Yasir Qadhi – One Year – Reflections on Gaza with Sami Hamdi
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We are blessed and fortunate to have our
brother Sami Hamdi with us once again inshallah
but we are here on a perhaps Somber
occasion and that is the one year if
you like anniversary, and it's not really an
anniversary it's a commemoration or it is really
a point of reflection one year of this
conflict one year of Genocide the likes of
which nobody in our generation has seen Frankly
nobody in human history has seen because we
are live tweeting and videotaping and Broadcasting a
genocide the likes of which never has been
broadcast in human history And so one year
has gone by and we're just going to
share our reflections and thoughts and inshallah I'll
begin 15-20 minutes and then hand it
over to our dear brother Sami who will
inshallah also speak for for five minutes For
20 minutes inshallah, we'll try inshallah bismillah, so
I wanted to summarize 10 positives in my
analysis 10 positives that have come in the
last year.
We know the negatives.
I don't need to go over the statistics
10 positives number one For the first time
in the 75 plus years of conflict The
amount of global attention that the plight of
the Palestinians has garnered is unprecedented the amount
of global attention for 75 years We have
not achieved even a fraction of what we
have achieved in the last one year People
are now for the first time understanding What
happened the Balfour Declaration was mentioned on BBC
for the first time the first time ever
1917 1947 1948 UN resolution of 255 all
of these previous Histories that have been available
for all but nobody mentions them.
So for the first time increased global attention
about the reality of the conflict about the
Confiscation of land about the reality of West
Bank, which is not supposed to be Occupation
and yet it is occupation West Bank is
supposed to be a potential for a free
Palestinian state and yet Israel is effectively occupying
and controlling it So point number one the
global attention that this conflict has garnered Not
never in the 75 years of conflict.
Have we seen this attention number two what
this has generated is Diplomatic support from many
countries in the world, which again is unprecedented
Never in 75 years have the sheer number
of countries that have supported Palestine in the
last year Come forth South Africa public support
suing in the ICG as we're going to
come back to Netherlands has said they're asking
for a Palestinian state Belgium has called for
a Palestinian state Ireland constantly berating Israel constantly
supporting the Rights of the Palestinian people and
saying that they know exactly what this feels
like because they've gone through the conflict Portugal
of all countries you would think an empire
that has a colonial past but no actually
they're siding with Palestine and they are very
vocal in support of Palestine Sweden is calling
for a two-state solution unbelievably even France
Even France has garnered, you know attention for
calling for a boycott of arms to Israel
France of all countries is now saying that
we need to take action against Israel and
this is unbelievable never before have all of
these countries come out in support of Palestine
and Criticizing Israel and this leads me to
point number three not only individual countries But
again for the first time the United Nations
in its explicit Condemnation of Israel, you know,
the United Nations was created Of course, there's
a public PR campaign and there's a private
reality The public PR is that all peoples
are equal all countries are equal That's the
public PR the private reality.
The UN was created obviously to protect the
interests of the superpowers We all know this
and that's why there's the veto power however
The Palestinian conflict has forced the United Nations
to actually verbalize What is it against the
interests of the superpowers?
They cannot because the PR of being neutral
the PR of being for all peoples Cannot
be maintained unless they actually pretend to care
for the rights of the Palestinians.
And so they are Publicly caring for the
rights of Palestinians.
They have placed a nominal I mean, it's
just a it's just a token a chair
for the Palestinian people in a number of
their assemblies They have condemned military actions by
Israel They have supported the rights for a
two-state solution and most importantly in this
regard the International Court of Justice which is
the highest court of the United Nations the
ICJ has condemned Israel in the most Unequivocal
harshest terms imaginable if you remember when the
verdict came out Honestly, we couldn't have asked
for a better wording what we expected from
them.
They delivered 110 percent they gave us exactly
the wordings they called it They called they
didn't use the word genocide, but they called
it potential war crimes.
They called the the Israeli the Israeli Occupation
they could use the word occupation.
They call for an unconditional unilateral withdrawal from
the West Bank and other places the first
time the United Nations and the ICJ has
actually Verbalized this in 75 years.
So once again, this is a massive positive
So this is point number three point number
four.
One of the positives that have come out
Is that a number of Muslim countries and
I don't want to mention them because I
don't want to get us or you had
to Get into trouble, but we know who
they are a number of regional Muslim countries
We're one hairs width away from normalizing relations
with the apartheid regime Exchanging ambassadors exchanging airports
opening up tourism opening peace treaties because of
this last year every single Muslim country that
was thinking of normalizing had to halt and
Eventually, they had to at least verbally at
least verbally condemn Israel.
So all of this normalization That was on
schedule.
It was supposed to already technically according to
their plans.
There would have been direct flights Between Muslim
lands direct things going on.
Okay, and complete tourism along with Stan I
don't want to get you or anybody like
this.
Okay, we want to be in one piece
when we walk around Let's put it that
way.
Okay, so there the the reality is that
there was going to be normalization in multiple
countries Not just one all of this has
been halted all of it Not a single
country has normalized and in fact as we
said open condemnation because you have to this
is once again unprecedented so point number four
point number five point number five for the
first time the Boycott and divestment in the
BDS movement right for the first time it
has demonstrated its effectiveness at the highest level
Imaginable the BDS movement has gained traction multiple
corporations are Actually demonstrating they're losing billions of
dollars and this is giving us hope that
if we apply it judiciously Pause here.
I do want to point out.
I do believe a lot of times the
BDS movement idea is great But sometimes we
boycott the wrong companies, right?
So we have to be more judicious and
we have to have a panel of experts
actually point out which companies really do need
to be Boycotted and I want to continue
is not the time to get into this
but but effectiveness of the BDS movement has
been demonstrated and the world has seen that
Muslims do possess economic clout and imagine if
we actually came together A billion plus people
and we effectively what boycotted specific companies to
send the message We could send a massive
message.
