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Al Aqsa is the first Qibla, prayer direction, of Islam. It is regarded by Muslims as one of the three sacred Mosques, and its surroundings Bayt al Maqdis has been blessed by Allah in the Quran. The hadith talk of the blessed one who prays in all three of the Masjids, something alhamdulillah I have managed to do. But this mosque, its precincts and the entirety of Palestine is today under threat by a foreign settler force that is hellbent on eradicating its history.

My guest today argues that there is an urgency now in time to save this mosque, as the Zionist project comes to fruition and he calls for an intellectual reawakening of the ummah. Dr. Khalid El-Awaisi is from Hebron, Al Khalil in Palestine. He a lecturer of the pioneering field of Islamic jerusalem Studies. His main speciality is in the historical-geography of Islamic jerusalem. He is currently the Associate Professor of Islamic History at the Social Sciences University of Ankara and Executive Director of Islamic Jerusalem Academy .

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Introduction

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AA is at the most dangerous time in its history  Donald Trump coming back into into office Al AA  

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is in Greater danger and you've heard of the red  he heer the occupation of the mind is much worse  

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than the occupation of the land is the source of  Baraka to its surrounding what did you do to stop  

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that genocide this is where we as an um today have  become selfish Muslims KH tell the Muslims to love  

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Al more than they love the Kaa and the mosque  of the prophet in Medina Al does not need the  

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um the need two billion Muslims are unable to take  a glass of water into Gaza without the permission  

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of the zist every house in Gazza has a picture  of Al Al is at the core of the resistance of the

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Palestinians ala is the first CER prayer direction  of Islam it is regarded by Muslims as one of the  

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most sacred mosque and its surroundings makd  has been blessed by Allah subhah wa ta'ala in  

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the Quran the Hadith talk about the blessed  one who prays in all three of the masjids AL  

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AKA being one of them something alhamdulillah  I have managed to do but this mosque and its   precincts and the entirety of Palestine is today  under threat my guest today argues that there  

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is an urgency now to save this mosque as the  Zionist projects comes to fruition and he calls  

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for an intellectual Reawakening of the umah  Dr Khaled Al AI is from Hebron Al Khal in  

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Palestine he's a lecturer of the pioneering field  of Islamic Jerusalem studies his main speciality  

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is the historical geography of Islamic Jerusalem  he's currently the associate professor of Islamic  

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history uh at the social sciences University of  Ankara and executive director of Islamic Jerusalem  

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Academy Dr khid aliam and thank you for coming in  to to see us at thinku Muslim the pleasure is all  

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mine it's Wonder it's really wonderful to to have  you with us I think we last uh maybe a year ago we  

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had arranged to meet in Ankara to to conduct the  interview for for all sorts of technical reasons  

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that was not possible but we meet at a time where  uh things have developed uh Subhan Allah and you  

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know we have this pause inshah it's permanent in  Gaza but of course we now have uh what seems like  

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a new front uh or a continuation of a front in  the West Bank and as we get closer to Ramadan it's  

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clear to me that to all of us I think that Al AA  will once again uh be a focus of settler activity  

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of of Israeli forces activity so I think it's a  really important topic to to cover the situation  

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in Al AA and the strains Al AA is under at this  moment in time and as I said in my introduction  

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uction you you uh uh have um have pioneered this  study of Islamic Jerusalem and the Islamic roots  

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of Jerusalem so I would like to tap into that  knowledge of yours today uh inshallah tala so   let's start with the Islamic um Primacy let's say  of the Masjid of Al AA um just talk us through um  

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what alaka means to us as Muslims uh first of  all thank you very much for uh having me and  

Al-Aqsa for Muslims

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it's a pleasure being on the thinking Muslim and  to be talking about Mida at a very critical time  

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in its uh in the history of the um yeah ala is  uh not just something that is connected to the  

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past of the Muslims uh it is very well rooted in  the history of Islam starting with Adam uh Islam  

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does not start with Muhammad sallallahu alaihi  wasallam as is well uh established within the  

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Quran and the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu  alaihi wasallam but today we see Islam within   the Western orientalist uh lenses which only  limits Islamic history to the last 4400 years  

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so when we talk about for example the uh what  you talked about the intellectual neckar that  

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we're living through as an um the occupation of  the mind is much worse than the occupation of the  

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land the occupation of B mdis has didn't start  the ne didn't start in 1948 with uh the zionists  

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establishing their state actually it was the  British in 1917 that occupied the land and then  

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established this Zionist State as part of their  Western project but going back to the importance  

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of within Islam it takes us back to the first  human and the first human Allah says in the Quran

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the first house of worship for Humanity is that at  Becca the Kaa and theith of the authentic Hadith  

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when Abu asks him what is the first mosque on  Earth he says Thea the second mosque he saysa  

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he says how long between both mosque he says 40  years and you look at this these are the first  

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two centers of Islam in the world of in the world  the Kaa in meca and uh in uh and the name of Thea  

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was and the name of was the Holy house and that  was the sacred house in a sense so the history  

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ofd starts with the history of humanity in a  sense and this is even looking at from from  

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an archaeological point of view an amazing study  by Dr heam he Compares between the architecture  

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uh and design of the and he finds them to be  identical in proportions in the angles you say  

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okay the shapes may be similar uh but there is  a very detailed study on this as part of the uh  

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Islamic jeruslem Studies uh so we know that the  history of B MD starts with the first human and  

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then it is the center it is the land of prophets  you look at the Quran a third of the Quran are  

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stories of prophets and these prophets are all  centered around this holy land around B makd  

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and you see that the Muslims the early sahab  were connected to this land yeah uh through the  

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stories of the prophets this is the second Center  ofed on Earth and then they were connected to it  

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through it uh being their first so imagine  imagine imagine the early muslims praying  

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because this was the of the previous prophets  so they were praying in their Salah towards  

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and this is at a time when Thea was surrounded  with hundreds of idols and Islam mamm had brought  

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to them so they were being uh established in this  Faith to turn their backs to the idols but to face  

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towards so it established you see the early sah  was very Central to them uh wasallam the early  

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sahab would pray towards it the Quran is talking  about the story so imagine standing in as says  

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and he's reading Surah orah the story OFA zakar  ibim uh all of this was this was the geography  

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of the prophets in this land and on the day om  accepts Islam and this is you see the connection  

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with used to meet in his house comes to he says  I'm going Tod he says for business for trade he  

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says no I'd just like to go and pray in and this  is in the first years of Islam yes the sahaba were  

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connected their hearts their minds and their  souls and the third dimension for the sahaba  

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was a political uh connection so the was uh uh we  can say a spiritual connection the stories of the  

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prophets was uh a religious connection and the  first quranic prophecy was about a war between  

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two superpowers at the time the Romans and the  Persians yes and the Quran at a very difficult  

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time when sumayya was being killed when Yasir  was being killed the sahaba are being persecuted  

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having to migrate towards uh uh ABIA very  difficult situation the Quran does not discuss  

