Abdullah Hakim Quick – The Emergence-Ten Tenets of Islamic Revival #5

			All right, because we load off model him at hamdulillah blandina Selena homosalate Mubarak ala
Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi Germain. Welcome everyone I hope you're doing well My
name is Mahmoud Hassan and I am here to introduce you all to this brand new live with tshabalala
Hakeem quick shout, Allahu Allah, we have all Mashallah we already have at the 15th, we have about
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bring the chef in sha Allah to Allah right away.
		

			So we can have them join us be the last I don't want to elaborate. That's tshabalala How are you?
		

			Fine today, may Allah subhanaw taala bless you and give you an agenda. It's been a pleasure talking
to you. This past couple of weeks, these lives have been quite beneficial, handled on a number of
people or is increasing on a regular basis. And I'd like to, I guess, really introduce the topic
that we're talking about here. And this is again, the slides that were that we're doing are
basically a review or an in detail discussion of what we were talking about in the previous video
that you've just that you've just released, which is basically the the emergence the 10 tenants of
Islamic revival. Sheikh Abdullah once again really quickly this time, because I really want to get
		

			into today's topic. It really important. Let's talk really quickly about why the emergence Bismillah
Ar Rahman AR Rahim Hamdulillah, sort of Solo Solo about the emergence or the awakening, I believe is
one of the most crucial issues facing the Muslim communities today. And this idea came about after
50 years in the field, learning, teaching, experiencing interacting, traveling to 20 African
countries, all over the Americas 63 countries over the world, and not traveling for sightseeing. I
went to these countries to be with the Muslims. And I investigated the history, I live with them, I
entered their homes, I entered their masters talk to the leadership to try to understand what was
		

			happening in the Muslim world. And ultimately, what could be done to help us because we have great
potential. We have over 26% of the earth's population. We have so many youth we have so many
resources, but we're not getting the results. People are actually running out of the Muslim world.
And this discussion really began focusing on Western societies, meaning the Americas, Europe, South
Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and focusing on these countries
		

			in the sense that the communities have become stagnated. There were many masters were immigrants had
come in, and they had opened up Islamic centers and had programs. But after September 11, and after
the rise of Islamophobia, a type of stagnation came into our communities. They were also especially
in the United States in the Caribbean, indigenous communities. And these are the people of the land
itself, who formed the Islamic centers and movements and, and went through a lot of different
changes. And after facing repression and Islamophobia, the leadership being driven away or driven
underground, a type of stagnation has come over the communities and people are looking for a way
		

			out. Everybody is crying for change. So this emergence, then, our practical steps as to how we can
come out of this slumber, so to speak, and reemerge in the same way that a plant re emerges in the
spring after being hidden underground during the cold season. So these are 10 practical points that
I think
		

			found on the ground from actually dealing with the communities? How can we revive Islam? How can we
revive our communities so that Islam becomes a vibrant way of life, so that our children can can
look and see a Muslim community they can identify with in many parts of the Western world, and now
the world. The children don't have an example in front of them.
		

			They can only read books, but they don't have a living community. And that's crucial because the
Muslims, oma is a jamaa. You know, it is it is a group. And it is important for us to see how we can
practically come out of this slump. Wonderful show. So, let me, I want to move really quickly today.
So, I'm going to challenge you on a couple of things here, if you don't mind. So we talked about
today's is the tenant number four. So in one sentence, I'm going to name the tenant, the one that we
talked about before, and I just want you to explain to me quickly what it is. So the first tenant is
the over the top.
		

			Right, so this is this is the increase in the consciousness of Allah in all different aspects of our
life.
		

