Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – My Japan Trip

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The transcript describes Japan as a country with multiple cultures and a large population of people. Japan has a large population of Muslims, but most Muslims are not associated with religion. The lodges are very refined and there are no dustbins anywhere, but people can be woken up with tatami mats on the floor. The speakers discuss cultural differences between Japan and China, including language barriers and weekends with many people traveling. They also mention various organizations and experiences, including relief groups and coffee tables. The importance of finding alcohol in England due to the lack of sales is discussed, along with cultural differences in Japan and Thailand. The speakers also discuss the cultural importance of learning to become a serious person and reading books to gain the best understanding of Islam.

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			London is nine and a half million or
		
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			something.
		
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			Tokyo is double that, if not triple that.
		
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			It's a huge, but what's interesting is that
		
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			you, it's a place that makes multiple cars,
		
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			but you don't see that many cars except
		
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			at traffic time.
		
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			So in morning time and then when you
		
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			finish work, there's lots of cars on the
		
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			street.
		
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			There's hardly any roads that are over two
		
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			lanes, maximum three lanes in some places.
		
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			There's only two lanes and in the evening
		
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			you're just driving around there's hardly any cars
		
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			on the road, which is really strange.
		
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			Such a huge population, cars that they make
		
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			themselves.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala tells us to travel
		
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			on the earth and when you travel you
		
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			learn from different things.
		
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			You learn from how people do things differently
		
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			because no civilization has everything.
		
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			That's the nature of the way Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala has created everybody.
		
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			Some civilizations have some advantages and some beneficial
		
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			points and then they also have some weaknesses
		
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			and that's with most civilizations.
		
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			I don't think there's anybody in the world
		
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			who hasn't touched something Japanese.
		
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			It's a country that has got an eight
		
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			-hour time difference.
		
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			It's about 11 to 12 hours away from
		
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			here by flight, but I don't think there's
		
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			anybody around the whole world, wherever they may
		
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			be, that hasn't touched something Japanese.
		
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			Whether that be a Japanese pen, pilot, Pentel,
		
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			Muji or definitely a Japanese car or a
		
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			Japanese watch or something else Japanese.
		
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			Is there anybody here who's never dealt with
		
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			anything Japanese?
		
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			You go to Africa, it's full of Toyotas.
		
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			You go anywhere else in America and so
		
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			on, everywhere you get the Toyotas and the
		
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			Hondas and the Subarus and Suzuki and the
		
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			whole of India is full of Suzuki.
		
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			So it's amazing how this one country has
		
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			been able to literally benefit the whole world
		
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			in multiple ways.
		
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			Mostly good ways and there's probably some other
		
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			weird ways as well, but mostly in good
		
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			ways.
		
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			So alhamdulillah I managed to get there after
		
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			having thought about it for a long time
		
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			because I was invited by the Japan Islamic
		
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			Trust.
		
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			The Japan Islamic Trust, so most of the
		
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			Muslims in Japan would probably still be immigrant
		
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			Muslims, people who've gone there from different countries.
		
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			Probably the biggest group is probably the Pakistanis
		
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			that are there and then you have a
		
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			mixture of quite a few different nationalities.
		
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			You have Bangladeshis, you have Uzbeks.
		
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			In fact on my way back I went
		
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			to China and went to the Great Wall
		
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			of China right up there and as we're
		
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			walking along and somebody says Salam Alaikum.
		
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			I looked and there's a whole group of
		
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			five or six people and they said where
		
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			are you from?
		
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			I said Uzbekistan because I could recognize they're
		
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			from Uzbekistan.
		
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			So they were shocked, they were surprised.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So there's a lot of Uzbeks in in
		
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			Japan and then Indonesians and multiple other others
		
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			and then there's a lot of converts.
		
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			So Japan Islamic Trust, they hold a retreat.
		
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			This was their 19th yearly retreat that they
		
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			hold.
		
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			It's a yearly thing that they do for
		
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			the Muslim families and the reason they do
		
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			that is because there's a number of immigrant
		
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			Muslims there that have married Japanese and their
		
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			children are you could say half Japanese, half
		
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			Pakistani, half different nationalities and they because it's
		
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			so far away language barriers and so on.
		
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			Not as many scholars as you know you
		
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			would like.
		