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their uh diffic hardships and difficulties it is  discussing a war between the biggest two super  

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super powers at the time the sasan uh uh Persians  and the byzantian Romans but this has this is a  

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war we have nothing to do with and they took over  uh today all of turkey all of badam all of North  

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Africa and even besieged constantinopolis but the  Quran only mentioned this war when it was related

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to and when the this comes to so the sahaba are  connected to it spiritually religiously and now  

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politically they're following everything this  is not just the past the future of Islam will  

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be from there and we see this during the night  Journey after the sahab are connected Tod and  

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these very strong connections Allah could have  taken directly to the heavens from meccah but  

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after the hardships goes through after the year  of Sorrow after after not being allowed back into  

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Mecca after all these difficulties Allah subhana  T to relieve this is why makd is the Land of Hope  

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for the prophets ibraim when he was persecuted  he was taken to B mdus muhammadu alaihi wasallam  

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was taken to B mdas and when he enters uh  you can say from a spiritual religious uh  

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importance you can talk about this for hours  but the uh important part is the political  

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ramifications of this particular uh journey  and this is mentioned by I cawi and many of  

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the scholars of the Muslims that this was not  a normal Journey this is the isra isra yes the  

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night Journey ofam it was not just a political uh  Journey not a religious or um a spiritual journey  

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it was a political uh uh journey in a sense and  how you explain this politically yeah this was  

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the handing over of the flag of leadership of  humanity from the previous Nations to the um  

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of Muhammad alhi wasallam and where does this  take place in and was leading the prayer of  

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124,000 prophets in as Abbas says there is  not an in where a prophet has not prayed or  

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an angel hasn't stood this is a place uh of  immense Baraka and this is at the start you  

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said Allah has given Baraka to its surrounding  says something very beautiful he says is the  

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source of Bara to its surroundings so all of the  bar the source of it is actually because Allah

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says so imagine a cup uh and the it overflows  to the area around it but the actual source  

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of that spring is that is so this handing over  the Muslims leading Humanity uh takes place the  

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uh handing over takes place inside Masa with the  presence in a unique Summit that hasn't happened  

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anywhere else in the world uh at any place in  time but in from Adam to every Prophet prayed  

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behind Muhammad sallahu alaihi wasallam so when  you see Talking uh we followed the chronological  

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discussion here uham how he connected the sah to  the night Journey was the crown and the Jewel of  

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that connection and migrates to Medina he builds  all the mosques of Medina towards makd then the  

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changes because it was already decreed and there  is a long story of around that but following this  

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uham all the on the virtues of are actually  narrated in Medina so do not set out to three  

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except the three mosque was after the third mosque  was built which is the Masjid of the wasallam  

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wasallam made a culture in Medina where everyone's  talking about makd because makd is not just the  

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past and present is the future there's a beautiful  Hadith where comes to the prophet sallallahu alhi  

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wasallam and was a freed slave of she would always  come to him and ask him questions about give us a  

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f about s give us a fatwa about charity about this  about that and she comes toam and she says give us  

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a fatwa about and connects it to the Future and  he says it is the land of raising and Gathering  

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go and pray in it it's a command from what does  land of raising and Gathering mean that every  

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human will be gathered in this land for the day  of judgment the start of the day of judgment will  

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be here B Makkah was the start of humanity makd  will be the Gathering Place of all Humanity yes  

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for the day of judgment so when something happens  today in in in in that circles of bar around it  

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remember that you're going to be gathered for the  day of judgment in this land and you're going to  

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be questioned you lived in the 21st century when  the first of Muhammad was under occupation what  

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did you do if you don't have an answer you're in  big trouble right Gaza went through uh a genocide  

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and you lived through that time what did you do  to stop that genocide if you don't have an answer  

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your future is at stake here it from that land  you will set forth either to Jenna or to Janam  

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UHD is the land where all tyrants are destroyed  from ancient history the Quran talks about the  

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story of dam fighting jalut and the story  of a tyrant being destroyed in B makd to  

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the Crusades they were destroyed in this  land to the Zionist to the muls to Y and  

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Ma to every Tyrant that think that they can  rule the world like the Zionist today their  

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destruction because this is as Allah calls it  it is the holy land it is the land where all  

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tyrants will get down on their knees and today  we see after the the the ceasefire Netanyahu is  

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on his knees uh he does not want to stop this  war he's forced to stop this war and this will  

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be the end of of the science project this the  the more that they uh uh think that they have  

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transgressed is the closer they are to their  and so in a nutshell is the past the present  

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and the future of the umah not just the umah  but actually of all of humanity can I ask you  

Al-Aqsa Ranking

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about uh how we uh we place where we place or in  relation to the other two mids the other two MOS  

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because um I remember I was I was waiting to enter  uh you know and the Israelis of course they detain  

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anyone who comes in for a period of time and  question them and I remember many people coming  

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and going and they were saying we've been to the  first two mosques now we're going to the third  

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right and so it's become popular to rank it as the  third of the of the mosqu to to to go to is that a  

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is that a correct um rating I suppose or or place  to for for Mash ala it comes after of Makkah and  

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Haram of Madina and then then it's Mash ala let me  start with something that will shock the audience  

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listening uh today a prayer in is greater than a  prayer at the ca that's a bit exaggerated yes uh  

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many of the uh listeners will say but actually  it's based on aith of wasallam yes wasallam says  

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prayer in Alam is 100,000 at the Masjid of the  Prophet is 1,000 and at ala it's 500 and one  

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timei wasallam this Hadith is incredible wasallam  comes out from his house and the sahab are sitting  

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in a discussing which is better the mosque of  the Prophet or the mosque of Al and wasallam  

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says to them what are you discussing they say a  prayer in your mosque is better that or in and he

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says my a prayer in my mosque today is  better than four prayers in ALA meaning  

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that ala the reward of Prayer in  it at that time was 250 and the  

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m is 1,000 but there will come a time  and the wording is incredible he says

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uh there will come a time where 1 M Square  to put it in our uh terminology from where  

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you can just see will be better than  the world and everything within it so  

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the saying today a prayer in my mosque is  better than Al but there will come a time  

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just seeing ala will be better than a prayer  anywhere else in the world and Hadith in the uh  

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in the where wasallam says one hour ofat  and this ISAT today is a for forgotten and

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Allah rat is a very important Islamic  that we have forgotten as an um today  

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soat being watching the Frontiers yes standing  on the Frontiers defending uh Islam and today  

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you see our sisters at the gates of alj AA  standing defending not praying just standing  

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at the gates of alj AA is better than you  might say a prayer in the Caba that's what I  

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started Witham says an hour ofat is better than  praying at the night of in front of the black

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stone puts things into perspective and  this is where we as an umah today have  

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become selfish Muslims uh everyone's looking for  their own atonement everyone's looking for their  

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own uh personal uh forgiveness forgetting  the um as a whole and this is where abdah

