like is it's not an ethnic struggle you
see it's not an ethnic struggle it has
an ethnic component to it because the
majority of our peoples are off-white
so it does have an ethnic component I
will not deny that but Dr Omar and I are
living proof and evidence that it's not
entirely ethnic although I somebody
wants at this Protestant lady from
England she kept saying how did you
become Muslim how did you become us and
she kept crying and crying and this is
well what were you before and I said
well I was Christians Jesus what what
branch and I said well actually I was
baptized Greek Orthodox I'm a quarter
Greek she said all of course in other
words a Greek you know of course makes
sense they're almost like Turks anyway
right I mean we stole their I grew up
thinking baklawa
baklava I thought that was Greek I was
proud that Greek least we make good
pastry we don't have a Socrates anymore
but we make good pastry and then I found
out it's all Arabic but the Arabs got it
from the Persians series and feta cheese
I thought feta cheese was Greek that's
what I grew up thinking Greek feta it's
feta it's crumbling cheese and then even
the dancing I had to learn Greek dancing
when I was because I was part of what
you did at church I mean you didn't do
it in church you did it but I had to do
that and uh and then I realized as
Lebanese dancing I thought it was Greek
and I was just learning Lebanese dancing
and then we had worry beads
I had worry beads seriously I was I
literally was given worry beads and why
they call them worry beads because when
Greeks worry they pull out their beads
because they used to see the Muslims
always doing them whenever they got
worried they pulled out their beads but
the Greeks just flipped them around they
don't actually do think oh so it just
makes them worry more but it's good for
the worry beads sellers the people that
sell worry beads make a bundle because
everybody's worrying and increasingly so
that in fact Muslims should start
importing those things right
you work 911
ever tried worried beats the Muslim
struggle Allah Allah kobato this is
amazing these people we should everybody
should know if I want to see yato
Mahmood on the cover of Time magazine
I'm serious I want to see them on the
cover of Time magazine a cover sir
because time does historical stories
they've had Native Americans Columbus I
want to see y'all on my mood or I'm up
inside I want to see people have to know
about these people and it's our duty
that these names are in every history
book in this country because these were
great men look at the composition here
24% Arabs and the majority of Arabs in
this country are Christian and we also
have an alliance with those people we
should recognize that and then we have
South Asians Europeans 2% 32% and then
African American what and what a
wonderful pie it's humble pie
I mean to all the island out of our
world law whoever humbles himself for
Allah Allah will elevate him so let us
be a humble pie right instead of having
to eat crow or Jim Crow people don't get
those jokes because they didn't grow up
with all that stuff that we got when we
were young Jim Crow you should know Jim
Crow other phase my goodness
but look at that slice right on top and
and I'll tell you something that slice
is getting bigger
because the other the other part of that
circle is hungry they're hungry and I'll
tell you something about the struggle
the only thing that makes struggle real
is God everything else is just empty and
false and that's the truth and that's
the power of Martin Luther King the
power of Martin Luther King is that he
struggled he always men
in God he ultimately was a preacher and
he was calling people to the moral
conscious a moral component in them and
reminded them constantly that we hold
these shoes to be self-evident that all
men are created equal and are endowed by
their creator and that's Providence that
that is in the founding document of this
country that is Providence and this is
Naji Lefou law this is the first person
killed in the United Farm Workers
struggle a Palestinian and this is what
Muslims should be doing we should be at
the forefront of what is right not
because it involves Muslims but because
it involves the conflict between right
and wrong and we should always be on the
side of right because the side of right
is the side of Islam that is the side of
right it is the side of Islam and
Muslims stand by right and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in a
sound hadith on that if anyone is
treacherous to a limb me which is a
person of a non Muslim faith according
to Imam attic it can be any faith not
just Abrahamic faiths but any faith
Buddhists can be the immune and that has
been the active practice of our
tradition he said if anyone is
treacherous to within me any Muslim
oppressors are than me I will be the
them knees advocate on the day of
judgement our prophets on the lightest
