For Me Personally
I Didn'T Embrace The Religion Of Islam So Much Because I
Was Convinced Allah Is Allah And The Oneness Of Allah.
I Didn'T Embrace Islam Because I Understood That. When I Was
Explained, When It Is Explain To Me Who Allah Is And Who
He Wasn'T, I Accepted That. It Makes Sense To Me, But The
Overwhelming Factor That Caused Me To Accept
Al Islam Was The Fact That I Sat Down And I Read What Does Islam
Have To Say About Racism? And That Was Because I Was
Fed Up To Here (Throat) With The Racism Of Christianity, With The Racism
Of Many Of The White People In America.
You Saw Donald Trump As I Saw Donald Trump, Leave The White
House, Interrupt The People Who Were Peacefully Demonstrating
And They Begin To Hit Them With Tear Gas And Rubber Bullets
And They Disperse Them So That He Could Take A Bible That
He Doesn'T Know.
He Doesn'T Believe In And Even If He Was A Scholar Of The
Bible Is Is... It'S A Religion That You Can'T Explain And It
Can'T Be Understood But His Example Is Example Of My Mother,
My Father, My Relatives, Take The Bible Make A Big Display About
Something And You Go And You Don'T Even Know What'S In That
Book. So For Me, For Me When I Read The Bible When I Read
The Torah, I Said Both Of These Bibles, Both Of These Books
The Way They Are Right Now.
They Have Institutionalize Systemic
Structured Racism In It. One Is Saying That Jesus Is The Son
Of Allah, The Son Of God And He'S A White Man.
Nope.
I Categorically Reject That.
All Of The Angels Are White People, All Prophets Are
White People And The Black People In The Bible
Who Did Bad, The People Did Bad In The Bible
They Are All Black People.
I Rejected That. Jewish People Said They Are ....
They Are The People Of Allah. The Chosen, Chosen People
Of Allah So They Can Do Whatever They Want To Do To People.
They Can Oppress The Palestinians, Take Their Land, Just Do
Whatever They Want To Do To People And They'Re Going To Be
Forgiven. No, That'S Racism. Racism In South Africa During
The Time Of Nelson Mandela Back Then The Dutch Reformed Church
Of South Africa Used To Use The Bible To Support Apartheid
And Wallahi
These Police Officers Who Gets Sworn In , These Police Commissioners
Who Gets Sworn In , These Public Figures Who Get Sworn In Putting
Their Hand On A Bible.
There'S No Difference Between Most Of Them/ Many Of Them And
What Trump Did The Other Day With Holding Up The Bible.
So For Me, For Me, When I Saw In The Religion Of Al-Isam
Al Islam Dealt With The Issue Of Racism.
I Mean It Dealt With It Head-On To The Point Where It Left,
No Stone Unturned.
Am I Saying That We Don'T Have Racism In Al-Islam, None
That'S What I'M Saying.
We Don'T Have Racism In Islam.
We Have Racism From Amongst The Muslims.
I Lived In Birmingham, I Witness Racism In Birmingham.
I Lived In My Second Home Keighley Will Always Be My First
Home, First
Will Always Be My Second Home.
I Was With People From Me And Poor.
I Saw Some Racism There And Keithley, From White People And
From People Were From Kashmir.
I Moved Liverpool, Racism From People Who Are Like Gaming
And Stuff Like That And Liverpool, There Is Racism
In Our Ummah, Racism Amongst The People Even The Prophet
Said That Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam, Three Things From
The Time Of Jahiliyya
My Ummah Will Never Leave Them Off And He Said Number One:
Screaming Over Someone Who Has Died, Wailing When Someone
Dies And Carrying On In A Way That'S Ignorant. Number Two: Talking
Bad About Other People'S Lineage. Number Three: Talking Good
About One'S Own Lineage,
We Have This, Wherever You Go, Whatever Group Of People Who
Are Muslims You Have That, Whoever Is Watching Me Right Now
And Speak Right Now,
Whatever Your Ethnic Background Is, Where Have You Come From?
If You Were Born And Raised In Islam And You Can Be From Africa,
You Could Be South.. Wherever You Are From, Your Own People Have
Racism Amongst Themselves And Different Tribes And They Have
Racism With Their Own Countrymen.
This Is How It Is.
And That'S What The Prophet Said Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam, But
The Religion Of Al-Islam Dealt With The Issue Of Racism.
Allah Mentioned Many Ayat, Not One, Not Two, Not Three, Not
Four, Not Five, Not Six, Nine, Seven
No Less Than 10 Ayat
That Clearly Do With The Issue Of Racism.
And From Them I Want To Mention Two, What He Told Those Companions,
Remember The Blessings Of Allah Upon You, Companions, You Come From
Different Tribes.