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and uh in his poetry when he  wrote to him he said to him

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a uh the one worshiping at the har if  you see us making rat andad in the way  

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of Allah what you're doing in at mea  and minina are is playing you're not  

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really uh you're looking for your uh self  uh atonement but you have forget forgotten  

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that the umah needs this of standing  steadfast today you see someone in

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and you are shocked coming out of underneath  the rubble a 12-year-old girl says did I not  

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become a Shahed had I become a Shahed it would  have been worth it for at 12-year-old girl knows  

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the importance of ala more than the whole of  the um and one of the guards of ala said to  

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me and when I say this people are shocked uh  he and these are his words and today he was uh  

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uh last week he was released from prison but in  in in an exchange with him he says KH tell the  

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Muslims to love ala more than they love the Kaa  and the mosque of the prophet in Medina and I  

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said that's a bit too much and anyone listening  to us would say no you can't love ala more than  

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you love the Kaa yes and he explains it he  says ask the mothers ask the fathers if they  

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have three children and one of their children  is sick in hospital would they look after that  

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child more than they would the other two children  that are healthy I said definitely yes he said KH  

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ala is sick ala is under captivity ala is in  prison ala needs the um to stay awake and to  

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liberate it when you liberate it you can go  back and loving them in the same in the same  

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way but now Al needs the um and then he turned  around and he said ala does not need the um the  

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and really this is the case the um in order to  stand up the the situation the the situation of  

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the umah today as you look at it it's two billion  Muslims are unable to take a glass of water into  

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Gaza without the permission of the Zionist is  this how pathetic the the umah has become and it  

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makes you rethink the Hadith of the prophet  sallallahu alaihi wasallam in which he says  

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there will come a time when all nations will all  uh attack you like they invite each other uh over  

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a meal you look at the situation of the Muslims  from Eastern turkistan all the way to Sudan all  

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the way to Yemen the the enemies of Islam are  attacking from Left Right and Center uh and  

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alhi wasallam explains the sahab are shocked are  we little than Allah he says no you are a lot but  

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you are like the froth Over the Sea you have no  value and today two billion Muslims are unable to  

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change the course of history and are are unable to  change not the course of history to change their  

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own future uh this is how raised the um to be  how will we Face there is two Hadith three Hadith  

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that since the 7th of October have really shook  me this is one and the sahab are shocked and he  

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says it is because of Wan they say what is w  he says love of D and fear of death and this  

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is the problem of the capitalist Muslims today  we all we are only looking for our personal uh  

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development uh not thinking of the umah as as  as a whole and the second Hadith which really  

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gives me uh so much hope is howah describes the  people of and the people of 1,400 years ago he

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says there's a group of my um that will  always be on the right path they will all  

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always overcome their enemy uh until the the  command of Allah comes and they are in that  

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state of steadfastness we asked wasam where are  they he said in and in the surroundings of and you  

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see the Hadith is describing the people of today  you know if was alive today the people of would  

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be his sahaba you say their IM is only something  we read theoretically in the books of History the  

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sahaba at the sahab in bad these are the stories  that we are living today three of my aunts live in  

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gazan when I speak to them I'm ashamed that and  I stopped calling them and I called them a few  

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days ago after the ceasefire and I said to them  I apologize I've not been calling because I feel  

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um um what can I say my words every time I call  them they're they're the ones that are giving us  

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words of support and you see the words of wasam  in which he described them actually perfectly  

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on H and my aunt said to me we were just praying  that Allah would not deviate us from the right  

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path through this war this was I they worry  they're well off and I asked my other Aunt I  

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said to her what are you eating water and she  said I kept pressing her because it was a very  

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and I feel ashamed eating and drinking while  they're starving uh and it really shakes you  

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from inside and I said to her what are you eating  what are you drinking I kept pushing and she said  

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they were well off and she said alhamdulillah  we manag with one bite a day and with a sip of  

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water uh but wall we are not complaining and that  word just shook me to my core because on that day  

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we had a large meeting in turkey with all the NOS  uh a governmental institutions discussing how to  

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get Aiden toaz this is before Ra was closed and  and I told her we have 50 Nos and organizations  

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discussing how to bring Aid to you and she said  we don't want your Aid we've been sitting since  

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the morning discussing this and I said why she  said most likely it will reach us after we're  

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dead and today nearly 300,000 people in GDA are  dead or or missing and this um did nothing for a  

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year and a half uh that re really shakes me from  inside the third Hadith and I'll um conclude this  

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part with it is aith that wasallam says regarding  the day of judgment he says a group of my um will  

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come to me on the how and the angels will snatch  them and throw them in the Hellfire and the is  

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Inari will immediately inter and he says they're  part of my and Allah will respond to him and

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says you do not know what they did after you and  says Let Them Burn Let Them Burn will give up on  

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part of his um and when I read this Hadith after  the 7th of October I look at the situation of the  

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um I fear that two billion Muslims when we will  come to and meet him on the the day of judgment  

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on the land of he will turn away from us or will  he welcome us with open arms and this Hadith  

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together with the first Hadith that says you'll be  great in numbers but you'll be like the froth on  

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the sea you want to be like that or do you want  to be a Muslim that makes a difference in this  

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world a Muslim that will make the future history  of Islam of this um of humanity uh and this is  

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why we started with the question that you asked  uh is the third Al is not the third Al is number  

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one was number one for it was his first ala is  number two it is a second mosque and ala is one  

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of three not the third nowhere does it say ala is  the third holiest place yeah and this is used by  

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zionists to say Al the third holiest place for  zionists for Jews uh Jerusalem is number one  

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but in reality was actually number one for  the sahab also number two and one of three  

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mosques every Muslim should sit out to visit and  those who say third in terms of reward today this  

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has been reversed because today standing not  praying in standing at the gates of ala is more  

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rewarding in terms ofat what said than actually  even uh praying uh 100 prayers in in in uh

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so we're here to talk about Ala and the pass  in the present and I want to uh really begin  

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this section of the conversation looking at the  present um over the last few years we've seen uh  

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greater um turmoil I suppose especially in in  Ramadan uh in mash alaka and and of course uh  

Western Plan for Aqsa

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there seems to be a plot a rightwing or a Zionist  plot maybe in Broad of an Israel an American plot  

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to undermine Al AXA just bring us up to speed on  um the the sanctity of alaka and where where it  

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currently is in terms of its security and and  its status the T of ala or the flood of Al AA  

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on the 7th of October started with the name  of Al AA but this was not the starting point  

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yeah the starting point takes us back 2 years  earlier on the 28th of Ramadan after the night of  

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when the Zionist attacked the Muslims while  they were fasting inside the Masa With Grenades  

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with smoke uh uh with tear gas with all and the  whole world watched uh Islam's holiest site being  

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desecrated yeah in the holiest month of Ramadan  the um is watching and the people in Al AA had  

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already given up on most of the Muslim rulers  particularly the Arab rulers they have no hope  

