Imran Khan Shot, And My Thoughts About Pakistani Politics | Mufti Abu Layth

foreign speaking of Imran Khan I think this whole thing of you know we really have to take a moment and appreciate the courage the tenacity and the steadfastness that is unfolding in real time

in Pakistan with Imran Khan I mean it's it's just wow mind-boggling that in Pakistan you have you see very briefly for those who aren't familiar you have the country is generally run by what they call the establishment and by that in Pakistan in different countries that could mean different things but in Pakistan uh The Establishment what is meant by it is um the military

so the Army run on the military intelligence they run the country and it's something which is you know it's it's something which India has always said for for decades that pakistanis really just a it's an army that has a country that's how India often says it that really it's just in an army that happens to have a state and what um Imran Khan is fighting for

is what he calls the hakiki Azadi a true Liberation and true freedom and recently he'd um he was on what what is called a Long March so it's this this kind of demonstration and protest for a call to elections and it's meant to go on through various cities and eventually congregate in the capital and this is a huge threat because it's mobilized the entire country of Pakistan and people are just fed up and you've

got uh so he was shot I mean people and this is madness and because can you just imagine what would have happened the country it's very likely if Imran Khan was killed in that incident that the country naturally things going awry the country would have fallen into disarray um there would have been a they would have very likely been a civil war would have and within the coming weeks there would have been martial law

in the country the Army steps in takes over uh probably holds on for the next six months and then announces an election but by that time everything is you know it's these things are so sad because you know people I guess just want to live in Freedom you know relative freedom and I guess it's just wow you know you um you see but the courage and Allah saves whom he Wills say so many rules and

uh Imran Khan was saved and and there's been a lot of stuff just going on in that politics for people who've been following and and now some of the Senators have come out because apparently some senators are being blackmailed argued because Imran Khan for the first time has named Generals in the army or people like this and and he's never done that and for the first time the public of Pakistan has now you know seen or not seen it's become it's had enough of this military involvement

whereas historically this is unprecedented in Pakistan they the the Army had a they had a halo effect they couldn't they were Angels they could never do anything wrong they were just the you know just God sent Heroes and they were borderline infallible so this is the first time in Pakistani history where people are actually seeing and it's a shame as well because the army of Pakistan has you know it's it has done incredible it has incredible accomplishments especially when it comes to the defense of Pakistan so you can

understand why they are heroes to the people but for the first time people are they they found themselves at odds disliking resenting insulting you know chanting against protesting against the Army it's like whoa okay something has changed you know and you had Senators come out and they said that they're being blackmailed by the army that people I don't know there's something about some Senator that they've blackmailed to leak his uh his illicit videos between him and his wife

um and you know and and then other people have commanded enough is enough you know when how long will this nonsense go on and and that person apparently that Senator he called a conference a press conference and just said it that this is what I'm being blackmailed about so it's like wow all these things are happening and we are witnessing something and this really ties in as well to today's theme about understanding that Islam

has not necessary that they that there are things to unpack between obedience and disobedience the disobedience it's not or obedience to God is Not conformity to the status quo necessarily so Disobedience at times may be more a psychological problem than a moral one and this is something that we have to yeah it's interesting we've got to explore that so yeah so this has been

going on um and Imran Khan was he was shot and uh the BBC newspaper I saw that you know this the the singer Imran Khan uh bewafa amplifier and all this uh is he from the Netherlands or is he from Denmark or he's from he's from Europe somewhere I think so they had a picture of him that Pakistan ex-prime Minister Imran Khan got the rapper ah here journalism at its finest yeah

but Netherlands