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uh today I will talk about uh kind of
sensitive topic a little bit um but I
believe it's one of
important uh topics that we should feel
fly to address and to talk about it
openly which is talking about violence
in the name of God or if you want to say
it talking about
terrorism uh talk talking about
extremism and I'll be very Frank and
honest from the beginning I'm here not
to talk about any U generally just to
talk generally about the violence which
is take name on Earth by name of God or
by name of any religion I'm not just
here to talk about very general uh uh
General talk or talking about all kind
of terrist exist out there in the world
and there is so many of them as you will
see or you hear inshallah today that
terorism has nothing to do with a
particular it's not only related to
particular religion or a particular race
or a particular uh uh country uh
terrorism is something exists in every
religion in every community in every uh
it could be exist in every community and
every religion and every race or ethnic
group uh so it's not only exists in the
Muslims or the non-muslims or the
Christian or the Jews or uh in America
or overseas or in Afghanistan or in Iraq
no it could be exist in every uh country
actually uh that's why I'm not going to
be talking about terrorism in general
and extremism in general I will be very
specific from the beginning and I want
you to understand this because it's a
it's a key point to my speech today I'm
only going to talk about terrorism which
is or act of violence which is done by
the hand of Sunni Muslims of Sunni
Muslims so I'm not even talking about
the extreme groups among the Shia or the
tourist group among the Shia or the
extremist among the Shia or the dures or
the AL or any group like that I'm only
concentrating about those yes there are
minority yes they are not the mainstream
Muslims at all there are small portion
of the Sunni Muslim group who have taken
that route the route of extremism and as
for us as ahnah we call those people who
goes to that direction innovators even
we don't give them the title Sunni in in
in a term which it means the people who
follow the Sunnah no we we always refer
to them through the history of Islam as
Al or the innovators or the people of
the they used to call them the people of
the sword sa a safe and the was
very uh worried about this group to the
extent you will see commonly said by the
early Muslim generation so and so person
have came up with a lot of Innovations
but whenever he start calling people to
the sword and to carry weapons to start
transf
if that person will be transferred from
just um a theology or a person who who
promote uh maybe uh Innovations and
wrong ideas and he start carrying
weapons to support this idea and he
start carrying uh arms and recruiting
people to bring violence and disturbing
to the community they said whenever he
said that that the moment we have no
more tolerant to those people we
um also I will I'm not going to talk
about the definition of terrorism and
what how we Define it and I'm sure you
all know about all the debates about how
exactly we Divine uh terrorism because
that's not what I'm interested in today
to spend the whole lecture about um what
is the best definition and how much
accurate this is and is this fit every
group who carry for example armor weapon
for Liberation or for their uh we call
them Freedom Fighters is this terrorism
applied to them how can we find a
perfect definition I'm not going to go
through that for me for me terrorism act
of violence which is illegal which is
basically it's not legal or it's not
Halal by the rules of Islam anybody
transgress or anybody cross the limit of
the Shar or carry any act of violence
which is considered an Islamic law it is
a forbidden act those people we call
them the people who spread corruption in
Earth the people who are trans
aggressor or Allah subhana wa tala
said don't cross the limit don't break
the rules of the Shar by doing things
against others Allah subhana also
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said don't wish to spread corruption in
Earth indeed Allah or verely Allah
doesn't love the one who those who
spread corruption in Earth and
Corruption here in this earth in this in
in this verse
means corruption here in this verse uh
means that those who
will spread
disturbing while not allowed law to be
in order in cities they will take the
life of innocent people they will
destroy Urban uh areas and uh attacking
B basically uh the
communities and taking their destroying
their wealth and their uh civilization
if you want to say that or destroying
their cities and their governments
if it's done uh uh un islamically if
it's done unlam or been done to an
innocent people uh also in Islam Allah
used another word which is interesting
word is the word it's called Al
extremism Allah said oh the people of B
of book don't be extreme in your views
don't be extreme in your religion and
told his um the um of Muhammad
wasam be aware of extremism be aware of
extremism
and three time those who are extreme
will never achieve success in life
actually it's a a prayer against such
people and
said are the extreme one the one who
will cross the line who will do what is
not lawful in
Shar so basically basically I'm talking
about the extreme group about those who
will break the law of Islam those who
will uh attack and kill innocent people
uh and those who will not hesitate also
to bring disturbance uh to the
communities to the communities
regardless if it was done against
Muslims or against non-muslims as well
as well because all human their life is
secret and their life is protected and
their uh blood should be uh saved not to
be spilled or to killed and we will come
