true and certain scenarios where it's false like
political forecasting is not is not like predicting
the weather okay sometimes somebody who is more
blatant produces or generates a bigger pushback and
blowback and causes the opposition to get more
organized right so it's not always a straightforward
thing Allah knows best that's not even the
point though the point is if support for
Zionist genocide does not have a political cost
how do you and you have an opportunity
to attach a political cost to it do
you attempt to attach a political cost to
it or not and I think the answer
is pretty clearly yes tell
Steve said he says we the Muslims in
Europe and Southeast Asia are eagerly waiting for
Muslims to take some action in your elections
that's good for them to hear because many
of them are still suspicious that voting does
anything and I want to talk about that
hey Monday people Monday people special episode of
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on Monday inshallah Todd Dan Rehnquist says how
can we convince people to drop the ideas
of vengeance and revenge logically in an effort
to allow our children to live in peace
and free up the mental space for progression
in other categories I will answer that question
but I hope that that question doesn't imply
that Palestinians are just out for revenge because
Palestinians are not out for revenge they are
currently under a genocidal occupation so a lot
of times in the Western media Palestinian resistance
is couched in terms of hatred and revenge
which is just not true they are literally
being slaughtered and their families are being wiped
out and they are attempting to stop that
that is not an issue of revenge or
hatred okay now the question by itself the
question by itself is a good question if
it's divorced from the Palestinian context that or
if we're to say I won't even go
there let's say that you do it through
a snap because a loss of power to
Ada through the Quran through the Sunnah the
prophet said him stopped the most vengeful people
perhaps in the history of humankind which was
the pre-islamic Arabs who the else and
Khasraj were all about vengeance the different tribes
were all about vengeance they were constantly beefing
and feuds going on hundreds and hundreds of
years the only thing that could stop that
not just stop it but then they became
brothers the only thing that could stop that
as Islam so there's your answer truth over
tribe truth over tribe ends Hamza B says
how do we get closer to Allah and
Quran and tahajjud all three of those all
together get closer to Allah through Quran and
tahajjud Samiha says I believe this got erased
in relation to political engagement how can we
yes that did get erased I remember that
from before an individual level gauge if our
actions are helping or hurting a movement well
a movement I think that's the where the
details are gonna play out okay what's the
nature of the movement and that will determine
the goals of the movement and then you
have to have metrics by which you're going
to be able to tell whether you're making
a positive impact or not if the movement
is let's say let's say that there's a
movement like there was a nice conference in
Dallas a couple weeks ago as at teaching
Palestine it was a bunch of educators see
say go see say org released a free
curriculum on Palestine please go check it out
great for homeschoolers great for Islamic schools and
Sunday schools use it maybe I don't know
if we can link to it they released
this curriculum they had a conference about it
okay their movement is to try to get
the way that Palestine is taught improved that
it's going to be less from a Zionist
history and of Zionist angle and more from
a correct truthful angle that represents the plight
of the Palestinians so in that particular Avenue
or in that particular movement that is how
you will judge your metrics are you able
to get presence in schools are you able
to convince educators are you able to deliver
that curriculum to children so that they're learning
even just take the Muslim children in Islamic
schools most of them don't have any solid
curriculum on Palestine most of them have no
idea about the history of Palestine especially in
the last hundred years right so even if
that's your goal like raising every Muslim child
in the United States of America should know
the history of Palestine and especially the last
hundred years right there's your metric Hafsa says
Muslims are being abused and targeted everywhere and
the worst part is that there is no
unity Muslims do not seem to be one
ummah that's correct however as we can tell
from the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam especially when they made the hijra to
Medina that you do not unite just for
the sake of unity itself you unite upon
the truth and the people who are willing
to place Islam first or place truth over
their tribe that is the dictate of Islam
when Thalut in Surah Al-Baqarah is going
with his army he separates his army he
tests them he's going by a river everyone's
thirsty he says only the people who don't
drink from the river can come with me
everybody else stay back now somebody today in
2024 would say stoke for Allah we don't