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in them this is uh as a Palestinian saying  this uh for for a very long time the people  

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in uh in Palestine gave up on the Arab leaders  they know that uh they're actually not part of  

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the solution they're part of the problem  they're part of this Zionist uh Western uh   scheme in the world and we see this today  unfortunately very clearly across the uh  

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so-called Muslim leaders who are uh very close to  the zionists and their their their state aiding  

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them in the genocide in razza yes uh with with  with many examples so on the 28th of Ramadan 2021  

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ala was attacked by uh the zist occupation forces  to allow a few hundred settlers to pray in Al  

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and this was part of following uh the deal of  the century uh and now come Donald Trump coming  

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back into into office ala is in Greater danger  than it was ever before during the last term of  

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Donald Trump he talked about in the deal of the  century that ala should be open to all faiths for  

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worship and what he means here is not Christians  and others he means particularly Jews this is  

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part of the uh Zionist right-wing agenda that ala  needs to be uh a place for Jewish worship you have  

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no interest of a Muslim praying in the Church of  the Holy slia and you have no interest of a Muslim  

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praying in a synagogue but the zionists today are  pushing this idea that they need to pray inside  

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Islam's holiest site in the holy land and they are  really pushing this uh to a great extent and this  

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was a margin something marginal in Israeli society  and this was something marginal within Israeli  

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Society until the year 2000 in 1967 when Al AKA  was occupied by the Zionist the chief Rabbi of the  

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Israeli Army suggested blowing up Al Masjid AA and  the secular generals of the army said to him we're  

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not interested in that but what they did is they  took part of Al Masjid AA which is alak W Al Bak  

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W was never holy to the Jews before the ottoman  period And this is within their own literature  

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this is something that was added later and then it  became a national and a religious symbol for Jews  

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uh in the 20th century it was never holy to the  Jews prior to the 17th century uh no importance  

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of Al Bak wall in that sense this is the Wailing  Wall what they called yes the Wailing Wall or the   Western Wall uh only in the 19th century in the  1800s did it become a place where they started  

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and during the British uh mandate or occupation  they turned it into something uh holy uh so you  

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see this is the first part that they took from  wall and they started in crouching upona but for  

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a very long time Israel Society was a very secular  one and this group that wanted ala as a Jewish  

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place or Jewish temple were very marginalized  within Society until the year 2000 right in the  

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year 2000 when ala in started with Ariel shiron  entering masj AA this right-wing agenda started  

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growing and then they started having members in  the keset and then this became a major issue and  

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today you see the these people around Netanyahu  are part of this agenda that Al AA today is  

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actually divided uh if you recall and those who  have visited and saw the mosque of ibraim after  

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the 1994 massacre in the month of Ramadan where uh  one of their um Goin and he he is today for benav  

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he is his uh hero and his picture is everywhere  so for this religious Zionism this is someone  

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who walked on people praying F Salah while they  are fasting to making suud and gunning them from  

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behind in the month of Ramadan this is the hero of  Bing air uh today so this is the the so what they  

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did is they closed mid IIM for 6 months when they  reopened the 60% was allocated to the Jews and 40%  

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of the Muslims Muslims do not conduct five daily  prayers in mosque ofid ibraim it is controlled uh  

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to enter it's like entering you've seen it when  when you visited KH it's like entering a prison  

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you have to go through these Gates and it's very  uh and this is what uh the zence would like to  

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implement in Masjid AA and they've been pushing  this and Donald Trump in his last term gave them  

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the ground for this and in the deal of the century  this was the main close that was used to justify  

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what the zionists are doing now ala is divided  uh temporally and they're working toward it to  

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being uh divided uh spatially uh from 7:30 in the  morning until Zionist can roam Ina conduct their  

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worship rituals and no one can stop them until  recently this was not allowed anyone conducting  

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any form of worship apart from Muslims was being  arrested by the Israeli police now this has now  

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become normalized you're not even the guards of  AA cannot stop them they make this what they call  

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this Al this prostration where they lie on the  ground of AA this is a very ancient form of uh  

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Jewish worship that doesn't exist anymore they  revive it within Al Masjid AA in order to give   it that uh that status they're entering in larger  numbers although until today actually the majority  

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of the Jews do not enter Al Masjid AA because  it is forbidden according to Judaism to enter  

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Al Masjid AA and on the Gate of mar it writes it  very clearly that Jews are forbidden according  

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to the T from entering the site why because they  are NIS they are impure now the Jews are working  

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towards purifying themselves with the red cow and  you've heard of the red he heer uh and Christian  

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zionists are supporting this through genetically  modified uh uh cows that they have shipped from  

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the United States from Texas all the way and  now once it reaches the age of three then it  

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will be slaughtered it ashes it will be burnt and  its ashes will be used to purify the Jews so now  

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a limited number of Jews uh religious Zionist are  breaking this law actually they're not allowed to  

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enter technically according to the fatwa of their  hams and the chief Rabbi but they're entering  

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breaking this law by justifying that we're not  enter entering the holiest of the holies we're  

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just turning around it so we're not entering  the area of the Dome of the Rocks so this is  

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this is what their argument is so is at the most  uh dangerous time in its history on the 28th of  

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Ramadan the people in M asked the the the um to  come to their help and to Aid them ala is not a  

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Palestinian mosque ala is the mosque of the um  yes and the needs to come and wake up uh from  

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this only which armies of the Muslims did come  to the aid if this would happen anywhere else in  

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the world a holy Place being attacked and if you  remember the attack on the synagogue that happened  

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in in Paris a few years ago the whole world  leaders came and gathered and marched in support  

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Islam does not allow any attack on any place of  worship but when Islam's holiest sight is being  

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attacked the whole world does nothing and Israel  is giving impunity to attack people fasting in the  

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holy month of Ramadan and this was not done in  one Ramadan or two Ramadan or three Ramadan it  

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only stopped after the 7th of October in the  Ramadan following the 7th of October but the   coming Ramadan is going to be even more dangerous  on Masjid AA because the zionists have been forced  

Ramadan dangerous

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to kneel down they've not achieved any of the  goals of the war they've tried to destroy Gaza  

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they' wiped out uh uh 92% of the infrastructure  and the the the buildings in gazda not one  

40:40

University is left schools houses everything is  being wiped out yet the people of Gazza are still  

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behind the resistance and this is uh looking at  the Israeli media they're shocked that how are  

40:54

the people after all of this still standing and  saying we will never give up uh and this is now  

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the zionists you can see what they're what they're  doing they forced stop in GZA they turn towards  

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the West Bank and they're attacking in Janine with  the help of the PA and and and and others and what  

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you're seeing what we will be seeing this coming  Ramadan in in a very short period is going to be  

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maybe the most dangerous Ramadan and when I say  ala is not a Palestinian mosque imagine and put  

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this in perspective If Today IB Salman sells the  Kaa to Donald Trump as part Donald Trump today  

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made a statement that uh he will visit Saudi if  they pay 500 uh Bill million dollars or something  