			Okay, wonderful. The second tenet was authentic resources. And that that, that means going back to
the foundations of Islam, separating Islam from culture, basing our Islamic lifestyle, our Islamic
movement, not on cultural things, not what our village did, or people did, but based upon the the
prophetic model of a community or a family. Perfect. And the third lecture, which is the one that we
did last week, which is perfection of was it was that is that was that the last one? Or am I making
a mistake? Yeah, we're actually on number five now. We're on number five. Okay, so the third one was
perfection of of character character. Yes. So this is focusing on Islamic character. And it really
		

			is in our teachings, not just focusing on rituals, we teach in our schools about that. So it's not
just that, but it is going beyond the ritual. As to why do we pray, why do we fast? You know, the
spirit, you know, of the rituals itself? And what's the one that I missed? Yeah, sorry, forgive me
forth that we took last class is wisdom and balance. Hello, Aquarius. And that is the hikma putting
things in the proper place. And that's what's missing in in so many cases, I found this on the
ground, that there were people who had memorized the whole court and they had hundreds of Hadith.
They were scholars, but they didn't have the wisdom to put it into practice. They wouldn't give
		

			people fetch was that were outdated. They didn't understand the conditions of the people who they
were dealing with on the ground. And so that's what wisdom is.
		

			Yeah, and let's just use an example real quick from this last one here. Because I think that's a
really essential one to to understand, which is basically not understanding the actual issues on the
ground and given fatwas from, I guess, what you're saying is that
		

			making religious rulings without contextualizing the knowledge itself, right. So So for instance,
you know, people would deal with the masjid, they would deal with the community, as though they were
living within an Islamic majority area. But they were actually living it, they were minorities. And
many of the people living around them, were actually non Muslims. So therefore, do you call the
adon? Out Loud blasting in the streets? You know, do you stop traffic on Juma? You can't necessarily
do that. Or when you're building your mustard? Do you build this structure, that that's a beautiful
building with a big green dome, in the middle of an urban city with red bricks sticking out, like
		

			like, like a sore thumb, so to speak? Or to do you build it based on the materials of the land that
you're living in, but you make it in an Islamic way? So people can look at that building? And know
there's something different about it, yet it's part of the society we're living. You see, that's the
context. Whereas other people will build a mastered like India, or like Africa, or like like the
Middle East or turkey. That's out of context. But this is but you sometimes feel a sense of I guess,
really?
		

			Do you feel for the people sometimes I think because what you're talking about here and something
that I guess I
		

			you and I would differ from a lot of other Muslims for instance, which is the fact that they they
miss back home. So what they do is they don't actually what they're doing is it's not it's not
really a religion that they're trying to attach themselves to is actually they just, they just
wanted they just want a piece of back home. Exactly. And there's nothing wrong with that. Because to
a certain extent, in western countries, the mustard becomes like a cultural center. Yes. Now, the
time of the Prophet Sal send them. The original Masjid was what you
		

			Call an all purpose Islamic center. So therefore, all types of activities were going on in the
masjid, not just prayer, there was education, there was feeding the poor, there was dealing with new
Muslims. There were even townhall meetings were political questions, were actually disgust inside of
the mustard. Now the issue is, if you have a mustard if you're in a city, and you have a Masjid,
that contains people from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, what culture you can't have a specific
culture.
		

			You see you we have to blend ourselves and the basis of the masjid would be based upon the
principles of Islam.
		

			So that's the wisdom in separating Islam from culture, you know, and being able to relate to the
people because one of the aspects, important aspects of any Masjid is Dawa. And that is to relate to
the people. We're not supposed to look like an alien, flying saucer or any entity that has landed in
their community. We're supposed to look at part of the community who has embraced Islam. But we are
connected to the community. We feel the pain of the people who are around us. The budget is set up
in such a way that it helps to it deals with the needs of the people. That's the way of the Prophet
peace and blessings be party that is crucial for the emergence to go from irrelevancy to relevancy,
		

			to go from survival, to Revival a lot. And this brings us to the last point here that we want to
talk about today. So today, we're actually at point number five. And before I, I really mentioned
this here, I do want to engage a little bit some of the viewers were at 50 viewers 109 right now, so
we can get you all shallow data to go ahead and type stuff, type up some of your questions about
		

