Livestream Excerpt: Ideological Drug Dealers

So so this guy tweeted, and I'm not bringing it up because he attacked me. I'm bringing it up because of the thinking, in his tweet that I think is, it kind of connects to what we were talking about last time with regards to Muslims in the West, and their their views on Islam and how it differs from Muslims in the Muslim world. Because he said something I don't remember the tweet exactly. He said something along the lines of, you know, Shahid, who's from the merchant class, which is, also a strange term because they don't really use that in this in this they say business class or the upper class or whatnot. But but because I'm supposedly from the merchant class, I wouldn't understand, like, basically.

Yeah. And the idea that even against all odds, even against, what would be your evaluation in real politic Uh-huh. Even against all of that, the Muslims can achieve this victory and that that, what do you say? When our armies enter Jerusalem or march on Jerusalem and liberate Jerusalem. But

you'll be there to trump it.

I'll I'll be there, you know, like a hypocrite saying You always Yeah. I I always believe that this could happen. And and the the again, the the personal slight isn't important to me. I'm used to that. Yeah.

But the thing that's important to me is the the the thinking that's reflected in this.

Yeah. I'm sorry to interrupt also. The fact that he's juxtaposing that your paradigm of real politicking Mhmm. And to those glorious stories of old Mhmm. You know.

Mhmm. I get I suppose the and Yeah. The

Yeah.

Yeah. Stories of the prophet

From which I draw

Yeah. Most of the

Realpolitik. My understanding of realpolitik. I I understand it from the seerah. That's where I'm getting it from. I'm not getting it from Henry Kissinger.

Yeah. I'm getting it from the seerah, and I'm getting it from the way the Muslims conducted themselves and the way that they actually engaged not only in battles, but in all of their strategies. It was there was there's real politic in what they did. But but for you who said this, those are fables and and and they're myths that you wanna believe in.

And

this is very dangerous because now you are saying and and trying to promote this really magical thinking

Mhmm.

That, you know, that the Muslim armies are gonna march on Jerusalem, and you and you'll have a victory and whatnot. And the idea that this will work simply because we're Muslims and Allah is on our side. And that therefore, and with strategy, with tactics, with understanding realpolitik, and understanding geopolitics and all that. None of that is is relevant. The only thing that matters is historical.

And this is this highlights what I was talking about in the last, live session yesterday. No. It was just yesterday about the difference between the way that Muslims in the West think about Islam versus the way Muslims in the Muslim world think about Islam. Because someone who's talking like this, someone who's saying these types of things, what that brother said in his tweet, that sort of a person would be referred to in Egypt by Muslims as a drug dealer because he's selling the drug of this magical thinking. And that's what they used to call people in Egypt during the, anti coup, movement against, Sisi, the opposition groups.

Muslims, not secularists, not leftists, not communists, not liberals, Muslims. When they would see someone who was, making this kind of irresponsible, uneducated, uninformed, unrealistic, type of rhetoric that is only intended to, sort of give Muslims a a false sense of, you know, unrealistic hope, that has no basis in that there's there's no plan involved. There's no planning involved. There's no strategy involved. There's no actual evaluation of power dynamics, or as I say, geo geopolitics or economics or anything.

There's no actual thought going into it. It's just words to make you feel better. It's really treating Islam the same way that what was it? Was it Marx who said Yeah. The opiate opiate of the masses?

Yeah. He was, of course, talking about Christianity because that's the only religion that he could think about Uh-huh. In Europe. It it it's using Islam as an opiate. Mhmm.

It's using Islamic rhetoric as an opiate.

As opiate.

Yeah. To not actually address any problems.

But just to But

to to make people feel a certain kind of way.

For a temporary

That's why they you think that you're saying something great and wonderful and righteous, but Muslims in the Muslim world will call you a drug dealer for what you just said. It's this it's this magical thinking about tawakul Yeah. And not understanding. Mhmm. The the Sahaba didn't think like that.

Yeah. The way that you think that they thought, they didn't think like that. And if you had acted like that and talked like that, you would not have gotten an ear from them. Mhmm. They would they would have turned away from you.

I mean, there was an example in the when when there was the Reddah wars. Uh-huh. No. No. No.

Sorry. Not the not the Reddah wars. When they were fighting against Musalemah. Musalemah Gundab. Uh-huh.

The the the the the liar who was calling himself a prophet. I mean, is this prophet

was a liar.

No. This is this is after. Okay. And Abu Bakr. Okay.

They were in a in a battle against Musailama and his army and his forces, and, Akrama bin Abi Jahal was leading the Muslims, the Muslim, the Mujahideen at that time. And, he was in a position to attack. Musa Alaihi was ready to attack. And Abu Bakr sent word to him to wait until he could send reinforcements because this was in fact during the rida war. So the Muslim the Mujahideen were busy at that time.

