00:00The leader of a local Islamic non-profit organization, Dr. Mirza Ali Muhammad, used as a metaphor to deliver a
00:07part of his message to those of the Islamic faith, a piece of U.S. military hardware that the government
00:13said was temporarily being used to assist with the monitoring of Trinidad and Tobago's coastline.
00:19I want to talk about a radar. The controversial radar has been removed from Tobago. It's gone, right? Everybody knows
00:27that. A radar is not bad, guys. A radar is used for aviation and navigation. A radar is used for
00:34military defense and to be able to detect oncoming enemies and missiles and so on.
00:38A radar is used for weather forecasting good. A radar is used for mapping terrain. So it has good use.
00:46I'm suggesting to you after the month of Ramadan to bring back your personal radar, metaphorical radar. I'm suggesting after
00:53this Ramadan to have a personal radar system that will be able to detect any incoming sin and incoming evil.
01:01Dr. Muhammad also used as a metaphor the ongoing state of emergency in Trinidad and Tobago, which does not have
01:07a curfew or any limitations on public gatherings.
01:11We can even have our personal state of emergency and lock up anything that's bad. Lock it away. Stay away
01:17from it. Anything bad and evil.
01:19Dr. Muhammad was speaking during the Eidol Fetiru celebrations at the Hafiz Karamath Sports and Recreation Ground in Aranguas.
01:27Today is a good news Qutbah. It's a Qutbah about optimism that Islam is a religion of hope and optimism
01:33in spite of what we see taking place with our brothers and sisters in Gaza, in Sudan, in China, in
01:41Myanmar, in Syria, wherever they are.
01:44You fasted voluntarily. Some of them did not fast voluntarily. They fasted because they had to. They had nothing to
01:51eat in the morning.
01:52They had nothing to break their fast in the evening. But they fasted and they prayed among the rubble. And
01:59therefore, remember them in your dua.
02:01Dr. Muhammad then made an apparent reference to recent statements by leaders of governments who he did not identify by
02:07country or by name.
02:08In my lifetime, I have never seen presidents, prime ministers, people who are high profile people speak of killing people
02:19as easy as we have breakfast.
02:21We will kill them. Show us their location. We will unalive them.
02:26References, scriptures have been made to say that God commanded to kill women, children, and even the donkeys and the
02:33animals.
02:34I have never seen it before. But Allah tells Muslims in Quran that if we kill an innocent individual, it
02:40is as if we kill the entire of humanity.
02:44However, Dr. Muhammad maintained his message of hope.
02:47Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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