Yassir Fazaga – The Prophetic Remedy 01 – Remedy for brutality

			Borroloola administrate on rajim Bismillah hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah in the
Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Most Merciful All praises due to Allah and made his peace and
blessings be upon our beloved prophet muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. I begin by greeting you
all as salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. And a belated read Mobarak in case we missed you
and we didn't get to see you after read and may Allah subhanaw taala accept from us your bill
Alameen.
		

			With all the craziness that is taking place, and craziness is an understatement for what is really
taking place. Now I'm just contemplating the teachings of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
the remedy that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam would have, you know, taught us about what is
what is going on. And until things come into mind, remember that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
salam was sent to an extremely tribal system that literally valued and devalue people on the basis
of their ancestral background. Their genealogy was very important and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam was fully aware of this yet, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam dealt with it. And
		

			there was a lot of appreciation as far as how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam addressed this
issue from a tribal society where the value of any individual was gauged and measured by who his or
her dead ancestors were into the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam teaching something that is just
absolutely
		

			different. And you would have to appreciate these teachings and appreciate the relevancy in today's
society that that we are on where people are either valued or DLP valued on the basis of the class
that they belong to, or into haves and have nots are sometimes divided also on the basis of the
color of their, of their skin. And you see that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke about
this and he spoke about it very emphatically. He spoke about it very openly and very.
		

			Head on very bluntly the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would address these issues. In one of
these Hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talks about this. And he makes this statement,
as far as you know,
		

			in Hadith, conducted by by Abu Dawood, where he speaks about Allah has removed from you the
arrogance of the time of Jehoiada algea helliya with its boast of ancestral glories were people
rather than speaking who they are, what they do, what they have contributed what they have
accomplished. It just boastfully about the glories of their dead ancestors. And then the prophets
Allah Azza wa sallam said, Look, this is what people may say, but let me tell you what is going on.
Man is Man is but an Allah fearing believer must definitely, or an unfortunate sin. And then he
said, All people are the children of Adam, and Adam was created out of dust. No, very emphatically,
		

			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I am aware of where you are coming from, okay? Because
no one has any command or choice as to which family they are naturally born into. So to take pride
in something that you had absolutely nothing to do it is very silly, and it is very childish, and
it's very foolish. And therefore, along these lines, and individual does not have an option to brag
about that which he which they had no role in. And now what happens is, again, as far as the color
of their skin is concerned, this is just biological fact, pigmentation. So it was never about being
black or white. That was the problem. It was the value that is associated with being black and was
		

			being white. That is the debt is a problem. But as I always like to say, and I hope that my brothers
and sisters do not misunderstand this. See, it's one thing for us to speak a lot about
		

			to speak a lot about this notion of
		

			Islam says this or Islam taught this. But if it is not actualized if it is not practice, then it
just becomes the philosophy that lacks absolutely any relevancy to what is what is taking place. And
that is why the people who were impacted by this, they love the teachings that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talk and I think I might have shared this with you. When Malcolm X went
to Hajj and then
		

			He showed people in MCC. And he was really impressed with what he has seen. And he writes this
system to his letter to his system. And he's telling her that I have seen the whitest of the whites
and the blondest of the blondes. And I've seen the bluest of blue eyes, in that part of the world in
Mecca. And he said that, and there was no superiority or inferiority that was going on. And the
brother had both the courage and the humility to come back and say, I was wrong. What I was teaching
was not real Islam, from now on, I've changed my mind. Remember, this was the spokesperson of the
Nation of Islam, a movement that was formed in reaction to what was happening in the States, back in
		

			the 1930s 40s, and 50s, by novel through Ali and others, where it was taught that white is
inherently good, and black is inherently evil, and that God is white, and that the devil is blood,
in reaction to this nation of some comes in says, Absolutely not. God is blood. Black is inherently
good, the devil is why White is inherently bad. And Malcolm X was teaching this, he goes to Merck,
and he comes back and says, I was I was wrong, because I have actually seen actualized. And that is
beautiful. And that is the kind of teachings that we want to see. And the kind of teachings that we
want to see implemented and the kinds of teachings that we want to see advanced, where Muslims are
		

			contributing positively to this society by bringing and actualizing these teachings of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the society that we live in. The other point that also comes to mind,
which is really, really disappointing is abuse of power. You know, in our deen power is not a
blessing, it's only a blessing, when it is put in the right practice. But power is a form of a test.
And we are warned against this idea of myths and abusing the power that has been granted to us by
Allah subhanaw taala, in whatever form of influence, we are able to practice this. And, you know,
part of my my, my understanding of the psychology of police brutality is that you have these police
		

			officers who are given these gifts. It's not even it doesn't even feel like this is a gift of a
police officer. But it feels like these are gifts for a soldier in an invading army and their target
is to kill people. And what happens is that the minute you have all these toys, you are really
tempted to use them. When you have all these toys you are you get the idea that you want to express
what is happening. And that is why in the Hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, you
know people who write and people who are in charge of horses, they tend to be a bit engaged in this
idea of huella arrogance be because mounting a horse, a horse is a big animal. And when you get on
		