			where you're joining us from being the lay down. This is a live stream with shahidullah Hakeem quick
we are live. And we are talking about the most recent video, I'm going to actually post that up on
on on the on the page here, we'll quickly shall it's on our YouTube channel. And it's about the
emergence, which is basically 10 tenants of Islamic revival. These are 10 points that Shahada, Allah
Hakeem quick has, has been formulating, I guess, for
		

			really a long time since he's been around and he's been teaching, Shahada. Allah has been on all
every single continent humbler teaching, not just not just visiting as he, as he would say, but also
teaching and going around and talking to the people and being a part of the actual leadership
inshallah. So go ahead. Tell us where you're joining us from. If you have any questions for the
Shelby delay dollar, we'll go ahead and we'll ask them. At this time here in sha Allah, Sheikh
Abdullah, I want you to introduce to us today's actual fifth tenant, I believe you called it the
empowerment of healthy families. Right. So this, this tenant now is a very important one. And this
		

			is a structural tenant in the emergence because for any society or group to emerge, it has to have a
strong foundation. And that I believe, is that is part of the difference between what the prophet
SAW Selim called without a sale. And he described a time when people Muslims would be like the
phone, or the other tweaks on a river pushed to one side or another. It's got no roots. So healthy,
empowered families is an important part of an awakening of an emergence. How did I come about this?
Again, taking us back to this amazing experience that I had, being given the responsibility to be
the mom of the director of the Islamic center of Toronto known as the Jami mosque. That is a night
		

			between 84 1985 and 1990. So during that time, it was growing by leaps and bounds. And we had over
1000 people for Joomla by 1987. People from all parts of the world, all schools of thoughts, all
ethnicities, all Islamic movements. And I came to the community fired up from a student of knowledge
prepared to deal with RP the questions to bid Ah, you know, and the wrong understanding of fit, you
know, and to deal with these academic issues. But after a few years dealing with the community, I
realized that most of the problems most of the issues that Muslims were facing was social issues. It
was dealing with the families, I was overwhelmed with questions of talaq divorce. How do parents
		

			deal with adolescents did they use to a running away? How do you deal with a Muslim who's on drugs?
		

			How do you deal with abuse in the family?
		

			is there is there a place where a Muslim sister can go and there is privacy there is
		

			You know, a type of responsibility that the counselors have. And so after five years in the Jami
mosque,
		

			this is like a microcosm of the Muslim world. There were political issues that happened. One
faction, one of the control the mosque, this is this is a typical thing that happens, you know, in
most with Muslims in the Western world, because there's no Islamic government. So the masjid in
itself becomes like a government. And so people bring in their tribes and ethnicity. And so I
eventually left the Islamic Center, and I opened up Islamic social services. And so this was a
counseling Dawa center that was dealing with the spreading of Islam, the issues of new Muslims, and
also dealing with the problems of the community. And over the years in Israel, and this was a good
		

			eight years, in one office altogether is about 10 years, in dealing with this counseling. At some
points, we had hundreds of cases, we had a hotline with different languages, hundreds of cases of
Muslims calling in with family problems with social issues with their children running away. They
they were, they were away from their, their culture, and they were lost in the Western world. And so
I realized that one of the key issues now facing our community, which has sort of gone into a type
of amnesia, you know, a type of weird a coma. One of the key issues after our tauheed Arpita, after
understanding the Sunda
		

			is our families, the families are the building block of the community. And as a historian, I looked
at Islam and the different changes that it went through. And people tend to look at that history
from a political point of view. So they want to know who are the kings, who are the rulers. So they
look at Islam, and they say, Hola, fowl, Rashi Deen. And then they say well made period of acid
period. And then they say, the seljuks here, and then they go on to the Mum, Luke's and the
Ottomans, you know, and then broken up in the colonial period. So they're looking at the power
structure on the top. But another way to look at history, which I believe is more of the Islamic
		

			way, is to not look at it top down, but to look at it bottom up to look at the Society of Muslims.
And what I realized is one of the key elements after the belief in one God, and the preserved Sunda
that we had, one of the key elements that enabled Muslims to continue on through history, and to
revive itself is that we had strong families, we had family units. And I remember the Somalis,
tribes coming into Toronto and how Jami mosque was was was the base, I had all the different
factions from Somalia, and I became very close to smacks. And the Somalis told me that their rula
car battery, who many consider to be a dictator, that he controlled political life, economic life
		

			village, you couldn't say anything. But car battery with all the power that he had, he would never
come inside of a Muslim house and tell the family how to deal with their children.
		