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along these lines yes um so if IB Salman sells the  Kaaba to uh Donald Trump would any Muslim accept  

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this if today to go to the Kaa you have to ask  the permission of the Americans and at the gates  

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of you have American non-muslim soldiers with guns  and people while they're making ta they're being  

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shot by non-muslim soldiers would the Muslims  just say why is the Kaaba important why is the  

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Kaaba more important than my local mosque every  mosque is the house of would we get into that  

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discussion which is more important and this and  that or would every Muslim say I how can I stand  

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in front of Allah in my prayer and pray towards  my while it is under occupation I have to do  

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everything in my power to liberate that place  and ala is no different than the Kaa The only  

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two mosques mentioned by name in the Quran is ala  and the Kaa The most important places in Islam are  

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the first mosque the Kaa the second mosque Al the  first the second MOS the second Thea and you see  

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there is always like a twinning relationship when  Allah the starting point the Kaa the ending point  

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and you see this and if the umah does not accept  this for the Kaa then they should not accept it  

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for but the problem going back to the starting  point is that the umah is under an intellectual  

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occupation our minds are under occupation for the  last 100 years ala is out of the agenda of the  

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Muslims today IB Salman says Al Palestine is not  my issue the same is being said by many of the uh  

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Muslim leaders who are signing the Abraham quote  unquote Accords with the zionists uh and and you  

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see this that ala is not their issue alhamdulillah  is not their issue actually because ala is  

43:57

an issue of IM there's no two Believers two  M that will disagree on the importance of but  

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amongst thef you will have you will have these uh  disagreements buta is the themometer of the umah  

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and we see this throughout history and seeing  ala today under occupation since 1967 now being  

Al-Aqsa today

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uh temporally divided meaning that parts of the  time in Al AA is dedicated to Jews and part of  

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it to Muslims moving towards what the deal of the  century what Donald Trump suggested the first time  

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is that ala should be allocated during Jewish  holidays only to Jews exactly like the mosque  

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of Ibraham is being divided in that in in that  sense and looking at that context where we are  

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heading is the reason why uh Gazza on the 28 of  Ramadan came to to to Aid was fora the reason why  

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7th of October according to the resistance is Al  the um the people of have paid a very heavy price  

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not every not a single not a single household  in Gazza has not had their house destroyed as  

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property uh lost or have Shahid or injured  every every single one is paying the price  

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and you know the zus soldiers uh every they they  say every house in Gazza has a picture of Al and  

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this is shocking them and I saw a video today in  Northern Gaza where a man entered his house and he  

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has a beautiful uh marble of the DOR of The Rock  and Masjid AA inside his house and the Zionist  

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particularly destroyed that because ala is at the  core of the resistance of the Palestinians it is  

45:58

the symbol of the resistance every I mentioned  the story of the girl coming from underneath the  

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rubble 12-year-old saying everything I wish had  I died it would have been worth it fora you hear  

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a man who lost all his property everything that  he worked for in his life he says everything is  

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worth it for and fors you you have a child you  have an old man you have an woman who lost or  

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her children everything is worth it for Al they  know the importance of Al and the is unable to  

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do this the people of Gazza the people of  Palestine have paid the price now the umah  

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it is time for the umah to wake up and before it  is too late because it can be too late and if we

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lose may Allah forbid it is the end of the  um the last time and I'll mention this story  

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I felt ashamed of being part of this um  last time I was in about 10 years ago I  

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saw something that every time I remember I cry  because what I saw is not how raised the um to  

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beam for a single Muslim woman raised the whole  of the Muslim Army for woman in the market of

47:29

the Muslim raised the whole of the Muslim for  a single woman that was held captive in the  

47:37

area around anara uh in in Byzantium Ankara  at that time and today what I saw in ALA on  

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that day I cannot forget it I was walking with my  son towards you know ala is not a single building  

47:54

ala is a compound 140 2,000 square kilome ala  is a large compound that includes the Dome of  

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the Rock Al the basements the minettes 142,000  square meters uh Anda is full of monuments so  

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I was walking with my son he was at that time 89  years old towards Al AA Museum in the uh Southern  

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uh Western corner close to alak wall and then  we passed a group of Muslim women reading the  

48:30

Quran they're sitting in a reading the Quran and  we passed him about 100 m and I heard a scream I  

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looked behind and I wished I hadn't seen what I  saw I saw a Zion Soldier on top of a young girl  

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maybe 16 17 years old biting her with his  teeth like a vicious dog inside the Masid  

48:57

I left my son I ran and an elderly woman was  trying to help get him off her he pushed her  

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and she fell in he she broke her arm that image  every time I remember it I got there with a few  

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Muslims and they started beating everyone  then they used tear gas then they and I  

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felt I cried that day I went to a corner  and started crying the um I felt is dead

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Muhammad sallahu alaihi wasallam did not bring  the um to be like this two billion Muslims today  

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and is not on our agenda Muhammad 100 years ago  before Al was occupied by the Zionist it was  

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under the British he says every child after they  learn they need to learn the importance of Al this  

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was before the umah Lost Al and then we became  uh part of everyone has been divided the umah  

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has been split up into uh from one United body  into 507 uh mini states that are all controlled  

50:17

by uh various different powers and um everyone's  caring about the box that has been drawn to them  

50:29

and this concept of nation state even today  Palestine the map of Palestine everyone knows  

50:37

exactly what it looks like but if I ask you what  is that Allah mentioned in the Quran maybe one  

50:44

or two Muslims would know the majority would not  know that is the land of that extends around the  

50:52

city of uh UHD around m all the way to Janine  in the north to nais and uh to in the South to  

51:03

parts of Jordan today to Gaza on the other side  uh not many Muslims would know the the extent of  

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the Holy Land but they would know what British  Palestine is based on its biblical uh borders  

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that the British and the French Drew if I asked  a quranic terminology Allah uses Bara the land of  

51:28

Baraka Muslims would not know what it is because  the Muslim mind is under occupation and this is  

51:35

going back to the same point that we started off  with it is worse than the occupying of the land  

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is the occupying of the mind and the Muslims have  become so entrenched in their new identities that  

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have been drawn by the west by a ruler if you look  at the maps of the Muslim world today day wah it

51:57

is in Arabic we say the worst of uh the pain is  the one that makes you cry or makes you laugh  

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uh you look at the situation dividing Us by an  imaginary line that makes you Jordanian and makes  

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me Palestinian and that one Syrian and Lebanese  and makes that Egyptian or Sudanese or divides a  

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Moroccan from uh a Libyan uh from a Tunisian the  way they've divided us this colonialist uh over  

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the last 100 years the um needs to break away  from this change and since the 7th of October  

52:40

uh we've seen major changes and the end of nation  states we've been talking about this for the last  

52:46

few decades nation states are actually dead and  everyone's looking you have the European Union on  

52:53

one side you have the Turkish uh Union on another  side you have people breaking away from this and  