We have already sent a good message, but
not good enough We have sent a good
message, but not good enough but it has
demonstrated that the BDS movement is an effective
mechanism to help our Palestinian brothers and sisters
point number five a benefit number six point
number six I'm going quick because I know
brother Sami is gonna take the charge and
lead Mashallah for more than 20 minutes Point
number six of the benefits that have come
out is the Solidarity protests around the world
from Australia all the way to even Japan
And of course America across student campuses literally
people coming to the streets This demonstrates the
hearts of the people have now been captured
and and they love the Palestinian cause Can
you imagine students taking time out of their
schedule?
Students who are busy graduating wanting to get
good grades We've had students that have been
threatened with expulsion and they're still marching in
protests against Israel and in support of Palestinians
We've had students and I saw it my
own eyes when I went to the MIT
campus the graduate students who are on visas
the graduate students on visas and the Administration
threatened them that if you are going to
protest you're gonna get your visa stripped No,
they protested they said we're not because the
MIT and others they have contracts with the
IDF They have contracts to do things to
for their infrastructure.
Those students said we're not going to be
used by Israel We're not going to be
the technicians of this genocide.
They're protesting that strip all of your contacts
We don't want to work for the IDF.
So students are protesting at Yale at Harvard
at MIT Across here UT Dallas multiple as
you're aware in UT Dallas 25 students were
arrested Some of them were non-muslim.
Some of them were Muslims.
They were arrested put in jail and they
continued doing those protests What does that show
the love that the youth have that love
is not going to go away if they're
protesting today?
And that angers in their heart against Israel
What's going to happen when these people become
the CEOs the tech when they become the
tech bosses when they become the politicians?
So right now the students hearts have been
captured It's just a matter of time where
those emotions are going to germinate and they
will support in a much more effective manner
So solidarity protests around the globe point number
six point number seven of the biggest of
the biggest positives that have come from the
last year's debacle the genocide against our Palestinian
brothers and sisters is that more and more
people are Seeing for themselves the hypocrisy not
only of the Western superpowers when they claim
they are supporting freedom They're supporting human rights.
They're supporting democracy But in fact the hypocrisy
of the world order the hypocrisy of these
these entities like the UN that are supposed
to cater to All of humanity, but in
reality They are selectively catering the hypocrisy of
the media as well and so more and
more people are opening their eyes and they're
seeing the reality of The powers that be
the media that is in control these institutions
that are claiming to support Democracy and freedom
all of this has now the veils have
been lifted and the reality has been demonstrated
That's point number seven point number eight.
I would say as well of the benefits.
Is that The apartheid country of Israel itself
has shown their own sheer desperation the sheer
barbarism of their tactics They carpet bombed a
small square of land the highest Concentration of
human beings in the world is in Gaza
You should know this point the highest concentration
of human beings in the world is in
Gaza 2.2 million trapped in barely a
few square miles of space 2.2 million
people and Israel Carpet bombed a defenseless group
of people per square per square meter more
bombs were dropped on Gaza Then in World
War true and in Dresden and other places
per square meter more bombs have been dropped
on a defenseless Population then in World War
two and yet still Israel has not succeeded
in its mission still the Palestinian spirit is
strong still the resistance is there They have
failed in terms of an effective military campaign
They're still battling a besieged people.
These people don't have weapons to fight with
they don't have bombs to fight with They
don't have anything to fight with and they're
still fighting What does that show one year
has gone on and instead of the Palestinians
fleeing?
Can you believe?
300% increase I just looked up the
statistics today 300% increase of who of
Israelis fleeing Israel back to where their home
countries That's not their home country people going
back to Poland people coming back to Brooklyn
people coming back to Ukraine 300% increase
in the last few months go look at
the TV and media Israeli airports are full
of who Israelis leaving leaving to where back
home where they came from Subhanallah the Palestinians
are right there and Israelis are packing their
bags and fleeing out 300% what does
that show this latest debacle of Lebanon?
What does it show nothing but desperation now?
You're gonna invade another land.
I don't know the reality Why maybe is
our brother Samuel explain why but to me
as a non expert in in in politics
It looks so I don't even know the
word to say in front of the masjid
here.
It looks completely like a provocation There's no
benefit.
You want to drag the people into war?
You're literally digging your last your grave You
have nothing else to do.
You know, you're gonna attack other countries here
This is an act of desperation What shows
to me this country realizes it is on
its last leg The world has lost its
support of this country there They're thinking the
only way they can succeed is to drag
the region into a World War three And
if they win they win if they lose
they lose wallahualam I don't know brother Sammy
can maybe talk more about this But from
my perspective the desperation of that land and
that people point number nine One of the
greatest benefits we see is the public conversion
Not to Islam that's point number ten the
intellectual conversion of an entire group of thinkers
from the far right to the far left
Entire groups of thinkers have converted from being
pro-israel to becoming pro-palestinian Entire spectrum
from the far right you had somebody like
Candace Owens Candace Owens who was no fan
of the Muslims five years ago She had
some really nasty things to say about us
But she herself says that because of this
reality and because of the barbarity of Israel
She was forced to study this history and
all of a sudden her tune has changed
180 degrees go listen to what she's saying
and she is resurrecting Facts that we can't
even say in the masjid going back to
World War two and other things We can't
even say them because they're really awkward to
say other people can say them if we
say them we get labeled as we Get
labeled even she gets labeled, but it's it's
okay.
Let her be labeled we we have to
be cautious about what we say, but my
point is Candace Owens on the far right
and then the far left you Have the
the famous perhaps the darling of the left
-wing before he released this book that the
the famous African intellectual Tanahisi Coates Tanahisi Coates,
right Tanahisi Coates was a regular darling in
the Atlantic in the New York Times He
was you know paraded around as being one
of the premier intellectuals of the far left
and all of a sudden Last month he
releases a book in Which he talks about
the Palestinian cause and reality because he visited
Palestine and Israel for around a week or
ten days he visited and in that week
or ten days he Completely shifted his perspective.
Can you imagine if he was born and
raised there in just one visit?
