Yasir Qadhi – Why Muslims Shouldn’T Celebrate Pride Month

			hamdulillah All praise is due to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, Who created Adam with his hands and
taught him how to communicate. He honored our father by asking the angels to bow down and from him
created his mate. And from the two of them, he spared fourth mankind, every one of us unique, and
each with his or her own fate, from His miracles and signs is that He created us in two genders,
each with his personality and traits. And he legislated for us marriage, and gifted the husband and
wife with a unique love and a special bond to procreate all of this so that we may live as families
caring and nurturing, to worship together and to celebrate. So may Salatin Salam be upon the one
		

			born in Makkah, and sent by the rub of the bait as toward follows know that Allah subhana which
Allah has commanded us to be conscious of him when he says in the Quran, yeah, you Hala Dena Armand
otaku, Allah how cultural Katya, what Atomo tuna Illa, anti Muslim moon?
		

			Recently,
		

			a parent brought to me his young daughter who was having questions about Islam, troubling questions,
she might have been 14 or 15 years old. And by the way, she was going to Islamic school. And the
first question she asked me,
		

			Why does the luck hair? If two men love each other? Why does it bother us?
		

			This question takes on even more relevance, given that we have just begun the month of June. And
June has been designated since the time of President Clinton as Pride Month. And this pride month
has now gone global in Europe and across the world. And in this month, millions actually billions.
And I'm not exaggerating, billions of dollars are being spent by businesses, corporations to promote
this lifestyle. across the western world during this month in particular, there are so many
activities, organized festivals, parades, sales in the marketplaces, even children's reading books
and selections in schools to reflect this alternative lifestyle. And of course, since we live here,
		

			our children get swept up and caught up in this and they wonder and they ask, we wish we didn't have
to talk about such matters from the pulpit. But given the prevalence of this topic, and given the
mass confusion about our values, we have no choice but to address this challenge head on, and to
bring it to these holy and sacred places of our messages and to be explicit, even from our members
and our jobs. And so I apologize to your parents. I apologize in advance if you find this whole book
too explicit. But unfortunately, we have no alternative. We must preach the truth and our children
are seeing alternatives of the truth alternatives of reality. And unless we speak out, and unless we
		

			educate, there is no other source for them to learn how from Belton today's hutzpah will answer five
questions that I have heard myself not only from the tongue of this young teenager, but from many of
the next generation countless times the same types of questions. And even though one chutzpah cannot
be the definitive end all and much more must be done, I hope inshallah Allah that this is at least
the beginning of a deeper conversation that parents have with their own children in the privacy of
their own households. The first question our youngsters ask, what is the Islamic verdict about same
* relationships? What does the Quran say? What does our Lord say? Is there any room for ambiguity?
		

			Their response to this question? The Quran is very explicit about this reality. The topic is
discussed multiple times, all of them around the story of the Prophet Luke, are they his salaam, and
this story is mentioned more than a dozen times in the Quran. And I will list some of the surah so
that you can have them for reference Sudha Tila Roth Surah At hood certain hedger Sudha tal MBR.
Surah Shuara Surah 10 naman Sudha Lanka boot so that Assad fat Sudha tell Kumar and others they all
mentioned the story of loot either his Salaam for example and Sudha are off. Allah says Walton is
cordially call me he to an alpha he shatter ma Saba Combi Hamid
		

			add them in allow them in. Remember what the prophet Lord said to his people scolding them? Are you
committing a shameful deed he called it far harsher and far harsher means a deed you should be
ashamed of a deed that should cause you regret and remorse. He said to his people, are you
committing a shameful deed that no one before you has done? Nobody before you did this, what was
this deed attached to in Regina Shah 10 Min dune in Nisa? Do you come to men with lust? Do you come
to men wanting * rather than your wives in the component Dune, you are people that have gone
beyond that which is normal. So the Quran is very clear that people have loots, the cities of Sodom
		