inshallah to talk more about this issue
specifically um before I go even deeper
to my topic today I
always hear this question she why do you
talk about such things which is not
popular I lived all my life I've been
Muslim a lot the only terrorist I have
seen what Fox News Bring on their uh
news or what I see in the in the media
in the mainstream Media or even the
media in general all they talk about the
Muslim extreme and the extremism among
Islam and even people say not all
Muslims are extremist or terrorists but
all terrorists are Muslims things like
that they said are you influenced by
these ideas why would you wait waste
your time and waste our time to talk
about such topic if they are minority
why we are bothering ourselves with why
we are talking about them I'll tell you
the truth yes they are minority yes they
are a small portion of the Muslim
Community in general and anywhere in the
world they don't represent the
mainstream Muslim they don't represent
the mainstream scholars in Islam they
don't represent most of the Muslims in
uh uh in anywhere in the
uh word they don't represent any
mainstream dawa group uh or movement in
the Islamic world uh in the past or in
the present but they are
exist the whole point is if you agree
with me that to they are exist and they
have influence and their message coming
across through internet through books
through tapes and also it is one of the
tricks of the devil to mislead so many
young people and uh uh uh young uh
brothers and sisters as well as sisters
as well and we have seen in the recent
days increasing in number in this area
not only in the militant group but also
to those who have uh kind of support
emotionally to such group and me maybe
you will find that there's so many
people might agree with the terorist
group
ideologies and ideas and what is they
calling for even if they disagree with
them in how to represent or how to for
example to they don't agree with them in
the way that they carry their ideas out
through violence but even this area that
you agree with them agree in their with
them in their ideas and their ideologies
some of it can be very dangerous because
this is the first step to be an
extremist this is the taking the first
step to go to that route and the person
if he enter God forbid there is no stop
there is no break it's like going
downhill so that's why I think awareness
it's very important taking cautions is
very important educating the Muslims
about this is a very important issue
especially I'm saying in in these modern
days and I mean by modern days these few
years back we have seen increasing in
mbers and the message been sent
influence heavily towards the Muslims
everywhere in the world to support or at
least to be sympathizer with the
terrorist group wherever uh whatever
name they might take or extreme ideas
and Views I don't believe that small
portion means
nothing sometimes when people said oh
I'm fine with 90%
you know what's 10% front of 9 99% or
90% even
99% sometimes it's not good enough
sometimes I'm not a perfect trying to
make everybody here perfect but I mean
don't ever underestimate small number
small number can have a great impact or
great effect I just would like to ask
you a question what do you think of
99.9 does that sounds very good number
to you if I said you I will do this job
I'll do 99%
point9 is that good yes it is sounds
good but I'll tell you that if it's
99.9% is good enough then 12 newspaper
uh 12 newborns in America 12 newborns in
America will be giving to the wrong
parents
daily if 99.9 good enough that what it
will lead to
14,500 mismatch pairs of shoes will be
shipped each
year if 99.9 is good enough two million
documents will be lost in the IRS every
year oh that's good
huh if it's
99.9% will be good enough it will be
18322 pieces of of men will be Mand
handled every day 2.5 million book will
be shipped with the wrong covers two
planes in Chicago aara airport will be
unsafe they will make unsafe Landing
every day in in in Chicago Hera airport
if
99.9 is good enough 20,000 incorrect
drug prescription will be written to the
wrong person every year in this country
if 99.9 is good enough
880,000 credit card in uh in circulation
will be uh turned out to have incorrect
card holder information or the wrong
magnet strip on it it will not be given
to the right persons as
well uh if
99.9 uh9 is good enough you will have
5.5 million cases of soft drink produced
will be
flat
wow
99.9% if it's good enough do you know
that
291 Peacemaker operations will be
performed
incorrectly
99.9% if it's good enough you will have
300 300 uh three
3,56 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street
Journal will be Miss missing one of the
one of one of their sections one of
their
sections anyway so basically I believe
even if they are minority I believe even
if they're not main they're not so
popular but still they are a problem we
need to deal
with terrorism and extremism became a
Global issue everybody talk about it
every even president want to be elected
he need to show how tough he is against
terrorism uh and unfortunately talking
only about the Muslim terrorist group
but we know that terrorism is not as I
said related to only one religion one
ethnic groups or one uh uh Community
it's exist in every Community exist in
every uh basically it's it could be
exist in every country could be exist in
every religion and Carri by various
different kind of
people so as I said again and again my
talk today only to concentrate on one
specific group because I'm talking to
Muslims I'm talking to Sunni Muslims I'm
one of the Muslims I'm Sunni Muslim I'm
one of the mainstream who car so much
about my brothers and sisters that they
will be going towards that direction and
to be influenced by the ideologies of
