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My brothers and sisters, I want you to listen very carefully.
Because every civilizational time in history, there has been a center of the civilization.
There has been some city, some place which has been the center of civilization.
2000 years ago, it was Rome.
That’s why in the English language they say all roads lead to Rome.
Because Rome was the center of civilization.
Most powerful, the most wealthy.
Effectively one city, I mean it was a nation, but effectively one city.
And then that changed as the centuries passed.
And it became statistical.
And then it went to the Sassanian Empire.
And then it went to, not saying this in chronological order, but different ways.
And then it went to Constantinople.
Then later it became Istanbul.
Then it was Agra and Delhi.
And then it was London.
And today it is America.
Post Second World War, it is America.
The easiest way to check that is go to any country in the world
and see the number of people standing in Rota America embassies wanting visas.
Compare that with the embassy of any other country.
It’s not even a comparison.
Not even a comparison.
And then come to America.
And go to the embassies of your countries here.
And see how many Americans are standing there in line
wanting to get Pakistani citizenship or Indian citizenship or Somali citizenship or Iraqi citizenship and so on.
Right?
Find me one American citizen who wants to become a Pakistani.
There’s a message, right?
There’s a message.
You came here voluntarily.
Nobody brought you here in chains.
You came here voluntarily.
Many of you came here after great struggle.
Why?
Because of the opportunity that this country presents.
And no exaggeration.
There is no country in the world which comes even close.
No country.
No white man’s country.
No black man’s country.
No brown man’s country.
No country.
No African country.
No Asian country.
No European country which comes even close to the level of opportunity that this country has.
Not even close.
I have traveled the world.
I have lived in the world.
So I’m talking from experience.
I’m not telling you, talking through my hat.
No country even comes close.
The second issue, second thing about this country is
in terms of personal freedoms.
Again, I can probably say this safely,
that no country gives you as much personal freedom as America gives you.
In every way.
Freedom of worship.
Freedom to dress the way you want to dress.
Freedom to eat the food you want to eat.
Freedom to go to the schools you want to go to.
Freedom to do whatever you want.
No other country.
We have this masjid here.
I can stand on the mimbar.
Sheikh can stand on the mimbar and give any khuda we want.
The U.S.
government does not regulate it.
The U.S.
government does not stop it.
The U.S.
government does not give us a standard khutba to be read.
Nothing.
And as long as I don’t stand there and he doesn’t stand here,
and as long as we are not promoting violence and rebellion and revolution,
no problem.
You can say whatever you want.
No country in the world gives you, believe me,
no country in the world gives you that level of freedom.
This is what has happened in compromising theождения.
That beneficial city is being reshuffled,
is being settled and
has such an inequitable nature,
that we never try and Fling it again,
even if it is an amphitheater,
we have never,
and this is an example because
It exists in them.
They have faced such a need.
nobody will stop them, nothing. In Rabak, these universities, they have a director
of spiritual affairs, under whom they employ chaplains, and the chaplains are
paid salaries. Right? They give you a room for the chaplaincy, they give you a room
at the chaplain’s office. For prayers for Muslim students, they give you a place for
Jummah if you want the place for Jummah. And if you say, I want the place for Jummah, they
give you the place, they go and buy the sunjadas. They go and buy the prayer bags. Matching
prayer bags. In Springfield College, the director of spiritual affairs, David Monkman, he comes,
he buys the whole stuff and he shows me his prayer bags.