			and Gomorrah, they were acting upon their same * urges and desires. They were engaging in
consensual *. As for the claim that they were * the bystanders perhaps they were
* the caravans, but within their communities, there was consensual * and the Quran
explicitly criticizes this * multiple times. In fact, the Quran is so explicit. And the
Sunnah is so explicit that in our entire 14 and a half centuries of our tradition, no two scholars
have ever differed about this ruling. No group, no sect, no mud hub, no fiddle cop. No trend in the
entirety of the OMA has ever said that same * actions are halal and permissible. There is what we
		

			call in our Shetty, eg mark, which means unanimous consensus, one of the greatest scholars of our
tradition, Ibn Kodama, who is considered to be the authority of the humbly madhhab and also an
authority and all of them without him. Even Kodama says ergy ma Lula, Allah tehidy multiwalled. All
the people of knowledge have unanimously agreed that same * actions are haram and that Allah has
criticized them, and that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has criticized those who do these
deeds. There is unanimous consensus in this regard. And for our Shetty, unanimous consensus is
binding. unanimous consensus is the highest form of Islamic law. Why? Because the verse of the Quran
		

			you might have two opinions. But when you have unanimous consensus, this means nobody disagreed
about what the Quran said. Therefore, from our perspective, the highest level and authority of
Islamic law is unanimous consensus. It actually is higher than a verse because the verse can be
interpreted when you say there is a Jamar, this means there is no other interpretation. The verse
has one interpretation, and this is one of those deeds, one of those actions regarding which there
is unanimous consensus in the entirety of our Shediac. Therefore, what is the Quran verdict? What is
the verdict of our Shetty up what is the verdict of fic that same * actions that * and
		

			lesbianism is something that is haram unethical and sinful. Now this isn't just from the shitty out
if 112 to one could bring in other evidences as well, from nature. Biologically, the male and the
female are not the same, and male and female anatomies and bodies are meant to be united for the act
of procreation, intimacy, and the sexual union from our Shetty is nothing to be ashamed of rather it
should be celebrated in marriage. It is a gift to couples. It is a gift to husbands and wives. It is
a gift that Allah subhanho wa Taala explicitly mentions as being a gift to them that brings about a
special love, there should be nothing to be ashamed of in healthy sexuality between a man and a
		

			woman. And it is that sexuality that comes after the Nikka after the marriage contract, and children
are born from this natural union. And children are raised by the couples because this is the natural
order of things, and the mother and the father being in the life of the child. Each one gives a
level of emotional stability. Each one teaches each one is complementary to the other. And surveys
after studies have shown that children raised in regular households come forth, generally speaking
more intellectually, more emotionally intelligent, more mentally stable, more productive to
societies, and children that are raised in single family households are not to that level. So even
		

			from a natural and biological level. We can say that opposite * unions are the norm husband and
wives come together and get married. Historically, this has also been the understanding of family
biologically this is exactly what makes sense
		

			When intimacy occurs outside of marriage even is between a man and a woman if it occurs premarital
or extra marital. it cheapens and destroys the sacred bond between husbands and wives. So the Shetty
has forbidden even intimacy between a man and a woman but outside of marriage, when the intimacy
occurs between the same *, not only does it have the same destructive elements against family, but
also same * unions are considered to be unnatural. They're considered to be against the norms of
how men and women have been created. And I apologize for the explicit nature of what I'm about to
say. But it must be said, the orifice that is used in this act is biologically created for excreting
		

			fecal matter. It is not meant for procreation. So don't be surprised when same * unions occur,
that diseases, STDs, medical harms are far more common. And this is something that not just
religious people say, but every single mainstream Journal of Medicine will tell you that STDs and
medical problems that arise from same * unions is much higher than that which comes from the
opposite gender. So we can say and we should say that from every angle, biologically, historically,
scientifically, medically, traditionally, even from the innate feelings of how the default of man
is, we can say that the same * union is not normal. It is not conducive to healthy society, it is
		