Completely and as you can see now, he's
doing the rounds CBS attempted to bring him
down He stood his ground and because he
stood his ground now you have of course,
you know John Stewart and others.
I mean he's doing the rounds here He's
gonna be his views are now gonna be
spread So from the far right to the
far left, of course, you still have the
intellectuals who are at the forefront here You
know Mearsheimer is of course of the greatest
minds you should be listening to because Mearsheimer
was the first public intellectual to release the
famous The famous article that that started this
all and then he turned it into a
book about the impact of the AIPAC lobby
in Congress he just analyzed the impact of
AIPAC in Congress and then he became famous
because of this and he's still consistently discussing
this reality and Mearsheimer is considered to be
of the centrist type of intellectuals who is
Respected pretty much by all sides even if
they don't like him and he has basically
said this is the end of the country
of Israel as we know it and He
is just a political scientist a professor at
Harvard a political science The Israel has no
way to get out of this now he
himself is predicting this reality So point number
nine the intellectual conversion of an entire group
of people from being pro Israel to becoming
pro-palestine and then of course last but
definitely not least the spiritual spark that the
brothers and sisters in Gaza the Iman that
is shining from the people of Gaza the
Dignity the courage from behind 50-foot walls
Even though they are the ones shackled and
chained it is as if they are the
ones free and they're opening our Shackles and
chains and they're opening the blinds across the
entire world those brothers and sisters Trapped behind
barbed wire.
They are the ones impacting the rest of
the globe They are the ones lifting the
veils and causing tens of thousands of people
to love the religion of Islam Tens of
thousands of people to embrace the religion of
Islam and they are reviving the spirit of
the ummah I have never seen in my
entire life I have never seen the sheer
quantity of our youth around the globe I've
just in a tour of England and Germany
and other countries.
I'm traveling around the world in these last
10 months I have never seen our youth
so Passionate about doing something coming together They
themselves are becoming part of this ummah the
brothers and sisters in Palestine They have rekindled
the concept of ummah in the hearts of
the ummah Single-handedly, they have unified the
ummah and they have separated the people who
love Allah from the munafiqeen in our midst
They have taken the people who love Allah
and join them all together and those whom
we don't want those who are hidden Munafiq
amongst us this cause has separated them and
we see the reality of those who love
Allah and want to help the ummah Versus
those who love the dunya and the dinar
and the dirham and the royal families We
see this reality Ra'iya al-Ayn our
brothers and sisters in Gaza have done what
nothing else in my lifetime has done and
that is to rekindle the love of Iman
the love of Allah the love of helping
the ummah the spirit of Islam the Courage
of la ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasul Allah It
has been rekindled in the hearts of the
entire ummah from east to west Never has
the ummah been this United and alhamdulillah thumma
alhamdulillah all of these ten points demonstrate as
Allah says in the Quran It is possible
You don't like something way a child Allah
who fee he khairan kathira and much good
is gonna come out of it as Allah
says In the Quran la tahsabu hu sharra
lakum bal huwa khairu lakum Don't think what
happened to you is bad rather it is
for your benefit and to conclude as Muslims
We always always are optimistic in Allah's promise.
We always look at the bright side We
always believe that the good of any Incident
will be more than the bad and that
is how we put our trust in Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala That we will see Allah's
promise true and we will see our brothers
and sisters in Gaza free and we will
see the Izzah that Is given to those
people who have been tortured who have sacrificed
so much for this ummah may Allah subhanahu
wa'ta'ala Bless them all and utilize us
in bringing about their freeing and their support
and with this inshallah ta'ala We pass
it to our and we pass it to
our brother Sammy and also the request has
been to not record now We are recording
professionally.
We're gonna release it inshallah ta'ala Live
online or we're gonna release it inshallah.
So no recording inside the masjid for brother
Sammy inshallah bismillah So after that political analysis,
I'm gonna go home now salam alaikum retired
you have your showcase I'm done I'm finished
Bismillah wasalatu wasalam ala sayyidina rasulallah jazakum wa
alf khair for being here.
I promise not to go on too long
I know it's a weak night and to
be honest I'm still quite every time I
come here I came here once before But
I can't get over the fact that this
is called epic masjid When sheikh Yasir first
told me about epic masjid, he said you
have to come to epic masjid I thought
these Americans inna lillahi inna liyirajioon look the
way they think of themselves epic And then
I realized it eats play no Islamic scent.
I was like, oh, I get it.
Okay Bismillah wasalatu wasalam ala sayyidina rasulallah.
I think that first and foremost I think
it's important to look at the situation as
it is not what you think it is
And then I think we'll go into the
role that everybody played because sometimes when you're
going around and giving these talks You ask
what should be the main message and there
is very strange Rumors that I am hearing
that apparently the ummah is getting fatigued that
somehow you are getting tired The Zionists are
panicking, but you are getting tired.
The Zionists are worried, but you are getting
tired The Zionists are terrified of your voice,
but you are asking if you are really
making a difference The Zionists are spending 24
million to start toppling these representatives who have
heard your voices and are getting worried But
somehow the Muslim says we're not making an
impact and therefore I've come armed with something
that I that I like to call Non
-muslim because I've realized that if I come
with a religious argument from Bukhari and Muslim
in my eyes They are very relevant to
social and political sciences But I appreciate that
sometimes as a result of the way that
we learn it There's a bit of a
Dajjalic spirit in the way that we understand
the deen So just for now just because
time is of the essence I will rely
on sahih non-muslim here in the hope
that the Zionist view of what's happening will
encourage you to keep going When you look
at the current situation as it is True
that your hearts break when you look at
what's happening in Gaza when you see what's
happening in the West Bank and what you're
Seeing what's happening in Lebanon, but there is
a reason why Netanyahu decided to attack Lebanon
it's because there is a desperation he feels
in that he cannot achieve a Victory that
he wants that he can offer to the
Israelis to say I am sorry That you
were ousted from land that you stole.