have any unity in this army how are
we gonna defeat our enemies where Thalut is
like no I'm only taking the 18 I'm
only taking the 313 of better I'm only
taking you know the people who are down
the ride that are do or die bayat
al Ridwan right that's what you unite on
and then you stick together some people they
want to put the cart before the horse
and they want to say well we have
to unite with everybody let's find every single
person who identifies as Muslim and unite them
and then we'll win never gonna happen never
gonna happen there's Muslim Zionists there's Muslim sellouts
right like there's people who say that they're
Muslim they don't pray they drink alcohol they
do everything and they or even worse than
that they believe that those things are permissible
they don't believe in the Sunnah they don't
even believe in the Quran and they call
themselves Muslims you want to unite with them
never gonna happen not a good idea you
have to have the 18 figured out first
anonymous anonymous seven six one great usually my
name is okay Mariam says as people of
Sunnah we have as a Gemma Bain and
the source as a central rule so why
should politics be an exception the radical political
views of some high caliber Sunni scholars baffles
me I agree Mariam I agree Gemma Bain
and the source is reconciling between different so
it would be like what scriptures texts whatever
but if you have examples as to what
you're talking about Mariam well let's talk specifics
but I feel like I agree with you
tell thief tell thief says we have so
many Turkish Muslims in Germany living here since
40 years now but I rarely see any
empathy or umma feeling and no boycott for
any Zionist products everyone live living like a
report there's a problem tell thief and I
don't know the situation of Turks in Germany
so I can't say but whenever a Muslim
community moves to another country a non-muslim
country for economic gain you're starting in a
debt you're starting behind you have to have
an attitudinal shift first where the people have
to stop caring about the dunya and the
status symbols and getting rich and making it
here we call it the American dream maybe
we call the German dream they have to
stop that and they have to recalibrate what
their goals are is your goal agenda or
is your goal the dunya that's the first
thing you have to figure out if your
community starts out with your goal is the
dunya that's a really really really uphill struggle
so that's the first thing to figure out
hundred percent of sada we do the striving
and results our ways from Allah nice good
point Seamus she got a beefy I mean
a just like bro Sammy Hamdi says all
victory belongs to a lot and we can
only strive I think you meant strive so
now hadenas my here says also shake please
do a debate with Matthew Hassan on his
support for genocide or Harris it's still somewhat
shocking to me that he has this stance
after his amazing debates against sinus that's one
of the few people I'll be open to
debating a hundred percent Sardia biryani pot the
biryani diplomacy a chop show league yeah yeah
yeah that's pretty funny I'm trying Sada I'm
trying to coin the term biryani diplomacy with
no offense to biryani biryani is quite delicious
but biryani diplomacy that's how you do Dawa
but not politics let the tablighi jama'a
deal with biryani diplomacy that's the good type
of biryani diplomacy I'll just shake that said
no Seamus brings up a good point Sunni
leaders don't have ideological projects some will call
21st century I'm in Abu Dhabi the Sunni
leader that's a good point Seamus that's one
of the difference between the Sunni leaders and
the Shia leaders the Shia leaders have ideological
projects the Sunni leaders don't the Sunni leaders
are just in it for themselves and their
own whatever family or whatever Ruslan Adam Assad
and Habibi while a Muslim after a big
actor we can hold opposite views and still
be brothers be Sam says is voting for
Jill Stein Green Party a smart idea am
I allowed to say that on your heinous
toot I'm getting shit I'm getting studio says
no I can't say that in this forum
check out my my my content elsewhere on
other platforms RR while I'm sit down from
New York I took a rough man buon
giorno stop any grazie come a sty here
we go Zainab says can you convince Omar
Suleyman to register as a write-in candidate
in the swing states not to win but
to take votes away from Harris that's awesome
I've tried to convince Omar Suleyman of more
than that Zainab I've tried to convince more
that I have I'm sitting here with his
mail I'm sitting here with his mail right
now this is his desk you know that
right this is his setup like we could
go through his mail he's got a nice
nice one right here mashallah handwritten note from
Battle Creek Michigan I'm not gonna do that
but I've tried I love shake Omar obviously
we have mutual respect and love but you
can only convince people of so much red
beard says Israel's to stabilize in the region
yep as they spin the facts yep they
do that 100% very well said red
beard I like that comment better I mean
a welcome back asking what time guys Sammy
Hamdi what time come on give them give
the people a time 730 Eastern folks Sammy
Hamdi Monday 730 Eastern inshallah Todd p.m.