this extreme group The this extreme
group I believe as the Muslim jurist
said early in the
days it is very good to be safe better
than being sorry it's very important for
you to prevent prevention is much better
than cure to prevent yourself from being
sick it's much better than having the
medicine to cure uh yourself with later
on so if we can prevent ourself educate
ourself protect ourself from these
ideologies so if ever I come across
somebody who carrying it or why I'm
surfing in the internet and I come
across any one of the any website
promote such things I got an email
talking about things like that I know
how to protect myself I know that this
is not the right people to listen to
they're not the right um uh websites to
uh be visiting and to look at not
because you're afraid that your ey
address will be picked up by the FBI no
because you want to protect yourself you
want to protect your heart you want to
protect your mind from being among the
extreme ones and sahu Al wasallam said
my my intercession in the day of
judgment will not be given to two kind
of people one the H Quran the one who
recite the Quran and he or she are
extreme extreme in their view extreme in
their practice extreme in their judgment
basically
the are extremist and the dictators
rulers and the dictators
rulers um I'm talking about this subject
because it's very much related to my
specialty and my specialty is in Islamic
Theology and we have through the history
of Islam studying the history of the
sects a lot of movement who carry the
same exact idea and I was very shocked
when I do my own research that I found
this extreme group is still Sometimes
using the exact same evidence that
people used 1,000 years ago the exact
evidence the exact verses the exact
Hadith that they used 1,000 years ago to
promote their false ideas it's been also
re used in modern Days by these extreme
groups they are just extend for
them seeing so many incident happen in
the world
while I'm growing up starting from the
incident of
Al when uh a group of extremist group
Extreme group take over meca and lock
the door of where we watching this on TV
we were living in this in these days
seeing some of the people that they used
to come at our mid all of the sudden
they disappear and we hear that they are
Mecca locking the door of ala hijacking
ala basically the Masid of Mecca and
claiming that they have Al Mahi and they
did not hesitate to kill hundreds of
people hundreds of soldiers and they
will open fire on anyone who opposed
them in that time not only Mecca that
Movement by the way took place it was a
plot to be happening in different cities
in the same times in Arabia in that time
seeing what happened in the Jihad in
Afghanistan and how that
beautiful concept of Islam which is
helping your Muslim Brothers in
Afghanistan to free their country the uh
Freedom Fighters as they call them that
Jihad that
have absolutely attract a lot of young
Muslims a lot of young Muslims you might
so many of you don't know that that so
many young Muslim used to fly and to go
from New York from the Muslim country
they will even be giving them free
tickets to go to fight there but
unfortunately so many of those who we
have seen after they came back they came
back to our communities to the society
and I witnessed that myself with some
weird ideas after that there is
something happened over there to so many
of them have shifted so many of their
ideas that they came back in instead of
coming back some of them the vast
majority alhamdulillah they don't carry
that but some of them came back with a
very weird ideas that we never heard of
before some extreme views so much hate
toward the society toward the community
toward the scholars toward the
governments that they live in toward the
society towards their families and I
have witnessed tens of stories of people
that I have seen how they
change in a very weird way in a very
short time and start carrying all these
extreme views and ideas we have seen the
go war and how it's one and two and how
it
also help or raise uh that tone
of this extreme group of movement to
justify some of their violence actions
also the war that taking place today
took place in Bosnia Al in Bosnia took
place in somal it took place in Sudan
with the movement what happened in Sudan
and how this impact also uh uh some of
those groups that they lived for a while
in such area and how it became another
shelter for another group who instead of
going Afghanistan it started going to
Sudan and coming back to us with some
views and some ideas and even it was uh
reached the peak in Afghanistan lately
and now in Iraq uh you see it growing
every uh basically in Algeria and the
moment that what happened in Algeria all
these incident that happened some might
of you some have seen have lived have
watched carefully or you even heard
about it now in the
news all these incident the tab around
me and the people of my age and older uh
we saw how this is impact and shape all
these extreme views through the last 30
years at least 30 years or 20
years anyway and I believe that I will
share some of the points that I think it
will help uh to give type of protection
to us against such views and ideas I
will talk
about several areas and I will just pick
some points in each area first I would
like to uh say
that terrorism and extreme some facts
about terrorism one terrorism or extreme
views an extreme it means when you go
beyond the limit of the
Shar beyond the limit of the Sharia the
kufar or the nonb the the non-muslim in
general they cannot draw the line where
to
stop they use common sense which is fine
in some area but for us as Muslim we use
something beside what we call common
sense because the word common sense is
very hard to Define as well as you might
agree with me the word defi Common Sense