			not the default. But all of these other angles are secondary, because in the end of the day, even if
one person refuted the biological and the scientific and the medical, what remains for us is the
Quranic evidence, and that is the primary evidence and how ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala criticizes this
act, and how Allah subhanho wa Taala criticized the people of lute who did this the city of Sodom
and Gomorrah, the adjectives that the Quran uses, the way that this disk this deed is described. No
other deed has been criticized in this manner. For example, in Surah, tell MBR ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
says one Ajay now hoomin Acharya tility Cana Tamil hubba if we save loot from the city that would do
		

			filthy deeds Allah called it hubba is and so little ankle boots, Allah subhanho wa Taala criticizes
them and says what to when a fina de como el mon Cara, you are committing Moncure in your clubs
Moncure that which should be rejected Moncure that which is not normal and celebrated mancha that
which is evil, the people of Luth would have clubs like we have our nightclubs here. The people of
Luth would do this deed in their clubs in front of everybody and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada criticized
them the types of parties the types of fascia, the types of *, the types of sexuality that they
will do. Allah says what are two NF Hina de como el mancha in your clubs you do that which is Moon
		

			car Allah called it Moon car moon card is the opposite of my roof my roof is good acceptable Moon
car should be rejected. Sunita Shara Allah subhanho wa Taala says How would you leave your wives and
you go to min Bella and to Oman, June you are a group that have gone beyond that which is it which
is normal. You have gone beyond that which is normal. This is from the Quran, I'm telling you. So
chill out of Allah subhanho wa Taala says, in the Comdata tuna, Regina Shehata mean doing this, but
unto an omen Mazuri phone, do you come to men with lust instead of women? You are a group that has
committed it's rough, it's rough means you've gone beyond the bounds. It's rough means you have done
		

			something unnecessary and harmful. You're all familiar with the term, it's rough of money. It's
rough of money, you are spending what you don't need to spend. You are just doing it for show you're
doing it for no reason. Well, there's something called a trough of sexuality. And Allah calls this
deed is trough of sexuality, you're going beyond that which is normal and necessary. No other sin
has been described with all of these adjectives, but I'm Tim Coleman, June mystery phone, monkey
rune all of these adjectives, is it therefore any surprise that Allah subhanho wa Taala tells us
what happened to these people in one zetonna either actually had the Hikayat Aegis Amin, Osama Bhima
		

			Khan, who you have to own because they committed fiscal Allah links their punishment with this deed,
because they committed this evil. We're going to send down a punishment from the heavens upon them.
No other nation was destroyed like this nation was destroyed. Fajr alna Alia has Phila ha we made
the highest part of the town the lowest part of the town, we flip the town around. This is
		

			What Allah says in the Quran? So dear brothers and sisters, the first question to answer, there is
absolutely no ambiguity in our tradition, there is no room for reinterpretation. There is no leeway.
Same * actions, be they between two men or two women are absolutely and unconditionally evil and
sinful, and haram. There is no question about this. And when this evil is publicized, and then when
it becomes celebrated, it becomes something that is a hallmark of a society as what happened in the
time of the people of loot. Well, then, we seek refuge in Allah from a potential collective
punishment coming, because that is what happened to the people of loot. This leads us to our second
		

			question, this young lady, this young lady asked me,
		

			why do we care? If two people are doing something privately in their bedroom? What difference does
it make to us? Why are we so obsessed about teaching or preaching about what is taking place amongst
two people in private? To respond to this question? I said to her, actually, there is an element of
truth and what you're saying, but we need to expand a little bit more. The element of truth is that
nobody is saying you go knocking down bedrooms, nobody is saying you go spying in households. Even
in the most ideal world, even in the most perfect society, we would say it is not allowed to hunt
down private mistakes. It is not allowed to barge into people's houses and see what sins they are
		

			committing. And if anybody commits to sin in private, that is between them and Allah subhanho wa
taala. But even private sins, even if we don't know who's doing it, we warned against it
generically. And that is the job of the teachers and preachers. We warned against it and we teach
morality, we say even private sins are harmful to a collective society. Simple examples. What if
somebody is drinking alcohol? What if somebody is taking drugs? Is there not a negative impact on
all of society, even if they do it in the privacy of their of their houses? So yes, even private
immorality is something we publicly warn against, but we don't go knocking down people individually
		