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			There's obviously going to be an identity crisis.
		
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			So there's many of them who are growing
		
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			up to saying we are Japanese.
		
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			Now Japan is a country which is supposed
		
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			to be secular although they have multiple churches
		
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			there but they in decline and some other
		
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			of their older religions but it's supposed to
		
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			be a it's supposed to be a country
		
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			where you don't speak about religion, right.
		
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			So there's a strange relationship with religion down
		
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			there but Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So they keep this this camp usually on
		
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			the side of Mount Fuji.
		
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			Many people have probably heard of Mount Fuji.
		
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			It's an iconic mountain, really amazing.
		
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			I've seen many mountains but this is looks
		
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			very very different.
		
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			It can be seen from miles away without
		
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			any kind of jagged edges.
		
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			It's not one of those looming dark mountains.
		
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			It's actually a very very subtle, very, it
		
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			has a very slow gradient that goes up
		
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			to it.
		
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			It's quite interesting and then there's lots of
		
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			things around it.
		
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			So it's a campsite next to one of
		
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			the four or five lakes that surround it.
		
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			Very interesting place.
		
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			So that's where they hold it and mashallah
		
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			they do it very very well.
		
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			They have a whole women's section where they
		
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			lodge in their those cabins and they have
		
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			the men's section and then they have the
		
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			programs and have multiple other activities so that
		
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			the young people, the children, the youth, the
		
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			young adults and the adults themselves can get
		
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			together with other Muslims.
		
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			Very very important to see other Muslims.
		
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			We've seen that is going to be lots
		
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			of identity crisis especially if you're living in
		
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			an area where there's not so many Muslims.
		
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			I've seen this myself in multiple places where
		
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			your son or daughter, young people, they feel
		
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			scared about wearing hijab because they're the only
		
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			ones wearing it.
		
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			Praying, acting like a Muslim, concerned about halal
		
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			food because they're the only ones doing it.
		
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			When you have lots of other people doing
		
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			the same thing, it makes you feel that
		
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			it's much much easier.
		
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			So alhamdulillah is very very well, this was
		
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			the 19th one and I had to do
		
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			two or three speeches in there and different
		
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			discussions and so on.
		
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			Now in Japan is very interesting, the lodges
		
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			and everywhere they have these what they call
		
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			tatami mats on the floor.
		
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			That's what it is.
		
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			Rather than carpets or whatever, it's tatami mats
		
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			made out of reed or something.
		
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			Very natural and what I found very strange
		
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			is that it's a very prosperous country.
		
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			Everything is so refined and so clean.
		
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			There are no dustbins anywhere.
		
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			What Americans would call trash cans, there are
		
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			none anywhere.
		
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			The only time you might find some would
		
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			be next to those series of vending machines
		
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			that they have.
		
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			So if somebody buys a drink or something
		
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			there, they can throw it there.
		
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			Otherwise there are no, like in the main
		
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			thoroughfares, shopping center, whatever, there's no outside on
		
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			the streets.
		
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			There's no.
		
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			Why?
		
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			They just clean it up and take it
		
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			home.
		
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			That's what you're expected to do.
		
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			Clean it up and take it home.
		
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			Once my wife noticed something somewhere, so our
		
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			host said, yes this is an area of
		
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			foreigners, that's why you've got a bit of
		
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			litter here.
		
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			Otherwise they just don't have that.
		
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			It's ingrained in them from a very young
		
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			age.
		
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			All of these things are taught to them.
		
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			They all think alike, it seems.
		
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			And interestingly though, they work so much and
		
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			everything is so curated, so particular, so they
		
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			only work for the sake of working.
		
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			This is one of their negatives.
		
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			They just work and work and work.
		
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			That's their life.
		
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			That's their God, is work.
		
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			Not to make huge amounts of money, because
		
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			majority have very small, just small houses.
		
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			They're not into big houses.
		
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			I went to a masjid, they said this
		
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			was converted from a large house and it
		
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			was very large.
		
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			I said I thought Japanese don't have large
		
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			houses.
		
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			He said no, this is a Chinese person
		
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			made this house, right.
		
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			So it's very interesting that, and then 80
		
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			% of people would probably sleep on the
		
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			floor.
		