and will stand next to the non-muslim
against the Muslim because we are not
about tribe we are about principle and
if the principle goes against the tribe
we say goodbye to tribe and that's the
truth and that is Islam and we have to
be witnesses unto humanity for the sake
of Allah well o Allah music on
even if it
against yourselves and we've got plenty
to testify against in our community too
much but it's time that we stop being in
denial or pretending people say to me
you shouldn't tell people about the
problems of the Muslims don't say that
to the non-muslim they read it every
single day in their newspapers they see
it in the in the Muslim world constantly
and when we sit there and pretend like
these things aren't happening we look
like fools we look like hypocritical
lying fools and they see right through
us and it's people that will stand up
for the truth in spite of all these
things that will be recognized as people
that those people want to listen to and
ultimately that is what we want we want
the ears because the ears are the
inroads to the hearts and if you shout
at them they'll plug their ears just
like anybody that goes into a room with
the music's too loud they cover their
ears if you're shoutings too loud
they'll cover their ears like Ralph
Waldo Emerson said I'm sorry I can't
hear you your actions are shouting much
louder than your words and that's the
truth and then our shaheed that I him oh
Allah this noble man that died because
he was a man of principle like Dr Omar
said that I him o Allah may Allah in
noble his face and elevate him in the
highest ranks of the people of paradise
and his wife who died - ahed in a fire
because the death of fire is the death
of a Shaheed and how fitting for the
wife of such a great Shaheed to die a
Shaheed his wife Betty Shabab oh that
was Malcolm right Malik Shiva al Hajj
Matic Shabazz said America needs to
understand Islam because this is the one
religion that erases from its society
the race problem why is this still
significant because this problem is
still deeply significant in this country
the problem has not gone away and we are
facing it today as a community this is
the fundamental problem after faith
itself if you look at it beliefs the
disease of beliefs was you created me
from fire and air you created him from
mud on a high dome in who that is the
devil and anyone that says that is a
demon anyone that thinks he's better
than anyone else because you don't know
and if you come into a room and think
you're better than anyone in that room
you're a fool that's a fool who has that
attitude because only I'll not super
Hannah without a nose and even a beggar
on the street might be better in the
eyes of Allah subhana wa tada
then the worshipful person in the moss
only Allah knows that and we are not
allowed to judge people's inner
realities and that's why race is
something that needs to be eradicated
and it is the Muslims
according to Arnold Toynbee the
extraordinary English historian it is
the Muslims that can offer a solution to
European and Western peoples to the race
problem which he wrote in his his essay
Islam in the West he said that we can
learn from the Muslims and benefit from
them and the two primary things that we
can learn from them is the solution to
our race problem because he believed
that the world was heading to an
inevitable race rate race war if
something was not done and we are here
to stand as obstacles to people that
want to see that to the war mongers out
there
we're here to stand as obstacles to that
because we are people of peace and Imams
aid shackle may Allah preserve him said
it would be one of the greatest
travesties of history if the Muslims are
torn and separated and sunk into the
quagmire of racism ourselves and if we
as Muslims that any force Muslim
some transform us into races who are
incapable of bringing this message to
America we have betrayed Islam and we
have betrayed Malcolm and that is why we
cannot allow race to be an issue we are
a people of meritocracy may the best
Dawa win and may the best in sin and if
it's a woman then let arise if a woman
is more capable let arise and this is an
age when the women are making the men
look pathetic I'm serious they come with
notebooks they there you don't have to
remind them to sit up with comportment
I'm really serious it's the women and
I'm not just saying this to make the
women feel good but I want to see the
man well V that ik affiliate NFS and
with the Nephi soon I want to see you
outdo these women and prove that you
deserve two to one in inheritance laws
I'm serious really prove it and you're
certainly worthy of it you young men all
of you I look at you and I see a
potential in this country really to go
out there and transform this country
there are a hundred and fifty thousand
members of MSA is that what it is 150
thousand how many and how many members
around fifty thousand
okay we always exaggerate so let's say a
