Central Kurdish → English transcript

On what basis are you demanding a stance from me? Is it force? A choice I made?

On what basis do you tell me to take a stance, to take a stance for that side?

From whom have you ever demanded a stance?

You know there are only two weeks.

You have always kept yourselves apart with“ stance, stance.” Huh? Is this issue

political or not?

Your leaders, Have they met with them or not, to ask them for their stance?

Where are they? Have they ever lectured you about it as a religious teacher?

Who has ever brought it up as a religious teacher at all?

Have we discussed it about anything at all?

By God, we have not discussed it about anything.

Then afterward they come and demand a stance from us.

As if to say, within an hour our forces from Duhok and Zakho would reach Rojava.

What kind of stance should we have? With whom should we align for once?

On what basis should we align?

I really find it strange, you have turned

the mosque into a place that tells me what my stance should be.

You still do not know what disbelief and faith are.

You still do not know what religion

and irreligion are.

You still do not know what is forbidden and what is lawful?

You have come to demand a stance

from us and from the Imam? From where have you ever sided with us?

I will not say you supported us.

From where have you ever stood by us in hardship? I will not say you supported us.

At what time and

with what intention did you come and manfully say...

... this man

spoke the verse truthfully, this man conveyed the

hadith truthfully.

Where did you ever say that? Nowhere.

With what face did you come

to demand a stance?

You want me to say a bunch of things and then you start nitpicking? Huh?

This speech will spread right now. I am not afraid to speak,

you all know me well.

Do not again go to a religious teacher and demand a stance when you yourself are

irreligious, a disbeliever. You do not know what faith is,

you do not know what disbelief is. You are a failed politician.

One million people went

and voted for a party.

Another million for another candidate, go tell them to take a stance.

Do not come here to demand a stance. I swear, whoever might dare

to question my stance…

… I will throw their files back in their face.

I will throw them back at them in utter humiliation.

No one came to us to talk about those issues. You got carried away.

Whose side did you take?

Who did you raise your voice for?

How many flags did you wave, telling people to go say“ stance”?

Tell me, where is your army and your collaborators?

Tell me, where are the weapons in their hands?

Tell me, you sat with them in those meetings… … you yourself,

and with the top leaders of America and Europe… …

the infidel, the traitor, the polytheist, and the enemy of everything.

Tell me, you sat with them, Come on, you present your stance.

Come on, tell me what you are doing. What are your secret meetings?

What are your uprisings in public?

What is this parcel- by- parcel selling of lands?

For how many years has this trade been going on with them?

Not once did anyone come and stand before me to say,“ This is my stance.”

That is the first thing I have to say here.