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			On these, on those mats they pull out
		
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			these, in Urdu we call them gaddeh, right.
		
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			They're essentially like a casual mattress, just a
		
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			cloth with stuffing inside.
		
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			So they will pull that out at night
		
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			with a pillow or whatever and sleep on
		
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			there and then roll it up again, put
		
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			it away.
		
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			I found out very strange that even that's
		
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			over 80% of the country would just
		
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			sleep on that.
		
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			That's what I was told.
		
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			I never went to check this out.
		
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			I did want to go to a Japanese
		
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			house, but I couldn't go to, I couldn't
		
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			get into a Japanese house.
		
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			So Alhamdulillah, I had some talks in some
		
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			of the, I pretty much covered most of
		
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			the Tokyo masjids.
		
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			Now Tokyo is a huge city.
		
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			Population of Tokyo is probably more than double
		
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			that of London.
		
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			London is nine and a half million or
		
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			something.
		
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			Tokyo is double that, if not triple that.
		
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			It's a huge, but what's interesting is that
		
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			you, it's a place that makes multiple cars,
		
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			but you don't see that many cars except
		
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			at traffic time.
		
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			So in morning time and then when you
		
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			finish work, there's lots of cars on the
		
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			streets.
		
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			There's hardly any roads that are over two
		
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			lanes, maximum three lanes in some places.
		
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			There's only two lanes.
		
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			And in the evening you're just driving around,
		
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			there's hardly any cars on the roads, which
		
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			is really strange.
		
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			Such a huge population, cars that they make
		
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			themselves, right?
		
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			And very interesting.
		
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			So I had, I started off with a
		
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			program.
		
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			I went to visit, there's at least one
		
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			or two Islamic schools now that they've established.
		
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			Japan Islamic Trust has an Islamic school.
		
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			Mashallah, they have a building there.
		
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			And there are a lot of teachers, Palestinian,
		
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			Syrian and others, you know, who speak English.
		
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			So in this particular school they teach in
		
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			English.
		
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			So what happens then is that I had
		
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			a program at night in that masjid and
		
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			after the program there was a shahada going
		
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			to take place.
		
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			A woman was going to become a Muslim.
		
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			So gave her the shahada and then I
		
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			asked the person in charge, Brother Haroon, I
		
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			said, how many people take shahada here?
		
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			He said, it varies.
		
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			It's anywhere between one to seven or ten
		
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			sometimes in a day.
		
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			But he said, I would say the average
		
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			in that masjid is about one a day.
		
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			That would be the average.
		
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			And then that's just there, then there's other
		
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			masajid.
		
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			So what's really interesting is that apparently the
		
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			Japanese are perfect for Islam.
		
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			Their akhlaq and character is absolutely amazing.
		
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			What is the most interesting thing is that
		
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			we're dressed like this, going through and they've
		
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			probably never seen anybody dressed like this.
		
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			Whereas in England you you'll see people dress
		
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			like this.
		
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			So it's quite casual now.
		
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			But they, it's like you don't exist.
		
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			You can just go past or they will
		
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			pass and they don't even as much as
		
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			look at you.
		
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			They might notice you, you know, I'm sure
		
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			people notice.
		
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			But they don't even look at you.
		
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			You don't feel self-conscious at all.
		
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			When you go to multiple country, you feel
		
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			self-conscious on the here, you don't feel
		
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			self-conscious at all.
		
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			It's like they just carry on.
		
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			Unless you, they're quiet people.
		
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			There's no hello.
		
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			In China it's different.
		
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			You say hello to somebody, they want to
		
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			talk to you.
		
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			But Japanese, they're to themselves.
		
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			They're just to themselves.
		
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			So they don't make you feel conscious at
		
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			all of who, you know, that you are
		
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			a stranger or anything like that.
		
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			And even in the shops when you interact,
		
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			everything is so polite and everything is so
		
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			curated as I mentioned.
		
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			So you don't hand over money like that.
		
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			It's either an automated system or it's a
		
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			dish that they use where you put your
		
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			money in there.
		
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			And then if you give, it's all cash
		
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			there mostly.
		
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			So if you, if they're going to give
		
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			you some cash back like a note, they'll
		
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			give it to you always two hands.
		
