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Islamic Supremacy

Middle Nation · 4 Jul 2024 · 10:30 · YouTube

I know that when I, when I talk about being an Islamic supremacist, people get triggered, westerners mostly, because as always, they can't understand any word, except according to the way that they have used it. So because of them, we live in a world, where the term supremacism, evokes notions of hatred and bigotry. You know, the evils of racial and nationalistic ideologies that poison the very essence of humanity. These ideologies promote the superiority of one group over another based on immutable characteristics like race or ethnicity or nationality. But I'm here to tell you that Islamic supremacism is fundamentally different.

It's inclusive, not exclusive. It's rooted in the supremacy of values and morals, not superficial traits. No. Islamic supremacism is not like racial or nationalistic supremacism. Those forms of supremacism are exclusive by nature.

They tell you that if you're not born into a particular race or a particular nation, you're somehow less or you're somehow inferior. They create barriers and divisions and foster hatred and animosity among the children of Adam. But Islam is a universal faith. It doesn't care where you were born or what color your skin is. Islam welcomes all who are willing to abide by its teachings.

Allah said in the Quran, o mankind, indeed, we have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Did you hear that? The most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you, not the richest, not the widest, not the one born into the right family or who has the right passport, but the most righteous. Islamic supremacism is about the supremacy of values, the supremacy of morals.

It's about justice and about compassion and honesty and respect for human dignity. It doesn't exalt people. It exalts principles. It's not people who are supreme. It's the ethical and moral framework that Islam provides that's supreme.

And this framework is what can lead us to a more just and harmonious society because if you don't understand and you don't uphold, that justice is superior to injustice or that compassion is superior to ruthlessness or that respect for human dignity is superior to contempt for human beings, well, you're never gonna have harmony and peace in your society, which is exactly the kind of society that you have in the West. We know what a society looks like, that doesn't believe in the supremacy of morality over immorality because that society, that so called civilization, is the one that has been making a hell on earth for people all around the world for centuries now. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, emphasized, this moral supremacy in his farewell sermon when he said all mankind comes from Adam and Eve. An Adam has no superiority over a non Adam nor does a non Adam have superiority over an Adam. A white man has no superiority over a black man, and a black man has no superiority over a white man.

No one has superiority over another except by piety and good action. He made it clear that the true measure of a person's worth is their character and their conduct, not their lineage or their ethnicity or their appearance. Islamic supremacism carries a universal invitation to all of humanity. It's not about excluding or marginalizing others. It extends an open hand to all individuals inviting them to join the ummah, the community of believers, and to live according to its, moral and ethical principles.

I mean, at the global Muslim community. It's a tapestry of diverse, and multicultural backgrounds encompassing people from all races, all ethnicities, all nations. Islamic supremacism is a rejection of every warped supremacist ideology that the West believes in, whether that's their, white supremacy or their supremacist belief in the superiority of their so called liberalism, Their so called liberalism, which is nothing but a belief in the superiority of amorality or moral relativism over morality. It's just another way of saying confusion is superior to clarity, and license is superior to discipline. Or they dress it up to make it sound sophisticated, but it's barbarism and it's hedonism, and you know it and I know it, and they know it too, which is why they have to cover it up with all these proper sounding words.

No. You should embrace this genuinely inclusive vision. And remember that true nobility lies not in your birth, but in your deeds and in your character and your unwavering dedication to the principles of Islam. Now let me respond sort of preemptively to what I know, what some Westerners will say. You know, this common narrative that's pushed by many, non Muslim Westerners when they want to, challenge the idea that Islam is superior, they point their fingers at the poverty and strife that you see in Muslim countries.

But let's be clear. All they're doing actually, is prove my point. They highlight the chaos and the hardship, but what they're really showing is the devastating impact of their own societies and their own values. These are their values that led them to colonize, to undermine, and to subjugate Muslim nations, leaving us in, the disadvantaged position that many of us are in today. I mean, let's talk history.

