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I'm not a racist, but SubhanAllah.
You're about to enter into transgression against Allah
and the Messenger, Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
(calming religious music)
It's a sad reality that there are many Muslims,
many Muslim communities, many Muslim ethnicities,
that are racially hostile towards others,
not just Muslims, but others in general.
But even more despicable
is that they have a racist attitude towards other Muslims
who come from a different ethnicity,
a different background, a different cultural experience,
a different skin color, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
remove this jahiliyyah,
this ignorance from the heart,
which is a transgression against the ummah,
the way of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and the dictates and the teachings
that were sent to us in the Qu'an.
Bilal radiAllahu Anhu
is a person who is valued
in our tradition and community today.
But you can almost assume
that there are some people in some families
that if they did not know it was Bilal from a distance,
they would look at him with a bit of putting him down,
of not esteeming him at a social level equal to them
on account of his beautiful dark colored skin,
which is not a virtue for him,
but should never be a debasement for him.
As a part of our ideals as Muslims,
is that we do not see skin color or physical makeup
as being something that can noble you
or as something that should ever humiliate you
or debase you.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Allah created us all equal
the way the equality of the teeth of a comb.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
stood up on his final Hajj
and he said, la fadhlil arabin a'la aa'jamee.
"There is no virtue of an Arab over a non Arab,
"wa la abyad a'la aswad,
"or a white man over a dark-skinned man,
"or a dark-skinned man over a white man.
"All of that is under my foot."
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
All of that is a way of 'jahiliyyah'
and of ignorance of the days of the path.
And it's as if the Prophet knew
that this would be a danger for mankind into the future.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
You cannot say I'm not a racist,
but when you continue with but
and you begin to look at other people's cultural experience,
and if you define racism in its very simple terms
that you judge a person's physical features
as being reason for their ethical and behavioral decisions.
That you look at a person, say, by how they look,
this is probably how they act,
what they believe and how they're going to be
without knowing the individual adult.
It is a prejudice stereotyping
that has no place in our hearts as Muslims,
towards Muslims or non-Muslims of any ethnicity,
any racial color, any background,
and any religious practice.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
remove the 'jahiliyyah'
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
daooha fa'innaha na'tinnah.
Take this tribalism, ethnic belief out of your heart
and cast it aside, throw it away
for it is jahiliyyah.
It is a stinking rotten piece of human behavior and history.
May Allah protect us from it,
and may Allah never allow you to confuse right from wrong,
except in the valuing of people
in accordance to their own particular actions,
ilaa bitTaqwa, on account
of a person's consciousness and dealings with God
and others in society.
Allahumma Ameen