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We explore the Bangladeshi revolution, examining its implications for the country's political landscape. We also look at how online misinformation, similar to the distorted narratives of the October 7 event, fueled tensions in the UK following a tragic stabbing attack. We analyze these events through the lens of faith and justice, offering insights and reflections on how to navigate the complex web of truth and falsehood in today's world.
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00:00As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah. Welcome everybody to our live stream program here at Yaqeen Institute. I'm your host Imam Tom. And boy do we have a show for you. We have revolution going on in Bangladesh. Congratulations to our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh.
00:14And we pray for your success. We're going to be unpacking it and talking about it. Super exciting. We have in the UK, there's horrible riots going on. Anti-Islamic riots, anti-Muslim riots, anti-immigrant riots. We're going to talk about that.
00:28We also have a revamped version of our ilm segment where we're going to be transitioning to talk about tafsir. And we've got some cool questions and polls and some things that you probably don't know to talk about there.
00:41And finally we'll be getting into our self-development book, which is Atomic Habits, with some really interesting activities and reflections about environment.
00:49And the role that environment plays on your habits. But first, let's go to the chat. Let's see who we have viewing with us tonight.
00:56Drop us a line where you're from. And if there's anything on your mind, I know I've already taken a peek and I see that Bangladesh is in the house.
01:04Great to see everyone from Bangladesh and Bangladeshi diaspora in the comments. Rahima Armstrong from Cardiff, Wales.
01:18As-salamu alaykum. Welcome to the program. Asadullah Al-Ghalib from Bangladesh. Alhamdulillah. Thanks to Allah that saved you from the dictator. Alhamdulillah. Allah is capable.
01:30And you know your name Al-Ghalib, if I understand it correctly, if I'm correct here. La ghaliba illallah. That there is no one who can prevail except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And there's so many benefits to take from what's going on. Not that we're out of the woods yet.
01:44Everything is peachy and easy now. And it's a critical time, as everybody in Bangladesh knows. However, we have reason to celebrate our successes.
01:53Shahroz, wa alaykum as-salam. Rafatullah. Very good. Welcome to the program. Let's see. I have not yet learned how to read Bengali, so I can't pronounce that username.
02:05But yes, they kill a lot of people. We'll be talking about sort of the lead up to the events. I was able to have some communication back and forth this week with some people who are actually regular viewers of the show that kind of gave me some further background and detail about the political history of Bangladesh
02:18and the Hasina Sheikh regime and all the crimes that were committed. So we'll be talking about a little bit of that as well.
02:27Nazia Ali Shah, wa alaykum as-salam. Welcome to the program. Yes, congratulations to the people of Bangladesh.
02:33Safina Kausar, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. I really appreciate the back and forth between Safina and some of the other folks in the chat that are pointing out.
02:43We're going to talk about this as well. So Safina cautions people, requests to Bengali brothers and sisters to not harm minorities and allow the sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ) to guide all the decisions we take.
02:55And some responses to that in the chat about how this is a trope. This is a narrative that is pushed, especially in India, especially by the Indian government,
03:04in order to justify intervention violation of Bangladesh's sovereignty and establish its garrison state and its puppet regime. We will talk about that as well. Here we go. Yes. And so Shamim Haque, she intervenes and says,
03:18no one is harming minorities. On the contrary, that Muslims are giving them protection. And that is very good to hear. And we're not surprised by it. Bidayah Pete brought up a great point.
03:30Most amazing part of this extraordinary revolution is that a fully equipped government with all its armed forces have severely failed against unarmed youths. Subhanallah, victory is for the brave. 100 percent. Great comment there.
03:42Mrs. S, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah, tells us that you enjoyed the interview on Islam 21C. Alhamdulillah, I'm glad that you benefited and thought it was interesting and informative.
03:52May we all benefit and unite upon what is true. Dr. Salman and I had a great time together in Malaysia.
04:00And interviewing is something that wherever we've done, I think we've had three interviews in three places. I was with him and now even more than that, we keep on running across each other. And he's a lovely brother. May Allah preserve him.
04:14Rahman Balok, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Looks like he got cut off there. Jannatul Mawwameem, so I appreciate your comment, Janna. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah from Bangladesh as well.
04:26About how you made to point out your other comment, Muslims are guarding the minorities. Don't worry. They want to spread rumors. We're going to talk about this. Don't listen to them. For example, some Muslims are guarding the Hindu temples just to protect them.
