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The importance of shelling evil actions and consequences is discussed in Islam, where reality is present in every individual's reality. The "fitra" of Islam is a combination of the completion of the "fitra" and the completion of the "fitra", and is not taught in any other faith. The importance of history and civil rights is also emphasized, as well as the need for awareness change and building a message. The speaker warns against un generic statements and emphasizes the importance of building a message to avoid harming one's country.AI Generated Transcript ©
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Alhamdulillah.
All praise is due to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
We praise him and we seek his help.
And we seek refuge in Allah from the
evil of our souls and the consequences of
our actions.
Whomever Allah guides, none can misguide.
And whoever is misguided cannot be guided except
through Him.
I bear witness and I testify that there
is no God other than Allah jalajalalahu.
And I bear witness and I testify
that the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the
salam,
the Arabi, the Hashimi, the Qurashi
is the final prophet and the most perfect
worshiper.
As to what follows,
know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has reminded
us to be conscious of him in the
Quran when he says,
Oh, Muslims, our Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam warned
us that one of the tactics of shaitan
is to ask very difficult questions,
questions that are caused that are intended
to cause doubts in our iman,
questions that perhaps the average person cannot answer
And so they go into a circular,
and perhaps it will bring a sense of
shakk, a sense of doubt in their own
iman. And he warned us of this tactic.
Today, insha Allahu ta'ala, I want to address
one such question
that especially in our current climate of religious
skepticism,
in our current climate of the rise of
agnosticism and atheism,
many of our, especially college level youth, they
come and they ask this exact same question.
This question that is without a doubt coming
from the same genre of waswasa of shaitan.
And it is a common question
that is posed by many philosophers,
many religious skeptics,
and that is
why are you a Muslim? You are only
a Muslim because you were born into a
Muslim family.
And if you were born into another family,
another religion, then you would have been that
religion. You have no idea, they will say.
You have no truth claim. You have no
certain knowledge that your religion is true. Because,
he will say, the majority of Christians are
Christian because they're born into a Christian family,
and the majority of Hindus are Hindus because
they're born in the Hindu family. And you,
the skeptic will say, the philosopher will say,
you were speaking to the non converts here,
which is the majority of us. You are
only a Muslim, they will say, because your
parents are Muslim.
You haven't experienced
all of the other faiths, and you are
blindly
following
what your forefathers did.
And the question does, at times,
become implanted in the minds of many of
us. How do we know Islam is true?
Because in the end of the day, how
few of us have actually studied all of
the other faith traditions? How few of us
have done a philosophical
survey,
an intellectual
excursion
into all of the religions, and then logically
and rationally chose Islam.
Hardly anybody, perhaps none of us have done
that. And in fact, the same question
of religious skepticism,
the same question of doubting
one's identity and one's faith, it was the
question that frankly sparked
modern philosophy. I'm not exaggerating.
The philosopher that is called the founder of
modern Western philosophy,
his name is Rene Descartes, and he lived
in the 16th century. And Descartes,
how he rose to fame
was that he asked the exact same question
that I began the khutba with. How do
I know anything? How do I know anything
to be true? In fact, he even doubted
his own existence, and that's why he has
that famous phrase, cogito ergo sumay, think, therefore
I am. Because he doubted, how do I
even know I exist? But then one of
the things he doubted, he said, how do
I know religion is true? I was born
a Christian. He actually writes, this is in
the 1500. He writes, most Christians are born
in Christian families, most Mohammedans, meaning Muslims. Most
Mohammedans are born to Mohammedan parents. So he
posed the same question. And in answering this
question, which is the basis of religious skepticism,
Western secularism,
and Western agnosticism,
and Western philosophy begins, our students in high
school and university know that Rene Descartes is
called the founder of modern western philosophy. And
it was this very question
that began this whole endeavor.
Now let us not go down the route
of western philosophy because in the end of
the day, we are Muslim. And let us
ask ourselves, well then, how then do we
answer this question? Because, you know, fact of
the matter is, if you think about it
from a purely logical and rational standpoint, there
seems to be an element of truth.
There seems to be a element of validity
because, yes, it is true. The majority of
us are born to Muslim parents and the
majority of Christians, etcetera, etcetera.