I am sorry I could not guarantee the
security on land that you stole and therefore
Netanyahu is Desperate to make up for it
by doing the one thing that Israeli society
will accept from him Which is to offer
new land the views expressed or the speakers
own they don't reflect anybody associated with the
air They don't reflect anybody who invited me
or anybody who organized this they didn't ask
what I would say I didn't tell them
what I would say and for good reason
and my friends always joke Sami speaks as
if he will never be invited to speak
again, and you will see why as in
this in any case In any case Netanyahu
when he entered into Gaza in order to
take the land He has to either do
one of two things He either has to
massacre the population and 2 million is very
difficult to massacre It's been one year and
even then he hasn't been able to massacre
anywhere near 1 million Palestinians The more easy
option for him was ethnic cleansing the problem
with ethnic cleansing However is that with the
sea to the back and the Rafah border
closed There's nowhere for the Palestinians to go
or to push them CC is keeping that
border closed because he knows that if the
Palestinians go into Sinai then the Palestinians who
resist from Sinai might provoke the Israelis to
invade Sinai and when they invade Sinai when
the Ambassador in Washington says, please get the
Israelis out of Sinai.
What do you think Washington is going to
do?
Washington is going to say I'm sorry there
is a terrorist threat that requires an international
peacekeeping force led by the Israelis in a
new demilitarized zone in the Sinai Peninsula and
Also when CC goes to the other Arab
nations and says to them help me look
what they're doing He will find the Arab
nations have already signed up to this peacekeeping
force to join the Israelis in this demilitarized
zone as a result Of their normalization drive
many of which they haven't abandoned the idea
But they've been forced to delay for a
number of reasons that we won't get into
today When Netanyahu said I can't get anything
from Gaza and I'm struggling because the Israelis
are protesting not because they're against the genocide
But because there's no compensation for breaking the
social contract which is the guarantee of security
on stone and land and the guarantee of
Prevention of homeowners from trying to go and
get back that land Netanyahu turned to the
West Bank The problem however is that when
he turned to the West Bank, he found
opposition from his Western allies Not because they're
against the annexation of the West Bank But
rather they're against annexing the West Bank at
the moment because there is a country it
has like two holy sites We don't need
to say which one it is But there
is a country that is saying that I
can't normalize without a Palestinian state It doesn't
need to be a functioning one.
It doesn't need to be a proper one
It can be a tiny paralyzed impotent state
But in the words of a leaked document
in one of the papers said I don't
care about Palestine But my people do so
I need a bit of theater in order
to justify the normalization So that my imams
in the hutba can say this is like
Hudaibiya or this is like whatever etc And
we got some sort of benefit So don't
take the West Bank because this is what
we're going to use for that theater Even
though 80% of the West Bank is
under zones B and C for those who
know after the Oslo Accords B and C
effectively under the Israeli control Failure to get
strategic victory in Gaza failure to go to
the West Bank.
Where can I go for this trip?
I need something.
I need something.
He goes after Lebanon.
Why because he wants to provoke Iran into
a war Why does he need to provoke
them into a war?
Because the only two times that Israel has
been able to embark on mass ethnic cleansing
are in two moments 1948 a war and
1967 a war because when you have an
open war You no longer need to pretend
that you're trying to do some humanitarian, you
know effort or the like You can just
go straight in and bomb willy-nilly and
kick all the Palestinians out The problem is
however is that Iran is not responding to
it because Iran knows that everybody would like
to see its proxies Defeated Iran doesn't want
to get dragged into that war So Netanyahu
is trying to provoke them into it while
the US administration is saying please don't do
a war because the only reason I'm able
to help you at this moment in time
is is Because no American soldiers are on
the ground dying if American soldiers are on
the ground.
My people won't tolerate it America first They
don't want to see Afghanistan or Iraq anymore.
They will not tolerate American soldiers being used
again for another war so I can't help
you in a war with Iran and Netanyahu
is desperate trying to force a Reaction that
will force the US to engage into a
war and the reason you see the escalation
now is because Netanyahu is concerned That whoever
wins on November 4th in the presidential election
Regardless of who it is.
He expects there will be a ceasefire because
he expects that after the elections There's no
need to pander to the Zionist as much
at least over the next two three years
They can wait another four years before doing
it They will likely be a ceasefire because
both sides will say I solved the fire
I brought about a ceasefire, but there's no
electoral consequences in the immediate term the way
they fear will take place in November But
the point that I wanted to come here
today was not to give you this political
analysis But rather to reinforce what Sheikh Yasser
was saying in that Sheikh Yasser highlighted what
has changed But I want to emphasize why
it changed and here is where I rely
on Sahih non-muslim.
You've all seen that The Zionists have spent
a lot of money lobbying here in the
US You saw them spend 24 million dollars
on Jamal Bowman to topple him you saw
them spend millions of dollars to topple Cori
Bush.
Why?
Jamal Bowman voted for reinforcing the Iron Dome
He voted for weapons for the Israelis, but
then a few months into the genocide.
He called for a ceasefire The Zionists when
they heard this call for a ceasefire their
question was hang on a second Why are
you calling for a ceasefire?
Their interpretation was that Jamal Bowman was noticing
a movement emerging a voice rising a raw
increasing That might suggest there might be consequences
for being seen to be supporting the genocide
so Jamal Bowman said let me hold the
stick from the middle and Let me support
the Israelis in what they need but call
for a ceasefire Just in case these people
organize and do something that might hurt me
in the elections I'm going to keep both
sides at ease The reason the Zionist panic
was because they concluded that the reason Jamal
Bowman was buckling is Because Jamal Bowman was
beginning to doubt the invincibility of AIPAC beginning
to doubt the invincibility of Zionism and he
was saying there is a potential that this
power might punish me and Zionists won't save
me So let me try to appease the
two the Zionists were saying what is this
power?
Emerging that now makes people doubt our invincibility,
which is essential to our lobbying We need
to show America that if you stand against
Zionism even a whiff you lose They seem
to be forgetting that because there are a
people raising their voices.