			top of that horse, you know there is that sense of power that you feel, and potentially can also
belittle those who are around you. So the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam said, people who are
engaged in this and be careful lest something gets into. Similar to this is somebody who drives a
big truck or somebody drives a big car, you know, you cannot help but you know, get the sense of
this idea that somehow you're not afraid, because you just feel very, very protected by the fact
that you know, you are mounting or writing this because similarly, when people are given these toys,
I'm sorry, I'm calling them toys. But these are like, you know, what, just the ability to inflict a
		

			great deal of physical pain, harm, deadly force on somebody else. The tendency is that because
you're so sure of your power, the tendency and this is just me speaking about the psychology of what
is going on, the tendency would be that you would want to escalate a situation to express your power
and somehow emphasize your authority over de escalating the situation simply because, you know, you
are well trained, you are better, you're better trade. So I say this and I remember something that
the let's say number of an Abdulazeez
		

			and I wouldn't Abdullah as he is considered to be the fifth Khalifa or the sixth Khalifa, after
Hasson, Radi Allahu, and then the people say that, you know, they speak or qualified or actually
didn't Rightly Guided caliphs, calyx, and they include the amount of Abdullah Aziz as one of them.
And it said that two stories about him have two statements attributed to him. And he said that one
of his officers wrote to him and he
		

			He said that people are behaving badly, he said, and he said that it really is time to employ the
whip against them so that they behave better
		

			and alone and Razzies was so upset with this statement, he said it was never the whip that made
people behave properly. He said, if people are not behaving properly, then we need to rethink our
implementation of justice. He said use the natural attitude. He said what would rectify people's
affairs is not the whip is not about physically abusing them, he said, but rather it is about the
implementation of justice in their myths, and this is what would happen. Also attributed to Mr.
Bramble as his is the statement where he said either that couple do not to come. I love him and
nurse for the record Curatola. Alec, I love this statement. SubhanAllah. He said, If your physical
		

			abilities if your power tempts you to abuse people, then He said Be cognizant, be aware of how power
of how much power Allah Subhana Allah has over you, meaning that because you can do this to people
with a little power that you have, he said, then do remember the mildness of Allah subhanho wa Taala
over you remember the maintenance of Allah subhanaw taala over you. And that is such a beautiful
statement to keep in mind. And by the way, that goes to people who have power over their children.
You know, one of the saddest things that you witnessed as a clinician as a therapist is child abuse,
where you know, helpless kids, you know, are abused by their elders, or domestic violence, spouses,
		

			physically and in all kinds of situations or all kinds of abuse, beat, beat financial beat,
emotional, sexual, psychological or physical type of abuse. The Prophet sallallahu wasallam said in
this statement by honorable Abdul Aziz it is the act of Patoka, Allah voluminous, if your power
tempts you to abuse people, then do remember, be cognizant of the maintenance of Allah subhanho wa
Taala of over you. And
		

			also the prophets Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam would not appreciate people who had power and what
they did to their, to those who were less powerful than them. So the prophets, Allah Azza wa sallam
would warn people and said, beginning by the, you know, slavery was very common during that time. So
the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam said that, number one, he said, do not refer to these people as
my slave. But he said, Don't, don't do that nobody is a slave of anybody else. And what that did is
these labels are extremely important. Because what you're doing now is that you are restoring a
sense of humanity, on the part of the oppressor, as well as the part of the oppressed, that you
		

			deserve a better title than being called Abbot then being called My slave or this is the slave
master or the slave on. So the prophets of Allah, Allah insulin began by this idea of restoring
health. Then he said, Allahu alayhi wa sallam said, do not exhaust them, Do not abuse them, by over
working them, he says, Do not make them do things that they cannot pay. And if you do, he said, help
them. And then he said, make sure that they eat of what you eat, they drink of what you drink, make
sure that they will, and so on. So now the idea is that we have this idea of restoring hope
restoring a sense of humanity, and calling for justice. In any case, what I want to say in
		

			conclusion of this is, please remember that if Allah subhanaw taala has tested any of us with any
kind of influence or power over other people, we want to make sure that this power that was granted
to us was not misused, the people under us were not abused in any form, shape or manner, even if it
be in the form of, you know,
		

			implied pressure, that can also be a form of abuse. I can never say no to my boss, I know that he
will always say yes, simply because I am their employee, even though what I'm asking for, and so on.
So we want to be cognizant of this and we want to remember what number of Abdulazeez taught us. If
your power tempts you to abuse people, then remember the maintenance of Allah subhanho wa Taala all
over you. Or if your power tempts you to do injustice to others, then do remember
		

			The migrants have Allah subhanaw taala over, over you, we pray to Allah subhanho wa Taala that we
become facilitators for peace and justice, that if we are ever blessed with power, that that power
really does become a source of blessings to us, rather than a source of curse, whether we use it in
the in the most of proper ways. And we ask Allah subhanaw taala that when we see people, we see them
as our equals, as all being holders of human dignity and integrity, deserve no cell phone spending
this part of the evening with us we'll try to keep it short as we know that it's getting late. And
until we see you next time we say so long and as Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh