Yasir Qadhi – We wanted to bring from them Leaders – Palestine

			This was today's the last quarter that I have is 29th night. And I wanted to give a spiritual talk
but Wallahi all day, seeing what's happening in philosophy and and seeing the news is just so
overwhelming. And I think we do deserve a little bit of a talk, especially for our, again, young men
and women, and frankly, not just them, all of us about a bit of a half either or theology issue.
Because it's human nature, brothers and sisters, it's human nature that we feel hurt, depressed
questions come, how can this be happening? You know, nine children were killed nine kids. And these
are people that are already for 75 years living the way that they are my entire life. And I'm in my
		

			mid 40s My entire life. And we're hearing about the fettucini crisis as if nothing has changed. I
mean, shaytaan comes and you do feel overwhelmed, somewhat even depressed, there's not even a light
at the end of the tunnel. Nothing seems to change from bad to worse. And now I'll officer itself has
been, as we know, trampled on literally inside troops are there. And Allah knows what's going to
happen the next few days, and some of our own elected politicians hamdulillah a few of them tweeted
some generic but as you know, the majority of them blatant disregard for our brothers and sisters,
and complete support of an apartheid regime. You can't tell but feel overwhelmed. So I think for
		

			myself and all of us, just a quick reminder and talk about how do we understand and contextualize
how do we really make sense really, I think that's really the question How do we make sense as
Muslims? Isn't religion? Isn't our religion the truth? I mean, you kind of sort of sympathize with
formidable Kabbalah the Allahu Akbar and the Treaty of Davia. When he comes to the process, some
says, Yeah, rasool Allah, how can we accept this? Are we not upon the hack, even his anger, it is
Islamic in its own way, even though it was directed to the Prophet system, and he himself said, I
did many deeds to make up for that day he felt very guilty, but the essence of his anger is Islamic.
		

			Like how can this be happening? Yeah, rasool Allah, how can we accept humiliation and looting and we
are the believers in Allah? In fact, as we know, he even said a lesser idol hack. And we need it Abu
Bakr by the way, it'll be Allah one to come to him and grab him by the collar and say Sit down. Yep,
another hot tub. What are you doing? Who are you talking to? In any case, that's a whole different
issue. The anger that Umar Radi Allahu Anhu felt we should all at some level be feeling it. But we
need to have it then Eman to understand what is to be done. The first point Dear brothers and
sisters and as always, time is always working against us. The first point
		

			and it's a very difficult point will lie, but it's one of the most obvious political power is not a
sign of Allah's pleasure.
		

			And political defeat is not a sign of Allah's Anger. On the contrary, we begin to contextualise by D
linking is in this world with ASA in the eyes of Allah. We have to D link it the two are not
causally related. It is possible that the most honored people are not shown honor by the inhabitants
of this earth. And that doesn't mean that the Creator does not show them honor. That's how we begin
to understand and make sense of this. Because this dunya is not the ultimate goal. This world is not
an indication of whether Allah is pleased with you or not. As Allah says in the Quran, Kula knowmad
Doha hula hula, we will give this dunya to all How will I miss the believers? Well how Allah means
		

			the coloration kuffaar kula nama duhallow How will you robic Allah's blessings of this dunya are
open to all and there are times and situations where the righteous do not live to see the fruits of
their piety in this world. How many were the Sahaba martyred in Mecca? Was their death for no cause.
They never saw Medina. They never saw the fruits of their own patience. Our Profit System passed by
the sahabi who my father named me after Yasser and his wife Samia, and they are being tortured to
death the first martyrs. Can you imagine how he himself so listen and felt and what could he do
other than say sobre la Yasser Inamori Docomo agenda now I'm not advocating by the way pacifism
		