			Because that was the basis that was something that continued on and so dictators come and dictators
go, good leaders, bad leaders. But as long as the foundation is there, then we can come back to
life, because our foundation is there. But when the foundation is broken up, when the foundation
becomes weak and scattered, then even though a strong leader comes there's nothing for him to deal
with this confusion on the ground. And so therefore, work healthy, empowered families. Focus This is
a focus we should have. People say what should we focus on? Should we focus on our feeder? Should we
focus on Tbilisi, should we focus on education and movements have based themselves on it? to come
		

			out of this stagnation? One of the areas that Muslims need to see as their duty is to establish
strong empowered families? Mm hmm.
		

			Yeah, just just without interrupting you, but what is the reason for I guess Really? Like the
neglect neglecting this, this aspect of it, it's not like it's it's not like the process often
didn't for instance, talk about this, you know what I mean, the prophecy like even Allah subhanho wa
Taala says cuan for sicoma alikum. Now this is very strong emphasis on the fact that your family is
really crucial for you. But yet, it seems like we've moved away from that, that foundational aspect
of it into like a more ritualistic understanding of things. So So, you know, I talk about the
classes for instance, you know, we have classes
		

			And phrases that so many of them, right? Do you know what I mean? That actually like teach you how
to pray, how to go through the whole?
		

			Like the rituals, right? How do you make what do how do you and we spent so much time on that. But
when I compare the classes that are happening in Islamic institutions and in schools and so on so
forth,
		

			family classes are not there for us is how to be a good husband, for instance, and that they're not
that many, I mean, notice humbly, that things are getting better, how to even father, children, how
to mother children, how to be a house leader, how to be
		

			you know, how to be a mother of a household, you know, all these things, they're not, there's not
much written about it is that reason for the show.
		

			You know, sometimes we take things for granted. And, you know, coming out of the Muslim world, and
the Muslim world had evolved to the point where it was probably the strongest nation or Empire on
earth. And we controlled large areas of land, our teachings are, our influence was there, we had
solid, you know, family traditions, these families turned into tribes. And sometimes the tribe
actually became a nation. Like in the case of the Ottomans, who started off as the KE, you know, who
were part of the of the Turkish nations who had migrated West. And so the Ks eventually became the
Ottomans. You know, so they literally became an empire and then turned into the Philippines. And so
		

			it moved from that family base, you know, right up to the top now, colonial period comes in, when
our countries were controlled, the leadership is taken apart, languages of authority and education
are changed. And then upward mobility is to look like the colonial Master, like British, you act
French, you ask Italian. And then if you want to get a good education, you travel. And so what
eventually happened as a result of the colonial period, and the devastation of the Muslim world, is
that Muslims migrated in unprecedented numbers to the Western world. This is something that had
never happened before.
		

			And I remember a scholarship jawfish ik Idris, you know, from the Sudan, and I was with him on a
platform. And he said to the people, I haven't I can't, I've never seen in Islamic history, where
were Muslims migrated to a country just to eat food, or just to be you know, have running water or
electricity. So So Muslims were outside of their realm. Now, there was a reason for it. Because
there was devastation in our countries, there was drought, there was there was political tyranny
from our own people. But the reality was with with scattered with thrown into these countries, that
have a different basis in society, we're coming out of Christmas now. Christmas season is there with
		

