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The Fake Sunni-Shia Politics! · After Maghrib 🌙

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Allah, Allah. Sometimes I.
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Welcome back to the Aftermarket of Podcast.
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Friends and sisters. Hope you're doing well.
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If you've been tuning in over the last two weeks, you will
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know that we have been talking about the ongoing situation in
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Gaza and in Lebanon. And today we want to continue
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this conversation but also branch out into other
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conversations. We typically don't talk about
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geopolitics on a week to week basis, but of course we are a
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Muslim podcast, specifically a Shia Muslim team.
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And because of that, we look at all the issues affecting the
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Muslim Omar. And this is a time more than
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ever really, where we need to come together and support our
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brothers and sisters in need. So if you are listening now and
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you don't know already, we are doing a fundraiser in
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collaboration with the Zahara Trust to support people,
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particularly in Lebanon, those who have unfortunately been
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displaced for their from their homes. 20% of the Lebanese
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population has had to be displaced and are now political
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refugees and are seeking shelter.
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Humanitarian aid, medicine, basic essentials.
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And that's really why we are partnering with the Zahara Trust
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But we need you to go to our Instagram page, click the link
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in the bio or and show love you're watching on YouTube.
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We will also put the link in the description low.
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But of course, friend, sisters, over the last week we've also
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seen a one year anniversary since the beginning of the
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genocide in Gaza. Of course, October the 7th took
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place on Monday this week. And now of course by the time
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this is coming out on Thursday, you would have had time to
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reflect on the last year and really what sort of atrocities
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we have been seeing, the astonishing human rights abuses
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that have been taking place and unfortunately the direct effect
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it's had on millions and millions of people both living
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in the Middle East and worldwide.
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So let's get into today's conversation.
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There's a lot to talk about, and also we're going to kind of see
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where the conversation goes, as always in Ali Salaam.
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Alaikum Salaam, how's it going, Hamdullah?
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So long as the heart is beating, the lungs are breathing, I
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can't, I can't complain. And I know everything you
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mentioned in your intro. And I just want to mention, by
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the way, that they can donate so easily to this 'cause that we're
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doing, in sha Allah, raising funds to help those displaced in
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Lubnan via the Zahara Trust. The link is at the bottom.
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Yeah, either you can find the link in our Instagram bio or you
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can, you know, Scroll down this YouTube if you're watching this
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on YouTube and hit that button and shall not make that
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intention contributes. And you know what said, so we
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have been seeing obviously in Lebanon over the last three or
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four weeks, particularly the number of apartment buildings
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have that have been blown up, that have been targeted and
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bombed by the Zionist entity. And it's, it's, it's amazing
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actually, because the Zaadar Trust has actually procured 2
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vacant apartment blocks to, to house these people.
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So we're talking about hundreds, if not thousands of people who
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are now in a safe. And that's the key thing, a safe
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and secure place. And they're with people who will
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help them. They're people who deliver aid
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and look, you and I both have like experience when it comes to
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delivery and logistics and that sort of thing.
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Right now, importing into Lebanon is impossible.
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There's no shit that's going into Lebanon and people can't
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import locally or sorry, can't import worldwide.
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And procuring things locally is impossible as well.
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Sky rotting, sky rocketing rates of inflation locally.
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So even getting absolute basics is really difficult.
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That's why they need things like diapers and formula for babies.
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They need incontinence pads and bed sheets, they need all sorts
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of different basics which we take for granted here.
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To be honest, in a lot of cases we don't really need them here,
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but people there are in desperate need.
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So really, really need you guys to step up inshallah.
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Inshallah, and I know they will. Don't let us down.
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Don't let the Imam of your time down.
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You know he's watching, he's looking.
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And also a lost final metallah will reward you in the
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hereafter. Ahmed, have you donated?
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Personally? I have.
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Well, I have, yes. I've pulled together with a with
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a few members of my family. Amazing.
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We've all. Put something forward,
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Hamdullah. But I'm also talking because I
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know there's a lot of friends of mine at home and driving in the
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car right now on their way to work and listening.
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So I'm counting on you guys and those who know us and those who
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don't, please, inshallah. So I want to ask you, listen,
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we've we've had now a year of this genocide taking place, OK?
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When you look back on it, this things like it's just crazy,
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bro. There's so many things that have
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taken place in the last year. We've seen story after story
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after story developments. We've seen the ICJ case that's
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presented by South Africa. We've seen Benjamin Netanyahu
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and the US Congress have a standing ovation.
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We've seen stories of people on the ground who have lost their
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lives. We mentioned last week the
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stories of the the young girls, Hen and Rheim, and all of these
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stories that just kind of taken us by storm.
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The bombing of Rafa after we were told that Rafa is a safe
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zone and can't be touched. And we are.
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In terms of Gaza, a lot has happened over a year and it
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feels like it's been an exhausting year.
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We've seen court cases in the UK over political demonstrations
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and resistance marches, which we're seeing here.
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And it just feels exhausting. But I guess there's like so many
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angles you wouldn't even know where to begin.
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How, how do you kind of look back on it?
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You know, if I were to reflect on the last year, there's so
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much things I think to mention. I think one thing in particular
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for me on a personal level, Ahmed, if I'm real, is actually
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enforcing my belief in God. Ask me why?
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Because I've seen like, like no one on this in this world
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currently with with the ongoing genocide that's happening at all
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now, no one's been held accountable, right?
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That tells me, bro, there's going to come a day of judgement
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where Allah is going to hold these man one by one, one by
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one. Ahmed accountable.
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And there was something very beautiful that a very famous
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Sunni speaker said the other day that actually touched my heart.
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He was like, you know, sadly how the residents at the moment,
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they don't really have peace in their burial, sometimes even
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like their graves are destroyed. And yeah, so he was like, can
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you just imagine the the Gaza Strip in gender, like all these
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Shuhada that have been killed, right?
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Unjustly, unfairly and via oppression, their houses in
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gender. And if we're worried, he was
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like, the whole world is looking at that.
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That's the strip, which is a very small strip, by the way,
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whether you look at it by its width or its length.
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But in general, how, how 10 * 50 times the size in sha Allah,
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where it will house these people will be housed by a loss of Hana
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Wata Allah and his paradise at sha Allah.
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But back to my point on in terms of belief is like genuinely, I,
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it makes me think like if these people won't be held accountable
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in this dunya and Hamdallah that there is Hassab Wakhtab on the
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day of judgement. You know, that day where people
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will beg for forgiveness, where people, you know, they say on on
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on a day like that is when people will say, you know, give
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me some of your deeds just to improve, You know, where I stand
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in front of the last panel. But no one's going to share.