			and finding who is committing the sin. It is still the collective responsibilities of preachers of
teachers, of even parents and families and friends to keep everybody else in check. And we will warn
publicly even against private deeds, it is one of the goals of the Shetty. No society has angels
living amongst them. All of us commit sins. Just because the sin is private doesn't mean we don't
preach against it in a public manner. But when a private sin becomes public, it becomes even more
imperative to preach against it. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Allah has promised to
forgive the sins of my ummah, as long as they don't publicize them. Somebody said, What do you mean
		

			your Rasulullah by publicizing. He said, a man commits a sin in the secrecy of the night nobody
knows about it. The next day he comes on he tells the people you don't want I did last night I did
this and I did this and I did this. You see my dear brothers and sisters, to commit to sin is bad.
But to boast about it, is potentially Cofer to commit a sin as between you and Allah and inshallah
ALLAH is forgiving if you turn to him to commit a sin and feel guilty. Well, you have still a
conscience, but to commit a sin and flout it, to commit a sin and make it public, to commit a sin
and post it in social media, to commit a sin and identify with that sin, to commit a sin and take
		

			pride in committing that sin. We seek Allah's refuge but you have left the realm of being a sinner,
and you are potentially in the realm of disobeying and disbelieving in Allah subhanho wa taala. And
this sin that we're talking about the sin of LGBTQ the sin of same *, it is no longer a private
sin in the bedroom maybe 40 years ago, that was the case. Now this sin is a public one, it is a
normalized reality, it is being floated in every single corner and in every single shopping mall.
How can we not speak against it? When it is no longer a private sin? We are forced to give public
hot buzz because this deed has been made public and mainstream. Frankly, if this sin were private,
		

			in the bedroom of two people, I would not be having to get hold of this fashion. But because the
entire month is dedicated to celebrating this fire show. Because this entire month is dedicated to
normalizing this deed. Well then yes, we will go public and we will say bluntly
		

			This is a sin that is against the teachings of every single prophet. And it is an immoral reality
that breaks societal bonds. Brothers and sisters, taking pride in identifying with the sin is not
submission to Allah, it is potentially Cofer. So we respond to this young brother and sister and we
say, partially you are correct that if this is a private sin between two people, it's not my
business to barge into their house, it's not my business to spy on them. But collectively, I must
preach morality. And when this private sin becomes public, and when it goes mainstream, well, then
we too are going to go public and go mainstream in this regard. The third question that sometimes I
		

			get asked, is, why are you obsessed with this topic? When there are so many other topics that we
must talk about? Topics like racism, like poverty, like social injustice, like the broken healthcare
system? Why are you preachers always obsessed with sexuality? Of course, the innuendo, which is a
very evil one, is that because we ourselves, they say, the preachers themselves are obsessed with
sexuality. That is why they talk about sexuality, we can respond to this charge on this question, by
firstly pointing out that morality, and sexuality are, in fact, very important topics. And that is
why every faith tradition, and in fact, every system of life, discusses what sexuality is and how it
		

			should be manifested. Even liberalism has its own rules and laws. Sexuality is an essential part of
being human. And so every system of law has some laws regarding sexuality. So do we, you have your
version, we have our version, but also the notion that Why are you speaking about this? And not that
this notion is called? What about theory? Or what about autism? And this is a common tactic that
employs a logical fallacy that our youngsters should be aware of, do not ever engage and what about
autism? Because what about autism is a logical fallacy it betrays that you don't understand a solid
argument. What about Autism means when you bring a legitimate claim, you bring another topic not
		

			related to that claim. It's a type of red herring. And you want to persuade people to leave talking
about one topic and start talking about another. Let me give you an example that perhaps some of you
can relate to. Suppose one of our youngsters is not doing well, let's say in chemistry, and their
parents come to them say, why are you failing in chemistry? If you as a teenager were to respond
back? Why are you worried about my chemistry? Why don't you pay off the mortgage of the house? It'll
take you too long. If the teenager responded back to the parent, why are you worried about my
chemistry? You got a driving ticket last month, the parent would legitimately say, What has that got
		