			Christmas trees, giving gifts, then it goes into New Year's and Valentine's Day, and then it goes
into Easter. These are Christian countries, then it goes into Halloween, and all these things for
the children to do dress up like a little devil. Right? So these are cultural family traditions,
from another religion, and we're lost. We're out of our country. Now. How do we come back? We have
to empower our families. We have to empower our women, number one,
		

			not just with cooking abilities, but they have to understand their Arpita they fit, they have to be
powered, even in terms of the mustards, having, you know, sisters in leadership roles within our
communities, helping to shape the future of our communities. And the family is empowered. The
husband is not a dictator, who just comes home, and all the children run away. Because this lion is
coming in the house, though the father is the Amir. And he takes Sure, so the children love to be
with him. The children can even criticize him. The wife loves to be around her husband because she
can say her opinion. And that's how the family grows. That's what empowerment is. So and now this
		

			has taken a new dimension, because I was focusing on healthy in a general sense but now with
COVID-19. It is crucial for our families to be healthy. And what does that mean in these times? That
means go back to the Sunda be positive. Don't bank your life or the vaccine. The vaccine can help in
many ways, but the real type of defense against any disease comes from healthy living. It comes from
taharah purity, taking up the black seed because the prophet SAW Selim said it will cure anything
except death. Knowing how to live that Sunda healthy life empowerment physically
		

			empowerment mentally, not being caught up by the cell phones and the cyberspace, exercising, you
know, going out into nature, these are all forms of empowerment of our societies and of our
families. And this is crucial for the emergence. And this is something that many times, you know,
brothers, especially,
		

			including myself, brothers tended to forget. So we said, I have the leader. And I want two wives, I
want three wives, I want to, you know, be the shack I want to do this. But if you have the best
Arpita, or if you have the best Victrola, or you have the best tub leak, but your family is broken
up, you're going nowhere.
		

			You're just blowing hot air. Because there's nobody to listen to you. There's no basis to this. And
this is why this point is really crucial. I put it right in the middle of the points. It's like the
transition point. Number five, going into the second part, is very crucial point to remember, and to
focus on with our life as Muslims, one of us so I just want to summarize what you talked about,
because I want to know if I understood you correctly here, so you're talking about empowerment of
the families here. But the first thing that you've actually mentioned, which is basically actual
educational, I guess, the education aspects are so empowering our, our wives, our daughters, our
		

			sisters, our sons, and our family members, really, in essence, our sons, our brothers, and our
fathers really, in a sense as well, to empower them with education. Okay. And the second thing that
you've actually mentioned, which I think was quite important, as well, which is also empowering them
in terms of like leadership skills, teaching them how to take, how to make decisions, how to
		

			how to be a part of the discussion to open discussion, right. And this, I mean, this happens a lot
right now. Especially for the sisters, right, where you're focusing on. And then the third part,
which I really liked what you said here, which is, it is quite lacking in the community itself,
right, which is actual physical empowerment, strength, your sound like a physical health, education,
of how to eat education of how to how to exercise, all these kinds of things that we belittle
really, in essence, but they're quite crucial. They're quite important for us. Now we know. You
know, they, like you've mentioned this many times, and I'm just really reiterating. But with the
		

			emergence of COVID-19. Right now, we now are noticing the fact how our physical health is just not
meeting up with our needs, how our how our mental or mental abilities themselves, we thought we were
good. But before we were just being masked, now, a little bit of pressure, and we're just about to
blow up, right, in a sense. So these are three things that I think are really crucial. And it just
remind me if I if I miss something, so we're talking about educational, we're talking about actual
		

			educational, we're talking about knowledge and education, knowledge and then physical itself. And,
and leadership skills. What else are we talking about?
		

			I would even take it to the point of economic empowerment. And that is that in many cases, we
depended upon one person, it was the man who was the breadwinner. button, it's important for women
even to be able to provide for themselves, that they have trades, that they have skills. What
happens when the father, if the father dies, may Allah forbid, what happens if there's a divorce?
You know, I've been counseling hundreds of women. And I found that sometimes the woman at first
she's lost, because she's not empowered. So the sister has to be empowered. That was the whole
concept of the marriage in the beginning the dowry, the Maha is not supposed to be this symbolic
		

			thing. It's supposed to be wealth, which is given to the woman so that she, if anything happens, she
has something to fall back on. Uh huh. So the empowered family is one that can continue on, even if
the father is away, or if he's ill. Or if he dies, the family continues. And then these families
consolidate each other, the building blocks relate to each other. So our families are not islands
unto themselves. They are connected to other families. And though and those family units connecting,
and it's so beautiful, when we can connect to other families outside of our race, or our tribe,
because that's what Islam is. That's what the Sunnah is. And so when these building blocks are
		

			connected together, then we have a solid Muslim community. And then, when the right time comes, we
start to emerge with the other elements. We start to emerge. We withstand the pressure of the
COVID-19 of the economic recession, Islamophobia.
		