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No one's going to, you know, give up their all their good
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rewards because everyone wants a place in general and everyone
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wants that day to be easy on them.
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And I can't wait for that day that I can actually see Insha
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Allah, may Allah forgive my sense first, but see these
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people actually being held to account.
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From Netanyahu to Saddam to Yazid, all of them 1 by 1,
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nothing. The entire Muslim Ummah, the
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horse, will be at peace. Do you know what there's like?
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I think you're right about the effect it's had on the Dean.
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Yeah. And on my, my own Iman as well,
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my Sora of the week right now sort of Hashar and there's an
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iron sort of Hashar, which is so it's amazing how Subhanallah,
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our last Subhanallah island makes the Holyoke Island in such
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a way where it is specific to a particular time and place, but
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at the same time, it's eternal in its usage and its relevance.
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Do you see what I mean? So you could be in across the
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course of civilizations, there must have been so many conflicts
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where you had a superior, one may call superior authoritarian,
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whatever you may call entity. And then perhaps a lower
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oppressed people and those who feel like they have been
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marginalized and otherwise. And in today's day and age, the
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the example of that is the marginalization of the people of
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Gaza and Lebanon. And alas, Pantala says is sort
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of Hashem in chapter #59 verse #14 very specifically, even
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united. Alas, talking about the
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disbelievers in this, in this sentence, in this ire, even
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united, they would not dare to fight you except from within
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their strongholds and from behind walls.
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Their malice for each other is intense.
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You think they're united, yet their hearts are divided.
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That is because there are people with no real understanding.
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They are both just like those who recently went down before
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them. They tasted the evil
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consequences of their doings and they will suffer a painful
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punishment. Alas, talking about the
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unification of the enemies of Allah, those who unify in their
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hatred towards Dohid and towards the Mahmudin and those who
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aligned with the party of Shahid Khan and not with the party of
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Alas, Pano Ta'ala. And a lot specifically talking,
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I think to people like us in this situation where you see a
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coalition of forces who are in many ways first world countries
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and who are technologically advanced and who have the
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backing of each other with billions and trillions of
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dollars. And excuse me.
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And you may think that they are unified in their course, that
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you may think that they are strong behind their walls a lot
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saying they are not strong behind their walls and they are
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unified in their evil. But the disunity enters their
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hearts and they have hatred towards one another.
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We just need to see now, without getting too political, the
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relationship between the US and Israel in this current point in
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time. When you look at the build up to
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the US election, how Joe Biden has spoken in the last week's
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press conference in regards to his relationship with Israel and
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in terms of what? You mentioned is nice is this
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doesn't necessarily just apply to now you can imagine Muslims
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in say the Ottoman Empire or the Persian Empire during the
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Romans. These Ayers would have been in
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their that's why at the same time.
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Like in every in every period of history.
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So we could think OK, this cases like this, wow this link
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specifically with the genocide happening now, but it would have
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applied 100% and again and again over time.
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But isn't that mad? Isn't that just absolutely like
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amazing? And that last part of that I was
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talking about something that sounds so specific but has
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probably been applied to so many cases.
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I love how you mentioned them being divided because you know
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how everyone talks about the United States of America should
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be changed to the divided States of America.
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And that's true. And we see how divided they are.
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And, you know, one thing, I think another thing that comes
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to my attention when I think about reflecting on the last
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year of the events that have taken place.
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I mean, there's so much things that's happened in the last
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year, but the core 1 is this genocide, which is the
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hypocrisy. Yeah.
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And I, and I say hypocrisy not just in terms of what they say,
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but in terms of what they represent.
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And the USA here is saying, you know, we represent the world's
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best democracy, mate, when you're 7080% of your citizens
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are calling for a ceasefire at least, which is the very
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minimum. And you do quite the opposite.
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You fund the genocide far away from any ceasefire.
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Like are you truly representing democracy?
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And it proves democracy? I think it's just no, because
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it's something that suits a bunch of thugs and suits.
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And it's it's the US and many other Western governments have
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been repeatedly studied and kind of hypothesized to be considered
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oligarchies and not democracies. As we are the free world.
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Yeah, bro. And, and look like, if you think
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about it as well, the West has had over a course of decades, if
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not centuries, this divide and conquer mechanism and this
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tactic. And it's in such a way to
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disunite the Muslims from one another, to disunite
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communities, to disunite Sunni and Shia and, and, and, and
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neighbours from one another. And unfortunately, you can see
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that the repercussions of those who believe this narrative
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taking place here in the West as well as obviously in the Middle
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East. So in the last few months, of
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course we've had the genocide in Gaza, voodoo.
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We've also had for example, what we've had ban on hijab in
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universities in France. We've had rights in the UK,
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we've had anti Islamic gun crime in the US.
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All of these point back to the dehumanisation of a population
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by using the word and the term Muslim and Islam, excuse me,
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Islam has now become unfortunately, a label which
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society has pinned on people to say that these people are
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slightly different, they look slightly different, they act
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slightly different. And we've seen, for example, in
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UK politics, you know, again, we don't want to get too political,
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but like in the Conservative Party leadership race right now,
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of the four candidates who are still in the race, one of them,
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who's a black young daughter of an immigrant here in the UK is
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demonizing Muslims and basically saying they're different to us.
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Now, let me ask you, because you come from, for example, an
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African community where in some or if not most African cultures,
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women cover their hair, men answer the door when men
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approach. But then you point out something
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like that as the cause of why Muslims may be considered
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backwards in your eyes. Is that what it is?
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We're in the same societies where we have Hollywood, where
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we have sexual abuse cases, where we have harassment cases
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in workplaces. 2 people a day die of domestic violence in the
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UK, two women a day. Are you telling me that this is
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a first world, secularized, civilized first world society
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that respects women and Islam, which preserves hijab, which
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preserves the right of a woman when it comes to inheritance,
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when it comes to proposing for marriage, when it comes to.
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Brother, the right of divorce. The right of divorce, all of
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these rights that women have in Islam, which Al Hamdullah has
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Abolab abused. Them, by the way, they were.
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The first phase and you talk about Muslim countries in the
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world where there are Muslim countries where women have
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higher literacy rates, graduation rates than for
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example, the US. As example, you have more
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chemical engineers in Iran than you have in the US who are
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female. And these are, you know, it all
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goes back to this, the root cause of if you can divide them,
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then ultimately the dumb Muslims will go with the flow.
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They'll take the dollars and they'll take they'll fall for
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the narrative and fall for the lies, and they'll go with the
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flow and the dumb non-Muslims also go with the flow.
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In reality, they will believe tabloid media.
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They'll believe sensationalist speeches by the likes of Trump
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and whatnot. Do you know what I mean?
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So this polarization like this far left and far right, which
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we're seeing in the world today is only becoming more so you.
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Know you mentioned something very interesting.
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You said, you know, Muslims can believe the media, yeah, when
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it's against, when it's against them, ultimately us, right.
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And that actually proves a point I like every time like
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Hamdullah, we came back not too long ago from Karbala.
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We went to Ziara, right, for that Hamdullah, for that
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opportunity and Shallah year in Yera, we have that opportunity
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in Shallah to go for Ziara of Imam Hussain on his 40th, the
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Urbain. But many people choose not to
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go. They earn to go, but they don't
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want to go. Why?
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Because they look at the news outlets and they see, for
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example, the amount of fear that's in.
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That's just, you know, being spoken about certain parts of
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the world, mainly the Muslim world, where it's a dangerous
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place to go, where it's a place where there is no rights, there
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is no respect, you know, and what's funny during the whole
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experience this year is that we met a number of Western
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individuals, right? And they all had something very
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similar. They all said something very
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common where they didn't expect Iraq, for example, this Muslim
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country to be the way it was. The the positivity that they had
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during their visit was something completely different to what
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they've been told from back home, right?
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And I mentioned something very interesting to one of the
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brothers. And I was like, you know how
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there's always this fear of, you know, people are forcing hijab
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on women and, you know, women are like second class citizens
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and things like that. I was like in the Middle East
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brought is the other way around. You know, in the West is like we
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sort of sexualize and make women objects 100% right?
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Whereas over there we protect them.
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There is this thing where a lady can, for example, walk, know
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that she will be safer in Iraq than to walk in the streets of
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central London past midnight, for example, right?
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Why? Why go and tell me why?
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Because we, we, we have this thing like I think on 2 levels.
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Number one, I think our last panel at Allah has instilled and
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every human being from the day they're born, this, this, this
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notion of era right now as Muslims, Al Hamdullah, we
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emphasize on this a lot and we're nurtured on this and is
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God-given to us as men, right? And the Western world, this is
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taught as a bad thing, you know, let them do what they want.
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Let them. I don't want to, I don't want to
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change the, the, the subject completely.
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But you know, there's also certain things that remove this
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era from an individual, like Islamically, we know for
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example, one of them is Haram food.
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When you eat Haram food, it decreases your, your era levels
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as a man, right. So I was telling him basically,
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you know, if we want to like judge one of the most discussed
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points in the Western world against our regions, our Muslim
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lands, is that women are like treated like classes as where as
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let's just let's just look at here, let's just compare it with
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the Uki remember there was. Look at how there was a.
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Statistic the other day in terms of sexual assault on women in
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the UK is the highest in Europe. I wouldn't be surprised.
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Look at how a Muslim man treats his mother or a Muslim father
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treats his daughter. And look at in this society, how
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kids swear at their mothers, how kids swear at their mothers, how
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in public they, they, they, you know, are drinking alcohol and
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smoking with their mothers. And Subhan Allah, you said
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something to me right now and I had a memory back to secondary
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school year 7 or year eight. I remember those time I had like
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a phone. We can call our parents after
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school, you know, play snake. That was it was Nokia 32 tens,
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whatever they were. I forgot the model numbers but I
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remember there was also I had like white friends like when
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they chat to their parents they'll call their parent by
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their name. No way.
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Yeah, man, it's like like if, if their dad, if their dad is
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called like David, like he doesn't say father or dad crazy.
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He goes David. I'm sure that's crazy, but
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that's one level of respect abolished.
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Like it doesn't exist at the same time that they would use
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like language that you don't even use it with your friends
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and you talk like that with your parents.
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That's disgusting. And unfortunately it kind of
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effects Muslim youth in the UK and in the US and across the
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Western world. Yeah, when you when you allow
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yourself as teenagers or whatever to be surrounded by
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that and you don't pin it down. Do you know what I mean?
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And also, bro, just like coming back to it, the way people treat
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their mothers here, who you could be raised, born and raised
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in a Western society, but be born into a Muslim household.
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The way you respect your mother and your grandmother and your
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aunts and your sisters. And when you move out or you get
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married, you're the love you show for your wife.
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You know the sweetness in which you speak to your wife.
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Inshallah, we hope so. The the praise in which you give
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your wife should the way she goes out of her way for you,
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then you have daughters. The way you protect your
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daughters. The way you you, you care about
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how they leave the house. You care about how they present
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themselves to the world. You want them to focus on
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building their identity, their, their roar, their intellect,
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their you want them to go out and define themselves by who
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they are, what they believe, what they learn, what they
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teach, rather than how long their hair is and what colour,
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whether it's curly or straight or you know, how short their
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skirt is. These are not things which we
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characterize as definition. We don't characterize a woman by
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these things. We don't define a woman by these
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kind of visible and aesthetic qualities.
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Unfortunately, these are characteristics which we look
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down. I think, Ahmed, you say very,
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very good points there. And I think it's something that
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we can all reflect on and even if we have a non-muslim audience
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listening right now, I think there's something they can look
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into and benefit from, Insha'allah.
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Now I, I want to go back now to the reflections we discussed a
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bit early on, if you allow me, which is I think there was one
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other reflection that I think is very critical when it comes to
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looking back at this entire genocide this unfold, right?
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And you know, many, many people and I think even people who were
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never interested in this before have spoken about it now, which
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is, for example, Muslim unity, right?
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But for me, it's, it's a level more it's, it's made me realize
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like the Shia community is so fragmented.
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It's so broken that no one wants to work with each other, like no
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one wants to come together. And I thought something,
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something hit my mind. This was literally, I think
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after the episode we filmed with Asan Thadri, may Allah bless
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him, who we had last week air, right?
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It made me think like, I genuinely believe this.
22:58
I could be wrong, right? But and maybe I want your
23:01
opinion on this year. I think one of the reasons why
23:05
our 12th Imam, Imam Al Mahdi Ajah Allah, the Allah Faraj
23:10
Sharif is not apparent to us yet because look at the state we're
23:16
in. We have 1 camp.
23:19
You know, we don't take fear of the other camp one side, you
23:23
know, speaking I'll of the other side, Whereas when you come to
23:26
look at it, bro, we all believe in the same thing.
23:29
And even if we have different camps, right, I think it's fine.
23:32
I think there's I think possibly healthy competition is the wrong
23:34
word to use when it comes to this in terms of faith and
23:36
human. But what are we doing that's
23:40
outside the halls of Islam? Like, why are we fighting with
23:42
each other? Why are we, you know, speaking
23:45
I'll of one another? Why, why, why do we like, why do
23:49
we have to be in such a state where we're not really focused
23:53
on Imam al Mehdi's arrival? We have allies and reappearance
23:57
and we're not focused on what does this murder just say?
24:00
What does this scholar say? What did this speaker say?
24:03
And it made me think, honey, I think as a community, what good
24:06
we love to work with one another.
24:07
But I think it's the hierarchy, it's it's, it's those, I think a
24:12
level or two, perhaps 5 above us.
24:14
I wouldn't say our Alama. May Allah protect and respect
24:17
them. I think sometimes the speakers
24:19
and I love a lot of them, right. But I think at times they're
24:23
part of the problem. Ahmed.
24:24
Well, I don't think they do good in terms of uniting our Shia.
24:27
Can I disagree with you because. Of course it's an opinion.
24:31
I think as whether it's as Muslims, as Shias, as Arabs, we,
24:36
we inherently know that we don't agree with one another.
24:40
Like as a Shia, I, I know I disagree with a Sunni.
24:43
A Sunni might see me as a kafir, I see him as a kafir, whatever,
24:46
it doesn't matter. And we, we, we know that we can
24:49
coexist, but it's the ones who are higher up who are using that
24:52
to divide and conquer and. Are we talking about Shia Shia
24:55
unity or Sunni Shia? Not as in our our.
24:58
Speakers, for example, telling us, for example, this group is
25:04
this group is wrong is that they're teaching us our our
25:10
hokum our what we believe in. They're teaching us our beliefs
25:13
OK. And we we we can still know that
25:17
and live and exist with with them are.
25:20
We talking about Sunnis. Shia as a Sunnis for example.
25:23
So let's talk about Shia. Shia.
25:24
I'm talking about Shia. Shia.
25:25
So let's. Yeah, but I'm saying that whole
25:27
thing exists throughout SO. Even across Shia, I'll show you.
25:31
Yeah, fair enough. So you say it's fine.
25:34
Yeah, as in as in maybe. Maybe.
25:36
Are you saying it's fine? No, I'm saying even even if you
25:40
disagree. For example, there's another
25:41
merger that says doing X is wrong that makes me wrong.
25:44
As long as we're not doing take fear of fighting with each
25:46
other, that's something else. No, but it's fine.
25:49
It's not fine bro. Like if I if I believe a certain
25:52
merger says something, say a merger comes out and says XA
25:56
Hobby was a good person. Like Khalid bin Walid, for
25:59
example. Yeah, yeah.
26:03
That's one of the. It's like, OK, let him think
26:04
that, but I'm not going to go out my way to now take feel can.
26:08
Counter that argument, I can tell you I disagree with him.
26:11
We can counter the argument, but we can't call him a Carter.
26:13
We can't start fighting with him and brushing them all in terms
26:16
of Hellfire. That's wrong.
26:19
Because that's what causes the disunity.
26:21
I was speaking on TikTok for the first and only time.
26:24
Oh my dears, you went live. You went live.
26:28
I went live for the first time. Did I not tell you the story?
26:30
I can't. Remember, go on.
26:32
Basically a month ago or so, I was on TikTok for the fact once
26:38
in a month I get bored or like once every two months and I just
26:41
want to check out if we're posting all our reels.
26:43
So I go on TikTok. So I'll go check it out.
26:45
And I saw this Instagram Live and you know, there's always
26:48
this Sunny Shia dialogue on Instagram Live.
26:52
There were three brothers. No, there were two brothers in
26:54
the room. Actually there were three.
26:56
I'm just going to summarize it. One of them was tough Lily Batri
27:01
as in his own words self kind of prescribed.
27:05
He believes in the legitimate in, in his words, the legitimate
27:09
khilafah of the first 3 caliphs. But he also believes in the 12
27:12
imams as spiritual leaders but not as divinely appointed IMA on
27:17
on earth. It's a bit confusing.
27:20
Whatever, that's his conversation for another day.
27:22
Then there was a guy who calls himself a Salafi.
27:25
They were talking about the Shia, right?
27:27
So the Salafi brother said I do takfir on all Shia because they
27:36
reject Abu Baker. So I was like, OK.
27:40
I reject them and what? So he basically said, what do
27:44
you say? What you say I?
27:45
Said I reject them and what? Yeah.
27:47
I mean, so he goes that the grounds for me doing takfir is
27:50
rejection of him. Yeah, so I was like, that's a
27:53
bit crazy because then you're doing takfir on something based
27:56
on something that's not a Sulidin or Farruddin for Sonia,
28:00
Shia like for especially if I Shia like it's not part of our
28:03
Sulidin to believe in any of the sahaba, for example, as you
28:08
know, to have a, a good or a bad opinion of them.
28:12
So I was like, I need to correct this guy.
28:14
So I jumped on the life and I was like, brother, with the
28:16
greatest respect. Firstly, if I politically
28:19
disagree with the right of of a so-called sahaba to have a
28:23
position of authority, that's that's a political decision that
28:27
I disagree with. For example, someone's been put
28:29
in a certain position. That's the decision I've made
28:33
after conclusiveness and academic research and studying
28:36
hadith and studying XY and Z. That's not something you can do
28:40
to feel on I said unless you're disputing Lailah and for
28:44
example, you are rejecting core tenets of Islam.
28:48
Long story short, the other brother agreed with me and then
28:52
this guy agreed with me. Then I said to him, I was like,
28:54
would you apply the same logic to Ali?
28:57
So if someone hates a Mama Ali, Ali Salaam, would you do take
28:59
feel on them? He's like, yeah, yeah, of
29:00
course, Yeah, yeah, of course. Anyone who disrespects, this was
29:05
the keyword to use. Anyone who disrespects Emir or
29:07
Montminin, they're kafir. What about Mahalia?
29:11
I asked him. He's like, Nah, Nah, I'm not
29:13
bro. Like, let's step back a bit.
