[Music] alayum [Music] take it off can you hear me can you hear me now okay that's good in the name of Allah the beneficent the most merciful we bear witness that nothing should be worshiped except Allah and we bear witness that Prophet Muhammad Sall is Allah's prophet and the Seal of all Messengers and we testify once again that whom Allah guides out of his infinite Mercy wisdom love and compassion nothing and no one can misguide them and we accept the reality that who Allah allows to go astray that there's no one can guide them to the path of Truth as we have come to know the path of Islam uh brothers and sisters uh it's so important to support any Islamic Endeavor that involves our children and young people and I just want to emphasize that perhaps throughout the lecture that there is absolutely no greater investment you'll make in this country and throughout the world than to invest in creating strong committed young Muslim brothers and sisters who are committed not only to service but to Leading the Muslim Community down the path that we're destined to follow if we choose to walk in the foots of the Beloved Prophet peace be upon him but one topic that deeply fascinates me is the whole topic of identity and the crisis that is surrounding not only the Muslim Community but the whole world and what I want you to do brothers and sisters I want you to think with me for a moment on who you think you are notice what I said who do you think you are because most of us we don't really know who we are Society has spent so much time since the day that you were born everything around you has been shaping you to be what they want you to be and I'll give you an example I met an American soldier in the airport and it was a fascinating conversation I was having with her and I asked her a simple question I said the thoughts that you think think the thoughts that you think are they your thoughts or are you rethinking the thoughts of someone else because you know once you become a person in uniform whether it's a uniform that's manifested or reflection of a military apparatus or military structure or you become a certain kind of professional some people become the clothing in their mind that they put on I want you to think for a moment the thoughts let you think are they your thoughts are they original thoughts have you examined those thoughts or are your thoughts a byproduct of deep indoctrination for example from the day we are born our mothers our fathers our culture our schools and our governments control our thinking to a certain extent and they teach us certain things that we accept from the day you're born soon as you're born people people teach you certain things and as you become older you get a chance to influence your own thinking but it takes a while before you make a conscious decision to decide for yourself who you are for example institutions that influence US influence us number one schools as a kid when you go to school somebody's teaching you putting ideas in your head I learned as a kid about a wonderful fictitious character his name was Santa Claus and I believed in Santa he was a white guy with a white beard in a red suit that was pretty fat that came down the chimney and still remain white no I want you to think and then in so many communities in America we don't have a chimney so how he gets in I don't know but there ain't no chimney on the building but then it even got better he was a great guy Santa he filled up your stockings with toys and he had a wonderful reindeer named Rudolph whose nose lit up at night and they flew across the skies and they made stops across the Galaxy and I believe that and as a child I believed in the Fairy Godmother that every time you lose a tooth you could take it and wrap it up in toilet paper you put it underneath your pullup and you go to sleep and you wake up with money my mother taught me that she influenced my thinking that's what she taught me that's what I was made to believe so today I want you to think in terms of your identity what shapes your thinking about who you are advertisement if I go to any home in the Muslim Community you have something in your home that's named brand how many of you have ever heard of Nike raise your hand Nike Apple Dell he would Packer Tropicana Pepsi cocacola George Bush there you go name brands ladies who like to shop how many of you ever heard of Chanel I didn't even say anything yet I said ladies who like the shop they did like that ladies how many of you ever heard of Chanel raise your hand come on ladies come on don't go like this go Brothers check the credit card when you go home especially the ones you can't find no more now listen name brands are big name branding is Big some of us we go to Hajj a sacred Journey we got two passports one from the home country and some of us we've been privileged to get the American passport we're nationalized citizens you go to Mecca you got to make a choice which passport you want to pull out you want to pull out the passport from your country of birth or you want to pull out the American passport and something says pull out that American passport and you pull it out they say any Americans here America no it's true if you have an American passport people have come from Pakistan India Nigeria they've come from Sudan they're waiting in the airport for hours America playing lands any Airline coming from the US if you land and there was 3,000 people online when the plane lands and it says am that's it it's true identity is