How We Know Islam is The Truth – The Fitrah
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The speaker discusses the common misperception that has been created by "has he been a Muslim?" as it is a common misperception that comes from the same genre of weren'tological skeptics. The concept of "fitra" in Islam is a natural and ingrained reality, and is a natural and ingrained reality that is present in every Christian faith. The importance of Islam is a combination of faith and culture, and the speaker warns against hateful language and advises against domesticated terrorist. The speaker also discusses the importance of protesting in addressing issues and offers some basic points on the topic.AI Generated Transcript ©
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
And I bear witness and I testify
that the prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasallam,
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 alayhi 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 say they go into a circular, and
perhaps it will bring a sense of shak,
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, we're 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.
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
aqidah, 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, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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 be 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 Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam mentioned it in the sunnah. Allah
says in the Quran, fitratallahi
lati thatharanasa
alaiha.
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 shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, hadith is in Bukhari and Muslim.
Kullumauloodin
yooladu aalal fitrafaabawahu
yahawwidanihi
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 a 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 fitrah is nourished and maintained. The fitrah
is purified, and Islam and the fitrah fit
together like 2 pieces of a puzzle. And
Islam. So when you have an internal compass,
you don't 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.
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 khutbah
about Islam is always going to be supreme
spiritually. I gave a khutbah 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 an
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 fitra, 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
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, brothers and sisters, this
is where, again, we find the beauty of
our faith tradition. SubhanAllah,
this problem, this Descartes or Cartesian problem, this
problem of trying to understand all faiths as
being equally valid, this is a somewhat modern
philosophical issue. Descartes existed 500 years ago. And
before this point in time, nobody really discussed
this type of reality. 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 sakinah,
a tama'ineena,
a peace that we don't need any mathematical
equations. 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 tasted iman.
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. 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 fitrah 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 fitrah, and
then society
corrupts non Muslim children. And as for for
Muslim children, they are not corrupted. The fitrah
remains pure. The fitrah 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
fitra, 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 fitra to love
the good. He created our fitra to despise
evil. Even if you're not 2
intricate
2 intricate pieces of that puzzle. And the
more iman you have, the pure your fitra
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 fitra 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'ah, when Allah created our
souls, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala gathered all of
us together. Wa id akhadarabbu kaminbani adamamilvuhoorihimduriya
tahum wa ashhadahumalaanfussihim
alastubirabbikumqalu
bala shahidina
When Allah created all of us, this is
in the Quran and in the hadith. This
this creation occurred when 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 is 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 fitra 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 khutbah 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 creates
Yes.
Why? Because if there was no internal compass,
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, Al hamdullillah,
all praise is due to Allah, the fatir
of the Samawat and of the fatir, the
one who initiated and the one who created
all of us. The fitra 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 6000 faith traditions. Alhamdulillahi
ladhee hadaanalihatha
wamakoonalinnahtadiya
lawulanhadanalah.
May
Allah bless me and you with her through
the Quran, and may He make us of
those whose verses they understand and apply his
halal and haram throughout our lifespan. Ask Allah's
forgiveness. He was well asking for his
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 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 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 By
the
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 that 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 were 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 Khuddba, but
I'm not speaking against it. I'm speaking against
what?
Unwise
disruptive 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 ask 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 matter 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 thousands 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 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
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 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, and 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 Falastin in her speech.
And, subhanAllah,
one wonders, you're the ones who told us
when the Taliban
banned women from speaking, they were the bad
guys. Why is it when you ban women
from speaking, you're the good guys? I'm confused.
Tell me. I don't understand. When the Taliban
ban 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
even the EU is now thinking about how
to rethink its association. 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 to
do
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.
Allahummaaizal
Islamawalmustameen,
Allahummaaizal
Allahummaaizal