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Sayed Ahmed AlQazwini - Ramadan 2016 Night 26 (English)
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[0:00][Applause] [Music] Alhamdulillah.
[0:23]Respected brothers and sisters, most of the Muslim countries are poor and
[0:32]univilized.
[0:34]Job opportunities are scarce.
[0:36]Good health, good education is rarely offered.
[0:40]You find that most of these countries are ruled by dictators who
[0:45]cannot handle anyone going against them religiously or politically.
[0:50]And that's why they will persecute whoever disagrees with them socially, politically
[0:55]or religiously.
[0:55]And you'll find many of these Muslim countries are plagued with fighting
[1:00]and wars and battles and terrorism.
[1:03]In some parts of the Middle East, in the Muslim countries, people
[1:06]are afraid to even go to masjids to pray because they fear
[1:11]that a suicide bomber may come and detonate himself even in a
[1:13]masjid as we saw last year and this year and the year
[1:17]before in Saudi Arabia and the Shia mosques in Kuwait what happened
[1:19]last year Ramadan in Baghdad happening all the time and in other
[1:23]places.
[1:24]So when you look at the Middle East, it's a very gloomy
[1:29]picture.
[1:30]the Muslim countries.
[1:31]It's an univilized backward society.
[1:33]Poor freedoms are very limited, rights are very limited and you rarely
[1:39]find safety there.
[1:40]But when you come to the west, you find a completely brighter
[1:46]picture.
[1:45]It's a completely different picture.
[1:49]You find the west is much more civilized.
[1:49]You find job opportunities are abundant, much better health.
[1:54]The best hospitals in the world are in the west.
[1:58]The best education, schools, universities is in the west.
[2:01]The best businesses, best paying jobs are in the west.
[2:05]You find much more rights and freedoms given to the citizens of
[2:07]the west.
[2:09]Now, yes, there is no country in the world that gives you
[2:11]full rights and freedom.
[2:13]Every country has its red lines that you can't talk about even
[2:15]here.
[2:15]But at least you can compare it to the Middle East.
[2:17]There's much more freedom.
[2:20]There's much more rights.
[2:20]what we are doing tonight holding majalis for the the you know
[2:25]the whole month of Ramadan that we have the opportunity to do
[2:27]here in the US we would not have the opportunity to do
[2:30]in some countries in the Middle East because it would be banned.
[2:34]So you see all these positive factors in the in the west.
[2:40]All these negative factors in the east and the middle east and
[2:42]the obvious result is what the influx of immigrants from the Middle
[2:46]East to the west.
[2:49]All these individuals that have abandoned their homes that have fled their
[2:53]homes for their lives and they have come and sought refuge and
[2:55]asylum in the western countries like what you see is happening right
[3:00]now.
[3:01]the mass immigration that's happening, migration from Syria and those countries to
[3:04]Europe because they fear for their lives because they are afraid that
[3:11]while they are sleeping a missile will hit their house and kill
[3:14]them.
[3:14]Others you find that they came to the west because they looked
[3:16]for better job opportunities, better health, better education and so on and
[3:23]so forth.
[3:21]And what you see now is in the United States of America,
[3:27]some statistics state that the Muslim population is anywhere from 6 to
[3:33]7 million Muslims living in the US.
[3:38]Most of which were immigrants or the children, grandchildren, second, third generation
[3:42]of immigrants because the converts are the minority.
[3:46]The majority are the immigrants and the children offsprings of the immigrants.
[3:49]all these individuals that abandoned their land and they came to the
[3:53]US looking for a better life for whatever reason.
[3:56]And what you find is anytime you have such a phenomenon when
[4:03]lots of people they leave their countries and their countries have a
[4:07]certain culture, a certain lifestyle and they come and they move to
[4:13]live with a new a new society, a new culture that's different
[4:15]from their culture.
[4:18]There is an issue that rises that's called social integration and cultural
[4:23]assimilation.
[4:22]What happens is these people once they begin to live in that
[4:28]new society, they begin to assimilate in this new society.
[4:30]They begin to melt.
[4:33]They begin to become just like the new society.
[4:37]They lose their old habits, their old customs, their old beliefs, their
[4:41]old practices, and they adapt the new beliefs.
[4:44]They begin to speak just like these new people.
[4:46]sometimes even the dialect.
[4:49]They begin to eat the foods of this new culture.
[4:50]They begin to wear just like these people.
[4:54]Their beliefs, their habits, their lifestyle becomes just like this new society.
[4:59]And what happens here is you find that there are three types
[5:05]of people.
[5:05]These immigrants and their children, there's three types of people.
[5:10]There are certain people that always choose the extremes and there are
[5:18]people that are moderates.
[5:18]Why?
[5:19]Because you see when this happens when these people they immigrate and
[5:23]they come and they live in a new society there's a problem
[5:28]that rises and that problem is called what?
[5:32]Identity crisis.
[5:31]They begin to have a crisis.
[5:35]How do I identify myself?
[5:36]Especially the second generation, the third generation.
[5:40]Am I Arab, Iranian, Pakistani, wherever I came from or am I
[5:46]American?
[5:46]How do I identify myself?
[5:47]Am I ArabAmerican or am I just American or am I just
[5:53]Arab, Indian, Pakistani, Abani, wherever?
[5:55]How do I associate myself?
[5:55]How do I identify myself?
[5:56]Some people have an identity crisis.
[5:58]And like I said, you find three groups of people here.
[6:03]Some people will take this extreme, and this is usually the older
[6:06]generation.
[6:07]No matter how long they live in the US, they can barely
[6:09]even speak five words of English, Arabi, bari, uh, Udu, whatever.
[6:16]He wants to stay to his original language.
[6:19]Doesn't even want to, he's not interested in learning the new language,
[6:22]whether it's English or any other language of a European country.
[6:25]And you find he will stay living 50 years in the US,
[6:29]but he still will eat his food.
[6:31]He wants to eat the kebabs and the rice and the kubanas
[6:36]and the tandooris and you know the the the foods that he
[6:39]grew up with in his country.
[6:40]He doesn't like the the new foods of this new culture.
[6:43]He will stay wearing his clothes.
[6:45]She will stay wearing her abaya her hijab whatever.
[6:48]This is one extreme.
[6:49]And then you have a second extreme.
[6:51]Those that go to the opposite extreme.
[6:54]They completely melt down in the new society.
[6:57]their dialect 100% American.
[7:00]Their the foods that they eat and this is the newer generations.
[7:03]The foods that they like and eat are the new foods.
[7:07]And that's why you find our children, they like fries and pizza
[7:09]and burgers much more than they like the traditional foods because this
[7:13]is how they associate themselves.
[7:14]They wear just like them.
[7:15]They become just like an American, a Canadian, a British, wherever they
[7:21]may live.