hundred thousands there's a hundred
thousand MSA members and if there are
then let's make it so I was with a
afghani group a couple of weeks ago and
we and we were in a one of these Rancho
type places where you go ride horses and
I actually hungry like grew up riding
horses because my grandfather was a
horseman had a cattle ranch as well and
so I'm not a great writer but I can ride
ands and those horses that they rent out
are so broken down you don't have to
worry about it anyway
so I said let's go right hood then I
looked at I said do you know how to ride
horses and one of them he kind of did a
feta thing he said do we know how to
ride we're Afghan ease of course we know
how to ride horses and if we don't know
we'll pretend we know and that should be
your spirit well lie that should be your
spirit to go out there and and if you
don't have a hundred thousand members
pretend you have a hundred thousand
members and four dollars and a biscuit a
so a latte and a biscuit a is how much
moulay seven dollars seven dollars a day
right those would college students do
they go down and have a cafe and seven
dollars seven dollars a day huh
you can you do that I mean seriously
that's over two hundred dollars
give-give by your latte away for the
sake of allah subhana wa ta'ala if
everybody did that you know how much
money you'd have you can go back to
drinking after a couple of years that's
a not yeah not the other kind
don't do that that's what they said
people and I was in New Jersey and I was
saying that I would prefer that they
allowed marijuana to be smoking on
airplanes than alcohol because marijuana
cools people out alcohol gets him riled
up and they get belligerent because I
was on a plane where this man was drunk
he was very belligerent to the
stewardess and I told her you know they
could really solve this problem
just pass out joints for people that
want them and now and they'll just kind
of chill out right they might get the
munchies and want a couple extra bags of
peanuts but basically they'll be cool
calm and collected and and it's a double
high because you're 30,000 feet up there
so I said I'm worried there I said I'm
worried they're gonna say my mom says
promoting marijuana use so I'm not
promoting marijuana use don't use it
don't abuse it don't use it stay away
from it and and don't be like you know
the guy that said I never inhaled and
don't go to places where they smoke and
you inhale right I didn't smoke any but
it's called secondary smoke when you
hang out with people that are doing that
I don't want to do that all right so
stay away from that may Allah give you
all tell field and increase you and make
you fit Y on the allah subhana wa ta'ala
when he mentioned the the people of feta
is our 250th we led cap when they went
to the cave and that's what you have to
do you have to go cave of iman in the
midst of this plane of jaliyah
go to the cave of iman which is in your
heart there's a hollow space in your
heart and that is a cave and seek refuge
in that cave and safe Apollo Robyn a
Tina min ladunka Rama as for the grace
of Allah that's what the fit you do they
asked for the grace of Allah well yeah
then I'm an MD now Rashad ah and guide
us to do the right thing and then when
they came out of the cave what did they
say they told them vibrato a Hadouken
bwaaaah Tacoma Holly Hill and Medina
send a some of you with this money to
the city and then what does and he says
for young for you has kappa amma make
sure your food is pure because that's
that which will give you spiritual
strength is pure and halal food and
that's very important that that's in
there about the fit an and then also
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says when he
mentions them he tells them fedia Talib
buff and let him be gentle and take care
don't go out belligerent don't go out
with anger anger and perturb states are
not the states of people that have
Sakina in their hearts don't go out
angry if you go if you demonstrate
demonstrate with dignity
never shout in a demonstration I'm Syria
it's not a Sunnah don't shout don't
shout
Huckabee if people don't know what that
means you scared them and really and
it's not it's not good to scare people
don't let any of you cause them to know
who you are why because they'll stone
you and try to force you back into their
min la so be careful because you might
get tribulations that you can't bear and
there are reports of suicides in
Guantanamo Bay you don't want to get
tribulations that you cannot bear it's
not the Sunnah of the Muslims if they
can avoid those type of things they
don't put themselves in the line of
tribulation
if they come to them then may Allah give
all of us perseverance to take what
comes from Allah subhana wa tada but he
may give us may he give us wisdom to
avoid what does not need to come there's
a camel ahead on was Salam alaykum Salam
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