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			If it's a receipt in the hotel, it's
		
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			with two hands.
		
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			It's you know, as casually is done in
		
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			other parts of the world.
		
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			It's always with two hands.
		
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			Amazing Akhlaq and the cleanliness.
		
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			Every toilet which was absolute relief.
		
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			Every toilet had water in there.
		
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			They have the Japanese toilets as such.
		
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			You have to get used to them because
		
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			it's like a spray.
		
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			It's like the Turkish ones a lot more
		
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			advanced though with heated seats and everything, right?
		
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			They do everything.
		
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			They think of everything.
		
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			They think of every little detail.
		
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			So anywhere you go, service station, right?
		
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			You go to a public toilet in a
		
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			store, you go anywhere, it's going to have
		
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			water.
		
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			And we're kind of used to that.
		
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			So I thought, okay, getting used to that.
		
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			Even the campsite, every toilet had that.
		
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			They went to China and there's no toilets.
		
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			Went to a Muslim restaurant, asked for the
		
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			toilet, went there and there's no water.
		
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			I said, how do you guys wash yourself?
		
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			How come there's no water in the toilet?
		
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			So China is a different story.
		
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			But yeah, there's no water in toilets in
		
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			China, but in Japan it's there.
		
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			So they have some amazing Akhlaq and that's
		
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			probably why.
		
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			However, the challenge is that you have many,
		
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			many foreigners who are marrying Japanese.
		
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			The problem is that a lot of the
		
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			foreigner Muslims, they're not very practicing.
		
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			They're doing it purely for that sake.
		
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			Now what happens is that they have to
		
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			make the Muslim because Japanese aren't by default
		
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			Christian or Jewish.
		
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			So they can't get married to them on
		
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			that basis.
		
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			So they have to make a Muslim somehow.
		
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			So some of them take it seriously.
		
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			When they could take it seriously, they find
		
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			no Islam in their husband.
		
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			So then they ends up usually in the
		
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			divorce.
		
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			Half the cases or so end up in
		
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			a divorce or I don't want, don't quote
		
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			me on my statistics.
		
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			But the problem is that then they either
		
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			become completely anti-Islam because of what they've
		
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			seen as Islam, which is not really Islam.
		
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			Or they become very strong.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, one of the brothers there, his wife
		
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			is a Japanese Muslim.
		
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			MashaAllah, his wife has become Hafiz of the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Right, that's an amazing feat.
		
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			And MashaAllah, at least one of his sons
		
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			is a Hafiz, if not two of them.
		
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			So that despite all the odds, these are
		
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			MashaAllah possibilities.
		
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			Now what I was told about one Shaykh
		
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			that was there, there was a Shaykh, a
		
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			Turkish Shaykh whose name was Shaykh, I don't
		
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			want to get this wrong, but I think
		
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			it was Shaykh Nematullah or Shaykh Fadlullah or
		
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			something, or Rahmatullah, right.
		
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			He used to be in teaching in Saudi
		
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			somewhere and then somebody brought him over to
		
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			Japan.
		
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			Throughout the year he would go with just
		
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			his thawb, with no coat or anything, even
		
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			though when it was very cold.
		
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			His mission was Dawah.
		
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			Now this was very inspiring for me.
		
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			So he used to carry these little cards.
		
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			One of the Shaykhs there told me, because
		
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			he knew him very well, he just died
		
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			about a year or two ago.
		
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			He used to carry a card with written
		
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			in multiple languages.
		
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			Anybody he met, he would actively try to
		
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			meet people, he would give them a card
		
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			and make them read the Kalima somehow.
		
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			He would just strike up a conversation.
		
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			Oh, you know, I love the Japanese, you
		
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			guys are so wonderful.
		
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			That would be his starting line, right.
		
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			And then he would say, say this, this
		
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			is very important for you and then give
		
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			them the Kalima.
		
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			Some people did come in like, you're making
		
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			all these people say the Kalima, what happens
		
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			after?
		
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			He goes, at least this much inshallah, then
		
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			they can find another way to do something.
		
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			Inshallah, they'll find the way.
		
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			There's a lot of toll booths, toll roads
		
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			down there, you pay the toll.
		
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			So most of them is automatic.
		