There are a people protesting There are a
people boycotting they're causing jitters in the ranks
We need to spend 24 million dollars on
an area that has been redrawn gerrymandering, which
doesn't have a sizable Muslim population But we
cannot afford to let Jamal Bowman win because
if he wins people will say that you
can go Semi-supporting of AIPAC.
You don't need to go all-in with
them We need to teach the representatives that
you might fear this rising power, but they
might organize We will organize they might punish
you We will punish you if you're going
to gamble on support you do not gamble
on Zionism You gamble with these people who
don't vote who don't organize who don't mobilize
don't gamble with us and they punish Jamal
Bowman Corey Bush said I will take up
the mantle I've supported Israel in the past,
but I'm wary of this voice that is
emerging I'm wary of this anger that is
Manifesting I'm wary of this talk that might
organize I'm wary of this fire in their
eyes whereby the other side does not scare
them They might actually punish me So I'm
also going to call for a ceasefire despite
having supported the Israelis the Zionist said bill
haram I'm gonna bring you down The Zionists
went and they sent a clear message That
anyone who doubts our invincibility anybody who thinks
that these people have the power to dent
my invincibility that these people have the power
to topple incumbents who we back that these
people might Organize we will teach them a
lesson that they might punish you.
We will punish you don't gamble on our
support gamble with theirs Don't play with my
invincibility But why were the Zionists so panic
what was this power that they were fearing
it wasn't any of the Muslim rulers Some
Muslim rulers were saying we will not normalize
without a Palestinian state But they kept the
airspace open for Israeli planes They kept the
land bridge open and they kept two billion
dollars invested in Jared Kushner's investment fund That
is funding the Israelis.
In other words, the ruler was saying.
Yeah Zionists Don't look at what I say.
Look at what I do I need to
say this so I can say to the
Muslims Don't look at what I do Look
at what I say because there is a
fiqh that says unless you can prove it
just follow what they say And that's it
in any case it wasn't because of the
Muslim rulers some of whom they get the
oil is coming from one country going through
a country that is led by Somebody who
was quite popular in the ummah from time
to time going through and when they asked
him Please turn off the oil going to
the Israelis.
He said I will not touch the j
-hand pipeline When you see the other Muslim
rulers and the like who allowed the Israelis
to enter Philadelphia corridor This pressure is not
coming from Arab rulers in 1982 King Fahd
called Reagan and stopped the bombardment in Beirut
in 2001 King Abdullah called Bush and got
the u.s. To stop supporting the Israeli
repression of the second intifada There's no such
phone call by any Muslim ruler to Biden
at this moment in time So what made
the Zionist panic?
What's the power that made the Congress people
start to hold the stick in the middle?
What made the Congress people say that AIPAC
is lobbying with money?
But they might not be as strong as
we think they are because this power is
emerging a bad Allah.
It was you Now I know because I
look like you and we all have inferiority
complexes.
It's had a life with the weather So
I came armed with a Zionist testimony, which
I know you will take more seriously than
Sami Ibn al-Hashmi al-Hamdi The Zionist
was so worried by the shift in public
opinion that she he asked her was alluding
to And where he might tell me off
later for the Sahino Muslim stuff The Zionist
was so concerned about the shift amongst the
Congress people That they went and lobbied Congress
to ban TikTok may Allah protect and preserve
tik-tok and elevate its status amongst say
I mean I Was in Philadelphia.
I tell this story often.
I was in Philadelphia and I said this
and I mean it sincerely I actually don't
say it as a joke I actually mean
it sincerely because it was tik-tok that
delivered the message to the Americans That was
the bridge that God I mean it.
I know people laugh about it, but I
take that was seriously but the point is
I said in Philadelphia and there was a
brother who I imagine I'm sitting I'm standing
here and he was sitting where Sheikh Yasser
is sitting and He said we're making dua
for tik-tok in the masjid.
I Told him what's wrong with with making
dua for it.
He said it's fitna So don't shush me
in the masjid I told him no I'm
shushing you so that to save you save
me from what I told him when you
tell people tik-tok is fitna You're telling
them that you taught your algorithm to show
you fitna because the algorithm only shows you
what you like It doesn't show you what
you don't like.
Otherwise, you'll uninstall the app So the fact
algorithm is showing you fitna means you search
for fitna so the algorithm knew you like
fitna So it's showing you fitna.
Give me your phone.
I'll fix your algorithm, but shush don't admit
that you are searching fitna Tech guys.
Am I right Leith?
You are here.
Am I right Leith?
Yeah, take it as a tech expert.
He'll tell you about algorithms So so as
a result of tik-tok may Allah protect
and preserve it.
I mean as long as it serves the
ummah and the Singaporean CEO May Allah guide
him.
I don't know why you're laughing.
I'm serious.
But anyway The Israelis the Zionists realized that
what was making Candace Owens change her mind
What was making Tucker Carlson change his mind?
What was making all these people change their
minds?
It wasn't somebody forcing them.
It wasn't somebody buying them It was this
algorithm that was elevating the Palestinian content so
what did Congress do on the orders of
AIPAC Congress said we need to ban tik
-tok and They moved to mobilize plans trying
to force tik-tok to sell to Zionists
so that they could control the content that
was going they went to META They said
META you need to shadow ban the accounts
need to shut down the accounts But the
point that I'm saying is who were they
targeting?
Who was Netanyahu targeting?
Who was Biden targeting?
Who were AIPAC targeting?
They were not targeting Muslim rulers.
They were targeting you What's the power they
saw in you that you are struggling to
see in yourself?
What's the power they saw in you that
you are struggling to see so much so
that you are feeling fatigue while they are
panicking?
They are panicking at your movement while you
are asking is my movement making However, the
reason they targeted tik-tok was to silence
you Muhammad Asad in his book wrote to
Mecca He says that if Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam had preached Islam in Quraish the
way Christianity was preached if he had preached
it as something personal in your home not
to be go out It's the problem between
you and God if Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam had kept his message within his own
circle Quraish would not have fought him the
reason Quraish repressed him is because the dawah
was taken out It was convincing society.