29:15
It's like Nah, Mahalia never disrespected Ali sounds like
29:18
what do you think? Flipping Safin Like what are the
29:22
what they do Safin bro, they go go crying or something say
29:25
people come on bro. Goose.
29:28
Honestly, what do you think they're doing in Sifin?
29:31
Putting spirits at each other? Put hands on the Spirit.
29:33
This is why I said like when you when you referenced, you were
29:36
paraphrasing what the brother was saying when he was like he
29:38
does take fear on anyone who rejects the Babakar.
29:40
I said I reject the Babakar because I.
29:41
Don't think he said like as this is, this is the the call.
29:44
Frankly, Guided Caliph, right? Yeah, yeah, you don't.
29:47
You don't have to. It's not.
29:48
No. Listen, Salah Muhammad, Salah
29:51
Ali Ali Ali Ali Ali never came and said to be a Muslim, you
29:56
have to follow these people after me except for one group,
30:01
right? And we know who that one group
30:02
are, the Halle Beta Label Slam. He never said that about a
30:05
certain group, other group, a group who he was not related to
30:09
by blood, a group who he did not give certain privileges that he
30:12
gave the Halle Beta Label slam. And a group that did not in any
30:16
stage of their life, even in their past life, even 20-30
30:19
years prior, they never sided against the Prophet Mohammed.
30:25
So they never sided with the kafar.
30:27
They never sided in battle against the Holy Prophet.
30:30
We are talking now about certain sahaba who, for example, certain
30:34
Muslims will say he was the greatest war in the history of
30:36
Islam. Like we're talking about Muslims
30:38
who in certain battles sided against the Holy Prophet.
30:41
Okay, these these people are now called safe Allah, for example.
30:45
Do you know what I mean? But you know, in earlier times
30:48
of their lives, they were putting that safe at the solar
30:51
law. Do you get on saying laws like
30:53
these guys are are baffled, You know, I'm saying so there's not
30:56
a condition to believe in the in the to believe in certain people
31:01
in order to be Muslims. So that's the key point.
31:03
Yeah. I'm just going to clarify one or
31:05
two more points because there are people who say to me, oh,
31:07
you guys are best sectarian on the podcast.
31:09
Hello, brother. Relax, relax.
31:11
Sectarian. Yeah, yeah, people say it to me.
31:12
Relax. First things first, we.
31:14
Are telling you were sectarian? Yeah, friends of ours.
31:17
But listen, we are lovely. We are.
31:18
No, no, like, I get it. I get it.
31:20
Yeah, like he's saying, don't talk about things which
31:23
instigate our brothers at the Sonorajimar.
31:26
Let's let's. Let's let's cancel Fatimiya next
31:28
week. Let's.
31:30
Let's, let's see, we respect our brothers at the Sonorajimar, if
31:33
they respect us, OK, Because we believe in respectfulness, OK,
31:38
We show our clock. We see anyone on the street,
31:40
they're not Muslim. We show our clock and we believe
31:42
in that. Secondly, does it mean that we
31:45
suddenly conceal our beliefs? Unless of course, there's a
31:49
very, very, very there's like special case for that, but we're
31:53
not in that case. OK, Thirdly, you know, we can
31:58
have dialogue about conversations which are openly
32:01
shit are without being offensive.
32:05
I strongly believe that. And I know we have Sunni
32:06
listeners and I love our Sunni listeners and all the shout out
32:09
brother Kashif, who always, I don't know if you've seen.
32:11
He's a top G. Yeah, I'm always chatting to
32:13
someone DMS after. He's one of my favorite
32:15
listeners. He's always Dming us with.
32:17
He's the listener of the show, so shout out to you.
32:19
So I just want to make that abundantly clear, because we
32:23
believe in unity. This I speak for myself, OK?
32:28
We believe in unity in the Ummah.
32:30
So you need to change it to I believe in.
32:32
Unity. Yeah, I believe in unity in the
32:33
ummah. I do believe in unity.
32:35
But how you define unity as a Western term and whatnot, it's a
32:38
very broad thing, because I don't believe in uniting with
32:41
Wahhabis. This is the tricky thing, right?
32:42
You know. What I'm saying, the guys who
32:43
want to, the guys who want to raise Johnson, Bucky to the
32:45
ground, Karbala to the ground, why the hell would I want to,
32:48
you know, with them? And is good that you raise this
32:50
right now, because I was going to say who doesn't believe in
32:52
unity right? Like which saying I think human
32:55
with morals and principles and mannerism of the end of the day
32:59
of the Lasati of Salaam does want to break bread with a
33:01
fellow Muslim, right. But our problem and I think we
33:04
have to be real about Ahmed our problem.
33:05
We I don't think any of us have an issue with Sunnis.
33:07
I think this is this is something that has to be clear.
33:09
Like even though the Shia saying we're sectarian bro, I think we
33:12
should be comfortable discussing our beliefs, whatever they are,
33:15
right? Same thing goes to the other
33:17
side. They have something they believe
33:18
and they can discuss in our problem.
33:20
And Inshallah we can, you know, find out at the end of the day,
33:23
on the day of judgement, inshallah, who's on the path.
33:25
But ultimately a Shia, we don't have an issue with Sunnis.
33:30
Our problem, and I think we have to be clear about it.
33:37
Our problem is those who took fear with us.
33:42
I have never been told by a Shiite that a Sunni is a Qatar.
33:45
And my entire life, my entire life, no one has told me.
33:50
Not my father nor my mother nor my Arabic politician.
33:52
No one has ever told me a fellow Sunni is a Catholic.
33:56
It's always come towards us. So I'm not blaming them.
34:00
But I think, I think something that really changed, if I
34:04
reflect back onto Reza, is that allowed?
34:06
I think Muslims who are Sunni Muslims, and when I say Sunni
34:11
Muslims, I'm not sharing about your Salafis and Medkalis and
34:14
Marsh. You know, I'm talking about
34:16
those who follow the students of Imam Jafar Assad, Kalihi Salaam,
34:20
you know, the Hanafi, the Shafi, the Maliki.
34:22
I think those people, the majority of them have
34:25
understood, number one, that we don't have those beliefs.
34:30
Our speakers who speak on our behalf have been telling us this
34:33
right. You mean in terms of moderate
34:35
beliefs, not in terms of schools of yeah, yeah.
34:37
Yeah, yeah. That, for example, like the
34:40
people I used to be in school with, like when I was in
34:42
secondary school, I had so much Sunni friends.
