Yasir Qadhi – Empowering The Muslim Community In An Era Of Political Polarization

Yasir Qadhi
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The upcoming elections are a political crisis, with the use of water and a water canister to monitor war operations. The history and character of N Jacobin, the only man recognized as a Muslim in the United States, is also discussed. The political and cultural dynamics of the current climate, including the use of language in politics and the potential for using language to push back against groups of Muslim, are also discussed. The importance of human nature and the role of Islam in protecting people's identities and theirMVth is emphasized. The segment concludes with a brief advertisement for a book on Sunni Islam.
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So it is not lost on any of

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us here, the difficulties we find ourselves in.

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This is the last week before the elections

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and in all likelihood this is, well as

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of yet it has been the most difficult

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elections of our lifetime.

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Allah knows what the future will hold.

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But the fact of the matter is that

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in all likelihood this election will decide quite

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a lot of things on the global level.

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There is even talk that we are close

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to World War III right now because of

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what is happening.

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Multiple countries are being involved in this debacle

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taking place.

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And because our country is directly related to

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every single one of those countries, Allah must

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stand we are facing a very difficult situation

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right now.

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Tensions are at an all time high.

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And Muslims themselves are very much divided.

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There's a lot of anger, a lot of

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fear, a lot of accusations, even within our

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own community.

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Today inshallah ta'ala when I shed a

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little bit of religious light.

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Now I'm not gonna be too explicit in

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my endorsement of any one group because of

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multiple factors of them is that this is

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a masjid and the laws of this country

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do not allow explicit endorsements anyway.

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Nonetheless, political talk is not endorsement.

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And one can criticize policies without endorsing.

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So I want to begin actually with an

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incident from the seerah that demonstrates the natural

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reality of living as a minority.

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It is narrated with an authentic chain to

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the tabi'een that our mother, Umm Salama

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radiallahu ta'ala anha, who was of course,

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eventually she married the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalaam,

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she migrated to, as you know, Abyssinia.

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And she was one of the 85 Muslims

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who were living in Abyssinia for more than

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13 years.

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So they were a minority in Abyssinia.

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And she mentions to us that sometime in

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that timeframe, what happened was that the nephew

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of Najashi, the nephew of Najashi began clamoring

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support and fomenting hatred against his uncle and

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wanted to overthrow his uncle and take power.

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And this eventually led to a civil war

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in Abyssinia, in Habesha.

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There was a civil war between Najashi and

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between his nephew.

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And it appears from the books of seerah,

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now one of the problems is that these

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10 years we only have a few narrations.

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They're not narrating in a lot of detail.

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But what we can derive is that it

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appears that the nephew of Najashi was using

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the issue of the Muslims as one of

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his rallying calls.

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And he was claiming that if he gets

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into power, that he will then eliminate, get

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rid of the Muslims.

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And Najashi, as you know, was supporting the

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Muslims.

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So Umm Salama says that when we heard

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of the battle taking place, and I quote

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you directly from her own phrase, she said

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that we did not feel any fear that

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was worse than the fear of what might

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happen.

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She is saying the Muslims were petrified, terrified

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of what is going to happen.

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And we began making dua to Allah.

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Nadu Allah azawajal.

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We began making dua to Allah and asking

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Allah's nasr, nastansirullah, asking Allah's nasr for the

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army of Najashi against the army of his

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nephew.

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Now pause here before I move on.

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At this point in time, nobody knows Najashi

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is a secret Muslim.

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In fact, none of the sahaba knew this.

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Only Jibreel came to the Prophet ﷺ when

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Najashi died.

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And Jibreel said, your brother Najashi has passed

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away, leave salatul janazah for him.

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Up until that point in time, Najashi's Islam

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was totally secret, nobody knew.

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From all apparent purposes, Najashi is a kafir.

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And his nephew is a kafir.

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Umm Salama says, we were making dua to

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Allah that we want Najashi to win.

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And we're asking Allah's nasr to come to

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the army of Najashi against the army of

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his nephew.

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And the night of the battle we spent

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sleepless, awake.

