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 subhanahu wa ta'ala 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.
They're 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 could 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
at 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,
week out protest.
But then came our patriots,
our saviours.
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 2,001,
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.
The politicians that they sponsor,
the government Zionist government 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 lives 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 of 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, they will be
those who will have a sinister agenda. So
understand,
do not allow these individuals to destroy
that what 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.
Masha'allah bro, really proud of you. Really manly,
man.
No. 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
thugs who you use
the veneer of nationality to give them respect,
but the worst
individuals are those
who use the veneer of religion, of Islam,
the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but
they behave faggish 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 as 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 are
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 in 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 my aisha radiAllahu anha, oh messenger
of Allah, what was the most difficult time
in your life? The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said it was 5
when the people rejected me, when they set
the urchins upon me.
On that occasion,
the most difficult occasion in the life of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. What did the
prophet sallam
say? When the angel jibraelaihi salatu salam came
down they said, message of Allah, if you
wish I will command the angel
who control the mountains and it will bring
the mountain down on the people of 5
and crushed them. The prophet of allahu alaihi
wasalam declined the offer and he said Allah.
You Allah. Oh Allah. I complain to you
not about 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 ties,
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.
Will
lie. Will come out of this
if we bring Allah on our side. Will
come out, oh, Allah.
But if we don't
and we blame everybody else and there's no
introspection,
then
Allah only Allah knows what will happen. Look
after yourselves brothers and sisters, and I will
be back soon.