"Trump and Extremism" - Sayed Mohammed Baqer Qazwini | Night 4 - Muharram 2016

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MYC/IIA 2016 Ashuraa Program at Fordson High School in Dearborn, MI October 2nd -12th English Program: 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm EST Sayed Mohammed Baqir Qazwini Arabic Program: 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST Imam Sayed Hassan Qazwini Arabic Majlis: 10:00 pm - 10:15 pm EST Haj Ahmad Hamdan

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[0:06]I begin in the name of the almighty God the compassionate the

[0:10]merciful the one who has created everything in utmost Perfection and May

[0:18]the peace and blessings of the almighty God be upon his pure

[0:23]and beloved messenger the peak of his creation the symbol of humanity

[0:30]our beloved Prophet the holy prophet Muhammad s Muhammad Muhammad and his

[0:43]Immaculate and pure progeny of the B peace be upon them especially

[0:48]the leader of our time the awaited Savior Al IM Al may

[0:58]God hasten his reappearance and make us all amongst his sincere and

[1:05]dedicated servants Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala states in the Holy Quran illuminates your

[1:33]hearts and Minds with a very loud salaat the costliest war in

[1:47]the history of humankind was World War II when you consider the

[1:53]cost of this war only in the United States it's equivalent to

[2:00]$4 trillion let alone the cost in Europe and in other parts

[2:06]of the world World War II was also the deadliest war in

[2:13]the history of humankind some 45 to 80 million people were killed

[2:19]in this war and by the way this was a war which

[2:22]had nothing to do with the religion of Islam or Muslims a

[2:27]war that involved Western countries now there were many factors which led

[2:36]to World War II it wasn't a single Factor but one of

[2:40]the most important factors was a single man by the name of

[2:43]who Adolf Hitler this man played a very important role in sparking

[2:53]this war which killed 40 to 80 million people now when you

[3:01]examine Germany at the time the Germans were 70 million it's really

[3:07]puzzling okay so Adolf Hitler he was out of his mind he

[3:14]was a dictator he was insane but how did he convince a

[3:20]nation of 70 million people to go to war with the entire

[3:23]world to commit the most heinous crimes to kill innocent people how

[3:28]did he do that because the Germans just like any other Nation

[3:34]most of them were rational people they weren't crazy people how did

[3:39]he make them crazy how did he convince them to go to

[3:43]war with the entire world he himself in in one of his

[3:50]books the name of his book is main C which means my

[3:54]struggle he actually writes down the ways through which he m mobilized

[4:00]his Nation he made them into extremists and he convinced them to

[4:08]go to war with the entire world he lists them let's go

[4:10]through some of them they're very interesting for example one of the

[4:14]things that he mentions in his book he says when a speaker

[4:20]like me is speaking to crowds when a president is speaking when

[4:25]any ruler is speaking he should keep the Dogma very simple just

[4:30]use one or two points keep it very simple and straightforward what

[4:37]does that remind you of lines like what ban all Muslims right

[4:41]does this ring a bell or for example declaring that you know

[4:49]in order for us to solve the issue of immigrants let's just

[4:53]build a big beautiful wall right how many times have you heard

[4:56]this in recent days Hitler says keep it very simple just one

[5:04]or two lines and then he also says reduce very complex Concepts

[5:09]down to stereotypes make everything as if it's black or white and

[5:16]what did we hear the past few months all those Mexican immigrants

[5:20]they're criminals they're rapists they're this they're that reducing very complex ideas

[5:26]to something that's black and white and then one of the points

[5:34]that he mentions play with people's emotions stir Their Fear stir their

[5:39]anger another point that he mentions is that repeat what you say

[5:47]use repetition keep repeating your points over and over and over because

[5:53]that's how you create zealots that's how you can rally your crowd

[5:57]another thing that he mentions is that you should speak with authority

[6:02]full Authority full power as if you could destroy the whole world

[6:09]you could teach the whole world a lesson and when you speak

[6:13]to people speak in the telling mode in the ordering mode speak

[6:20]with authority as if you're giving people orders and this is very

[6:25]dangerous we'll see why and so on and so forth he lists

[6:27]a few points on how to radical a nation how to convince

[6:32]them to go to war with the entire world and he did

[6:38]succeed in that now this is one thing that he used the

[6:40]second thing was Authority when you speak with authority to a nation

[6:46]and you tell them what to do this becomes extremely dangerous why

[6:51]because there's something about the human psychology we human beings we tend

[6:59]to submit to Authority what whether it's good Authority or bad Authority

[7:04]this is extremely dangerous in the 1960s an interesting experiment was conducted

