Yasir Qadhi – Wisdoms and Points of Benefit from the Situation in Palestine

			I recited to you, sort of earlier Imran, the verses that were revealed after the incident have
occurred. If you remember the incident, it was one of the most demoralizing episodes in the entirety
of this era. The Sahaba literally felt down as we were saying English, they really felt overwhelmed.
Because as you know, in the Battle of Ohio, they saw victory. And then the table's turned 70
shahada, including, who is the most famous Shaheed
		

			Hamza, the uncle of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada reveals
verses, and we're gonna look at these verses, obviously, in light of the situation, obviously, in
lesser because, really, we have to continue mentioning and thinking about this reality. And so we're
going to look at the reality these verses in light of what is happening right now, ALLAH SubhanA
wits either says, after this. Now here's the point here, should we call it a defeat or not? I went
into a lot of detail in my syrup. And I concluded it's not a defeat, but it's not a victory. The
Muslims didn't lose, but they didn't win either. It was a bit of a stalemate. But what made it
		

			bitter was they were so close to victory. So we should not say if it was a defeat, it wasn't a
defeat. Because in the end of the day, the courage had to go back. And when you're a victor, then
you stay where you are. The courage had to retreat back to Makkah. So it is not a defeat for the
Muslims. We should not say this, but we can factually say it was not a victory. And it was a
setback. It was an emotional setback. So we're not going to say it's a defeat, but no doubt Allah
azza wa jal then revealed verses to cheer them up. So these verses are very relevant to what is
happening right now. Because I am seeing amongst our own youth and all of us, we feel a sense of
		

			despair, you know, a sense of exasperation, a sense of frustration. So when we look at these verses,
Allah azza wa jal says to the Muslims, Wallah, he, no one has no, don't feel weak, and don't give up
What unto will alone, and you shall be victorious in quantum mode, meaning if you have Iman, Don't
be weak, don't give up. Don't despair, your morale should be high, even after a shoot, regardless of
what happens externally, internally, your Eman has to be optimistic. This is what Allah is saying,
no matter what the situation is, your hearts must always have the best, and you should never give up
and you should never allow despair to overtake you one iota, he knew what that is no, and then Allah
		

			gives a statement of fact what unto him will I loan you shall be the upper hand you shall be
victorious with one condition in quantum meaning, then Allah says Indium says Come Korean forgot the
muscle coma Cara myth, hello. If you have had lost and setbacks, if you have had disasters, well,
then the others have also had disasters. It's not as if you know that they are not also casualties
are not there for the Quraysh. If you have had casualties, if you have setbacks, they too have
setbacks, what till a Yamo knew that we do have been a nurse, and these are the days we rotated
amongst the people, some days you will have the upper hand, other days they will have the upper
		

			hand, Allah is explicitly saying the victory in this dunya is independent of the victory of the
Ophira. Allah is explicitly saying, if you lose a battle, don't worry, you will always win the long
term war. This is explicit in the Quran, we're untrammeled alone. So I wanted to pause here and look
at this conflict of Gaza, and mention some of the positives that we see around the world. Now, this
is a controversial topic, because obviously, I am not stating that, you know, the loss is in vain.
I'm not trying to justify the losses 10,000 People have died SubhanAllah. So when I say this, it's
not as if we're saying, oh, okay, it was worth that law. We're not talking there's no comparison.
		

			But I'm trying to say yes, there is a setback. Yes, there is tragedy. But if you look at the other
side, you look at what is happening. Wallahi there are so many positives happening here. There's so
much positives that you can go on and on. So of the positives. The first positive that we have here,
the first positive that we have here is that Subhanallah we see the Mahan of the people of Gaza, we
see the reality of what faith does to a believer Subhanallah in our lives, we have never seen a
group of people demonstrating the reality of Sobor and Tawakkol and Yaqeen demonstrating their trust
in Allah their resent resigning their fate to Allah subhanho wa Taala and even non Muslims are
		

			amazed shocked impressed. People are converting to Islam. In our own Masjid. You saw the Shahada. I
was in Detroit last week on Joomla we
		