04:40Thank you very much for that comment. I appreciate that. Pestify from the Maldives. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Good to have you back. I am Sameeha. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah from Dallas, Texas. I will be in Dallas for a very, very short time on Saturday, insha'Allah, for the MSA National slash Qalam event.
04:54And whatever else I have time for. So if you're able to come through, come through. Aqadri from SoCal. Wa alaykum as-salam. Good to have you back. MB from Hershey, Pennsylvania. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Don't eat too much chocolate.
05:07Yes, Rahma. So you're from Durham, North Carolina. Hope to get down there sometime soon. And yes, congratulations. I echo your wishes of congratulations to our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh. May Allah allow us to witness the liberation of Palestine, insha'Allah.
05:21And these two things are related. They are related. And we will talk about it. And that is why some of the interesting and powerful images come out of Bangladesh in the last week. You have many of the protesters, many of the young people having Palestine flags right next to Bangladesh.
05:34Flags right next to flags that have the Shahada on them. Very, very interesting and important things that are going on. Percept Wisdom. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Sariha Ahmed from Atlanta. MashaAllah. Atlanta in the house. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah.
05:48Momof2 from New Jersey. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Which part of New Jersey, Momof2? I'm a Jersey guy. Aqadri says, my younger brother's birthday today. 39. Allahu Akbar.
05:59May Allah give him many more healthy and happy years. Ameen. Ya Rabb. Shorbon. Woop Woop. Indeed. Sara. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. From Canada. Welcome to the program. Atia Amir from Pakistan. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah.
06:12KB from London. London Sharif. Wa alaykum as-salam. I hope you're well, KB. I hope that things are going good for you. May Allah protect you and all our brothers and sisters in the UK. Shorbon also from New Jersey. Wa alaykum as-salam. If you're tuning in from New Jersey, you have to tell me where.
06:26Tayyiba Chowdhury. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. We have Sara from California. Welcome to the program. Naf Khan from Bangladesh. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. And congratulations. Congratulations are for everybody because we're one ummah.
06:40Aminata Ngobdiop. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Happy to have you back with us again from Atlanta. Chris M. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. From Minneapolis. Welcome to the program.
06:54Nusayb Qasim. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Yes. Hope all is well. Phew. What a saga. Saga's not over, Nusayba. Saga's not over. We ask Allah for khair.
07:06Sara asks. I always expect the hard, meaty questions to come from Sara at this point. Are there any valid critiques towards halak? Of course. Everybody. There's valid critiques to everybody. Nobody is ma'sum.
07:18Also, nationalism, patriotism, a proper definition of them. Okay. That's interesting. Let's shelve that for a second. I'll try to come back to that. That's a good. I like the way you're thinking though.
07:30So Abjeel says, Ya Allah, don't allow corruption to exist anymore. Anywhere anymore. Allahumma ameen. Beautiful du'a. Shafi'ul-Islam. Divine intervention was the sole reason. The cause, tremor in the hearts of those in power in the country.
07:43Alhamdulillah. Allahu Akbar. Well said. Allah has the ability and he tells us this in the Qur'an. He tells us this in other, in many of the surahs.
07:52That Allah is the one who can place fear in people's hearts or take it away. And you'll see when Allah describes some of the battles that the early Muslims had to face. He describes it in terms of removing fear from their hearts.
08:06Such as at Badr and elsewhere. And placing fear in the hearts of the disbelievers and the enemies of Islam. Yes. Let's see. What do we have? Yes, Tayyabah Chaudry. We do. We make du'a for Bangladesh.
08:20We ask for Allah's protection and aid and help and for their success. A. Ali. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Good. Excellent.
08:33Seamus. Welcome back. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Yeah. That's a point. That's a point. Seamus has a point there. There's a larger discussion for sure.
08:44And unfortunately, this is how sometimes things get polarized, right? You have people reacting to policies. And so sometimes these things run out of control.
08:58Anam Ali from Dallas. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Zayshan Milana. From Richardson, Texas. Bengali from Richardson, Texas.
09:12I'll be in your area this week insha'Allah. Ameen wa alaykum. Alhamdulillah. Richardson was lovely. I had a very pleasant experience there. Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless you and may Allah accept from us. Yes. We'll talk about that Jannatul Mawah.