So how do we answer this conundrum, this
paradox? Some have called it the Cartesian or
Descartesian paradox, religious paradox. How do we answer
this? Because in the end of the day,
there must be an answer. And here is
where the beauty,
the profundity,
the divinity
of Islam is demonstrated. And for me personally,
as somebody who loves to study theology and
philosophy and aqeedah, for me personally, this concept,
which will be the concept of today's khutbah,
this concept is really one of the most
miraculous proofs for me of the truth of
Islam, because it is such a profound
concept, and it is a concept mentioned in
the Quran and sunnah, but early Muslims didn't
quite really understand it the way that we
now understand it because the philosophical conundrum, the
paradox hadn't been verbalized, because they didn't really
think through it the way that we are
now thinking through it. But the solution is
in the Quran, and it is a very,
very fundamental aspect of our theology.
The solution is quite literally mentioned explicitly in
the Quran, And that is that
rather than having to search for the truth
from without,
rather than having to start from scratch from
nothing,
Instead,
Allah
blessed
every human being
with something when they were born.
Automatically,
there is an internal
compass,
an internal
map, an internal
skeletal framework, which you do not need to
be taught.
You don't need to go to school.
Everybody, Muslim or kafir, they have it inside
of themselves.
And that concept is called the fitrah,
the fitrah.
And what this fitrah does, it acts as
a moral compass. It acts as a intuitive
system
through which you can check something external. Because
you see, in the end of the day,
there is a point of validity. If we
didn't have an internal compass, if we didn't
have something inside of us, how do you
know Islam is true? Somebody would say, you
must study all the of the earth, all
of the religions of the earth, but we
don't have the time to study all the
religion on earth. There are over 6,000 religions.
We don't have the time or the intellect,
or if we were to do that, we
wouldn't do anything else. It's not possible to
do that. There must be a solution, and
that solution is only found in Islam. It's
not found in any other religion. It's not
found in any other faith. And this is
a demonstration
and a proof that Islam actually solves one
of the most complex and yet simple problems
of religiosity.
And that is, how do you know your
faith to true when you're following your forefathers?
The response,
we have something within us that tells us
intrinsically,
and that is called the fitra. Now before
I answer how, first, let me explain what
is the fitra. The fitra, it is a
type of cognition or knowledge
that we are not having to be taught.
It is something that is intuitive.
It is something that is ingrained in us,
and we are born with it. Allah mentions
this in the Quran, and the prophet shalallahu
alaihi wa sallam mentioned it in the sunnah.
Allah says in the Quran, fitratallahi
lati fataranasa alayha. There is a fitra. There
is a natural disposition
that Allah created
all of mankind upon. It's not just for
Muslims. The Christian child is born upon the
fitra. The Jewish child is born upon the
fitra. The Hindu child is born upon the
fitra. Every baby is born upon the fitra.
That's exactly what our prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam said. Hadith is in Bukhari Muslim. Kullumawloodin
yooladu aalal fitrafaabawahu
yuhawwidanihi
auyunasiranihi
auyumajisanihi.
Every child is born upon the purity of
the fitra. Every child has a type of
cognate knowledge, a type of moral compass, a
type of intuition. Every child has it. Then
the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, then society and
culture and the parents, they corrupt the fitra.
And so those of other faiths, their children
will become those fates. Notice, he didn't say,
and then the Muslim parents make the child
a Muslim. No. He said the Jewish parents
make the child a Jewish person. The Christian
parents make the child the Christian person. The
Hindu parents make. But he didn't say the
Muslims
make. Why? Because the fitra and Islam
are 1 and the same. The fitra leads
to Islam.
Islam is the fruition of the fitra. Islam
is the completion of the fitra.
Every other faith tradition will destroy and corrupt
the fitra. Every other system of beliefs, you
must destroy your own fitra in order to
accept it. As for Islam,
the fitra is nourished and maintained. The fitra
is purified, and Islam and the fitra fit
together like 2 pieces of a puzzle. 2
pieces of an intricate puzzle, they fit together
absolutely
perfectly. This is the example of the fitra
and Islam. So when you have an internal
compass, you don't need to search for an
external validation. You don't need to search all
the faith traditions because your fitra tells you
Islam is true. Because your fitra tells you
Islam is true.
Now, the fitra has manifestations
and signs, and of them is that that's
why we find the Muslim ummah to be
the strongest. Last week, I gave a khutba
about Islam is always going to be supreme
spiritually. I gave a khutba that the Muslim
world is alive unlike every other civilization.
