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And I found types and types and types of sick people, a mental sickness that is. I came across an alim from Pakistan Mauna Sahib and he thought that there was something wrong with our Shia brothers. You see in Iran when someone is lecturing and the name Khomeini is mentioned people stop and everyone says durood on the Prophet S three times. But when the name Mohammad is mentioned they send durood once. And this alim from Pakistan says " look at these people just look at them. What kind of Muslims are these people.

Peace be upon Mohammad and the family of Mohammad. I said " Who is Mohammad? Who named Khomeini as Mohammad. Their durood is on Prophet Mohammad s and you say it is on Khomeini. There are many learned men but their minds are so prejudiced. They are just looking for faults. And he says "see what they are doing here. They are worshipping a piece of clay.

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You see, the first time I experienced this was in Washington D. At that time, it was time for Isha and we made salat. And everyone was given a piece of clay. I at the time thought it was so funny, so I put it aside and I made my salat with the Iranian students. And after salat I wanted to know about this and I asked them. Why do you carry this clay tablet everywhere you go in your pocket. They said " we are supposed to do sujood on Allah's earth with our foreheads touching the earth. We say "subhanna rabia Allah" three times with our foreheads touching the earth.

They want to be true to the expression of praying with the forehead actually touching Allah's earth. You see they don't worship the clay tablet as many wrongly think. And this is always something that we Sunnis are always making fun of and mock the Shia, but on my way out from Tehran across the plane in the aisle were two Shias and when prayer time came one of them took his clay tablet out of his pocket and, Allahu Akbar, performed salat right there on the plane in his seat, and when he finished he gave this to his neighbor and he performed salat.

And this may seem like a joke to us. And there were dozens of Sunnis on the plane and out of those dozens of Sunnis only one young man did the salat, and I tell you that young man wasn't me. But we are laughing at the other Guy. He is sitting there and doing something better than we are and we make fun of them and sit in judgement.

He may not as polished and refined as we are in South Africa. You know we Muslims in South Africa are very polished and refined in our salat. The Arabs are no match for us, the Iranians are no match for us, the Americans bilalans, the Negroes they are no match to us. With the Arabs you are bowing down in ruku and the guy next to you pushes you aside to make space.

You know, between the four Sunni mazhabs the Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki and Shafei there are over two hundred differences in salat alone. Did you know that? But we take it for granted. The Shafei says amin loudly and we say it silently, they say bismillah loudly we say it silently and there is there is no problem.

A s a child my father would repeat the famous formula that he in turn learned from his father. When it comes to the Shafei, Hanbali, Hanafi and Maliki we are tolerant but when it comes to the Shia you see he is not in the formula that we are taught as a child, so what ever little idiosyncrasies there exists between us and them we cant tolerate and reject we say that he is out because we are programmed to believe in only the four.

But we accept the idiosyncrasies between the four. I say why cant you accept the Shia brothers as a fifth madhab. And the astonishing thing is that he is telling you that he wants to be one with you. He is not talking about being Shia. He is shouting "there is no Sunni nor Shia there is one thing, Islam.

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He wants to divide us. They should be the ones terrified. And if you just knew the feelings that they have for you. During Jummah prayers in Iran, there are a million people. And you should see the way they look at you when you pass by, they recognize that you are a foreigner and not one of them and tears start rolling down their cheeks. This is the feeling that they have for you, but you say no, you want to keep they out, afraid that they will absolve you.

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You can only be absolved if there is something better than what you have. I don't know, maybe some of you think I am a Shia, but I'm still with you all here. What is all this Shia-Sunni tensions? It is all politics. These antagonisms we have are all politics now. If a Sunni brother somewhere does something wrong you say oh the individual is not being very Islamic, he is a kaffir, But if a Shia does something wrong you want to condemn the whole Shia community, the whole nation of millions, and say they are all rubbish just because one Shias actions are not very Islamic.

At the same time where we look the other way if one of your relatives does something serious because he is your father or your uncle. One group of Sunnis says to another "you are not a Muslim" another group of Sunnis says "you are not a Muslim you are a kaffir" look that's among us, and we fight among ourselves. And some of us do funny things. I met one brother who told me when you go to Newcastle go visit Mr. So and so and inshallah everything will be taken care of for you. So I went to the man and exactly as I was told he took me home for lunch and when I'm sitting at the table I see on the wall 'burat' you know what burat is?

A donkey like animal with the face of a woman its supposed to provide electrical force. I told him this is not right. Allah swt created electrical force, you can not create it with a statue of a donkey with a woman's face. Oh and he was so upset. But he's a Sunni, he was a brother and is still my brother. This Sunni-Shia tensions is the work of the devil to divide us. Let me say something about Iran. What I found was that everything is islamically oriented. The whole nation is geared towards Islam. And they are talking about nothing but the Quran.

