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Someone said something about, that my analysis was good mostly except he didn't see he couldn't see he thought I was too pro Arab and that he didn't see, or didn't believe that there was some secret plan among the Gulf states to save Palestine. I've never said that there was a secret plan among the Gulf States to save Palestine. What I find interesting and strange is that for some reason, don't Muslims don't seem to apply to our own countries what applies to every country. We don't apply to our own governments. What applies to every government, which is what their priorities are and the way they behave and the way they deal with their region.

Every country does this. Every country it's like the it's like the, what do you call, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is that, you know, your basic necessities are covered. And then once those are covered, then you have room to and time Mhmm. To think about other things. So once a country becomes prosperous, once it becomes stable and secure and successful, will they start thinking about expanding their power?

They start thinking about expanding their influence, and they want to expand their sovereignty. And there's no reason to believe that the Gulf States would be any different than any other country in the world. And the the rules aren't changed because one of the countries in their region happens to be Israel. And their desire to have influence and domination as much as they can over Jordan, over Lebanon, over Egypt. There's no reason whatsoever why that would not also apply to Israel.

And in fact, there's every reason that it would be a priority for it to apply to Israel because Israel because Egypt isn't a rival to The Gulf. Jordan isn't a rye a rival to The Gulf. Lebanon isn't a rival to The Gulf. Syria, to a certain extent, was seen as a rival, and we saw the animosity and aggression that they had towards Syria. There's no reason to think that they that they don't look at Israel the same way that any country anywhere looks at arrival.

Why don't you apply the same rules to our countries that apply to every other country? They have every reason, and they have they they have a growing capability to exert their influence and to expand their influence. And there's why would you think that that's not what they're doing? I mean, why would that not apply? There's no secret plan.

There these countries acting like countries. Its governments acting like governments. That's all it is. You read can you read it again?

Okay. K. Campuses are full of students protesting in line with what the world believes believes while facing fierce resistance. It makes you question what what these, quote, institutions of higher learning. Are you

So so are you saying that that the students are protesting in in a way that reflects the global consensus, and they are being cracked down upon by their institutions, their educational institutions. Is that what you're saying? And then and then the question being that calls those institutions into question. I think I think it's clear what the the role is and the function is of those institutions, which is to indoctrinate the students into conformity with official narratives and to become especially at higher institute institutions of higher learning and especially at the elite universities, their role isn't simply to conform with the official narratives, but to articulate the official narratives. They're they're supposed to become the advocates and the creators of the official narrative.

So they're not doing what they're supposed to do, and so the institutions will crack down upon them because the the reflex of Westerners, the reflex of Western so called civilization is totalitarian and authoritarian. It's not freedom. It's not democracy. It's not liberty. These these these are just words to cover up their actions, to cover up what they really believe and what they really practice.

Yeah. So, I mean, if you if you if you have I'm not saying that you did, but if you believed for a moment that American institutions of of so called learning are institutions of learning, then you are profoundly misled. That's not what they're about at all. They're they're they're indoctrination factories.

Which is why there's so much concern over the protesters.

Precisely. Yeah. Because as as I talked about in one of the videos where I was where I was talking about the protests, these especially at the Ivy League universities, these are the children of the elite. They're the children of the ruling class who are on track to become the ruling class. So it's it's vital for them to toe the line with regards to the official narrative.

Is there a better economic model than American capitalism that could still produce a lot of billionaires and multimillionaires without causing so much suffering and lofty?

Why first of all, why is producing billionaires and millionaires a sign of of of any kind of a good or healthy economy? That's that's a Yeah. That's that's not a sign of what an economy is supposed to do. And American capitalism is heinous. American capitalism is absolutely criminal.

And I'm not saying capitalism itself because what America is actually operating is a is a is a state managed economy, corporate welfare economy. It's a monopolized oligarchy. It's what they have in The United States. They don't have what you could call classical capitalism. Neoliberalism is like neoliberalism.

I've said this before. Neoliberalism is to capitalism what the are to Islam. It's they're they're it's absolutely heretical to classical capitalism. They don't have a free market in The United States. So there's of course, there's a better model.

Of course, there is. You can be moral. You can be decent. You can be ethical, and you can you can pursue wealth. You can pursue material prosperity without that being at the cost of your society, without that being at the cost of the people in the society, without that being based on exploitation, without it being based on denial of people's rights, without it being based on as in America, without it being based on the deprivation of some people and the exclusion of some people from participation.

Would an economy run by a more ideal state following Islamic principles institute a model closer to socialism?

I I I don't like even using these terms

Yeah.

For when we're talking about the way an economy would be run under Islam. I don't like I mean, there are certain things that it's generally understood under system that is trying to adhere to Islamic principles, there are certain things economically that are understood would be, for example, state owned, would be nationalized. But I think that the the main approach, Islamically, the main approach I mean, aside from things like the obvious things like ribeh, issues like, main what I what I would say is to to for for for an economy to qualify as following Islamic principles, it would be an economy that prioritizes mas laha. It that prioritizes the welfare and the interest of the society. And by welfare, I don't mean a welfare system.

I mean, the actual welfare and well-being of people and making sure that it is a moral morally run economy that doesn't that keeps money in circulation, that makes sure that for example, we have in Islam material rights that are given to us that are that are considered human rights, divinely ordained for us that are our right. And we're the only people Muslims are the only people. Islam is the only religion. It's the only belief system, obviously, revealed by Allah in which we have we are guaranteed certain subsistence material rights. That's not even in the so called, what, universal declaration of human rights by the United Nations.

Mhmm. There's no material rights there. But you have a right to a home. You have a right to shelter. You have a right to clothing, and you have a right to subsistence diet, enough food to eat, and enough water to drink.

And whatever you have whatever you have we know about this because for our own for the sake of our own gratitude for the that Allah gives us in addition to those basics so that we can be grateful, that we can be thankful for every little extra thing we have beyond our basic subsistence needs. But we also know that because whoever is deprived of those basic subsistence needs, his basic human rights are being violated. So the government, whatever government it is, is responsible for ensuring that your rights are preserved and upheld. And so that includes things like making sure that all of the people under the jurisdiction of that government have shelter, have food, have clothing. You can say that that's socialist if you want to, but that's just because the West never knew how to take care of people.

So they have to come up with all kind of terms and all kind of systems that never work to try to make themselves be moral and try to make themselves deal with people in a decent way because it's against their nature to do that. But in Islam, we have this this understanding, and it's something that generally speaking, you don't even have to try to force an Islamic ruler or a Muslim ruler and throughout history. You don't have to even tell him that because obviously, we we wanna take care of our people. And they always did. I mean, the the the the Muslims used to get from the from the Mhmm.

A stipend. You can again call it socialism.

Yeah.

But I don't see any reason why you need to call it by Western terms. We have our way of doing things, and it is the better way of doing things. It's the best way of doing things. But but most most of this is not actually you know, I've said it many times, there isn't something called an Islamic system. You're not gonna find that word in the Quran or in the hadith anywhere.

Mhmm. There is no Islamic system. There's guidance from Allah. There's morals. There's principles.

There's ethics. And there is a really comparatively handful of absolute rules that must be implemented. But generally speaking, it has to do with making sure that the community is taken care of.

That's a guideline.

And so any government knows that that's what it's supposed to do. Yeah. And any way that they do it is is by means of their. Mhmm. I hope that answered the question.