Yasir Qadhi – Not Under My Watch
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The speaker discusses the causes of peace and the importance of living in a peaceful and peaceful world. They emphasize the need to show the truth, to preach the truth, and to show the people around us. The speaker also emphasizes the need to address issues such as homelessness and foreign policy.
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Oh, Muslims, this isn't just about gazza.
This isn't just about one place, one time,
one peoples. No.
It is as if Allah
is using
as a beautiful catalyst
for the rest of us all.
Razzah is sparking
iman in all of our hearts.
Ghazah is rekindling
a love of the ummah, and a love
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and a love
of our ideals. That's what is happening because
you know what? Even if ghazah were to
be solved tomorrow, we still have duties and
responsibilities.
We still have a higher purpose of living.
We still have to excel in achieving our
purpose in this life. And what is our
purpose? Our purpose is very clear.
So that you may bear witness unto mankind.
You may preach the truth. You may live
the truth. You may embody the truth. You
may invite others to the true message of
our faith. That's what our role is. And
so, gazza. And let's go on. It's not
just about gazza. What's happening in Sudan? What's
happening amongst the Uyghurs? What's happening in Burma,
what's happening in Kashmir,
all of these causes and even more.
I stand here today
and 25 years have gone, and Guantanamo
is still open as we speak.
24 years have gone, and Guantanamo is still
open. It's not a matter of one cause
and that's it. No. What these causes do
is they remind us, they provoke us, they
force us out of our comfort zones.
Allah did not create us to live like
animals, to eat, to drink, to be merry,
and to die. No. We have a higher
purpose,
and these causes, they remind us of that
higher purpose. They remind us of nobility.
They remind us that we have a mission
to accomplish, and that mission is to be
role models to the rest of mankind,
to show people what it means to be
a believer
in.
What happens when you believe in the Quran?
What happens when you walk in the path
of the prophets? Our lives
have to embody those values, and the people
around us, they need to see what that
implies. They need to see the changes that
happen. Our mission, therefore,
will not stop
even if one problem is solved, even if
another problem is solved because problems will continue
to arise. Believe you, me. Ask anybody older
than you. Do you really think problems will
stop after we solve one of them? No.
Constantly issues will happen around the globe, in
our personal lives, domestically,
and such is this world, such is this
dunya. This dunya is meant to be full
of problems so that we continue to solve
them. We continue to try to make the
world a better place, but our ultimate destination
is not this world. This world is not
the ultimate abode of peace that's ahead of
us. That's in Jannah. We try to make
this world as peaceful as possible, but the
actual peace will come in the next, and
the better job we do in this world,
the better we will achieve peace in the
next. That's our goal. Once you understand this,
all Muslims,
don't be disheartened
if you don't see an impact in your
own efforts of what you do because that's
not how Allah will judge you. Don't become
disheartened,
disillusioned.
Don't lose your hope or your spirit if
you keep on trying and trying and trying,
and you don't see any change. Maybe, just
maybe, we might not see change for weeks
or months or years.
We still have to continue putting in the
effort. We still have to continue
persevering, pushing on, doing whatever we can do,
and there's so much we can do. There's
so much we can do. I've said here
before, and I'll say it again.
In the entire globe of 1.7
Muslims, 1,700,000,000
Muslims,
We, as American Muslims,
us 5,000,000
American Muslims, we are the only
American
Muslim community. We're the only global Muslim community
that can effect change from within the American
superpower.
We have to effect that change.
We have to effect that change.
We have to understand.
We are worth 100, if not 1000 of
other Muslims around the world in this one
aspect, and that is the impact we can
cause.
Allah has tested us. Allah has blessed us.
Allah has chosen us that this is our
land, and our land is involved in a
heinous crime. Our land is involved in a
genocide. Our president is enabling that genocide.
Our tax dollars are being spent to kill
innocent people.
You cannot and you should not be silent.
You must stand up. You must do your
best to fight against that. You must raise
your voice. You must protest. You must impact.
This is what we must do. There are
no two opinions about this. Oh, Muslims,
make sure that you make it your priority,
You make it your priority
that people know that you are not gonna
tolerate this, not under my watch. We're not
gonna let this administration
get away with what it has done. We're
not gonna let our country continue
to kowtow to another regime, another apartheid state.
And you know what? You can even ignore
all of the politics and all of the
religious issues, and just tell your fellow Americans,
our tax dollars should be spent within our
country.
Simple as that. Let's take care of our
own healthcare.
Let's take care of our own crises.
You know, somebody calculated,
somebody calculated
that if we were to take just 1
or 2 years of our foreign aid to
Israel, and we were to solve our homelessness
problem, we would not have a single homeless
person in all of America.
Even if somebody doesn't know anything about foreign
politics, just say to them, would you rather
solve homelessness
or continue giving aid to a foreign country?
It's that simple. Wallahi, it's not complicated.
Keep on
persevering,
raising these points, and you know the irony
is, subhanallah,
sometimes
those whom we don't like, they hand us
talking points. They hand us what we should
do. You know, our president and others lied
about the 40 babies that were decapitated.
They said there's video footage of that. There's
not a single video footage, but you know
what there is video footage of?
IDF soldiers themselves
videotaping
themselves
as they manhandle Palestinians. As they make fun
of dead Palestinian children. As they play with
the toys of the children they just killed,
as they as they look at the private
garments of the women that they've expelled from
their houses, They have video footage of that.
They're showing it to us, and for the
world to see. It's our job to amplify
those voices. It's our job to keep on
retweeting and showing
the reality.