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Of course we can judge people -- even other Muslims

Middle Nation · 9 Jan 2023 · 9:25 · YouTube

Something needs to be said about this sentiment that seems to be very popular among especially young people online and even among Muslims. Is this idea that you're not supposed to judge anyone. Now, course, you only hear that from people who themselves don't want to be criticized or, from the people who are fans of people who they don't want to see criticized because of course we judge people. We have the faculty of judgment for a reason and that reason isn't so that we can suspend our faculty of judgment. We have the sharia.

We have the rules and regulations of Islam. We have the guidance of Islam precisely so that we can judge by that. Of course, there's there's things that we don't know. There's hidden information about people that we can never know, but we are not expected to judge according to that. That's only knowable to Allah so we don't judge based on the unknowable, we judge based on the apparent.

And obviously, when we do judge someone, we're not presuming to declare what their end will be in the akhirah, what is gonna happen to them on judgment day. We're not pretending that we know what the judgment of Allah is going to be on that person on your We have nothing to do with that. But we bloody well can judge whether or not someone's words and actions are compliant with Islam. Whether or not we think someone is good or bad or more good than bad or more bad than good or whether or not that person deserves our respect, deserves our approval or our company. Now having said that, the truth of the matter is and we all know this, there's a lot of Muslims who are just lousy people.

There are Muslims who lie, there are Muslims who cheat, there are Muslims who are criminals, and there are Muslims who are just plain dumb. The fact that they're Muslims doesn't change that. Now we hope for Allah's mercy for them and for us, but there are people who we deem it better overall just to avoid. Rasulullah said that a particular woman shouldn't marry a particular Sahabi because he was known to beat his wives. So no, I don't have a problem criticizing certain Muslims who I deem to be more bad than good or harmful in one way or another.

And generally speaking, those are the only types of Muslims that I will criticize because there's plenty of Muslims online whose content to me is just useless, worthless. I don't talk about any of that. I don't mention those people. It's not then I'm not their audience, and it's more or less harmless what they do. But there are certain people who I think are a detriment to those who follow them.

And that's my opinion, that's my judgment, and I have a right to it the same way that everyone else has a right to their opinion and their judgment. I don't believe that adab and brotherhood means that you have to sugarcoat everything and wear kid gloves every single time you discuss a Muslim just because they are a Muslim. I mean, look, I will return the salam of these types of brothers. If I'm present for their janazah when they die, I will attend their janazah and pray for them. If they sneeze and say, I will say, I will fulfill the basic rights of brotherhood, but I'm not gonna pretend that I think they're righteous and wonderful people if I don't think they are.

I mean, like, you've got this character, Imran, Dawah man, who is apparently, selling a course now on how to manipulate people into overpaying for something that they don't need. And I say yes, it's something that they don't need because if they need it, you don't have to manipulate them to buy it. I mean, when's the last time someone had to do a hard sell on you to get you to buy a bottle of water on a hot day? And apparently he's also selling a self defense course.

You can sit on the legs, I'll show that as it comes in. There, bang. I can literally take him down and rest on his leg here. Do it like that.

Dude, you're not sitting on someone's leg in a street fight. That's not a thing that happens unless you weigh like three hundred pounds. This is all just nonsense grifting. This man makes tens of thousands of dollars begging for sadaqah while he's right here telling you that he can make £10,000 in an hour. I mean, whatever.

Gullible, trusting, good hearted Muslims are like prey for these kinds of people, and that makes me angry. And the fans and supporters of Andrew Tate, especially among the Muslims, are the same type of prey. I mean, you've got this guy dishonestly saying

He is innocent of these recent accusations against him. Three reasons why. Number one, innocent until proven guilty. That's the basic fundamental principle not only in secular justice systems but also in Islam. Number two, the matrix has been trying to silence brother Andrew at all costs.

They completely wiped him off social media and closed his payment processors, but it wasn't enough. So the next best option short of killing him is putting him in prison. Number three, why are these accusations coming out now for something that allegedly happened many years ago? So it's just a coincidence that for years, none of the so called victims had any complaints. But as soon as the powers that be want Andrew's silence, they come out with accusations?

Convenient.

Innocent until proven guilty. The man has been telling you the entire course of his social media career about his crimes. He has been incriminating himself the entire time that you've known about him. There's not a question about him being guilty. He's guilty.

If you don't believe him, that's up to you. But what's your reason for not believing him when he tells you that his business model was to seduce women, to bring them over to Romania or to The UK under false pretenses and then make them go into the sex webcam business. That's fraud. That meets the criteria, the definition of human trafficking. That's what he does.

Now, yeah, okay, all of that was before Islam. Maybe he can be forgiven. That's not the point. The point is he's guilty of the crimes that he is accused of, again, with the possible exception of the rape. Although there is eyewitness testimony to the rape of at least one victim.

But be that as it may, Andrew Tate is not only guilty of what he's been charged with, he's gonna get more charges. He's definitely gonna get a charge of money laundering. He's probably gonna get charges of tax evasion. The charges are gonna pile up, and he's probably going to end up going to jail for ten years or more. And, no, these charges didn't just happen.

The charges were brought originally in The UK back in 2014. That's eight years ago, nine years ago, at the time that it happened. And the charges that he's facing in Romania now, that's the product of an ongoing investigation that's been underway since April, well before he made the announcement that he converted to Islam. And you're trying to talk about that the matrix is attacking him because what? He's trying to help people escape from the matrix?

How? By selling them affiliate marketing courses so that they can sell the products of already existing major conglomerates and corporations. How is that escaping the matrix? By selling people the same side hustle ideas that you can get for free anywhere on the Internet. I mean, good luck trying to avoid all of the side hustle ideas that have flooded the Internet ever since there's been economic hard times.

And in terms of gender and men and women and all of that, he doesn't say anything that's new from the red pill point of view, and it certainly doesn't say anything that's more useful than what you can hear from your imam or your Khattib or if you read books on Islam. I mean, to take Andrew Tate as a life coach because he's got some good things to say. That's like if Abu Hurayrah, when Iblis taught him to read Ayatoll Kursi every night before he sleeps, if Abu Hurayrah had said, wow, you know, Shaitan really has a lot of good things to say, Maybe I should listen to him more. It makes no sense. I mean, these are my opinions, and I'm I'm not gonna pretend to respect someone that I don't respect.

And if you don't like the opinion that I'm giving or you're gonna say, oh, Shahid is taking an l on this one, just unsubscribe. Look, I've never been particularly interested in trying to grow my channel or get subscribers or get more views or promote myself. That's not something that I've ever done on this channel. It's not monetized. This is not my job.

So if you're a fan of Andrew Tate, if you're a fan of Dawa Man, if you're a fan of Daniel Hakiguchu, I would just assume you unsubscribe and look elsewhere because my content isn't really compatible with their content.

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