Mohammed Hijab

Dawah Bros, Feminism, and a Divided Ummah

TranscriptTranscribed from the video above. Speaker: Mohammed Hijab.

On the Term "Dawah Bros"

If you're calling us "Dawah boys" or "Dawah bros" or whatever the terminology is, I don't see it's like saying "Zakat boys," "Salah boys." I don't see that as a priority, frankly.

Addressing Criticisms

If the matter is about Muslim women seeking an exit from an untenable relationship, then there's a lot of scope for that in Islamic law.

Number two, if the matter is about the behavior of the du'at, including myself, which has been very, very uncouth or very, very impulsive, etc., then okay, that's valid, accepted.

If it's about a particular person—me, Ali Dawah, whoever—you can say what you want, because we deserve that. We are public figures, we're representing... Well, I'm not going to say we're representing Islam, but sometimes when we speak about Islam, people think we are. Okay, so surely we should be held to account. That's as simple as that.

Feminism and Islam

Number four, if the matter is about feminism and you want to introduce that into Islam, which I don't know, some of them clearly are doing that. Some of them are rejecting the Hadith. And in my estimation, a lot of them have committed kufr by doing that. Doesn't mean they're kafir, because there's a difference between someone who falls into kufr and someone who's a kafir. That's a different issue. And those ones we have to try and resuscitate from a spiritual perspective. But if they're arrogant, then it's not a matter of resuscitation anymore. It's just a matter of just getting rid of them from the community and excommunicating them. And some of them are a combination of these things, okay? So they'll have some feminist tendencies and they'll have some valid criticism, etc.

Call for Unity

As for the Muslims, youth, don't entertain this. Men, I beg you, don't entertain this. Why are you entertaining that for? I think we should all come together. If you're a Muslim person, now, look how many genocides are happening in the world. You've got Palestine, you've got Sudan, you've got millions of people are dying. Yeah, literally millions of people. So for the last 10-15 years, millions of Muslims have been killed. Yeah, and by the hegemonic, demonistic, Luciferian, yeah, Western powers and its extensions and and their allies. So is this the time to be creating a rift between Muslim men and Muslim women?

Now, once again, someone could say, "But you have been part of this issue as well. You've come on these shows and you've spoken like this to these women and this." I regret all that. Fine. I acknowledge my shortcomings and I've looked into it and I think that, for example, my appearances on the Bitter Truth show, speaking to Aliens and T Shahana about it. And I said, "Look, looking back, I wouldn't have done that again. I wouldn't have done it like that." The point is, we don't need to go back and forth. We don't need to fight each other. We need to be working with each other to fight the enemies of Islam, to fight those people who are encouraging the genocides around the world.

Dawah Bros, Feminism, and a Divided Ummah — Mohammed Hijab Archive