[7:19]And you find sometimes they go as far as even changing their
[7:26]names.
[7:24]Muhammad becomes Michael.
[7:27]Ali becomes Al or Alex and so on and so forth.
[7:31]For example, there's a man his name was Muhammad Jum.
[7:33]He he changed his name to Michael Friday.
[7:35]Jum is Friday in the in the Arabic language.
[7:39]This is a real story.
[7:39]So they will even lose their name just to what?
[7:43]Just to say I'm 100% American.
[7:45]Their identity is only American.
[7:47]They have absolutely nothing to do with their original culture.
[7:52]And then there are those that try to keep a balance in
[7:57]the middle.
[7:59]I'm ArabAmerican.
[7:58]I am Indian, Pakistani, Irani American.
[8:02]I'm half American.
[8:05]I'm half wherever I came from.
[8:06]So they do both.
[8:06]So there's three types of people.
[8:08]But it's a problem.
[8:11]The identity crisis is a problem.
[8:13]But then there's another factor that complicates the matter even more.
[8:16]And that's the matter of faith.
[8:18]Not only do I have to ba keep a balance between what
[8:23]and choose between my original culture I'm Arab or my new culture
[8:28]I'm American now there's also the factor of faith I'm a Muslim
[8:34]too so do I identify myself just being as an Arab Iranian
[8:38]Indian Pakistani/American or am I an Arab Muslim American I an Indian
[8:45]Muslim American is Islam also part of my identity or not Here
[8:49]you find there's also an identity crisis.
[8:52]Some people have a problem and identifying themselves.
[8:54]Now you find some people will tell you that you know what
[9:00]I'll do all three.
[9:00]I'm Arab.
[9:01]I'm American.
[9:03]I'm Muslim.
[9:02]There's no problem.
[9:04]We can do all three.
[9:05]There's there's I can you know identify myself as being all three.
[9:08]Now yes, most of the times you can.
[9:14]But there are times in which these three or some of them
[9:17]they clash with one another.
[9:18]I have to choose one over the other.
[9:20]What do I do in those situations?
[9:21]Let me give you an example.
[9:24]Let's say it's New Year's Eve and that New Year's Eve just
[9:27]happens to fall one year with now being a good American just
[9:33]a normal American means I do what?
[9:34]What do they what do most Americans do New Year's Eve Eve?
[9:38]They party.
[9:40]Correct?
[9:38]They drink and party.
[9:40]Now, if I want to be a 100% American, I have to
[9:44]go party.
[9:43]But if I want to be a devout Muslim, I have to
[9:46]come to the masjid and spend the night in.
[9:48]Yes.
[9:48]So, what do I do during New Year's Eve?
[9:51]If it's late or if New Year's Eve falls to be the
[9:55]night of it's a night of what?
[9:56]New Year's Eve means I should be happy.
[9:58]Night of it means I should be sad for im.
[10:01]So, what do I do here?
[10:01]I'm gonna have to choose one over the other.
[10:04]Now, there are some people that try to be slick and clever.
[10:08]He's two years at the, you know, at the party.
[10:09]two two hours he's at the party and then he comes to
[10:13]the masjid for two hours and then he's back at the party.
[10:14]He tries to do both but as we know this is not
[10:18]a pragmatic practical solution.
[10:19]I'm going to have to choose one over the other.
[10:21]Either you take your faith course or you take the course of
[10:27]your culture and your new faith.
[10:29]How do I prioritize?
[10:31]How do I choose which one is more important for me?
[10:35]And this my dear friends is the key to the weakness of
[10:40]Muslims in America.
[10:42]The key to the weakness of Muslims in America.
[10:46]We see many times we say why are we Muslims so weak?
[10:51]Is it the numbers?
[10:50]We are the we are mashallah hundreds of millions of Muslims throughout
[10:55]the world.
[10:57]1.5 billion Muslims and in the US there are 7 million.
[10:59]So it's not too little.
[11:02]But why are we Muslims in America and in the world in
[11:05]general so weak?
[11:07]Nobody cares about Muslims.
[11:07]Let 100 200 Muslims die in explosion.
[11:10]Nobody cares.
[11:12]It doesn't even make it headlines.
[11:13]Let a Jew die in Israel.
[11:13]They'll put a two-hour segment in the news about him.
[11:18]Or let a Christian die in from the Calaldanss.
[11:19]The whole world will cry for him.
[11:23]But let a Shia or even a Sunni die, nobody cares about
[11:25]why why has the Muslim blood become so cheap?
[11:28]Why doesn't anyone care about Muslims?
[11:30]Why are we so weak?
[11:32]We have the numbers.
[11:33]We have money, too.
[11:33]Alhamdulillah.
[11:34]The oil, the oil is all owned by Muslims.
[11:37]And we have so many merchants, so many wealthy Muslims.
[11:41]So what's the problem?
[11:41]Why are we Muslims so weak?
[11:43]Nobody cares about us.
[11:44]Nobody thinks about us.
[11:45]And when you look at the politicians, they could care less about
[11:48]Muslims.
[11:49]In fact, they use Muslims, they attack Muslims to what?
[11:53]to advance in their in their political games and in their political
[11:58]journeys.
[11:59]And that's why I see from time to time you hear a
[12:05]politician that speaks against Muslim just so he you know raises more
[12:07]funds or because he has more people like you remember Carson a
[12:09]few months ago when he said a Muslim can't be uh the
[12:14]president of the US.
[12:14]They say that that the next 24 hours he made $1 million
[12:18]and he said we never saw money coming like that.
[12:21]So this shows you what attack Muslims and you become more successful.
[12:23]Or for example, you see Trump from time to time he says
[12:25]something against Muslims.
[12:27]Why does he is he really against Muslims?
[12:31]Not necessarily.
[12:30]Because he sees when I attack Muslims, people like him.
[12:36]My ratings go up.
[12:36]So if you want your ratings to go up in the US,
[12:40]just say something negative about Muslims.
[12:42]Why?
[12:41]Why have Muslims reached this state?
[12:44]Now there are a few factors.
[12:46]of course the terrorism that is happening in the name of Islam
[12:50]which I'll get to in a minute but amongst the major reasons
[12:53]why Muslims are so weak and so behind in the US is
[13:00]because of this identity crisis because when it comes to identifying themselves
[13:07]they have a very weak weak Muslim identity.
[13:08]They try to shy away from being Muslims.
[13:10]They try to run away from being Muslims.
[13:13]They try to what?
[13:15]lose the beard, change the name, lose the name, Muhammad becomes, like
[13:18]I said, it becomes Michael.
[13:20]Ali becomes Alex.
[13:22]They try to hide under other names, disguises.
[13:26]And you find he's not devout.