and not in the morning not in the
morning though we could but I don't know
that we can't yeah yeah tell Steve says
I plan to relocate from Europe whoa what
is going on this chat in order to
be able to home educate my kids is
a very important thing and that's true and
that's one of the advantages of the United
States that you're able to home school your
children it's legal it's there's got a strong
tradition he's asking the opinion in the u
.s. a better place with higher salaries or
Malaysia or Middle East with lower salaries ah
that that depends on more specific criteria that
are specific to you right Malaysia is a
great place masha'allah to Barak Allah I've
lived in Medina as far as the Middle
East goes I can't necessarily see it as
a long-term option you don't necessarily have
a path of citizenship but it's a more
nuanced conversation than that right in general you
have to take you take specifics over generalities
and that's also look like that's something we
get from our hustle always take specific information
over generalities Malaysia is not one place it's
different city to city village to village the
United States is not one place Dallas is
Dallas Philadelphia is Philadelphia you know very different
places okay the Middle East is definitely not
one place okay Morocco Algeria Tunisia Lebanon Libya
well very different places what's that different types
of mulukhiyah don't get caught with the wrong
type of mulukhiyah no but seriously you have
to you have to go with the specifics
if you're talking about moving to a specific
town versus a specific town then you can
compare apples to apples people asking for inside
info guys we got it you know I'm
Tom so just says any clue about Sheikh
Omar Suleiman's Ramadan series will be like okay
all right come close come close the secret
it's about Islam I actually don't even remember
what it's about but they they announced it
within internally you'll see it's gonna be great
you know we never disappoint inshallah besides tell
Steve says you have any curriculum for beginning
homeschooling you should check some of their curriculum
on it depends on the age group of
course but check on your teens website for
some homeschooling curriculum red beard says voting voting
is fake as long as they employed electoral
college over the popular vote it's a rigged
game that's true however red beard I will
say and I love your username by the
way and your profile pic that voting does
different things that people don't realize people think
about voting all wrong people think that voting
is like I choose you Pikachu and you're
gonna go be my hero in in political
that's not how it works as as you
say and I told a sister in Houston
that came up to me said I'm not
sure who to vote for I said sister
you don't get to decide who becomes the
president they wouldn't give you that power you
nuts that's why they have the Electoral College
right just in case you make the wrong
choice they can come in and save it
at the end of it but it's not
irrelevant because it actually forces you to organize
it forces you to develop an infrastructure where
you can communicate messaging you can direct funds
and fundraising you develop other things in the
process of coordinating a voting as a block
and those things are useful for other things
and even the ability to do that sends
a message to the politicians that okay this
group of people can actually mobilize and act
as one which they they pay attention to
that okay so that's the people will get
it wrong that's the purpose of voting much
more than just picking your favorite person brother
says why don't you say I'm enough that
it would catch it but right back at
you miss Bach awesome says Sunni Muslims celebrating
the death of Hezbollah leaders question mark question
mark allowed is that a question or a
statement I don't know Allah knows best we
tried to have some nuance to it earlier
Ashok says sister Francesca Bocca from Italia might
have something for you in terms of homeschooling
that's good to know she's uh she's very
prolific in her work she recently had a
couple interviews on Paul Williams's channel blogging theology
go over there and check it out Edie
asks what's your current favorite book watching from
Birmingham Birmingham Sharif Mashallah I was able to
visit Birmingham and in April my current favorite
book I'll almost die I've got about five
books I'm reading it sort of at once
like juggling but you know it's hard because
they're books I've already read before so it's
like I don't know it's like my current
favorite book I was given a really nice
book about when I saw battle Quran by
a Samarra II who's like the Sahaba fan
like he's like the one of the leading
scholars in that particular thing it was all
about the subtle differences in wording in the
Quran I nerd out on that stuff a
lot I think it's fascinating why does Allah
say what I home are that boon Aleem
in one eye and then a couple eyes
later what I'm not that boon Alvin that's
not accidental that's purpose right why some of
the scholars say I'll beam has relationship to
all of them which is your bones it's
very like sort of a corporal thing okay
and that corresponds to the Kuffar who's I
mean that is Bobby right who's denial of
the truth is is apparent for everyone to
see whereas for the hypocrites Allah says well
a home I dabble Aleem cousin Alan is
something internal and hidden which corresponds to the
nature of their rejection which is also hidden
because they're gonna be clean and a lot
of best but I nerd out on this
stuff is calling when asked about the Quran
this stuff is like very fascinating to me
so I am reading a book in that
among others do that out to embossed I
think so not a lot our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi salam are continually belittled and blasphemed by
academic writers how can we change laws and
be activists in laws I wouldn't necessarily suggest
that the way to change that is through
law I think the way to change that
is through the entire structure of the act
of the Academy needs to be shifted okay
probably by a parallel structure I'll speak from
the United States perspective the United States perspective
the university is ruined university is just about
money making right now tuitions are through the
roof presidents are former World Bank execs that
get paid to basically on a neoliberal model
of maximizing profits and cutting costs it's a
really horrible system the quality of education has
gone down you can't speak out against Zionism
you know the classroom has been politicized and
weaponized it's not a good time to be
