Tom Facchine – What will you sacrifice for the truth
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The speaker discusses the importance of not abandoning Islam's principles and values. They emphasize the need to powerfully act and act with the people around us, not just against ourselves. The speaker also mentions the importance of comparing different movements and not being afraid of anyone except Allah.
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They were ready to stand on business.
They were ready to stand on principle.
They were not tricked by materialistic causation and
concerns like, oh, we don't have enough.
Oh, this is, let's, you know, let's put
our person on the inside.
Let's ingratiate ourselves to power.
Let's get someone appointed in a high position.
Let's make compromises and get on the inside.
And then one day, 15 years, 20 years,
30 years, 50 years later, we can convince
them not to kill us.
That was not the politics of the Prophet
ﷺ.
That was not how the Prophet ﷺ dealt
with his genociders and his murderers and his
killers.
He sought to build power.
He built power.
He exercised power.
And he was ready to die.
He was ready to stand on business, on
principle, and he never betrayed his principles.
Never once do you see the Prophet ﷺ
compromising on any of his principles or the
companions compromising on any of their principles with
the enemies or with the people who want
harm for them.
And you see that this attitude when the
Muslims, when they took it to Iraq, and
they took it to Sham, and they took
it to Misr, and they took it to
across the world.
And what was the thing that they told
every single general and every single person that
they faced?
They said, you're about to face off with
a group of people that loves death more
than you love your own life.
And that was their attitude.
It was not a cowardly attitude.
It was not a, but we're just 1
% attitude.
It was not a, we're an aggrieved minority.
We have to lean into our allies.
We have to let our allies do most
of the work attitude.
It was not I'm afraid of my McMansion
in the suburbs attitude.
It was not I'm afraid of my 401k
attitude.
It was not an attitude that cared about
losing money or losing wealth or losing life
or losing freedom or losing anything.
That was not the attitude of the companions
of the Prophet ﷺ or the Prophet ﷺ
himself.
That was not their attitude.
Their attitude was, aren't we on the truth?
Isn't this the truth?
We are ready to die for the truth.
What do we have to sacrifice for the
truth?
We believe in Allah ﷻ just like Marcellus.
We believe in Allah ﷻ and we're ready
for anything.
We're ready to pay any price.
We're ready to sacrifice any sacrifice.
And that is when you have honor.
That is when Allah ﷻ gives you honor.
That is when Allah ﷻ takes the fear
from your heart.
That is when Allah ﷻ stops the fear
from entering into you.
That's when he gives you tranquility.
So we have to compare the attitudes.
We have to compare the attitudes.
Take the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ and
map these different movements, these people who claim
to represent the Muslims and probably wouldn't even
dare to represent Islam.
We can say one thing you've tried to
say that you represent the Muslims but to
say nobody is even bold enough to say
that you represent Islam.
Compare them.
How far have we come?
And the inspiring thing that I see, the
inspiring thing that I see is that the
youth get it.
The young people get it.
When I go to campuses and I go
to encampments, we're going to talk about encampments
in a second, the young people get it.
They're not impressed with your tenure, your 20
or 30 years in Congress.
They're not impressed.
They might count that against you.
They might say, well, this person can't know
what they're talking about.
They've got too much experience.
They've been domesticated.
They've been tamed by the system.
They've been playing biryani diplomacy and respectability politics
as opposed to actually building power according to
our principles, not betraying our which is people
that are the ummah of Muhammad ﷺ, people
who follow the guidance that was given to
us.
And we don't fear the blame of the
blamers.
And we're not afraid of anyone except Allah.
We're not afraid of anyone except Allah.