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			If you've got one of those imported Japanese
		
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			car, there's this Japanese woman, right, who's speaking
		
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			like, it's that same voice you hear all
		
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			over the world, right.
		
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			They say something like ETC, right.
		
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			That essentially is that, have you got your
		
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			card inside, if you're ever wondering what that,
		
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			what that message means in this, those imported
		
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			cars, you know, when they speak Japanese, it's
		
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			like make sure that your, your ETC card
		
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			is active, your electronic traffic something card or
		
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			whatever is inside or something like that.
		
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			So when you go through those, it's very
		
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			fast because you just go through, it tracks
		
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			you.
		
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			But if you go through the man booths,
		
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			it costs more, right, because he would insist
		
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			on going through that just so he could
		
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			talk to the guy up there and give
		
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			him a card.
		
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			His window was always rolled down.
		
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			So if he stopped at a traffic light
		
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			or whatever it was, anywhere, he would give
		
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			that one.
		
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			That's how he was, he was just getting
		
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			everybody to read the Kareemah, which is absolutely
		
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			amazing.
		
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			Wherever he was, whether he was in a
		
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			train, in this, you know, in their bullet
		
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			trains or wherever it was, he would just
		
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			give that one everywhere.
		
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			And that's, that's amazing, right.
		
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			Just to make these little cards, so that's
		
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			a good idea.
		
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			Maybe I have the strength to do that
		
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			myself.
		
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			And maybe, you know, you guys as well,
		
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			to give that out.
		
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			So there's one of the oldest masjids there
		
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			was in Kobe, where some of the best
		
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			Wagyu beef comes from, right.
		
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			So the masjid was in 1930s, done by
		
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			some traders that had come here.
		
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			And there's an earthquake that took place there,
		
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			which the scenes of that disaster, where pretty
		
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			much everything was destroyed, except the masjid stayed
		
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			standing.
		
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			So it's very interesting.
		
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			There was a, there was obviously animosity, not
		
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			animosity, but a concern or Islamophobia, because of
		
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			the media, Western media and other media in
		
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			Japan as well.
		
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			No religion is allowed to like hire a
		
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			hall.
		
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			You have to hire it for some other
		
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			reasons, because they, they haven't this separation of
		
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			church and state.
		
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			So it's a bit strange, right?
		
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			So you can't hire a hall that they
		
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			wanted to give an article in the local
		
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			paper and willing to pay $7,000 for
		
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			it.
		
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			When they found out is religious, then they
		
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			didn't allow them to do it.
		
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			However, there was a earthquake that took place
		
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			several years ago.
		
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			What these Muslim group did, mashallah, this Japan
		
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			Islamic Trust, they went and set up a
		
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			whole relief organ and they started giving assistance.
		
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			That was carried by, by one particular media
		
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			or one researcher actually.
		
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			He did a whole series on him.
		
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			That has made a massive difference to, towards
		
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			Muslims afterwards.
		
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			One of the ways into places is relief,
		
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			right?
		
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			This is how other groups have done it
		
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			in Africa, where they provide relief and then
		
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			Jesus comes with that relief, right?
		
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			Peace be upon him.
		
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			Jesus, alayhi salam, the proper Jesus, hopefully they,
		
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			you know, maybe he can give them better
		
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			guidance.
		
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			So that has made a big difference to
		
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			people's take on Muslims, kind of some of
		
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			the phobia has, has come down, which again
		
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			teaches us that our focus shouldn't just be
		
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			Muslims when you do relief organization, especially in
		
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			this country, especially now that prices are so
		
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			high and there's people who are in need
		
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			and so on.
		
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			This makes a big difference.
		
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			This makes a massive difference.
		
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			So we have multiple organizations that do relief,
		
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			primarily focused on non-Muslims.
		
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			We also need to, primarily focused on Muslims
		
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			abroad as well.
		
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			So we need to focus on that because
		
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			somehow we need to get a positive outlook
		
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			from people.
		
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			It's very difficult to communicate in Japan because
		
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			not many people speak English.
		
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			So it's difficult to communicate, Google Translate and
		
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			other things that, that's, that's what helps ultimately.
		
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			But they're so particular about everything, the way
		
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			they put their fruit, it's all packaged very
		
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			nicely and everything is just so very well
		
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			organized.
		