[7:09]mgm's experiment some of you may have read about it basically they

[7:16]had Ordinary People ordinary citizens come to a lab and a science

[7:22]Professor a scientist would tell them look we're doing this experiment and

[7:28]there's someone sitting in a room and there's a cable an electric

[7:35]cable attached to that person we want you to shock that person

[7:38]administer an electric shock to that person initially the people hesitated you

[7:44]know will this hurt that person the scientist said no you have

[7:48]to do it I'm a scientist I'm telling you to do this

[7:51]you know that most of those people in that lab they were

[7:57]willing to administer a fatal shock because they they would increase the

[8:01]voltage it was all a game of course no one was being

[8:06]electrocuted to death but those par participants thought that they were electrocuting

[8:11]that person most of them were willing to go that far to

[8:14]actually kill someone now later when they asked them how did you

[8:20]bring yourself to do that it boiled down to one thing Authority

[8:26]while a professor was telling me to do it a scientist was

[8:28]telling me to do it and scientists command some Authority this is

[8:36]extremely dangerous when someone comes with the wrong rhetoric with a dangerous

[8:42]rhetoric and speaks with authority an entire nation can be radicalized just

[8:48]like Hitler did with 70 million Germans that's why in the religion

[8:54]of Islam Muslims are encouraged by the Holy Quran by the teachings

[8:58]of the Prophet peace be upon him not to blindly accept any

[9:04]Authority isn't this exactly the message of IM Hussein don't just accept

[9:08]the authority because it's an authority figure no you have to see

[9:13]is this a good Authority or a bad Authority the Muslims at

[9:17]the time at the time of Bena they were fooled by the

[9:20]Bena because they forged so many narrations attributing them to the prophet

[9:26]that you have to obey the Khalifa even if he is corrupt

[9:33]even if he's an oppressor you have to obey him because he's

[9:36]someone who has Authority someone who has power but the message of

[9:45]IM Hussein was no if I have a ruler who's unjust who

[9:49]has no regard for the laws of God don't respect that Authority

[9:53]you have to sacrifice and he's the one who showed us how

[9:58]to sacrifice now let me make this very clear this is in

[10:03]no comparison what I mentioned about Hitler and how he radicalized 70

[10:08]million Germans this is in no way a comparison between Hitler and

[10:13]Donald Trump Hitler was a mass murder he was the most evil

[10:19]dictator of his time Donald Trump you know let's just say he's

[10:22]a genius who lost $916 million in 1995 this is not a

[10:29]comparison between the two but but why is this alarming why is

[10:34]this alarming to us because this tells us that if you have

[10:39]poisonous rhetoric even if you have a peaceloving nation even if you

[10:48]have a nation that respects others you will radicalize this nation because

[10:54]poisonous rhetoric if you keep hearing it for a month two months

[10:57]5 months for entire year and someone who claims to have authority

[11:01]someone who could potentially be a president this is very dangerous it

[11:05]ruins the social fabric of our society the religious fabric the racial

[11:10]fabric this is why it's very alarming and the past year or

[11:20]so we have seen the most hateful rhetoric from someone like Donald

[11:24]Trump about immigrants about African-Americans and especially about Muslims and the religion

[11:33]of Islam you know Donald Trump he's not really an islamophobe if

[11:38]you look at his history you don't find anything significant in his

[11:44]history about against the religion of Islam Donald Trump is an opportunist

[11:48]he's using this hateful rhetoric in order to solicit more voters in

[11:57]order to create zealots to have the highest number of Americans supporting

[12:02]him that's what it's about otherwise if you look at his history

[12:08]he isn't he doesn't really care about the religion of Islam he

[12:10]really doesn't care about Muslims but once he realized that if you

[12:15]stir hate and anger then there are people who will be impacted

[12:22]by this fear and they'll vote for you they'll give you their

[12:27]support and this is extremely dangerous that's why he uses these tactics

[12:32]he knows what he's doing Donald Trump uses tactics primarily to cater

[12:39]to two types of groups you know the tactics that he used

[12:42]he creates this enemy Muslims immigrants he focuses on humiliation we Americans

[12:49]are being humiliated by these terrorists by China by Japan by whoever

[12:54]it is by Mexico and you know what this actually has an

[12:59]impact on many Americans they feel humiliated when they hear such rhetoric

[13:03]so he creates anger he creates fear he creates this feeling of

[13:09]humiliation and this pushes so many people so he's trying to cater

[13:17]to two groups the first one is traditional white Christian males he

[13:24]wants their support and he's tapping into their deeply rooted racial and

[13:31]religious bias because he wants their support you know since the 1960s

[13:37]this group of people they lost a lot of their prestige a

[13:42]lot of their power and they're not happy with that they missed

[13:45]those good old days when they could openly boast about being the

[13:48]best of the people about degrading others openly attacking other races some