			had not one not two, three shahada as they came and I'd give Chatto to three people in Detroit
because again, they're attending the protest. They're seeing what's happening and the sight of
fathers and mothers losing their children the sight of a lady becoming a widow and she says, haspin
Allahu Allah ml will kill the sight of a father losing four children and he's smiling and saying
inshallah Allah will Reunite me with them in the Acura that level of Eman, that level of courage of
bravery. We have never seen it in our lifetimes. If that is not inspiring, then what is going to be
inspiring. This is a positive that with eemaan you can keep your sanity with Imani you can keep your
		

			dignity, we see the fruits of Eman in real life of the positives as well. Of the positives as well
for all of us, especially for our youth, our younger generation is that sometimes they have these
idealistic notions of humanity. But we see here how easy it is for large groups of people to be
brainwashed. You don't want to read the serum we wonder how could the Quran not embrace Islam? How
could they not see the Prophet systems truth and embrace Islam? When read the Hadith about the signs
of the Day of Judgment? How can millions of people follow that the judge he is clearly the most evil
person on earth? How can he have 10s of 1000s of followers? Well, guess what? We don't need to wait
		

			for the judge. We don't need to imagine what would the CW like we see over here how clearly the
oppressor has brainwashed 10s of millions of people to think the oppressor is in fact, the
oppressed. To think the greatest volume is in fact, the subject of injustice. The narrative they are
spinning is that we are forced to kill these children's Subhanallah and people are buying it our own
politicians or buying a ceasefire would benefit this terrorist group. They say the Howler hotel or
Villa you want to see how followers are going to follow the job. You want to see how Abuja had an
Ebola haven't others rejected Islam, you see, in reality in front of you the level of sheer hatred,
		

			the level of the ease of brainwashing, it is something that we thank Allah we have been given.
Hickman Iman, we thank Allah, we can separate the Hadith from the time or else look at how many
people are brainwashed. So this is a benefit and a wake up call of the benefits we find as well,
once again, especially for our youth here, who naively thought that one side of the spectrum that
one side of the political alliance would be for their benefit. Many of our youth were flirting with
the progressive left, many of our youth felt, Oh, these are people they advocate human rights. They
advocate for peace and justice, and they were gravitating towards them. But now we see in this
		

			issue, who cares right and left, who cares Democrat and Republican? Our Congress just passed a bill
overwhelming majority overwhelming majority $14 billion of aid Subhanallah they want to aid the lawn
against the mother whom they want to aid the one who's sending bombs against children, our
taxpayers, right? This is something that our youth need to wake up and I've said this right here
before we are Muslims, we're not Democrats, we're not Republicans, we're Muslims. We're neither
right nor left, there is no long term friendship with any of these groups. It is simply case by case
you know benefits that said there is no ally ship and in fact the Quran tells us this you know these
		

			verses that some of our youth felt awkward about these verses in the Quran. They say this is not
politically incorrect, politically incorrect. We see now who the versus rakia line well and terrible
unclear who the water Nosara had data to be I mean data whom you're never going to find whether your
ally ship again, diverse means allies, your allies. Allah says in nama Walia Kamala who rasuluh who
will, Adina Amanu, Allah says your allies, the ones who will always help you, Allah and the
messenger and the believers, these are your allies. I've said this multiple times, we are neither
right nor left, we're now the progressive nor no Republican Democrat. No, we are Muslims. And our
		

			identity is Islam. And this is something we see now in this reality that is taking place. Another
benefit that we see here, another benefit is that it is a wake up call for us a wake up call that's
Subhanallah in front of our eyes, the first time in human history. First time in human history. We
have mass genocide,
		

			being broadcast live on everybody's phone. This is the first time by the way, in Bosnia, it didn't
happen in Rwanda. It didn't genocide happened. There were no cell phones to upload video footage and
show the world instantaneously. Even the very own that is doing this when Hitler did what he did the
Allies invidious Oh, we didn't know that Hitler was doing this. We didn't know it's a surprise to us
that all of these camps were there. They said they didn't know. point is that this is the first time
in human history where Jeff
		