He says, Mr. Shaikh, is this okay? I say, Wallahi, is it okay? They buy it. In Ramadan,
they provide suhoor and iftar for the students. The college does it. And then in Ramadan,
the college hosts a Ramadan evening at the expense of the college, public function. You
can take 200 people and go there, the college pays for it. No country in the world,
no country in the world, no country in the world, no country in the world, no country
in the world, believe me, take my word for it.No country in the world. You can worship
who you want. You can dress the way you want. I go to public function. You know how I dress,
right? I go to public functions. They invite me. The colleges invite me to speak at their
commencement and deliver the benediction and deliver the reflection every year. Now, they
know who I am. They know how I dress when I go to public functions. To the universities,
the doctors are accepted. I just said in in my speech last time, the nationalism. Now,
I don’t have family. We are very close. They hold us here and they hold us a
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Now why am I saying all this
I am not sitting here making a speech on behalf of anybody
I am saying this because of one very good reason
Before I come to that let me say one more thing
I am involved with the chaplaincy program
In Bay State
And that is the training of chaplains
So every year I am called there I give a seminar
So I am speaking now to priests
And some rabbis
Now we discuss theological matters
And I speak about Islamic theology
And I speak about Christian theology
In the way the Muslims see it
Some of that stuff is very critical
They listen to me
They listen respectfully
Nobody objects
And they call me every year
The reason I am saying this to you is because two things
Number one
Because this is the environment we live in
We every single one of us
Has a responsibility for which may Allah protect us
Allah will call us to account
And that responsibility is to convey Islam
And present Islam to these people
Because these people are giving us everything
You come from Somalia
And you come from Syria
And you come from Iraq
And you come from Pakistan
And you come from India
And you come from wherever you come from
Right?
You are brown
You are black
You are green
You are yellow with blue dots
And we don’t care what skin color
And what nose shape
And what hair
Every institution in this country is open to you
And to your children
All the way up to the White House
And you are not going to be able to do that in the future
There is no restriction
If your child says I want to become the president of America
He or she has an actual chance to do that
They have the opportunity
There is nothing that stops them from reaching there
Except their own effort
Every university is open to you
Every college is open to you
There is no restriction
Instead of wasting their time
On top of that you get all kinds of aid
Especially if you are born here
You get all kinds of financial aid
Now the reason I am saying this is because
When you take so much from this country
And you walk away
Without introducing Allah to them
Without introducing Rasulullah to them
Without introducing our beautiful Islamic way
And our Islamic society and our Islamic culture
Islamic maashara to these people on the day of judgment believe me when they stand before
Allah SWT and they are said where is these other people Allah SWT said well you did not
accept Islam go to Jahannam they will say hold on a second they will catch you by the
neck they will catch you by the neck they will catch you by the neck they will say he
was there among us we gave him everything we had we did not stop them from doing anything
but he never introduced you to us Ya’alam he never told us who you are he never told
us who Rasoola SAW is he never told us about Jannah or Jahannam he never told us about
the Akhirah he never told us anything they only took from us they enjoyed they lived
among us they enjoyed they build houses they drove nice cars on nice roads and they had
fun and they went away they did not introduce Islam they did not introduce you to us now
you throw us in Jahannam.
Now you throw us in Jahannam.
Now you throw us in Jahannam.
But please tell us what will you do with these people because they were sent with a job we
were sent with a job we were sent to give we were sent to take from the treasures of
Allah and give to these people we were not sent to take from them you were sent to take
from Allah and give to these people each one of us needs to ask have I done it because
they were sent even though they were sent to take us and we were sent to do as they soft recourse
we were
quiteète it a lot more than effect than its other as we were separated from these people
a lot more than effect that I was gonna ask you to make it clear to anyone here and in
all that time that has happened in the history ofieri iodine, our time today they are going
already, after including so muchbye all I’m waiting for you to answer whose the question
that I have to answer what is the term you do aív Concepts of Immigration?
There’s a question that will wait a long while they are here wait there for us to answer
to the one answer to Alas waritan without a doubt and I don’t want to be that person to answer
second point I want make here is this that this country is the freest in the world but also it means that
your illegal, Islamically illegal sexual relationship is legal here.
You can have a homosexual relationship, no problem.
You can legally, now you can legally do drugs, you can legally do marijuana,
you can eat gummies and stuff.
But all of those things in Islam are haram.
And just because somebody passes a law to say that recreational use of marijuana is halal,
it does not make it halal.
So we have situations here where we have people, and may Allah protect us, including Muslims,
who are selling crack cocaine.
Right? Believe me, if you are selling crack cocaine, wallahi,
you will go to jail.
Just like the sun rises in the east.
Because you are destroying people’s lives.
You are destroying people’s lives.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will punish you in this world and in the next.
Make no mistake.
And then we have people who are buying that stuff.
Children, school children, college children, who are buying this crack cocaine and using that crack cocaine.
Imagine, I mean, how, what is the bigger level,
the bigger level of stupidity than using drugs?
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
Ya ayyuha allatheena amanu al khamru wal maysiru wal ansabu wal azlamu
rijusum min amali shaitani fajtaniibuhu la’allakum tuflihun
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
Who do you believe?