09:27The rumors and how they function. Is that Ash 1KH. Wa alaykum as-salam from Bangladesh. I love how many people are tuning in this week from Bangladesh. I'm so happy that you're with us.
09:41It's true Seamus brings up a good point. Bengalis should study Egyptian and Sudanian revolutions and not make the same mistakes. We have to learn and we have to learn fast. That's definitely true. A lot of these things are happening in real time. And we can't afford to not learn fast.
09:55Let's just put it that way. Ahmed Salim, official in the house. Welcome. Ahlan wa Sahlan. Atlanta's finest. MashaAllah.
10:08Good to have you with us Shaykh. I'm hoping to come down to Atlanta some point before too long. It's been too long already. May Allah bless you and your family. Imam Ahmed Salim, a well-known figure in Atlanta. And before that Canada.
10:22Mom of two from Union. That's a bit far away from my neck of the woods. When will this start? It's already started Jannatul Mawah. We're going to get there. Insha'Allah. Ismat Barakat. We have to collect all the folks around.
10:35Especially the people tuning in from Bangladesh. We've got Ismat Barakat from Dhaka. Wa alaykum as-salam. Okay. Shorbone from Howell. Very good. Okay. Jannatul Mawah. Wow. Awesome. From Dhaka. Very good.
10:52Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Dirsi from Los Gatos, California. Very good. Welcome. Wa alaykum as-salam. Rasul Islam. Looks like the politics are here in the chat.
11:09Yeah. Well, you know. Listen. We'll get into a bit of it. We're not going to be able to give an exhaustive treatment of it. And people are going to disagree for sure. But there's a certain structure
11:20to the way that the Muslim majority countries are being managed by India and the likes. And we need to shine light on that structure and challenge it. Wa alaykum as-salam. Mowdu. Barrow from The Gambia. Welcome. Muhammad Omar. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah Ariana.
11:34Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah from Bangladesh. Welcome to the program. Ameen. Salahuddin is my hero. Ameen. Okay. Salahuddin gets right into it. What are your thoughts analysis on Sinwar?
11:48I'm just going to say this. I'm just going to say this Salahuddin. That Israel assassinating Haniyeh to get Sinwar just demonstrates the arrogance and the foolishness of Israel.
12:02And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take care of the rest. Carol Ann Duggan. Wa alaykum as-salam from Ireland. I think I might know you. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. That last name sounds familiar.
12:16Halima Nasser. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Shahroz asks about Islamic education. We might get to that but probably not. There's a lot of other things to talk about.
12:29Sarah Pinkadel. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. It's good to see you again. I remember I think a few episodes ago you were with us. Obaidullah Haley. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. Jahangir Ahmed. British Bangladeshi. Watching from the UK. Welcome to the program.
12:42Human. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. I'm trying to run to the end of the comments so we can get into it because I know that everybody wants to talk about the nitty gritty. So I'll just say a quick wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. To everybody and let's get into it.
12:56So the first issue we want to talk about. I will get to the rest of the comments. Don't worry. We'll go back to them. So revolution in Bangladesh. As we already see in the comments, things are very divided. But I think that we have to celebrate our successes
13:10and look at the positive, especially when we understand the structure of these post-colonial states that exist in the Muslim countries, the Muslim-majority countries all across the world,
13:19and how it has hindered our capacity for action on Palestine. And somebody in the comments was talking about, Hasina Sheikh did this for Palestine and that for Palestine. And I would say, what? Let's talk specifics.
13:33Are we talking about lip service? Are we talking about actual action? We have anything sort of boycotts, any sort of diplomatic punishment? What were the actual policies? Let's get into the specifics if we want to get into specifics. The reality is that the majority of the countries,
13:47the nation states that are set up across the Muslim world are meant to control the Muslims and keep them down and keep them from uniting as an Ummah, especially to keep them from liberating Palestine. So anyway, in the past week, again, I was mentioning that some of the people who tune into this program regularly
14:01were in conversation with me via email and otherwise, educating me a bit about the history of Bangladeshi politics, about what the movement really sort of began as just talking about the quota system,
14:14but really it became a much larger movement with a much larger cause. That Hasina Sheikh was somebody who weaponized the framework of the war on terror after 9/11
14:26and even Islamophobia and Islamophobic tropes in order to do the bidding of India and Bangladesh. And I don't think that that's very controversial. I know people personally here in the United States
14:38who are Bangladeshi, who have relatives that have been arrested or killed by the Hasina Sheikh regime. Okay, so that's not fake news. That's not made up. This was a person who was a dictator.