yes you can bring one two three examples
but to Define what is common sense it's
also something might not agree with we
might not all agree with for us as
Muslims we know that the Shar have given
us limit borders we cannot cross that so
when you cross it you became a trans
aggressor you became an extreme you
became a person who commit an act of uh
b or Innovations or sin so terrorism is
something Haram forbidden in Islam you
see how the Muslim talk so strongly
against the the most
clear uh sexs in the history of Islam
represent the extreme views who openly
said that they allowed themselves to
kill innocent people and righteous
people such as
to the extent one of them said when I
remember the killer of
Ali when I remember the one who killed
the one who killed Ali I would assume
that in the day of judgment he will be
the best human he will reward the high
place in
Paradise The Killers of
Ali that's how he think of him that he
is the most righteous the best believer
ever exist after Muhammad sallallahu
alaih Al
wasam they
killed and they think that when they
carry weapons against they were changing
the evil they were
making those group that's how they look
at themselves what the companions of
Muhammad sallam said about them how they
treated them they F to them
as dead and the rest of the sah and the
Companions and the successors and the
until the modern days they have issue
hundreds and tons of fwa fas and wrote
so many books against such views and
such extreme
idea just to give you an an example for
modern days more than 30 years ago
because they always hear in the news all
Muslim Scholars they don't denounce
terrorism enough that's a meth that's a
meth oh the wahab or the Sal or the
group all these people they are a lie
with the ter they don't denounce them
that's absolutely uh false and that's
how the people who have special interest
they come in the middle to use this
incident to promote their special
interest or hate against certain group
or against the Muslim in general more
than 30 years
ago
my have issue about uh hijacking Airport
airplanes more than 30 years ago not
after 9/11 that's 30 years ago he have
issue a fatwa it is forbidden to carry
any act of violence against Muslim or
non-muslims by hijacking airplanes or
kidnapping citizen or individual
blowing urban areas uh like buses or
like trains or like airplanes or
buildings and this fwa had came out also
in Egypt from the 80s against ISL
and uh against the extreme group The
jihadis so known known as the jihadist
group at that time at that time
or we have to differentiate between two
things Islam do not promote terrorism
Islam is not a religion of extreme it's
not an religion of
terrorism but we might have some Muslims
who are extremist we might have a Muslim
who is a who happen to be an extremist
or happen to be a a a a terrorist person
yes they are exist and you should not
feel offended by saying that or hearing
that I feel offended if somebody said
this religion is a religion of terrorism
but I don't feel offended at all when I
know that there are some Muslims they
are terrorists or they are extreme I
know that there's always be misguided
people there will be always bad people
out out there I remember one person
asked me a reporter she said or he I
don't remember now asked me what do you
feel about how do you feel uh when you
heard about the sniper in Washington you
remember that sniper who used to kill
people said how do you feel now that
he's a Muslim his name is
Muhammad I said I feel happy that he was
CAU she said but him being in name is
Muhammad I said so what do you think all
Muslims are perfect among the Muslims
the gangs and the the Thugs and the
thieves and among them the doctors and
the engineers and the students it's they
are like any other community among them
the good and the Bad and the Ugly that's
the reality yes our role as a community
which try to eliminate this group and
try to fight them as much as we can and
we isolate them protect ourselves from
ideas but you know what I believe that
this extreme views will exist until the
day of judgment it will never end and
this is a point I will mention later
inshallah because it is done and run in
the thoughts of so in the heads by the
Devil by the Shan it's one of the Shan's
trick that how he mislead people as long
as the Shan exists as long as because
you will have extreme group that's why
the prophet wasam said Al those extreme
group will remain in my um until the
fall Messiah appear and they will follow
him as reported by IM
Muslim as I said uh terrorism is not
related to certain country or race or
gender or even to any social
uh um level like for example people said
extreme all only only appear extremis
appear only among poor people that's not
true you might find an extreme people
who are very rich people have millions
of dollars and they turn to be an
extremist turn to carry uh act of
violence against others yes it is
commonly spread among poor communities
unemployeed uh uh uh people also among
youth men more than women but you might
find you might find woman and you might
find rich people and you might people
who have very good jobs older people
will participate in such thing like that
for example one of the great leader one
of the famous leader of the kaar a woman
her name is Lea Lea and she enter ala
carrying her sword killing the Muslim of
kufa and she called the Adan led the
Salat and she was the first woman in the
history of Islam to
give and after that Amud carry or follow
her
footsteps but as a
historical fact at least known for the
Muslim she was the first one to pray J
in mid Alfa in Masid Al KFA but I'm not
sure if she L the prayer or not but I'm
sure now that she give the she give the
why there are so many uh terrorist group