[13:27]Stay away from salah.
[13:27]Stay away from masjid.
[13:30]Be liberal just so I become what?
[13:32]American so I can fit in.
[13:33]The girl tries to take off the hijab so that I am
[13:36]not seen as the black sheep, as you know, this weirdo that's
[13:38]wearing the hijab.
[13:41]We try to shy away from our Muslim identity.
[13:45]We have no pride about it.
[13:47]And this is what has happened.
[13:49]You find how many Muslims, they shy away and they run away
[13:55]from their Muslim identity because they have no pride in this country
[13:58]about being a Muslim.
[13:59]They're shy.
[14:00]They're embarrassed for people to even know that they are Muslims.
[14:03]They're embarrassed for people to know that they pray and they go
[14:07]to the masjid and they wear hijab and they do this and
[14:09]that.
[14:10]They have absolutely no pride.
[14:10]Now you may say it's not because I'm don't like the religion
[14:15]of Islam.
[14:14]It's because of these terrorists that have destroyed the image of my
[14:17]religion.
[14:18]Correct?
[14:19]Because of what they have done to my religion.
[14:23]Islam has is looked in such a negative way.
[14:27]That's why I'm shy.
[14:27]I'm ashamed when people know I'm a Muslim.
[14:31]It's because of what they have done.
[14:32]Now, does this justify the fact that I hide under other names
[14:36]and I lose my Muslim identity?
[14:39]I know that this is happening.
[14:40]This is correct.
[14:40]They have distorted the image of our faith and destroyed it.
[14:45]But that does not give me an excuse to abandon, to neglect,
[14:47]to shy away from my faith.
[14:51]No.
[14:50]Because this will never solve the problem.
[14:55]You seeam those 23 years before he before he conquered Mecca, before
[15:00]he went to Medina, do you think it was easy inviting people
[15:03]to Islam?
[15:05]Do you think the people accepted him?
[15:06]You don't think people called him names.
[15:08]You don't think people looked at him in a strange way.
[15:10]You don't think he became the black sheep as they call or
[15:14]the outcast.
[15:15]They forced him into exile.
[15:17]They waged wars against him.
[15:17]All he was saying is, "I want you to worship Allah and
[15:21]stay away from the idols." Did that prevent Allah from continuing on
[15:26]his journey?
[15:27]Did Allah say, "Oh, you know what?
[15:28]It's so difficult.
[15:30]I have so much enemies and they're looking at me in such
[15:32]a bad way." and they were they were spreading propaganda against Allah.
[15:36]Did that prevent Allah from continuing his journey?
[15:41]Was that an excuse that Allah used?
[15:44]Never.
[15:45]Never.
[15:43]Because once you know you're doing the right thing, it doesn't matter.
[15:49]Let the whole world be against me.
[15:51]Let the whole world not like what I'm doing.
[15:54]As long as I am doing the right thing, who cares about
[15:55]the world?
[15:56]IM Hussein.
[15:57]He has such a beautiful word in dua.
[15:59]The dua that we read on the day of especially if we
[16:06]are in amongst the things he says what has he found he
[16:12]who has lost you ya Allah if I own the entire world
[16:14]and everyone is happy with me and loves me but Allah is
[16:18]upset with me have I gained anything I'm zero I'm still at
[16:24]zero and then he says and what has he lost the one
[16:31]that has found you.
[16:31]If Allah is happy with me, if Allah is pleased with me,
[16:35]if I'm doing what Allah thinks it's right, who cares about the
[16:38]entire world?
[16:39]Let the entire world look at me in a negative way, in
[16:41]a bad way.
[16:43]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is what matters, not everyone else.
[16:45]Who cares about anyone else?
[16:49]This is how if I have that mentality, when I tell Allah,
[16:51]"Ya Allah, you are what matters to me and I will do
[16:55]what's right.
[16:54]Even if the world turns against me, Allah will make you successful."
[16:58]When you have that courage, when you have that persistence, that perseverance,
[17:02]when you insist on following the hak, even if you're all by
[17:06]yourself, if I just want to go with the flow, be the
[17:09]majority, of course, I'm not going to be successful because I have
[17:12]no principles.
[17:13]The only principle I have is to what?
[17:16]Is to go with the flow, be with others.
[17:18]But when I stick to my principles, this is Allah that Allah
[17:22]has placed.
[17:21]Allah says, I will make you successful.
[17:23]Look at Muslims.
[17:25]Do they care about what Allah thinks?
[17:28]Doing what's right or they just want to blend in.
[17:30]All they care about is to please others.
[17:32]What about Allah?
[17:34]Do you care about pleasing Allah?
[17:36]Who cares about Allah?
[17:37]Allah is always on the bottom of the list.
[17:40]How many brothers they come and tell me that tomorrow I have,
[17:45]for example, a meeting.
[17:46]There's a meeting in my job in my work and there will
[17:51]be tables and alcohol will be served on those tables and I
[17:54]will have to sit on that table.
[17:55]Can I do a there's you know they try to get out
[18:00]of it.
[18:01]We surrender so easily.
[18:02]I have to attend the meeting.
[18:04]There's going to be alcohol served because the hadith says it is
[18:10]haram unlawful to sit on a table where alcohol is served even
[18:13]if you don't drink.
[18:13]Because amongst theat the qualities of a believer is we have to
[18:20]always forbid the evil.
[18:21]You can't see people drinking alcohol on your table and you just
[18:25]sit and no you don't want to tell them anything don't tell
[18:27]them anything but at least don't sit with them.
[18:29]It is haram to sit on a table where alcohol is being
[18:32]served.
[18:33]So the brother tells me tomorrow I have a meeting.
[18:34]What do I do?
[18:35]I can't not go to the meeting.
[18:36]How can I tell my boss?
[18:37]What if he doesn't accept?
[18:39]What if what if he's going to say what is this guy
[18:40]talking about?
[18:41]this person is trying.
[18:43]We have absolutely no confidence in ourselves right away.
[18:46]We try to make excuses.
[18:47]We don't even try.
[18:50]We don't even try to put a fight I don't mean physically
[18:52]but you know to win the case.
[18:54]We don't even try to you know please Allah subhana t in
[18:58]so many situations.
[18:59]Do you know why?
[19:00]Because we don't care about Allah.
[19:01]I don't want to displease my boss.
[19:03]I don't want to displease my co-workers.
[19:06]But let me displease Allah.
[19:07]Who cares about Allah?
[19:09]A lady comes, she wants to shake my hands.
[19:12]If she extends her hands and I don't shake her hands, she's
[19:17]going to be upset, right?
[19:18]So, let me shake her hand so that she's not upset.
[19:21]Even if it's at the cost of upsetting Allah.
[19:24]Who cares about Allah?