Al khamr.
All kinds of intoxicants.
Alcohol, drugs, marijuana, coke, etc.
Alcohol, drugs, marijuana, coke, etc.
You name it.
Any kind of drug that exists, any kind of drug that will,
may be invented, are all haram.
Maysir, gambling.
Whether it is lottery tickets, whether it is horse racing, whether it is dog racing,
whether it is gambling, your gambling apps.
I won’t even ask how many people have gambling apps on their phone,
because I know you have them.
I don’t want to humiliate you before others.
But before you leave here, delete the app.
I wasn’t born yesterday.
I know what’s going on in your lives.
I know what’s going on in your phones and what you guys are doing.
Better than your parents.
May Allah have mercy on your parents.
Your parents are living in a haze.
But I know what’s going on.
You got gambling apps on your phone.
And you are gambling on basketball, you are gambling on soccer and so on.
It is haram.
And to knowingly do something which is haram is kufr.
It is kufr.
It is kufr.
Allah said, my seed is haram.
Lotteries, buying and selling lottery tickets is haram.
If you continue to do that, knowingly you are committing kufr.
I didn’t make the laws.
Don’t be angry with me.
Allah made the laws.
You want to be angry?
Go be angry with Allah.
Any form of gambling.
Islam, Ansar, Allah’s Islam,
which is sacrificing in the name of,
anyone other than Allah.
And fortune telling.
Tarot cards,
seances,
your stars tell you, foretelling.
All of them.
And Allah did not only say halami.
Allah said,
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He says the worst is the filth of the aamal of shaitan.
Imagine the aamal of shaitan itself is haram.
Shaitan does not do anything which is good.
Allah is saying, even among what shaitan does, this is the worst.
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Stay far away.
Don’t even go near it.
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Please, do not destroy your own lives.
And do not destroy the lives of other people.
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You are in a country where you can truly make a mark for yourselves.
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You can have people all over the world.
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You can have power, you can have authority,
you can have wealth like nobody can believe.
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All doors are open for you.
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All doors are open for you.
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If you don’t take advantage of that,
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and you end up using drugs,
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and you spend your time and your businesses only in buying and selling haram,
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don’t blame anyone.
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Do not blame anyone.
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If you are spending children on the income from these haram businesses,
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believe me, it will show in your children.
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Your children will be disobedient to you.
Your children will disobey you.
Your children will give you azab.
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And then when you go into your khawar, you will get azab.
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Make no mistake.
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You eat haram, it produces bad effects.
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You eat halal, it gives you barakah.
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Now brothers and sisters, my job is to tell you the truth as it is,
not sugar-coated, not make it look nice.
I do not want to stand before Allah and then Allah will say,
you knew the truth, but you sugar-coated it.
You made it sound very nice because you wanted the people to love you.
No, sorry.
Not me.
Not me.
And wallahi, I am saying this to you because I love you.
I am saying this to you because I am concerned.
But I care.
I don’t want you to go to hell.
I don’t want your children to be destroyed.
I know the people who come to me with their teenage children and they tell me, this is
what is happening to my daughter.
This is what is happening to my son.
I cannot, I cannot and will not name them.
I will not say it in a way where you can recognize them.
But it’s your own community people.
They come to me, Sheikh, please advise.
What will I advise?
You did, you fed them haram for 20 years.
You did not stop them from doing anything.
And at the age of 20, 21, now you want me to advise them?
You think I’m a magician?
I look like Merlin or something?
Please do not, I beg you, the parents, don’t become your children’s worst enemies.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala sent you as for them to be their guardians.
Don’t become their enemies.
They are your children.
They are your children.
And for the children, I’m telling you, don’t destroy your lives.
Do not destroy your lives.
Right?
Get rid of all this garbage social media on your phones.
Focus on studying.
Focus on learning skills.
Focus on creating a way in which you can make halal income.
Believe me, in this country, you can earn halal and become very wealthy.
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There’s nothing to stop you.
Nothing to stop you.
There’s no need for haram.
So please, my brothers and sisters, have mercy on yourselves.
Right?
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala to help us to put some sense into our heads.
We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala to open our eyes before Malikul Maut comes and opens our eyes.
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