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This is how scared they were, which demonstrates

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their existence was one of the political debates

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between them.

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They're so worried.

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They're spending the night in fear, like who's

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gonna win?

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Until in their anxiety they said, who amongst

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you will volunteer to go look at the

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battle and tell us who wins?

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Who's gonna win the election?

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Who's gonna win that?

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And Az-Zubair ibn al-Awwam, you all

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know Az-Zubair.

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Who is Az-Zubair?

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Ashara Mubashara and the cousin of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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He's the first cousin of the Prophet ﷺ.

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At this stage he's around 19 years old.

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Az-Zubair was the youngest of them.

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And Az-Zubair was mashaAllah, he was a

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body builder, powerful man.

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He was a very athletic person and he

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is now the youngest.

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Az-Zubair ibn al-Awwam said, I will

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volunteer.

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They said, how you're gonna go?

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They're on the other side of the river.

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He said, prepare for me a water canister,

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but don't fill it with water, fill it

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with air.

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So he took a water canister, he took

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a leather pouch and he used it as

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a floating device to swim across the river.

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The river that was a tributary of the

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Nile.

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It was a very fast flowing river, dangerous

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river.

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Az-Zubair ibn al-Awwam used this type

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of, type of scuba equipment maybe I can

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say, maybe if you don't mind me saying

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that, a scuba equipment type to use it

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to go under water, under top of the

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water and use that to then monitor the

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war from the river Nile.

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He's in the water and he's seeing what's

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happening and he stays there until Najashi wins

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and he then comes back rushing in the

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middle of the night.

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He comes rushing and they say that he

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took off his upper izar, waving it to

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the camp of the Muslims that alhamdulillah Najashi

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has won because they see him from afar.

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This is the sign.

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He is so happy.

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He is quite literally jumping for joy, celebrating

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with his top garment, with his izar.

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Top garment, he's celebrating that Najashi has won.

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And Umm Salama said we were the happiest

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we were when we heard the win of

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Najashi over his nephew.

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Now, of the most common sense aspects we

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can derive and I only say these because

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unfortunately we still have some sentiments we need

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to gently correct in this regard.

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It is human nature when your existence is

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threatened.

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It is human nature when Islamophobia is on

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the rise.

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It is human nature when your freedom is

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gonna be taken away.

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You don't want it to be taken away.

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And you want the party that will protect

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your freedoms to win.

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And so much so, the sahaba are bringing

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in dua to Allah with one kafir party

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against the other kafir party.

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If dua to Allah is allowed between kafir

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parties, then wallahi min babi awla a priori

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a million times easier.

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If you can make dua to Allah as

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a ritual between two parties without a doubt,

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you can do much less than this which

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is campaigning, which is voting, which is helping

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in the dunya we sense.

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Again, I say this because we still have

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this sentiment amongst us that voting is haram,

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voting is shirk, voting is kufr.

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Subhanallah, at this point, Najashi was a public

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kafir.

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And in his court, kufr practices took place.

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We know this from the seerah.

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When Amr ibn al-As and the others

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of Quraysh entered Najashi's palace, the first thing

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they did, they followed the custom of the

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time.

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And that is they did sajda to Najashi.

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They did sajda to Najashi.

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And when Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and

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the Muslims entered, they were debating, should we

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do sajda, should we do not do sajda?

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And Ja'far ibn Abi Talib said, no

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wallahi, I will not do sajda to other

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than Allah.

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And so he did not do sajda.

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That's remember the story from the conversation.

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My point being Najashi's court is ruling by

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other than the law of Allah.

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Najashi has practices that are kufr.

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Najashi's court is a pagan or a kufri

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court.

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The sahaba didn't say, if we make dua

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for Allah, this is an endorsement of all

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of the kufr of Najashi.

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And yet we have in our midst those

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who say, if we vote, it is an

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endorsement of all the kufr of that party.

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No, it doesn't work that way.

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This is a figment of your imagination.

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No rational person, no aqil, no person who

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understands politics, no person who actually votes, actually

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believes that when I vote for one candidate,

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this is an endorsement of everything about that

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candidate.