[13:55]of them missed those days and so he trying to gain support

[14:03]in this particular group group so he uses this rhetoric in order

[14:07]to arouse them this is one group the second group which is

[14:12]very dangerous is white supremacists you know groups like the KKK and

[14:16]others he's trying to mobilize them and you know since decades he's

[14:23]given them the biggest boost in membership the biggest boost in membership

[14:28]every single day they're recruiting thousands of people because of this hateful

[14:34]rhetoric because of what he's doing to this Society they're gaining more

[14:41]and more members and they love what he's doing especially when he

[14:45]speaks with authority and he wants to teach the whole world a

[14:47]lesson and all Races he wants to teach them a lesson they

[14:54]love that you know the Pharaoh used the same techniques he spoke

[14:57]with so much Authority so much power power I'm even your Lord

[15:04]that's what he declared and the Egyptians they just submitted to that

[15:09]power but Allah subhana wa tala warns everyone in the Holy Quran

[15:16]Allah says that the afterlife is for who is for who as

[15:27]for those who do not want to be arrogant in this life

[15:31]and act so powerful Allah has assign the for those who do

[15:39]work they may rise to power but with humbleness their goal is

[15:45]not just to achieve power so we see that he is using

[15:54]fear and anger and hatred in order to gain support from these

[15:58]two groups and this is very alarming because he's really creating hate

[16:02]and fear you know back in March there was an interview conducted

[16:07]with him and you know what he said many of you may

[16:11]remember this he said I believe that Islam hates us you know

[16:17]what this does when millions of Americans hear this from someone who

[16:21]has some sort of authority because he's a candidate he said I

[16:27]believe that Islam hates us now I have to say something here

[16:30]what do you mean Mr Trump by us if by us you

[16:35]mean racism then yes you're right Islam hates racism if by that

[16:42]you mean sexism then yes Islam is is against that if by

[16:45]us you mean when you mocked that disabled person that reporter with

[16:49]a disability then yes Islam hates that if by that you mean

[16:58]hatred and racism and egotism then yes Islam hates that but you

[17:02]see the fear that he's creating many people are really afraid of

[17:06]the religion of Islam when they hear such hateful rhetoric and they

[17:13]have no clue what Islam is what extremism is what Muslims are

[17:17]just like the Shar issue that we had a few years ago

[17:23]remember when everyone was talking about sh creeping into our societies like

[17:27]this spider in our societies many of you heard that right but

[17:32]most of those people who were pushing for anti-sharia legislation they had

[17:36]no clue what sharw is I remember one one time this state

[17:45]senator from Alabama he was pushing for anti-ar legislation and you know

[17:51]he was very fervent about it a reporter asked him can you

[17:54]explain to us what Shar is you know what he said he's

[17:58]like I don't have my file in front of me right now

[18:02]has no clue has no clue what Shar is yet he's pushing

[18:06]he's pushing for anti-ar legislation you know many of you may remember

[18:12]the interview with my respected father and Pastor Terry Jones when my

[18:17]father asked him why did you come here to burn the Quran

[18:22]what brought you here what did he say he said I have

[18:27]come to protest Shar Shar is no good I burned the Quran

[18:33]to show my rejection of Shar my father asked him what is

[18:36]it about Shar that you don't like what is it about it

[18:40]he's like Shar is very violent my father asked him give me

[18:42]an example what is it about Shar that you don't like remember

[18:46]what he said he's like yeah because I burned the Quran because

[18:50]the Shar and the Quran tells Muslims to Stone the one who

[18:55]has committed adultery my father told him you know if that's why

[18:58]you bur the Quran that's not mentioned in the Quran it's mentioned

[19:04]in the Bible the Bible is actually the book that speaks of

[19:08]stoning the adulterer and 16 others by the way the Bible prescribes

[19:13]stoning to death or the capital punishment to 16 offenders one of

[19:20]them is a rebellious child thank God you're not living in that

[19:24]era because we have some rebellious kids in our communities but the

[19:29]B does speak about that by the way a rebellious son who

[19:31]doesn't stop his Rebellion is to be stoned to death at the

[19:36]gates of the city so everyone can see it that's the Bible

[19:38]many of them are ignorant what's going on what is the religion

[19:44]of Islam they have no clue but it's this fear that he's

[19:47]creating and he's actually lying to many Americans what's amazing to me

[19:52]is that I've never seen this anywhere really someone who can openly

[19:57]come out and lie to millions of people and just get away

[20:00]with it and people are cool about that this is extremely dangerous

[20:04]you know he claimed to see thousands of Muslims celebrating on 911

[20:11]when those Twin Towers came down in New Jersey and when they

[20:15]kept asking him you know there's no such thing there's no such

[20:19]footage he kept insisting no I saw it with my own eyes

[20:21]I saw thousands of these Muslims celebrating that day but you know

[20:29]what millions of Americans are buying these lies and it's really impacting