real this stuff is real Muslims sometime in America identity say what are you are you Muslim American American Muslim what kind of question is that you don't know who you are do you know you was Muslim before there was a country ever called America America is a baby on the world's map China got 5,000 years of civilization and in the library or the Museum library in New York they have on the wall that Africa's civilization dates back more than 4 million years and now I mean a lot of people say you know what we're just all from Africa and that scary you start talking like that they start cutting mic off and sound defects it's okay I'll scream to the back don't get scared Muslims I got this one this is on me They're Not Gon to bother y'all but I want you to think I need you to think I want you to think people people say oh we are Africans now it scares me cuz now to me that means everybody trying to go back now they gon to go back up in there again with a new Colonial mindset no no no no wait y'all stay on that side let African people develop their land they got the gold the diamond the uranium you know when I grew up in America the last thing you would say is you was an African any Egyptians here raise your hand Egypt I love Egypt but you ask an Egyptian where you from Egypt I say okay where you from Egypt where are you from Egypt he will not say Africa except when he's applying now for a scholarship and they have privileges for African-Americans he says brother I'm an African-American I'm serious I ask a Muslim that's darker than me brother what color you are I'm white brother I'm not white what color are you right no Muslims can I be honest with you about identity crisis a brother come to me he want a wife brother Abdul Malik yes I need to find a wife identity crisis yes brother find me one good American one good American Girl inshallah okay but brother one thing she should be white okay brother no offense why no some of the magazines I see the Muslim magazines they have something really crazy in the back they like I'm looking for a wife blonde eyes blue hair what you looking for no some of us as men we have turned even our backs on our own women because there's an identity crisis we're not sure what color we want our children to be because the world got us thinking in color in race in nationality and agender and that is the sickness and the greatest weapon of Satan because if we focus on what we are not then we can never become who we're supposed to be you got to know who you are you must know who you are Muslims now when you look at Fox News you get scared of yourself cuz everything that's Islam and that associate with our identity is is bad I ask a brother now are you Muslim well brother you know um I believe in Universal religion and World Peace what kind of nonsense is this really you go to a program and the Muslims mashallah they're in love with Interfaith dialogue mashallah they won't even say Allah they'll say we want to thank God for all of his blessings and uh we believe in the okay brother say Allah's name I say no brother we don't want to offend the people what's wrong with you I go to Islamic conventions sometimes I'm amazed we bring people to tell our children that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior you would have take Muslim kids to a big convention for someone to tell them that because they are a big preacher in America and sometimes we feel honored by their presence we bring a non-muslim celebrity Mash a basketball player come here right now these kids go crazy oh my God oh my God come on they start running what right W Mike Tyson came to the Masid one time and the Muslims lost their mind Mike Tyson couldn't find his sneakers because they were just going crazy identity crisis he's a boxer but you know what happened television build him up TV can build you up or tear you down so I want you to think Muslims I don't have a lot of time but when it comes to Identity who are we when you look in the mirror what do you see sister when you look in the mirror and you put a hijab on how do you feel do you feel beautiful or do you go got to go ahead and deal with these people again and put this thing on my head and you know I know the religion is all required but you know I don't know what's the big deal about hair but I got to cover up now ladies wait a minute I want you to think some people tell you if you didn't have your scoff on you could find a job so how come all the women in America without scoffs are unemployed now look at the psychology when it comes to Identity they make you feel bad for covering your head but women in America wearing wigs and extensions all in their head it's a billion dooll business they got hair in their head from the gates of India never met the people in wearing their hair come on I just be honest with you I won't pick on any foreigners I'll pick on myself I see beautiful African-American women sometime they got blonde hair and blue eyes and they had the bus stop doing this and they like you see my hair no sister it's not your hair It's A Wig it's not yours you may have paid for it but it's not your hair they confuse us with identity I've met Muslims in your face I know you Arab your face your features you were born of the Arab people but now you speak French and when you speak French you feel so intelligent I sit with Muslims to eat dinner mashah and I go to break the bread with my hand and do some rice and I love the barani from Pakistan and masallah the curry goat is delicious and the chicken mne masallah I'm eating and they go brother ABD Malik I said yes brother please hear the fork the spoon take it and I watch the Muslims masallah they take the napkin they got the fork yes brother what kind of nonsense is this and some of us we feel so intelligent I had a friend I grew up with identity crisis his name is Muhammad is's my friend so I said brother Muhammad how you doing he said brother you have to call me Dr Muhammad I said I'm not going to call you Dr Muhammed he said that I want to answer you I said that I won't call you because in his mind now he has status see when they create identity they base it upon the illusion of a certain level of success and a certain level of superiority because that's what humans do your nationality gives you a certain status your race gives you a certain status your financial position gives you a certain status amongst people but with Allah the only benefit you get is for your righteousness who are you who are you when you were born who are you cuz each and every one of us we're born with a unique identity when Allah made you he never made another like you you are unique there's only one of you on this planet and there will be no one ever to be you and you can never be anyone but yourself you can't be anybody else you can try but you'll never succeed and those who get us to emulate and imitate them they make fun of us because they know you could never beat them you could try to be like them but it just shows your mind has been conquered because anytime you you want to be someone else and you don't want to be yourself that means you are being controlled psychologically by force outside of yourself because you don't love yourself enough to embrace who you are you got to love yourself and you have to know who you are so there are different components to the human being there's your physical DNA there's your cultural identity that is a byproduct of your family there's your ethnic identity that's a byproduct of your Society then there's a spiritual DNA that's Universal that each and every ones have a spiritual DNA which is the true essence of your identity because brothers and sisters when you and I die and we will this flesh will become the food of the maggots we are the food of another creature and they're waiting for us patiently then who are you if you couldn't look in the mirror who are you if you couldn't hear who are you I asked the man in the airport if I was blind and you were blind and you couldn't see me what color would I be he said I don't know I said that's my whole point color is insignificance I was making fa one day in the Masid blew my mind and a Muslim scholar he was a blind man he was making faj we finished faj and after prayer he said to the brother he said so brother did you get married he said yes he said what color is your wife I said damn even a blind Muslim Scholar's inter race what would a blind man know about color he asked the brother is she a white or black American he said she's white Mas what's wrong with us I was talking to a white Muslim brother and some of my friends are here from the Muslim Community from Panama City they're Americans white Americans they tell me when they become Muslim it's like a it's a parade people get excited look he's why Muslim he's one of us now why are you so excited why you get excited because brothers and sisters in reality white supremacy is still ruling the world people are still concerned with color do you know the prophet Muhammad had to warn people about color when he talked about the story or or The Story of B you know how dangerous that is do you know that shayan's number one fall his number one fall is because of his arrogance and his ideology that he was better when Allah was creating Adam he created him from the dust and when Allah said and we ordered the angels to bow down in the presence of Adam and they all surrendered except one his name was what did he say you have created me from fire you made Adam from the dust or from clay and I am better than he that's real today in the world When the Children of Palestine are killed identity crisis when they drop bombs on Palestinians you don't see nobody raise a flag that's no flag they're Palestinians on rocks when they kill them people in back Dad yeah everybody crying but if one American died you got to shut down the whole country cry I love the Muslims but they're confused at the massagist now they're raising the American flag on the building I said brother why you put American flag on the building for Jews don't hang American flags on their building I said brother ABD Malik you extremist brother we love this country brother I said brother then I want you to hang the Israeli flag next to the American flag they said brother we won't do that why not not they're one and the same they've told you that over and over again I need you to think yes you are Americans but you are different type of Americans you are the Muslim America there's Black America White America there's Irish America Jewish America there's Italian America there are all kinds of American people and everyone that comes into America that knows the origin of their people and maintains their cultural identity they don't melt in the pot they clean the pot and contribute to the betterment of society but they remember who they are now I'll give you this as I conclude because I know my time is going to be up quick you got to study history brothers and sisters and you got to study American history because you live in America in the days of slavery they had something called slave culture there was a rule in order to break the slave the first thing you do is take away the identity you take his identity you take his language his culture his religion and make him hate himself make him hate himself change his name from Kai Kint to toe instead of being a a prince make him call himself a make him hate himself so as a generation goes they'll kill them themselves have no respect for one another rape and rob their own women and betray the trust of their own ancestors for those who struggled for their Liberation they would be ashamed to see the condition of their children today that they've lost focus of who they are as a people yes slave culture changes name change his identity take his language from him disconnect him from his origin that's how some of us today are in the world of Islam we don't know who we are we second guess the beauty of Islam I got to argue with a sister or brother about something that's Islamic something real simple like making Salah like brother why we got to pray we in America what does that mean what does that mean or we buy into this illusion M I hear Muslims say this all the time brother Islam is going to come from America this is where it's going to be don't fool yourself with that nonsense you will contribute to the growth and the rise of Islam yes we will make a contribution but what Islam requires is a state and a country and a people you don't have that in the United States of America so don't fool yourself to make Islam what it should be it needs a state and men and women who are dedicated to this Dean we are so far away and removed from that reality we will make a contribution yes but really back home is where the power lies you got 1.5 billion Muslims around the world you got 10 to maybe 12 million Muslims in America that ain't enough to change the world not the world that we represent so when people ask me the question are you an American Muslim yes Muslim American yes however you want to label it it's fine with me but you'll never tell me who I am I know who I am because Allah teaches you in the Quran when he created Adam he said said I am creating in the earth a vice J arula I'm surprised when I see Muslims they're so Meek they're so Meek so like submissive why you should hold your head up when you look at the people of the world you should know that Allah says that you are amongst the best of people because you're enjoying the good and you forbid the evil but they've labeled the whole world of Islam as a third world country and we talk like that about ourselves I said brother where you from third world country where is the second world brother they skip from one to two what makes the Western World a first class Society tell me they let men marry Men Women Marry women is that it that's first class to you huh that's first class Congress passed a law because we don't know who we are they passed a law that that allows two people of the same gender to marry but they won't pass the law that will protect the Integrity of the Muslim Community people in Congress won't even come to the mass they won't even stand up for the rights of Muslims in America and when things happen to us they find a way politically to maneuver themselves and you know it was an accident but let it happen to someone else let you be caught doing something wrong as a Muslim and you'll get prosecuted to the full extent of the law Muslim Scholars come to the gates of this country and they're held in the airport for 12 hours for what what are you holding them for 12 hours for 12 hours in the airport why the only one reason is he's a Muslim in a wheelchair where you coming from Shaq India okay let him in no wait wait for what the prophet taught us something that's so beautiful Muslims and if we learn one day who we truly are and you know the power that is in Your Hands by the grace of Allah you'll never let anyone disrespect you your family or your faith you'll never allow that there are people who the prophet taught us he said verely Allah loves the strong believer huh what's thei help me they are two servants listen to this and I'll conclude because this is part of our identity to be strong he says the strong believer is more dearer to Allah than the weak one but yet in both of them is good I'm going to ask you a question strong Believers when you pick up your phone and they said muslim scholars in the airport being detained by Homeland Security without justification and you make one phone call and they release him in 30 seconds is that strength or weakness I can't hear you yall not sure is it strength or weakness when a Muslim sister's pulled over on the highway and disrespected and held by law enforcement and she got to go through all the things that she has to go through just for having a scoff on and you make a phone call and it stops is that strength or weakness when you want to build a Masid in your community and you have all the money necessary but people protest the building of the Masid but you can put up $100 million thought construction overnight is that strength or weakness when you can get accepted to America's best schools Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia Duke the best of the schools in America and Excel at the best of what they have to offer is that strength or weakness Brothers when you want to get married and you have no money and nobody will give you their daughter is that strength or weakness huh Brothers like