Why are you in the West?

I wanted to talk about a sort of a phenomenon that has, I think, prevailed on Muslim English language social media for years now. And it involves Dais, English language Dais in the West and scholars to a certain extent imams, hadibs, and so on where they tend to finesse certain issues and certain topics that put our values, Muslim values, in stark contrast and contradiction, conflict with current Western values, particularly on issues like feminism, issues like the LGBT, trans, all of these types of things. They use a lot of finesse in trying to explain away fundamental disagreement with Western values. Like, say, the issue of the LGBT. Homosexuality in Islam is haram.

It's a sin. It's it's a sin, and it's a crime in the sharia. There's a for it. There's a punishment for it. So our position on that issue is crystal clear.

But when imams and hadiths and dairies in the West try to explain the Muslim position, they try to be very delicate and sort of tiptoe around the subject so that our fundamental disagreement doesn't make anyone upset. Westerners, liberals, non Muslims in the West so that they can't accuse us of being extremist, being hateful, being, what, homophobic and all of these things. Look, you you can call us what you wanna call us. This is this is this is my point. The point of this video is to say you don't have to explain away Muslim fundamental disagreements with the West and western values in a way that makes it look like there's no disagreements or in a way that will make it look like our values can be reconciled with your values.

They can't be. Homosexuality is in Islam a sin and a crime. It's haram and nothing makes it not haram. So forget about talking about same sex marriage. Forget about talking about trans where a man becomes a woman or a woman becomes none of these things are are ambiguous in Islam.

We don't need to be very delicate in the way we explain that. But now I understand why these Muslims in the West are delicate in the way they explain it because they want to stay in the West and they wanna be able to get along in that society. And now that becomes a question that those brothers and sisters need to ask themselves. Presumably, you are living in the West because you have still an idealized concept in your mind about freedom, that there's greater freedom in the West, that you have more rights in the West. Yet you are living in the fear of being punished for nonconformity with mainstream opinion.

You have some some reconciliations to make for yourself about why you're there because you're living in a society that absolutely cannot tolerate any dissent on a a particular set of opinions. I mean, you even have the point now where you have Christians who are now conceding that you can have same sex marriages in the church and you can have gay openly gay ministers, preachers. They wanna have openly gay priests that you even have them. And now you even have some openly gay imams. If you are trying to water down your religion to make it more acceptable to non adherence of your religion, You are not winning them to your faith.

All you're doing is compromising your deen. That's all you're doing. This isn't dawah that will bring anyone to Islam. You're trying to get them to accept Muslims but reject Islam. Who cares if they accept you or not?

If they reject you on the basis of Islam, Alhamdulillah. Look, we don't have a problem in Islam, Muslims. We don't have a problem with disagreements. We have disagreements amongst ourselves. We have disagreements in between the between the.

There's disagreements. We're we have disagreements all the time, but we can get along with each other. We have lived with non Muslims. We've lived with Christians. We've lived with Jews.

We've lived with Hindus. We live with Sikhs. We Buddhists, we live with all different types of people, and we don't have a problem with getting along and having there be disagreements and differences of opinion. But in the West, you are not allowed to disagree because like on the issue of LGBT, our position should simply be, okay, we understand what your position is with regards to their individual liberty and their right to do whatever they wanna do. However, that is not our position.

We disagree. Simple. I don't need to explain it in a way to say, well, it's not a sin to feel a certain way, but if you act a certain way, then that's a sin and so on. Okay. Yeah.

That's true. But why do I even need to go into all of that? Just to try to convince you that my disagreement or the disagreement of my community, the disagreement of our belief system and our values that our disagreement should not prevent you from getting along with me or being nice to me. But that's on them. If they are incapable of getting along with someone and being nice to someone who they disagree with, that's on them.

That's part of their own immaturity, their own lack of civility, their own lack of manners, their own lack of refinement and sophistication. If they can't get along with you because they because you disagree with them, I'm wondering why you wanna stay there because you don't actually have the freedom that you maybe idealize about the West that makes it so much better than living in the Muslim world. Then it then it becomes, well, okay, if it's not the freedom, then what is it? Is it material comfort? What?

You can keep your job? I mean, really Muslims in the West need to ask themselves, why are you there? If the idea is I need to not appear threatening, I need to not appear extreme, I need to not appear severe and harsh and rigid and all of that so that they can accept Islam so that I can make dawah so that I can stay here and be useful, but you're not doing that. You are minimizing the fundamental differences between iman and kuffar, between Islam and kuffar, between the Islamic belief system, value system, way of life and the way of life that leads to jahannam. You're minimizing the difference when making the difference plain for all to see is the whole point of dawah.

It's the whole point of the Quran to highlight and make unambiguous to everyone that there is a radical drastic difference between kufr and imam. In order to be able to stay there and get on with your life and have a comfortable life and not be harassed, you have to present an inaccurate representation of Islam, what are you doing there? Because I'm really at a loss to understand how you can justify staying in a society that is so intolerant of disagreement that you cannot disagree with these now mainstream opinions, mainstream beliefs that are radically opposed to Islamic values. And in that prohibition of disagreement, you have to concede publicly and misrepresent what Islamic beliefs are just in order for you to be able to get on with your life. Is it worth it?

Ask yourself. If we were actually talking about a sophisticated civilization, then disagreement would be fine. Disagreement wouldn't be threatening to anyone. You could disagree. We'll still follow our values with regards to LGBT, with regards to trans, with regards to feminism, with regards to red pill, with regards to all of the various ideologies that come down the road.

We will continue to follow our path, but we should also be able to represent it honestly and frankly without anyone, feeling that they are threatened by our disagreement. But you can't do that in the West. It's clearly not a mature, sophisticated, refined, intelligent society. I don't know why it's even worth it to to to stay in a society like that.