[20:34]them now let's look at these statistics because one of the points

[20:40]that he is using and those islamophobes are using is that the

[20:47]biggest threat today to American society is What Muslim terrorism or they

[20:51]call it they call it Islamic terrorism we don't have Islamic terrorism

[20:55]yes there are so-called Muslims who commit acts of Terror but we

[21:00]don't have something called Islamic terrorism the religion of Islam is a

[21:05]peaceful religion if you remember the Republican primaries and the debates it

[21:13]seemed as if the biggest threat to America was Islamic terrorism these

[21:18]Muslims they're destroying our society they're going to kill all of us

[21:22]and many Americans are actually believing that that the biggest threat facing

[21:26]their society today is Muslim extr ISM but let's look at the

[21:29]facts I want you to know these facts so you can share

[21:34]these facts with your society and this is not to downplay extremism

[21:40]and terrorism committed by so-called Muslims terrorism is a grave sin it's

[21:47]a grave crime but is it really the biggest threat that we're

[21:50]facing in our society look at these statistics here in the United

[21:58]States from 2005 till 2010 how many Americans in the US were

[22:02]killed by Muslim terrorists how many do you think the way Trump

[22:09]talks about it you would think 240,000 right the way he's presenting

[22:13]it to the people because that's the biggest threat how many according

[22:18]to official statistics from 2005 till early 2015 24 Americans died 24

[22:28]and yes this is a huge crime because every life is sacred

[22:33]but is this really the biggest threat facing America and a decade

[22:37]24 Americans dying because of extremist Muslims who committed acts of terrorism

[22:43]in this same period brothers and sisters in the same decade over

[22:49]300,000 Americans were killed because of gun violence you know even the

[22:59]Washington Post reported that in the the year 2013 there were more

[23:04]Americans killed by toddlers little kids with guns than by Muslim extremists

[23:11]and terrorists you're more likely to be struck by lightning and killed

[23:16]by your TV set or your couch than to be killed by

[23:18]a Muslim extremist or terrorist but is that how our politicians talk

[23:23]about it some of them they make it to you as if

[23:29]it's the big biggest threat facing our society but Americans really don't

[23:33]know these facts ask a random American tomorrow if you see how

[23:35]many people do you think have been killed they really think it's

[23:37]in the thousands hundreds of thousands they have no clue we need

[23:44]to share these statistics in 2015 there were 355 mass shootings in

[23:52]the US 355 mass shootings and yes one of them was an

[23:56]extremist you know that terrorist Faruk the one who was responsible for

[24:04]the San Bernardino attacks but what does Trump do he takes this

[24:11]one particular shooting and he makes it the biggest threat facing America

[24:14]if you look at Europe because Europe saw a wave of attacks

[24:21]as well the last several years if you look at Europe the

[24:24]last 10 years or so the last 15 years or so out

[24:29]of all all acts of terrorism committed in Europe 2% of them

[24:33]was what by Muslims even less than their population because if you

[24:39]examine the population of Muslims in Europe in some countries it's 5%

[24:42]in some 10% in some 15% but only 2% of all terrorist

[24:51]Acts were committed by Muslims in Europe is this really the biggest

[24:54]threat but many people don't know that we have to share these

[25:02]statistics with our society to calm them down a bit yes terrorism

[25:04]is a big issue we have to solve terrorism we have to

[25:11]denounce terrorism but but don't let that fear make you irrational don't

[25:16]make that fear make you a racist person so the results have

[25:22]been very damaging the results of such poisonous rhetoric the results the

[25:26]consequences of such hateful rhetoric has been very very damaging you know

[25:33]there was a Blog a hate blog for people who wanted to

[25:36]express their hate it had 11,000 members after the rhetoric of trump

[25:45]you know how many members now it has 11 million 11 million

[25:48]people now are subscribed to this hate blog what does that tell

[25:52]you this is very dangerous and to show you about the religion

[25:57]of Islam specifically what's happening in this country According to some surveys

[26:02]that were done recently the religion of Islam is seen as the

[26:07]most unfavorable religion in this country behind atheism can you imagine that

[26:15]in June this past June just uh two three months ago nearly

[26:19]half of Americans supported Donald Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims nearly

[26:26]half of Americans actually supported that nearly 50% of Americans they admit

[26:34]that they feel prejudiced towards Muslims and Islam 25% of Americans agreed

[26:41]that Muslims should carry a special ID card in order to prevent

[26:45]further attacks in the future and this is extremely alarming half of

[26:51]all Republicans believe that Islam is a violent religion it's a religion

[26:55]that condones violence encourages violence this is very alarming to us respected

[27:00]brothers and sisters but I'm not here to scare you what is

[27:05]the solution of the religion of Islam we have to know what

[27:12]the solution is and what our responsibilities are how is it that

[27:19]we can play a positive role in calming down this nation what

[27:24]is the solution of the religion of Islam when it comes to

[27:29]such issues how do we stop a nation from becoming radicalized from

[27:34]being influenced from such hateful rhetoric and this is what's important because

