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I think after that film that we saw and they say a picture is worth a thousand words, it tells us a lot about the state of the Muslim community certainly and really of the world at large, because where things are not physically as bad as what we were witnessing; say in Kashmir or in Bosnia or in Palestine or in the Philippines or in Eritrea or the many places where the Muslims have actually been engaged in martial combat in defending themselves. It's interesting to note that the one of the people before me mentioned that the Muslims are generally seen as terrorists but when you watch the news the little news is actually shown about what's happening in the Muslim world or you look at films like the one we just witnessed it seems that those being
terrorized in fact are the Muslims
themselves and yet it's important also
not to to demonize the one terrorizing
and let that be a barrier for realizing
why that situation exists why does that
situation exist this cycle of the
oppressor and the oppressed the cycle
that in reality the Prophet Elias Adam
came to break that chain and in the
beautiful hadith the Prophet Elias Adam
said and all his things are beautiful
Kankuro a falcon boddyhm animal uma
gives victory or help your brother who
is oppressing or oppress and the Sahaba
asked a very pertinent question we
understand how we can help somebody who
is being oppressed but how do we help an
oppressor a lot give an answer of
Ahriman how do we help an oppressor and
he said by preventing him from his
oppression by stopping him from his
oppression that that is the way you give
help and succour to an oppressor and so
this cycle that all of humanity seems to
be engaged in right now this cycle of
the oppressor and the oppressed is
frightening in its global manifestation
it's frightening when we look at our
Wanda or when we look at the
unbelievable capacity that a human being
has to lose his humanity it is really in
a sense from many offers of our
perspectives beyond our own imagination
it is beyond what we can comprehend when
when I witness what I just witnessed
it's difficult for me to comprehend one
how people can do that to other people
but to how a custom we can become to
that growth transformation of the
nobility and the dignity that is
inherent in the human being that is what
is really frightened to me that this can
become served up for the masses day in
and day out on the media in the
newspapers in the radio and in the
television and that we become inured to
this type of situation where it becomes
the status
in order to understand what's really
troubling I do not believe that there
are a lot of difference sicknesses when
we say the ailing humanity what we're
indicating is that humanity is sick you
can have diseases that have multiple
manifestations a good example is a when
somebody has AIDS they can get what they
call opportunistic infections they get
pneumonia they get skin diseases they
get bacterial diseases of the brain and
the meninges spinal fluid but the
sickness when you look at it with all
its different manifestations you can
really take it down to one thing in the
example of the AIDS patients it's a
breakdown of the immune system you see
this is really the sickness pneumonia is
really secondary in the AIDS patient
it's a secondary ailment what's going on
is not in pneumonia that is a
manifestation of something much deeper
when we look at humanity in a global
perspective what we see is a body a
social body that is ailing in the same
way that that individual is ailing from
AIDS we see all of these different
manifestations like that disease person
has Kaposi sarcoma this cancer of the
skin that might be the first thing you
notice about them and then you notice
that they're John and then you notice
that they're jaundice that they're
yellow of complexion you notice that
they've lost their bodily weights that
they walk weekly you notice that they're
coughing that they have a difficult time
breathing you do tests and you start
finding diseases in the blood you start
finding diseases in the brain they can
have dementia a type of like a
syphilitic dementia that has the disease
has attacked the brain and yet all of
those various manifestations in reality
have one source and that is that this
person's immune system has broken down
you look at human society now our immune
system has broken down you see on a
global scale there is no order in the
world
I was with recently the
great-granddaughter of actually she's
the granddaughter of soap an alkyl
halide ii who was the she lives in the
united states and she was she had the
whole tree of all of her grandfather's
back to a lodi the first Ottoman Emperor
and I said to one of the people that was
there despite all of the terrible things
that we know about the Ottoman system
especially in its later manifestation
despite all of that there existed in
order in human society and this is not
to romanticize this it's important that
we don't romanticize our own history you
see in the same way that we have a
whitewash history in the United States
you can study go into a university
course and it's changing now because a
lot of people especially what our term