Some Of You Are From Ethiopia,
Some Of You Are From Rome, Some Of You From This Tribe, That
Tribe, Some Are From Mecca, Some From Medina, Some From This
Part Of The Desert, From That Part Of The Desert, Some Of You
From Syria, Some... The Companions With The Prophet (Saw).
Remember The Nemah Of Allah, When You Are Enemies One To Another,
You Were Enemies And Then Allah Brought Your Hearts Together
And You Became Brothers In His Religion And You Are On The
Verge On The Brink Of The Hellfire About To Fall In And Allah
Saved You From It.
These Are The Ayat Of Allah That He Is Guiding You To In
The Hopes That You Will Be Guided. Another Ayat And There
Are Many That Allah Mentioned To The Prophet (Saw)
If You Were To Spend Everything That Was In The Earth,
Ya Muhammad To Bring Their Hearts Together Never Would
You Bring Their Hearts Together In Order To Unite Them
You Would Never The Bring Their Hearts Together
Never But Allah Is The One Who Brought Their Hearts Together
Allah Brought Their Hearts Together.
So Those Are Two Of The Many Ayat, As For The Hadith Of The
Prophet Salallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam When The Nabi Of Islam Salallahu
Alihi Wasalam Had To Deal With Racism.
I'M Going To Share With You Something
That Happened With The Companions Which Goes To Show,
It Was Something That Was In Their Society That He Had To
Deal With Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam, So The Fact That Some
Of Us Are Racist And We Find Racism Coming From Our Muslim
Brothers And Sisters,
You Have To Look At In The Prism From The Prism Of This
Situation. There Were Some Companions Who Had This Issue
But The Difference Between The Companions And Us Is That
The Companions Immediately Once They Knew It Was Haram,
They Just Stopped. From The Life Of Of The Prophet (Saw)
Aside From The Many Hadiths
Where Al-Islam Clearly Makes Racism Haram.
Many Hadiths Put That On The Side
We Want To Give You Examples That The Prophet Dealt With
Specifically Showing That Racism Was An Issue That Was Prevalent
In His Environment And It Was An Issue That He Had To Address.
So Anyone Who Wants To Come And He Wants To Find Out What
Is The Position Of Islam Is In Regards To Racism. It
Is There Like The Situation Where The Prophet Told The People
Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam About The Importance Of Listening To
The Leader, He Said Listen To And Obey The Leader.
Listen To The Leader Who'S Been Put Over You In Authority
The One Whose Authority Over You Even If He Happens To Be
An Ethiopian Slave And Abyssinian Slave Who Has A Head
Like A Raisin, Now Clearly A Slave Can Never Be The Leader
Of The Muslims.
This Is Not Something That Can Happen.
And That'S Because This Is A Slave Doesn'T Even Own, His Own
Time Back Then When There Was Slavery, When There Was Slavery
And In Al-Islam Slavery Is Not Synonymous With Any Group
Of People, No, So Some People Think When You Hear Slavery
In Islam The Idea Is That Conjure Up In The Mind Of A Person
Are A Particular Group Of People From Africa.
No, That'S Not The Case.
The Slaves Were Those People Who Opposed Al-Islam And Then
They Were Subdued After There Was A War And They Were Put
In Slavery And Giving Opportunities To Get Out Of Slavery
For An Example.
It'S Not Peculiar, The Institution In Islam It'S Not Peculiar
To One Group Of People, One Ethnic Group Of People.
So When The Prophet Told Them Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
To Obey The Leaderer, Listen To Him.
Even If An Ethiopian Slave With A Raisin Head, A Head Like
A Raisin Comes Your Leader, The Reason He Said That Something
That Could Never Happen, But He Wanted To Let Them Know Something
That You Detest,
You Despise, Something
You Don'T Want, You Don'T Want An Ethiopian Who'S A Foreigner
With A Head Like Is A ... Has Color, You Don'T Want Him
Over You.
So The Fact That He Gave That As An Example, It Shows Us
That It Was Sensitive And That'S Why He Touched The Cord
To Tell Them This Is How Important It Is For The Muslim To
Obey The Leader, To Obey The Leader Whether The
Whether He Likes What The Leader Is Saying Or He Doesn'T Like
It, Whether He Has An..... He'S Active Or Whether He'S
Tired. No, You Have To Obey The Leader As Long As He'S Not
Calling You To That Which Is Haram And To Disobey Allah.
You Should Obey Him.
He May Be Older Than You
You May Be Younger Than You.
He Maybe A Person From A Different Ethnic Group.
So This Is The Point, Another Example From The Many Examples,
Many; Is What Happened With Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari (Ra) And Abu Dharr (Ra)
He Was From The Pure Arabs As They Say. Abu Dharr (Ra) Got
Into A Misunderstanding With A Man, Some People From The Ulemas
Of Islam Said That It Was Bilal Ibn Rabah (Ra), Some Major
Scholars Mentioned That But This Hadith Is In Bukhari And
Muslim And It Doesn'T Mention Bilal (Ra)
It Just Is A Man, Is Ambiguous.