			Because we're being the winds are blowing on us, but this helps us to become not without a sail
pushed to one side or the other. But we have strong roots. Our families are rooted and we're all
connected directly to Allah subhanho wa Taala Mm hmm. Wonderful Chef tshabalala a couple of people
are actually asking if they can ask questions. I don't know I didn't want to say yes or no.
		

			Yeah, all right. So yes, for those of you who are asking if you can ask questions, go ahead and drop
your questions in the comments inshallah Allah we will see if the shotgun shall go through them. And
as we're doing this, I do want to recognize some of the people who are with us today we're up to 50
viewers at a time 100 I help a lot I mean that we're watching here we were up to 60 an hour back to
50 here so go ahead and share
		

			this live show with other people I you know, I see some people who are sharing it with a lot of
people whom Allah subhanaw taala Bless you. I was me I see that you're you're sharing it with
everybody you're taking people home they're loving Allah bless you, man. I give you all the reward.
Hello, Talia Sokolov knucklehead.
		

			Let's go ahead and see where we're connecting from here in sha Allah Allah and
		

			um yes, so the first place always chef sister always joins us Mashallah from Cape Town. Mashallah.
We have another shahida Ismail from Cape Town as well. hamdulillah Allah subhanaw taala Bless you.
Minneapolis is always always consistently with us. 100 and all of our
		

			we have from kilifi County I hope I'm pronouncing it right is from Kenya. Mashallah. And Amsterdam,
New York.
		

			And we have from Charlotte North Carolina. Mashallah. So we're all over the place. We have East
Windsor from New Jersey,
		

			California, Los Angeles.
		

			We have new york Muslims living in New Jersey. So I guess I guess.
		

			Yes, yes, we give a shout out to Kyle Harris. Harris has our you know, part of our family as well.
		

			As Kyle does Harris is our is actually my wife's side of the family.
		

			actually connected to Kamala Harris to Vice President.
		

			Paris's are part of our clan is wonderful, beautiful. hamdulillah. All right. We do have.
		

			So here's a question. Actually, this is not the question. This is sorry, I guess I missed a good
Yep. So I'm assuming it's from Guyana, South America Caribbean region, he was privileged to be an
audience of a lecture where the chef also prayed behind you a couple of years ago, he says though,
		

			there's a lot of connections, even around the world many times so this is this is a blessing May
Allah subhanho wa Taala give you gentlemen sha Allah
		

			as long as you've been serving washington dc as well Octopod he visited you in 91. He says
		

			Mashallah, we have some people joining us from Maryland as well.
		

			And I want to mention everybody, I really don't want to skip out on anybody else. inshallah. So if
you have any questions at this time here, go ahead and comment on this. Yes, we have a new jersey
again, from a Sultana, she also always joins us in sha Allah. Right? And
		

			who else do we have? So now we have a question here. And this is here from with a local man. So it
says how to empower families with distinct anti marriage anti male anti government sentiments.
		

			He says that what you're saying about the Akita, and the broken family is something that we agree
on. What is the role of money in all of this? empowerment? I guess this question here probably came
a couple of moments before you're talking about the
		

			defy the, the economical, so expound on the money part of it and talk about economics. Yes, I mean,
money itself, you know, is just, you know, a piece of paper, what we're talking about is our
economic life, you know, and that is how do we provide for ourselves. So from from youth, our
children need to get a development skills training, women need to have skills training, our families
need to be units that provide for themselves. What is important from our Sunda is how to earn it a
Holloway, how to be involved in gaining our risk without taking interest, staying out of mortgages
and loans, and, you know, getting back to more healthy, you know, type of trade, you know, itself,
		

			that that this is really important, and especially for women, and you see me emphasizing women,
because I was you know, we had a social service agency, I was in the field for 10 years, and I
recognize how important Muslim women are. If Muslim women go down. Everybody's gonna go down. Mm
hmm.
		

