she was the obstetrician of my family
she couldn't go back to her country she
came to this country to learn medicine
to go back and
this medicine in her country and the war
broke out she was not ashamed of her
people she was proud of her people she
was a literate person people don't talk
about that because history is in a
vacuum history is what CNN tells you
that's not history that's what happened
yesterday or today whatever the latest
headline news is it's told without any
context it's told without any ability
for people to analyze and look at what's
happened this is what people are given
read history really look back all of
this is new if you want to know a
homeschooler I'll give you a great
historical example of somebody who was
home-schooled a man named Ali event have
you found it he was the halifa the Calif
he was the fourth kid he was a brilliant
man he was a genius he grew up in the
house of the prophet muhammad sallallahu
sir he never went a day in school he
never spent a day in school not one day
because he was in the greatest school to
school of the Prophet Muhammad that's
the Sunnah for Muslim soon as the
tradition of their prophet their prophet
was a homeschooler he schooled his
children fatima when the prophet
muhammad peace be upon him was 12 years
old 12 years old imagine this he took a
trip with his uncle to syria of a month
a commerce trip a trip as a as a
merchant 12 years old and look at our 12
year olds today look at them it's
disgraceful it's disgraceful really look
at these poor kids and their victims and
you have to see them as victims and were
complicit in the crime that was done
against them because we're more busy
making a living and we've forgotten
we've already been given a life we've
been given a life by God
and your children are your wealth a man
who will be no Xena to hire to dunya
children wealth and children are other
the ornaments the embellishments of life
on earth but to sacrifice your children
for your wealth if I had to give up one
of the two I know which one I'd give up
and I don't have that much to give up so
it's a lot easier choice than it is for
some people out there we need to retake
our communities really you need to stop
buying these at these corporate really
don't don't buy from them don't wear the
logos don't wear the nike swish why
should you give them free advertisement
they're not going to pay you seriously
why why advertise for them take them off
there they're closer don't buy their
clothes make your own clothes people
used to make their own clothes you can
buy buy cloth go buy cloth learn how to
sew sewing is a good thing to learn how
to do want me to feel stupid walking
around and homemade clothes well who do
you think made you feel stupid the same
people trying to sell you those clothes
that they made that look a lot stupider
than homemade clothes we've got kids
walking with pants halfway down their
bottoms with shoes that are so big I
can't I don't some of these young girls
walking around my god how do they walk
and we know it's bad for their spines
really all of this this is madness
you're not the mad one but if you have
enough sense of who you are and who's
you are you have some individuality you
have some spying you have some courage
to be different it takes courage to be
different people ask me every time they
say what about your children being
homeschooled what about socialization I
said that's why we're homeschooling for
God's sakes get that through your brains
that's why I'm homeschooling I don't
want them socialized into that madness
it amazes me that question
and always come what about every single
person I've ever said what that you
that's it I don't want my my children
there I look out that I see this kids
the same age they scare me when I was a
little kid and I did some Huckleberry
Finn things and I'm probably a little
ashamed of but when I was a little kid
if an adult looked at me with any type
of disdain I felt fear I'll tell you
something I feel fear looking at these
eight year olds I really do and one of
them broke a bottle in front of my house
and I went outside and I said to him hey
excuse me what are you doing he said
what's it to you man this kid was 10
years old if I had said that when I was
10 years old in Mill Valley California
that man would have taken off his belt
and whipped me and my mother would have
thanked him for doing that it wasn't
called child abuse in those days Al
Capone one of the worst criminals in the
history of America according to the the
history books was thrown out of school
when he was 12 years old for punching a
teacher in the mouth Al Capone he didn't
bring a knife to school a knife his
teacher he didn't shoot him he punched
him in the mouth and he was the worst
kid on the block Al Capone went on to
have a extraordinary career in crime but
he was a clever fellow he out people
don't realize that Al Capone probably
did more for the people of Chicago then
most of the multinational corporations
that are centered in Chicago he opened
up soup kitchens and fed poor people
that didn't they loved him Al Capone you
know why they got angry at him poor old
al right you know why they got angry at
him they love now they really did you
can read the history Al Capone at his
trial when they mentioned that he
actually wore they had a somebody up
there who made his underwear homemade
underwear Al Capone was a rich guy he
wore homemade clothes that's what rich
people do they they they don't you think
rich people are buying that stuff
the gap rich people have they pay
somebody to make their own clothes they
eat organic produce right really they do
they eat from homemade balls they don't
buy mass-produced stuff you can make
your own balls rich people they write
they're too busy ruining the world to
make their own balls so they pay other