The Important Thing Is The Lesson, The Lesson.
Abu Dharr (Ra) Got Into A Misunderstanding With That Man.
And Then Abu Dharr (Ra) Said To That Man That He Was The Son
Of A Black Lady, You Have Been Brought Up So Dirt..
Oh You Son Of A Black Lady As If The Call Him The N-Word
Or To Put Him Down Because Of His Color, The Man Went And
Told The Prophet What Abu Dharr (Ra) Did, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
The Prophet (Saw), When Abu Dharr (Ra) Came
He Asked Him
Did You Say That He Say?
Yes, He Asked Him,
Do You Criticize Him Because Of His Mother, The Colour Of His Mother,
You Want To Step On The Man'S Neck And Stop Him From Breathing
Because God Almighty Created Him This Color.
You Despise Them.
What Does He Have To Do With The Color That You Despise That
You'Ll Take His Life.
What Does He Have To Do With That?
And Then The Prophet (Saw) Said To Abu Dharr May Allah Be Pleased
With Him, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
You Are A Person That Has Jahiliyya/ Ignorance In You, What You Did Talking
Bad About His Mother, Having This Statement Of Racism You
Or A Person That Has Jahiliyya,
That'S From Jahiliyya
That'S The Prophet Himself Coming Dealing With This Issue
Head-On, Not An Indirect Way And There Are So Many Examples.
I Just Will One More ....
The Last Example Is What Happened During The Time Of The
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
That Was A Man Who Was From His Companions Had Said To Another
One Of His Companions.
I Am So And So, The Son Of So And So, The Son Of So And
So, Who'S The Son Of So And So, Who'S The Son Of So-And-So
And He Kept Mentioning His Grandfathers Until He Got To
The Ninth One.
He Said I Am The Son Of So-And-So And So-And-So And So-And-So
And So-And-So.
Who Were You? May You Not Have A Mother As If To Say You Come
From Nowhere.
You Know, Your People Where We Come From, Your People With
Nothing, Your People From His Slaves,
Your People Used To Make The Shoes.
Your People Are The Ones Who Used To, You Know, Sell Milk
From Door To Door.
There'S Some Of The Nonsense That The Muslims Had Where They
Look Down On Other People, Other People Because Back Where
They Come From His Particular Group Of People They Were The
Landowners But That Guy, His Group Of People, This Brother
They Used To Just Bring The Milk And They Were Give It From
Door-To-Door And And People Will Look Down.
You Can'T Marry Into The Family Of The Landowners.
If Your Father, Your Father Your Grandfather Used To Make
Shoes. So That'S What That Man Said.
Who Were You? May You Have No Mother And Then The Prophet (Saw)
Interrupted And He Taught Them At That Moment And He Said
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, There Were Two Men
During The Time Of Musa (A.S) Who Did The Same Thing.
One Of Them Said, One Of Them Said, I Am So And So, The Son
Of So And So, The Son Of So-And-So And That One That Man
Was The One Who Counted Nine Forefathers.
Not The One With The Companion.
That'S My Bad.
I Was A Mistake.
So That Companion Said I'M So-And-So The Son Of So And So
Who Are You? May You Have No Mother And Then When The Prophet (Saw)
Heard That, He Told Him About What Happened With Bani Israel.
There Was A Man Who Said I'M So And So, The Son Of
So-And-So, The Son Of So-And-So, And He Counted Nine Of His
Forefathers. And Then That Man Said, Who Are You? May You
Not Have A Mother, The Other Man During A Time Of Musa (A.S) Bani-Israel.
He Said I'M So-And-So, The Son Of So And So, The Son Of
Al-Islam, Prophet Muhammad Said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
Allah Sent Revelation At That Moment To Moosa (A.S) That He Should
Tell These Two People, You The One Who Connected Yourself
To Nine Of Your Forefathers.
All Of You, You Being The Tenth One, All Of You Are In The Hell
Fire, All Of You, As For You The One Who Connected Himself
To His Father And Then To Al-Islam All Of You Are In The
Jannah/ Paradise And That Just Goes To Show Clearly That The Most Important
Identifying Point For Muslim Is Al-Islam.
And As I Always Mention Al-Islam Is Uppermost, Al-Islam
Is Elevated, Al-Islam Goes On Top And Nothing Goes Over
Al-Islam- Nothing.
So This Is An Example Of How The Prophet (Saw) Dealt With The Situation
And He (Saw) Used To Always Do That.
He (Saw) Used To Always Be An Example.
He (Saw) Would Be An Example For The Community, For The World At
The Battle Of Badr, At The Battle Of Badr,
The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Before... It Was From
The Practice Of The Arabs Before Everybody Started Fighting.
They Will Have A Dual Sending Your Three Best Out.