or extreme groups or terrorism became
today uh we have this problem in the
Muslim world we have beautiful Religion
she why we have this exist one there's
so many wars going on in our countries
in the Muslims War so many wars taking
place in this time in the Muslim war and
Wars is a very good um environment for
such group to grow and to be exist two
there's so much Injustice in the Middle
East in general so much uh social
injustice so much uh uh Injustice
happened to the public by the hand of
their rulers there is a dictatorship
taking place in so many of the Muslims
country and that have create reactions
towards that Injustice to fight this
Injustice by taking sometimes the wrong
means also our Islamic Heritage is so
rich so rich and so wide and that give
opportunity for for people to take from
that in her from this culture from this
history from this materials uh can
create from it some material to justify
their action to justify their actions of
violence their actions of
violence it's not a new issue it's not a
new group in the Muslim world as I said
they exist before but I think what is
very interesting which is need more
study
it is for the first time as far as I
know in the history of Islam that this
violence will be taking this shape
against the non Muslims against the
against the the people who live in the
Muslim World usually even in the time of
the Crusaders even in the time of a war
between Muslims even in modern days when
the Afghan war was exist against the
Russian we do not used to hear that
people will carry a a operation against
Russia in Moscow or the Russian in
Europe or places like that that shift by
declaring war against the whole Western
World for example is something new and
it's something it's shifting from its
original uh from what we used to hear
before and I think that part it's a new
thing and it's a a new movement and new
ideas need to be studied more and
analyzed more
terrorism could be came as a form of
reactions which is most of the cases but
also terrorism can happen not as a form
of reaction simply initiate that and I
give
you uh and I can give you for that
example somebody will be taken to jail
will be tortured in his jail and it
happened in so many incident that person
his wife was beat in front of him
his children beat in front of him he was
humiliated even to the extent that I can
say sexually he can be assaulted and him
or member of his family he will be very
frustrated very angry come out of jail
or start leading and formulating group
and in no time it just no taking it's
not only about taking Revenge that will
be developed to develop a whole entire
movement or a group like what we see
happen from the jails in Egypt comes out
to group
like
or and other it started in the jail it
started in the jail and it came out to
carry weapons against the government
against those who support the government
against even the society some sometimes
sometimes but some other that's one way
for extreme group to be formulate but
another example somebody will be very
very convinced that if you commit openly
major sins you became not Muslim you
became a person who deserved to be
killed because you have said something
publicly not correct so it's not just be
reaction something wrong happened to me
I had wrong ideas I thought that Allah
if you order me to fight it means
anybody that I see the Muslim I can
fight and I can just carry weon in
against so I did this because I have
misunderstood the verse
the Quran or the Hadith or I've been
misled by some Sheikh or some clerk that
they have taught me wrong information
then recruited and I will be uh
basically or the person will be member
of an extreme movement so it can be a
reaction and it also extremist ex
extreme extreme movement or terrorist
group can come as they initiate the
action
themselves five or the number
the other fact I would like to say or to
mention here that terrorism can be done
by the hand of individuals and can be
had done by the hand of organization and
can be done by the hand of
government so not because I'm wearing
the
official uh or I I'm the suit uh of the
army or the suits of the police it give
me a protection and it means means I'm
not terrorist anymore not because I am a
leader of a country or a minister of in
in a government it means I'm not a
terrorist anymore no terrorism can be
done by the hand of governments can be
done by the hand of uh individuals or
organizations or organizations you see
how terrorist act took play took uh
place by the hand of individuals groups
and countries
also um I seen in in in in regard to the
terrorism that so many people always try
to say try to say terorism is something
Foreigner is not from us you for example
Muslim Community sometimes leader of the
Muslim Community always say there is no
muslim tourist among the Muslim
Community in America we don't have all
these extreme are from outside they are
visitors there are students and they
think they are safe by that that's not
true it's very possible to have extreme
group and ter group from the Muslim
Community and I mean by that from
Individual Living in America that's not
that's not impossible look what likewise
in in Saudi Arabia they tell oh all this
terrorist group in the beginning they
are coming from Yemen they coming from
Egypt they're not Saudis but all of a
sudden they would hat with the fact that
they are Saudis they carry the Saudi
citizen ship they carry the Saudi
citizenship somebody might say oh they
are all for example Foreigner or you may
drop the citizenship of that person and
you think think that you're free from
responsibility no terrorism can be can
grow in your own backyard and you don't
know about it unless you really pay
attention to it on the for pay attention
to these
ideas always terrorism based on two