I have never had a single experience with an Iranian when the man contradicted me when I'm talking about the Quran. Whereas our Arab brethren again and again you quote them the Quran and they try to contradict you with the Quran. They are Arabs, they are supposed to know the Quran better than us, but the Iranians seem to be on the wavelength of the Quran.

Everything he is doing everything he is thinking about is the Quran. You remember Tabas[2] when the American people wanted to free the hostages. The mightiest most technologically advanced nation on earth, a nation that can land a man on the moon and bring him back, a nation which tells you which part of the moon they will land and bring them back, they send mars and Jupiter probes.

A nation that warned Pakistan about the tidal wave tragedy and they didn't heed the warning. They warned the Israelis in that the Arabs were on the move, they didn't heed the warning. That nation couldn't land in Iran. Imagine they went there with their helicopters and crashed them selves and got themselves killed.

A nation that lands on the moon and comes back cant land in Iran. And the Iranian people were not in any position to do anything to them. The Americans could have gone and done what they wanted to do. I went and saw the American embassy and you think that its just a big building, but man its acres and acres right in the center of Tehran. They could have easily gone in and gotten these people out, even if they lost a few men. They could have achieved their goals. It was very well planned. But you know what happened?

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Fiasco, retreat failure, the Imam Khomeini is told what has happened. He doesn't say Subhananla, he doesn't say Alhamdulilah, you know what he said. He quotes the Quran: I tell you he is a Quranic computer. You know what they call those huge helicopters? Jumbo helicopters, and those big planes are called jumbo planes. You know what jumbo means in Swahili, Elephant. It's a Swahili word. That's where they got the name. So these elephant sized helicopters go and the Imam says: Did He not cause their war to end in confusion," Quran You don't really believe in the Quran, for most people it is all for entertainment, for the good spiritual feelings that you get when reciting the Holy Quran.

Simply by being fresh to government, Labour offers at least the illusion of marking a new beginning, and is offered the opportunity to make it a reality. A knackered generation of politicians gives way to an untested generation. The twenty and thirtysomething party workers and policy wonks who celebrated the triumph at the Royal Festival Hall were inebriated with liquids more potent than alcohol: Tomorrow belonged to them.

To every problem they believe there is a solution - even if they haven't yet found it. The pendulum does not just swing; the torch passes from one generation to another, a fact that will be most apparent in the Prime Minister's residence itself. The sound of young children will echo around the house of power for the first time since Asquith was in power.

Macaroni cheese is no longer the dish of choice in Downing Street. It is more likely to be tortellini pesto. When the Blairs dine out, they and their security detail are more likely to be found at Pizza Express. The majority of MPs will no longer be doing their shopping at Harrods. Saturday morning finds the typical Blairista in the aisles of Waitrose. Gone is the Prime Minister who used the honours list to remember old cricketers. In his place is a Prime Minister who prefers to spend his time with young footballers. After six and a half years under a leader whose vision was of a Britain wearing a cardigan and slumbering over a warm beer - following more than a decade under a leader whose world view was rooted in Victorian values - we now have a Prime Minister who styles himself a 'modern man'.

His definition of modernity - that he grew up on the Beatles and didn't smoke marijuana - may still seem rather middle-aged to quite a chunk of the population. But to many - especially those tasting the bitter-sweet sensation of being ruled by a man younger than themselves - the country feels a little more spritely. Deprived of office, the Tories look even more aged than they did before they were ejected from it. Overnight the history-makers are ancient history. For 18 years the only politics that have really mattered have been the politics of the Conservative Party.

If I asked you to name the leading Ministers of the Thatcher and Major governments, I expect you would do quite well. Now try to name their shadow counterparts. Everything the opposition parties have done for nearly two decades has essentially been a footnote to Conservative governments. That Tory bottoms should be glued to the rear seats of limos, that Tory voices should give permanent secretaries their marching orders, had seemed to be the natural order of things.

Not just to them but to us. Tory assumptions and attitudes have been implanted deep in the national mind. Their language - the language of 'market testing', 'profit centres' and 'throughputs' - has been the lingua franca of Whitehall and far beyond. Their wisdom - in which private was always to be preferred to public, the demands of the have-lots superior to the needs of the have-nots - became the received wisdom.

On the long march to electability, Labour has acquiesced to many of those Tory nostrums and adopted much of their language. But Labour Ministers will bring an alternative set of values to office. At its most essential, it is the difference between Margaret Thatcher when she said that 'there was no such thing as society' and Tony Blair when he says 'we achieve more together than we do alone'. Labour in office will be governed by different priorities, prejudices and blind spots. It will have different pressure points. It will make different enemies.

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