Their iman is strong. Today, we're gonna continue
with that. Why is their iman strong? Because
they have the fitra. Because Islam and the
fitra fit together perfectly,
and no other faith tradition will fit with
the fitra. Now I speak to the converts.
Those that have converted, you understand this, but
those of us who were born, we don't
understand it. Every convert that have that has
come to our faith, and alhamdulillah epic, we
have many dozens of converts. Every convert, you
understand what I'm about to say, and that
is your faith never made sense to you.
Your faith always made you uneasy. There was
something that it just wasn't right. It didn't
fit. And then when you heard of Islam,
when you read the Quran, when you were
exposed to the religion of the prophet, salallahu
alayhi wasalam, your soul, you don't understand the
word, you didn't know fitrah, but there's something
intuitive
that was attracted to Islam. You knew it
to be the truth even though you didn't
know why you knew it to be the
truth. Your internal
disposition
was attracted
to the purity, simplicity,
beauty of Islam. Why? Because your fitrah was
rekindled,
and the purity of your soul was attracted
to the purity of Islam, and the 2
fit together like 2 pieces of an intricate
puzzle. And only the converts will fully understand
this. As for us who were born into
the faith, well, we know it from our
lives, but Alhamdulillah, we thank Allah, we didn't
experience other faiths. So that is in our
sense, we thank Allah for that. But the
the convert understands that any other faith tradition,
it doesn't make you feel fully at ease
with your beliefs. And this is why
religiosity
in other faith traditions is so low compared
to Islam. These are statistics that are global.
It's not religious. It's not theology. Go look
at any survey in the world.
Muslims,
by and large, are the number one group
of people who genuinely believe in Islam. Go
look at surveys. Do you believe in God
in Christian societies, in other societies? Many will
say they don't. In Muslim societies, 80, 90%,
they say we believe in Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. Do you practice your faith? We just
finished Ramadan.
80% of the Muslim ummah fast Ramadan, even
if they don't pray 5 times a day.
But when it comes to Ramadan, the ummah
is alive and they come to the masajid.
Contrast this with other faith traditions where churches
and synagogues are empty because people are not
going. Their fitra is not alive amongst them.
This is the reality that demonstrates the fitra.
And brothers and sisters,
this
is where, again, we find the beauty of
our faith tradition. Sub SubhanAllah, this problem, this
Descartes or Cartesian problem, this problem of trying
to understand all faiths as being equally valid,
But the fact of the matter is, if
you do not believe in the fitra, you
But the fact of the matter is, if
you do not believe in the fitra,
you don't have an answer to Descartes' question.
There is no answer because how do you
know a religion to be true? You must
examine and you must go through every single
faith. Can you imagine if we had to
do that, you wouldn't have time for anything
else. And one lifetime is not enough to
go through 6,000 faith traditions. It's not possible.
Yet, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made it not
needed. And we know Islam to be true
because our heart is at ease. Because when
we listen to the Quran,
our Qalb feels a sakeena,
atama
a peace that we don't need any mathematical
equation. We don't need philosophical
maxims.
Our intuition
and fitrah is screaming to us the truth
of Islam. And that's why, yes, it is
true, not everyone practices to the level they
should, but it is also true. The vast
majority of Muslims
believe in Islam to be true. The same
cannot be said of Christianity and other faith
traditions. The vast majority of the Muslims. In
fact, we firmly believe
that the person murtad.
But generally speaking, we know that the one
who has become murtad. But generally speaking, we
know that the one who has tasted Iman,
the one who has loved Allah even for
one second in their lives, they never leave
Islam. Why? Because even if they don't pray,
they don't fast as much as they should,
they're committing sins. The fitrah knows Islam to
be true. And the fitra is at peace
with the beauty of our faith. And here,
brothers and sisters, we find the profundity,
the divinity of Islam. This complex problem,
it is solved in Islam from a very
basic point of theology.
Every child is born upon the fitra, and
then society
corrupts non Muslim children. And as for Muslim
children, they are not corrupted. The fitra remains
pure. The fitra is nourished. And by the
way, this concept of the fitrah, it also
tells us many things. This is a deeper
concept and topic as well. But the fitrah,
we can also call it in English our
conscience.
Why do we feel guilty when we do
something wrong? Even those who don't believe in
Islam, when they commit a crime, something is
not good in their hearts. This is the
fitra telling them you're doing something wrong. The
fitra likes nobility. When the fit When we
do something good, we feed the hungry, we
give money to an orphan. Even if you're
not Muslim, you feel good inside of you.