things those who supported with ideology
with idea with supported their
ideologies justify that for them by
textual evidence from Quran and Sunnah
and also would be supported by those who
give them the money and the weapon so
that's why I think fighting terrorism
should take should cover these two areas
together cover these two areas together
terorism usually terrorist group usually
they get
their support from any Community by the
reaction of the
government what it's a it's a very
tricky game
they start something the government
reply with
irresponsible sometimes uh reply and
they will be very harsh unfair unjust
the way they treat the wrong action take
place by the wrong group so what
happened everybody else started being
sympathized with the group who've been H
hard who've been put in jail been
torture and what happened the original
case will be forgotten the original case
will be forgotten and this why the
governments has to be smart in the way
they treat or deal with any terrorist
acts take place for example people they
don't talk about 9/11 as much as they
talk about how horrible America is by
bombing the innocent people in
Afghanistan and Iraq and which is
absolutely true killing hundreds and
thousands of people in Iraq or in
Afghanistan it is Haram it is not right
it is not fair that's what happened now
the issue of 911 forgotten but all the
talk will be going towards how the
reaction of the government the
government they kill the president of
Egypt for example so the people taking
to jail torture in the jail people they
don't talk anymore about the
assassination of the president people
start talking about how those people
were tortured in the jail which is
absolutely fact absolutely true that not
allowed this will not justify doing that
but the problem during this mess people
miss the point
people forget about what originally
initiate all of that all of of of this
and this has happened so many times in
the history of the muslim's country that
always people take their support from
the public by the reaction of the
government that's why the reaction of
the government must be very wise and as
much as as much as and maybe this is
totally against uh some of the view of
politician today but that's what I
believe in as much as the confrontation
take more the shape of Confrontation
between terrorist group and any
government and any society take towards
the militant way carry weapons fighting
one another I think that make the
terrorist group grow stronger and
stronger and stronger and as much as we
stop that and we start opening more
doors for dialogue more doors for
discussion more doors to see what they
have what the point that they have what
the uh justification that they have
against to to uh allow them to do such
things and we bring them to table to
more discussion I think as much as we
can control violence act of violence in
general in
general as I said terrorism ex always
based on just you most of the cases it
based on just case originally it's a
just case Fair case but you take this
first Fair cas
as a reason for you to reach that goal
good goal with the wrong means for
example a portion is something terrible
we don't like that but blowing up a
portion Clinic to kill the nurses and
the doctors and the people in the
portion Clinic it's not a right mean
it's not right it's not correct yes
occupation is something wrong but
killing the innocent people killing the
average person blowing up people in the
street is not the right way to fight
occupation yes winning the election was
right and this is something good but
after that a government come and say you
know what that election that you went is
cancelled you're out taking you to jail
yes it is something not right it's a
just case you have that this is not fair
but to use this to allow yourself to go
and to start killing people in villages
and to start spreading this distractions
in the country is not also right is not
right a man came to the prophet s said
Allah if I see my wife sleeping with a
man and I kill her you would kill
me it just case she is fornicator she is
a protect she's a woman who has a
husband in Islam she deserved to be
killed for example that's how he look at
it what theam said he said yes I will
kill you if you do it you will be killed
if you do it because it's not up to you
to carry the rules with your own hand
you have to bring it to the court
otherwise everybody will kill everybody
and say oh I found her sleeping with
somebody I found him sleeping with my
wife no it's not up to you anymore it
has to be through the right and the
right channel the right
channel I think the most difficult and
the most
dangerous period in in in
in the life of any extreme person when
that person decide to transfer himself
from a civil person to to a a soldier
from just a citizen to became a soldier
that period of time is the most critical
period And I think it's our role as
Muslims is always try because whenever a
person transferred to be a a warrior or
a soldier it's very hard to convince
that person to go back but I think the
work has to be mostly done at least in
the level of us as a as a as a student
of knowledge and and Sh and advisor and
a community level in the area when a
person not yet a soldier when a person
still thinking and and still analyzing
still thinking about it that's why IB
Abbas when he debated the when they line
up together against Ali IB Abbas went
and debated them half of them 5,000 of
them came back to the Sunnah but after
they start the fight we never heard that
they repent after they became Soldier
and carry a woman and start fighting we
never heard that he debated them again
and they come back to the
Sunnah also when a person terrorism in
general terorist group in general uh
they develop their case very very fast