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Just like the sahaba are saying, we're making

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dua to Allah.

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One of these critics will say, this means

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that they're making dua that shirk is done

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in the court of Najashi when they do

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sajdah to him.

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No, no.

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This is a figment of the imagination of

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small groups of people that alhamdulillah they're getting

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less and less.

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We need to push back that there is

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no kufr in voting.

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There is no shirk in voting.

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There is nothing wrong with wanting a party

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that will preserve your rights.

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And if you can make dua to Allah,

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and if you can be so scared, you

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want Allah's nasr to come, and if you

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can send Zubayr ibn al-Awwam to monitor

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the elections or the civil war, this clearly

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shows you have vested interest and there's nothing

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wrong with being a part of making sure

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your vested interest will be manifested.

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Now, of course, that is a nice, easy

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hypothetical situation when we have a Najashi.

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Who is our Najashi in the current climate?

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Who is our Najashi in the current climate?

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Allah al-musta'an.

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This is where we get the reality, okay?

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So once I've talked hypothetically that it is

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permissible to be a part of the system,

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it's okay to want to be a part

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of it and to influence and to make

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dua.

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This is human nature, as I said.

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You are disconnected from reality if you have

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any view other than this.

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We want our freedoms preserved, and it is

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our constitutional right.

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And we have the right to lobby and

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petition like Jafar lobbied directly with Najashi himself,

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and like the sahaba are wanting one group

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to win over the other.

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Now, obviously, there is no democracy in Abyssinia.

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They cannot go vote.

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But my point is, if they are invoking

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Allah for one side, they are doing more

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than voting.

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This is what I'm saying.

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If they're making dua to Allah, this is

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a ritual.

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And they're allowing a ritual to make one

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side above the other.

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This is far bigger than casting a vote.

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And in your heart, you know that I

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don't agree with everything about this party.

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Do you understand how I'm using that incident?

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If theology is allowed to be brought into

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an election, then without a doubt, the type

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of stuff that we do is a priori,

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even more so, it is allowed.

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So the point though is not is it

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allowed or not.

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We've gone over this multiple times.

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I've said this so many times.

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The issue is what do we do in

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deciding our Najashi?

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And the reality is that in the current

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climate we are in, it is not an

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easy case.

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And this is where the tensions are rising.

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And I have witnessed, unfortunately, a very sad

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phenomenon, which is why I am addressing this

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topic today.

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And this phenomenon is that Muslim civic leaders

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and Muslim scholars are using language against other

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Muslims that is not befitting.

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Muslims are fighting other Muslims and accusing other

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Muslims of hypocrisy, and accusing Muslims of not

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caring about Allah, of betraying the religion, of

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being treacherous to the religion of Allah if

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they disagree based upon political analysis.

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And this is what has prompted me to

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have a brief lecture today to address this

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inter-Muslim problem.

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Now, for the record, a group of imams,

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yours truly, a group of imams have signed

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a very public petition that these imams have

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said that we should not reward any major

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of the two parties that has clearly endorsed

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genocide.

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Okay, this is an opinion.

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The language in that draft does not mention

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that if you disagree with us, you're a

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kafir.

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If you disagree with us, you're a deviant.

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If you disagree...

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No, it's simply an opinion, an opinion.

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And the wisdom of those people who signed

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that, the question is, the pushback is, a

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third party will never make it to the

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White House, at least not in the next

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10, 20, 30 years.

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The third party, it is impossible, impossible that

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the third party will actually make it to

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the White House.

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So many people think this is a useless

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tactic.

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And the response is, no, you haven't understood

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the wisdom of why this group is saying

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what they are saying.

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When you vote third party, what you are

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doing is you're expressing bold dissatisfaction and anger

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at both parties.

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When you vote third party, which is a

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very small group, for the first time, this

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small group is getting significantly larger.

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This is the largest the third parties have

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ever been for Allah knows how many years.

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And therefore, what you're doing, you're sending a

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message to the two big parties that there

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is a sizable minority that is angry with

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you.