			to do with this? My job is to make sure you get the best of grades, and I'm coming to you trying to
get the best grades for you. Suppose I'm failing in my driving or my mortgage or whatnot. That's a
separate topic. And I'm talking to you about something that is relevant to you right now. This is
called What about autism? Yes, you're right. Racism is a problem. And by the way, I have spoken
about racism. Yes, you're right. Harassment is a problem. I have spoken about harassment. Yes,
you're right. Social injustice is a problem from this member. I've spoken about social injustice.
But sexual immorality is also a problem. Frankly, it is a bigger problem than some of the problems
		

			you bring up on your list, because I prioritize problems based upon the Quran and Sunnah. And
according to the faith tradition, we follow public sexuality and same * relations is a problem of
great severity that must be addressed head on. So this is the answer to the third question, don't
employ What about autism? We are talking about every single other topic, but we must also publicly
preach about Islamic versions of morality. This leads us to our fourth question, our young teenager
says, Why are you preaching hatred? Why are you so full of anger? These are two people that love one
another. These are two people that they're worthy of being accepted, celebrated, embraced, and you
		

			come along as a hate preacher, they call us, you come along as a hate preacher preaching hatred
against two people that are loving one another. Once again, we respond that this is a tactic that is
meant to change the discourse. Nobody is preaching against love. Nobody's preaching against care
against helping one another against being friendly. What is immoral is not a feeling. It is an
action. So whoever wants to be friends with anybody, to care for somebody to confide in somebody to
help somebody, if it's done properly, it is one of the best of all deeds, but when that care when
that can
		

			discern when that Brotherhood or sisterhood becomes sexual lust outside of marriage, that is harmful
and dangerous and unhealthy. And when that lust turns into action, then it becomes sinful. So to be
clear, the lust is unhealthy but in and of itself, you're not sinful. The feeling is not nice, but
if you control it, you will be rewarded. The feeling is not sinful, and you should try to curb it.
But if you act on the feeling, that is what we are against. Nobody's preaching against being
friends. Nobody's preaching against helping, caring, genuinely loving one another. What we are
preaching against is the act of *. Also, to be very clear,
		

			if a person comes to us struggling with this issue, if we meet somebody who is falling short, and
they want to come closer to Allah subhanho wa taala, that person is our brother or sister and faith,
that person, we support the person we love that person for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala and
we try our best to help them along the path. We need to be very clear, preaching that an action is
immoral, is not the same as when the person who's engaged with the action comes to you wanting help.
Let me give you an example that is crystal clear. And I want you all to pay attention to this. An
example straight from the serum straight from the Sunnah straight from the conduct of our Prophet
		

			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the Sunnah. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explicitly cursed
alcohol. Learn Allah Muhammad is a Hadith, Allah has cursed alcohol. And Allah azza wa jal has
cursed the one who drinks it. And Allah has cursed the one who sells it and the elite goes on Allah
Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah, Allah is Lana. 10 people are curse when it comes to alcohol. 10
people are cursed when it comes to alcohol, this authentic hadith. Now in Sahara Behati,
		

			an alcoholic was brought to the prophets of Sodom, somebody who drank alcohol and who became drunk
multiple times. And when the punishment was enacted against him, somebody in the audience said, law
natural law he I Lika Allah is La Nina is on you. Notice the previous ahaadeeth generic Allah has
Nana is on the one who drinks Allah is Lana's on alcohol. When the human comes into the picture,
when the actual alcoholic comes in, and somebody says Allah, Allah, Allah is on you as a person as
an individual. All of a sudden, the prophet system intervened. He turned to the one who uttered the
cursed and he said, Why would you say that? Why are you helping shape on against your brother, you
		