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			So the problem in all of these places,
		
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			halal, is very difficult.
		
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			So in Japan, finding halal is very difficult
		
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			unless you find a Muslim, you know, immigrant
		
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			Muslim halal.
		
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			So if you're just there outside somewhere at
		
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			a service station, we stopped at a service
		
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			station.
		
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			So my host, they speak Japanese, so they
		
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			looked around that whole place which had about
		
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			15 different vendors and they finally bought some
		
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			noodles.
		
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			So I actually was enjoying the noodles with
		
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			the chopsticks, learning how to eat like that,
		
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			right?
		
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			And suddenly I pulled out something from the
		
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			noodle.
		
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			It had like, it was like this piece
		
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			of skin, right, with bumps on it.
		
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			I was like, what is this?
		
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			The guy goes, oh no, this is some
		
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			kind of octopus or something, seafood.
		
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			I was like, oh no, I had to
		
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			stop eating it.
		
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			I said alhamdulillah, at least it wasn't pork.
		
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			At least it was halal according to the
		
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			Shafi'is, Maliki's and Hanbali's.
		
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			Not Hanafi's, but at least it's halal by
		
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			somebody, you know?
		
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			Very difficult.
		
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			We went to another mall, we had to
		
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			find something to eat.
		
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			So they said we'll find some pizza or
		
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			some soup that had something in it.
		
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			So finally they just bought French rice.
		
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			That's what we had.
		
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			There's not sushi everywhere.
		
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			You have to go specifically for sushi and
		
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			then not everybody likes sushi.
		
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			My host didn't like sushi and I don't
		
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			think my father would have liked sushi.
		
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			But then we went to and we had
		
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			to try the sushi, so we tried the
		
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			sushi.
		
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			Actually, specifically we had sashimi.
		
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			Sushi is with the rice.
		
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			We didn't have that one.
		
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			So we had the maki and the sashimi
		
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			in one of the, you know, top chains
		
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			of sushi.
		
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			It's an interesting way to drink, to eat
		
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			things.
		
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			And then we had some very famous, the
		
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			wagyu.
		
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			Wag just means Japan and gyu means meat.
		
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			There's Japanese meat.
		
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			So it's a wagyu.
		
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			That's what it is.
		
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			For those who are interested in that, you
		
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			cook it yourself.
		
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			It's a restaurant that you cook yourself.
		
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			We had to try that one.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So yeah, just the adab is amazing, mashallah.
		
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			But they just, you know, it's always with
		
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			a smile and with two hands and just
		
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			everything is so particular, the way they think.
		
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			They don't like change.
		
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			Problem is in the hotel as well, in
		
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			the morning I had to go for breakfast.
		
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			We had to survive on the salad and
		
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			the eggs.
		
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			Everything else, alhamdulillah.
		
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			There was one Bangladeshi restaurant I went to
		
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			and they made some good, what was it?
		
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			It was good food there, mashallah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			The problem is that he sells wine as
		
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			well.
		
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			He sells beer every place.
		
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			In England, we'd never go to a place
		
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			where you're hungry.
		
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			There's only halal, meaning halal meat.
		
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			So you ignore that and you just eat
		
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			that.
		
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			Otherwise in England, you won't be able to
		
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			do that.
		
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			In England, we don't go to places that
		
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			serve wine because we don't have to.
		
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			Once I went to Scotland and they took
		
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			me to a restaurant owned by a Pakistani
		
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			guy there.
		
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			And he said, look, this is the most
		
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			halal place we're gonna find, but he sells
		
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			beer.
		
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			And the guy who took me was a
		
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			mufti.
		
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			I said, look, if this is the only
		
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			place and you're the mufti, but there was
		
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			no wine on our table, obviously.
		
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			It's just probably served for some customers down
		
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			there.
		
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			So sometimes you just have to do that.
		
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			It's not haram to go into a restaurant
		
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			that serves wine unless you're sitting on a
		
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			table with wine.
		
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			If you need to eat, you have to
		
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			eat somewhere as long as you trust the
		
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			food.
		
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			But I wouldn't do it in England because
		
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			we've got so much choice.
		
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			It'd be silly to go into a place
		
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			that serves wine, right?
		