Subhan Allah it starts something small
and it became very big for example start
as oh this is wrong then is this is
kufur then this person need to be be
killed see how it goes from 1 2 3 to
jump and very fast in no time you reach
to that conclusion they start for
example we fight for our rights then we
fight for independence then we fight
against the other identity so it's not
we are the only one exist so we'll be
the only one exist it developed from
something small to became something big
like for example they said we fight the
government then we fight every everybody
work for the government then we fight
everybody who agree with the government
the what did they did we fight Ali and
mua then they said we fight everybody
fought with muaah or fought with Ali
then after a while everybody agree with
them then everybody did not line with us
against them see how it would develop
and that's how it is this ideas and
these ideologies it's just grow this
what
it's very hard to be controlled
afterwards also there is so much
contradiction in there uh in their views
in general if you look closer you will
see that they ask people to promote
Islam and that's the reason that we are
fighting and carry weapons to Sprint
Justice where is the Justice in killing
innocent people children's where is
Justice in killing women's elderly
citizen we're Justice in killing people
who have nothing to do with your
violence what is Justice when we know
for fact that some Muslim were killed by
the hand of other Muslims in in
sometimes in Afghanistan and their wives
and their daughter were taking as slaves
where is justice and this where is
Justice in blowing up a Masid in Sudan
for were over 30 muslims praying feder
by rbgs and by the hand of this
terrorist group where's Justice and that
where's Islam and such
things where's they said contradiction
they always
called but in the same times they
consider them the the they are very
extreme about they are uh just a lie to
the government they are just pop it in
the hand of the go why you using their
fat and you say I go
to then when said that this is Haram or
this not allowed now you put X on him
why there's so much contradiction in
their ideologies or their uh basically
approach to people because they don't
they're not consistent in their message
also terorist group what really control
them not beside the wrong understanding
is the love for Revenge it's something
personal so many times it's it's a
Revenge as this man when he killed
he stabbed him nine times he said three
for Allah and six for what I have in my
heart against
you that's why when you hear somebody
saying oh we still thirsty for your
blood don't draw from
Iraq it's the language that you hear
it's a language of somebody is not about
fighting occupation it's about just the
love for Revenge the love for
Revenge it's became more personal thing
it's it's like that's why some of them
when we talk about the rulers even if
you said may Allah guide this don't pray
for him he doesn't want him to be even
guided he doesn't want him to be guided
tourist group in general they are very
affected by their leaders from the early
times that's why in Islam you will
always say that the terorist group in
the history of Islam named after their
leaders after their leaders and that's a
very smart way because that means to
show you those people follower of that
person not of Muhammad sallallahu alaih
Al
wasam um they don't belong to any uh
country they don't like to be a citizen
of any country they like to free
themselves from any national identity
which is uh something also interesting
uh to know one of the things that you
notice clearly about terrorist group
when it comes to their methods of f
methods of using the evidence the
following one they will not not collect
all the related evidence to discuss one
issue they only pick and choose and this
is very shows you that whoever did that
their leaders either they are very
ignorant or they are doing this
intentionally that they pick and choose
the evidence only support their ideas
and they will ignore totally any
evidence go against their ideas go
against their ideas I I don't have time
for examples that's why I will just
mention the points in general also they
would like to leave the clear evidence
in Quran and Sunnah and to pick and to
choose the evidence the textual event
which is not clear which is not clear
for example they would said Allah said
in the
Quran fight the
mush fight all the
disbelievers
but uh they will not for example look to
the other verse in
fight those who are fighting you fight
those who are fighting you they will for
example take the Hadith the prophet said
everyone should be killed until he or
she say
Muhammad okay what about how the prophet
dealt with the kufar of Mecca when he
conquered Mecca did he kill them all how
the prophet dealt with the Jewish of
Medina how the prophet de with the
Christians of njan South njan how the
prophet why you leave also these very
clear evidence and you take one text one
Hadith and the have understood it in
different ways and to pick and choose
based on what also it's very interesting
that you see that they are very when you
deal with text evidence they take it
very literally sometimes and they don't
try to understand the meanings of it the
meanings of of this uh textual
evidence also they don't look they don't
care about the understanding of the
campaign Ians of the scholars of the
early Muslim generations and this is a
clear sign to differentiate between our
way as mainstream Muslim and their way
and I give you an example and which is
very popular today they use the Hadith
and I'm sure all of you heard that they
Ed the argument the prophet sallam said
I move the mush the disbeliever from the
Arab
peninsula all the non-muslims should be