			humanize the individual, and you preach against the action. The individual who comes to you wanting
to be cleansed, wanting to come close to Allah, there is no hatred for that individual. That person
is struggling, that person is a sinner, we embrace that person. We love that person for the sake of
Allah. But that doesn't mean that we normalize that which is a moral, you preach against the sin.
But when the sinner comes, you don't hate that person. You don't hate the one who wants to come
close to Allah subhanho wa taala. In fact, in this case, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said, Why are you cursing this person? I testify He loves Allah and His messenger. The drunkard
		

			loves Allah and His Messenger on the tongue of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we need to
find this middle way because some other faith traditions and frankly, some misguided Muslims, they
don't understand when we preach against a sin. When we preach against a concept, that is not the
same as when the sinner comes to our masjid, wanting to be cleansed and cleaned. Well, that is not
the same as the human who comes with some good and some bad, that human being we love for the good
in him. And we don't like the bad in him, that human being who's coming we don't show the learner to
law and that person who wants to be cleansed. On the contrary, we help that person in his journey
		

			towards Allah subhanho wa taala. So the same applies over here. And we say loudly and clearly. Those
brothers and sisters who are struggling with same * attractions, we say to you, I say to you, you
are no lesser of a human, much less Muslim. We affirm your Islamic identity. We affirm you are good
people wanting to come close to Allah and His Messenger, but we asked you to control those urges. We
asked you to not normalize them. And even if you commit a sin, ask Allah to forgive you. Don't go
public, don't mainstream. Don't take pride in it. As long as you keep it between you and Allah and
know you're guilty. Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. I'm a
		

			sooner you're a sinner, but the moment you normalize the moment you float, the moment you take pride
in your sin, you have lost the status of being a potential righteous sinner. And you have entered
the realm of being somebody who rejects and flouts the Sharia. And that is where you have no
sympathy from us. If you take pride in disobeying Allah, how can we take pride in you being our
brother in Islam? Very simple. If you take pride in rejecting Allah's commandment, how can we be
proud of you being our brother, but if you are a sinner, then welcome to The Club. I'm a sinner as
well. And all of us are sinners. Let us cover up our faults for the sake of Allah, let us try to
		

			make our societies and ourselves better and let us not flout our sins. So to answer this fourth
question, we are not preaching hatred. This is the tactic used by these people to try to legitimize
the deed, we are preaching against the deed, we are preaching against the act. And as for the
individual, well, we categorize if they are struggling, and they want to be better people, welcome
and you are a part of our own. If they go public, and they float, we say this is wrong. If they take
pride, then how can we take pride in somebody who has taken pride in rejecting Allah Subhana Allah
to Allah and His messenger? The fifth and final question that we get asked by our youngsters, and
		

			again, there are more, but my football can only do five. They say to us, this community, the LGBT
community, they are amongst the forefront of those helping us in America. They stand up for our
rights, they champion our civil liberties, they fight for our freedoms. So shouldn't we return the
favor to them? Shouldn't we help them like they helped us this community they say is already
discriminated against. They're already battling physical violence, and you with your religious
rhetoric, are adding fuel to that hatred. We respond to this question by saying, we acknowledge that
many people of this community have helped us in our civil rights. And we learn from the Sierra, that
		

			whoever helps us, we appreciate that help. We thank them for that help. We appreciate the fact that
they're standing for truth and justice. multimillion ID was somebody who worshipped an idol, and
Multilib and it helped the Muslims multiple times. And the Prophet system accepted that help. And
after Malta M died, he praised Malta him, he thanked Malta and metaphorically and you have given
entire hookbaits about this. The fact that motoring worshipped idols did not prevent the Prophet SAW
Selim from thanking him for the good that he had done. But thanking somebody for their good does not
mean helping to facilitate their evil. I repeat, thanking somebody for their good generically, we
		

