Yasir Qadhi – Reflections on The DC Capital Assault

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			we praise the law, the one and the unique him do we worship and his aid do we seek, he aids the one
in distress, and he gives strength to the week. Dear Muslims, in the last few days, we saw signs, we
saw images that seared in our heads of mobs attacking our own capital. And we saw chaos and mayhem
fitting up and facade, the likes of which we were not accustomed to seeing in these lands. Again,
much can be said, and I was debating whether to mention this or not. But I feel very strongly about
this issue. And so there are natural law. And we will see what this message will do. Dear Muslims,
as I was scrolling through Facebook, and even listening to what others were saying, I saw some
		

			amongst us some who were, in some sense, rebelling, maybe even gloating about this reality that they
are seeing. They expressed a sense of happiness, about seeing the chaos and the fitna and the
facade. And you know, the fact of the matter, we can understand why certain segments are so angry at
the reality of this nation and land. There is no doubt and I have said this numerous times that our
country has a dark side, it has an underbelly that we don't like to think about, it has a history of
having a lot of negatives, as well, how the indigenous people of this land were treated and
decimated, how millions of people were brought over from Africa and treated and how their
		

			descendants are still being treated. We have plenty to criticize when it comes to foreign foreign
invasions, when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to philosophy when it comes to Guantanamo.
And the list goes on and on and on. Let this not be assumed that I am exonerating much less
defending that dark underbelly. But I want to make a point here that might not be popular, I say
loudly and clearly that it is neither healthy nor Islamic, to gloat over a tragedy of this nature.
This is not an exoneration of the evil that has happened in the name of and by this country that we
live in. No, it is a reminder of who we are not to who others might be. It is a reminder of our
		

			religion of our principles. It is a reminder of what we are here to do. We are not here to wreak
vengeance, we are not here to have a tit for tat, we have a goal and a purpose. And that goal and
that purpose is nittaku, shuhada. idleness to be a witness unto mankind. Is it really healthy for us
to harbor such negativity about the very land that we live in? Is this the way forward and I say
this at the beginning of this year, because dear Muslims, it is very likely that we're gonna see a
lot more such things happening if you understand what is going on. In all likelihood, this was not
the first nor that is going to be the last. So what is going to be our attitude as this calamity
		

			precipitates? Are we going to be in the sidelines cheering? Or are we going to understand that
neither is that healthy, nor Islamic? In the end of the day, this is our land. These are our
peoples, despite all the negativity that is happening. And if we learn anything from this era, well
law, how can we read the incident of thought if over and over and over again? since we were
children, we were taught the incident of thought if and yet when something like this happens, we
turn our backs to the tragedy of life, and we don't learn anything from the lessons of life. Should
we want destruction for our people? Or should we want to die? And grandma? That is the question I'm
		

			asking you. It's a very unpopular question. It's a blunt question. It's a wrong question. But it
needs to be asked, What is your goal for being here? What is your purpose for having come to this
land and benefited from all the benefits? Because in the end the data let's be honest, here, almost
all of us have come and benefited immensely. That's why we are here or our fathers came before us.
Is this the Islamic attitude? No doubt. There's much to criticize. No doubt. We're angry about
1,000,001 things. But in the end of the day, what we want is not destruction. We want a dire we want
compassion. We want a loss blessings to come down. So all I'm asking for in this second part of the
		

			whole All I'm asking for is a reevaluation.
		

			Our attitudes of our paradigm of our framework. How do we view the people around us? How do we view
these incidents taking place? Should we not be at the forefront using this as a teaching moment?
Yes, well, ah he we can talk about the hypocrisy and double standards. We all know that if a person
in a in a beard and another flag were in the Capitol, what would happen? We all know if people have
a darker skin color, we're doing what they did, what would happen. This is the time to use as a
teaching moment. This is the time where we need to display leadership and not hatred, compassion,
and not bigotry. This is what we are here for dear Muslims, and will lie in distressed me to find so
		

			many amongst us online and whatnot, to have a sense of gloating and happiness about the reality of
what is happening. Do we not realize that the destruction of these lands is the destruction of our
own family and friends, is the destruction of where we are. A man came to the Prophet system, the
leader of one of the tribes of DOS, and he said, O Messenger of Allah, my tribe has rejected me and
my tribe is an evil tribe make dua to Allah to destroy them. The Prophet system that made up he
raised his hands and the people became happy that he thought they would make up for the destruction.
He said, Oh Allah, guy dose to Islam, Allah guide the tribe of dose to Islam, Allah guide them to
		

			Islam and bring them to Islam and SubhanAllah. Within a few weeks, the tribe of dose embraced Islam
and came to Medina, embracing Islam, even though one of its own leaders, one of its own Muslim
leaders came to Medina and he said, O Messenger of Allah, my people are evil, my people are bad,
make dua to Allah to destroy them. That's what he wanted. Because it's only natural, you feel extra
angry? Do you not think we understand I understand Guantanamo is still open, our blood should be
boiling the foreign invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan, of course, we speak out. But that does not
mean we want destruction. That does not mean that we pray for the annihilation are very, very people
		

			we live amongst, it means that we channel that anger and we temper it with the compassion of our
religion, with the lessons of our Sierra and we then become productive members, role model people
that we demonstrate what is it mean to be Muslim? What is it mean to be leaders of religion in a
land where religion is becoming lost? That's what we should use this opportunity for. This is not an
exoneration of the past crimes of this land. It is a call for reflection about who we are as a
Muslim civilization living in this land and our priorities and our paradigm, let us learn from this
era. Indeed, what is happening is tragic, and there's much to criticize, but our role, our goal is
		

			not just to destroy, it's not to annihilate our role is to be role models, to guide people to the
beautiful religion, to explain to them why we are here and to tell them about the message of our
Lord and the life of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam That should be our paradigm. So let us
reflect upon that and use this as a teaching moment. And indeed Allah subhanho wa Taala is the one
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