Understanding the origins of Antisemitism

So we're talking about the the prosecution of the Jews and how it really started. The the what we call Jews, many Israel were Muslims. And the prosecution that the Jew first of all, we have to acknowledge the reality that the Jews have had a very catastrophically difficult history of persecution. And we then have to acknowledge first of all, we have to acknowledge that they did have this history. Second of all, we have to acknowledge that history has had an effect on their psyche, collectively.

To where they are not joking about feeling vulnerable. They are not joking about feeling that they are in danger. And that they have that they live under a sense of existential threat. Obviously there are among the Zionists, they've exploited that, they've used that, manipulated that. But that's something that Jews do feel.

And not without reason. And then we have to acknowledge that all of these things are true, and we have to acknowledge that no, the source of the persecution, the origins of the persecution wasn't that the Jews are just sinister and they brought it upon themselves. That's just historically inaccurate. The source of the the origin the origin of the persecution of the Jews was tahid. They were persecuted for being believers.

They were persecuted for monotheism and persecuted by polytheists. At that at that in those days they were the Mukmini and they were persecuted by Kufa. That's the source, the origin of their their history of persecution. And then their deviations from Tawhid were largely to fit in. To try to avoid the persecution that they suffered.

To try to lighten the burden of the persecution that they suffered and to try to assimilate with their with the Kufar around them. With the with you know, to assimilate and then there's the element of the the extent to which they themselves were what we can call colonized psychologically. Brother Thorebi talked about that very well in one of our talks. That the the Bani Israel when they were in Egypt, you know, you were there for a long time. And you and yeah, and you're a minority, and you are second, third class citizens, slave class, persecuted.

And we know also the extent of of their persecution that even when in the story of Musa when when the the fight is taking place between the Jew and the Egyptian, the capt. First of all, the capt can feel perfectly entitled to violently attack someone from Bani Israel without fear of the law, fear of repercussions. And then when Musa defended and caused the death of the cult, even though he was raised in Pharaoh's palace, even though he was basically the adopted son of Fir'aun, he was from Bani Israel and he knew he had no legal protection. If he was actually Firaun's son, he could go around killing people as much as he wanted. And it would just all be washed away by the fact that he's from the family of Firaun.

But the fact that you're banning Israel, you get no legal rights. Even if you're basically a prince, an adopted prince, you have no legal rights. So there's no question that they had this prosecution. And when you are in that state, you have to adapt and you have to try to assimilate, you have to try as much as you can to try to get along with people and lessen the extent to which they are prosecuting you and trying to You know, you have to try to conform in some way, Make yourself seem less strange. And this shouldn't be unusual for Muslims to hear.

Muslims who live in the West, who are who who bend over backwards to try to fit in and try to lessen the extent of try to lessen the degree to which they seem strange and are regarded as strange and other, you know, try to lessen the otherness of Muslims in the West. And this is what the Jews dealt with. This is what they dealt with for centuries. And so, you know, we can we can blame them and obviously the deviations are blame worthy. And that's not a matter of opinion because Allah blame them.

So the deviations are blame worthy, but they also have a context. And the the the persecution wasn't never based on the deviations. The persecution was based on them adhering to Tawhid. The deviation lessened the persecution. And the more the more they the more they assimilated and and deviated, the more they were liked.

The less problems they had. Deviated from Tahid. Deviated from yeah. Yeah. Can say the more they assimilated, the less problems they had With the people, the more problems they had with Allah.

Know, that's the source of this. And you know, we have to be fair in assessing that history. Because there are some things about them that this this is why the Quran is like more than anything else is full of these stories. It's full of their history. So we should learn from that because we can we can You should be able to relate to some of that.

Muslims today in the West especially should be able to relate to some of that.