[27:39]you know the problem is not Donald Trump he can say whatever

[27:42]he wants the problem is the consequences of such hateful rhetoric this

[27:47]is our society in which we live in we cherish our homeland

[27:53]here here is the future of our children we need to know

[27:57]what we need to do so what is the solution of the

[28:03]religion of Islam there are external factors and there are internal factors

[28:08]that the religion of Islam emphasizes emphasizes in order to protect a

[28:16]nation from falling into such a trap from becoming hateful from becoming

[28:22]racist and from becoming rejecting of other minorities of other groups so

[28:29]let's start with the first internal factors the first internal Factor brothers

[28:34]and sisters something that the Holy Quran constantly stresses and emphasizes is

[28:41]what to be Pious because change starts in your heart if I

[28:49]don't have piety in my heart I can't change my Society I

[28:53]can't stop this hateful rhetoric if I don't fear Allah subhana I'm

[28:59]not God conscious that's why you see the Holy Quran constantly emphasizing

[29:09]this the best provision for you is to have piety to be

[29:17]Pious oh people oh you who believe fear Allah subh be Pious

[29:26]the same verse ver mentions piety twice because when you're truly mindful

[29:32]of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you know that Allah subhah wa ta'ala

[29:38]is watching you watching your every move everything you say even how

[29:45]you think that creates an internal barrier between you and between hatred

[29:50]between you and racism between you and arrogance and extremism it all

[29:57]starts starts with tawa and py doesn't mean that you have to

[30:00]have a beard and you go to the mosque and you pray

[30:03]in front of others no that's just one part of it we've

[30:08]seen many people throughout history who used to pray but what kind

[30:11]of prayer a prayer which had no piety a prayer which had

[30:20]no tawa Allah subhana tala is monitoring our actions every minute of

[30:26]our actions is being monitored by Allah you know when you think

[30:30]about how many cameras are monitoring you from day to night you'll

[30:33]change you'll act very differently first of all Allah is watching you

[30:37]secondly the angels of God especially the two angels who are recording

[30:41]your actions number three the very ground that you walk on is

[30:44]monitoring you Allah on the day of judgment will reveal to the

[30:55]Earth to speak what did I do on this land what did

[31:00]I do on this Earth the prophets and the imams they're monitoring

[31:06]our actions your own body parts are monitoring you on the day

[31:15]of judgment you will tell your skin your body parts why did

[31:20]you witness against me why did you expose me what will it

[31:26]say Allah subhana tala is the one who caused us to speak

[31:32]if a person truly has tawa if is if a nation if

[31:37]a society are Pious then you don't see such consequences even if

[31:42]someone comes with hateful rhetoric you don't see millions of people changing

[31:47]within months within weeks this is the importance of piety this is

[31:52]the importance of tawa they say once a father went with a

[31:57]son to a Farmland land to steal some fruits from that F

[32:00]Rand he told his son my son stand at the gate make

[32:05]sure no one is watching us if you see someone watching us

[32:09]I want you to let me know immediately point that out to

[32:12]me so as soon as his father goes and he's about to

[32:17]pick those fruits and steal them his son calls on him his

[32:21]father comes back you know he's scared is there someone here he

[32:26]told him my dear son what happened and he was like well

[32:28]someone's watching us he came to the gates he looked to his

[32:32]right he looked to his left no one was watching he told

[32:34]him my dear son there's no one watching so why did you

[32:39]call me and give me a false alarm he told him Baba

[32:43]didn't you tell me that if someone's watching us I should tell

[32:45]you he's like yeah so who's watching us he said Allah subhana

[32:47]tala is watching us just wanted to remind you of that he

[32:51]had a good mother who raised him you think if you raise

[32:56]your children like that brothers and sisters you'll have issues if a

[32:59]person really grows up to be conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[33:04]to truly have piety would you have such issues this is one

[33:11]internal solution that the Holy Quran gives us that if you want

[33:13]Allah to change your status you start changing yourself this is number

[33:18]one number two is arrogance because a lot of these people who

[33:25]are supporting such hateful rhetoric they're driven by arrog because Trump and

[33:30]others what do they tell them essentially they're telling them whether directly

[33:35]or indirectly that we're better than all other nations we're the best

[33:40]Nation on Earth We're the best people we're the most advanced people

[33:43]we this or this and this actually creates a lot of arrogance

[33:49]when you become arrogant then yes you'll hate others you'll denounce others

[33:53]you'll show your racism you'll show your extremism the Holy Quran teaches

[34:01]us to be humble why do you think the Holy Quran keeps

[34:03]telling us about the story of prophet adam.