[19:24]Do we even even think about Allah subhana t is telling you
[19:28]this is haram?
[19:27]You'll upset me.
[19:29]Who cares about Allah?
[19:29]I want to please everyone in the world except the God Almighty.
[19:33]Even though there are solutions, I mean, it doesn't have to get
[19:35]to that point where you upset her.
[19:37]There are certain solutions and we spoke about that last night or
[19:39]the one of the other nights.
[19:40]But the point is God is never on the priority list and
[19:44]then we say why are we so weak?
[19:46]Why doesn't God give us success?
[19:47]Did you even care about God?
[19:49]Did you even think about God?
[19:52]Did you do anything for Allah?
[19:53]Like Allah he did the right thing for Allah.
[19:56]Allah made him triumphant.
[19:57]He went he conquered Mecca.
[19:58]He conquered the entire Arabian Peninsula.
[20:00]The Arabic the Muslim empire country became the strongest empire of its
[20:05]time.
[20:05]That doesn't come for free.
[20:07]That doesn't come.
[20:08]You have to sacrifice for the h for the truth.
[20:12]You have to have patience.
[20:12]You have to endure some hardships and difficulties for your principles.
[20:19]A successful individual is the one that sacrifices for his principles.
[20:25]He doesn't sacrifice his principles.
[20:26]There's a big difference.
[20:28]There are people that sacrifice their principles.
[20:30]They compromise their principles.
[20:32]They don't care.
[20:34]Just to what?
[20:34]just to be successful.
[20:37]There are others that sacrifice for their principles.
[20:39]Because of my principles, I will sacrifice.
[20:42]These are the ones that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives them success.
[20:46]So what do I tell that brother, the one that wanted to
[20:50]sit, I told him, look, I don't want to lecture you the
[20:52]Islamic answer, but let me ask you a question and you can
[20:58]answer yourself after I ask you this question.
[21:01]He says, he says what I told him, imagine if it was
[21:03]a Jew in America and he was supposed to go to a
[21:08]meeting where he had to go against the Jewish religion in that
[21:11]meeting.
[21:12]Do you think he would accept?
[21:13]Wouldn't he make a big deal out of it?
[21:16]He would come out with full courage and pride.
[21:18]I'm a Jewish man and this is against my Jewish religion and
[21:23]I will not sit.
[21:22]Wouldn't he do that?
[21:25]Most Jews will do that.
[21:25]They're proud about being Jewish.
[21:27]They're strong about it.
[21:27]They have principles and they don't sacrifice their principles.
[21:33]People respect them.
[21:33]Why are Jews so strong in America?
[21:34]We just we always like to talk against them.
[21:37]Why don't we learn from them from time to time?
[21:41]Did they Allah just give them success just for no reason?
[21:43]No.
[21:45]Because they have principles.
[21:46]Their Jewish identity is so strong.
[21:48]They will never sacrifice their Jewish identities that they believe in.
[21:52]people the first time, the second time when they want you to
[21:58]compromise, the first second time they may deem you weak, but if
[22:00]they see you that you're a man of principle, you're men of
[22:02]principle, men and women of principle, they will respect you.
[22:06]If you demand respect, people will respect you.
[22:10]And this is how Jews are.
[22:12]Their Jewish identity is so strong.
[22:13]They're so proud about being a Jew.
[22:16]They will never hesitate in telling you, "I'm a Jew and this
[22:18]is against my religion." I remember if maybe some of you remember
[22:24]many years ago in one of the presidential uh races one of
[22:29]the candidates was Al Gore and he said if I win he
[22:33]lost but if I win my uh vice president will be Lieberman.
[22:34]He was a Jewish senator.
[22:37]I remember I read in the newspaper somewhere back then that this
[22:42]Jewish senator he said that if I become the vice president I
[22:46]will never work on Saturday even if there's you know something that
[22:51]I have to do on Saturday I will never work on Saturday
[22:52]because this is their sept their their day of holiday and that
[22:56]they don't they don't work he said it all courageously this is
[22:59]America this is the land you know of of separation of church
[23:02]and state but yet he said it nobody said anything against him
[23:06]yes Because in this country we have to thank Allah that religion
[23:09]is respected.
[23:11]But as long as what?
[23:11]As long as you stay clinging to your religion.
[23:16]You don't back off easily.
[23:17]Wall I remember I thought to myself if one day a Muslim
[23:22]wants to become president or will he dare say that I am
[23:25]on Fridays I don't want to work.
[23:26]The Muslims themselves they will attack him.
[23:29]They will tell him this is not in Lebanon.
[23:32]This is America.
[23:34]You have to work Fridays.
[23:35]We have absolutely no care, no pride about our religion and then
[23:38]we want Allah to give us success.
[23:39]Look at the Jews.
[23:40]Sit with a Jew for two minutes, he'll tell you I'm a
[23:44]Jew.
[23:45]He he'll tell you indirectly.
[23:46]Sit five years with some Muslims, you won't know he's a Muslim.
[23:53]Thank you, sister.
[23:55]Thank you.
[23:57]In the Q&A, you can give us some input.
[23:58]So, what was I saying?
[24:07]So the problem with us Muslims is we surrender too easily.
[24:11]As soon as my boss makes a threat, you know what?
[24:15]You have to come.
[24:15]Oh, okay.
[24:16]Okay, fine.
[24:16]I'll come.
[24:16]Tell him.
[24:17]Tell him this is my religion.
[24:17]This is America.
[24:19]You have to respect my religion.
[24:20]If you don't, I'll file a lawsuit against you.
[24:23]The second time, he won't dare tell you that.
[24:26]When it's for religious purposes, it is considered religious discrimination if they
[24:29]don't allow you.
[24:29]You want to pray.
[24:29]Some brothers, they tell me, "I can't pray.
[24:32]because my boss doesn't let me tell him if you don't let
[24:35]me pray five minutes then I'll go file a lawsuit against you
[24:37]and if we do Allahh will give us success in 2008 there
[24:42]was a young Muslim girl by the name of Samantha Elaf Google
[24:45]her she went and she applied for a job in Abberrombi's clothing
[24:51]store she wears hijab they did the interview everything was perfect she
[24:55]was the right woman but then the interviewer looked there's a hijab
[24:58]oh I'm sorry you've been denied because of your hijab because your
[25:03]hijab doesn't fit with our, you know, clothing style or whatever.
[25:06]So, she asked why.
[25:09]They said, "Everything's perfect except your hijab." She said, "So, you're discriminating
[25:12]against my hijab." She went and she filed a lawsuit.
[25:17]She won the lawsuit, but then the lawsuit was taken to a
[25:19]higher level, I don't know, the state level or something.
[25:23]They overturned it against her.
[25:24]She lost it.
