So it is not lost on any of us here the difficulties we find ourselves in.

This is the last week before the elections and in all likelihood this is well as of yet

It has been the most difficult elections of our lifetime.

Allah knows what the future will hold but the fact of the matter is that in all likelihood this election will

decide quite a lot of things on the global level. There is even talk that we're

close to World War III right now because of what is happening. Multiple countries are being

involved in this debacle taking place and because our country is directly related

to every single one of those countries, Allah and Mustang, we are facing a very difficult situation right now.

Tensions are at an all-time high and Muslims themselves are very much divided.

There's a lot of anger, a lot of fear, a lot of accusations

even within our own community. Today in sha al-Ola want to shed a little bit of

religious light. Now I'm not going to be too

explicit in my endorsement of any one group because of multiple factors of

them is that this is a Masjid and the laws of this country do not allow explicit endorsements anyway.

Nonetheless, political talk is not endorsement and one can criticize policies without

endorsing.

So I want to begin actually with an incident from the syra that demonstrates

the natural reality of living as a minority. It is narrated with an authentic chain to the Tabirin that our mother

ome Salama, radi al-A-Anha, who was of course you know eventually she married the

process of them she migrated to as you know Abyssinia and she was one of the 85 Muslims who were living at Abyssinia for more

than 13 years. So they were a minority in Abyssinia. And she mentions to us that sometime in that time frame what happened was

that the nephew of Najashi the nephew of Najashi began clamoring support and fomenting hatred against his uncle and

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