So he was trying to get reinforcements to, Mhmm. Here's an example of well, whose side do you think Allah was on in that in that battle? Obviously, Allah is on the side of the Muslims. It's it's against literally a false prophet, someone who's calling himself a prophet. So, obviously, Allah is gonna be on the side of the Muslims.

Arkhama decided to attack anyway before he got the reinforcements. So he disobeyed what Abu Bakr had told him because he just felt, so passionately, about defeating this

Liar.

Yeah. This liar. And the Muslims were turned back. The Muslims the Muslims were were defeated, and they had to retreat. Mhmm.

Okay. So Yeah. Is there a problem? When when Abu Bakr told Akrama to wait wait for reinforcements, does that mean that there's a problem in the of Abu Bakr? Does that mean that he didn't have tawakul?

No. Oh, that he didn't have

Or that or that or that Allah wasn't on the side of the Muslims? You know, use your brain. This is use your common sense. The Muslims didn't go into any battle. And like we talked about before about he was a master strategist.

He wasn't just the. He wasn't just the sword of Allah.

Yeah. He didn't just go He

was a master strategist.

On the blind.

Yeah. You know? That would that that's one of the gifts that Allah gave him was, the ability to strategize and and as as a tactician in battle. The the Muslims never just went willy nilly into a battle and said, you know, Let's just go, and we'll win. No.

It doesn't work like that.

Okay. We have a

That's why they will call you a drug dealer for saying things like that in Egypt. There I've talked about it many times. There's a great, gap and chasm between Muslims in the West and Muslims in the Muslim world. Muslims in the Muslim world are Muslims in what we should call the diaspora Mhmm. Because that's what you are.

You're Muslims in the diaspora. And, typically, this even goes back to that that ridiculous tweet and the and the the the magical thinking.

Uh-huh.

The drug dealing, the ideological drug dealing, that is in that tweet, the thinking that's in that tweet. This is a kind of extremism that is completely alien to Muslims in the Muslim world and will be seen as extreme by Muslims in the Muslim world. And and and, again, as I said, completely unrealistic and out of completely out of touch with reality. Both reality of the dunya and the reality of Islam and what Islam expects of you. There's a weird, paradox or contradiction in Muslims internationally in their views about Saudi Arabia.

On the one hand, they hate Saudi Arabia. And on the other hand, they expect Saudi Arabia to be better than anybody else. Like, you hold them up to a higher standard than you hold your own countries and a higher standard than you hold your own self in your household. You hold them to a higher standard. And if they're just a little bit below, a little bit closer to your actual living standard, the standard that you yourself in your house and your family that you live by, if they're just if they just come a little bit closer to the way you actually are in your life, you say that they're hypocrites, and that they're de Islamizing and that they're secularizing and so forth.

It's it's it's absurd.

Why is Europe being destabilized by its own government? Do they not see how this affects them? Here in The UK, there's not a sector that's not striking. You know, going on strikes.

Yeah. It doesn't affect them. How does it affect them? How how does it affect the people who are making the decisions? It doesn't affect the people who are making the decisions.

It just affects the people who, who who those whose those decisions are being implemented against. It doesn't affect them. They're the elites, and they're not making those decisions for the sake of Britain, and they're not making those decisions for the sake of Europe. They're not making those decisions for the sake of Germany or France or anywhere else. They're making those decisions for the sake of the owners and controllers of global financialized capital and their own pockets.

So it's the third worldization of Europe?

Yeah. It's the third worldization of Europe. And and I think one of the large drivers of that is demographics. Mhmm. As I've talked about many times, the the entire population of Europe is aging and dying much more rapidly than they're being born.

So this this is not good for your for for business. You don't have people to do the work. You don't have people to buy the the products. And if you have a lower and lower and I I talked about this, I think, in one of the, news breakdowns. When you have a smaller population, then that's that's not even good for, companies in terms of what they can, pay in salaries because they wanna be able to drive wages down.

And one of the ways they can drive wages down is when you have a voluminous workforce. When you have, fewer and fewer workers, you can't dictate wage suppression as easily. So I mean, there's many factors. There's many many factors. And another factor obvious another obvious factor is that it's it is and always has been, and this is again one of the reasons why I believe that their psyche developed the way it did from primordial Europe was is because it it's not rich in natural resources.

They don't they don't have anything to offer, which is why they had to go everywhere else in the world and take everyone else's stuff. Yeah. Because they don't have anything.

And then Aishan adds on. They had a they had a hand in so many governments being caught usually from fighting this thing in the people. Are they not afraid of the same will happen to them?

Of course they are.

Yeah. That's why they have armies.

Yeah. Of course they are. This is this is why there's there's there's this heavy, emphasis on militarization and and security and so forth. And, all of these rules, to ban, and to punish so called free speech, freedom of expression, protests, demonstrations, and so on, They're preempting, what they expect to be, civil unrest because they know that their policies will cause civil unrest. But they so they're getting ready for that.

They're anticipating that in the in America as well.