no brothers and sisters let's be realistic I don't care how much Quran you memorize your best friend is not going to let you marry his daughter if you're poor and broke will'll tell you may Allah bless you but you're not marrying his daughter you can recite Bak to it ain't going to happen so Muslims we have to become strong people and we have to know that the pillar of our strength is Faith it's not in the material it's in faith ibraim said something so beautiful to allaha and this is what I want you to think about because you must go and research who you are you must know who you are and where you are and you must know the time in which we live in we live in one of the greatest times in human history especially for the growth and the rise of Islam all over the world Muslims are coming to their senses that Islam is the only way to go it's the only way for us but ibraim taught us a beautiful lesson ibraim says in the Quran Allah says in the Quran identity ibraim says Abraham said my Lord show me how you give life to the dead Allah said to him Abraham is it that you do not believe he said for certainty I believe but that my heart may find Tranquility so what Allah tell Ibrahim to do to show him the power of Allah and the power of his own requests and the magnificence that is in prayer he told ibraim take the bird take this bird kill it for them place them on the mountains call them they will come to life with speed and they will return unto you but there's one thing I want you to think about Allah never gave him details he says my Lord show me how you give life to the dead Allah never told him how he did it guess what he did he gave him a demonstration cuz you know what brother and sister all respect you'll never understand Allah's power can you imagine telling a blind person what this hotel looks like a man who's blind describe this billain to him in his wildest imaginations he would never comprehend never some of us we have not seen the power of Allah to know who we are you got to ask Allah in these days of trial and tribulation Allah show me that you're with us show me because the Muslims in America if they want to succeed the number one thing they have to get rid of is fear I told the Muslims let's go to Capitol Hill and make Juma I said let's go make Juma on Capitol Hill some of them are so scared brother we can't go there why you can't go there why go to Capitol Hill take a million Muslims next year and have a March on Washington and pray and show the American people the beauty of Islam and the peacefulness of our Dean and the greatness of our men women and children and the beauty of our family life and manifest to them in the public not in the four walls and the corridors of the hotel but show the American people the beauty of this community show them give them a demonstration but no they have a scared I said to a brother assalam alaykum he says hi no for real in the airport you see a brother Salam alaykum how you doing brother why you can't give me salams brother I can't identify myself here there is know who you are brother you went through the checkpoint they got your name your Manifesto they got it all but they got a psychologically beat people ask me when it comes to the identity of the Muslim they said what do you think about the ground zero Mass don't get in trouble just listen to me I said what do you mean it's part of our identity of buil Masters everywhere we go we say God Bless America well Islam is a tremendous blessing to America it's one of the greatest blessings to this country they have the Jeffersonian Quran in the Library of Congress Jefferson had a Quran I told you the other day one of the oldest qurans is in the Library of Congress written by the Muslims more than 1,000 years ago I told some of you the other day that in the Library of Congress there's a timeline of World Civilization and the only deed or religion written in the ceiling in the Library of Congress where the Senate and the Congressional leaders sit the only Dean in the Cil it says Islam and I listened to the tour guide when he got to Islam and he was explaining as I said to the American Europeans he went to Babylon he went to Greece he went to ancient Egypt he went to America when he got to Islam he said Islam's contribution to world history is in the following areas mathematics science physics geometry algebra calculus philosophy medicine I listen for the word terrorism he never mentioned it because they know we think they don't know and the da that we need to give in America has to change it's nice to give out pamplets but brother that's not the kind of D we need right now you can give people pamphlets who can't read some people give it to they thought on the floor we have to understand what is the psychology and the mechanism that is used in this time to influence the thinking of the people Allah teach you in the Quran in the time of Jesus medicine was powerful so Allah gave Jesus what he gave him the ability make the blind see the death hear Resurrect The Dead how by Allah's permission in the time of Moses magic was powerful so Allah gave Moses the ability what to conquer the magic of The Magicians he gave him a sense of identity based upon truth and a manifestation of superiority that truth will always Crush out the brains of falsehood Prophet Muhammad what was his identity the aobs had a love for balaga speech he gave him the Quran in this time in which we live today what creates the identity for the people it's mass media 30 seconds on the TV they can make people love you or hate you you know they can make hijab a style tomorrow where every woman in America goes and buy a scarf and start putting it on That's The Power of influencing people's minds some Muslim sisters I love you but you confused with the hijab because you have one a tight hijab but then you got a short shirt on and you got on tight jeans what you doing it shows a contradiction that you're not there you you you you you know you should do it you may want to do it but you're not there same thing as a Muslim I was arguing with some of the Muslim doctors they got Merry Christmas all over their office and giving Christmas cards out in their office what kind of nonsense is that like what kind of Muslims are you telling people Merry Christmas I see Muslims are so confused with their children that they celebrate Halloween what's wrong with you they got little girls want around with hijab and their face made up like a little satanic Force talking about trick or treat you lost your mind you a Muslim doing that you're a Muslim decorating your house with Christmas lights cuz you're confused on what to celebrate we are confused because we don't know the greatest lesson you have been given is from Allah subhana tala through His prophets Abraham named us Muslim for a reason because the greatest thing you can become come is a true servant of Allah yes you can become doctors and lawyers and engineers and bankers you can become successful but that don't make you who you are so brothers and sisters as I conclude we need to find out who we are and know the greatness of ourselves you know why because our children if you don't teach them the love for this Dean and self-confidence they will be Giants in the bodies of midgets you have to change the thinking the Muslims in America are a great Community the Muslims in this country mashallah you have done some wonderful things for America wonderful in Panama City maybe 70% of the medical professionals are Muslims all the pediatricians are Muslims so every day Muslim doctors male and female are looking after America's children to make sure they're strong and healthy but that doesn't make the front newspaper in this country why not some of you are heart surgeons some of you are specialist in your field you have given the best of what you have to this country what are you going to exchange some of you came to America you were the cream of the crop of your Society you came to America as a doctor you didn't even have to go to the medical school you got bought certified and instantly you became a success in America because you know brothers and sisters Muslims have always been great people and brothers and sisters if you would recognize who you are you could do magnificent things but it's right here there's a great book called The True Believer by Eric huffner you have to read that book He's a survivor of the Holocaust the atrocity that was perpetrated against our brothers and sisters in the Jewish Community but he survived he survived the persecution and he talks about the danger of indoctrinating the minds of people that they become soldiers of Darkness because they do not think for themselves you got to think Muslims the first revelation given to the prophet was we must read you must understand everything that is around you and it's not enough to teach Muslim kids to memorize the Quran and they have no clue of what they understand I asked a group of Muslim kids just to see if they knew who they were I asked them where was Mecca one told me it was in Britain another one told me he in Karachi Pakistan I said mashah no I'm Ser I mean you don't know where Mecca is I got a kid that memorized Quran he's moving and rocking masah I say brother what did you read I don't know the Imam give the masah 800 people in the audience mashallah he gives the he reads from an 18th century document I said Imam what did you you read in Arabic said I don't know how could you not know how could we know our own greatness if we can't understand the blueprint that is the foundation of greatness so Muslims we are tribes and we are ethnic communities but the greatest identity we share is a spiritual component think about this and I'm done I come from Brooklyn I don't know anything about Pakistan and India and Bangladesh Saudi Arabia Kuwait and Bahrain and Qatar and Egypt Nigeria Sudan and Somalia Uganda and Chad South Africa but you know what brought me to the presence of such a magnificent group of people Islam that's it the beauty of Islam unites all of us as one people and that's what we have to keep working for unite the Muslims as one Community as one so may Allah bless all of you may he forgive me for any of my own imperfections anything I said and inshallah I'm going to try to make it to the conference in Missouri so I think this is the last time I'll see you inshallah but may Allah bless you and may you be protected and brothers and sisters please study study the making of minds of men how we get the thoughts that we have because the basis of your thoughts become the basis of your actions a wise woman said to me one day she said be careful of your thoughts because your thoughts become your ideas be aware of your ideas because your ideas become your actions she said be conscious of your actions because your actions become your character and I warn you of your character for it is the manifestation of your destiny you must know who you are and you can't know that if you're not willing to study so may Allah bless you