people to make their own bowls but the
point is they don't eat from
mass-produced things the wealthiest
people don't they really don't Al Capone
when it was mentioned that he wore silk
underwear blushed that's what the
reporter said in other words the man had
some shame in his heart we didn't even
see Clinton blush the President of the
United States when he lied to the
American people didn't even blush Al
Capone blushed because his underwear was
mentioned when Clinton's private parts
were mentioned not his underwear mind
you his private parts the man didn't
blush what does that tell you about Al
Capone and the president united states
well I'll tell you something tells me
that I think Al Capone was probably a
better person really I think he probably
had something in his heart that gave him
a sense of shame despite the fact he was
a horrific human being the reason the
Chicago people went against Al Capone is
because he killed seven men allegedly
not it wasn't the killing of the
gangsters they could care less you know
what really upset them he had his
cronies dresses policemen that's where I
went too far that's what really troubled
them the idea of a police officer being
a mafioso in other words it was too much
even for the people of Chicago seven
people and the people of Chicago were up
in arms we have seven people being
killed every hour and she
go now really I mean look what's going
on out there and people don't they're no
longer shocked at these things my mother
told me who grew up in the 1930s in san
francisco california that if a person
died it was front-page news for at least
a month if a person was killed murdered
it was front-page news for at least a
month why have we allowed this to happen
really something very very wrong has
happened and what it is is that your
souls are dying we're literally dying of
suffocation spiritual suffocation our
souls are dying and and before the
lights are out completely I would advise
all of you to reject this and to commit
your lives to turning the tide because
the danger of people that can see things
another way and have the courage and the
motivation to set out to change those is
that very often they succeed that's why
those people are dangerous people that
can see things the way they should be
and not the way they are those people
are dangerous people and I hope I'm a
dangerous man I really do I hope I'm a
dangerous man and I hope all of you will
commit to being dangerous people a
danger to what's wrong out there a
danger to what is wrong out there and
I'll tell you something you can begin it
if you look in here if the average
person here even has two children and
they raised them to break the cycle to
be different to reject it that can
change the history of Toronto really it
can change the history of Toronto and
Toronto can change the history of canada
and this is the way it begins it begins
with an understanding of the power of
one because one is the greatest number
it is the greatest number is God's
number it's a powerful number and an
idea can change hearts an idea can
change hearts and if an ideas right and
it's true it should change hearts and if
it's not it shouldn't but we're
being bombarded by people who have the
power now to inflict on us ideas that
are dangerous to our hearts and they're
doing it to our children so my advice to
all of you to all of you is to turn off
your commercial televisions this is a
first and major step in changing the
conditions of your households turn off
your and this is an act of courage it's
an act of courage it's the coward that
allows others to amuse himself you see
and I agree wholeheartedly I once heard
somebody to say that they'd never been
bored in their life and it always
troubled them when they heard people say
i'm bored children learn boredom i have
never seen my children bored I've never
once I've never heard them say on board
I haven't heard that I haven't seen that
let them run around and do it they want
you put them in a classroom for eight
hours a day in training and preparation
to living a life of sitting behind a
computer terminal for eight hours a day
being bored stiff really and and think
that this is life know there are there
are alternatives out there people be
creative be creative there's
alternatives it doesn't have to be this
way and if that's the only message that
you take from tonight it's enough it
does not have to be this way we have the
power and the ability to change and we
have to do that we have to change and we
have to listen to our hearts our Prophet
peace be upon him said listen and take
advice from your heart even if others
give you advice what is your heart
telling you about what you see out there
if it's not telling you that something
seriously wrong then as a cardiologist I
would say your hearts dead I'm not a
cardiologist I'm actually cardiac nurse
so I spent a lot of time with
cardiologists and and a cardiologist
will tell your hearts dead if if it's
not registering any movement there's
nothing moving in the heart it's dead
the physical heart and the spiritual
heart and if your heart is dead then
like the Quran says in allahabad mot ha
God brings life to the earth after its
death and our scholars say the earth
here also means the human heart our
children's hearts can be brought back to
life it's going to take some some
serious measures resuscitation sometimes
defibrillation but it can be done they
can be brought back to life because
humans are amazing they have awakenings
I had a car accident that's what brought
me out of sleep that I was in I had a
very powerful car accident and I was
confronted without my own mortality and
that's why they don't want to tell you
about death they don't want to let you
think about death they want to fill your
lives with empty songs empty they'll
replace real friends for friends on a TV