			don't misunderstand me. I'm saying we need to begin the discussion by understanding at the end
theology that this world and there is of this world means nothing. That's why Allah reminds the
Quraysh that hey, Boris, you think you're powerful? There were people more powerful than you can who
assured them in what? They were more than you? They had more quantity than you for some terrible
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			Take advantage of their strength, what happened to them? So there is in this world has nothing to do
with ASA in the eyes of Allah. And in fact, one can even make the case, as our Prophet system
explicitly said that when Allah loves the people, what does he do? He tests them. And so at times
being tested can actually be interpreted as a sign of raising one's ranks. Another way we began to
understand what is going on, is that if we truly believe in the promise of Allah insha, Allah all of
us do, then we have to have Yaqeen at some level, that the positives that will come are greater than
the negatives. This is something that we have to have clean about. Now those negatives might be
		

			painful, the suffering of people, the loss of innocent lives, humiliation, but we have to believe
that over all the positives will outweigh the negatives. And that only comes if we have a man in
Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. Allah azza wa jal reminds us in the Quran, that when one of the worst
incidents or the most traumatic incidents happens in the Sierra, which is the slander of Arusha,
What did Allah azza wa jal say? Lata Cebu sha Allah Campbell Hua, are you lucky? Don't think what
happened is bad? No. Overall, there's going to be positives that come out. There's going to be
positives, and after the Bible of erode when the Sahaba really were demoralized, there was a sense
		

			of panic and sadness. Allah revealed earlier Imran Imran it's very important to read earlier Imran
after any one of these incidents happened because it cheers us up. And Allah azza wa jal mentioned
so many things. Every time a calamity happens to you, are you going to go back to a topic we're
going to go back as if nothing happened? Our coulomb every time something happens, Allah reminds the
Sahaba that look, you're going to be in pain and suffering but they're also having in pain and
suffering and you have what they do not have what to do and I'm in Allah Hema, Allah yo Jun, the two
sufferings are not the same. You have ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada there is a wisdom here. And in these
		

			verses, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala mentioned so many times that the end result the victory will always
be eventually for the believers will give it to them with Japan. So we have to have that in our
athlete and Iman that eventually Yes, Truth does come forth from falsehood and the victor that Allah
says in the Quran, Khattab Allahu Allah, Allah Laban and neurosurgery Allah has decreed that me and
my messengers shall eventually be victorious. This is the color of Allah azza wa jal, another point
that we have to understand as well. Is that individual pain and suffering, the suffering of the
people there.
		

			It is something that Allah azza wa jal is testing them with to raise their ranks. As we already
mentioned, there is wisdom in pain and suffering. And that wisdom is that people reconnect with
Allah subhanho wa Taala people turn to Allah azza wa jal, their spiritual spirituality rises I,
unfortunately, this is our reality. When things are going good and easy. When things are nice. Our
soul becomes lacks. We don't have a connection with Allah. But at times of stress and difficulty,
that's when our Eman soars and so those that are suffering and in pain, and we see mashallah the
bravery and the courage, we see what is happening to the people of a sham, and the process of praise
		

			the people of a sham. So we have fully attained that what is meant for them is positive. And in
fact, we learned this directly from the Quran. When Allah mentioned a case that in some ways is even
more brutal than what is happening to our brothers and sisters in philosophy and not to compare
contrast, but we know what happened to the Bani Israel underground. We know what he did. We know how
many centuries of either we know he took innocent babies as a policy as a policy and slaughtered
them in front of their mothers and fathers. This is something we all know. Now what does Allah say
about the Bani Israel? After Allah mentions that found killed and raped and plundered you know what
		

			the next verse is? One hoody do another Munna either readiness to fulfill or the One A Jana ima when
the human body thing after mentioning the humiliation to the Bani Israel in What is Allah say, we
wanted to bless the children of Israel. We wanted to bless them no more gnarly and we wanted to make
them leaders Subhan Allah, Allah just mentioned that they're being persecuted, they're being
tortured, they're being killed. Allah mentions they lived as servants and slaves. And then Allah
says, but we wanted to make them leaders. You know what this shows us? When Allah wants to make a
leader, you're gonna have to go through a process, a real leader, not the fake ones we have here and
		

			other western countries and frankly Muslim countries as well. Not those leaders, real leaders,
leaders that generate respect leaders that gather the masses, leaders like sulla had the you know
the UB they don't just come out of nowhere. They have to go through strong
		