[25:24]So, then she took it up to the what?
[25:28]She took it up to the Supreme Court until 2015, seven years.
[25:31]You see, she didn't surrender.
[25:32]She said, "You discriminate against my hijab.
[25:36]I'll show you." She They took it She took it up to
[25:41]the Supreme Court until in 2015.
[25:42]I'm sure you heard about it last year.
[25:44]It was all over the news.
[25:45]The Supreme Court ruled in her favor, that she was discriminated against
[25:48]and they have to compensate her.
[25:50]Now, next time a Mujab, a hijabi girl goes to Abuki, you
[25:55]think they will deprive her of her job?
[25:58]Never.
[25:59]Because she taught them a lesson.
[26:00]If all Muslims were like that, when someone threatens you because of
[26:03]your religion, you can't pray, you can't wear hijab, you have to
[26:05]sit on the table, alcohol is being served, whatever.
[26:08]If all Muslims become like this, strong about their Muslim identity and
[26:13]they're courageous and they don't back down and surrender, you'll see how
[26:17]Allahh will give us success.
[26:18]That's how the Jews became successful.
[26:20]They will never back down.
[26:22]So this is one problem we have is that we keep on
[26:24]shying away and surrendering and quitting too easily.
[26:28]When the enemy or whoever, not just the enemy, when others see
[26:31]us, we're so weak.
[26:33]They're not going to respect us.
[26:34]Just threaten him once, he's gonna run away.
[26:37]Why would he respect me?
[26:37]You see, we Muslims, we want everything to be given to us.
[26:42]Your rights aren't given to you.
[26:43]You have to go and take it.
[26:44]We just want to sit in our houses and sleep and we
[26:48]want them to treat us equally and do this.
[26:52]No, you have to go and earn this.
[26:54]These things are not these rights and freedoms and liberties aren't always
[26:57]given to you on a gold platter.
[26:59]You have to go and and take it and earn it.
[27:03]So this is one problem we have.
[27:05]And the second problem is that after we shy away from our
[27:09]identity, we try to disguise ourselves in a fake other identity.
[27:15]What do I mean?
[27:15]I remember once a young uh a young child like a 15y
[27:19]old or 14 year old he came to me and he asked
[27:23]me say uh it was close to Christmas time is it okay
[27:28]for a Muslim to celebrate Christmas or not is it halal is
[27:31]it okay or not now I didn't tell him I didn't give
[27:35]him the halal oram answer what I told him is look you're
[27:42]a Muslim when you celebrate Christmas what are you celebrating you see
[27:45]the The Holy Quran always tells us don't just go with the
[27:47]flow because people do it.
[27:48]You have to know what you're celebr what are you celebrating.
[27:50]It's either one of two.
[27:51]It's either just because everyone else is doing it without understanding it.
[27:55]This is not a quality of a Muslim just to do what
[27:58]other people are doing or if you ask many Christians they will
[28:02]tell you we are celebrating the birthday of Jesus.
[28:04]Correct?
[28:05]Many Christians they consider that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus.
[28:09]So I tell him do you want to celebrate the birthday of
[28:12]Jesus?
[28:13]He says yes.
[28:13]I tell him that's okay.
[28:16]We accept Jesus.
[28:15]He's a prophet.
[28:17]We respect him.
[28:17]But I I told him, you don't have a prophet of your
[28:21]own.
[28:21]You have to go and celebrate another prophet's birthday.
[28:25]Oh, how about the pro the birthday of our prophet Muhammad sallallahu
[28:29]alaihi wasallam?
[28:29]Do you celebrate it?
[28:30]The birthday of Imam Ali?
[28:33]Do you celebrate it?
[28:33]You don't celebrate the birthday of your prophet and your Imam and
[28:36]you want to go celebrate the birthday of another prophet of another
[28:38]religion.
[28:41]Why don't you have some Why don't you take some pride in
[28:45]your own belief in your own imams in your own leaders?
[28:47]You see, I remember once I was in a gathering and I
[28:50]asked uh mostly youth, maybe 200.
[28:52]I asked them, how many of you know when the birthday of
[28:56]Jesus is?
[28:55]Everyone Christmas.
[28:57]Question number two, how many of you know when the birthday of
[29:01]Prophet Muhammad is?
[29:01]You know how many people raise their hands?
[29:04]15 people.
[29:04]You're a Muslim.
[29:05]You don't know when the birthday of your prophet is, but you
[29:08]know when the birthday of Jesus is, and you celebrate that, and
[29:12]you forget about your prophet.
[29:12]And then you ask, why are we Muslims so weak?
[29:15]Because we're not even Muslims.
[29:17]We're only Muslims by name.
[29:19]When the birthday of Allah comes, hold the celebration and then come
[29:25]and celebrate Christmas.
[29:25]That's okay.
[29:26]But when you forget about your prophet, you want to celebrate the
[29:29]birthday of Jesus.
[29:29]Doesn't make sense.
[29:33]Not haram.
[29:32]Doesn't make sense.
[29:34]So I told that individual that look you want to celebrate the
[29:38]birthday of Jesus fine but when the birthday of and it is
[29:45]the 17th of when the 17th of comes you bring a Christmas
[29:47]tree five times bigger than the one you brought for Jesus and
[29:51]you bring a Santa Claus five times fatter than the one you
[29:55]brought for Jesus.
[29:57]If you do that then that's fine.
[29:58]when mitan comes which is the birthday of our 12th Imam the
[30:01]Imam of our time how come we don't we we find 50
[30:05]people 100 people in the masjid where are they how come they're
[30:07]not celebrating the birthday of their imam but in Christmas he wants
[30:11]to put lights on his house and Christmas tree doesn't make sense
[30:14]are you a Muslim or you Christian Identify yourself make your identity
[30:18]clear and then we'll know how to deal with that so this
[30:22]is a problem that we have the Jews you find are successful
[30:23]here have you guys seen a Jew celebrate Christmas rarely Most Jews
[30:28]don't celebrate Christmas because to them Christmas is what?
[30:32]Maybe if he's real liberal maybe, but especially devout Jews, they don't
[30:34]celebrate Christmas because they don't even accept Jesus to begin with.
[30:39]I mean, practically, even if they don't say it, when Jesus was
[30:41]sent to Israel, most of them, what?
[30:43]They said, "You're a liar.
[30:44]Why didn't Jews accept Christianity?
[30:46]They said this Jesus guy was a liar.
[30:50]So why am I going to come and celebrate the birthday of
[30:53]a liar?" You rarely find Jews celebrate Christmas.
[30:55]Why?
[30:55]because they have their own holidays.
[30:57]They don't need Christmas.
[30:57]They have Hanukkah.
[30:59]They have I don't know what their own.
[31:01]It's Hanukkah for Jews, by the way.
