Assimilation Self-Negation

We go back to the original story that we're talking about. The Bani Israel coming into Masr, coming into a society of Kufr, a society of shirk, where they believe in tawhid, where they have tawhid, they believe in their prophets. They believe in Allah subhanahu ta'ala, and they're coming into a society not unlike the society, the joy in brother, and the societies in the West. Unbelieving societies. And you want to be safe in that society.

You want to fit in, you want to assimilate, and you want to show them that you can be acceptable, that you can be accepted. You want to show them because you're in danger. The fact of the matter is you are in danger. You're outnumbered, you're strange, you're different, and and the the reality of the matter is you're unwelcome. Unless you can prove to them that you don't pose any sort of a I won't even say a threat, discomfort, inconvenience.

So you have to take an interest in their enterprise just to show them that you're not the field slave. You have to prove to them that you're the house slave. They make it in you they make it in your interest. It's not just that the house slave has an interest in his master and his master's well-being, it's because he must, otherwise he's going to be in the field. He has to do that.

It's not just that he's this way, he is made this way by exactly what you're talking about. Because you're not safe. You don't want the lash, you don't want the whip, you don't want be out in the field and get what the what the field slaves get. So you must call, you must say, we have a nice house here boss. You must say it's we.

You must say boss, we sick, we're the same. You must say that you must put it like this because you know that he doesn't think of you like that. So you have to insist upon it. That's why you find so many immigrants who are more American than American. Why you find so many Americans so many immigrants with American flag tattooed all over the place.

American flag on their wall, American flag on their bumper sticker, American flag on the back of their car, American flag t shirts, American flag underwear, like someone's gonna look. Maybe they're afraid they're gonna get stopped by ICE and strip searched and there's a proof to them with their underwear that they have the American flag. Look, I'm more American than you. You understand? Yeah.

This is how they become because they're scared. It comes from fear. It comes from knowing actually in your heart of hearts these people don't want you here. The truth of the matter is these people don't want you here. They don't trust you, they don't like you, you make them uncomfortable.

So you have to prove that you're more like them than they are like themselves. And when and and when you do that, you lose yourself.