			So the empowerment is important. And yes, you know, you know, the children need to learn the youth
need to learn how to handle money, how to save, you know how to live a Sunder life, which means that
we don't waste a lot of money. We don't waste water. You know, we're not extravagant scrubs, on our
clothes. We don't follow fashions, you know, our fashion is based on some nut, but we are living in
a country where we live in, we learn to be, you know, people who are moderate, again, you see the
balance. That's the other point. hikma and balance, yes, part of the balance of life. Right. and
academia economic part, is a really important part of empowerment, you know, which will eventually
		

			come in the end, when we're talking about the last point for the whole community, but for the
family, it is the concept of wealth. It is the concept of being balanced. And the concept of risk
that Allah subhanaw taala is the one who provides and if Allah does not will for you to get
something, you will not get it. If Allah wills for you to get something that nobody can stop you.
But at the same time, we depend on a law, and we tie accountable. And this is really important shift
that to talk about this because you know, I guess really for for men, and I don't I don't know if
I'm going to be politically correct. If I say this here, but in the West, for men, to not be
		

			empowered,
		

			might be a little bit easier on us really, in a sense, then then our sisters who are not financially
independent enough, and then they would, you know, them having to work extra jobs, then having
		

			having to work for low paying jobs, for instance, been in low positions of, of actual of work in any
sort of company, and so on so forth, you're clearly going to be like women are women as a whole
already are being persecuted as a whole, right in any kind of so now imagine our sisters, for
instance, not getting not being educated, having to take low paying jobs having to be in positions
where there is no power there is men telling them what to do, where there's other women who are
telling them what to do. And therefore, you'll see that they will be forced to either compromise
their religion at some sort of sense or, you know, go for other work, which is just reduces it
		

			reduces basically their actual like income and their political their their economical power as well.
Right.
		

			This is crucial. I have brother Phil here joining us from Nigeria, I just want to recognize him. I
have to simulate joining us from Paris here from Baltimore, New York. And then we have a question
here. Chef, what is the role of local Islamic governance in all of this? Yeah. Okay. We're starting
from the ground up. And, you know, the Islamic Revolution, so to speak, you know, our development is
not up down. The Marxist Leninist concept is to have a state to have leadership. And then you deal
with the bottom Our way is the mecca before Medina. Mm hmm. So in other words, we build from the
bottom with the families and the communities, you know, and then it starts to go to higher level,
		

			higher level, higher level, that is where the communities joining together, you know, form a
society, you know, and then it starts to move up. But it's important for us to start from the
beginning. That's why when we talk about emergence, we're talking about something coming up. You see
it not coming down? Well, we're down under the ground, and we need to come back to life. We need
Islamic revival. So how are we going to do this? And we need to see this many times. And I say this
with all respects to certain Islamic movements that I travel with. The brothers were out on the
path. You know, they were spending this much time in this country and traveling around and somebody
		

			said, Okay, brother, what about your family?
		

			You left your family for three months, in a housing project in Chicago? How are they going to live?
Mm hmm. And he said, Oh, I will back out. I said, DEEK read the last one. You know, he gave
everything to the prophet and he only left his family with, you know, Allah and His messenger.
Right? That was a buck, I said, Deke read the last one, who was an established business person who
had a community around him, whose family was at a high level of Deen. It's not somebody who just
embraced Islam in a housing project in Chicago. Right. So we have to realize that our emergence now
is not running away from family responsibility, but to see the empowered family as one of the key
		

			parts of our Islamic development.
		

			It's like a badge of honor.
		