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			Where would you do that for?
		
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			There's lots of other good food.
		
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			So that's just a bit of a masala.
		
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			You're hungry and you need some food.
		
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			I remember in Thailand, there was a whole
		
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			mall, a massive mall, and we're looking for
		
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			something to eat.
		
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			You know what we had to eat?
		
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			These sweet potatoes, baked sweet potatoes.
		
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			That was the only thing halal we could
		
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			find because communication is an issue.
		
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			So then to try to find out if
		
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			there's something there, it's just so easy.
		
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			We'll just have some sweet potato.
		
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			Then alhamdulillah, we found the Muslim area and
		
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			there, mashallah.
		
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			But otherwise, this is the trouble with this
		
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			place.
		
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			The pork is just all over the place
		
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			and I just love the pork.
		
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			So that makes it very difficult for us.
		
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			May Allah give them and us all of
		
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			guidance to do that which is right.
		
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			So the best of some places and the
		
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			worst of some places, alhamdulillah.
		
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			You know, we went to, in fact, in
		
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			Japan, we went to a dollar store, a
		
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			yen store, 100 yen store, something like that
		
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			it's called.
		
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			The amount of offering there compared to our
		
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			pound store is like no comparison.
		
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			Down here is no comparison.
		
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			The dunya there is amazing.
		
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			If you want dunya, right.
		
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			Mashallah, the Muslims, they like it when other
		
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			Muslims come there and they visit.
		
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			I wasn't able to visit but many of
		
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			the masajid outside that are run by the
		
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			Pakistanis, they're mostly tablighi masjids.
		
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			So the tablighi movement is quite strong down
		
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			there.
		
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			A lot of batans down there from Pakistan,
		
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			Pashto speaking people.
		
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			I unfortunately didn't manage to get there because
		
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			my schedule was so limited to what I
		
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			was doing that I wasn't able to go
		
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			and visit many other masajid outside of Tokyo
		
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			except to Mount Fuji and so on.
		
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			Met some Japanese Muslims, a number of Japanese
		
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			Muslims, the converts themselves.
		
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			Alhamdulillah they were at the camp as well
		
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			and interestingly they're very healthy.
		
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			So for the number of days we were
		
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			there, aside from food there was hardly anything
		
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			sweet.
		
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			When you're used to desserts and all of
		
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			that, you're just this.
		
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			In fact even the vending machines and the
		
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			drinks, they're mostly unsweetened teas, multiple types of
		
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			teas.
		
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			That means a green tea, a matcha tea,
		
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			a matcha, that's a matcha, right?
		
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			So that's what they call cha is tea.
		
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			Then they have this roasted green tea which
		
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			is amazing and then have a barley tea
		
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			and then these other different types of teas
		
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			and they're all unsweetened.
		
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			You start getting used to it.
		
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			One of the brothers there, he said that
		
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			his mother-in-law who's Japanese said she
		
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			bought half a kilo of brown sugar and
		
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			he just observed how long it take her
		
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			to finish it.
		
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			It took over a year.
		
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			So sugar is used very very less which
		
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			is amazing.
		
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			Japanese live for very long.
		
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			Their average age is over 90 sometimes.
		
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			They live very long.
		
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			I'm not saying just because of sugar, a
		
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			number of other things.
		
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			So they have a lot of good characters.
		
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			So what one brother told me who had
		
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			moved to Japan to understand their culture and
		
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			he's a Aikido, third or fourth Dan in
		
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			Aikido.
		
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			So he is really into the whole Japanese
		
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			culture.
		
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			He says what they're looking for is for
		
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			somebody with better character than them and then
		
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			they will take it on.
		
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			They observe you.
		
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			They look at you because they got amazing
		
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			character in the way their demeanor is.
		
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			They're very soft-spoken.
		
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			They're very different from other cultures like Chinese
		
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			are very different, right?
		
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			That's not to say Chinese are negative.
		
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			I had a good, you know, very good
		
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			experience in the two days I was in
		
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			China, right?
		
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			Notwithstanding what they're doing, Allah relieve our brother's
		
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			problem and sister's problems there.
		
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			But that area is very very far off.
		
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			I was just in Beijing.
		