minority people are demanding other
versions of history to start coming up
so we're seeing the black contribution
in American history which was something
never talked about in the history books
of the United States and if you're
interested in that subject and
interesting book is by Howard Zinn
called a people's history of the United
States but the point of that is is that
it's important not to whitewash history
to look Allah says be witnesses even if
it means all against your own cells one
hour an inclusive home even if it means
against your own self you have to be
sure haha witnesses you see to
romanticize is dangerous and we tend to
do that because the past is nostalgic
for most people but if you look at this
Ottoman Empire there was an older in
human society
you see Bosnia could not have happened
at the time of the Ottoman Empire it
could not have happened it could not
have happened at the time of the abyssea
it could not have happened at the time
of any Romania of the Umayyad guided and
it certainly could not have happened at
the time of the whole of ha ha she being
the rightly guided caliphs because there
was some semblance of order now what
that order was based on was a sacred
understanding now if you look at human
societies at large the vast majority of
human societies are religious societies
in their innermost core or nature there
are societies that perceive the sacred
within the secular within the mundane
what this society has so uniquely done
the modern society and it's been termed
the Western society the Euro American
Society the European society America
being one of the mutant children of
Europe the the reality of it is is that
this modern world has made this
extraordinary departure from a sacred
perspective of the world it's not to go
unnoticed that the Americans place on
their dollar and not the American people
but people behind the scene in the
United States because most Americans
don't know what it means
but on the American dollar there is
under the great steel which is actually
the batch of the Great Seal which is
interesting is it's the size you don't
normally see there is a pyramid and at
the top of the pyramid is a disengaged
eye in a one eye and then over it's
there some Latin term that says he is
pleased with our project she's
interesting who that reference goes to
who is he who is pleased with this
project they tell us that he's got one
up which is interesting because there's
we know in our Islamic theology there's
another creature that has one eye that
we certainly don't want him to be
pleased with our project
underneath this eye there says Novus
Ordo seclorum which is translated in
Latin new secular order or new order of
the ages or new world order because
secular means world the mundane as
opposed to the sacred which is when the
other worldliness in views the worldly
aspect with the divine with the sacred
with the holy so what this project was
that this one ice creature is pleased
with is a disengagement from the sacred
that the secular has now completely
disengaged from the sacred it's called
the separation in Western society of
church and state now it's long becomes
problematic for these people because
Muslims don't have a church there is no
church so what do you say separation of
religion and state you see at this point
it becomes problematic when they are
democratic elections in Algeria and as
Metheny rule is he is mr. moderate
compared to people on the wings now that
are moving up a plasma he is a very
moderate person and yet when he was
democratically elected and his party was
democratically elected the military
immediately comes in and subvert the
quote-unquote democratic process and the
world goes silent now we have American
ready to invade Haiti this this great
threat to to the American population
right Heidi and the Americans on Tuesday
I think is the deadline the ultimatum
why because the democratic process was
interrupted by these usurper and the the
rightful democratic ruler must be
reinstated and he was as in the White
House the other day and yet I'm fast
imagine ease
of lingers in a Algerian prison is not
even mentioned not even mentioned most
people don't know who he is and Algeria
is one of the largest countries in the
continent of Africa which is the largest
continent so it's very interesting these
this need to separate religion from the
sacred or secular business the worldly
visit and this is what the American
Society does you see is that
well churches on Sunday and everything
else is business as usual and we have to
be pragmatic we have to be what they
used to call Machiavellian and look at
the real world now there's a very
interesting the whole of the Quran you
just delve into some section and find
you find yourself drowning literally in
meanings but I want to read I would like
to read the Arabic but for times
constraint I'll read the interpretation
here that Allah says it is Allah who has
enabled you to traverse through land and
sea so that you even board ships they
sail with them with a favorable wind and
the full canal I mean we can by analogy
certainly look at the airplane which
also sails with a favorable wind in fact
I was on a flight coming from San
Francisco and they said we have a