34:45
Of course, I had so much. It was like a majority Muslim
34:47
school. Yeah, Yeah.
34:48
And I had so much Sunni friends. And half the time they'll debate
34:51
me that macafa, I'm not praying on cookies and XY is there, the
34:55
usual stuff, things like that. Right.
34:56
But then I realized that they don't truly believe this Ahmed.
35:00
Yeah, it's just to wind each other up.
35:01
No, no, no. It's not just that.
35:02
It's they've been told this. Yes, yeah.
35:05
Yeah, you understand. But whether they're told or
35:07
whether they. Believe it changed everything.
35:09
Yeah, I'm not joking, because now you have a lot Al
35:12
Hamdulillah Sunni. Allah has, I think, allowed the
35:16
hearts of many of our Sunni Muslim brothers to open up
35:20
towards the Shia right. Probably to be honest, I think
35:23
it's the same reverse as well. Because now as Shia Muslims, you
35:28
know, look, if you look in the last like 1520 years, yeah, a
35:31
lot of the conflict which has been happening at least in, in
35:33
the, in the last 1520 years has directly affected a lot of Shia.
35:38
So we see a lot of Shia in Yemen, for example, who have
35:40
been targeted. We see Shia in Syria, of course,
35:43
who of that's kind of a separate conversation.
35:45
We talked about a lot last week. But of course the Shia and Syria
35:47
were involved in, in, in conflict.
35:49
The Shia of Iraq were directly targeted.
35:51
Shia and Pakistan are targeted. We were talking about Shia of
35:55
Lebanon in 2006, but the point being is like now we are
35:59
standing firm, very much so with overwhelmingly majority Sunni
36:06
population and not just that, a population which does have
36:10
mercibys residing within it. There are people who hate us as
36:15
Shias who live in Gaza. We don't dispute that, that
36:17
people think oh but they were, some of them are pro Sudan.
36:22
OK, all right, So what? Like, do you know what I mean?
36:26
Humanity goes beyond your political allegiances.
36:29
I do think, I do think that their beliefs, some of their
36:34
beliefs are wrong. But I also know that there are
36:36
people in Gaza who are doing Wilada Tamil and Mahmudin who
36:42
are doing celebration or who are, for example, saying
36:45
Kuluyama Ashura Kuluya than Karbala.
36:47
And we see this, we've actually seen it spray painted on the
36:51
wall the the apartheid wall in Gaza.
36:53
Do you know what I mean? Like these are things which pull
36:56
us together as a community because Sunni and Shia can unite
37:00
for A cause and that is to stop the blood of innocent children
37:02
falling on the floor. Do you know what I'm saying?
37:04
I, I fully understand and I, and maybe I didn't finish my point
37:08
as well a bit earlier on when it comes to this, yeah, Sunni, Shia
37:11
Muslim unity thing, right? It's that no one is saying that
37:14
you can't unite, but I think there has to be a clear
37:16
distinction between what that unite means.
37:19
It's like what it looks like. OK, yes, we differ with our
37:22
beliefs that's we can coexist. Yeah, we agree to disagree.
37:26
I, I think we can agree to disagree agreeably right on, on
37:29
many things that's we can't unite with falsehood.
37:31
And that's why I, I, I, I separated.
37:33
I said, for example, Metalise and Salafis and things like
37:35
this, because these are people we cannot unite with this.
37:38
These are people who our blood is highland for them spilling
37:42
our blood grants them gender. Of course, this is, this is the
37:45
people that we don't want to unite with.
37:47
So this is something very something we have to be clear
37:50
with. And, and one more point to add.
37:52
I think when it comes to like Muslim, Muslim unity, like
37:56
especially now on, I think on a global level, on the, on the
38:00
political stage, this is something very important.
38:04
And without it, I, I think there's going to be chaos for
38:07
every Muslim land. Every Muslim is going to be
38:10
affected, whether you're a Sunni or Shiite, if you don't
38:13
politically unite, at least on a political level and defeat this
38:17
common enemy, which they're going to come for you, Bro.
38:19
I'm telling you if, if, if they manage to, if they've been doing
38:24
this for 70 years in Palestine and now they're trying to do it
38:27
once more again in Lebanon, Bro, have you seen Greater Israel
38:31
includes Arah, bro, it includes Saudi Arabia.
38:38
Well, they're coming for your land.
38:39
And these were ain't going to stop until I think they settle
38:41
everywhere. They're settled at the end of
38:42
the day, right? They want to take over the
38:44
region because. The thing is said like we've
38:45
we've seen, sorry to to you off board, but we see extremism in
38:49
every form in every society. So we see extremism here in the
38:52
UK and we see this like we talked about the important EDL
38:56
rights that took place, which don't represent and English
38:59
society was generally speaking is quite not even tolerable, but
39:03
friendly and easy to be with and easy to work with.
39:06
And we just look like our colleagues at work and our
39:08
relationship with these guys. In the same way we see in Sunni
39:13
society the extremes, the fundamentalists and those who,
39:17
like you said, our blood is halal for them.
39:19
We see in the, the Jewish religion, the ethnos,
39:23
supremacist Zionists who in the same way want to expand and
39:28
conquer, who see themselves as a superior race, who are more
39:31
worthy of land and rights and, and, and in essence, excuse me,
39:38
in essence, see themselves as God's chosen people on earth.
39:43
How can anyone unite? They've become Punjat a lot.
39:46
They've become Punjat. How can anyone unite with any
39:50
people who think that they are superior, a superior race?
39:54
And when we, when we talk about the destruction of a Zionist
39:59
entity, we're not talking about the removal or the, the genocide
40:04
of people. Let's be very clear.
40:07
Because when South Africa, the apartheid system of South Africa
40:10
was dismantled, white S Africans weren't removed from the face of
40:14
the earth. Do you see what I mean?
40:16
The dismantling of a political system which sees themselves as
40:19
superior and which sees people as subhuman.
40:24
It needs to be removed that that that is essential.
40:26
This dismantling is essential. And the same, of course, like I
40:29
said, goes for the for the extremist Sunnis.
40:33
And this brings me on to now when we talk about this year.
40:36
Before you move on, I think it goes on towards like getting rid
40:40
of that, that Zionist entity that wants to constantly remove
40:45
our communities. So like in the past, we've
40:48
always had where the, the, these have been as in the, the, I
40:53
don't know what you call them, the revolts against the Muslims
40:55
have always been funded by these entities.
