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The lecture emphasizes the alarming prevalence of scams targeting Muslims who wish to provide aid to those in need, particularly in Uganda. It highlights that many individuals are misled by fraudulent organizations posing as charities, often exploiting the goodwill of Muslims. The speaker warns that genuine humanitarian efforts are overshadowed by these scams, which misrepresent the actual conditions in regions like Uganda. He cites a hadith stating that those who deceive others are not part of the Muslim community, urging caution and awareness in charitable giving.
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0:01 Smile
0:02 The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
0:03 Every day,
0:05 hundreds, if not thousands of people from Bosnia and Herzegovina,
0:09 our diaspora,
0:10 in the wilds of Europe, America, or beyond
0:13 send money to Ghana,
0:16 some other African
0:18 country.
0:19 If you thought we help orphans,
0:22 They are deceiving us.
0:24 Basically, they are cheating us.
0:27 It's about testing the worlds...
0:29 Criminals,
0:31 organized
0:31 criminal groups of people,
0:34 who greet us with Salam Aleikum Brother,
0:38 Sister or something similar.
0:40 They annoy us every day with requests for
0:44 on Facebook,
0:45 Instagram... Preaching...
0:47 Often through TikTok, they reach the most vulnerable
0:50 category
0:52 among us people.
0:54 We Muslims love to help. We Muslims love to give sadaqah.
0:59 So it is part of our faith.
1:00 But sadaqah should not and must not be the greatest.
1:04 We must not be naive.
1:06 They must not deceive us. Just as in the past three to five years, the same notorious coal has deceived us.
1:14 Recently, I was at the Post Office, and as I stood in line
1:20 In front of me was an elderly man.
1:22 A fine, honest person,
1:24 you can see it in him, I don't know the man.
1:28 And he is explaining to that clerk over there
1:31 behind the counter how he wants to send money via Western Union
1:36 to Uganda.
1:38 I was deeply, you know,
1:40 and disappointed,
1:42 I must say I didn't like that situation at all, but it was extremely uncomfortable for me to interfere in
1:49 that conversation, as it would be both uncomfortable and uncultured, and thus everything that is not good.
1:55 I felt sorry for that man,
1:57 because I realized he is just one of thousands deceived,
2:02 of whom, unfortunately, there are
2:04 more and more. That is why this warns us.
2:07 If they were to ask
2:10 one hundred percent of those people who receive information about orphanages
2:15 in Uganda,
2:15 about forty
2:17 orphans,
2:18 who have nothing to eat, about the desperately needed village well,
2:24 in a place that has no mosque, so let's gather money for a mosque.
2:36 If I were to ask all our people where Uganda is, I can guarantee 99%
2:37 of the people
2:38 have no idea
2:41 where Uganda is.
2:50 What's even worse is that I can confidently say, 100% of the people
2:52 who send aid have no idea about the human,
2:54 social or any other
3:00 situation down there in Uganda.
3:04 You know, the numbers are truly undeniable. I was preparing this short talk,
3:05 national growth
3:06 GDP for this year is 6.8
3:09 far greater than Bosnia and Herzegovina, far greater than some other countries. Of course, it's true that Uganda has about 16%
3:16 poverty, you know
3:18 the earlier estimates that spoke of 41%
3:21 poverty are mostly long forgotten
3:24 Uganda is already exporting natural gas, Uganda already has oil projects, so they are extracting oil and so on.
3:31 So,
3:32 these are really some painful things when we see what people are clinging to and how they are being deceived.
3:40 When we go a little deeper and when you ask those people, our good ones, how many Muslims are there in Uganda? Who are these people anyway?
3:48 Who does it represent?
3:50 Which official humanitarian or religious organization supports them? Mostly, everyone is silent and no one has answers.
3:57 Again, the statistics are
3:59 catastrophic.
4:00 So in all this filth from which we daily receive Ibn Ibn Ebu, calls from this or that anonymous person.
4:09 So according to sharia, a person who is completely rejected,
4:14 whose speech is not taken at all, thus should not be taken as a friend or similar.
4:19 So in that filth, you have about 13 to 14 percent of Muslims.
4:24 I am not saying that we should not help those Muslims. Of course, help is needed for anyone in need.
4:30 Whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims.
4:32 Ali do not, may Allah grant you goodness, that they constantly,
4:36 constantly deceive us. And that's why I say all this.
4:40 I want to warn about those shaykhs, those imams, those da'is, those mudarris, those who call for Quran schools,
4:46 for digging wells. This is the most common deception. Let's dig a well for a thousand dollars, a thousand euros,
4:59 a thousand and five hundred euros, three thousand euros, five thousand euros. First, the prices were high, now the prices of those wells
5:00 have suddenly dropped.
5:05 So it is mainly about deceiving. May Allah grant you goodness. So,
5:08 they simply strike at our emotions.
5:09 They try
5:10 to awaken
5:11 Your humanity, your compassion, that Islam is within us.
5:29 And then after that, we say, well, they don't ask for much.
5:31 They ask for five dollars. They ask for a maximum of ten to fifty dollars or euros.
5:34 And then we say, okay, we'll send it to them.
5:36 And then after some time,
5:38 they send us altered images.
5:43 It is mostly about 99.9%
5:44 imaginary images,
5:46 about important wells.
5:48 And so after that, they deceive us and then of course they ask again for help.
5:50 He says... The one
5:54 who deceives us is not
5:55 one of us. So, whoever deceives Muslims, whoever deceives...
5:59 So, in this... It can be freely said the worst way
6:03 So claiming to feed orphans, to support madrasas, to help... So... I don't know... the hungry,
6:10 thirsty, barefoot, and so on, the roles...