14:51This is a person who was relentless against her opponents and used the war on terror framework and anti-Islamic tropes in order to basically cover up for what she was doing. That anybody that was opposed to her,
15:05and we can critique, this is not to paint in a 100% positive light anything that this group and that group, I know some people are going to say, oh, Jamaat-e-Islami or this group or whatever, they have their own excesses. Nobody's perfect. This is politics.
15:18But two wrongs don't make a right. The type of brutal crackdown and oppression that Bangladeshis have suffered under this regime is not justified by even any of the, let's say, excesses or possible excesses
15:31or alleged excesses of some of the other groups that were on the ground. Especially understanding that, I think it's very significant to notice that, and we can run the images, guys, like the other images that we have to show,
15:46where did Sheikh Hasina flee to when she was given 45 minutes to leave the country and resign? She left to India. That is very significant. It's not incidental. It's not accidental.
16:00Hasina Sheikh, for all intents and purposes, was India's person on the ground controlling, managing Bangladesh. That Bangladesh was a garrison state, like many of the other Muslim nation states
16:13or garrison states, not just once but twice over. A garrison state for India and the BJP, the Hindutva narrative and the secularizing narrative and the anti-Islamic narrative,
16:24and was also with the approval of the United States. Two birds, one stone. The former regime in Bangladesh was doing the bidding of both India and the United States.
16:36There were tons of issues of violations of sovereignty when it came to Bangladeshi sovereignty and Indian encroachment upon Bangladeshi sovereignty. So we see here something that is remarkable,
16:49a popular movement, a youth movement that rose up and put its foot down even though they didn't have, as some of our viewers pointed out, they didn't have guns, they didn't have weapons, they didn't have anything. All they had were numbers and courage
17:03and faith in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah 'azza wa jalla gave them assistance. Now, these things are very, very sensitive. And the specter of violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh
17:16has been a trope, okay, that has been used to justify the policies of the previous regime and also to justify Indian meddling into Bangladesh itself, which is not to say that no instance is ever true.
17:30But as somebody who's very familiar with the history of politics in the United States, it is also true that agent provocateurs is the easiest thing in the world for a government to put somebody in plain clothes and go have them attack somebody
17:43to make it look like a certain thing is happening. And that's not to say that that's every single situation, but definitely we know that this is something that governments do. So the important thing is that we are in a super critical time in Bangladesh and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
17:57to grant the people of Bangladesh success and safety and courage to not go down, as one of our viewers pointed out, the way of the mistaken way of some of the previous revolutions where things got out of hand or things became paranoid
18:11or things that you end up becoming the oppressor trying to avenge the wrongs of what happened before. We hope that they are able to keep cool heads
18:21and build a truly representative Islamic society that delivers justice and the best outcomes for everybody. Now, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he says something in the Qur'an, a very, very significant verse.
18:35Let's cut to it guys. He says in Surah Al-Isra, وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا An amazing ayah, which always I think should play in our minds when we think we look back just a few weeks ago,
18:49the regime of Sheikh Hasina seems maybe impossible to topple, just as at some point, the Zionists or the Zionist occupation of Palestine
19:00seems unstoppable or a certain sort of political force seems unstoppable. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promised us something very significant, that truth will always prevail.
19:11Falsehood will always perish and truth will always prevail. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just wants to see who is going to support his cause, right? So the fact that falsehood is going to fall is already predetermined.
19:25What side are you going to be on? Are you going to be a person who's sort of a coward and tried to save your own neck, right? Or worse than that, collaborated with the oppressors and did whatever they asked you to do? Or are you going to be somebody who stood tall
19:38and was part of the group that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave his aid and assistance to? That was an instrument of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in ending falsehood. This was actually one of the ayat.
19:51And it was interesting as we saw the video of the statues being torn down, right? These statues. And if we want to, you know, these are the idols of nationalism. We'll just put it plain. These are the idols of nationalism, right?
20:06We know that this type of statue making is already haram in Islam, right, religiously, let alone the sort of hero worship and cult-like hero worship that this is sort of, this is not anything to be proud of, any sort of statues like this, whether it's in Bangladesh or any other country, okay?
20:21So the idols of nationalism being smashed in Bangladesh, this was the same ayah that the Prophet (ﷺ) recited when he cleaned out the Ka'bah from the idols of the Quraysh, when he took them and smashed them with his bare hands.