[31:05]Is it?
[31:05]If it is, alhamdulillah.
[31:07]So, you find that with their own identity, they're very strong with
[31:13]their Jewish identity, very proud about it.
[31:15]I remember once I was in Florida, I was lecturing in one
[31:19]place and they told me there is a city in Florida.
[31:21]It's a small city just like for example, Dearborn, Dearborn.
[31:27]Hi.
[31:25]It's mostly Jews and the city council is run by the Jews.
[31:31]They said they're so strong that they were able to pass a
[31:36]law banning the Christmas tree in Christmas in the streets.
[31:38]You want a Christmas tree in your houses?
[31:40]This is in the United States of America, not in Israel.
[31:43]They banned the Christmas tree in an entire why?
[31:45]Because because they held a vote and you know they're always so
[31:49]involved and strong.
[31:51]They banned the Christmas tree in America.
[31:53]And then we Muslims, we run after the Christmas tree.
[31:55]6 million Muslims according to some statistics and 6 million Jews.
[32:01]But what a great difference there is.
[32:03]It's as if there are 60 million or 200 million Jews and
[32:06]1,000 Muslims.
[32:07]So it's not about the quantity.
[32:09]The quantity is the same.
[32:10]It's about the quality.
[32:13]It's about how you identify yourself and how proud you are about
[32:15]your faith.
[32:17]Now, what can we do to solve this?
[32:19]Two things.
[32:21]Number one, you might say, "Well, we have the problem of terrorism
[32:23]and ISIS and all these people that are destroying the image of
[32:28]our Islam." That's correct.
[32:29]But however, that's not an excuse for me to shy away, run
[32:31]away.
[32:32]Because you see, it's our fault that ISIS, and I always speak
[32:35]about this, and I spoke about this the previous nights, it's our
[32:38]fault that the extremists have spoken in our name.
[32:42]Why?
[32:40]Because we have stayed silent.
[32:43]When I stay silent, all I care about is my business and
[32:45]my family.
[32:46]Of course, other people will come.
[32:48]You'll have the propaganda of Fox News speak for you.
[32:50]You'll have ISIS speak for you because you're so busy doing other
[32:54]things.
[32:55]So what we have to do, my friends, we have to educate
[32:57]others, the non-Muslims, the Americans about Islam.
[33:00]Trust me, most of them are ignorant.
[33:01]They're not hate, you know, haters or people that just, you know,
[33:04]just because of hatred.
[33:07]No, it's because they have been misled.
[33:09]Whatever they hear from Fox News, they believe it.
[33:10]Whatever they hear from Trump, they believe it.
[33:12]They think this is divine revelation.
[33:13]Especially the ones that live in the you know in the in
[33:19]the middle states, the ones that live in the uh you know
[33:21]in the villages, the smaller cities, most of them they have absolutely
[33:24]no clue what Islam is.
[33:28]I mentioned this I I think one time here that there was
[33:30]a survey conducted in the US by care.
[33:33]They conducted a survey to find out how much people know about
[33:39]Islam.
[33:38]The survey, Subhan Allah, you'd be surprised, 60% of Americans, this was
[33:42]with Americans, especially in places where the smaller cities where there aren't
[33:46]too many Muslims, 60% said, "We're clueless about Islam.
[33:50]We don't know what what Muslims believe.
[33:52]We have no clue what Muslims believe." And 10%, this is the
[33:55]funny but also sad part.
[33:58]10% believe that Muslims worship the moon.
[33:59]This is what 10% of Americans believe, that we worship the moon.
[34:04]And next week you'll understand why when everyone's looking for the moon
[34:08]because they want 8 to be one day earlier.
[34:10]So when there's so much ignorance of course of course there's going
[34:14]to be these uh prejudices there's going to be these um misconceptions
[34:19]about Islam and some people they say you know what in order
[34:24]for me to get rid of this problem we have to all
[34:28]be liberals.
[34:28]Don't go to the masjid go to the bar.
[34:30]Don't go to the masjid.
[34:32]Go to somewhere else.
[34:32]Stay away from these religious places so that we're not what?
[34:36]We're not associated with the terrorist.
[34:38]This will never solve the problem.
[34:40]As long as you look like a Muslim, as long as your
[34:43]name is a Muslim, Allah, you go and change your name like
[34:45]some people did, then you will still be a target.
[34:49]You will still be what?
[34:49]Look down upon.
[34:51]The only way that we could fix the problem is to educate
[34:54]other people.
[34:55]We have to tell them about Islam.
[34:57]Islam has the worst marketing in the world.
[34:59]You see, it's the best product, the worst marketing.
[35:01]If you have the best product, but you don't advertise it, will
[35:05]anyone buy it?
[35:05]Never.
[35:05]Put it in your basement.
[35:08]Nobody knows about it.
[35:08]Wallah, no one will buy it.
[35:09]You have to advertise it.
[35:11]If you have the worst product, advertise it.
[35:13]Well, everyone will buy it.
[35:16]Look, cigarettes, alcohol, so much junk you see in the stores.
[35:19]People buy it because of the good advertising.
[35:21]Correct?
[35:22]Islam, the best religion, the worst advertising.
[35:23]You have these ISIS fighters.
[35:25]They are representing Islam.
[35:26]The Wahhabi is representing Islam.
[35:29]So we have to speak up against these terrorists and educate other
[35:33]people and we have to show them and I spoke about this
[35:38]like I said we have to show them that we are against
[35:42]these individuals that we just like you're a victim of ISIS and
[35:45]these terrorists and these Wahhabies I am a victim too like I
[35:46]mentioned in Iraq and in in in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and
[35:51]Lebanon Syria every day Shi are being killed by these Wahhabies.
[35:53]So I'm a victim too.
[35:56]We are the moderates.
[35:56]We've been a silent majority of moderates, but now we have to
[36:00]become vocal.
[36:01]We can no longer afford just going about our lives because they
[36:04]are what?
[36:05]They are putting us in the same basket with ISIS.
[36:08]Now these Americans, these uneducated Americans living in the in the Middle
[36:12]States, in the middle in the US, when they see us, they
[36:14]see ISIS.
[36:15]They see ISIS.
[36:17]So don't be surprised if one day, you know, they'll there'll be
[36:21]even hate crimes against Muslims because when they see us all as
[36:23]terrorists, of course, that will be the problem.
[36:25]So we have to show them that we're not against America.
[36:29]These terrorists try their best to show that Islam hates America.
[36:32]Muslims hate the West.
[36:33]We have to show them no, we have no problem with America.
[36:37]When our countries didn't, you know, embrace us, America, Canada, wherever these
[36:42]Muslims went, they embraced us.
[36:42]They gave us citizenship.
[36:43]They gave us wealth.