favorable wind that we're going to get
in early and they rejoice there then
comes a stormy wind and the waves come
to them and there's waves in the air you
can actually what they call turbulence
so it applies to traveling in an
airplane which makes me very nervous
and the waves come to them from all
sides and they think they are being
overwhelmed at that point what do they
do they cry to Allah human beings very
interesting creature sincerely Mullis
Lee de Foix they call on Allah down love
mulazim love wood beam at that point
they call on Allah and the Dean and Dean
is to go into a state of submission at
that point they are submitted to a lots
of panel data model a scene lower Dean
when everything is in chaos when
everything is interpreted and they know
that there is no health there's no
health
you see when that's like I think it was
132 took off from Philadelphia and very
shortly after that took a nosedive and I
was as I was flying on this plane coming
from San Jose when we were taking off I
was I closed my eyes and reflected on
that state of suddenly taking a nosedive
what would I do what would be my last
word because it is a it is a possibility
at any given moment I'm in Samantha sama
and yes that'll be coming up do you feel
so safe from the one who is in the
heaven that he doesn't shake up the
earth do you feel so safe I live in
California and we certainly don't feel
safe about shaking of the earth but it's
simply a reminder that that is our state
at all times
that death is as close to you as your
own jugular vein death is what is
imminent it is immediately present at
all times and so they call on a mama
Christina being
and then what do they say if you save us
from this disaster we will show our
gratitude I know that use of Islam when
I heard him give a talk about how he
became Muslim an attorney point for him
was being in Santa Monica and he's a
fairly fragile his body physically and
he was swimming and the the undertow
there is very strong in California
people drown every year and he started
being pulled by the undertow and he was
swimming and it was pulling him further
and he was being pulled away from the
shore and he started to panic as people
do in that state and then he began to
call on God with sincerity and he said
if you just save me at this point he
thought he was going to drown he said if
you saved me and let me just get to the
shore I'll juice I'll do things for you
with my life I'll change and he said at
that point a wave came and took him back
to the to the shore where he was safer
and as he was getting closer to the
shore he said he started thinking and
wanting to just do what they called
renegotiate a bargain
I'll do something today
but he said that was the turning point
but it's very real human emotions you
see to renegotiate
you see if the brain starts becoming
turbulent and you see people change on
planes I've seen this many times maybe
there's a solver lunatic of all the
laughing stops and a somber mood Tagore
and people kind of look at each other
what was going on in the human heart at
that point and what is so different from
that space from every other state in
reality there is nothing different
except there's a reminder of the
presence of death and the prophet Elijah
knows that acts to do musically has
emitted that do much remembrance of the
destroyer of pleasures do much
remembrance of that thing that destroys
all of our pleasures because it puts you
in a different space and a different
perspective of reality if you leave your
family and each time you leave your home
you go into a state of awareness that
this might be the last time I ever see
my wife this might be the last time I
ever touch my child and I don't know
about you but I feel that I when I left
my boy last night maybe I'm thinking
about flight 132 or something but really
I think about that I leave my child and
I think and look at the dua of the
Prophet when he left on a journey he
said I'm so possible you're the the
companion in this journey will howl evo2
with every when malli will want it and
you're the one I'm leaving behind to
take care of my family my wealth and my
children so Hanna that is equally
Mackenzie and me how great is the one
who is in every place with his knowledge
he's our companion on our journey and
yet with overlooking our families that
we leave behind and so this is what they
say and then they say wanna know can and
wanna know can turn on and not finish a
Kadeem and we will be from the those who
show gratitude
is interesting because one of the terms
of castle the meaning of capital is in
Greece a Muslim can be a calculated
karana nama to be in gratitude to show
in gratitude towards the blessing and
that's Cooper and Nana
it's Cooper toward the blessing of Allah
who is in gratitude so Cooper the
disbelief was is normally termed this
but it also means ingratitude and so
they allow this and then when we save
them they begin to transgress Yamuna at
all they begin to transcribe in the
earth going back to their old ways
desire help in defiance of what is true
in defiance of what is right and then
what is Allah say and this is so
important to understand yeah au Hanna in
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