			said, we appreciate what you've done. We thank you for your services, we thank you for standing up
for truth and justice, we may do that to anybody. But that doesn't mean that we facilitate evil for
them. If anybody needs some generic help for legitimate cause, no problem, somebody's hungry, we
help feed them. We don't care what your faith is. We don't ask her sexual orientation. Somebody
wants to build a better society. Somebody wants to fight for better health care, somebody wants to
raise the bar of education come together, all of us Muslim and Catholic, no matter what your
background, let's come together and make society better. No problem. We cooperate upon good. But
		

			somebody comes and says, for example, let's battle to make the age of drinking lower. You know, in
Europe, it's 16 years you can drink alcohol here in America is 21. In Europe, it's 16. Suppose
Americans came together, some of them said, you we want to lower the bar. We want freedom for
teenagers to drink. What are we going to say? I'm sorry, I can't join you in this cause. I don't
agree with your cause. Your cause is haram and immoral. I don't agree with drinking. You want to
lower the bar? I cannot join you. What if somebody comes and says in this country, prostitution is
illegal in Europe, it's legal. What if somebody comes and says we want to make prostitution legal,
		

			we want to give freedom to * workers want to give them respectable jobs? I asked you by Allah, are
you going to join that bandwagon? Are you going to say We want freedom for * workers? No, we
cannot support that which is immoral. Allah tells us the general rule in the Quran. What are our new
eligibility what Taqwa Walter our underneath me? What are the one come together in good and piety do
not come together in evil and sin, we will come together for justice, we will come together for the
liberties to be treated like human beings will come together for better health care, better
education. But if you want to normalize and evil, we cannot come together for that. So we're very
		

			clear here. We are thankful to any community if they stood up for truth and justice and if they need
		

			generic help, being fed food having better facilities for our, for our lifestyle here, our health
care, our education, we will cooperate with anybody and everybody for a generic good. But if you are
campaigning for a specific evil, well then No, I have a higher law to have to answer to. And I don't
do a tit for tat You scratch my back, I scratch yours. No, it doesn't work that way. I don't do
favors for the sake of favors. And if that means you are not going to help me that is your freedom
and prerogative. I will be very blunt and honest with you, I can only help you where my shady allows
me to help you. And we must be clear in this regard. So this is the answer to the fifth question.
		

			Sisters and brothers. I want to conclude the first quarter by reminding myself and all of you that
our religion teaches purity and wholesomeness. It embraces modesty and shyness. In fact, even
between husband and wife, which is an intimacy that is celebrated and normal, even be even between
husband and wife, the sexual act should be done in private and not publicized. If this is the case
of that, which is normal. Well, then how about that which is abnormal? How about the public display
of sexuality? How about the embracing of alternative lifestyles, and same * relationships? All of
this goes against our faith, and we have a religion that we should proud of, and even if the
		

			majority of people don't understand it for us, we thank Allah that Our Lord has taught us what is
modesty? What is decency? What is dignity? And for us, we have to answer to him on the day of
judgment. May Allah subhanaw taala bless me and you with us through the Quran, and may make us of
those who is versus they understand and applies halal and haram throughout our lifespan. I ask Allah
is forgiveness, He was will ask him for his liver for and the ramen.
		

			Alhamdulillah All praise is due to Allah, the One and the unique. He is when we worship, and it is
his aid that we seek. He is the Lord of the oppressed, and he answers the prayer of the week. As to
what follows. I want to remind our youth that our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in an
authentic hadith, in the Dhamma Walrath, that will be the people of knowledge, the ruler, ma are the
inheritors of the prophets, the ruler, ma are the inheritors of the prophets, the role, the task,
the responsibility that the prophets had, there is no prophet after the Prophet system, who will
take on that role. Collectively, it is going to be the rhythm. So I remind my youth do not take your
		

			religion from actors. Do not take your religion from people with large social media accounts. Do not
take your religion from politicians. Take your religion from the inheritors of the prophets. There
are those from our own faith tradition.
		