[36:45]my wealth, my health, my education is from here.
[36:46]In our countries, we cannot practice our religion freely.
[36:51]Here we can.
[36:51]And then we say we don't like him.
[36:53]Of course, we love America.
[36:56]There's nothing problem with saying that.
[36:58]You will not find the respect even at with the problems that
[37:01]you have now.
[37:02]You will not find the respect that you will find in your
[37:05]countries.
[37:05]So we tell them we don't have a problem.
[37:08]The only problem we have is with some of the political, you
[37:14]know, policies of the government.
[37:15]But that could be changed.
[37:16]That has nothing to do with the majority of the people.
[37:19]These are the the evil politicians.
[37:20]We have a problem with some of the policies of the US
[37:22]towards the Middle East.
[37:24]That could be changed.
[37:25]If we enter politics, we can change it.
[37:27]Correct?
[37:28]If we have lobbyist groups, we enter politics, we have uh senators,
[37:33]representatives, inshallah, one day even the the president, then we can change
[37:37]that.
[37:38]And that's why I always urge Muslims that you know enter the
[37:43]the realm of politics, city council, mayor, go hire, house of representative,
[37:46]uh even judge.
[37:48]We do have some but it's not enough.
[37:50]Senator and so on, governor and so on.
[37:53]So enter this realm, the realm of journalism.
[37:56]Do you know that the media is how strong it is here?
[38:00]All the information people get is from media.
[38:02]How many Muslim journalists do we have?
[38:04]There was a a journal a journalist uh working in one of
[38:09]the famous newspapers in the US.
[38:12]He told one of the scholars here in the US.
[38:13]He told him that you know when I compare you Muslims and
[38:17]the Jews, you know what I see?
[38:18]When anytime we write any bad article against the Jews or Israel,
[38:24]when we criticize Israel or the Jews, the next day we're bombarded
[38:27]by thousands of emails, phone calls, letters, we will sue you right
[38:30]away.
[38:30]We back off.
[38:32]We apologize because they threaten us.
[38:32]Threaten us legally.
[38:34]And if we say something good about the Jews, they send us
[38:38]a check.
[38:39]Thank you.
[38:38]So many letters.
[38:41]They encourage us.
[38:43]But you Muslims, whether we talk for you or against you, nobody
[38:45]cares.
[38:46]We never receive an email.
[38:47]Let someone go in the newspaper and damn all Muslims.
[38:50]And Muslims will not even send one email to that.
[38:52]If someone praises the Muslims in the newspapers, Muslims don't care.
[38:56]They're busy with their own lives.
[38:59]He says, "Put yourself in my situation.
[38:59]Would you care about the Muslims?" Of course not.
[39:03]because they don't care about themselves.
[39:05]But the Jews, no, they're so directed.
[39:08]They're so focused.
[39:09]So, of course, they're going to fear the Jews.
[39:12]They're going to, you know, they're going to think about them and
[39:15]consider them.
[39:16]Consider, you know, they have to think five times before they want
[39:19]to say something for or against the Jews because they're strong and
[39:23]because they're vocal.
[39:23]And one of the best ways, my dear brothers and sisters, one
[39:29]of the best ways to improve the the you know the image
[39:31]of Islam is by your actions.
[39:33]Actions they say speak louder than words.
[39:35]You don't have to go and preach about Islam.
[39:38]If you're a good mannered cit law-abiding, I concentrate on law-abiding citizen.
[39:43]Then people will respect Muslims because when an American hears on Fox
[39:47]News, Muslims are this bad, bad bad radical, but then he sees
[39:50]his Muslim neighbors are such good, honest people, law-abiding people, he'll know
[39:53]this is this is nonsense.
[39:57]This is propaganda.
[39:57]Unfortunately, Muslims, they have done the opposite.
[40:00]That's why go to the cities in America where they have high
[40:03]concentration of Muslims.
[40:04]You know some of the cities.
[40:06]I will not bring their names.
[40:07]What are the Muslims known for there?
[40:09]tax fraud, uh insurance of fraud, they lie to the government.
[40:16]They he goes and uh you know burns his house or he
[40:18]goes and and he and he uh you know breaks his car
[40:22]or gets in an accident and just so what just so he
[40:26]can go and take some money from the insurance.
[40:27]The insurance are not idiots.
[40:28]They know when it's uh you know what's real and what's fraud.
[40:32]So the Muslims unfortunately you see in their areas the the insurance
[40:35]uh rates are so much higher than other places because they know
[40:38]this is a fraud area.
[40:41]This is what Muslims are associated with.
[40:43]Liars dishonest.
[40:43]This is the biggest disservice I'm doing to Islam.
[40:47]But when I show that we're good, honest people, this is the
[40:50]best dawa, the best propagation I'm doing for my faith.
[40:51]There was a nice article I read.
[40:56]It was a very beautiful article uh in one of the small
[40:59]newspapers.
[41:01]It was about a female professor at Witherspoon Instit Witherspoon Institute in
[41:07]Princeton, New Jersey.
[41:07]It's famous institute there.
[41:09]She's a professor there.
[41:12]She says that one summer I received an intern uh a young
[41:16]Muslim man by the name of Muhammad who she says he was
[41:20]Shia also.
[41:19]She says I looked at his resume before he came to the
[41:24]interview to be my intern.
[41:24]He was very very you know perfect resume, perfect grades, perfect uh
[41:31]scores and he had a perfect excellent resume.
[41:34]So when he came he entered my office she says I extended
[41:39]my hand to shake his hand.
[41:40]He said I'm sorry for religious purposes.
[41:42]I'm sorry.
[41:44]She says when he did that I was shocked.
[41:47]This guy is such a hater.
[41:48]This guy is a misogynist.
[41:49]He's anti-feminist.
[41:51]He disrespected me just because I this is the she says she
[41:54]says this is what I thought that just because I'm female he
[41:56]hates females he looks down at females he doesn't want to shake
[41:59]my hands even though he told her it's for religious purposes not
[42:02]because I have anything personal she says but despite this he was
[42:07]very very polite he would always smile very well-mannered well behaving she
[42:12]says I didn't like that at all but I said let me
[42:16]give him a shot so I accepted him she said he turned
[42:20]out to be the best enter.
[42:21]He listens to me attentively.
[42:22]He never disobys me.
[42:26]He does everything I tell him.
[42:27]High respect he has for me.
[42:29]When he speaks to me, when he addresses me, he brings gifts.
[42:31]He's so polite, so humble.
[42:35]She says that, "You know what?
[42:38]This young man, I misjudged him just because he refused to shake
[42:42]my hand.
[42:43]I thought he's the worst person, but I saw his manners are
[42:48]the best of manners." And people have their, you know, religious freedom.
[42:51]They could believe in what they believe.