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And that minority, the message then will be,

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oh, both parties, you need to shape your

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policies to cater to the people that are

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angry at you.

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By voting third party, the message is given,

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you are sending the clear signal that both

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of your parties are bankrupt.

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And unless you change your policies, you are

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not gaining us back.

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Also, you are building long-term alliances with

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other people that are allying with you against

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the other two parties.

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When you go third party, you find lots

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of other demographics that are also angry with

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the system.

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And you can ally with them to break

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the two-party system.

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So the goal of third party is not

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immediate change, it is long-term change.

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And long-term change takes a while, it

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is gradual.

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Also, by the way, one of the things

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that you have to understand is that the

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third party, the way that our country works,

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is that if the third party gains more

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than 5% of the vote in specific

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areas and states, they will get federal funding,

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they will be listed on the ballot, they

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will become an actual viable threat.

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And they will destroy the monopoly of the

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two-party system.

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And that is actually happening in a number

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of areas.

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So by and large, the philosophy of those

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who say third party is that how can

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you reward a genocidal candidate?

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How can you ignore the fact that both

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candidates are jumping over each other and advocating

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blatant genocide?

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So we will not do that, we will

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send the message.

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That is their perspective.

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As we're all aware, there are Muslim civic

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leaders, Muslim imams who disagree.

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You all saw a few days ago in

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the Republican side of things, right?

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The presidential candidate had a whole host of

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imams behind him, mashaAllah, dressed appropriately as well.

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And saying Muslims for Trump, okay?

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You saw this all, this reality there.

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And these group of imams, if you ask

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them, how could you have endorsed this candidate?

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If you were to ask them, and I

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did reach out indirectly to get their point

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of view because I don't make verdicts without

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getting the perspective.

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And one of them through a mutual friend

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gave me a very detailed analysis that Trump

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had a private meeting with imams in Detroit

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area.

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There was a whole room full of clerics

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and civic leaders, and they spoke truthfully and

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factfully.

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They spoke with a blunt attitude that we

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need this, this, this, this, this.

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And they laid out their four or five

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conditions.

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Number one, stop the genocide taking place, right?

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And number two, other things, the realistic demands

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that anybody can make to the presidential candidate.

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And on record, and this is on video,

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Trump said all of these demands, you didn't

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need to make them.

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I'm already an advocate of them.

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That's what he said.

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That's what he said, and it's on video.

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And then he offered that group voluntarily, who

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wants to come on stage with me?

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And five or six of them volunteered, and

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the rest of them said no.

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One of them was my friend's friend.

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He said, the reason I went to that

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room was so that I can speak truth

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to power, not so that my name can

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be shown on any ballot.

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And that's why he did not go on

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stage.

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But he just said, I wanted to speak

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kalimatul haqq, you know, Imam Ja'ir as

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the hadith goes.

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I wanted to speak the truth and know

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how the Muslims feel, express our anger.

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So he did this and he left.

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But as you know, five, six Imams, they

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went there.

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And when you ask them, they will say

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that the other party didn't even give this

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token representation.

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They turned down even having a Muslim presence

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on their podium.

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And they are the ones actually doing genocide.

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They will say, for sure, Trump cannot get

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any worse than what is happening.

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And they have their view in their view

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that this person will be better because in

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the end of the day, because he has

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certain fiscal policies, he doesn't want American money

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spent overseas.

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He doesn't care about lives of us, but

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he doesn't want money to be spent.

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So they have an understanding that that party

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is better.

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On the flip side of the coin, you

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have a growing community of very prominent Muslim

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activists on the democratic side.

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And they are once again advocating that Trump

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is gonna be the worst candidate and they

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have the long list of reasons, the Muslim

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ban, Islamophobia, rhetoric, moving Jerusalem capital, et cetera.

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And they have their long list over there

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and everybody knows this debacle.

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Now, as I said, my personal opinion is

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besides the point, it is well known, my

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letter is out there, but this is a

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personal opinion.