Why? Because Allah created our fitrah to love
the good. He created our fitra to despise
evil. Even if you're not a Muslim, you
know overall when I'm good, I feel good.
And Allah blessed us with this fitra and
with Islam that come together like that 2
intricate pieces of that puzzle. And the more
iman you have, the pure your fitrah will
be. And the weaker your iman, the weaker
your fitra. The 2 feet off of one
another. So if you wanna make your fitra
strong, you make your iman strong. And if
your iman is weak, it's gonna affect your
fitra as well. One final point, brothers and
sisters, to understand this beautiful concept of theology,
to understand this beautiful aspect of Islamic aqeedah.
Another manifestation of the fitrah is a beautiful
story in the Quran and a beautiful incident
in our history. And it is an incident
that occurred to all of us, even though
our memories don't recollect it. And that is,
Allah mentions in the Quran, in Surat Al
Araf, that when Allah created all of us,
when Allah created our souls, our arwa, my
ru' and your ru' when Allah created our
souls, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gathered all of
us together. Wa idakhadarabukamimbani
adamamalvuhoorihim3yatahum
wa ashhadahumalaanfusihim
alastubirabbikumqalu
bala shahidina.
When Allah created all of us, this is
in the Quran and in the hadith. This
this creation occurred when our father Adam came
down from heaven. And from Adam, Allah created
all of our souls on earth. Our souls
have been here before we were born. Before
we were born, our souls were created, and
they will last with us
until the end of times and even after
that. Allah created our souls when there were
no bodies. Adam was there. And Allah spoke
to our soul, my soul and your soul,
and the soul of the non Muslims, and
the soul of the atheists. All of those
souls were gathered. And Allah asked them, this
is in the Quran,
am I not your Lord?
Notice, Allah is not teaching them, I am
your Lord. No. There's no teaching. Allah's asking
a rhetorical
question.
Am I not?
Why? Because
rhetorical
questions are asked when you know the answer.
Your rhetorical questions are asked when the answer
is already known to you, and it is
meant to emphasize
that which is known. Allah did not teach
them and say, I am your Lord. No.
He said to them, alastoo
birabikum,
am I not your Lord? A rhetorical question.
And the Quran says, aloo bala. They all
applied in the affirmative.
You are our Lord, O Allah. We affirm
You are our Lord. Notice,
Allah is speaking to whom? The arwah, the
souls. Has any Prophet come to the souls
yet? No. Has any Quran been revealed to
them yet? No. Have they been taught any
knowledge yet? No. So how do they know
that Allah is their Lord? From the fitrah.
The ruh automatically
says that Allah exists. The ruh automatically affirms
Allah is 1. The ruh automatically affirms religiosity.
And that's why even those who don't believe
in Islam, but they're religious, they feel better
than those who don't believe in any religion.
Some religiosity
feeds some fitrah even though Islam is the
only religion that fully feeds the fitra. My
point is, in this incident, Allah once again
demonstrates the fitra and the beauty of how
to respond to this philosophical
problem. Souls are created pure.
And in that creation of purity,
souls know the truth from falsehood. And so
every single child on earth, Muslim or non
Muslim, when they are born, they are pure,
and they are upon the fitra. And that's
why this is something that even modern science
has shown. I'm not even joking and kidding
with you, you can look this up. BBC
had an article about this last year.
Its title, and the title is so beautiful
because it's literally our Khutba today. The title
of the article, you can Google this, is
that
science demonstrates
that children are born predisposed
to believe in God.
This is the article that was talking about
scientific experiments being done over many decades, that
researchers discovered
that even children born in agnostic and atheist
households
without their parents teaching them about God, for
some weird reason, they believed in God. For
some reason, they had an affirmation of God.
And so scientists were wondering what is going
on. So they said that, well, science shows
that nature, that's what they call their God
nature, has made children
predisposed
to believe in God. No, there is no
nature. Allah created nature, and Allah created the
souls, and the souls are predisposed to believe
in God. Yes. Why? Because if there was
no internal compass, well then, Descartes has a
valid point. How do you know anything is
true? But for us, Alhamdulillah,
we have the response. We know Islam to
be true because every fiber of our being
is at peace, because every single hair on
our body and every single atom of our
existence, we have sakinah and tama'neena.