20:34And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow us to cleanse all of the idols, both the explicit external and the implicit internal idols that all of us carry in our hearts and in our countries.
20:48Now, the fact that she fled to India, we have another verse here that came to mind. We can cut to that guys in Surat Al-Anfal, right? وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ إِلَّا تَفْعَلُوهُ تَكُونْ فِتْنَةٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ I find this verse very, very instructive.
21:03Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, those who disbelieve, they are allies and supports of one another. If you do not act likewise, meaning if you don't unite people of truth, believers, ummah, if you don't unite like they are uniting,
21:17then there will be oppression in the world and great corruption. You see the Hindutva regime, Modi's regime in India, being able to unite with the Hasina Sheikh regime in Bangladesh and be able to coordinate
21:31and look at the type of fasad and fitna that they have caused for decades, okay? So if you don't unite, if we don't unite, all the brothers and sisters in Bangladesh, all of us here across the world, across the ummah, if we don't unite,
21:45what kind of harm and mayhem is going to result from that? So we see that this is extremely significant. The ability to be united as an ummah and to stand up for what is right. And finally, and we'll end on this point when it comes to Bangladesh, before getting to the comments, I know you're gonna have a million comments
22:00and some of you are gonna hate my guts and some of you are gonna say that I'm wrong and I don't know what I'm talking about, which is true. But when we talk about solidarity for Palestine, I challenge anybody to tell me what the Sheikh regime did for Palestine,
22:12concrete, because the genocide still happened, the quote unquote two state solution, the quote unquote peace process, the actual literal de facto selling out of Palestine still took place under the watch of that regime. Okay, what were their sanctions imposed?
22:27Were there boycotts? Were there, like, what was going on? Especially if it was working in cahoots with the regime, the current regime in India. Let's talk specifics, right? These particular types of regimes, just like we have in Jordan,
22:41just like we have in Egypt, just like we have in, yes, in Saudi Arabia, just like we have in many, many other places, Morocco, just like we have in many, many other countries in the Muslim world,
22:52they have stopped the Muslim Ummah from helping Palestine. They have prevented us. They have tied our hands. They have threatened us with imprisonment. They have threatened us with torture. They have intercepted any sort of aid
23:06or any sort of attempt to alleviate the people of Palestine. This is what they were designed to do. Now, this is what a garrison state means. It means that it's a state that has set up in order to keep the people under control, to keep them divided, to keep them fighting. And as long as that is our reality,
23:21then we will not have the capacity that we need as an Ummah to do anything for Palestine. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala aid us. Let's hit the comments. Let's see what people are saying. I know we're gonna stir the pot a bit here, but we don't stray away from that.
23:38Okay, we see Sharjah says, even today some goons have been attacking different parts of Dhaka at night in groups. The people on army have been on watch. It's 6:20 a.m. right now. Things have eased, but just now. So it's very, very difficult in these times. There's gonna be a lot of chaos.
23:52People are going to be acting with different types of motivations. There are false flag operations. There are PSYOPs. There are fake news. We're gonna talk about fake news in a second when we get to the UK and this whole sort of powder keg
24:04that exploded with the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim riots that are going on. It all started because of fake news. So we see that this is a very, very, very important and sensitive thing.
24:17So we see that in times of fitna, the Prophet (ﷺ) told us what to do. In times of fitna, you try to stay put. Yes, we want to alleviate and end oppression. Yes, we want to build a better society, but you can't act hasty.
24:31You have to verify things. As Shaykh said, this is Ashik Khan. Okay, we have outcasted fascism from Bangladesh, but at what cost? I often ask. I found out that Dr. Muhammad Yunus is running Grameen America Foundation,
24:46which is a prime donor of Israel. Yeah, that's a really important point. I'm glad that you brought that up. The post-revolution period is extremely critical, right? There are always multiple factions, multiple motivations that are behind the ouster
25:00of any previous oppressive regime. Some of those actors are benevolent. They're sincere. Some of them are not. Some of them are trying to save their own skin. Some of them are trying to establish something new that looks new,
25:15but really is going to be a continuation of the old, okay? The critical moment that you're in here is trying to outmaneuver and outflank each other when it comes to this. So that's why the people of Bangladesh need our du'a now more than ever,
25:29to come out on the other side with having something genuinely different, something genuinely just, and something that is genuinely pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. All right. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah.