a university student or to try to go
to university right so within this context people
are black of course they're gonna blaspheme like
this is part of how the West sort
of expresses its superiority or perceived superiority that's
how it flexes by punching down on those
barbaric backward Muslims right so what we have
to do is we have to stop sending
our kids we have to stop looking at
Harvard and Yale and Princeton as these amazing
things that you know if your child gets
into it we're at a dinner or something
like that or you're at a rishta right
it odds you're like you're like Oh Harvard
whoo mashallah why I don't like I'm more
suspicious of you if you come out of
Harvard I have reason to suspect you I
don't trust you right especially if you're in
Islamic studies especially if you write something about
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam right I
use the word rishta that's why I talk
about it no no unless you want to
get married Raj are you married you don't
even talk about let's not talk about let's
not talk about no rishta talk over here
this is what's dangerous if you get all
the guys so that's the thing we will
be able to overcome it and I'm assuming
that's the Turkish name forgive me if I'm
wrong there when not by legally because this
is confirming the bias of these folks who
think that we're just backwards and want to
just whip everybody who disagrees with us but
through discourse that academically challenges and undermines them
and that has to be through a different
structure that is not the same sort of
Western structure of knowledge that already exists city
fatiha good to see you here it's the
need for collective consciousness when it comes to
voting one vote is very valuable when thinking
collectively you said it well done Kagira says
when I was little I used to think
all the Muslims around the world were on
the same page yep that was disappointing 100
% good stuff art
for said we had a lot of major
ups and downs as of late how do
you keep ourselves aware that Allah has power
over everything not feeling arrogant when we win
or hopeless that's a great question that's an
absolutely great question from art the ultimate thing
one of the things that I think of
is that we've seen things like this before
right if you go to a Sabbath of
food right and sort of the brooch you
go to different people in the Quran that's
why we have the Quran right a loss
from data check how a loss of pen
and data consoles the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
in the Quran oftentimes he consoles him by
telling him that he's not alone either explicitly
or implicitly by mentioning the stories of the
other prophets that the other prophets went through
this as well fiery ambition says how do
we help the Muslims of China I feel
like the world has forgotten about them it's
very true and that's the thing the question
is all questions like that are never going
to be answered by pleading the case for
someone to you know pretty pretty please respect
human rights that's not gonna do it you
have to find some sort of leverage what
does China need what does China wants how
can you leverage what they need and want
from you in order to negotiate right if
you see China coming in to buy up
companies or to lay pipelines or to build
infrastructure and stuff like that which they're doing
that's part of their global strategy right now
in Africa and Southeast Asia and other places
is there any room to use that as
leverage to negotiate some sort of better situation
for the Muslims in China says this is
an example regarding my last question I'm seeing
a black or white thinking yes verification and
labeling yes yes yes very nice okay you're
deep in it if you know what sorori
is and those trying to have bounced 100
% put that comment up mashallah very good
100% agree that's Matt while you come
with Salam enough to law welcome that's Matt
Khadija like Salam I got some of my
folks up in here very good Salahuddin all
right put that up and screenshot it guys
Salahuddin is my hero says Shaykh Omar Suleiman
2028 Mohammed Yassin says you in place of
dr.
butch where is what I'd like to see
but I'm a Medina grad I think I
disqualified myself I should eat him
but I am Salam it's been a while
mashallah good to see you here what is
the goal that's what I have been asking
my friends here in the u.s. the
goal Aisha the goal Aisha is to attach
a political cost to Zionism to alleviate the
suffering our brother of our brothers and sisters
in Palestine the West Bank Netanyahu has said
himself explicitly if the United States stops supporting
the occupation the occupation will fall it will
cease to exist our duty here is to
try to change the foreign policy of the
United States of America to show how support
for Zionism is a political liability not an
asset to create a political consequence or a
political cost for supporting the Zionist genocide and
therefore changing the game be happy says project
2025 is very specific about what Trump wants
to achieve if elected president not really Trump
has disavowed project 2025 was written by the
Heritage Foundation there's it's sure that he's gonna
have some things in common with it but
there's no evidence that this is his thing
or that he wants to that he wants
to impose all of it this is sort
of like a more democratic talking point and
some of the stuff in project 2025 is
horrible and some of it is awesome like
for example did you guys know that in
project 2025 it says to dismantle the FBI
allahu akbar allahu akbar right but no one
talks about that so stay awake don't get
pulled into left right thinking Democrat Republican thinking
this is not a sports game this is
not a soccer match or a football match
all right like let's be let's be fair
and in the middle and take things in
specifics and specifics okay now the ultimate here's
the real lesson of project 2025 let me
put you on game here's the real lesson
of project 2025 is that every group that
wants to shape the future of the United
States of America has their own version of
project 2025 not just the conservatives the liberals
have their own versions the people who are
advocating for LGBTQ have their own versions you
know who's the only group of people who
don't have it the Muslims we have yet
to put out our 50 100 200 page
plan of project 2025 if we had our
way if we had 20 million dollars and
unlimited manpower what would we do in America
how would we influence in America how would
we go about repealing the Patriot Act just
like the Catholics figured out how to repeal
Roe vs.
