Abu Eesa Niamatullah – Why Protect This House
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The speaker discusses the challenges of parents supporting their children and the importance of protecting their identity and reputation. They also mention the importance of learning to deal with their children in a best possible way. The speaker invites others to join the class and learn about the various aspects of their culture.
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You know what the interesting thing about family
is?
That it doesn't matter how practicing you are
from an Islamic point of view, and obviously
the majority of the folks that would get
involved in studying and watching things like this
and studying a course like the one that
I'm teaching here, it doesn't matter whether you
are really advanced in your Islam and very
pious or just a beginner and a basic
person, everyone suffers with their family.
The challenges of parents either supporting you or
being against you.
They've been practicing, maybe they're not, maybe the
same deen as you, maybe not, different values
almost definitely.
Then the family politics that come with the
extended family, so not just brothers and sisters
and the like, but then the cousins and
the, and mahrams and non-mahrams and all
of the issues that come with that, the
khandan and baradari issues, those back home ethnic
issues.
Then kids themselves and the challenges that come
with parenting in the modern age.
Protect This House has been my most successful
and my most intense work that I've ever
done, probably the one I'm most proud of
because it's a combination of a number of
years of me studying al-adab al-mufrad,
which is a hadith text by Imam al
-Bukhari, which I was able to appropriate into
a program that combines the classical theory on
the issues and the fiqh and the adab
that are required when it comes to all
of our family politics and relationships and interactions
with all of the members, up and down,
meaning parents and up and then children and
down.
But then also allowed me to study with
some educators and some professionals and combine it
all with, of course, my own children, going
through all of their years and ages and
their tarbiyah and their education and put it
into a package which so many of the
folks who have been watching this video will
have taken, but this is probably maybe the
first time to a younger folks or a
younger generation or those that are being made
to be aware of this kind of content
for the first time.
This is one of al-Maghreb's most popular
classes.
The gratification that I get, bi-fadlillah, meeting
random people and saying, oh, I just wanted
to say, protect this house, change my life.
Protect this house, save this, protect this house.
It came at the right time.
It's something that speaks for itself, bi-fadlillah
azza wa jal.
And if it wasn't as important as it
was first time round, to know and understand
the psyche of all of these members of
our family and how to deal with them
in the best way possible, the husbands and
wives as well.
And if it wasn't as important as it
was when it came out 10 years ago,
now the challenges are even more stark, especially
with our children.
The way that Western culture has pervaded into
the value system and especially, of course, our
theology, especially our aqeedah, especially how we are
meant to protect our identity and the identity
war, which has been waged by not just
the left.
You see, there's this very easy way of
just blaming the left and blaming the Democrats
and blaming the liberals.
But the truth is, is that the world,
even in its counter reaction to the whole
woke and the whole kind of trying to
be modern agenda of what you might call
the left, the right has contributed and confused
the whole situation as well.
And of course, only Islam will believe that,
but you need to see it and you
need to be sure of it so that
you can practice it yourself and then propagate
it to others as well.
Islam is the only solution, the balanced way,
the correct way, and the only way that
your kids are gonna be successful.
We've got to remove all of our aspirations
from the dunya that we thought that were
the targets that we needed to achieve when
it comes to our children education and to
slightly repurpose them, not throw them out.
We never throw the baby out with the
bathwater.
We understand that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam came to complete that which is good,
get rid of that which is wrong.
And there's much which is good in our
culture, in our ethnic cultures and our back
home cultures, quote unquote, and then in even
the cultural way that we practice our Islam.
And then of course, our modern cultures as
well.
And some of the sciences that are involved
in improving the way that we parent and
the way that we interact with others.
This is a very comprehensive class.
As I said, a raw class as well,
one which I enjoy so much being able
to be challenged and then challenge folks back
to make people think outside the box in
what is probably the most important interaction that
we're going to have.
You can be the best Muslim in the
world, but if you're not looking after your
parents properly, and I don't just mean the
way that you think you're looking after your
parents, but actually how Allah expects them to
be looked after.
And if you're not making your children your
number one priority, if you're not protecting your
house, then what was it all for anyway?
So I invite you all, if you've taken
this class before, then tell others.
And if you are just wondering, is this
for me?
I don't even have children or you will
soon.
And forget the children aspect.
What about the aspects of the husband and
the wife?
And forget about that as well if you're
not married.
What about what's happening with your family, with
your mother, with your close siblings?
This is a class for everybody, essential obligatory
knowledge, and probably one of the most beneficial
and useful things that you will ever cover
all from Allah's, subhanahu wa ta'ala's grace
and mercy.
I invite you to protect this house.
Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.