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The Islamic fatwa, the verdict that I'm gonna

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say now is different than my personal opinion.

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And that is, when it comes to political

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analysis, nobody can invoke the name of Allah

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that they are on the side of al

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-haqq and the other side is on batil.

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Nobody can bring in the religious card because

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political analysis is subjective.

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It is conjecture.

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It is not certain.

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It is not yaqini.

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And therefore, if you want to accuse the

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other person of being wrong, no problem.

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Meaning from the political standpoint.

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You even wanna use language that is more

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harsh.

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You're a fool.

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You're an idiot.

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You are naive.

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Pause here.

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You're not gonna win people to your argument

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by insulting them.

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And if you want people to be convinced,

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if you call them foolish as some of

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the Muslims are calling each other, you're not

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gonna win.

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If you call them naive, everybody accuses everybody

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else of being naive in politics.

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Everybody accuses everybody else of being naive.

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Both parties are accusing.

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Both Muslims of each side are accusing each

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other being naive.

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And we also have been accused of being

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naive when we say vote third party.

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Everybody is accusing everybody.

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Who gets to decide?

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Who will judge the judges?

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Who will be the final arbiter?

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Who will decide?

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Who can predict the future?

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Who can predict the future such that you

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think this person is evil and when they

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get into office, actually it turns out they

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might do something that is beneficial.

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Politics is filthy and dirty.

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Politics is full of lies.

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Politics is deceit.

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And we all know this.

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So therefore, if you wanna say they're wrong,

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you can say that.

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If you wanna say they're foolish, I think

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you are being foolish when you use the

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term foolish because you're not gonna win points.

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But it is not un-Islamic.

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But the minute you say you are a

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traitor to Allah and His Messenger, the minute

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you say you have betrayed the ummah, the

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minute you bring in the religion card, even

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as I have strong personal views, I will

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say, no, this is crossing the red line.

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You cannot use the religious card between Muslims

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who think that the way to support Palestine

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is this versus this versus this versus this.

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The only time you can use the religious

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card is if somebody literally says, I don't

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care about the genocide.

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I want my taxes to go down.

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That person, you say you have betrayed the

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ummah.

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You are selfish.

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You are more concerned about your pennies and

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cents versus the thousands of children dying.

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Then you can use the religious card.

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But anybody who says, I believe third party,

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Democrat, Republican, is gonna be better for the

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cause of Gaza, that's their analysis.

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And who are you to force your analysis

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on other people?

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Let us go back to our hero, Zubayr

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ibn al-Awwam, and extract another benefit from

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his life.

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Zubayr ibn al-Awwam lived a very long

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life.

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And he participated in so many battles.

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And he was, as you know, the warrior

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of Islam.

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He was the warrior and he was the

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Hawari of the Prophet ﷺ.

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Do you remember how he passed away?

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He passed away a very tragic death in

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our history, very sad.

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And that is in the first civil war.

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In the first civil war, when politics for

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the first time divided the ummah.

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It divided the ummah and it created a

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entire series of events that Sunni Islam, and

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we are all Sunnis, Sunni Islam says, let's

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not talk about it.

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It's literally PTSD, literally.

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We don't wanna talk about it.

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Let's just move on.

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As Imam Ahmad said, that was the time

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Allah saved our swords from having to choose

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sides.

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So let us save our tongues from having

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to choose sides as well.

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Sunnism, by and large, moved on.

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And that's why we as a default, don't

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talk about that episode too much.

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We skip over it.

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We fast forward it.

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It's a very painful.

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More sahaba were killed between the sahaba fighting,

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the battle of Jamal, the battle of Safin,

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the two big battles.

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More sahaba were killed fighting each other, then

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all of them had been shaheed fighting the

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Romans and the Persians.

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Very, very, very sad time.

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Ali radiallahu anhu on one side, Aisha radiallahu

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anha, and Talha and Zubair, Zubair on one

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side.

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And they have the battle of Jamal.

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And a massacre ensues, really.

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And Talha dies, and Zubair dies.

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Shaheed there died.

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They both died in the battle of the

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Jamal.