[34:08]and the devil why does God keep telling us and so many

[34:14]of the chapters of the Quran IM explains it to us the

[34:20]IM explains to us that the first sin that was ever committed

[34:23]was what an act of arrogance because said I will not prostrate

[34:31]to Adam I'm better than him you created me from fire and

[34:34]you created him from clay and fire is surely better than clay

[34:40]an act of arrogance if we can teach humbleness to our families

[34:44]to our societies and spread that humbleness this is a great way

[34:50]to stop this hatred to stop racism to truly feel humble to

[34:54]truly feel that you're just a humble servant of of Allah subhah

[34:59]wa ta'ala you know once there was a gathering of two scholars

[35:04]in nef centuries ago one of them was a very well-known scholar

[35:08]he was a mer and there was another one who was also

[35:13]a scholar a mer was not as famous as the first one

[35:15]they got into an argument an intellectual argument he was trying to

[35:20]prove his point the other one was trying to prove his point

[35:25]until one of the mar he remained silent and it seemed that

[35:29]he accepted the arguments of The Other M now in that moment

[35:37]people thought that the other M he became Victorious as that other

[35:41]mer was about to leave you know what the first one did

[35:45]he got up to him he went to him and as he

[35:49]was farewelling him he kissed his hands do you know what that

[35:54]means and he had a higher Social Status yet he kissed his

[35:58]hand now his followers were were really Disturbed afterwards they came to

[36:03]him and they told him what's going on why did you do

[36:05]that why did you kiss his hands this is wrong this is

[36:09]unacceptable you know what he said he said when I was arguing

[36:14]with him and I realized that I had the proper argument I

[36:16]became arrogant I wanted to stop the arrogance so I remained silence

[36:22]let him beat me in the conversation so what but then I

[36:25]felt myself struggling to prove myself to prove my point to be

[36:30]the Victorious One in order to myself and restrain myself I did

[36:39]the unthinkable I went and I kissed his hand so I teach

[36:45]myself a good lesson never act arrogantly never think you're better than

[36:49]others and you can win any argument arrogance arrogance breeds such type

[36:56]of hatred selfishness breeds Sub typ sub such type of hatred unfortunately

[37:03]many of you know our fellow citizens yes we have the spirit

[37:08]of philanthropy the spirit of generosity and giving but many of us

[37:11]are selfish because we only care about us ourselves our problems who

[37:16]cares about what's happening in the world do you know that every

[37:21]year in the United States $160 billion worth of fresh food is

[37:28]wasted $60 billion for those who have charitable organizations you know what

[37:38]that means you know that no human being will starve on Earth

[37:41]If That 160 billion was spent on them on the poor to

[37:48]eradicate poverty to erad eradicate starvation and malnourishment but the problem is

[37:52]we don't care we're wasting all these resources this goes back to

[37:59]selfishness because we really don't care it's not important for us and

[38:02]the third one is ignorance ignorance also breeds hatred you know interestingly

[38:07]even you know in the media they were quoting this that the

[38:13]diploma was the Republican fault line those you know a good indicator

[38:16]of those who would support such hateful rhetoric or they would support

[38:20]Trump is their level of Education most of his supporters they have

[38:25]less education a high school diploma or less not all of them

[38:30]but many of them because ignorance really breeds hatred the more you're

[38:37]educated the more you realize what's going on in the world why

[38:40]does Allah subhana wa tala instruct Us in the Holy Quran to

[38:46]see the diversity why does Allah subhana wa ta'ala tell us that

[38:49]I've created you as Nations and tribes so you get to know

[38:55]one another so you share experiences from one another this is the

[38:58]beauty of the religion of Islam and the diversity that we see

[39:02]in the religion of Islam so these are several internal factors now

[39:08]let's get to the external factors one of the most important external

[39:14]factors brothers and sisters is for us as a community to speak

[39:21]up we have to do something about this and IM Hussein teaches

[39:25]us that when you see something wrong in your Society don't feel

[39:29]complacent don't feel powerless no even if your numbers are a few

[39:36]you can make a difference no America is not you know going

[39:43]down the drain because of someone who's irresponsible like Donald Trump no

[39:48]America is still a great nation but we have to play a

[39:53]role in keeping this nation a great nation you can make a

[39:56]difference if you think IM Hussein Alam with 72 companions he made

[39:59]a difference on the other side you had how many 30,000 we're

[40:04]a lot more than 72 we're a lot more than 72 just

[40:09]look at the numbers that we have in our community we can

[40:12]make a difference but we have to speak up we have to

[40:17]have an active role in the media in our communities in our

[40:20]societies and there are three groups brothers and sisters that we need

[40:24]to expose number one is Isis because believe it or not Isis

[40:31]is now representing Us in the eyes of millions of people it

[40:34]could be your neighbor believe me go to your neighbor speak to

[40:37]your American neighbor and you realize that you know maybe Isis does

[40:43]represent those people maybe if they're given power they'll do the same

[40:47]millions of Americans are actually thinking that what have you done to

[40:51]distance yourself from Isis what have you done I want to ask

[40:53]all of you here tonight brothers and sisters ask yourself have I

[41:01]personally done anything to denounce extremism because it's extremist like Isis who