			This site is taking place and the world is watching and nobody is lifting a finger. Nobody can deny
there's genocide, but the perpetrator says we have to do it because you are forcing us to kill your
own children as I said, Now, what is the benefit or the point here? Subhanallah if this does not
teach us that law, how Allah will call it a illa biLlah that Allah is the only Mola that you cannot
make your to work put in the mouth look, where are the kings? Where are the mu? Where are the
governments? Where are the power figures, everybody is silent. If this is not going to teach you
that you cannot have to work cool in any mahalo you cannot put your trust in any being your trust
		

			has to be in Allah Jalla Jalla Lu, your heart has to be attached only to him. This is a refinement
of iman, this is sifting through Iman you cannot make to unlock your heart attached to any mcglue
You're not going to find any good from the mahalo unless Allah wills it. However, in the past, I've
said we're seeing mass support, we're going to come back to this point here. So we'll make a
distinction here. Yes, we rally for support. Yes, we want people to help but we take the ASVAB and
the heart is attached to Allah and not the ASVAB. This is a key point here, you know, as the process
was to tie your camel, and then what? trust in Allah, we will tie the camel, we will try to get
		

			people to influence we will protest we will write letters, we will but our hearts cannot be attached
to the means our hearts can only be attached to Allah. If this incident does not sift from us the
reality that Allah is our Mo law. And only Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to help us why the law
he failure to work with our ketone, then nothing else is going to teach us this reality of the
benefits we find in this debacle that is going on of the benefit that we find. And again, we get
onto some of the ASVAB because as I said, there's no contradiction. Understand this point, we rally
for ASVAB we rally for, you know the causes, but our hearts are attached to Allah of the benefits we
		

			find. For the first time in the entire history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. We have millions
of people now supporting Palestine publicly. First time ever last week or last Saturday in DC, the
largest mass protest since the Iraq invasion. Since the Iraq invasion, the largest protests took
place against this genocide taking place here. Now our politicians are on one side, but Wallahi this
is positive that the people now and you know this is good and bad news both is both good and bad.
Who is leading these protests? Who rally these people? Which organizations brought up these? They
say 300,000 Allahu Allah monitoring 50,000 How did where did they come from? It's sad, but also
		

			good. We were not the primary instigators. It's sad because we should have been, we should have been
at the forefront. And I did try my best in my own way. But I don't have a national organization.
That it is what it is. None of the national Muslim organizations were at the forefront. Yes.
Alhamdulillah. One or two they invited to speak, but none of them the Muslims did not rally for this
mass support. Now that's positive and negative. Why is it negative? Sad on us? Beat? Let's be honest
here, shame on us. We should have been at the forefront. We should be at the forefront. But why is
it a positive? Why is it a positive?
		

			Because other people are clearly doing it. Even when we're not doing it. The main people behind this
mass protest have nothing to do with Islam. The majority of organizations more than 40 organizations
came together. And there's two or three nominal Muslim organizations, 30 of them, 35 of them,
nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with Islam, that is positive and negative. Like I said,
the positive mashallah Alhamdulillah people are seeing the truth, people are seeing the truth. Of
course, the negative is shame on us being honest here, shame on us, we should have been more at the
forefront. And I'm still trying but I'm just one voice. I don't have organization. I don't have, you
		

			know, mass, you know, convention or whatever, in this regard. But I feel that in shadow the national
organizations to you know, try their best to still do another rally, sadly, not enough Muslims
participated. If you look at the people there, it's good. They came, but we're all of us. We were
not there because our own organizations were nominally represented that, as I said, good and bad. So
this is one of the positives that comes out of the positive that comes out of the positives that
comes out is that the Palestinian brethren are people in Gaza. They are forcing the conversation
after 70 years. Never in the history of this conflict. Have now politicians, the United Nations
		