52:59

the um needs to come back and bring a new Union  that brings the whole of the um again and today  

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uh what is happening in ALA what is happening in  Gaza should be Reviving the Muslim um and Reviving  

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these thoughts in our mind that we need to break  away from this colonialist uh um sets that have  

53:19

being boxes that have been set for for us and  move towards uh a new form of governance uh a new  

53:28

form of uh Union that brings the Muslims together  but this first has to be done on the theoretical  

53:36

side and the Muslim Scholars have failed in this  unfortunately uh before moving to put it into uh  

53:42

practice I want to go back to you talk about the  last 100 years and this colonialism of the mind  

Intellectual decline

53:49

and these imaginary lines between our borders that  make us jordanians or Palestinians or syrians and  

53:56

and how uh these identities are being hoist  Upon Us by the West the Western identities that  

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have we've we've internalized and today we we're  proud of our nation states um I I want to focus  

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on some of the seminal moments in these last  100 years like what led to this intellectual  

54:17

decline um tell me about the first world war  when um General alen uh entered Jerusalem and  

54:26

uh and declared the Crusades are over what's tell  me about the significance of that moment yes in  

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the month of December uh 1917 uh the British  prime minister at the time said to Alan B I  

54:40

want uh Jerusalem as a gift to the British people  for Christmas this is David lloy GE and uh alen be  

54:51

set forth what the worst part of this is most of  the British army were actually made of Muslims the  

54:59

Egyptian on one side and the Indians on the other  side and the British uh government at the time  

55:07

insisted that the Crusades should not be invoked  in this discussion uh because this would hurt the  

55:16

feelings of the Muslims within uh with within that  the Muti of Jerusalem cam husseini at the time  

55:23

stood with alen and when alen said the Crusades  are over he got angry and he left in the middle of  

55:29

his speech as he's proclaiming the occupation of  uh of of Jerusalem however when I talk about the  

55:37

intellectual neba it is so rooted and uh within  within that that uh uh Haj uh cam Hussein the Muti  

55:52

of Al congratulated alen on occupying really and  when I read this I said no that's not real I that  

56:01

cannot be the case then I read and I'm shocked  even further that he placed the foundation stone  

56:09

together with the um uh priest uh from Jerusalem  of the Hebrew University Foundation Stone for  

56:20

the Hebrew University placed by a Muslim and a  Christian that confused you even more then I read  

56:29

uh that the Muti of yafa brought gifts to alimi  and the following year and congratulating him of  

56:39

ending the Turkish occupation and wrote a poem  and when I read this poem I was in shock uh he  

56:48

says uh Children of the temps you have come to our  land well welcome wasan yeah uh you have come and  

56:59

ended a period of uh occupation and transgression  of the Turks and you brought entit Enlightenment  

57:09

and and when I read this there's something wrong  in the Muslim psyche at the time and the root of  

57:16

this was nationalism Arab nationalism and Turkish  nationalism Sultan Abdul Hamid may Allah subh have  

57:22

mercy on his soul until he was dethroned uh he  was pushing for the idea of what he called Islam  

57:33

all the Muslims under one umbrella and the hijaz  railway was part of was an umah project was not  

57:40

a personal uh project for the sultan and this is  why he raised the money from the Muslims all the  

57:48

way from India and Indonesia all the way to North  Africa because this is a a project of the umah  

57:54

so he United the the ja Railway and this is why  Lawrence uh of Arabia uh when he drove the bedom  

58:04

Sharif Hussein and his people out of hij he says  if I was truthful to them I would tell them not  

58:11

to leave uh we're going to uh all the promises we  made we're not going to keep our word and this is  

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you see this at the end of Sultan Abdul Hamed at  his time tury turkey ish nationalism started in  

58:27

France Arab nationalism started in France 20 years  in between them so Turkish nationalism started  

58:35

first and then Arab nationalism started or in the  early uh 1900s in Paris then it uh went forth to  

58:48

Damascus and from Damascus Lawrence of Arabia  in his book Seven Pillars of wisdom he talks  

58:53

about that we should change the Hajj from Mecca to  Damascus from towards Allah and Iman towards Arab  

59:02

nationalism and they succeeded and this became the  new religion unfortunately uh of uh the people at  

59:12

the time that it is National aspirations and at  the same time you have Zionism Jewish nationalism  

59:19

developing uh Arab nationalism and Turkish  nationalism and the Western colonialist used  

59:27

all of them for their own goods and what we saw  was shocking that your brother becomes your enemy  

59:35

and your enemy becomes your friend and we see this  very clearly in those who are aligning themselves  

59:43

with the uh uh with the colonialists and we have  three promises made by the British at the same  

59:49

time and reading through them uh I'm I'm I was in  shock that the British were uh playing everyone so  

59:59

first you have the uh agreement with Sher Hussein  the McMahon Sharif Hussein correspondence in which  

1:00:09

they promised him a and I read this in the British  archive here in Q garden and I read this and I was  

1:00:16

in shock that the British knew Islamic better than  the Muslims right and I read the document in which  

1:00:23

it says that the should be in qur and the Turks  are not Arabs are not quray so they are not the

1:00:32

legitimate uh rulers of the Muslims and this only  belongs to quray so it should be Sharif Hussein  

1:00:42

and I read the letter and the letter is written in  such amazing Arabic praising him that he is from  

1:00:48

the family of the Prophet Sall alhi wasallam that  he thought that the British are really respecting  

1:00:54

him and they're making him these promises and  we would like you to reestablish theaa they   said and theaa should be amongst the Arabs and  we will give you all the land and they included  

1:01:04

Palestine within this at the same time the British  were already discussing with the French the sipot  

1:01:10

agreement which is that they're going to divide  this land between themselves and Palestine will   be an international Zone at the same time they  were making a promise of Palestine to the Jews  

1:01:22

and this is uh at the time the only only Jew  in the British cabinet um he was uh talking  

1:01:31

about it as being an anti-semitic uh declaration  uh you want to get rid of the Jews from the UK  

1:01:39

because there was a Jewish Problem in Europe and  the Jewish problem is because of anti-Semitism in  

1:01:45

Europe anti-Semitism is not a a Muslim problem  uh the Muslims have never been anti-semitic  

1:01:51

respected the Jews included them as part of  the um in the con ution of Medina until they  

1:01:58

committed treason three of their tribes were  expelled out of Medina or fought the rest of  

1:02:03

the tribes the Jewish tribes continued to live  with the Muslims in Medina and under Islam the  

1:02:08

Jews were always welcomed when they were being  tortured uh uh and expelled from Europe and and  

1:02:15

and elsewhere coming back to to to to to the point  this context in the 20th century where alen enters  

1:02:26

what hurt me most is he was welcomed by the  people of B makd clapping and cheering as  

Occupation of mind

1:02:36

alen and his army entered and at first I didn't  believe this but then when I realized this was  

1:02:45

part of the occupation of the mind that your  enemy becomes your savior and we saw this not  