We know Islam to be true because our
heart is at peace, because the fitra and
Islam are in harmony together. And this is
why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Alhamdulillah,
all praise is due to Allah, the fatir
of the Samawatina. Or the fatir, the one
who initiated and the one who created all
of us. The fitrah is a gift from
Allah that separates true religion from false religion.
And we thank Allah for having blessed us
with the true religion that we don't need
to research 6,000 faith traditions. Alhamdulillahi
ladhihadanalihathawamakoonalinnahtadiya
lawulanhadanalah.
May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala bless me and
you with her through the Quran, and may
He make us of those whose verses they
understand and applies halal and haram throughout our
lifespan. Ask Allah's forgiveness to you as well.
Understand and applies halal and haram throughout our
lifespan. Ask Allah's forgiveness. He was what I'll
ask him for is the ghafur and the
rahman.
Alhamdulillah,
All praise is due to Allah, the one
and the unique. He is whom we worship,
and it is his aid that we seek.
He is the Lord of the oppressed, and
he hears the prayer of the weak. As
to what follows,
a totally separate topic, but it needs to
be addressed.
That
we are currently seeing across the world and
especially in our own country,
We are seeing massive protests
about what is happening
in Palestine and in Gaza, and much civil
disobedience is taking place. This is the talk
of the of the of the current, you
know, news climate. At universities,
at famous corporations
across, the country. So many people are protesting.
And by the way, 5 months ago, I
gave a khutbah here at the beginning when
it seemed very dark and gloomy, and I
said, insha'allahuta'ala,
the tide is changing. If you remember that,
I said the tide is changing. We already
see, it's not even been 1 year, we
already see global
support has, alhamdulillah,
changed the tide. My point or my general
request, not just to all of us here,
but to all of us who are watching
online as well. And this does require more
talk. But I just wanna give some basic
points here is that all Muslims, there is
there has been a lot of talk about
our involvement in these protests. And I have,
from the very beginning, said that our religion
requires us to be active and wise.
It requires us to effect change in the
most effect effective measure. And as for those
small groups of people who say that protests
are haram, we ask Allah to guide them,
to grant the wisdom. This is, not a
correct opinion. Let me just be gentle in
this regard. Yes. Of course, we must protest
because we see the effects. But I just
want to add one point here that all
Muslims,
for sure, peaceful and legal protest, there's no
question that this is very beneficial for the
world that we live in. However, when you
are protesting in a disruptful manner,
then we have to be a little bit
more nuanced.
Protests that irritate other people. Protests that irritate
innocent people that are stopped from going to
work. You're blocking roads. You're you're you're causing
nuisance to people that are not involved in
the crimes over there. We have to wonder
what is the wisdom here. Wallahi, we understand
people's emotions are high. We understand that, you
know, if your family is in danger, you
wanna do something to help them. Fully understandable.
But to target people that have nothing to
do with what is going on, to stop
traffic on roads, to do something that you're
gonna cause nuisance and irritation
to people that are not directly involved in
supporting the apartheid regime. You are actually potentially
harming the cause of Palestine. You're harming the
cause of Gaza. By the way, I'm not
saying every disruptful protest should not be done.
Sometimes, disruptful protest against people who are supporting
apartheid genocide,
okay. That's something I cannot say it is
you should do it because that's not something
the khutba should say. I'm not gonna say
you should not do it. Leave it at
that. But I'm simply gonna say history teaches
us history teaches us disruptful
effective protests
are changing history. The civil rights, disruptful protests.
The Vietnam War in this country, many of
us, we don't know this. Look up your
history. 40 years ago, how was the Vietnam
War changed? Because people disrupted
peacefully. No violence. We don't we're never calling
for violence here, but they disrupted
people who are directly supporting
those policies of bombing and whatnot. Across the
country, there was disruptful protests. So please be
careful. I am not speaking against every type
of disruptful protest. For the record, I'm not
supporting it either. I can't do this from
the khutbah, but I'm not speaking against it.
I'm speaking against what?