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And our mother Aisha's camel is surrounded.

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And finally the camel itself is killed, and

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the camel collapses.

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And Ali radiallahu anhu says, you cannot touch

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her.

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She is our mother, and she is protected

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and sent back.

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But tens of thousands of people died.

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And then few months later, the battle of

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Safin which was even bigger.

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And you have once again on one side,

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Amr ibn al-'As and Muawiyah and other sahaba.

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And on the other side, all of these

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other great sahaba.

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And another massive tragedy occurs.

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From this tragedy, we should learn.

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From this tragedy, multiple groups split up.

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You had one group that said, Ali radiallahu

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anhu is theologically right, and those who oppose

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him, they are theologically wrong, and they're sinful,

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and they're deviant, or they're kuffar.

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And this group eventually, many strands of Ahl

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at-Tashayyuh, they have this strand.

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You had another group which doesn't really exist

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as a group, but it used to exist.

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And the remnants are there.

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They're called the nasibis.

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They don't really exist anymore.

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And the nasibis, they actually said that Muawiyah

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radiallahu anhu is correct, and Ali radiallahu anhu

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is theologically wrong.

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And they would curse A'udhu billah, Ali

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radiallahu anhu.

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And they would say he's a sinful person.

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And this was a group that fizzled out,

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and no longer exist, even though I guess

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some remnants are still here and there.

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These are two extremes.

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The third group, kharijites.

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They broke away from Ali radiallahu anhu when

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he refused to execute the prisoners of war

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in the battle of Jamal, the battle of

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the camel, when he refused to take prisoners

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of war.

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And they said, how can you not take

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prisoners and take ghanima and take war booty?

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How can you not?

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And Ali radiallahu anhu said, have you no

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shame?

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Who amongst you will take our mother Aish

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radiallahu anhu as a prisoner?

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Have you no shame?

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These are not kuffar.

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These are Muslims.

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And the rules are different when we're fighting

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Muslims versus the Byzantine, versus the Sassanid.

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And so he refused to apply those laws

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in the battle of Jamal.

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And the kharijites said, this means you are

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fighting a group that you did not think

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is incorrect, this makes you incorrect.

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And so the kharijites said, you're a kafir,

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he's a kafir, everybody's a kafir.

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And that's what they believe, everybody's a kafir.

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And that by the way, I'm not trying

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to be too harsh, but there is an

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element of this in these extremist groups who

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keep on saying, everything is kuffar, kuffar, kuffar.

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There's an element of that in this group.

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I'm not saying they're kharijites.

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But if you study khariji theology and you

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study these groups, there is a little bit

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of similarity.

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The quickness to pronounce kuffar.

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Everybody who disagrees becomes a kafir.

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That's not mainstream Islam.

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This is extremism.

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It's not mainstream Islam.

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The kharijites said, everybody is a kafir because

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you're wrong.

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Then another group comes, the mu'tazilites.

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And the mu'tazilites says, both cannot be right.

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Either Ali is right or Aisha is right

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or Muawiyah is right.

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And then they said, but we don't know

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who's right.

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So because we don't know who's right, all

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of them become suspicious.

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They become deviants and we don't know which

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one is right.

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We're not gonna say kafir.

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The difference between mu'tazilites and kharijites, the mu'tazilites

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simply said, somebody is wrong and somebody is

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right.

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Because we don't know, we'll consider all of

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them to be wrong and leave Allah judge

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on the day of judgment.

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But we will not respect any of them.

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And the kharijites say, all of them are

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kuffar.

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Now, all of these are fringe groups.

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We are the majority.

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What did Ahlus Sunnah say?

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What did Ahlus Sunnah say?

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Sunnism said, we will not read in theology

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into political decisions.

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This is our stand.

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We will not read in iman and kuffar.

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And sunnah and bid'ah.

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And heresy and deviancy.

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We will not read that in based upon

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a political judgment and miscalculation.

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Rather, the one who was right, Allah will

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reward them double.

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And the one who was wrong and sincere,

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Allah will still reward them a single.

