Well, I mean the great irony to me is that there are actually some people who can turn calling for unity into a divide and rule tactic because they continuously harp on this lamentation about division in the Ummah like they want to put it uppermost in your mind. They want you to feel an exaggerated sense of division between the Muslims. You know, they're not actually complaining about division.
They're insisting on division by constantly overstating how disunited the Muslims are. And it's very telling, because this is the same kind of thing that you'll hear from non-Muslims, you know? They insist that sectarianism and division are deep and entrenched in the Muslim world, because that's what they want to believe, and that's what they want to be true, and that's what they want you to believe is true. And I think that we're going to hear more and more of this these days, in the next few years, precisely because it has never been less true than it is today. It is less true today than in any of our lifetimes.
And there's one simple reason for that. Western influence and Western presence in the Muslim world is decreasing. As soon as you see the West reducing its presence, sectarianism and division decreases.
It's funny how that works. All sorts of problems decrease when the West leaves. Sectarianism, division, extremism, terrorism, all of these things that they said that they needed to come to our lands to protect us from.
only get worse when they're here, and they get better when they leave. So you have all these people now calling for unity, and they're only doing it to make you think that there is no unity. But the truth is, we have not seen so much solidarity and unity in the Muslim world in decades.
All the leaders in the Muslim world, in the Arab world, are coming together, working together, coordinating, fortifying their bilateral and multilateral ties, mending relationships with each other, like Iran with Saudi Arabia, the Khalij, and Egypt with Turkey and with Qatar. There's even a peace roadmap with the Houthis. So many of them are partners in BRICS.
There's more unity and solidarity across the Muslim world than anyone can remember ever seeing. But you have Muslims in the West, mostly. who still can't see it. And worse, you have some who want to make sure that no one can see it.
They want to make sure that the Muslims can't see it. They talk about unity, but they act divisively. They don't manifest unity by their actions.
They talk about the Muslims uniting, but they want to exclude every single government in the Muslim world from that unity. Meanwhile, the governments in the Muslim world are uniting, and you're not uniting with them. So who are you uniting with?
You're uniting whether you know it or not. you're uniting with the side that the Muslim world is uniting against. And that means the West.
Because that's who the Muslim world and the Arab world are actually uniting against. It's as plain as day. Of course, the West doesn't like that, but there's nothing they can do about it. There's nothing they can do about it except to put their divisive propaganda in the mouths of mentally colonized Western Muslims.
The same people who constantly incite hatred against the Muslim leaders. You know, pathetically trying to redirect Muslim anger at the West and turn it against the Muslim countries instead. Because of course they want you to hate the Muslim leaders, especially Muslims in the West.
See, they want you to believe that the leaders in the Muslim world are your enemy. They want you to believe that the Muslim leaders in the Muslim world are unworthy of your respect. Why? Because the West knows that if you're cut off from the strength of the Muslim world, then you'll be weak.
You'll be begging them for scraps instead of standing strong with dignity side by side with the global ummah. These leaders are out foxing the West. They're out maneuvering the West at every turn. And they're gaining their sovereignty and their independence. They're building their sphere of influence.
They're building their economies. Their economies are growing. Their alliances are strengthening.
They're getting out from under the yoke of Western imperialism. So of course they want you to hate them. So they criticize the Muslim leaders.
They amplify every flaw, every scandal, every mistake that they can find. They use their media to fill your heart with anger towards the very nations that could be and should be your strongest allies. And they're good at it too.
They want you looking at your brothers across the ocean with suspicion, with disdain, instead of seeing the bigger picture. But what does that leave you with? It leaves you with them.
It leaves you with the West. The strongest anti-Western, anti-imperialist powers in the world, namely Russia and China, are coalescing around the Muslim countries, the Muslim governments, the Arab governments, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey. There are meetings in Riyadh with the leaders of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
You know, the Muslim countries of the Sahel, the new confederation that's kicking out the West. kicking out the French. This is a global movement taking place to isolate the West and take back control of our regions. And they're doing it cleverly, with strategy and with cunning, and they're doing it with money. They're doing it with political savvy.
They're doing it with geopolitical leverage and with tactical compromises, with deals and with trade-offs. But because they're not doing it with Kalashnikovs in balaclavas, some of you can't see what's happening. Because again...
The West taught you only about violence. Only violence is real. Only violence works. Only war accomplishes things.
Only bullets and bombs are effective. Violence is the only means of domination and of liberation. And only violence is jihad. That's what the West taught you.
So you don't know what statecraft is. You don't know what strategy is. You don't know what economic power is.
You don't know, for example, that anyone who even parks their car in Chicago is giving money to Abu Dhabi. For some bizarre reason, you don't think that ownership and domination are the same thing. But never mind. No one has to try to catch you up on how power works. There are only two types of people who are constantly saying that the Muslims are divided and who are constantly trying to attack the leaders and discredit Muslim governments.
Only two types. Just two types of people. They're either enemies. or they're idiots. Because how dumb do you have to be, honestly, to be sitting over there in the West, cut off from two billion Muslims, cut off from the only earthly powers that we have.
And you want to alienate yourselves and you want to take a tone of enmity against those Muslim powers, against the Muslims who run our countries, who control our economies, who command our militaries, and who hold actual power. You want to cut yourself off. and you want to incite us against basically our own real world assets.
Either you're dumb or you're diabolical. Those are the only two options. Muslims must unite, you say, but just not unite with the most powerful and influential elements in the Muslim world.
Well, you must be joking. There isn't a single leader in the Muslim world who is as bad as the best leader in the West. Do you know how many Muslim armies stood behind generals who were not Khalid bin al-Walid?
Almost all of them. Do you know how many Muslim lands were ruled by leaders who were not the Khulafa Rashidin? Almost all of them. And the worst generals and the worst leaders that we ever had were better than the best leaders of the Kuffar.
And the leaders that we have right now are better than the best leaders in the West. They're better than the leaders who are over there right now committing genocide against the Palestinians. with your money, with your tax money, and who are wreaking havoc all across the globe.
Why, I don't know how you can even live with yourself at a time like this, while you're trying to chastise and castigate and shame and blame Muslim leaders, and at the same time talking about unity. You're either diabolical or you're dumb. I'll say it again. Some of you are frustrated. Some of you look at the leaders in the Muslim world and you're ready to criticize them because you think they're not doing enough.
As if you know what they can and can't do, what their options are. As if you understand the nature of the box that the West has put them in and that they're trying to escape. The one that you and your parents or your grandparents escaped by running to the West.
And as if you are doing enough yourself. While you're right over there, next to the people committing genocide with your money. And you've been primed anyway to attack the Muslims by the West. You've been primed by the West and by the media.
You've been trained. Trained to deflect blame and responsibility from the West and from yourselves. You've been trained to look down on the global ummah. Trained to think the worst of our leaders. And trained to think that our governments must be corrupt.
They must be evil. If they don't pretend to be what Western governments pretend to be. In other words, if they don't pretend to be democracies like your governments pretend to be democracies. You've been trained to hate the Muslim governments, both by the West itself, and then by every fringe, radical, dissident Muslim who ran to the West to escape the consequences of the fitna that they caused in their home countries. And you've adopted this Western idea that standing up for justice must necessarily mean...
shouting slogans in the street, attacking the authorities and protesting and marching and so forth against the government. What you fail to see is that that is what people have to do in your so-called democracies. That's what people have to do in the West, because their governments hate their people.
Their governments are against their own people. You supposedly We have democracies, but still people have to march in the streets to be heard at all. In your so-called representative democracies, the population still has to represent themselves on the street, in protests, in rallies, in marches, because your so-called democratic governments hate you. I don't know how you can say that you need to protest and at the same time say that you need to vote.
Why, if your vote counted at all, protests wouldn't even be necessary. But no, standing up for justice does not necessarily mean standing up against the government. Because you live in the West, and there's nothing in the West but corrupt, but evil, brutal, criminal governments. That's all you have in the West.
That's why you think that. But no, sometimes you stand up for justice by standing with your government, standing behind your government, supporting your leaders, having your rulers back. Because the truth of the matter is... That the leaders in the Muslim world are in a confrontation right now. They're navigating their way through a confrontation with the West.
Whether you are astute enough to understand that or not. I'm not saying that they're perfect. I'm not saying that they're infallible. I'm not saying that they make all the right decisions. No.
I mean, Allah help us. If the only people who ever deserve our support are people who are perfect or infallible or flawless. But they are our leaders.
They are our rulers. They are the biggest, most powerful, most important, most crucial members of our team with the most assets, with the most resources, and they are the ones who are making the most impactful decisions. And like I said, they are making decisions today that are strategic and they are making decisions that are dangerous. They are walking on a tightrope across the pit of fire And they're carrying the Muslim world on their backs. And you're over there on the sidelines throwing rocks at them.
Like I said, you are either diabolical or you're dumb. Wallahi, these are the last kind of people that you would ever want on your side in a fight. It's just like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in the Quran. They wouldn't add anything to you except for weakness. And that's all they are doing.
That's all they're doing right now. Trying to add weakness to the ummah. Trying to weaken the ummah globally and weaken the Muslims in the West.
I mean imagine if you started actually being proud of the Muslim leaders. Imagine if you recognize what they're doing, if you actually acknowledge what they're doing. I mean six of the new BRICS partners are Muslim countries.
Seven if you count Nigeria which does have a massive Muslim population. China has a massive Muslim population, so does Russia. Between BRICS members and the new BRICS partners half of BRICS is already Muslim. And everyone knows that BRICS is an anti-Western imperialist organization. And the most important members outside of China and Russia are the Muslim countries.
You should be proud of that. You should align yourself with that. You should identify with that.
And you should at least acknowledge, you should at least recognize... That that represents Muslim countries defying the West and trying to carve out their own path to sovereignty and independence. And you should be proud of that.
And you would be proud of that if you didn't align with and didn't identify with the West. When you attack our leaders publicly, when you spread animosity towards them, you're giving the West exactly what they want. A divided people. A people with no stronghold. You're making yourselves weaker.
and you're doing their work for them. Don't let them turn you against your own. Don't fall for that trap. Actually manifest unity. We need strength and we need the kind of global solidarity that can make them nervous.
Because when Muslims stand together, east and west, they can't just push us around. They can't just dictate our lives and our values and our future. They're going to be forced to respect you. They'll have no choice but to take you seriously. When we have a united voice that stretches across borders, across oceans.
So the next time you feel tempted to criticize a leader in the Muslim world, ask yourself, am I helping the Ummah or am I helping those who want us broken and scattered? Because when we stand together. When we respect each other, they lose their power over us. And when they lose that power, we start to reclaim our power. This isn't about agreeing with every policy or being blind to the imperfections.
This is about understanding the game that's being played and refusing to play along with their game. Be wiser than that. Be more strategic than that.
Be stronger than that. Because the West doesn't want a Muslim community with power, with allies. with a unified purpose. Rather than positioning yourself in the West as a critic and as an enemy of the Muslim leaders and of the governments and of their states and of their power, you should position yourself, if you have any sense, as being a part of that, as a soldier in that regiment, rather than as a renegade who's gone AWOL.
I mean, you're over there in the West announcing yourself to the lion that you've wandered away from the herd, that you're a weak and wounded straggler. Telling the lion that you didn't like the way that the leader of the herd was going, the way he was leading, and somehow you think that's going to make you safer? Literally, they were leading the herd away from the lion, and you hung back, and you isolated yourself, and expressing all your grievances now to a very attentive predator. Well, I said you're either diabolical or you're dumb, but in fact, if you are diabolical, it can only be because you're dumb, because that's just self-destructive. You know, people develop a lot of bad habits in the West.
You develop a lot of bad habits living in the West, and Muslims aren't exempt. One of those bad habits is the bad habit of not thinking before you speak. Not questioning before you speak whether you're even saying something that's constructive or useful or not. You know, with this whole freedom of expression, you all became way too free in expressing anything and everything. Whinging, complaining.
pouring out all your anxieties, your depression, your angst, your feelings of hopelessness, your defeatism, your negativity and what have you. A man doesn't do that. A man shouldn't do that. You have to be disciplined in what you say and you have to be useful and constructive in what you say.
We don't have time for your angst. No one is interested in your alarmist doom and gloom predictions. You're sniping. Your the ummah is ruined narratives.
Serious people don't have time for that. Because serious people know that no one who thinks like that will ever accomplish anything. That's why you insist on saying that the Muslims aren't doing anything. Because you don't want to do anything.
And you want to normalize not doing anything. Make it sound like it's something impossible to do. You can't plan from a position of defeatism and pessimism.
We are both... realistic and optimistic. And we're not going to use our voice to say anything whatsoever that will give comfort to our enemies.
I mean another bad habit that you learn from the West is this double standards. Is applying double standards. Because on the one hand, you will say that the Muslim leaders aren't doing enough and they're not taking tough enough stance on Gaza or what have you. that they're not standing up to Israel enough that they could do more and so on and so forth and that therefore because they're not satisfying you with doing the absolute solution to the problem therefore they should be toppled meanwhile you are advocating for voting for this one or voting for that one and making the argument of the lesser of two evils.
So you perfectly well understand political necessity. You do actually understand the practicality in politics, that you have to make your choice between the available options, the realistic options. I mean, you will literally cast your vote either in favor of politician number one, candidate number one, who advocates genocide and who has been funding and arming genocide for a year or candidate number two who advocates genocide and wants to be able to fund an armored genocide or you'll advocate or vote for number three who has no chance of winning so you know perfectly well that you have limited options politically about what you can and cannot do, but somehow you're not willing to apply that same reality to the Muslim leaders and the leaders in the Arab world.
You think that the ideal, utopian, perfect scenario is an available option that they're rejecting. And because they're not enacting that dream fantasy scenario that you have in your head, because they're not enacting that, they're not implementing that, you can't even see fairly. and make a fair, objective evaluation and a judgment about what they are doing.
Because if you could make a fair, accurate, objective evaluation of what they are doing, well, then you wouldn't criticize them. Because they're definitely doing more than you are. And they're doing more than any leaders that we have seen in our lifetimes do.
And they are defying the West. And they are moving away from the West. And they are isolating the West from our regions. And they are carving their way. for their people a way to sovereignty and independence and you should actually be proud of that but rather you just do what the West wants you to do and criticize them and Isolate yourself from them so you can just join the West in their isolation rather than joining the Muslims in isolating them