He was in their social issues He was
talking to society They were listening and their
hearts were flipping and the Quraysh could not
buy those hearts back After they were convinced
by the dawah the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam did not have an army Nor
did he have wealth to buy them or
the like in Mecca in the first 13
years but he didn't need it why because
people were hearing the message and Ignoring the
material superiority of the Quraysh to join the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his
followers The same way you are seeing people
enter Islam the ummah is saying we are
weak Look what's happening Megan Rice is saying
look how strong these people are.
I'm opening the Quran and la ilaha illallah
Muhammad Rasulullah Shaun King he saw the ummah
he saw we were saying it's weak.
We were saying it's tragic We were saying
oh, there's no point not Shaun King.
He looked he saw he was moved He
opened Quran and said la ilaha illallah Muhammad
Rasulullah Candice Owens verbatim She said before October
7th I believed Israel was a firm ally
of the u.s And we had to
support it and after October 7th The Zionist
demanded that we look and pay attention to
what's happening And when we looked we realized
we didn't like what we saw about the
Israelis And I cannot be convinced that anything
Israel does to the Palestinians is justified Tanahassee
Coates, he said when they pushed back and
they said to him you're not considering both
sides What did he say?
He said nothing you can tell me can't
justify apartheid Nothing you can tell me can't
justify occupation Nothing you can tell me can't
justify Jim Crow and they have no idea
what to do with that argument Because who
moved the compass ya ibadallah it was you
and this is why the yes the despair
You might feel in your hearts is exactly
what the Zionist are hoping you feel the
Zionist want you to be quiet They want
you to stop moving They want you to
stop raising your voices because you've been doing
it for one year and no matter how
many millions they spend To win back control
of the narrative They are unable to do
so because although they spent millions on a
PR campaign the ummah broke it for free
ibadallah Some of you might be saying Sammy
came here as a motivational speaker to encourage
us I think motivation speak is the biggest
insult somebody can give me because it implies
I have no substance It implies I'm just
here to give you spiritual But there is
another impact that you made There is a
series of court cases against a third-party
candidate To get them off the ballot in
a number of different states And we sat
there as analysts and we thought why are
all these court cases happening on a third
-party candidate that Muslims keep saying There's no
point.
They're gonna lose.
Anyway, we don't go for losers all or
nothing and then somebody said to me That
the reason the third-party candidate is so
problematic is because there is a law in
America That if a third-party candidate gets
5% of the nationwide vote Then they
are able to access federal funding and state
funding that will enable them to compete competitively
with the two established parties and If this
third-party candidate gets the 5% nationwide,
it doesn't matter where you are What it
would mean is the voter base for this
party would be taken away from the party
that supported the genocide Meaning that the price
for supporting Zionism is a permanent wound that
hemorrhages votes for the next three to four
election cycles Therefore we need to make sure
that these people who moved all they do
is keep talking.
They don't organize.
They don't mobilize We need the imams to
tell them voting is haram.
We need them to tell them there's no
hope We need to tell them the system
is too strong.
We need to tell them that it's impenetrable
impregnable We need to put the despair in
their hearts because if they keep going they
convince Tucker Carlson to say we should cut
funding They convince Candace Owens that Israel is
wrong.
Tana has see coach is hearing them and
now he's going around saying it's apartheid They
keep talking They won't be quiet and the
more they talk the more America listens and
the more America listens the more they're becoming
pro-palestinian And the more they become pro
-palestinian the more we lose a generation and
if we lose a generation Then John Hudson
the chief White House correspondent for The Washington
Post He says that a new analysis captures
that donors Zionist donors are giving money to
the parties on the basis They support genocide
But that condition of supporting genocide is precisely
what might make them lose the election and
that will have sweeping consequences for America Because
what it means is that when they try
to put the Sun and the moon in
the hands of these parties They will say
there's no point you gave me millions in
2024 and I still lost because your millions
did not stop these people from going out
and punishing genocide from the Zionist perspective You
are terrifying from the Zionist perspective Your voice
is petrifying from the Zionist perspective Your roar
is electric from the Zionist perspective from the
Zionist perspective Millions are being spent to silence
you.
Are you going to be silent now?
Are you going to be silent now?
Ibadallah you are winning when Omar Ibn Al
-Khattab R.A. became Muslim the Takbirat could
be heard across Mecca Would you have been
one who said I know what it means
that Omar becomes Muslim or would you have
turned on and said?
What are you celebrating for?
We're still being repressed.
Of course, you know the impact of Omar
becoming Muslim R.A. Of course, you know
the impact of when public opinion shifts Of
course, you know the impact when suddenly they're
panicking at the electoral consequences of punishing genocide
You know the impact of dawah not because
of what the non-muslims say here I
will rely on Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
Did not Allah say ادفع بالله احسن Push
back with that which is best for the
one who is your enemy today tomorrow might
become your warmest ally Who knew that these
corners of the world would become pro-Palestinian?
Did you see the Middle East I video
of the Jewish protester in London and she
says before October 7th I grew up Zionist
I grew up supporting Israel and after October
7th I opened a book and I read
and the more I read the more I
was shocked and the more I became shocked
the more I realized that Israel is a
colonial state that dawah is working your voices
are working How dare you say you are
tired when you are shifting the world making
Macron call for an arms embargo The ICJ
charged them with genocide the ICC moved to
issue arrest warrants companies leaving Israel because of
the economic boycott McDonald's shutting down because you
refuse to buy the filet fish that my
son Suleiman used to love and now he
won't even look At it Baba.
They're killing Palestinians.
He says How Do you feel tired Almighty,
where does this fatigue come from?
Who wins who is winning in a battle
and gets tired of winning?
How do you retreat when you are winning?
How do you retreat when you are shifted?
What fool when he sees them on the
back foot turns around and says there's no
point.
I'm going home There's no hope for this.