25:43Yossi Evelina from Indonesia. Welcome. Car 13A asked, salam, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah, do you think she still has a chance to repent of the door of Allah's?
25:56No, of course, everybody has a chance to repent. She's not on her deathbed yet, but there's a difference between someone repenting to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and someone receiving the consequences of what they've done.
26:08Those two things are not mutually exclusive. You can oust the oppressor and we hope the oppressor repents, but we're not gonna wait around for the oppressor to repent before we get rid of them.
26:26Okay, who else do we have? Munif. Arabic always comes out very, very small. So I can't really see it. Ashik is asking fascism out and Zionism in.
26:40Is it? I wouldn't say so far, but hopefully not. But that's something for the people of Bangladesh have to figure that out now. They have to make sure that those sorts of forces don't come in and take control.
26:54Good point from No. There you go, Jenna to the Moa meem, 100%. She can repent anytime for death. Yes, Sada. Welcome, alhamdulillah. Glad to have you back. Sada says, your thoughts on trying to have a discussion
27:08with the dissident right, or do you think that it'd be like shooting ourselves in the foot? I'm guessing you're talking about the UK. We'll talk about it, insha'Allah, in a bit. Shahnaz Ahmed, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah, from Florida. Welcome.
27:23Mowdo, wants to speak to me personal. Well, this is not a personal livestream. You can send any emails to imamtomfacchine at gmail.com. Mustafa Hamid, wa alaykum as-salam from Bangladesh. Congratulations to you, sir.
27:37Nope, from the Midwest. Midwest is a little general. Nope, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah, we're in the Midwest. You're talking about Wisconsin? You're talking about Chicago? You're talking about... Shameless is a good point.
27:51Ahmed, Malaysian in California. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah, salamat datang. Welcome. Hope you're well. KB, we are definitely making du'a out for the UK. Things are very tense right now, and I've seen some horrific videos. Many riots happening right now,
28:05and they are being targeted towards Muslims and ethnic minorities. In fact, one of the Shaykhs that many of us are, is one of our colleagues, Fatima Barakatullah, posted some really scary stuff, harrowing stuff,
28:18about something that she experienced today, where people threatening her life and things like that. So, very worrying times indeed, and we do pray for peace and all the people of the UK, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters are definitely in our prayers.
28:32Salam gives us salam, wa alaykum as-salam. Shameless, yes, okay. Watching from Cardiff. Shara Bangla, the tiger, allahu akbar. Nice username there. Ahmed, yes, that's correct. Very good.
28:46Iqbal Hussain, from Bangladesh. I'm so happy to have so many people from Bangladesh watching this program today. May Allah elevate all of you. Here we go, Mohammed Abdullah says,
28:59every anti-national agreement made by fascist Hasina with the Modi government will be revoked. Hasina killed so many university students, but in the end, the students ousted her. Walillahil hamd. فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاءُ وَالْأَرْضُ
29:12As Allah says in the Qur'an. Right, we hope for their repentance. But when the oppressor is punished by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an,
29:26and the heavens and the earth didn't cry for them. The heavens and the earth didn't cry for them. So you shouldn't necessarily either. Ameen, Sharjeel.
29:40Yes, 100%, Sada, lip service. Yeah, it's possible. It's possible, Seamus, yeah. Yes, Sada, that's great. I've got that in my watch later list. I haven't been able to see it yet,
29:55but Dilly from Five Pillars, shout out to Dilly and our brothers in the UK, did a really good video on it, on the thinking Muslim. Yes, that's in my things to do.
30:11People making great points. Yep, Sada, she did try to get into the UK. The UK denied her and so did the US, and I find that rich, which shows you that crime doesn't pay, Sada. It shows you that crime doesn't pay.
30:23Trying to align yourself with US interests or UK interests or being a puppet, you're getting played, right? You might succeed for a little bit, but in the end, crime doesn't pay. They will abandon you. They will abandon you because they only use you
30:37for however long they think you're useful for. Obey the law, yep, hit it on the head. Very good, people making great comments. Seamus, you're also right.
30:52India told her to leave as well. So we have no idea where she's going to go. However, it is significant that she was let into India, and India was her idea of where to go.