[41:06]actually you know give people like Donald Trump the rhetoric to create

[41:14]hatred that's what's dangerous what have I done as an individual as

[41:20]a citizen to say that Isis does not represent me that I

[41:23]condemn this group what have we done we have to expose them

[41:29]this is one group the second group that we have to expose

[41:31]brothers and sisters are those who support Isis the wahhabi ideology governments

[41:41]like Saudi Arabia who have backing who has been backing such ideology

[41:49]for decades for two centuries they've been backing this wahhabi ideology this

[41:54]breeds violence this breeds hatred we have to expose them and these

[41:59]days we're seeing a wave you know in the media of them

[42:01]being exposed you know the recent legislation past jasta for example and

[42:08]we see a lot of Articles now in the New York Times

[42:13]and elsewhere but this is the third group that we also need

[42:15]to expose brothers and sisters and this is very sensitive but we

[42:20]have to discuss this you know right now for example in the

[42:23]New York Times we're seeing many articles that are speaking about Saudi

[42:27]Arabia and their role in terrorism in supporting these terrorists that's great

[42:34]that's wonderful and we should thank them for exposing that but I

[42:37]would like to ask the New York Times and others where were

[42:42]you the past 15 years when Saudi Arabia was supporting these terrorists

[42:47]was supporting the extremist wahhabi ideology where were you how come you

[42:51]were silent all these politicians these congressmen son of now they decide

[42:59]that Saudi Arabia should be held responsible what happened the past 15

[43:02]years this should be a wakeup call for America brothers and sisters

[43:08]and we have to speak about this so this doesn't keep happening

[43:11]again politicians have to act responsibly yes it's great right now that

[43:17]you begin to realize where the root of extremism is in the

[43:22]world then who's feeding this extremist wahhabi in the Muslim this extremist

[43:26]idea ideology in the Muslim world but what happened the last 15

[43:30]years how come you turned the Blind Eye they have to be

[43:36]answerable to Americans they need to explain their position the past several

[43:42]decades so this doesn't happen again in the future so we have

[43:47]to be very vocal brothers and sisters we have to speak up

[43:50]and defend our rights we have to reject racism in all of

[43:56]its forms it starts from us you know the problem is when

[43:59]you talk about racism with our fellow Americans racism sometimes is destroying

[44:04]our own communities our own societies but listen to this Hadith from

[44:09]the holy prophet Muhammad sallah inspect your heart right now see do

[44:21]you have any traces of racism of prejudice in this Hadith the

[44:29]prophet peace be upon Him says if there is in your heart

[44:40]the size of a seed of racism of prejudice then Allah subhah

[44:46]wa ta'ala will resurrect you with with the pagans of Jah if

[44:54]you have the size of a seed of racism in Your Heart

[44:56]A True Believer is one who does not have racism we need

[45:02]to lift the spirit of the religion of Islam and share it

[45:08]with our society brothers and sisters we Muslims should be at the

[45:13]Forefront in combating in combating racism in combating hatred Prejudice sexism we

[45:19]should be at the Forefront but are we really doing our job

[45:23]what are we doing in our societies let's learn from Al IM

[45:30]Hussein let's take the spirit of Al IM Hussein let's say to

[45:34]our nation that such hateful rhetoric will not destroy us with the

[45:39]spirit of abdah Hussein will stop this hatred we'll stop this racism

[45:45]let's show the love of IM Hussein through our actions let's invite

[45:51]to the path of Al IM Hussein when others look at our

[45:57]actions do really reflect the teachings of our imams of our leaders

[46:04]you know every company has a catalog you look at the catalog

[46:07]it's so nice and fancy it really encourages you to buy the

[46:13]to buy the product we the followers of B we are cataloges

[46:15]to the imams because the people did not see the imams what

[46:22]do they see they see me they see you they see us

[46:23]as a community we are catalog to the IMs of we reflect

[46:30]their teachings have we been good catalogs brothers and sisters through our

[46:36]actions through our words through our history through our contributions have we

[46:42]demonstrated to this Society what im Hussein can offer ask yourself tonight

[46:51]brothers and sisters what can I do to change myself first of

[46:57]all and to change my society and to give a good image

[47:00]of my faith a real genuine image of my faith this is

[47:06]what the imams expect of us says without your tongues you don't

[47:15]need to even always speak through your actions and especially the respected