1:02:50

long ago in Iraq when the uh American army uh  came into Iraq and the people were clapping for  

1:02:59

their occupier only after a million Iraqis were  dead now are we awake and saying oh that was  

1:03:06

the worst day the Palestinians within 2 years  started the first revolt against the British  

1:03:12

in NAB Musa then the Barack Revolt then theam  then 1936 then never since the occupation of  

1:03:24

the British has the resistance stopped against  them before Hamas even existed before fat even  

1:03:30

existed resistance of the occupation like it  happened in Algeria uh like it happened in in  

1:03:36

in different parts against colonialist in India  and other parts of the world it is a legitimate  

1:03:42

struggle against occupier uh starting from the  British occupation to the Zionist occupation to  

1:03:49

today the genocide uh resisting this genocide is  a moral responsibility resisting the occupation  

1:03:57

wherever it may be uh if today France invades  the England uh would the people say uh they  

1:04:05

have every right to do so uh or would the people  resist um and these These are uh uh what happened  

1:04:14

in 1917 with the British occupying and with almb  announcing it is the end of the Crusade yes what's  

End of Crusades

1:04:22

the significance of this yes of calling it The  End end of the Crusades yes because since Salah

1:04:30

liberated from the Crusades there was never  a stop in the European psyche of taking this  

1:04:43

land back from the Muslims and I'll give you a  few example yeah immediately when Salah in 11  

1:04:49

87 took makus uh the Third Crusade with the King  of England King of France and Germany set out on  

1:04:58

the king's Crusade the Third Crusade to take B  mdis back and Richard continued the rest of them  

1:05:07

uh Philip of France returned back and uh Frederick  of Germany died on the way uh but Richard fought  

1:05:19

against Salah he won some battles eventually  he signed a truce with Salah not a peace treat  

1:05:26

it was a truce for a number of years that there  will be no fighting um and he set a new strategy  

1:05:35

that our focus should not be Jerusalem our focus  should be Egypt if Egypt is in our hands Palestine  

1:05:46

or the holy land will easily fall into our hands  and we see this uh today with what is happening  

1:05:53

in Syria Salah first started from Syria then  moved to Egypt then crushed The Crusade today  

1:06:01

without the fall of Assad which alhamdulillah  he has fallen without the fall of CeCe ala will  

1:06:07

never be liberated that's so yes uh and this is a  historical precedent we see this we learn we need  

1:06:14

to learn from the historical example who brought  C into Power why were the Western Powers not happy  

1:06:19

with Mercy you want democracy democracy brought  mercy and during the time of Mercy when in in 2012  

1:06:27

when Gaza was was attacked immediately he sent  his prime minister into Gaza and opened all the   borders today you see CeCe he is doing the job  of the Israelis he is to to the gazin sometimes  

1:06:41

even worse than the Israelis because he's the one  complicit in blocking the aid blocking everything  

1:06:47

every Lifeline into Gaza is being blocked by  by uh CC himself but going back to uh Richard  

1:06:56

Richard made this strategy and the following  Crusades concentrated on North Africa and Egypt  

1:07:01

in particular and the seventh Crusade actually uh  the the the the king uh Lis iith was was captured  

1:07:12

in Egypt and he was uh imprisoned imprisoned there  uh we see this every Century from Salah there was  

1:07:22

always an attempt for a crusade not one one not  two in the 12th century in the 13th century 32  

1:07:29

Crusades none of them achieved their goal however  there was always this idea that we need to take  

1:07:37

Jerusalem back from the Muslims from the Infidel  Muslims this was always being pushed forward in  

1:07:42

the European psyche and taxes were raised the  Salah tax was raised across England and Wales  

1:07:49

and Scotland in order to uh uh raise new Crusades  a very interesting example this continued through  

1:07:59

the 13th 14th and 15th century is Christopher  Columbus why did he go west most people think that  

1:08:06

he went just to discover a new land he was looking  forward towards an alliance with uh the East so  

1:08:17

he would go around an alliance and come together  with EAS he would christianize he would turn uh  

1:08:25

uh the people of the East into Christianity  and bring them and attack the Muslims from  

1:08:31

both sides and take Jerusalem back from the  East and from the west but when he reached   the Americas he wrote to Ferdinando he wrote  to Isabella who were the friend the Kings uh  

1:08:44

of andalus at the time and he wrote to the Pope  that I've raised enough gold to raise an army to  

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liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims and this  is written in his Memoirs and there's a book  

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about this that discusses this in a lot of detail  that this was the aim of Christopher Columbus and  

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this uh idea of the end of the world and uh he  had certain calculations and his last will all  

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the money that he has raised was put into a trust  to raise a new crusade to liberate Jerusalem from  

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the Muslims but now the the West had to deal with  the Ottomans coming into Vienna and coming into uh  

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Europe so the Crusades turned towards stopping  the Ottomans but this idea never disappeared  

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and then we come to secular Europe with Napoleon  who comes to where occupies Egypt and immediately  

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comes to the Holy Land and when he OCC he tries  to occupy acre uh Napoleon was a very interesting  

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character you know he become he became Muslim  he announced Islam yes where at Al AAR in order  

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to win the Muslims to his side this is uh one of  the his tactics but when he was in acre he issued  

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a proclamation to the Jews of Asia and Africa  calling them to un to come under his banner and  

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he will reestablish ancient Jerusalem for them and  build them their Temple Napoleon was very cunning  

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in using religion although according to the French  Revolution we need to separate uh uh the the  

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church from the state but he was using religion  to his own ends and and he continued to push this  

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idea uh even after he was defeated in 1799 but  this was the for first call for Jews to come to  

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Palestine immediately the British took this idea  and particularly Protestant uh Evangelical groups  

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who we know them today as Christian zionists and  today very important point on Christian Zionism  

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today out of every 10 zionists nin of them nine  of them are Christian Christian Zionism is more  

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dangerous than Jewish Zionism and it came well  before uh uh it came well before Jewish sanism  

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and this start started here in London with the  um Society for uh turning there was a society  

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established to turn Jews into Christians uh and  to send them to Palestine so this was the initial  

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cause this project failed so then they moved to  the second uh phase which is let's just take the  

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Jews to Palestine and this then really becomes  an issue in uh 18 in the 1830s uh and becomes  

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part of the British policy particularly with  two individuals Lord Shaftsbury and Lord Palmer  

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and both of them one was part of this Christian  Zionist group uh Lord chatsbury and uh his  

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father-in-law um Palmer was uh the Prime Minister  and he saw him uh as Palmer was looking at the  

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British interest in this because this was on the  trade route between India and um uh uh uh and and  

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Britain and we should not fall in the hands of the  French it should be in the hands of the British so   this was part of a a struggle so this was being  sold in Britain as one a religious issue to those  

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who interested it in it in a religious matter and  being sold as a matter for British interest in  

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the region and then it came into the idea that  Palmer was pushing the Ottomans let the Jews  