Unwise,
disruptful protests. I'm speaking against protests in which
people who have nothing to do with what
is going on, they are caused irritation. They
might lose their flights. You stop the road
for them, or you block traffic, or you
do something. You might cause people to turn
away from the reality of what is happening
in Gaza. So I say, oh, Muslims,
it's not my place to tell you to
disruptfully protest. It is my place to tell
you, do not unwisely
disruptfully protest. And that, inshallah, is itself a
wisdom to what I am actually asking you
to do. Do not unwisely
do something that might cause more damage to
what you are intending to do. And without
a doubt, those corporations
and those entities that are harming the Palestinians,
without a doubt, if it is done in
a manner that is non, violent, then perhaps
there is something to be said about that.
And by the way, for those who object
to this for those who object to this,
we ask a philosophical question.
What would you do
if your own country was aiding and abetting
genocide? What would you do if you can
go back to Nazi Germany and you can
rile up the German people against Hitler. Don't
you think you would have done that? That
is disruptful peaceful protest. Well, then, we're not
equating. I'm not saying the same thing, but
I am saying a genocide is taking place
without a doubt. And without a doubt, our
country is supporting that genocide. How can we
be innocent bystanders
when innocent people are being bombed 1,000 of
miles away because of what our country is
doing? And also, oh, Muslims, even if you
yourself do not participate in protests, even if
you yourself do not get involved, the least
you can do is to raise awareness and
to point out the double standards and the
hypocrisy.
One thing we are seeing so blatantly,
and this is what, alhamdulillah,
the world is waking up to, is how
certain interests are controlling the media, controlling the
the academy and universities, controlling our own government,
how small groups of people are influencing
our foreign policy for interests that are not
our own. It's harmful to us, and yet
we see this over and over again. There
was one of our sisters
in California, one of our young graduates of
one of the most prestigious universities in the
country, that she was unanimously
chosen by her classmates to represent them in
the graduation at university. She was a top
student. She has all the credentials. Her fellow
classmates said, you should speak at the graduation.
But she was a hijabi, and she was
a Muslim obviously, and the university got involved.
And the university went through her social media,
she's supporting Palestine.
Preemptively,
they banned her. Without even asking what you're
gonna speak about, without even telling her. They
said, no. We don't want a a a
Muslim. We don't want well, they didn't use
the word Muslim. We don't want you to
speak. They stripped her of her right to
speak. Why? Because they were scared.
They were scared she might potentially
bring up Ghazah and
in her speech. And, subhanAllah,
one wonders, you're the ones who told us
when the Taaliban
banned women from speaking, they were the bad
guys. Why is it when you banned women
from speaking, you're the good guys? I'm confused.
Tell me. I don't understand. When the Taliban
banned women, you're we're supposed to say they're
the bad guys. When you ban women, we're
supposed to say you're the good guys. Make
up your minds in this regard. We see
the hypocrisy.
So even if you are not involved in
the protest, you must amplify the hypocrisy. You
must demonstrate and bring about an awareness change
because we see the tide is changing. I
say loudly and clearly, Alhamdulillah
thumbalhamdulillah,
the apartheid regime has lost the moral war.
It has already lost the hearts and mind
of the vast majority of people. Even in
the west, it is only this one country
and its and its and its administration
that is behind that apartheid regime. Even in
Europe, even the EU is now thinking about
how to rethink its association with the apartheid
regime. So the tide is changing. And you
know why it is changing? Because insha Allahu
Ta'ala, every one of us is involved. And
the sad thing is, and I have to
be blunt here. Oh, Muslims, aren't you ashamed
that the people leading these protests are from
outside our faith? Where are we? People that
are getting fired, people that are going to
jail for peaceful protests. Many of them are
outside our faith. Now good for them. May
Allah bless them and guide them to Islam.
But where are we in all of this?
And again, I'm asking you to be wise.
Don't do anything that is harmful, especially don't
do anything that is violent, but we need
to bring awareness
and change the narrative. And we see the
narrative is changing in just 6 months. So
my generic advice to all of us here,
think about how you can effectively And I
cannot teach you effective strategies. You need to
go to people in your own area and
ask them, what is effective for me to
do? What is useful for me to do?
Anything that is legal and anything that is
wise, without a doubt, Islam would allow us
to do this. So may Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala bless every one of those people who
is involved in the protest, and may Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make all of us as
well active in this regard.
Reminder, there will be a janazah of a
newborn right after the salah. So please remain
for
that.
Over here in this video.
It's a newborn baby. Her her name is
Yagi. May Allah have mercy on her grandchildbirth
to her parents.
Still.
Allahu Akbam.
Warahmatullah.
Warahmatullah.