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So, al-hambhah, and sallat, and al-Shalat, and al-a-sulilah, al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-haehbibeh. So, may Allah help me, one of those topics again. Has anything interesting happened this week in the news? Any interesting files leaked or anything like that?

A lot of people have asked what is my analysis and opinion.

The problem is this is not a political talk.

It's an Islamic masjid.

But still, every single incident that happens, we can derive ethical and moral benefit.

So I'm not going to go too much into the politics,

but, will Allahi, there's so much achalach and moral benefit from this fiasco.

So I will avoid mentioning too much details

because I don't think this is the place for that.

I wish I could, maybe other places,

but I do want to mention something that we as Muslims

need to understand and appreciate

in light of all of this fiasco.

And I wanna begin by going back a few years,

I gave a lecture here, I'm sure some of you remember,

many of you were not here,

about one of the most important

books written in the Western Academy about Islam, which shaped and was revolutionary about

understanding how the West studies Islam. It was written by an Arab Christian, Edward Said,

and the name of the book is Orientalism. I have a whole lecture

on Epic here. You can see it online. In a nutshell, what Edward Said demonstrated back in the

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