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establish some autonomy under your rule in  Palestine so he was pushing this on in a  

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serious note and this then developed into an idea  of a buffer state in order to control the Muslim  

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world and all of this was being developed here  in London all these ideas in order to control   the region the heart of it for religious reasons  for the second coming of the Messiah on one side  

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this is from a religious point of view but for our  interest in the region we should establish here a  

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buffer state or um a state that is uh foreign to  that region a friend of the West an enemy to the  

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uh people in the region and this was developed and  this is when we talk about the Zionist project is  

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a western project right this is why after the 7th  of October you saw sunak you saw Biden you saw all  

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Western leaders rush to Tel Aviv yes why because  this is their project yeah no one can get away  

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with what Israel is getting away with no other  country in the world will get away with it but  

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because this is part of their project and this  project has two Dimensions one it is political  

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uh economic uh and GE political importance in the  region in controlling the region the second is the  

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religious uh Dimension the religious religious  Dimension is very dangerous and today what you  

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see with Donald Trump and all his cabinet are  part of this religious agenda Evangelical yes  

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Christian right yes pushing towards that you  you see his uh uh defense minister saying we  

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need to establish a temple over with the site of  Al AA you see his uh ambassador to uh to Israel  

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saying that there is no West Bank uh all of this  is Israel so you can see this agenda is now very  

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very clear uh within the American Administration  and what is going to come within this uh Christian  

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Zionist uh agenda is very dangerous for ala  in particular and for Palestine and the World  

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in general there's one last question I have for  you and it's really a question about the future  

Is there hope?

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um we often have guests on this show and they're  very optimistic even though we're in a very weak  

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State and you've described that weak state today  very optimistic about the liberation of Palestine  

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and inshallah one day um maybe soon uh the uh  zionists will be removed from uh from uh their  

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uh from colonizing this land um you know  is that how you see it and from your study  

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of Islam and the study of of Jerusalem um  corroborate that optimism for me very um  

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important question and wasallam in the  most difficult times was always giving  

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hope yes so the um actually needs hope right so  starting with this sense of hope we see am says

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uh when will come to the to the Holy Land and  has not come to the holy land yet Tod yet um  

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so definitely this land will be and from the from  the verses from the Quran this land will I swear  

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by Allah will be liberated and let me link it to  another po point that we touched on on a little  

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earlier is the name of this land is and has two  meanings one is and the second one is Mubarak so  

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blessed in a sense and the second one is it is  free from imperfection yes and what this means  

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the perfectly put this that no Injustice will  ever last in this land so it means that this land  

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will be desecrated yes but this desecration will  not last long and we see this throughout history  

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this is why this land is the land of rat until  the day of judgment describes it so what this  

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means is it's continuous it will become desecrated  then it will be purified it will become desecrated  

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will be purified and we see this starting  from the example the Quran gives with uh J  

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and talut coming to the Romans coming to the  Persians coming into the Crusades and the Crusades  

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occupied this land for 88 years they thought they  were the first Western Colonial project in this  

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land bringing the problems of Europe into the Holy  Land 88 years they thought they will last there  

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forever then they were destroyed then you have the  the MS coming occupying and no everyone said no  

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one will ever stop them their destruction was in  this land and then they turned into Islam you see  

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this land is always the land which brings when  you say about H and B it is the land where you  

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see this manifested to its maximum then you had  Napoleon he came his destruction was in this land  

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and then he turned returned back then you had the  British now you have the Zionist W they will not  

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last in their own prophecies they're not going  to last 80 years and they talk about this you  

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know they rabbis uh talk about that there is the  curse of the 80 years and Netanyahu said I will  

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make sure that this state will last 100 years in  their own psyche they know that they will not last  

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their own ministers are saying if you don't have  a second passport get get a second passport and   you see how many hundreds of thousand fled since  the 7th of October they don't want to be in this  

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land and if you look at it within that context  their destruction they are a foreign body that  

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was put by the West in this land and this will  end but this will not be the end of it but an  

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important question here is when will this end yeah  this depends on me and you and the listeners Allah  

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says in the Quran Allah will not change your  circumstances until you change it yourself  

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the is not going to nothing will change if you  make Dua 100 times a day and if you haven't and  

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uh I was in South Africa a few weeks ago and one  brother came to me and he said to me the situation  

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of the um is like this he says there's a mosque  we're about to enter into the mosque and we see  

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a thug beating up a Muslim and we're a lot there  is 50 of us we're entering into the mosque and we  

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say to the brother uh you know what we're going  to go into the mostos make Dua that he will stop  

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hitting you this is the situation that we are in  until you stand up to the Injustice and stop it  

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nothing will change and this is when we talk  about two billion Muslims are ineffective in  

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stopping a genocide what more does the umah need  to be able uh to do this if Falls next will be  

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Al next the whole of the um will fall nothing  will stand but if we ask when will this happen  

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this will happen when the umah starts to move  at an individual level before the state's hope  

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is already lost uh at the state level so at  an individual level everyone if you're doing  

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20% 20% is not enough 50% is not enough 100% is  no longer enough we need to go 110% everyone to  

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the maximum because on the day of judgment you're  going to be asked in this land what have you done  

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when ala was under occupation when a genocide  was taking place and you see this is no longer  

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an Islamic issue this is an issue of humanity you  have Jews standing up and saying not in my name  

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you have non-muslims and Muslims are still asleep  when this is for you an issue of humanity and an  

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issue of what of IM and an issue of your future is  linked to this land so going back to the meaning

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of every Tyrant will get down on his knees in  this land Netanyahu is not going to survive  

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much longer to give this hope but this has to  be on the hands of the Believers you do not wait  

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for uh just uh we're angry we don't accept what  you're doing you have to stop this the zionists  

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only understand one language and you have seen  this across the uh the Spectrum uh if uh the  

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Zionist will continue with this impunity uh uh  what what made them what made Netanyahu stop he  

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did not want to stop this war is he was pressured  Joe Biden did not put any pressure on on Netanyahu  

1:22:56

uh Trump wanted this to end before he comes into  office but he's going to give he's already talking  

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about this ceasefire is not going to continue and  unfortunately the people of Gazza speaking to the  

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people there alhamdulillah now they can breathe a  sigh of relief but they know this is not going to  

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last for too long uh so let the um take Serious  action to stop uh to stop this and putting this  

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within the perspective of this particular land  this will be the end of future tyrants not just  

1:23:32

this Zion State we will read in the future in  the books of history that this ended but your  

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grandchildren are going to ask you you live  through a genocide what did you do to stop it  

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and as a Believer this is as a human as a mmin as  an individual everyone has to say I did everything  

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in my ability to stop this genocide on  one side on the other side on the day  

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of judgment you have to have as Allah says  in the Quran what is your excuse on that uh  

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on that day thank you for your time today  thank you for having me and inshallah we  

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meet in the liberated and we pray theah of  there ending with this hope in meet there

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