			Girls they have to demonstrate commitment. So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, we wanted to bring from
them leaders and insha Allah Who to Allah, from the ashes of all that we are seeing there shall
emerge leaders. That's our hope and our goal and it is the Sunnah of Allah if you're healthy, in
fact, not even a Muslim issue. This is even amongst non Muslims. Look at any celebrated leader,
humanity wise, whatever their faults might have been not even Muslim. Look at Gandhi, look at Martin
Luther King, look at Nelson Mandela. They went through struggles, Nelson Mandela, 20 years or 27
years of solitary confinement, then he comes out a leader. This is the way humanity works. Going
		

			through pain and suffering. You establish your leadership, you establish your credentials, and we
have no doubt insha Allah hooter, Allah that this struggle, this pain, it is forming leaders, just
like gold is put through that furnace, raw gold, polluted gold, you put it through the furnace, and
then that furnace separates the real gold from the chaff from the stuff that you don't need. This is
a fitna, this is a a turbulence if you're like that the end of it will demonstrate why this
happened. So this is another reason why these pains and the sufferings are happening also for those
of us on the outside Subhan Allah, Allah is telling us what are you doing? Allah is waking us up
		

			from our own slumber and sleep. The least that we can do is to appreciate Allah's blessings on us.
Well Allah who we are in our fear, we are in so much fear we sometimes we should be scared that this
might not be a type of either Allah who has done too much Alfia in some ways, like you become makes
you lazy makes you not thinking and we ask Allah azza wa jal for his refuge, we ask Allah for his
loss, we ask Allah for tofield but will Allah He brothers and sisters, we are spoiled, we are
spoiled, we ask Allah to protect our iman, in despoiling, we lose track of priorities of what we're
what we're here for. And so this type of pain and suffering, it must jolt us into action. If it
		

			doesn't, then our iman level is flat on the graph of Eman. If nothing happens, we're lucky we had
better do a heart check, meaning the spiritual heart, the fact that we are reacting, and the fact
that we're trying to do something, no matter how small it might be, and what is to be done, we need
the help of experts and political analysts and whatnot. That's not just my job to tell you, but
things need to be done. And the very least our heart should be in unison in pain. The very least our
hands are being raised the very least we appreciate the blessings of Allah upon us, which motivates
us or it should motivate us to be better people to be more charitable to cause positive impact in
		

			our own countries and lands. This was also a test from Allah azza wa jal for us and this is of the
wisdoms of why this is happening. And also, dear Muslims, when such tragedies come down,
		

			one of the most bizarre perks that come this is really strange, but bear with me,
		

			we learn who are the hypocrites and traitors from within our own ummah.
		

			We learn those who are willing to sell themselves for a measly price that will now feel Kuhn, who
have no shame, for the sake of their courtesies and power for the sake of their oil rich companies
and their kingdoms. They're willing to form alliances with the worst of the worst, they form
alliances with the devil, and they're willing to sign against Allah and His messenger and the people
of Iman and Taqwa and we thank Allah li amis, Allahu La vita Minato these are whole Bertha Kawana
they're traitors, and we say this openly and publicly. Anybody who sides with an apartheid regime at
this point in time against our Palestinian brothers and sisters, against the people of the Kenema
		

			against the people of the flaws, will Allah He How can we have not have any shame and boycott from
those Muslims? How can we not cut off ties these aren't actual believers in Allah and His messenger.
This is where Allah and Barbara comes into place. So we thank Allah that He is allowing us to see
and by the way, this is what happened in the incident of our mother Aisha Radi Allahu anha one of
the main benefits when Allah says don't think it's something bad it's something good. You know why?
Because Allah azza wa jal demonstrated the reality of Abdullah and obeyed Mr. rule that evil evil
evil man well Allah He how evil can you be to start a rumor that is so disgusting and filthy? That
		