It wasn't too long ago that many of our Muslim lands were thriving centers of knowledge, thriving centers of culture and prosperity. We were pioneers in science, in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, everything. Our societies were models of justice and compassion and ethical governance. But then came, the colonial onslaught driven by Western powers hungry for resources and domination. They invaded our lands, exploited our people, and dismantled our institutions.

They stripped away our wealth and held our leaders hostage, and they imposed their corruption on us. They left us with, artificial borders, subject governments, and economic systems that were designed to keep us dependent. They drained our resources and used us as pawns in their geopolitical games for their own benefit, And now they have the audacity to point at our struggles and say, look, Islam doesn't work. But we know better. We know that the poverty and the strife in our lands is not the product of Islamic values, but the direct consequence of Western values and Western imperialism.

They're the fruits of a century or more of exploitation and oppression that your values let you do. The very chaos that they point to is a testament to the destructive power of their own values, not ours. No. Islam never failed us. It's the interference and the domination by Western powers that have brought us to this point.

The same values that led them to enslave and rape and pillage and plunder and to exterminate indigenous peoples and wage endless wars of conquest and colonization, those are the values that have scarred our lands, not ours. But because of Islam, we bounced back. Oh, yes. We took the blows, but we never fell. And don't let anyone ever tell you that we did.

Islam is stronger today in the Muslim world than it was fifty years ago, and it's spreading faster in the land of the colonizers than anywhere else. So don't you ever let the West plant false trauma into your mind and a false sense of defeat and despair. Because, look, when you insist that the Muslim lands are ruined, the other side of what you're saying is that the West was powerful enough to ruin us, and that's completely false. They never did, and they never will. We were praying and fasting and following Islam in our lands a thousand years ago, five hundred years ago, a century ago, fifty years ago.

We were doing it in the nineties, and we're doing it now, and we always will. They didn't break us. They didn't ruin anything. We've been dealing with their intrusions since the book, since the crusades, since colonization, and since globalization, and all they've ever been able to do with all their armies, their military armies and their corporate armies, All they've ever been able to do was just a little ugly remodeling in our lands, but Islam never fell and we never fell. And by the way, that's not something that, can can actually be said by any other colonized people.

Colonization fundamentally and substantively changed most countries, changed their values, changed their identities, but not the Muslims. Islam teaches justice, equality, and respect for all humanity. It promotes a balanced and an ethical way of life. When we were able to live by these principles without interference, we flourished. But when foreign powers impose their will on us, they created the conditions for poverty and conflict.

But alhamdulillah, our values and our ethics remain intact, and we're cleaning up the mess that they made day by day, and you'll see the Muslim lands are rising. And never forget, it's these Western countries that are pointing at us today, that are the same ones that drop bombs on our homes, overthrew our governments, and turn a blind eye to the suffering that they cause to our people. You know, they speak about human rights and democracy while their hands are stained with the blood of our innocence. So when they say, look at the poverty and the strife in Muslim countries, they're not discrediting Islam. They're revealing the devastating impact of their own actions, led by their own values.

They're showcasing the failure of their values, which led to this division and exploitation and suffering that we're, that you're pointing to in our countries. No. I'm telling you, it's time for us as Muslims to reclaim our own narrative. It's time for us to stand tall and declare that our struggles are not the result of our weakness and our feelings, but the outcome of a long history of savage foreign domination and put the blame where it belongs. And don't you let your tongue speak an ill word against our people because you'll just be speaking with their tongue if you do that.

And I don't think any of you wanna have Donald Trump's or Joe Biden's or Ben Shapiro's or Bill Maher's or Netanyahu's tongue in your mouth. Islam's principles of justice, our principles of compassion and equality, this is the path forward not only for our countries but for the whole world Because these are superior values, and unlike the West, we practice what we preach, and we preach what we practice. And anyone who does that is unquestionably better than someone who doesn't.

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