taken out of the Arab peninsula you see
this Hadith been used at justification
to fight westerns in Saudi Arabia or in
Arabia in general and they said that's
the rules that's what the prophet
ordered us to do that's why we are
fighting them to kick them out of
Arabia okay and they said this Hadith is
something the prophet said before before
his death did Abu bak andar and
understood this understanding is this
how they understand the Hadith didn't
Omar himself he's the one when the
Jewish of
broke the rules broke the
rules what he did he asked him to move
to T or t which is still in the Arab
peninsula
didn't allowed the Christian to stay in
Nan and allowed them to settle in Arabia
didn't the companions of Muhammad used
to have servant who are not Muslim
living in Medina and they did not kick
them out and they did not understand
from this Hadith that they all must be
not exist in Arabia they understood from
this Hadith that they not allowed not
allowed in Arabia to have two religion
dominate or two religion rules but it
doesn't mean more than one religion
exist no that's not what the Hadith ever
meant and that's not what the companions
of Muhammad s wasallam have understood
it
also they never tell you what the
meaning of the Arab peninsula do it mean
Mecca and Medina only it means Mecca and
Y Al only it means the whole entire Arab
peninsula as you know most of the
scholars like IM Ahmed said it is Medina
and The Villages around Medina that's
what the Hadith meant and sha said it is
Al it is
Al we know that even the scholars
allowed some of the scholar like
Abu allowed non-muslim to visit meccah
and Medina allowed them as a visitor to
enter it to enter it so all these
opinions all these different of
uh uh opinions uh and the understanding
of the scholar to sexual evidence
something will be hidden from the
community yeah one of the also issue
they don't differentiate between what is
considered goal and means in Islam they
think for example Jihad is a goal it's a
mean to establish something it's not a
goal for itself it's not a goal it has
to be
exist they will allow themselves to kill
people just because they are not Muslims
they are not Muslim and no doubt that
Muslim or non-muslims alike their blood
is protected is secret is not allowed to
be uh spilled unless they break the law
which is deserved uh uh with which by
this crime that they commit it like
killing an innocent person they will
deserve the P the capital punishment the
capital punishment and in the end also
one of the most important Point here
that they thought that Jihad applying
the punishment can be done by the hand
of individuals no it's only by
as said by the consensus of the Muslim
Scholars the only one has the right to
declare Jihad is the ruler is the ruler
not anybody else unless you protect your
own home somebody attacking
you and um there is uh so other few
points and I think I have to conclude
here by saying these some just few
points as an advise um how can we uh
basically what is our role or how can we
win this war against uh terrorism I
think one of the thing that we have to
know what have trigger this in the
Muslim Community we we see the reasons
for some people to be misled like
example we have to be very blunt and
clear about declaring our position from
any extreme group exists or individuals
or any doubt been raised by these groups
we talk about it openly we bring the
evidence to uh against it and to debate
it and to show the Muslims clearly as a
form of for them why this is not allowed
why this is Haram I think the media has
to help us in this and not to
promote or to deal with this issue of
terrorism to use it against Islam or
against Muslim or against some
particular group in the Muslims world uh
for political reasons I think we have to
fight terrorism for no personal interest
not because I have companies of security
that I want to promote not because a
political uh gain that I want to get out
of claring war against terrorism we
should for have war against terrorism
because we we believe it's wrong we
believe it's not right and for the sake
of Allah subhana tala at least us as
Muslim and I talk about War I don't mean
literally carrying weon I think our role
is in ideologies in area we have to
bring the DU the scholars more into the
field in this area they know them better
than anybody else they know their
ideologies and to fight their ideologies
be before somebody
adopted uh I think we have we need more
books to be written in this area showing
uh as I said uh the evidence related to
the doubts that they raised regard to
Jihad regard to uh uh killing um or
justifying killing Western in general in
their country or in the Muslim country
and refuting these doubts in different
languages in Arabic in English and Udu
and Persian and so
on also we have to be fair unjust when
we talk about terrorism we should not uh
uh only we should not also be extrem in
our views like some people said those
terrorist group are non-muslim are kuf
are and also some people are not
consistent for example he will say he
will feel so mad against terrorist act
if it take place in Riyad but he will
not feel the same thing if it took place
in London or it took place in it's in
America or New York I feel so mad but if
it take place in in Egypt or or in
Palestine uh he will not feel the same
feeling I think it is Haram no matter
where it will take place no matter it
will take place by any hand and as you
see there's so many details related to
the subject but I hope that through
these words I raas some awareness uh
among my Muslim brothers and sisters
about this topic and to be very careful
in what materials that you are reading
what materials that you are seeing in
the internet and Allah Knows Best
Muhammad
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