Wade how do we go about stopping the
NSA from spying on our phone conversations how
do we stop the CIA from assassinating people
abroad that is what we need to be
doing we need to be planning like they
plan other of men are more in the
house may Allah bless you habibi and protect
you lay the welcome to the program will
buyer says what are some ways to stop
watching prohibited stuff this is an issue of
habit don't spend time in tempting places you
will fall into temptation less often that means
getting out of the house whatever it means
getting rid of your TV getting rid of
your phone whatever it takes glad to hear
Kogiro that was helpful for you that's a
good point red beard it's like a census
that's a good point local definitely is more
listen you know in Utica one of the
the the district the for the City Council
the ward that the message was in had
the lowest amount of voter turnout in the
whole city all it took was 400 votes
to win the City Council election like that's
easy math that's light work for a message
right that's the type of thing that we
should be doing yes habibi I'm done look
look at this from you guys love me
behind a lot yes habibi next time inshallah
we're very sorry yeah Abdullah forgot to pack
you away in his bag Halima
Naseer wa alaikum salam rahatullah so what are
you suggesting is we should still vote if
we don't like anybody vote strategically yes not
voting doesn't do anything for you there you're
very easy to ignore that way vote strategically
you see what I say on other platforms
can't say here Hamza B you already said
about Australia I'm gonna say man I'll try
I just told you I can't convince them
to do other things but we'll try yakin
book club in the future ED I would
like that I would I'd be all for
that Norita alaikum salam rahatullah from Indonesia very
good to have you with us Indonesia wonderful
people wonderful country all
right dunya belash awesome username put that comment
up there a dunya belash a 250 says
what kind of parallel structure is there well
I'm glad you asked so something like yakin
institute is a good example of an opportunity
where we can produce discourse and academic research
that's not formally tied to universities okay now
we're producing our own discourse on Islam that
takes Islamic Orthodox very seriously and doesn't necessarily
sell it out I think there need to
be about 20 yakin institutes be happy
as it's coming to Harris's defense I'm not
gonna touch that I'm just gonna bring on
Sami Hamdi on Monday to smash it may
Allah ask if may Allah grant you a
righteous spouse I mean you're up no Sabah's
on my team I knew you were gonna
like that no Sabah clip that and send
it to the aunties do it send it
to the aunties Harvard boo mom Sammy says
can you can recommend any resources and present
presenting the Islamic civilization society as a solution
alternative to young people I mean the crazy
thing is that a lot of this sort
of and I hate this term it's a
fictitious term but the Islamist discourse went the
furthest with this right about trying to present
Islam as like an option that's like neither
capitalism nor socialism right not the mistakes of
individualism now I think that a lot of
that stuff is dated and needs to be
updated if I had about three of me
or four of me if I could clone
myself one of me would be dedicated to
just doing that I think it's really good
work and we try to do that at
Yaqeen Institute and there's other people online that
do that as well Susie Q does presidential
voting in the u.s. even matter I
don't live in a stinks well I explained
just a bit ago how it kind of
does but not in the way that you
think it does a you are Muhammad Ibn
Western structures of knowledge money and power hundred
percent hundred percent all right I'm the law
me Nami thank you for joining us magic
my mood while you come Salam and off
the light I say Hannah but a coffee
come oh okay it's not actually our shake
it's just someone on his daughter on your
account awkward Mariam says if Hannah I'm so
glad I got rejected by Cornell two years
ago I lost plan as best hundred percent
Mariam and you know what I believe Cornell
has one of the highest rates of student
suicide I used to live up close to
that area for various reasons not saying that
it's you know whatever but I mean take
it with a badge of pride take it
with you back with a badge of pride
it's not all it's cracked up to be
and I say that from someone who I'm
a graduate of Vassar College Vassar College is
like what do they call sub IV or
something like that I'm gonna let and I
was from a very working-class town public
school kid when I got in there and
saw the types of people that were there
trust me it's not as impressive as you
think it's kind of like Israel projecting power
and invincibility but weak okay all
right let's see here a dunya bless yep
all right good for you a dunya bless
I appreciate you appreciate your username too I'm
