in Palestine tell them that tell the
muscles that he has come here can
distantly to be in solidarity with
Muslims from the Jewish tradition men
who men won't be known Allah says
amongst a lot they're good people
amongst them and we know that and we
shouldn't demonize the Jews just like we
don't like to be demonized there are
good people amongst we have natural
allies amongst many of the Christians
unfortunately we need to disabuse them
of their attitudes about Islam because
they have been brainwashed over a long
period of time and then we have too many
people in the Muslim world creating so
much commotion there's a lot of
instability but Muslims have been driven
mad by social conditions people talk
about human nature I just want to say
this if you take animals and you put
them in in cages in inhumane conditions
they don't behave like they would in
their natural habitat they begin to tear
each other apart they begin to fight
each other this is what happens this is
my swan song so I might not pay
attention to those little things she's
holding up they might not they might
they don't behave like they would in a
natural environment they start to kill
each other
humanely I lived with human beings I
lived with Bedouins I spent seven years
with Bedouins living in different places
with them I lived with them and I saw
how they interact how they love each
other
I saw how a human being behaves when
he's allowed to be human when you look
in the ghettos and say look at these
animals they're not animals they're
human beings that have been put in
inhumane environments and if you change
their environments you will change their
behavior really you will change their
behavior they're human beings and and
really it would break if dr. King if
Malcolm X could come back and see what's
happened in many of these communities
the degradation the social
disintegration if they could see it they
would weep tears of blood I believe that
I really believe that they would we
years of blood to see and look at the
successful Muslims the successful
african-americans in Hollywood that are
degrading themselves women that were
stripped their ancestors were stripped
of their clothes and now they're paid to
strip their clothes no they should be
honor themselves they've been given the
privilege of honoring themselves in a
society that will allow that now these
are these are the things that trouble me
about this culture and Muslims should be
a spark of hope we should be a beacon of
light not just for people overseas but
for people in this country when they see
the dignity of our dress when they see
the dignity of our behavior when they
see the excellence of our schools when
they see the professionalism of our
doctors of our healers of our lawyers
when they see people that are ethical at
the root and the core and they won't
inform they won't absolve themselves of
those ethical responsibilities then
we'll be a beacon of light and people
will say I want to be like those people
like that man we had a man in a in a
7-eleven store and a man came in with a
pipe I'm trying to steal money from him
and he said to him he took out a gun he
had a gun he pulled out the gun and the
man stopped he dropped the gun and he
said I'm so sorry I'm just desperate I
don't have any food that Muslim man gave
him 20 $40 and made him promise that he
wouldn't steal again and then the man
said this is this is this is something
that you can see because it was filmed
this meal of that man who was robbing
that man said I want to be a Muslim and
he said that she had a right there and
then that's like something you read in
the books because he treated him like a
human being too many people are
denigrated in this culture
you have now a culture that's emerging
where people live in these bubbles and
then other people live in another world
where SWAT teams invade their homes on a
daily basis where their children are
taking away from them because of these
protective services and they don't have
the lawyers that can prevent that from
happening
really there are two Americas that have
emerged the VIP America and the poor
America the middle class has eroded
immensely now you can if you have money
you can drive in the fast lane it didn't
used to be like that in America now if
you go to Disneyland or any of these
amusement parks you have fast tracks
because if you have money you don't have
to wait in line with the peons this is
different from the ideal that was
America so we have a lot of work to do
and finally in conclusion I want to say
to all of you I've heard a lot of
Muslims lately say I'm so depressed I
was in recently in Arabia and I have a
Muslim friend he was a very active
Muslim and I said what are you doing
these days he said no I'm I just I've
given up that's what he said to me he
said I've given up I've had enough you
know if there's no hope I grabbed him
and I shook him literally physically and
people who know me know that I'm very
capable of doing that I shook him and I
said to him what do you mean there's no
hope if you want a bit hopelessness is a
bit we're a religion of hope we live on
hope every time you're depressed or you
say there's no hope what you're saying
to every African that was brought over
in Chains and and survived the
transatlantic crossing and came here and
lived in slavery and marched to get
their civil rights you're saying to them
that was all a waste of time if you're
depressed you're dishonouring all those
Andalusia
who were chased out of what was called
paradise at the time they were chased
out of Andalusia but they made new lives
for themselves in Tunisia in Morocco and
today you have an to the sea and
families that hail from Andalusia just
like you have Palestinians here that
were chased out of their homes your
dishonouring all of those Indians that
migrated to Pakistan with the hope of a
better life
your dishonouring the Afghan ease that
have lived in over 30 years of war and
they're still trying to hold their heads
high we can't do that
there's no room for hope I'm in it till
the last breath I'm in it till the last
breath because in that last breath and I
pray to God that allah subhanho wa taala
gives me on my last breath a shadow and
la ilahe illallah WA ash hadu one
mohammed rasoolallah because I believe
in the promise of God I believe that his
prophet was true I believe that hell is
true and that the fire is true and that
the day of judgment is true and I
testify to the truth of the syrop that
we will be weighed in the balance and
there will be those who are found
wanting and there will be those who are
given grace and there will be the out
strippers these are all true things that
every prophet is taught and I believe in
them and I will hold to them till I die
and the struggle continues this world
was never meant to be paradise God has
created a world that is meant to drive
you to God and if you've been being
driven to the devil
you've been doomed my friends because
all of the hardships that you suffer in
your life if you believe in God you will
find those rewards on the day of
judgement I was in Abu Dhabi and a taxi
driver said to me and I'm done I was in
Abu Dhabi a taxi driver said to me I
said where are you from he said Dada and
I said to him I hope that your family's
safe he said the house caved in on them
my father was killed he said to me I've
worked 12 years every month I sent
everything I could back to my father to
build that house and it was destroyed I
feel like my whole life is a waste I
said to me a fee Vanara BIA testing
behind the law what law he Kentucky
bitterlin deewana dig you were in filial
piety to your parents believed in the
promise of allah subhanho wa taala
what you're doing is not to build in
this world when Ben le habia dunya
Sahaba Medina if you build for this
world what you build will go to not we
build for the next world not for this
world and if what we built if if my
college in California is destroyed by an
earthquake so be it so be it but we are
builders for the akhira and this is the
place we do it
Jews ah Kamala hey Thomas anomaly