sitcom that know nothing about you they
don't care whether you live or die if
you want to know if you live in a
community then somebody said the the
best way to assess that is ask yourself
will the person at the grocery store
realize if you happen to drop dead today
that you're no longer buying groceries
there that's how you know if you have
any community whatsoever will the person
that you buy gas from will the person
that that does this or that for you will
they even remember that you were a
person in their life because that's
what's been taken away from people we
need community we need community we are
communal beings were beings of community
every religious tradition the song of
the Buddhist the the Ummah of the
Muslims the ecclesia of the Christians
every religious tradition has a sense of
community of bringing people together
and we're difficult to be with each
other you have to set aside differences
sometimes we're hard to be together
that's part of being human it's learning
to deal with that obstinate person over
there and that contrary and over there
and you could be the contrary in
yourself and they're having a hard time
dealing with you but that's what life is
about it's a it's about setting aside
differences for a greater good coming
together listening to each other I i we
were at a poetry recital in New Mexico
we added a spectacular night everybody
read a poem and we had a beautiful night
at doral Islam with all these teachers
and when and when we finished I said
that I would just like to have us a
moment of silence I think or a prayer
for all those people out there watching
television right now who are deprived of
the joy of human companionship of
sharing poems together of sharing
thoughts together and you know what a
man came up to after he was a teacher
and he he was almost in tears he said to
me when you said that I just realized
something I've been spending the last 20
years of my life in front of a TV said
every night and this is the best time
that I've had and it's not condone let
it happen at borders don't let them
co-op that because they'll do it Delta
you come down have a poetry thing will
even give you borders poetry thing and
you can advertise us on the thing make
your own coffee houses really be be
people of creativity be people of
creativity and and the the thing I'll
end on two notes one is Dante legato
said they want you to be docile they
want you to obey orders and it reminded
me of a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad
peace be upon him in which a group of
men went out and he put one of the men
as an Emir over the others which is a
leader on this journey and this man who
is probably a humorous fellow he told
his capacity see that fire I'm
commanding you to jump into the fire and
they looked at each other and they said
the whole reason we became Muslims was
to save ourselves from the fire
so we're not going to do it he said I'm
the Emir I'm the ruler they said well
let's go back and ask the prophet of God
so they went back to the prophets a
lotta time and they told him the story
and he said laughs at oedema hope and
female theater harlot never obey a
creature if it means disobeying the
Creator never obey a creature if it
means disobeying the Creator and i would
put forth that we are in gross
disobedience of natural laws laws that
are part of nature we're in a state of
disobedience and we need to atone really
we need to redeem ourselves all of these
things that are happening on this planet
I believe that we live in a moral
universe that that there's reasons these
things are having there's reasons why
the ozone has a hole in it there's
reasons why the weather is no longer
like it used to be there's reasons why
you don't see birds and bees anymore in
many parts of of our lands there's
reasons why our forests are disappearing
there's reason why our lakes are poison
and toxic there's reason why our food
now kills 20,000 people in the United
States every year 20,000 people more
than was killed in a year in Vietnam in
their own war statistics are dying from
there there the food they're eating
there's reasons for all these things
because we're out of balance and we've
forgotten what the heavens are the
heavens are order and we need to bring
that order down here and there are many
ways to do that I'm a Muslim and I'm
committed to Islam but there's people in
here that have their wisdom traditions
and if those wisdom traditions are
working for them then the Quran says
yeah a little keytab Lester matter she
had to talking with Tara to it in you o
people of the book you're not on
anything until you practice your Torah
until you practice your gospel guidance
has been given to humanity really
guidance has been given and everybody
agrees on certain basic things except
the control paradigm out there they're
the only ones that don't agree in the
majority of people in in in Canada and
America the majority of people according
to the dominant paradigm statistics
believe in God
believe in an afterlife so why aren't
these things ever even discussed in our
public schools why aren't they even
discussed so my advice to all of you
really is don't obey any creatures if it
means disobeying your Creator and if you
want to know what disobedience your
curator is the prophet said disobedience
to the your Creator is what doesn't feel
right in your heart listen to your heart
listen to your heart I thank you very
much and apologize for going on a little
longer than I probably should have and
and I hope that that you do what the
Quran tells you to do whether you're
Christian or a Jew or a Buddhist or a
Muslim the Quran gives a beautiful piece
of advice and it applies to every human
being Aladin st mirren and philadelphia
to be una asana those who listen to
what's been said and they follow the
best of it thank you very much
you