a lot of you said I'm enough to
live a question regarding giving it giving advice
if I'm seeing my sister or someone dear
doing something wrong and insisting and doing it
do I give advice that's a little bit
too general like you have to evaluate what's
the relationship with that person are you certain
that that thing is wrong that they're doing
how wrong is it is it just like
he left an Ola is it just like
not the best thing that they could be
doing there's a lot of nuance in there
I recommend you talk to someone in person
that's gonna know your situation better oh man
825 wants to get us really in trouble
what are your thoughts the different American Muslim
educational institutions Daytona what's Daytona I think you
have autocorrect on it went from Zaytuna to
Daytona Adam I think you meant column no
comment but I'll just say this I still
think that the institutions abroad and traditional learning
abroad is still much much much higher caliber
than institutions that we have here in the
u.s. one day inshallah I hope that
the institutions in the u.s. get to
that level but I don't think we're there
yet one of the best ones are a
couple of the best ones that I know
of our Islamic University of Minnesota Sheikh Waleed
and Maniseh up in the Twin Cities does
a great job up there it's a very
very you know thorough I think institution also
Mishka Mishka does a pretty good job inshallah
may Allah increase them and make everything better
come on Guskowski asks how do you balance
between being in the front lines of political
activism as Muslims versus focusing on being better
Muslims do we focus on one or the
other first now we have to do both
we have to do both and honestly this
is something that the Prophet ﷺ and the
early Muslims demonstrated yes there was a certain
amount of time of sort of like incubating
and developing yourself but pretty early on the
dawah went public and the Muslims were making
salah in front of the Kaaba and getting
beat up that's a type of activism you
could say okay so you know you do
you do both so man say it says
Imam Tommy should do another podcast with Sheikh
YQ about political engagement I've benefited immensely from
both your perspective inshallah inshallah we'll see shameless
man shameless is just I'm gonna rename you
shameless to safety off Jake destroyed YQ's horrible
points Salam Astaad let's not bring too much
drama in here you think that he had
a stronger arguments I didn't see it I
don't follow the drama like that okay very
good it's
a good point Suzy Q so Suzy Q
says lol if we put out our project
2025 I feel they would discriminate against us
harder perhaps but there's this weird exchange or
interplay where it's like we have to normalize
it you know what I mean right it's
like we have to normalize being able to
do it if they're able to do it
why shouldn't we the elephant in the room
that nobody wants to talk about is because
Muslims and Islam are considered in the political
discourse by default a threat and the question
that we have to reckon with is do
we want to just not touch that and
leave that intact or we do want to
challenge that and eventually dismantle that and how
do we challenge that and dismantle that we
have to get to a point where eventually
we dismantle that false perception because we have
a right to contribute to society and participate
in trying to argue our version of what
we think the best society would be just
like anybody else does that's true Seamus good
point Mohammed Aniq says how plausible is it
to view the current situation in Philistine from
an eschatological perspective that means the end of
life end of times I'm hesitant to do
that because that to me feels like political
quietism there's many of the minor signs that
have not happened yet none of the major
signs have happened yet it's possible we shouldn't
sleep on it and we should keep our
knowledge of the Dajjal and the signs of
the Day of Judgment and things like that
in our pocket ready like and and at
the top of our minds but we should
never let that stop us from taking the
action that Allah wants us to take because
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
if the Day of Judgment is established and
you have a seedling or a sapling in
your hand then what you should do is
plant the sapling even if the Day of
Judgment is descending upon you yeah we're gonna
we're gonna play basketball me and Sheikh Shanawi
inshallah tomorrow night tomorrow night inshallah I don't
know we're gonna go live Yaqeen Institute IG
something like that we're gonna we're gonna be
hooping we might as well give the people
what they want man yeah yeah the new
India new Imam Tamim live is just gonna
be on the on the courts settle settle
it on the on the courts.
Hasbullah, As-salamu alaykum wa salam wa rahmatullahi
wa barakatuh love you back and Allah bless
you I'll be for the sake of Allah
from Malaysia that's true red beard I agree.