			We need to actually honor in a sense, you know, and celebrate those families who have stayed
together.
		

			for 30 4050 years, if you have somebody who was married for 40 years, you know that that's a badge
of honor. Right? And that's how it needs to be looked at in our communities today. Because the
children if they don't have healthy families, that they will be lost. They will be confused. And
that's what's happening now. Many of our children are running in the streets, you know, they are
rebelling, they were doing art because they don't have that strong family unit to relate to see,
even if you go off the path, you have a family that you could come back to.
		

			And that is crucial.
		

			Particle officious Melo subhanaw taala bless you we have so people are joining us also from Italy.
We have a couple of brothers joining us from Indonesia as well hamdulillah for those of you who are
joining us, I mean, I know we've gone a little bit past our time here so I don't want to take any
more questions but I do want to let you all know beaten Allah hate Allah. We are holding these lives
every Wednesday and Saturday. Once they we hold it a little bit later in the evening. But Saturday
it's 330 Toronto time eastern standard time so basically kind of like today's time inshallah. So if
you go ahead and send us a message on our Facebook on our Instagram or on our on our show, also I
		

			believe he's on Instagram and Facebook. Go ahead send him a message on those you can send me a
message as well on there if you'd like to shout loudhailer. My tag is this underscore moon lives. We
can go ahead and get these questions answered for you with the light Allah in the next week in sha
Allah, Allah we talk about the the six tenant in the light, Alisha, do you have anything to end?
This? Yes, you know, I want to, you know, engage, you know, our brothers and sisters who are here to
be part of this emergence that we are actually involved in. And what is happening is that the 10
tenants are actually leading into a Black History Month special. And this is what we call African
		

			sunrise. And
		

			we will send the information the information is on my Facebook page
		

			about the African sunrise, it will be an actual Islamic revival. We will live an Islamic revival how
it came about in West Africa. Remember, this is Black History Month, and you will see a great
African scholar check was man Dan fodio Rahim o hula, one of the great revivalist of Islam. I had
the blessing of specializing in his teachings. I spent time in northern Nigeria. I brought 37
original documents of the show, you know back to Toronto I analyzed them and I've got very close to
to the people who were in his family new members of his family and became very close. So now we want
to lay this out we want to roll this out to you. So this will be the in February on Saturday, every
		

			Saturday inshallah and it's it'll start to roll out go to our Facebook page you know go to our
Instagram you'll start to see you know the advertisements coming out for us. Let's show them a
little bit of sorry show I'm just going to show them the actual
		

			one moment here I can show you the actual poster inshallah tada so you guys can recognize and see
what what we're doing here. So here's the actual poster that's going to be out
		

			Teller, African sunrise,
		

			the heart of Islamic revival in West Africa shared with manna folio, especially Black History Month,
life course in sha Allah who Shahab Allah Hakeem quick. So this is going to be really, really cool
for you all to Cb nilah. Hey, tala go ahead and check out so it's happening and February the sixth i
think is the first class 130 till 3:30pm for the four weeks is a really amazing course that I think
everybody should be having shallow data. So this is online. Brother Theo's asking what time is this
going to happen? 311 30 to 330 Eastern Standard Time. So that's New York time, Toronto time. If If
you are not aware of those times in sha Allah, Allah so this will be something that you can you guys
		

			can really, really enjoy
		

			in the lifestyle as well. Insha Allah, wonderful chef.
		

			Allah bless you. So let's pray. We pray that Allah subhanaw taala would, you know soften our hearts
and strengthen our families and give us that ability to emerge from the stagnation that we are in to
emerge from the covid 19 pandemic inshallah healthy and strong and we pray that Allah would bless
any of the Muslims who have fallen to the COVID-19 and those who are sick, May Allah give them
shifa, you know cure from this pandemic, and May Allah accept the work you know that we are all
doing in his path akula Kali how there are stock for lolly welcome. So particle level we have the
kind of shadowing that he likes to enter the stock photo camera tomorrow.
		

			acaba de Juana hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salam aleikum wa rahmatullah you were better get
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