Tom Facchine – What Does Trumps Second Term Mean for Muslims

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The speaker discusses the importance of not trying to avoid history and the need to be patient in order to achieve success in this world. They also mention the importance of promoting Islam in the United States and bringing people together to achieve their goals. The speaker emphasizes the need to be patient and not hesitate to make difficult decisions.
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The golden age of America begins right now.
From this day forward, our country will flourish
and be respected again all over the world.
With a second Trump presidency coming towards us,
a lot of Muslims in the United States
are concerned and fearful for what is sure
to be an attempt to target our institutions,
target us individually with hate crimes and things
of that nature.
A lot of people are looking for guidance
for how they should meet this.
Now, I want to set the stage by
going back to what Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala told us in the Qur'an about
setting our expectations, that this is life, that
this is a part of history.
We are told directly from the creator of
all the worlds, the entire universe, that we
need to expect this type of thing.
There's no running away from it.
He says in verse 186 of Surah Al
-Imran, that you're certainly going to be tested
when it comes to your wealth and your
personhood or your lives, and you're going to
hear from other people that are not Muslims,
whether it's people from the book, meaning Christians
and Jews, or whether it's other people who
are outside of that.
You're going to hear nasty words, you're going
to hear harsh comments, you're going to hear
a lot of things.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling
us that this is part of reality.
I believe we should not necessarily try to
create a reality in which those types of
things are regulated out of existence.
What I mean by that is, imagine if
we were to construct a government policy where
you couldn't say anything negative about Islam, anything
that you said about Islam that's negative is
hate speech and you're going to jail.
Would we want that as Muslims?
I don't think that we would, because Allah
told us that we have to expect this,
and this is part of our challenge, and
this is also part of honest dialogue, that
we don't want to criminalize, necessarily, a healthy
amount of opposition.
Now, obviously we don't want anyone to get
hurt, but we do have to also understand
that just how history works, people are going
to get hurt.
We are going to get hurt.
We will be targeted.
What's the orientation that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala wants us to have to it?
Is it one of fear?
Is it one of hide in your homes?
Is it one of don't go outside?
Is it one of change your names, and
take off your hijabs, and shave all your
beards, and try to just blend in?
That's not what Allah says.
That's not what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam explained to us, that we're people of
dawah.
And when you're in a place where you're
doing dawah, you're trying to represent Islam, you're
trying to spread Islam, you're trying to clarify
for people what Islam is about, both when
it comes to explaining it with words, or
demonstrating it in your actions, then you're going
to have to expect to be treated like
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was treated.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
beat up, and he was pelted with stones,
and he had trash thrown at him, and
he had thorns thrown at his feet, and
he had all of these things.
So what reality are we trying to construct
where we want to live comfortably, and not
experience some of the things that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam experienced?
We want to sanitize these things, so we
can be comfortable, so we can live in
luxury, so that we can benefit from the
fruits of this land, and the opportunities, and
the freedoms that are afforded to us, and
not talk to anybody, and not be afraid
of anyone saying an uncomfortable word to us?
I don't feel like that's really where it's
at.
I feel like we have to prepare for
these types of confrontations, and to meet them
with dignity, and to meet them with an
attitude of sacrifice.
That if you want to spread Islam in
the United States, you want other people to
see Islam in a positive light.
You want Islam to grow.
You want people to accept Islam.
You want your own children to stay on
Islam.
Are you ready to sacrifice for that?
Are you ready to suffer for that?
Are you ready to make the unpopular decisions,
put your foot down when you're pushed to
do something that's against your principles?
Are you ready to bear what the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam bore?
When it comes to this thing that we
call dawah.
I think that personally, and I could be
wrong, that this is the attitude that we
have to have.
That this is nothing new.
It might wax and wane.
It might be better or worse from administration
to administration, from period to period, but we
have to know that that's what we're here
for.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala told us that
that's what we're here for.
That that's what we can expect.
And towards the end of the ayah, he
says, he doesn't say about trying to regulate
it out of existence or trying to criminalize
every uncomfortable word that anybody says against you.
He says, and whoever is able to be
patient and fear Allah, then that is min
azm al-umur.
Then that is truly, that is truly an
impressive feat.