40:58
So so where you have like the anti government Iranians funded
41:01
by Israel or you have like the Myanmar killing of Muslims
41:05
funded by Israel or the Sudanese rebels or the Syrian rebels,
41:09
these these are always funded to like divide us and conquer.
41:11
Us everything goes back to this entity.
41:14
And listen, you know, it's ironic as well, Yeah.
41:16
That this group, it's, it's like you said, it's a twisted version
41:22
of a religion which we believe is Abrahamic and like Khattab
41:25
do. You know what I mean.
41:27
Absolutely preserved. Do you know how mad that is?
41:30
Do you know how mad that is? That, for example, have you
41:31
heard about the red heifer? Red heifer?
41:34
What's it called? Red heifer, The cow, The red
41:36
cow, right? You've read about this and
41:37
you've read. And in their mind, was it you
41:40
who mentioned to be said someone else now about the fact that
41:44
they believe that this is a greater Israel is their right
41:48
for the coming of their Messiah? Yes, such that they need to
41:51
conquer these lands in preparation for their Messiah.
41:53
Now, when we talk about preparation for our Imam, we're
41:57
talking about being a pure soul. And that's which does not lie.
42:00
And still we're talking about respecting your parents and
42:04
doing as much. So do it as you can and do jihad
42:06
al Akhmat al Asgar. Like we're talking about things
42:08
which are like, you know, very peaceful and good and halal.
42:12
And we're not talking about conquering or invading and, and,
42:15
and, you know, killing children and all of this stuff.
42:19
Absolute nonsense, honestly. That's proper nonsense, and
42:22
people don't see it. You know, you mentioned killing
42:24
children, You know, Subhan Allah today.
42:27
Today I literally thought, well, I was thinking to myself, Ahmed,
42:30
I was like, haven't they had enough of children's blood being
42:33
spilled? Yeah, Yeah.
42:35
And I mean. It makes no difference.
42:38
My genuine thoughts here is that when 7th of October started and
42:43
we all know that's not when it actually started, but let's say
42:46
that's when I think the the walls hide open to was was truly
42:50
behind the intentions of Israel, right?
42:53
Is that I thought at the very beginning, this may last a month
42:56
or two and it's going to end bro, because they know they've
42:59
killed so much. I don't think they have a limit.
43:03
I don't think there's a limit to how much, you know, mutilated
43:06
bodies that they want to see and achieve and it's scary.
43:10
It's scary that we've, I think as I don't want to blame us as
43:15
individuals as the problem. So I think on a, on a political
43:19
level, I think ultimately it's down to the leaders of the
43:21
countries to do something about it.
43:23
But we've sort of allowed it to happen because we were all
43:26
asleep all these years, right? Like whenever someone told me,
43:29
for example, ha, did you know this is happening in Palestine?
43:32
And I said when we had the episode with sister Bertola was
43:35
like, it didn't bother me, so I didn't care.
43:37
But if I was passive and I was like part of that problem that I
43:40
didn't care, it's led to this. If we all cared, right?
43:45
If we all genuinely cared from the very beginning or understood
43:49
what is happening in Philistine from the very, very beginning, I
43:52
don't think it would have reached the stage.
43:54
Because hypocrisy has become truth.
43:58
The truth has become lies. And what do we have left?
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We've got nothing wrong. Like the only people that
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actually want to help anyone or see any, you know, resolve to
44:09
the ongoing genocide. I.
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Don't want to keep saying it but I do anything.
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Only the Shiaki I know all. Muslims do, but to be honest,
44:18
but I have. Leadership and leadership is
44:20
very important to this because look, you can have a leader
44:22
who's leading Israel, who's leading them to their own
44:24
destruction. And ultimately, at the end of
44:25
the day, what are they leading? They're leading on blood.
44:29
They're leading on bombs. They're leading on what, Ahmed?
44:32
And then look at the other world, the other side of this
44:34
coin, right? Look at their leadership level.
44:38
Look at their skill set, look at how they govern, look at how
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they speak, how they treat civilians.
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How bro, it's mad. It's mad.
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I guess there's no comparison between the two.
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It's like North Pole and South Pole, Hudson and Botham, truth
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and falsehood, Yazid, Mahalia Hussein and Al Hassan.
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Look at it, It's that clear. But we've allowed it to reach
45:02
that stage. Same thing if we go back in
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Islamic history and maybe for the sake of unity, I don't
45:09
mention everything, but if we go back to Islamic history, I think
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I generally believe this and I may be wrong in my my thoughts,
45:16
right? But the reason why the majority
45:18
of the Muslim world is asleep and don't give a flying monkey.
45:22
And I don't want to use that word.
45:23
I'll prefer to use other words, but flying monkey is the most
45:25
respectful thing right now on this podcast.
45:27
Is that because if we go look at previous leaders in Islamic
45:32
history, this was the norm, This was normal, safe Allah.
45:37
Whether he's fighting for the justice of Allah, whatever he
45:40
says, it's pooja. He doesn't care.
45:42
He doesn't care. He wants to kill.
45:43
We, we go kill. He wants to rape and assault one
45:46
of the companions of Rasul Allah or rape his his mother, rape his
45:51
wife. Sorry, Khalid bin Walid say as
45:53
it is right, but we call him safe Allah.
45:56
We our, this is our problem. We know it's wrong and we say no
46:01
problem, only God can judge them.
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And This is why Philistine is where it is today.
46:05
It's part of the problem is that as I'm trying, I'm trying to not
46:10
not not make it sectarian here, Ahmed.
46:12
But I think this is reality. And I think everyone should
46:14
question themselves that the reason why the majority of the
46:17
Muslim world is asleep is that history repeats itself.
46:21
And look at our own history. Where are the leaders of the
46:24
Muslim world? They were killing those on hack.
46:27
They were shedding the blood of those.
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We wanted to instill the laws of Allah, Subhanahu wata Allah.
46:32
They didn't care. They cared about what power,
46:35
they cared about fame and rain and land and conquering other
46:40
lands as well, right? They all talk about this golden
46:42
age of Muslims, you know, conquering the world and
46:45
spreading Islam. So I think Islam by what, When
46:48
Rasul Allah said, you know, Islam was like spread and saved
46:52
with the sword of Ali and the wolf of Khadijah.
46:56
I mean he speaks about the sword that he's talking about defence,
47:00
not this bloodthirsty offence. Yeah, right.
