Recordings › The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth · 15 May 2021 › Segment 7 of 7
What can people realistically do for Palestine, and is migration an option?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran hijra hijrat hijri makkah makka mekka duaa duas duaas supplication deen al-din ad-deen ad-din rahmah rahma rahmatPolitics on every side, what people can do, and migration as a last resort
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machinesummary, machine-writtenPolitics runs through every side of the crisis, and ordinary people are largely helpless beyond pressuring MPs, boycotts and dua; Mufti Abu Layth says no land is worth a genocide and that the Prophet taught migration where an assessment calls for it, or else meaningful negotiation.
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Mufti Abu Layth says none of this detracts from the Gaza crisis or the Palestinian plight, nor should it diminish sentiment for the humanitarian cause, but it shows the immense politics at work. He lists the Israelis using religion by claiming the same God of Abraham gave them the land, while Muslims argue the same God speaks to them in the Quran, a veneer of religion that makes the non-Abrahamic world think this is what religion does to people; the politics of history, with the kingdoms of David and Solomon nowhere to be found archaeologically in modern Israel and most likely in Egypt; the historical politics of the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties; the Arab nations' buffer zones; the normalisation deals of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt with Israel; and Netanyahu's political losses and the playing of the war card, with the innocent dying in all of it. On what people can do, he repeats practical steps: pressure on local members of parliament, which is not very effective, and economic boycotts, which have historically had some impact on Israel. He says the hard truth is that the everyday person is largely helpless beyond dua because the parties refuse meaningful negotiation, that no land is worth a genocide, that the Prophet taught people to migrate and the Islamic calendar begins with the hijrah, and that while not every place requires migration, an assessment of genocide does, or else meaningful negotiation, which he says neighbouring Arab governments do not encourage, preferring a one-sided resistance. He closes with dua, says he shared these thoughts because several people asked, acknowledges that people may disagree with his opinion, and urges anyone who can effect real change to do so.
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says ordinary people are largely helpless beyond pressuring members of parliament, economic boycotts and dua, that no land is worth a genocide, and that, since the Prophet taught people to migrate, an assessment that a genocide is under way calls for migration or else meaningful negotiation.
“it is not this land is never worth the genocide the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did teach people to migrate”
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abdullah zubair in mecca and they fabricated a hell of a lot of hadith and they did a lot of this just to um create a holy ground for them in sham and this is omega um just omega's grooming and propaganda that you know has still gone on today that we are still a victim of that said it it does not detract the slightest from the gaza crisis or the palestinian plight and it does not mean that
our sentiments for this humanitarian cause should diminish in the slightest not at all but you can already understand the immense politics that is going on here the polit the current politics the politics of history the you because on one hand you've got the israelis who are also using religion they are used it is the same god of it is the same god it is the god of abraham they are saying the same god has told them
to go and take the land take it by force that is the promised land then it is that same god that we are then arguing is telling us in the quran so this is why you have this veneer of religion that the rest of the world that are not abrahamic are looking at and thinking well you know that this is just some this is what religion does to people so you have that element in the mix then you have the politics of history you have the jewish great kingdom of solomon the great kingdom of david which is nowhere to be found
archaeologically today not theory it was most likely in egypt and that's a different discussion but it definitely is nowhere to be found in uh in israel modern-day israel and then you've got the the historical politics of of the of the umayyad dynasty in early islam and all of what they've done and then the abbasids after them and we've got current day politics of the arab nations trying to maintain buffer zones between them and israel you've got the politics of the normalization
that saudi arabia other gulf states the uae egypt aru have moved towards normalizing relations with israel they've already moved towards this they've already signed huge huge deals huge economic deals huge kind of um there's a lot going on and there's a lot more that we don't even know about then you've got the politics of netanyahu losing um losing politically and then just as always war trump swords pulling out the war card and just going utter right wing and rallying a cry against the palestinians and in
all of this it is the innocent that die it is the innocent that bleed may allah make things easy and this leaves once again the question that what can people do the yes and i've mentioned before you can do take practical steps place a certain amount of pressure on your local members of parliament allow them to stress to the house of parliament allow them to increase somewhat of that stress on israel even though that's really not going to be so effective as we know as history
already tells us economic boycotts um are something that have actually created some impact on israel traditionally and then there is the the unfortunate truth and it is a hard truth that for the most part the everyday person you and i are helpless we can make dua but we are helpless just because of people not refusing to enter into some meaningful negotiation what can people do and that may sound um
to some people as a failing option but in all honesty one has to be real it is not this land is never worth the genocide the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did teach people to migrate in fact that is when the islamic calendar begins with hijala and this does not mean that every place where somebody comes that a person has to migrate but there has to be an assessment if it's going to be a genocide then of course or enter into some other meaningful negotiation which once again doesn't serve
the neighboring arab political governments and therefore they do not encourage the palestinians to do that in fact they encourage people globally encourage them to maintain somewhat of a very incredibly one-sided resistance may allah have mercy on um on people struggling may allah bring about ease for them i mean it is horrifying wallahi to to just see these images it tears one's heart wallahi
you know may allah have mercy may allah protect them i shared these thoughts because several people had asked me people may disagree you may at the end of this think that what i'm saying is utterly uh useless that it is and it is an opinion it is a way of looking at things if you feel after listening to this that that you can actually go about affect actual change then go about an effect actual change please affect it
may allah grant ease to those who are suffering i mean foreign
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