6:13 But does not do that. So it is mainly about
6:15 I say, 90 percent or more of the cases of criminals,
6:19 that is, organized crime that has found
6:23 fertile ground, not to say naive ground, and thus sends those requests.
6:28 of a deceptive nature.
6:30 So, it will never happen that an official humanitarian organization contacts you. If you see someone claiming to be a humanitarian... Know that it's a scam, know that it's a fraud. If an individual down below presents themselves as Amu, Ibn Ebu, or something else, know that it's a deception.
6:48 You know, what connection do you have with the organization? If it's really true, then wouldn't a Muslim from the Arab countries be able to pay for all those wells down there?
6:58 And yes, of course... However, people have learned that there are indeed too many scams, and people do not want to participate in that. The Prophet (peace be upon him) advises us that whoever deceives us is not one of us. So, we must be cautious and simply
7:14 never fall for such scams.
7:17 What is the problem with these scams? There are many problems. The first problem is that a very bad image of Islam and Muslims is spreading.
7:26 Thus, Muslims appear
7:28 very disorganized,
7:30 in very poor condition,
7:32 thus unkempt,
7:34 without basic food supplies,
7:36 thus hungry,
7:38 And so on, disorganized,
7:40 And so. So, when you heard that some serious humanitarian organization,
7:48 unfortunately,
7:50 there is simply none. So we have nothing, nothing official. And for that, I appeal to myself and to you to
7:55 under no circumstances inherit such deceptions.
7:59 That every call
8:01 to friendship,
8:02 to righteousness,
8:03 We cannot prevent someone from liking, but on... I follow on Instagram or other networks, there is simply an ignore or block option.
8:13 That's how I operate. Almost every day, I get messages from Amu Amu Ebu ibn this and that...
8:20 So,
8:21 simply
8:21 just put a block. In my opinion, that's the solution for such things. If you have the desire,
8:29 May Allah grant you goodness, to support orphans somewhere in Africa,
8:33 then strictly go through,
8:35 that is, humanitarian organizations,
8:37 that we can trust, which have,
8:40 that is, results behind them, which are reliable.
8:44 The goal of sadaqah is not just to give, but to consider whom we give to.
8:49 On the contrary,
8:49 we must be able to
8:52 see the person we are directly helping, either directly with our eyes or
8:58 in a trustworthy manner, or to fully trust the person we are giving money to.
8:59 You know, how can I trust someone down there whom I have never... The only connection between us and those people is that they like some of our posts,
9:05 engage in some interactions with us, etc. So, please let us be definitely
9:13 cautious. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.)
9:18 foretold this time. The hadiths about this are authentic.
9:20 Nagovijestio je ovo vrijeme. Hadiths je oko toga vjerodostojan.
9:24 The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him).
9:26 He says, therefore, this first hadith I mentioned, 'Whoever deceives us is not one of us.'
9:34 This is a universal rule. If someone deceives Muslims,
9:39 he is not one of the Muslims. Thus, one should avoid such a
9:48 person. Of course, this applies to politics and our internal matters, but especially from this perspective.
9:54 This second hadith is, in my opinion, even more significant.
9:59 It is, in a way, more important to mention in this context.
10:01 The Messenger (peace be upon him) said, 'There will come a time before the Day of Judgment,
10:05 a year of deception.'
10:06 Indeed, a year of deception.
10:10 Those who speak the truth to people will be punished.
10:16 They will be driven
10:17 into falsehood.
10:19 Indeed, the truthful are in a state of deceit.
10:23 Thus, they will... They will be believed.
10:27 And we truly see this, then the Messenger, peace be upon him, said,
10:33 trust will be given to the deceivers.
10:35 These are people who are deceivers. They are professional deceivers.
10:38 These are entire companies, these are whole organizations that simply,
10:43 scan all day.
10:46 data
10:47 on social media, and they only send such calls, then they simply
10:52 target those people who have managed to deceive.
10:57 The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that people will believe those who deceive others. And he said that lies will not be believed by those who are trustworthy.
11:07 So what is the solution? The solution is, I say, if you really want to give strictly for that area, then you have our verified humanitarian organizations,
11:18 which are verifiable,
11:19 that have no flaws in their,
11:22 operations, their actions. We have never heard of any scandal, God forbid, with Sapomozi.ba,
11:31 or with Islamic Relief, or with any other serious organization
11:35 that provides aid, whether they are working in Africa or now in Palestine,
11:42 You Gazi specifically, whether they are working in Syria now,
11:46 or elsewhere. So may Allah grant you goodness. If you want to donate, multiply it here.
11:52 So you have verified people, people we can trust 100%. You can't go with them, okay, not all of us can,
11:59 but we can, if we want, help those people down there. So, through these verified,
12:05 trustworthy individuals or organizations,
12:08 let's do it.
12:09 So, this is really, really important. Before that,
12:13 look around you, do you have anyone to help? Do you have someone in your family who needs help?
12:19 Do you have a child in the neighborhood who needs help?
12:23 Do you have a neighbor who may not even be Muslim? Someone who might need assistance. So, let's start helping from there. If we don't have, if we live, I don't know, in Europe, America, there really isn't much there, mostly social cases.
12:38 You have no one to send here in Bosnia, everyone is, thank God, settled.
12:47 Then, okay, you find someone there and we will send to Gaza, Palestine, Syria,
12:50 and if you really want, to Africa as well.
12:52 So this is truly a sincere warning,
12:58 so that, God forbid, you do not fall into such traps, as these are traps of Shaytan.
12:59 Of course,
13:04 I'm not saying there aren't trustworthy people in schools. There are certainly trustworthy
13:11 people. I know of some people from here who went to verify the situation and, indeed...
13:12 However, be careful.
13:21 You should be cautious. If it doesn't go strictly through those people, stay away from there. So do not believe in those fairy tales,