31:10Good points by Nusaybah, awesome. Yep, there's this sort of, that's a great point, Nusaybah. I'm glad that you brought that up. Calling people wartime traitors, this type of thing, everything was sort of the manipulation of any type of rhetoric
31:25in order to punish your political opponents. That's what we saw from the Hasina regime. There we go, people dropping facts. MashaAllah, Muhammad Abdullah, thank you for educating us.
31:44A lot of people turned the war on terror into a grift. That's one thing we gotta know. One thing why I tell Muslims in the United States that one of the most important things we can do is to change the foreign policy of the United States from within, because the war on terror became a grift
31:59for many, many dictators across the world. They realized that all they had to do was call their opponents terrorists, and then they could get blank checks from the United States and from the Western governments to do whatever they wanted, horrible oppression. All they had to do was call their opponents
32:13Islamic extremists or Islamic fundamentalists, and then they, here come the weapons, here comes the aid, here comes everything else. So this has been a really, really difficult time, but we see that the ummah, as Sami Hamdi always says, the ummah is roaring, right?
32:27The ummah is coming back. Every time they try to hit us and put us down, the ummah keeps on coming back. MB makes a good point. The problem will be if there's not the right people ready to lead, that is true.
32:42Removing a problematic person from power is an entirely different matter from putting someone that is a good leader and a competent leader in power. Those things are entirely different. Yep, and we have people like Nusayba pointing out
32:56that Dr. Yunus is kind of a darling of the U.S., so people are a little queasy about that, and I think you have a right to be. We'll see what happens. Hopefully, it is not, yep, I am Samiha. Samiha also points out she's also feeling iffy
33:11about Dr. Yunus. Hopefully, there's room to negotiate here. Yep, Shere Bangla also makes the same point, and we've seen that.
33:25Let's learn from that from the U.S., okay? Let's take it back to the U.S. political developments that are happening, okay? Biden stepped down, and then Harris was going to pick Shapiro who's a very, very sort of out there Zionist
33:38for her running mate. Due to backlash, went to Walz. Walz is not good either. He's also something of a Zionist. However, he's less bad, and so we see that with power, you have to keep them on the run, right? And this is an important point.
33:53So don't think that the job is over, people of Bangladesh. It's just beginning, okay? You may be cleared the highest hurdle, but there are more hurdles that many times power is going to just present to you a little bit less bad of an option
34:08and a little bit less bad of an option, hoping that you'll say, okay, that's enough, okay? And so tie up your lungi, right? Tie up your lungi tight and get ready to work.
34:23Human asks, are public protests permissible in Islam? Many scholars say it's not. By default, public protests are permissible. There might be things that are particular to certain protests in which
34:37that would make them impermissible, just like anything else. But the default ruling for protests is that they're permissible because this is something that is not worship. It is something that you do not need a precedent for, right? It is simply an expression of popular sentiment.
34:51Nor is it accurate to say, as some scholars have done mistakenly, that protesting is khuruj or rebellion against the government, that is not true. And so the default ruling, again, it can be changed depending on the specifics,
35:05but the default ruling is that it is permissible and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows best. Yes, a cadre brings up a good point about Algeria. Sometimes it takes 100 plus years.
35:23Shamus, 100%, yep, I've been reading Anfal and Tawbah a lot these days. Anfal and Tawbah are very, very important these days. So many lessons.
35:37Yep, Ariana Akhtar, good point. You know things are not good, let alone not Islamic, when a leader's face and portrait and statue is plastered everywhere.
35:59Ah, good point, Naz. She doesn't care for her own people, so she ain't helping Palestine, good point. Shahasi, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah, thank you.
36:08Yeah, Ashik, that's very possible, okay? A CIA asset or something that's a little bit less than that,
36:21that's definitely, we know that that happens. That happens all the time, okay? So that's why we're saying that. It's just beginning. Human makes a good point. Nationalism is such a divide into reuniting the Ummah. 100%, I agree 100%.
36:39So that makes a good point.
36:59Muhammad F. Bob, wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullah. It's nice to be on a first name basis with each other. Morning of car was saying Surat Al-Baqarah. Ameen, awesome.
37:12Great to hear that. I'm happy that it's working for you.
37:21All right, insha'Allah, genital. We'll see what happens. Like I said, email me your interest. I'll try to gauge interest and we'll see.
37:32Allah Samar duck. The book being discussed is atomic habits. We do that every week.
37:43There you go, human pin that comment right there. If you help yourself, you can help the Ummah by getting yourself to be better and going into the community.
