Zahir Mahmood – UK Riots and our RESPONSE as MUSLIMS
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Brothers and sisters I am here in Pakistan.
The recent riots in the UK I have
been following the developments from Pakistan
and here's a message for our Muslim brothers
and sisters.
I've heard these rioters come out with some
slogans like we want our country back,
save our children.
Let it be known
that we are a fabric
of this society and this country.
Over a 1000000
Indians fought
in the 2nd World War.
When the UK was decimated,
it was our parents as much as anybody
else's parents
who
built this country,
who the Muslim community and the non Muslim
migrant community
who developed and built the UK. The UK
would not be what it is today without
the sacrifice of those individuals
and their children who have been in this
country for 80 years. So this country
is as much
as us as anybody else and we should
not allow
anybody to claim this narrative.
So remain firm.
Allah
says in the Quran
Do not weaken. Do not grieve. You are
the highest, oh, believers.
As long as you live and you long
as you leave this duniya in the state
of iman
and Islam.
And the other question I wanna ask, you
know these slogans,
we want our country back. Now there may
be elements which are legitimate.
There may be
strains on the health service because of
migration,
but
who are these people who are saying we
want our country back? It's the usual suspects.
It's those individuals who are the thugs, the
hooligans, who go abroad and give our country
a bad name.
The bare bellied,
uneducated,
inarticulate.
You don't have a GCSE to your name.
You can't speak the language.
You're a sponge. We've seen the vast majority
of these rioters. They're sponges.
They're sponge of the benefit system, and then
you wanna blame
the world that you don't have a job.
You couldn't hold a job
even if you were glued to it with
a super glue. You wouldn't manage to hold
that job. So don't blame other individuals.
You look at the protest for Palestine.
9 months
and times
half a 1000000
people have protested.
The media have declared them hate marches. The
right wing politicians
have depicted them as hate marches.
Not one
shot
has been burnt in 9 months,
weekend, recount
protests. But then came our patriots,
our saviors.
It took you hours
to destroy infrastructure,
which is worth 100 and 1,000,000 of pounds.
Why should we give our country back to
thugs
who burned down police station, who attacked policemen,
who attacked libraries, who attacked citizen advice bureau,
who attacked
mosques, who set alight
hotels
with women and children. You claim you wanna
save your children and you hold the doors
of a hotel which holds
women and children,
and then you want your country back. No.
The claim is this, that we want our
country back. And brothers and sisters,
remember this.
This is our victory.
Wallahi.
Yes. This has been taking place, demonization of
Muslims, since 2001,
but the real catalyst for this is your
victory.
The Zionist
and the pro Israel lobby have tried everything
to shut down our support for Gaza.
They
failed. Their politicians that they sponsor, the government
Zionist governments in the UK that they sponsor,
they've all failed in stopping us.
So the last thing left
was to sponsor these individuals through the likes
of Tommy Robinson.
But this is our victory, and this is
why we can never ever stop supporting
this ummah. Do not allow this victory to
turn into defeat. Allow the authorities to do
their work. Cooperate with the police. Do not
behave thuggish towards them. Where the police are
unable to defend our places is a worship
or ourselves,
then it is our right
remaining within the legal framework.
You defend yourself, your families, your homes, your
places of worship,
but only remain in defense.
No offense because this is exactly what the
British media wants you to do so they
can depict you as the thugs.
And let me tell you,
with my own experience, there will be individual
from amongst us who will be the agitators.
I remember when
we went to Gaza, we drove all the
way from the UK, the first we were
Palestinian
convoy to Gaza, and they were individuals
who were bent on breaking the convoy.
And we realized that these individuals had a
sinister agenda
and amongst her, there will be
those who will have a sinister agenda. So
understand,
do not allow these individuals to destroy
that which we have created.
I really saw a video the other day.
It's my home city, Birmingham in Yardley,
where there was an altercation between 2 individuals.
One was,
seemed like pro Palestine person and he and
he knocks the individual out. And then what
happens
when the guys on the floor,
we have these
herd of wolves,
you know, they lay into this individual.
Bro, really proud of you. Really manly, man.
Now these are the kind of individuals that
we need.
The guys on the floor.
I mean, I I wanna ask you a
question, really, serious question.
Who do you represent
that kind of thuggish behavior? Do you represent
the boys of Tommy Robinson or do you
represent the Ummah of our beloved prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam?
Who do you represent?
And on top of that, you have a
Palestinian
flag. Who are you behaving like?
The people of Palestine or the IDF members?
So do not
use
the veneer of religion
to justify your ill actions.
You know, we have these EDL members, these
folks who you use the of nationality to
give them respect,
but the worst
individuals
are those who use the
of religion of Islam, the name of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, but they behave thuggish to
the leaders and the imams of our community
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
show leadership.
When you organize
an event to defend the community, then you
be the leaders. Don't leave a vacuum that
some youngster can manipulate the situation.
Give the Muslims a bad name. And then
when you show leadership and you organize these
events, make sure you're firm.
Any individual who's there who are hiding their
faces, tell them either
unveil yourself or go home.
We are not gonna allow you to give
us a Muslims a bad name. Why you
hiding your face in the first place? Are
you gonna commit a crime?
Are you hiding your face from your mom
because she doesn't know you're at the protest?
What need is it for a Muslim
who's there for the sake of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
to hide your face? If you wanna be
a hero,
be hero on the back of somebody else,
not on the back of this community.
Because tomorrow when some Muslim woman
who is attacked somewhere else
where there is not a large Muslim community,
our hero ain't gonna be there. So make
your near for the sake of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
that you are doing it solely and only
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and nobody else and I request those people
who are in charge of organizing you show
seniority. And finally, that we take this opportunity
to introspect
with our connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
What is our connection with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala? Is this trying to attribute relation making
us closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
we introspect
how we being
good individuals
for the community of the UK.
Could we do more?
And we have been speaking about this for
years
and there are a lot more that we
can do. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
once asked by Aisha radiAllahu ana, oh, messenger
of Allah, what was the most difficult time
in your life? The prophet
said it was 5
when the people rejected me, when they set
the urchin upon me.
On that occasion,
the most difficult occasion in the life of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, What did the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam say when the angel
of Jibreel alaihi wasallam came down and he
said, message of Allah, if you wish I
will command the angel
who controls the mountains and it will bring
the mountain down on the people of 5
and crushed them. The prophet sallallahu salam declined
the offer and he said
Allah You Allah. Say O Allah, I complain
to you not to fight anybody else
Oh, Allah. I complain to you about my
own
lack of strength
and my lack of ingenuity
and my weakness and my insignificance
in the eyes of other people. This was
the greatest of guys.
But in his most
difficult moment in his life, he had an
interest inspection.
Why? Because he's teaching you and I. I
will lie.
Wallahi. The will come out of this
if we bring Allah on our side.
Will come out.
But if we don't
and we blame everybody else and there's no
introspection,
Then Allah only Allah knows what would happen.
Look after yourselves brothers and sisters, and I
will be back soon.