Maryam Qureshi, As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
barakatuh Masha'Allah what is a good way
to start prioritizing deen over dunya sacrifice is
Maryam is the name of the game you
have to sacrifice and as someone who converted
to this religion I can tell you I
gave up things for Islam I gave up
relationships and friendships for Islam I gave up
jobs for Islam I gave up comfort for
Islam I moved for Islam I changed the
course of my life for Islam and that's
why I can't sell out I don't know
however how else to put it there's no
going back for me I've burnt all my
all my boats to so to speak I
don't have anything left to lose at a
certain point you give up so much for
a loss of power that you don't care
about the people and you don't care about
even what's the worst thing that they can
do to me somebody could try to arrest
me and put me in jail or kill
me or something like that that's the dunya
what do I care right like that that's
the worst that they could do and so
we're here for a lot we live for
a lot so when you start to sacrifice
and get in that mentality then the whole
thing opens up for you okay Masha'Allah
Sheikh Majid is watching with with family good
to know Sheikh Majid I want to make
sure that this was a this was a
nobody was using your account I love us
you say gonna yes Seamus thank you say
pieces to say business he does great work
thank you I appreciate that I really I
roll with them I roll Sapiens Institute I'm
the sort season friends met some of the
brothers not too long ago you save a
Baruch College I don't know where that is
it sounds like it's somewhere good be happy
he's asking for a link to a platform
I don't have my own platform be happy
where I talk about elections however I do
have material or content on thinking Muslim podcast
with Muhammad Jalal I'll be doing something with
him later this month inshallah Ta'ala in
the u.s. he's coming to the u
.s. and also with blogging theology Paul Williams
the wonderful brothers of the UK and I'll
bless them bless them she'll be diva what
you're keen Institute set up in Singapore not
probably not but definitely Malaysia inshallah I'm hope
I'm secretly hoping they make me like the
head of that setting up if you know
Malaysia so I could just move to Malaysia
and get it over this one ah Suzy
Q says thoughts on studying abroad options are
mostly limited to non-muslim European countries and
Australia from where where are you going that
you're going like from where are you departing
I generally have the same attitude towards studying
abroad in a non-muslim country as I
have towards Harvard and Princeton I wish I
long for the day when the Muslims will
want to go to Morocco and Tunisia for
study abroad instead of Paris and London I
long for that day that's what is it
looks like okay how many people they say
you know Philistine horror and all this stuff
you know and then they take selfies in
front of the Eiffel Tower I have Allah
no no seriously I I can't go I
can't roll with that so we got we
got to get ourselves figured out here we
kind of get ourselves straight I would rather
go to Jakarta I'd rather go to KL
I'd rather go to Kuwait I'd rather go
to places like that and I think that's
the type of internal calibration that we should
be shooting for oh man the Sava what
are you gonna do to me come on
now opening can of worms here what's wrong
with a tuna college maybe lead me somewhere
I can read about it I don't want
fitna I don't want fitna when it comes
to naming and shaming however there are some
people who haven't realized that the peace process
was just slow genocide when it comes to
Philistine the peace process was always a ruse
it was always even someone who was a
secular nationalist like Edward Said saw it what
did he call it he called it the
instrument of Palestinian surrender a lot of that
the peace the peace process and the peace
accords were always the instrument of Palestinian surrender
so you can't tell people to not get
involved in politics and then you go get
involved in politics and you don't know what
you're doing and that's all I'll say about
that I mean Halima thank you for you
do I Moaz says no mishka the
the college the university I'm sure I'm sure
a quality will do supposedly yes who's a
Q I agree Riyadh I have a son
and yeah I had a nudged but I
think I'm JM have some coffee for me
yeah check this out guys so yeah I'm
around a lot a qadri says so nice
that you're all together in the studio mashallah
you can feel the brotherhood emanating from the
screen Allah Akbar that makes us all smile
oh thank you Mariam I appreciate you Imam
Tom could you elaborate more on Islam versus
capitalism and socialism and how it's become an
outdated discourse very good so I've given some
lectures on this a couple years ago before
obviously pre October 7th world both capitalism and
socialism slash communism are materialistic in their anthropology
meaning their understanding of who the human being
is their philosophy of human in their sense
of what agency is in their sense of
ontology is there a God is there not
what's the ultimate purpose of life where are
we going what are we headed for it's
all wrong so it's corrupt foundations to both
where they differ is in the theories of
personal property theories of labor theories of value
and things of that nature but the things
in which they hold in common are essentially
materialist perspectives of the world with the minor
exception of let's say proto-capitalism or early
capitalism that had some sort of Christian basis
of human anthropocentric sort of * of nature
right but that got secularized through the Enlightenment
and it became its own sort of thing
so that's a thing Islam has a theory
of property and of human beings that is
different from both the and socialism whereas capitalism
holds a theory of property that is absolute
you own your property if I were almost