[47:21]sisters Allah is my witness when you're observing the hijab and you

[47:28]offer a good deed in your Society a charitable act a Act

[47:33]of humanity through your knowledge you dispel these misconceptions this has such

[47:39]a great value in the eyes of Allah subh let's take the

[47:45]flag of Al IM Hussein because the banner of Al IM Hussein

[47:51]invites everyone everyone is welcome to the path of ab abdah Hussein

[47:56]you talk about racism look what happened inala one of the companions

[48:05]of Al IM Hussein by the name of John the son of

[48:09]H or H this man was a slave owned by Abu he

[48:18]was a black slave he was with the IM he followed the

[48:23]IM he was in love with ab ab Hussein he could not

[48:29]leave the IM for a single minute when the IM left Medina

[48:34]he came with him when he went to Mecca he followed him

[48:37]he followed him all the way tobala the Imam told him oh

[48:45]John you can leave you joined us you were with us the

[48:48]bit so you can achieve security stability to achieve peace but tomorrow

[48:55]is a very very dangerous day they shall attack us and they

[48:59]shall kill us leave oh John you know what he does he

[49:06]falls at the feet of abdah Hussein he tells him say my

[49:08]master in good times I was with you I would eat from

[49:14]your food and now in difficult times you want me to betray

[49:17]you I won't betray you oh AB abdah on the day of

[49:22]Ash John comes to AB abdah Hussein see the unifying message of

[49:27]the Imam he welcomed everyone and these are wonderful Les lessons brothers

[49:33]and sisters for us to combat racism especially in that Society where

[49:38]people like John had absolutely no value he came to the Imam

[49:45]to farewell the IM the Imam initially refused him permission to go

[49:49]out to the battlefield but then the Imam he gave him the

[49:52]permission he told him oh John go and fight these enemies may

[49:58]Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala illuminate your face on the day of judgment

[50:02]John goes out he fights so valiantly the love of Al IM

[50:08]Hussein is driving him when the enemies they surround him from every

[50:15]direction he falls to the ground he calls on imin he calls

[50:24]on the IM the IM am rushes to him the Imam sees

[50:29]him on the ground historians tell us the IM did something unique

[50:33]with this black man that he only did with his only with

[50:40]his son historians say the Imam came down to the ground he

[50:44]placed his cheek on the cheek of John and he told him

[50:49]oh John may Allah forgive you may Allah illuminate your face on

[50:54]the day of judgment he begins to [Music] cry he tells himd

[51:08]Hussein who's like me and the son the grandson of places his

[51:12]cheek on my cheek but this is the message of Al IM

[51:16]Hussein he invited everyone so one of the companions of the Imam

[51:24]he was aani one of the supporters ofman he was anti on

[51:27]the way tobala the Imam met him and he heard the message

[51:33]of the IM and he joined IM Hussein this is one of

[51:37]the companions of the IM it was open to everyone another of

[51:41]the companions of Al IM Hussein was wab wahab was originally a

[51:49]Christian when he heard the message of Al IM Hussein he embraced

[51:52]the message of Al IM Hussein on the day of as the

[51:58]mother of wahab told him my dear son wab what are you

[52:01]waiting for don't you want to illuminate my face before f z

[52:07]on the day of judgment I shall not be satisfied with you

[52:11]unless you go and fight alongside Al IM Hussein and be killed

[52:17]in his way but you know wab he had recently gotten married

[52:20]maybe just two months before that he was a new newly wet

[52:23]man his wife was was very disturbed she told him oh I

[52:29]beg you don't leave me we just got married let's share our

[52:35]lives together let's enjoy our life together I can't see you go

[52:38]and getting killed in front of you she she keeps begging him

[52:40]not to go but his mother keeps pushing him she tells him

[52:46]ohab I shall not be satisfied unless you go and you die

[52:51]with the companions of Al IM Hussein wab he farewells them he

[52:55]goes and he defends the IM when he was in the battlefield

[53:00]in his final moments he heard a voice coming from behind [Music]

[53:07]him he heard someone a familiar voice telling him ohab yes continue

[53:15]fighting continue fight defend the righteous people of Allah subhah wa ta'ala

[53:20]he turns his face he sees his wife Coming he's puzzled he's

[53:24]confused he tells her my dear wife just moments ago you were

[53:27]trying to stop me from defending Hussein what happened now I see

[53:36]you encouraging me she tells him oh do not blame me I

[53:38]say see that broke my heart I saw husin standing by the

[53:48]tent feeling so lonely [Music] in he tells her what what was

[53:56]husin saying what is it that he said that changed your position

[53:59]I saw this lonely man he said is there anyone to support

[54:13]us is there anyone to support these women and children oh go

[54:16]and fight and die in the way of Allah subh everyone together

[54:30]let's pay our salutations to Al IM Hussein and companions respected

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