47:03
Anyhow, your thoughts? No, I think there's there's a
47:06
lot to unpack there. Look, a year ago I I put on
47:11
Instagram, I think two or three days after the conflict started,
47:15
I basically had a bit of a rant. Someone from my following list
47:20
screenshotted it and shared it on a WhatsApp group.
47:22
Before I know it did the rounds in the community.
47:24
They came back to me a few times, but in essence, I'm, I, I
47:27
ranted a bit because I think probably three or four days
47:30
after the genocide began, I was like, where are half of the
47:36
community? And in terms of our community,
47:39
and I still feel a level of frustration personally speaking,
47:42
because we look to our scholars, we look to our community
47:47
leaders, we look to those who are well known and respected in
47:50
our communities to be those who lead US in voice and in pen and
47:57
those who represent our Arcada through their action and their
48:01
words. Till now, we still see
48:05
organizations. We still see individuals who we
48:10
have had high respect for over the years when it comes to their
48:14
level of religious knowledge or their level of involvement for
48:17
the community, but who have not said a word about Palestine or
48:20
who have been very minimalistic just to kind of do a tick box
48:24
when it comes to it as well. So that obviously annoys me.
48:29
And now with Lebanon, I mentioned this last week like
48:32
you're now speaking up. What's the difference?
48:34
There's a clear difference there.
48:35
It's because one Sunni and one Shia.
48:37
In terms of the second thing you mentioned about the Muslim
48:40
leaders and history repeating itself.
48:43
Ultimately history will repeat itself.
48:44
Our last part of the Allah tells us in the Quran so many on so
48:48
many occasions about do you not reflect on multiple occasions.
48:51
I was actually on a like I was doing a class couple of days ago
48:57
and the the topic of discussion was reflection and how many
49:00
instances in the hood of Qadhan a last panel to other tells us
49:03
do not think, do not reflect and he tells us that as a rhetorical
49:08
question why to try and like shake us like wake up, think
49:12
about what's around you think about if it's happened before.
49:15
Have we learnt our lesson as a race?
49:17
Do you know what I mean? And perhaps not.
49:19
And the last thing, actually the first thing you mentioned, but
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the last thing I'll say is you talked about, you said, do they,
49:28
do they feel no shame or no pity for those children that they're
49:34
murdering? Currently, you know, apparently
49:38
18,000 children have been killed in Gaza apparently, and
49:41
apparently 300 kids have been killed in Lebanon.
49:45
I don't believe those statistics because we know from The Lancet
49:48
journal that between 2 and 300,000 people have been killed
49:52
by Israel in the last year directly or indirectly and even
49:57
indirectly still directly because you're bombing
50:00
hospitals, people lose their lives because they have no
50:03
access to medical care. We're talking about people who,
50:07
for example, and I've just got it here, Isaac Herzog, president
50:12
of Israel, said. There are no innocent civilians
50:16
in Gaza. 2 million people, the most dense population on earth
50:20
and the smallest strip of land on earth, half of which are
50:24
children. There are no civilians who are
50:28
innocent in Gaza. Let's process that.
50:31
You're telling me that of those two million, of which one
50:35
million are under 18, IE what they were born in 2006 when the
50:40
last conflict happened, there is no innocence there.
50:44
Another example, the defence minister, the defence minister,
50:49
who we call the terror minister, you have gallon absolute animal,
50:53
he said. I'm saying to the civilians,
50:55
this is last November, because I'm saying to the civilians of
50:58
Lebanon, if Hezbollah makes mistakes of this kind, the ones
51:02
yada yada, yada, yada, what we are doing in Gaza, we know how
51:06
to do it in Beirut. The signs have been there, the
51:09
desire to divide and conquer has been there again and again and
51:14
again. The dehumanization, the
51:15
marginalization that people in Gaza have been seeing for 76
51:19
years is now coming to the brim. And people are now just starting
51:23
to see that this narrative of cleansing of, of just
51:28
eradicating the existence of all people, treating people like
51:32
their subservience is absolutely atrocious.
51:36
And now it's would be, we're seeing that in the form of
51:39
violence and aggression towards the Palestinian people.
51:41
So do they have go back to the question, do they have no shame?
51:45
No, they don't have any shame. They don't care whether it's
51:48
18,000 kids who are being killed, 100,000 kids who have
51:51
been killed, a million kids who have been killed.
51:53
To be really frank, there's they say it in their own words, there
51:58
is no innocence, no, no innocence if it is in Gaza.
52:02
So we won't rest until we achieve liberation for the
52:05
Palestinian people. And I don't think a lot of
52:07
people will. I think one thing we've seen
52:10
over the last year is we've seen people from all corners of the
52:13
globe come together to stand for Palestine and now for Lebanon.
52:17
We've seen people who have different backgrounds, different
52:19
social classes, different community origins come together
52:23
for one core reason. That causes liberation, that
52:26
causes resistance, and we're seeing that day-to-day.
52:29
I think everyone should be very proud of themselves.
52:31
It's so true. And you know, the beautiful
52:32
thing about when we see, you know, the people who come out
52:36
and support of being anti genocidal, right, in support of,
52:41
let's say, Palestinian resistance and the Lebanese
52:44
resistance is that they're not just Muslim.
52:47
Yeah, they're from all walks of life, from different faiths,
52:52
different races, different backgrounds.
52:54
And what unites all of them? What is it?
52:56
Humanity absent. Yeah.
52:57
And if you don't see something wrong and if you don't speak up
53:01
against it, there's something wrong with your humanity.
53:03
You are not human. Yeah, ultimately, you're not
53:05
human. And if it doesn't affect you, if
53:07
it doesn't pain you, if it doesn't make you even lift your
53:10
hands and make dua for them, there's something definitely
53:12
wrong with you. And now it's spreading.
53:14
It's like a cancer. I said it last week.
53:16
If, if there's no end to this entity, they're going to come
53:19
for everyone, not just me and you.
53:21
They're going to come for every land possible.
53:23
Well, they will. What they don't know is we have
53:27
a leader and he's alive and he's well and he can't be located and
53:32
they won't, they will not be able to target him.
53:35
And we await him in Sharla. When he comes, we'll be ready.
53:37
In Sharla, we hope to prepare and develop our communities and
53:41
such that we're ready to welcome him with open arms.
53:43
And we pray that he will welcome us into his circle, his
53:46
government, his, his answer with open arms, Charlotte.
53:49
That's our Tarana when Iraq, the Allah hasten his reappearance.
53:52
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53:56
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All right guys, say any last words?
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Just keep us in your doors and Inshallah will do the same.