to the man I would own this letter
and I could torch it and you know
or do whatever I want to it you
know throw it in the ocean in Islam
you do not have absolute property rights you
have contingent derivative property rights everything belongs to
Allah first and it is loaned out to
you and therefore there is an expectation as
to what you're to do with that thing
there can't be teleph you can't just destroy
property in a wanton way you can't make
it to call you can't have monopolies or
hoard or many many things that you can't
do because you're not the true owner you
are the steward rather of that property so
the philosophy and the theory of property is
very very different in Islam than it is
in capitalism and also socialism socialism basically comes
along and says well you know the idea
of private property in itself is problematic which
Islam does not agree with private property is
fine the correction that socialism attempted to make
to capitalism was an overreaction in another different
materialist direction whereas Islam transcends the issue and
says no both y'all are wrong what
you had wrong was your ontology you subtracted
a lot from the entire the entire equation
and what is your duty towards property the
creation and everything that you own that's what's
missing and that's that in a nutshell I
mean I mean I mean you too I
mean it's everybody's do up good stuff everybody
appreciate you all lemon while a go so
that I'm not a recorder no I can't
not in English I read these things in
Arabic my dish I don't know what they
are in English if they exist Nora what
I can sit down after a lot it's
kind of general but I would say a
road to Mecca by Muhammad I said is
a nice one Sarjeel says can we expect
shake a Haifa and you in a live
with here Imam Tom ever why not shake
Haifa someone I respect a lot much Allah
her and her scholarship if she'd be open
to it but I know she's very very
busy a Hong says so I'm like I'm
writing so now what's the right attitude of
a Muslim when he sees everyone giving their
opinion when they don't have all the knowledge
or enough hindsight to tell people to fear
Allah and to slow down and to direct
people to something which is better well I
mean you've seen says a sister named Samia
that Muhammad Jalal has been retweeting more often
these days who has put out great words
on voting third party do keep an eye
out as she changed my mind female Sami
Hamdi Allah Akbar okay that's news to me
Valerie de Leon welcome to the program good
to see you back okay yep that's a
good point Seamus about Jared Kushner I don't
have any problem with with with the collegian
summertime heat does not bother me so it's
all good I would love to visit Kuwait
have not been unfortunately daylight America 2024 can
he mama say a beautiful sort of for
the people of Palestine for the people of
Palestine you got me there I was gonna
say no until you said that for the
people of Palestine I mean we have been
doing the short surahs we'll just do the
easy one as al-fatiha so
you know I'm telling him why you didn't
know will be on a him what I'll
be I mean may Allah bless and protect
the people of Palestine make them victorious that's
yeah that's yeah we're gonna give you a
better position in the office cleaner don't worry
I think it says I've read somewhere the
souls of believers meet with the prophets in
the barzakh I don't know I don't know
the answer that question Zanzibar while
I can sit down off the law go
there can you tell me a source that
has the correct 99 names of Allah Allah
has more than 99 names a nice book
is by Janine Yusuf what's it called you
guys know you won't look up the title
can't remember what it's called something on reflecting
the meanings of Gina and Yusuf reflecting on
the names of Allah that's that's a nice
book why I says I have a sincere
Muslim relative who's a socialist with anarchist tendencies
what would be good materials and our arguments
to help him get over I think he's
reacting Habibi that's my life like just tell
him to come talk to me like I
was I was sympathetic and involved in those
ideologies before it's them so I know exactly
in and out but the thing is at
the end of the day they're materialism atheists
give me anarchism and communism socialism are all
materialistic ideologies they do not account for the
divine in any substantial way and so their
recommendations go haywire people usually get attracted because
yes 100% when it is a reaction
to capitalism but it is swinging the opposite
direction and not treating the root problem right
the root problem is not hierarchy okay we
don't have anything in Islam that is categorically
against hierarchy okay which anarchists would say that
the root of all evil is hierarchy any
hierarchy is evil right so that's not Islamic
what these ideologies are missing is the divine
right a 250
is not seeing the Athene Muslim voter report
on the website can we got can we
link oh we apologize it's not up stay
tuned inshallah Qadi Aladeen, may Allah bless you.
Ameen.
Thank you very much for the dua.
Mervay Ursel, wa alaikum as-salamu alaykum wa
rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, from Turkey.
Turkey then.
Hoşgeldiniz.
İyi misiniz.
Good to have you with us.
Book recommendation about critique of Western philosophy from
a traditional Islamic perspective.
The one that I have yet to write.
And with that we've reached the end of
the questions.
May Allah bless you all.
Do we have anything we haven't covered guys?
We've pretty much covered everything right so it's
been hour and a half I think we're
gonna wrap up we've got to make salah.
May Allah.
Don't forget Monday Monday Monday 730 p.m.
Eastern Time.
Inshallah ta'ala.
Sami Hamdi live.
In person.
In Dallas.
In the studio.
The world might just collapse.
May Allah bless you all and forgive us
for our shortcomings.
We'll see you next time.
Inshallah, salamu alaykum.