			Muslim names, Muslim backgrounds, and they might even be Muslim. I'm not saying they're not Muslim.
They have achieved wild success and popularity, be it on YouTube, or Netflix or Hollywood, some have
been elected to the highest places of power, and they loudly take pride in their Muslim heritage.
Some might even wear hijab in the face of persecution and ridicule. And because in the society we
live in, it is so difficult to find successful role models. When these people break free and they
become household names. Perhaps some of us have been quiet in the face of their misrepresenting
Islam. Perhaps because our children have such a vacuum about success stories, we have remained quiet
		

			when these success stories have gone high, but they've abandoned their values. And in the process,
when our children see these successful stories, who have abandoned their values, and they see their
Allah MA and their elders quiet. Perhaps our youth have been sent confusing messages. And for this
shortcoming. We apologize. I apologize. We can no longer afford to be ambivalent in this regard.
While we are happy at the success of any of our brothers and sisters in any field, whether it's an
office, whether it is in their careers, if that success comes at the cost of compromising one's
beliefs, then Wallah He it is not success but failure. If in order to be elected to the Senate, if
		

			in order to be given an entire program on Netflix, if in order to become a mainstream Hollywood
star, you have to sell your religion. You have to denounce morality. You have to embrace falsehood.
If you have to claim that the hubby the filthy is the year pure. Then in doing so we say bluntly and
loudly. You have failed to live up to your commitments of your faith and in the process. You have
lost the respect that you have
		

			have deserved the other by otherwise haven't gotten to this title having reached this level, but if
you had to sell yourself to reach to that level, then Of what value was your identity? Brothers and
sisters, do not take your religion from politicians do not take your religion from Hollywood actors
do not take your religion from Netflix comedians, take your religion collectively from the
inheritors of the prophets. And it is our job to denounce what those Muslims have done, especially
in the names of Islam. I'm not saying that outside the folder of Islam, but without a doubt when
they publicly proclaiming evil to be permissible when they say that it is okay to have an
		

			alternative lifestyle. They have failed to be role models to our children, and we must denounce
those actions. And we must say that these are not people we can look up to. These are not people
that we can respect because of their faith and we seek Allah's refuge in this regard. Brothers and
sisters, I conclude by reminding ourselves of a verse in the Quran, memorize this verse Surah Talma
ADA verse 100, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, All law Yes, there will be through what a Yebo Well, RJ
Becca throttle Hadith announce to mankind the pure and the impure are never the same. The healthy
and wholesome and the filthy and the dirty are never the same ly Yes, there will be throughout the
		

			year. The hadith and daata eak are never the same one. Jabba caca, throttle hobbies, even if the
preponderance of the filth, even if the sheer quantity of evil, it overcomes you, it doesn't mean
right will become wrong. It doesn't mean filthy will become wholesome. We live in a time we live in
a place we live in an era where the hobby has become mainstream where that which was criminalized
that which was considered wrong. That which is a blatant fascia is now the norm. It is celebrated to
dare criticize this. You become the hate preacher. Brothers and sisters, the people have looked when
LOOT preach morality to them. The people have loot made fun of loot on the believers, the people
		

			have ruled said, Did you human karate come in a homeowner Suneo total how don't get rid of these
preachers. They think they're all pure and holy. They think they want to purify us. They made fun of
the preachers they made fun of rule to Allah His Salam, and they wanted to Exile him from the land.
I say bluntly and loudly, we see the exact same repeat of history. They want to exile us if not in
body and soul because sometimes we are banned from entering countries because of the content of
these types of lectures, if not in body and soul for sure. The cancellation culture of canceling
somebody because they preach morality. This is exactly what the people of Lord said. Get them out of
		

			here. They're purifying us get them out of here. They think they're holy. This is the same sentiment
the modern canceled culture has to preachers of purity. It doesn't matter how loudly they claim.
This is hate. I swear to you preaching morality is love. Because we're loving children. We're loving
morality. We're loving the sanctity of the family Muslims. In fact, people of all faiths I say
bluntly the message of the Quran, be not dazzled and overcome by the prevalence of perversity. Four
it is the mark of modesty. It is the mark of modesty that makes a true man and woman and not that
modesty. I pray that Allah subhana wa Tada gives us all the courage to speak the truth. I pray that
		

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			John Aileen