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			But the Japanese have amazing character and akhlaq
		
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			and they're just looking for somebody that can
		
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			teach them something better and give them the
		
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			light, give them the nur.
		
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			They're ready to become Muslim because unlike in
		
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			this country is a lot of Islamophobia where
		
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			it takes a lot to cut through all
		
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			of the the misconceptions and the wrong ideas
		
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			and all of the politics and everything.
		
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			Down there, it's just a lot easier and
		
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			then it's a very tribal mentality.
		
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			If you can get a high-level person
		
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			to become Muslim, everybody else will follow.
		
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			They're very muqallids.
		
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			They're big muqallids down there.
		
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			So they they don't change their tradition too
		
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			much.
		
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			Like the Turks are very traditional.
		
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			Their masjids look all the same.
		
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			Japanese, they do everything in a very kind
		
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			of, in a very kind of, very nuanced
		
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			manner but always in a very regular way
		
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			that they do things.
		
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			So if somebody can become, if somebody can
		
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			be attracted to Islam, mashallah, it affects a
		
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			lot of other people.
		
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			So mashallah, the brothers and sisters down there
		
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			just trying.
		
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			But that that is a that is a
		
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			field of dawah for people who want to
		
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			travel.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala assist our
		
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			brothers and sisters down there to shine the
		
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			light, to shine the light.
		
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			May Allah reward the sheikh who was there
		
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			and all the other scholars who are there
		
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			trying to do what they are what they
		
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			are trying to do.
		
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			Everything is very small.
		
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			The masjids have to be small except the
		
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			Turkish masjid which is in one of the
		
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			most expensive areas of Tokyo is built in
		
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			I think 1990 or 2000.
		
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			Beautiful blue mosque style masjid.
		
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			Like just literally like that with all with
		
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			the minarets and everything.
		
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			Mashallah, Turks they get their their masjids wherever
		
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			they are looking like that.
		
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			I don't think we have one in England
		
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			like that though.
		
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			From inside we have them but from outside
		
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			we don't.
		
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			They actually have them in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
		
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			I was shocked when I went to Holland
		
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			I thought it's a very Islamophobic place because
		
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			some of their politicians are.
		
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			And then suddenly I'm there in front of
		
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			like a replica of a blue mosque.
		
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			I was like wow you know like just
		
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			like that.
		
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			There's one in South Africa, there's in multiple
		
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			country they build them just like that.
		
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			So there's one there in Tokyo but it's
		
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			very very expensive area.
		
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			So you see the Turks are in in
		
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			another in another city.
		
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			So yeah there's a town called Suzuki that's
		
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			where that motorbike comes from.
		
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			There's Yokohoma which is where the tires come
		
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			from.
		
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			Mashallah they're just like the whole world knows
		
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			about the stuff that they're doing because they
		
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			do they do everything so well.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala give them guidance.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala relieve remove their
		
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			shortcomings.
		
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			The big emptiness that's there the void where
		
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			they just focus on work work work right.
		
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			That that's that's something that has to be
		
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			directed and channeled in the right way for
		
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			the sake of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala.
		
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			And that would be amazing.
		
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			Mashallah may Allah give strength to the brothers
		
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			who are and sisters who are trying trying
		
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			their best.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala allow us
		
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			to also make some investment in that regard
		
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			and assist others and preserve ourselves as well.
		
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			The point of a lecture is to encourage
		
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			people to act to get further an inspiration,
		
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			an encouragement, persuasion.
		
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			The next step is to actually start learning
		
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			seriously to read books to take on a
		
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			subject of Islam and to understand all the
		
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			subjects of Islam at least at their basic
		
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			level so that we can become more aware
		
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			of what our deen wants from us.
		
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			And that's why we started Rayyan courses so
		
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			that you can actually take organized lectures on
		
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			demand whenever you have free time especially for
		
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			example the Islamic essentials course that we have
		
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			on there the Islamic essentials certificate which you
		
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			take 20 short modules and at the end
		
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			of that inshallah you will have gotten that
		
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			the basics of most of the most important
		
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			topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot
		
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			more confident.
		
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			You don't have to leave lectures behind you
		
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			can continue to leave you know to listen
		
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			to lectures but you need to have this
		
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			more sustained study as well.
		
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			Jazakallah khair and Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.