We have Allah and it's being manifested.
The dawah is working move Now's not the
time to stop there's a reason why Netanyahu
is panicking There's a reason why they're spending
so much money on these races It's because
they fear that you will move and mobilize
and you will punish every incumbent who took
money from a pack that you will punish
every incumbent who supported the genocide that in
those seats where there is a Tight margin
such as in Cincinnati or these other places
that if people go to punish the incumbent
What the Zionist fear more than anything because
the Muslim the Muslim believes he is a
shot and Mashallah clever individual Sammy both candidates
are pro-israel Sammy both candidates are pro
-zionist Sammy There's no point whoever wins is
pro-zionist Habibi if Zionist believed what you
believe Why spend 24 million on Jamal Bowman
if they believed what you believed?
Why are they trying to ban tik-tok
if they believed what you believe?
Why are they panicking about the power of
their lobbying movement?
It's because they're worried about something They're not
worried that the president will be pro-palestine.
They are worried that the invincibility that makes
people listen to them the invincibility that makes
Congress people scared of them the invincibility that
Thomas Massey says makes Congress people who want
to say something against Israel But they don't
because they believe they will definitely be punished
in their district The Zionists are worried that
for the first time in American history Incumbents
will lose because they supported Zionism and Zionism
will go from being a political asset to
a political liability that for the first time
in two years if the incumbents are punished
for supporting Zionism when a pack comes and
says Here is the money for your campaign
But you must support Israel the candidate will
say didn't they take money from you before
and that made these groups of East Plano
Rush to the ballot box to punish.
I'm not taking your money because they showed
they can punish They showed they can topple
if I go near you, they'll come out
if I stay away from you They'll go
back to the masjid every time I support
you.
They rush out of the masjid to punish
me I don't want to take that risk.
You're not invincible anymore.
You're not scary anymore You can't guarantee my
success anymore And you can't punish me the
way you used to because there is an
umma of la ilaha illallah That won't stop
its dawah that won't stop raising its voice
and it's flipping the hearts of Americans Whereby
the Americans are finally waking up and they
are saying hang on a second We were
hoodwinked by the Zionists free free Palestine from
the river to the sea Palestine will be
free I finish on this point.
I Finish on this point a bad Allah.
I did not come here.
I did not come here to lecture you
have she has a body Why should I
come here?
I Sometimes he sends me messages after the
talks right an analysis this one.
You shouldn't have made this joke.
You shouldn't have made this May Allah bless
him Allah Iman I didn't come here to
lecture you.
I came here because there is an ugly
rumor spreading that some of you are saying
you are Having no impact There is an
ugly rumor spreading that some of you are
talking to each other over Adani chai from
Haraz and coffee house And you are telling
each other that this social media this dawah
business doesn't make a difference and the frightening
thing is if you hear Somebody say it
I want you to respond to them and
say that we've only been doing this dawah
11 months Would you 11 months into the
dawah the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu sallam?
Would you have said to me our Rasul
Allah?
We are not making an impact.
What's the point of this dawah that we're
giving?
See how you were cringed see how the
seerah is terrifying see how the seerah I
always say if you read the seerah and
you are not terrified you're reading it like
a dajjal Because the seerah tells you what
life feels like it tells you what dawah
feels like it tells you but the point
that I want To finish on is this
Allah says in the Quran fast but in
the water Allah be patient the victory of
Allah is true.
The promise of Allah is coming But the
data that I gave you about dawah and
this is what I want to finish on
I want to transform the concept of dawah
in your minds from cupcakes in the park
and neutral dawah stalls I want you to
expand the notion of dawah to political dawah
that can flip the hearts of society Which
is what the dawah was supposed to be
about Allah when he talks about dawah, he
says وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلًا مِنْ مَنْ دَعَىٰ إِلَىٰ
اللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا وَقَالَ إِنَّنِي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ Is
there any better speech the one who calls
to Allah does good deeds and says I
am from the Muslimin If you stop on
this ayah You will get the assumption that
dawah is only for neutrals.
It's for apathetics It's for those who make
you feel good those who make you feel
nice But Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala tells you
what dawah feels like and you are feeling
it those who think they are feeling fatigue
Let me tell you what you are feeling
Allah says وَلَا تَسْتَوَى الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ The
good deed and the bad deed are not
equal Your voice of justice is not like
their voice of injustice Your voice of what's
right is not like their voice of batil,
which is why their millions are unable to
contain your free dawah Allah says اِدْفَعَ بِالَّتِي
هِيَ اَحْسَنَ اِدْفَعَ is to push both contexts
push back or to push اِدْفَعَ بِالَّتِي هِيَ
اَحْسَنَ My father sometimes you know in the
Arab when they migrate to the Western world
They do something called Arab English They mix
the two so my father would be like
with the door Pushiha, push the door Instead
of saying اِدْفَعَ, اِدْفَعَ الْبَىٰ, push the door
Allah says اِدْفَعَ بِالَّتِي هِيَ اَحْسَنَ Push back
with that which is best What am I
pushing against?
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in the first 40
years of his life We have a Syria
expert here What was his relationship with Quraish
for the first 40 years?
He was the golden child golden boy When
two tribes are beefing Go to Muhammad bin
Abdullah You can find no better mediator When
you want an amanah and your brother is
cheating you Don't go to your brother Go
to Muhammad bin Abdullah He cheats no one
When you have a caravan going to Syria
Who can I trust to take it?
They tell Khadija There is a man called
Muhammad bin Abdullah Send him When do the
problems begin between Muhammad ﷺ and Quraish?
When do they begin?
Does his character change?
Does anything about his character change that gives
Quraish a reason?
So what changes?
He receives the wahi, he stands up And
he calls out the way you called out
That Allahumma hatha munkar La illa Allah Muhammadur
Rasulullah Stop cheating each other in business Stop
burying your daughters alive Stop abusing the poor
in society Stop abusing the oppressed That's what
he says to them And what's the reaction
to it?