			Secretary General, famous people are saying, Okay, guys, whatever this group is, they're bad people.
But how about the 2.2 million people of Gaza? You're not going to solve the problem of this group
until you solve the problem of the people. First time ever. We're hearing mainstream global
		

			voices say this reality. Again, this is a massive positive. And again, these types of changes they
take decades sometimes, but we're seeing the tide shift and of the positive. And I'm going to
conclude on this because there's so many more we can go on and on. But for me, one of the biggest
positives that I see globally, is that Subhanallah, single handedly, our brothers and sisters in
Gaza, they have inspired all of us to be proud of Islam. They have given all of us a sense of
dignity, they have brought all of us to a sense of our primary identity. And that is the identity of
Islam, across the world, in Turkey, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh, and so many places people are now
		

			listening, protesting their hearts are attached. There is a global revival of Islam, because of this
issue, because of what we're seeing here. If this is not a positive because of this incident,
because of the the looting that is happening on this people and the suburbs, with which they're
responding to this aggression, they are inspiring 10s of millions of Muslims around the world, to be
proud of their identity, to reconnect with their faith, to rekindle our own youth, mashallah, I'm
seeing them as well talking to them as well. And they realize their primary identity is that of
Islam. Every other identity is secondary. Every other identity is behind this one. Our nation
		

			states, our ethnicities, all of this is secondary, our primary identity, who was sama Coleman was
the minimal capital in Hawaii, he OMA to come on mutton wa Haider, this one issue, it has reminded
us we are one OMA, I want to tell you some good news today, today, the ISD of Plato and Richardson,
they had a meeting with a number of Shuhada, a number of community, Muslim leaders only. And I was
in that meeting, both of these schools reached out to us. And they're saying what can we do to make
our Muslim youth feel safe here, we want to make sure we are fair and balanced. We don't want to
take sides. This is the first time this is happening. And they reached out to us. And they're saying
		

			tell us what we can do. We're not a political group. We are and in fact, that was one of them said
that the main person said we are against what the governor and what the main politician the Senator
has done. We want our schools to be neutral and safe for the Muslim community. What can we do the
literally asking what can we do to make sure our Muslim youth feel that they are welcome here? And
in fact, we even brought up this issue that the First Amendment can they speak and whatnot. And I
was told, yes, the First Amendment applies to our students as well. They have the right to protest,
they have the right to walk out peacefully as long as they do it in the proper manner without
		

			disrupting classes. And they have the right to wear the Palestinian you know, scarf and everything
that we will not infringe on their First Amendment right hamdulillah now the tide is changing here
and there is now support for this reality. So Alhamdulillah, we find there is of Islam spreading, we
find our youth rekindling that is we find our own people feeling a sense of being a part of the
Ummah and will Allah if this were the only benefit, it will be enough, if this were the only benefit
that 10s of millions of Muslims, their Iman is rekindle. They see the shujaa they see the Imam, they
see the suburb of the people of Gaza, and it makes them feel my God while I look at these people,
		

			and because of that they become more pious, they get a sense of identity Subhanallah it is as if
Allah azza wa jal has used the most oppressed people on earth to remind us, even though we are not
physically oppressed, perhaps spiritually, we are the ones who are covered up and they are the ones
who are free, perhaps spiritually, I'm not trying to insult anybody will lie, but think about it,
perhaps spiritually, they are the free people. They are the ones who are inspiring Iman, and we are
the ones our iman is locked up, even though our bodies are free. We are the ones we're not seeing
the light and they are the ones who inspired us. Well, Allah he this is a blessing from Allah, even
		

			though it is painful for them. I'm not trying to, you know, you know, I'm not trying to stop for
Allah minimize that. But I'm saying our Eman teaches us we look at the positives. And Allah says you
always look at it and Allah says it's possible you don't like something and there's going to come
good out of it. This is our iman whatever is happening. Our hearts are sad for what is happening and
for those that have gone, but we have full trust in Allah, that all of this negative from it, there
will come a positive there will come a blessing and we're seeing the beginnings of that blessing.
And so I conclude with what I began with what I tahina, Walter has no one untrammeled Ilona in
		

			quantum meaning in the MCS concurrent Takada musclecar Makara Metro where telecoil amo luda will
have been a nurse This is the reality do not give up do not become weak you shall be we shall be
victorious be the nila heeta Allah, which is akmola Who Clara was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.
		

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