			the books of Sierra don't even verbalize what the rumor was? It's so disgusting and filthy, that the
actual rumor and slander is never actually spelled out, whose mind could have been that made up
something like that. Abdullah ibn OB Ibn saloon, okay, even so rule is dead. But we have his
intellectual descendants and his heirs amongst us living, walking, talking, as our Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam said Shayateen they are Shayateen but not Jin of the
		

			since you took a loan to be a senator, they speak your language they look like you, but they are
Shayateen the head he doesn't say Muslim dua to another body Jahannam there are calling people to
jahannam. And we have people like this in our midst. So there's benefit brothers and sisters, that
we know, once this is all over. We cannot have anything to do. These are not going to help us, the
people that for the sake of money, and for the sake of their courtesies, and their thrones, they're
willing to do what they're do you expect help from these people. It's not going to happen. So Allah
has demonstrated, Allah has shown us and this is in the Quran in surah in the for the Bible of the
		

			Amis Allah Hadith laminata You, Allah wants to separate the Hadith from the tube. So we're seeing
this a lot you and I, and from this as well and my time is up I know from this as well. Subhan
Allah, the musical Kabita may not tell you, they'll tell you the pure And Alhamdulillah we see what
is happening, the people of a sham and what will make you understand the blessings of the people of
a sham. So many a hadith sham by the way includes Philistine when the process and pray sham don't
think only Syria Sham is that entire region, which includes federal state and includes ports,
portions of Syria, actually the primary emphasis is in fact, based on mock this because the Hadith
		

			actually says that Bates will mock this will cannot be beaten mock this the righteous are going to
be in beta will mock this and surrounding beta mock this. So the point your brothers and sisters is
that yes, Wallahi i My heart is with you as well, that you do become overwhelmed and the images
really hurt. They really do and the toxic, you know, conversations and tweets from our politicians
and from others as well from our own midst. Wallahi it hurts and you just wonder Isla Mata for how
long? But Allah azza wa jal says in the Quran, that the believers of the past were tested was zero
and they were shaken to the core had they Apolo Rasul Allah Dena,
		

			Allah and the prophets of old and the people of Eman of all they themselves question when will the
help of Allah come? And our iman keeps on reminding us in Nasir Allah He urllib Allah Nasir Allah
here Cody, Allah in Nasir Allah here, buddy, we just have to keep on saying and believing. Because
this is not our goal to see Riza in this world, if we see it at Hamdulillah, but our goal is the
pleasure of Allah and Allah is not going to ask us did you solve the entire crises, but Allah will
ask us, what did you do? What did you do? Something has to be done, and all of us do something. And
as long as we do something, and as long as we try, and I'm not saying that, you know, I will uh,
		

			please don't misunderstand that I'm being a pacifist or whatnot. On the contrary, much has to be
done. And some of it cannot just be diplomacy and whatnot. But I'm not the one to do that and other
do out or not. We need communal help. We need people to come together. We need other Institute's far
bigger than individuals to begin some processes. And when that happens in sha Allah, we hope to rule
them out and the drought will be at the forefront, calling for the best and frankly, the only
solution. But until that happens until that happens, I'm not advocating pacifism, but there's
activism that is of many other ways activism of the tongue activism of the heart activism of the pen
		

			activists and social media things have to be done and the tide is going to shift slowly but surely,
we ask Allah subhana wa Tala to be instruments that he uses to bring about head and Baraka. We ask
Allah azza wa jal to forgive us for our in capability to do more than what we are doing. We ask
Allah to not test us with more than we can bear in burden. We ask Allah azza wa jal for his Apphia
We ask Allah azza wa jal to help us and to not help against us. And we ask Allah subhana wa Taala
for the best of this world and the next to the best of the next world was making. Allahu Akbar catch