We'Ll Send Out Three Best Out, Prophet Muahammed (Saw) Sent Hamza R, Ali R
The Third Man From The Closest Of His Relatives.
He Didn'T Send Belal R,
He Didn'T Send Salman Al-Farsi R
He (Saw) Didn'T Send Suhaib Rumi (Ra), People Were Far From Him.
He Sent Three Of His Closest Relatives, At The Farewell Hajj,
He Gathered All The People After The Hajj Was Almost
Over And He Said Listen Riba/ Usury Is Haram From This Day.
It Is Underfoot.
And The Very First Riba That I'M Going To Start Off With
Is The Riba Of My Uncle Abbas, It'S Haram.
That'S How The Prophet (Saw) Used To Be.
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So The Nabi (Saw) Of Islam Was Fair And He Was Just And He Was
An Individual Who When It Came To The Issue Of Racism.
He Made It Clear That Racism Is Is Haram In Our Religion.
So I Find It Amazing.
I Find It Amazing, Amazing That Many Muslims We Look At What
Happened In America And We Can Call America Out For What
Has Happened And What We See On A Constant Basis With African
American People Being Killed.
Even Our Women, Even Our Sisters.
Our Daughters, Our Wives, They'Ll Shoot You In The Car While
Your Wife Is With You And Your Child Is In The Back As An
African-American, They Will
Shoot Your Wife Or Your Sister And The Privacy Of Her Own Home.
They'Ll Kill Her As It Has Happened Or You Can Be There With
Her And They'Ll Shoot You. So Many Muslims Know That, Many
Muslims Have Seen That But You Know, What'S Really Strange
And Distressing Is The Fact That The Same Racism That We
See Coming From The Racist Cops In America And The Races
President Of The United States Of America.
It Is The Same
Racism That We See As Reverts That Comes From Many Of Our
Muslim Brothers, Wallahi This Is What We Find Racism
From Muslims Themselves.
So People Want To Look At George Floyd Which We Should Do.
That Is An Ayah From, The Ayat Of Allah And A Lesson For Us
To Learn.
But How Are We Going To Be Racist And It'S Just Not Me Being
African-American Crying Wolf And Saying Racism, Racism, We
Have People Who Are Revert Whites, Some Of Them, People Are Racist
Towards Them, The Brother His Background Is That Ethnic,
Ethnically..
His Ethnicity Is That He'S A Jewish Person.
He Used To Be A Jewish Person, Maybe Practice Judaism, Maybe
He Didn'T And Then He Comes In To Al-Islam And People
Look At Him And Treat Him As If He'S Not A Full-Fledged Real
Muslim. Whereas You Find The One Who Was Born And Raised
In Al-Islam And He Could Be From Pakistani, It Could Be Asian Brother,
Coudl Be Arab Brother,
Whatever.
He Doesn'T Know Anything About The Religion, But He Looks
At Other People Who Are Embraced, Who Have Embraced As Being
Second-Class Citizens To Him, Second-Class Citizens
And This Is Something That We Say Is Not Permissible.
Let Me Explain To You Why Racism Is So Disgusting In The
Sight Of Allah (Swt)? Allah Created All People, He Created
Some With Fat Noses, Some With Thin Noses, Some With White
Skin, Some With Black Skin, Some With Red Skin And So On So
Forth, All Features Are From Allah Azzawajal.
And When You Look At Someone Who Is Different To You, And
You Think (Sneering) I Hold You In Contempt, I Don'T Like The Way You
Look. What You Really Trying To Say Is I Don'T Like The Way
Allah Created You And That Is Really Bad And Imagine Going
To The Day Of Judgment ... Having To Explain To Allah
Why You Rasied With Somebody Else And Don'T Forget
It'S Not Just About Racism About White Vs Black
But We Got Racism Between Arabs.
We Got Racism Between Asians,
We Got Racing Between Arabs And Asians,
We'Ve Got Racism Within A Country, Within Any Muslim Country,
Probably Got Racism.
So Let Us Get Rid Of All Forms Of Racism.
No Virtue Of An Arab Over A Non-Arab Or A White Over A Black
Or Vice Versa Except By Taqwa. The Minute You Think Because
My Complexion Is Lighter Or Darker Or Because I Belong To
This Tribe Or Because I Belong To This Particular Nationality
Or Because I Am This Or I Am That, That I Am Better.
That'S The Same Minute,
You Have Dropped Your Crystals.
Your Whole Bag Is Dropped.
Why Because Now You Have... Pride.
What Is That Pride?
You Will Not Enter Jannah.
He Will Not Enter Jannah In Whose Heart
There Is A Mustard Seeds Weight Worth Of Pride. You Need To
Deal With It.
You Need To Deal With The Pride.
Remember You Are Just A Number. Everyone Else Is Like You
Trying To Please Allah.