When Waraka ibn Nawfal says to Muhammad ﷺ
I wish I would be alive for when
your people drive you out For when they
start to oppress you He says why would
my people oppress me?
He doesn't understand why the call of justice
Would evoke such a harsh reaction from his
people When you raised the voice You were
happy with the status quo I've seen East
Plano Bismillah mashallah The status quo was nice
wasn't it?
The status quo was lovely You built nice
comfort for yourselves When did the backlash begin?
When you raised your voices for Haq But
Allah says for those who raise their voice
ادفع بالتي احسن فإذا الذي بينك وبينه عداوة
كأنه ولي حميم If you push If you
raise your voice If you do it If
you push Allah says if you push The
one who is your enemy today The one
you thought could never become pro-Palestine The
right wing is The left wing is The
ones you thought could not be convinced Tomorrow
will become your warmest ally But who achieves
it?
And this is the conclusion Which is why
the title is patience as you move Who
achieves it?
Allah says وَمَا يُلَقَّهَا None achieve this None
achieve the flipping of the hearts None وَمَا
يُلَقَّهَا إِلَّا الَّذِينَ صَبَرُوا Those who are patient
Look at the meaning of patience Patience is
not waiting for something to happen Patience is
perseverance in the action Perseverance in the dawah
Perseverance in the tweeting Perseverance in raising your
voice Perseverance in boycott It's to wake up
with that sadness in your heart And say
وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقَّ The promise of Allah is
true Move The promise of Allah is true
Move I don't know where it's going to
come from I don't know how it will
be But if I'm patient in my perseverance
If I keep going If I keep boycotting
Eventually the Starbucks price will drop Eventually McDonald's
will drop Eventually AXA will leave Israel Eventually
Itocho will cancel all of its memorandums Of
understanding with the Israelis Eventually Moody's will downgrade
Israel twice Eventually 300% will start leaving
Eventually nobody will look at Israel as an
economic enterprise As long as I'm patient and
I keep moving What I think is impossible
will be possible Why?
Because Allah says in the ayah وَمَا يُلَقَّهَا
إِلَّا ذُو حَظٍ عَظِيمٍ The ones who achieve
it are those who are fortunate Meaning Allah
intervenes to amplify that Which you thought could
not be amplified And that's why Hud a
.s. said to his people That if you
take the step to Allah يَزِدْكُمْ قُوَّةً إِلَى
قُوَّتِكُمْ He will add strength to your strength
You have limited strength But move and Allah
will add Move, Allah will add Tennessee Coats
Move, Allah will add Tucker Carlson Move, Allah
will add Macron Move, Allah will add Belgium
Move, Allah will add Ireland He will add
Spain He will add Norway He will add
all of these countries That now are all
voting for resolutions Calling for the end of
the occupation And the only nation left standing
Is the United States of America That بِإِذْنِ
اللَّهِ With your da'wah Its heart will
also flip Because وَعْدُ اللَّهِ حَقٍ Injustice will
not last Because the people of justice They
don't stop moving The people of justice They
always keep moving For no other reason Than
they know that the path to Jannah Is
one that is paved with struggle And they
say Allahumma use me as the vehicle Use
me as the tool Make me the one
whose voice makes a difference Allahumma don't make
me like those who sit at home Don't
make me like those who say there's no
hope Don't make me like those who say
it's useless Allahumma let me believe in your
promise And even if I can't see the
victory Even if I say مَتَى نَصْرُ اللَّهِ
Even if I say like Sahaba and the
Prophet مَسَتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَالزُّلْزِلُ حَتَّى يَقُولُ
رَسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتَى نَصْرُ اللَّهِ That
they are shaken to their core By what
they are tested with Until the Prophet and
his companions say When is the victory of
Allah coming?
You might be feeling that now You might
be feeling like Nuh Alayhis Salaam رَبِّي إِنِّي
دَعَوْتُ قَوْمِي لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا وَلَمْ يَزِدْهُمْ دُعَائِي إِلَّا
فِرَارًا Allahumma I'm calling on my Qawm day
and night And they just merely run away
from me You might be feeling like Lut
Alayhis Salaam Who said قَالَ لَوْ أَنَّ لِي
بِكُمْ قُوَّةً أَوْ آوِي إِلَى رُكُنٍ شَدِيدٍ If
only I had power or a powerful ally
To resist you You might be feeling like
Hud Alayhis Salaam Or Shu'aib Alayhis Salaam
Or Salih Alayhis Salaam You might But look
up these names in the Quran And look
what happens in the end Allah's victory always
becomes manifest Move Ya Ibadallah The Zionists are
panicking And never let anyone of you say
That they're feeling tired Never let anyone of
you say That you're feeling fatigued For Wallahi
it's the Zionists who are panicking Now is
not the time to retreat Takbeer Allahu Akbar
Jazakumullah Khair Takbeer MashaAllah MashaAllah May Allah bless
you May Allah Azza wa Jal increase you
And your Quwah as well To motivate the
rest of us Final message brothers and sisters
Exactly like Sami said I strongly strongly encourage
you Wallahi it's not even encouragement It is
obligatory You cannot remain silent First and foremost
Be involved in the system Go out and
vote We can't say to whom But go
out and be a part of the system
More important than that Wallahi more important than
just voting Is changing the hearts and minds
Of your colleagues and neighbors Changing the perception
of what's going on there Being active on
social media and Facebook And engaging one on
one With the people that are closest to
you And most important So political activism Social
activism Then the final point Religious awakening and
activism The most important Palestine is of course
In our hearts and minds But Palestine is
of course A broader part of the Ummah
And part of that is the message of
La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah We link Al
-Aqsa We link all of this to the
Risala To the Wahi To the Prophets To
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Having prayed
there Most important We can use and we
must use Gaza To revive the spirit of
Islam And the message of La ilaha illallah
Muhammadur Rasulullah May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Bless our brothers and sisters in Gaza May
Allah free them May Allah azwajal Utilize us
for them Wa jazakumullahu khairan Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh