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The question I had is, are we allowed to live in a non-Muslim country,

especially one that does not follow Muslim laws but another religion's laws. K I'll Larijalan no he I'll a hymn.

Fass alu.

Ah la Vikirin

Kuntum la Talamun.

Once again we go back, you see,

dear brothers and sisters again,

have to go into some detail here the majority of

American Muslims are children of immigrants right all of you that I can see are

basically children immigrants.

Al-Hamdulah we have a good you know around 30% African Americans who are basically here

for much longer than myself and many of us here. We need to understand the

Islam that we were taught was influenced by the culture of the people that came from the lands that they came from,

whether it was Egypt, whether it was India, whether it was Pakistan, the type of Islam

that was culturally influenced.

So back in the 60s and 70s those people that came here their local

olema their clergy were like a staff for a law you're going to America that is the

Darul Kufur and how can you go there in this and that? So they began thinking

that they're not allowed to be here.

But you see when you look at the text, when you look at the Quran and Sunna, you don't see these types of

cultural understandings of Islam. In fact, there's an authentic hadith in a book of

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