[42:54]So she says, "He taught me such a such a valuable lesson
[42:57]that I shouldn't judge people just because of one thing." And you
[43:01]see what a beautiful what a beautiful lesson this young man taught
[43:04]her just because he kept his manners.
[43:06]Well, he did the best prop.
[43:09]If he would have given 10 lectures about Islam, 50 lectures, it
[43:11]would not have benefited as much as what?
[43:14]as much as the fact that he was well behaving, he was
[43:17]a polite Muslim, he was a respectful Muslim.
[43:21]So she says, "Now whoever you know does that again to me,
[43:24]I will never misjudge.
[43:26]I have so much respect for this young man Muhammad.
[43:28]So when he's such a bright man, of course he will have
[43:32]a a good reason for for not wanting to shake my hand."
[43:37]So this is number one, we have to be loud and especially
[43:43]with our actions.
[43:42]And number two, we if we become successful one day, we have
[43:47]to be loud about being Muslims.
[43:49]You see, some people think Muslims are not successful.
[43:51]It's all the low paying jobs, the low, you know, the low
[43:55]jobs.
[43:56]That's not true, you know.
[43:56]But what is true?
[43:58]Most Muslims in the US and in the West, when they become
[44:00]successful, they lose their Muslim identity.
[44:03]Muhammad becomes what?
[44:04]Becomes Michael.
[44:05]How would you know he's Muslim?
[44:06]his success doesn't reflect back on Islam because he loses that Muslim
[44:10]identity because he wants to blend in.
[44:13]So if we become successful people one day, we have to let
[44:18]the world know that we are the Muslims, not those ISIS, the
[44:19]doctors, the lawyers, the journalists, the, you know, the politicians, the scientists,
[44:24]the, you know, engineers and so on and so forth.
[44:28]Tell them I'm Muslim.
[44:28]We're the Muslims.
[44:30]We're the educated people.
[44:30]Unfortunately, now it's the opposite.
[44:32]The ones that have the lower jobs, they're so proud about being
[44:36]Muslims.
[44:36]They tell everyone.
[44:39]The one the successful Muslims, quiet.
[44:41]You don't even know if he's a Muslim.
[44:44]And you know this is even uh reflected in Hollywood.
[44:46]If you remember there was a movie by the name of the
[44:48]siege.
[44:49]I don't know maybe 1015 years ago.
[44:50]I remember it.
[44:52]There were two Muslims in this movie.
[44:54]One was the terrorist and the other was the FBI agent.
[44:56]The terrorist anytime they would show him he's praying reading dua.
[45:02]But the FBI he's also a Muslim never prays.
[45:03]Absolutely not devout.
[45:05]The first one is devout.
[45:06]But the second one who's a FBI law abiding, he never ever
[45:11]you know does anything worships God or reflects that you know that
[45:16]image that he's a faithful individual.
[45:17]So what's the image they try to give that the that the
[45:21]good Muslim the devout Muslims are the ones that go against the
[45:24]law the uneducated but the Muslims that are become educated and become
[45:30]what?
[45:31]Become prosperous they become liberal secular.
[45:33]We have to show this is wrong.
[45:35]I could be a good practicing devout Muslim and at the same
[45:37]time be successful and I don't have much time maybe two minutes.
[45:42]So I'll quickly mention uh I'll I'll tell you some examples we
[45:46]have of how many Muslim successful people we have.
[45:49]Now when someone tells you Muslims are the terrorists tell them no
[45:52]Muslims are the successful individuals.
[45:53]And let me give you some examples real quick.
[45:57]Number one, eBay.
[45:57]Who's bought from eBay before?
[45:58]Do you know eBay was founded and owned by a Muslim?
[46:03]But unfortunately he doesn't say I'm Muslim.
[46:04]I had to dig to find out these people are true.
[46:08]He's Muslim but he tries to hide it the problem that we
[46:10]spoke about.
[46:11]So it doesn't reflect back to Islam.
[46:13]A man by the name of Pierre um he's Iranian.
[46:17]He's the one that established eBay and he runs it YouTube.
[46:19]Who doesn't watch YouTube?
[46:20]Every day we watch you videos on YouTube.
[46:22]He was co-founded by two people.
[46:24]Uh it was co-ounded by two people.
[46:26]One of the co-founders was a man by the name of Jawad
[46:31]Karim from Bangaladesh Muslim.
[46:31]I mean his name is obvious.
[46:33]Number three, the chairman of Twitter right now is a Muslim by
[46:39]the name of Omit Kistani.
[46:40]He's also Iranian.
[46:40]Number four, the Coca-Cola company, the CEO of the Coca-Cola company is
[46:46]a Muslim.
[46:44]Turkish man Mtar Kent.
[46:47]Now, like I mentioned, these are not practicing Muslims.
[46:49]But even if they don't want to pray, at least tell the
[46:53]world I'm Muslim.
[46:52]So when people hear of Islam, they think of successful people, not
[46:56]the terrorists, but unfortunately they don't.
[46:58]Number five, the uh the clothing store BB be I don't know
[47:03]how you pronounce it.
[47:04]Founded and owned by a Muslim Iranian man, Manny Mash Dropbox.
[47:08]It was co co-founded by also a Muslim by the name of
[47:13]Arash Ferdosi.
[47:15]Number seven, Hussein Islam Bulchi.
[47:17]This is obviously Iranian man is Islam Bulchi.
[47:19]one of the most prominent scientists of the 21st century lives in
[47:23]Texas and he was the chief tech technology officer of AT&T for
[47:26]many years.
[47:28]Number eight, Muhammad Aran.
[47:28]He used to be the CEO of a company that held assets
[47:35]$2 trillion.
[47:34]He's the CEO of Boport and he through his company he was
[47:40]able to uh discover the vaccine the only vaccine for anthrax.
[47:45]Remember anthrax few years ago is all over the news.
[47:50]the only um vaccine available for it was by this man.
[47:52]And the list goes on.
[47:54]I have run out of time.
[47:55]So the point I'm trying to make is there are Muslim successful
[47:57]people.
[47:58]So many successful Muslims, but they don't make it clear to the
[48:02]non-Muslim world and to the Americans that were Muslims.
[48:06]They tried to shy away from being a Muslim.
[48:09]And the ones that make sure that people know they're Muslims are
[48:12]the one, the uneducated, the univilized, and the terrorists.
[48:15]And this is what And this is where Islam is at today.
[48:20]If we want Allah to give us success, we have to make
[48:23]sure that we have that pride prideness, that proud pridness about Islam.
[48:27]And we have to give Allahhana a share.
[48:30]I ask Allahh to accept our to forgive us to accept our
[48:33]fasting during this blessed month of Ramadan.
[48:37]Alhamdulillah.
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