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And we leave their affair to Allah.

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وَرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ This is what we

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said.

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And that's our theology.

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I don't understand how some modern clerics who

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are involved in this don't understand.

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We're doing this for far bigger people.

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We're doing this for far greater companions.

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We are saying, رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ We

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are saying, فِي كُلٍّ خَيْرٍ There's good in

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all of them.

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We are saying that Allah knows who is

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the more right and wrong.

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And we will respect them and not doubt

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the iman of any of them.

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Those who did this, those who did that,

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they wanted the benefit of the ummah.

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We will not doubt their their what?

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Intention.

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I don't understand why we cannot take the

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same philosophy and apply it to the modern

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context where we don't have Aisha, Ali, Talha,

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Zubair.

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We have people that are infinitely smaller than

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them.

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Can we make the similar excuse for them?

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So my position therefore is very straightforward.

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It is mainstream sunnism.

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You may take whatever position you want.

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And you may argue it passionately.

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And you may try to convince the other

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person.

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But the red line that we cannot cross

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is the line of accusing your opponent to

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be somebody who is treacherous to the ummah.

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Disobeying Allah and His messenger.

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Your analysis is not divine.

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And your opinion of the current political climate

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is not wahi from Allah.

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So if somebody has a different opinion, they

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have the right to hold it.

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And then final point.

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And this is a very deep and profound

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point.

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I hope you understand what I'm saying.

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In the grand scale of things, even to

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my opinion, I've already hinted at it, what

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it is.

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In the grand scale of things, it is

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actually healthy for the Muslims to be represented

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across the American spectrum.

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We need inroads to all peoples.

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Because one of them is gonna be elected.

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And to have some representation is better than

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none.

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So you have to act as an adult,

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as a mature person in the room.

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Not as a little child throwing a tantrum.

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You have to act in a very mature

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manner.

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And understand, you can't put all of your

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eggs in one basket.

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It's actually a bit dangerous to do that.

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And therefore, even if I have an opinion,

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and I do.

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And I will tell you my opinion outside

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where I'm allowed to do so a little

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bit more bluntly.

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And it's public news.

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Even if I have an opinion, I have

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never used Islamic negative adjectives for those who

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disagree with me.

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And I say anybody who does so has

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actually committed a mistake in the eyes of

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Islam.

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It is not allowed to impugn niyat.

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It is not allowed to accuse of deviancy

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those who disagree with political analysis.

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So we conclude by stating, we have a

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duty to help our brothers and sisters in

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Gaza.

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And a part of that duty is to

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be involved in the process.

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And by the way, one thing leads to

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another.

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Guys, it's not just the head office.

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There's senators, there's congressmen.

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And sometimes one congressman, one senator will be

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the spark of change.

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And in this state of Texas, I cannot

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be too explicit.

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But we have some really nasty people.

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Really nasty people, right?

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And they're not too far from being evicted

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if you put your...

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That's all I can say.

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Look at the reality.

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Don't just look at the top office.

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Sometimes lower level is actually a catalyst to

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bring about a massive change.

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So do your due diligence.

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There's nothing wrong with getting involved in the

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system.

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It is completely Islamic to do so.

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And my encouragement to all of you is

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indeed to be active politically, socially, to vote.

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But more important than all of this, make

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your niyat pure.

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Raise your hands to Allah.

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Make sure your iman is strong.

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Do your best to have proper, strong tawakkul

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in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, spiritually, socially.

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And then yes, politically, start creating a change.

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And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless

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all of us and guide us to that

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which is useful and beneficial.

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Jazakumullah khair.

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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

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وَالْخَاشِعِينَ وَالْخَاشِعَاتِ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقِينَ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقَاتِ

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وَالصَّائِمِينَ وَالصَّائِمَاتِ

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وَالْحَافِظِينَ فُرُوجَهُمْ وَالْحَافِظَاتِ وَالذَّاكِرِينَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا

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وَالذَّاكِرَاتِ عَدَّ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ مَغْفِرَةً وَأَجَرًا

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عَظِيمًا

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