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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh I'm your host Adam
Hatfield and I welcome you back on to my channel hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen today we have been joined by a very special guest, someone
who in a million years never would have thought that mashallah Tabata
logical to come on our podcast? Well hamdulillah through the help
of the masjid hamdulillah they have been able to help me to get
him and honestly it's been a long way and you know, in sha Allah,
Allah all of you will enjoy this one Bismillah he to Allah. So
today I did why we I always come to you. Accent Allah we always
come arsenal. As you can see, I am delighted being joined by Salah
Potamia salaam, Alex, how you doing?
How's your how's your Allah hamdulillah the
going to the University of Reading. Honestly, it was a it was
a pleasure to see the Shabaab at the universities
attending an Islamic gathering with all the different fitten
trials and tribulations especially in our Subhana as we're driving
out
Allah azza wa jal, you know, preserve the Muslim brothers and
sisters who go to universities. We were told that you know, because
it's Freshers Week. There are clubs on every single night how
not even on a weekday.
And may Allah azza wa jal keep them from even you know, the theme
today was salt Yousef, we spoke a little bit about
when the wife of a disease enticed to use the body, so that was
Saddam, and she locked him in her room, and haram, that she wanted
to commit Subhanallah and how he took certain practical steps to
you know, get away from the fact that she wanted to commit with him
to spend
our lives which are preserved them honestly, like really important, a
lot of happiness, especially when I found out that you know, the
clubs are wide open for the students that attend. They came to
attend for the sake of Allah azza wa jal in sha Allah.
And to gain some understanding, yeah, we ask ALLAH SubhanA to
allow them to, you know, then University is not easy time for
them. So, yeah, there's people struggling and learns and stuff
like that. As I say, it's a very difficult time. You're in
Australia, how do you find that? Honestly, was amazing experience.
I've been telling brothers and sisters that
it was one of the most enjoyable experience I've had in my life.
Now.
I never thought that Subhanallah
masajid would be filled as it was, you know, so many people were
hungry and thirsty for knowledge, Lahaina that really, really took
me aback. I think even some of the organizers were extremely
surprised by that. Because I was speaking to some of the brothers
before I went there. And they were like mobile, we just have maybe
one lecture every day.
And me when I normally travel out, I don't like sitting in a hotel
room. Right. So I told him to fill in to fill up the whole schedule.
And handleless panels, sometimes we would have maybe two programs,
three programs on the same day. And people were ready to attend
and benefit it would be traveling from one side to the other.
So may Allah azza wa jal reward the Muslims in Australia, well, I
every time I would say to them that there's a lot of hair in you
guys. The fact that you guys are attending these gatherings one
after the other. Right? Even on a weekday that you know, really
touched my heart redirected Subhanallah you think that
Australia is like such a such a westernized modernized place that
and you know, some Muslims they've forgotten the whole purpose of the
creation?
A start a topic that we like to discuss is people's journeys. So
where would you say that your journey of starting Islam began?
You know, my parents they, they always pushed us towards Islam and
deen and memorize the Quran. So I don't think it would, it would be
right to say that it started at a particular time it was always the
case. However, if
there's maybe one incident that
really struck a chord as they say, right, it was when my beloved
teacher Alanna shape from Leicester because I used to go to
miss if
he says something to me that really
started that journey.
Because when I started college, you know, I was bit of a superstar
right football in the
air. Boy apparently, I was very, very quick as though
I was very good at football very good at basketball and,
and table tennis.
as well, right? So Subhan Allah, I became very busy and I, you know,
stay skipping madressa and Quran school and then one day, I think
this is after I got tired, right?
He said to Mohammed, you're never going to memorize the Quran.
And it's one of those statements that I really, really appreciate
up until this day.
I really do. I thank him for that. Even not so long ago, I went to
him and I said, Chef Zach,
verifying data, and he goes, What do I do for you? I haven't done
anything.
Right, that one statement could really have a huge impact on
someone. I mean, teachers Iraqi parents, yeah, whatever. It is the
father of the soul. Subhanallah your biological father is the
father of the Knesset. But the one who teaches your enemy is the
father of the soul, you know?
Holding for that law, I still appreciate into this really mean?
So I'm guessing with him you started memorizing the Quran? Did
you Did you finish with him? No, I didn't. So can because of
my commitments to sports and things like that. It was never it
was always stop start stop start and so I was memorizing I think I
reached something like I think Satya seen from nasty ASEAN. But I
call that British have
you know, it's not always the environment or a teacher that can
make you memorize or they can all that can do is maybe push you
towards a direction you have to push yourself yeah. So
and he was like I said, the only I call it British memorization
because I was I wanted to but at the same time I had other
commitments and I was busy and this and that and so I never
really put my head down to it. I mean, I guess when you're younger,
it's like hard to balance your your you know, your hobbies, the
things that you like, with learning Islam. So how would you
advise someone who you know, needs to balance balance or to like when
he's going to college? And yes, and even with the super hot the
data they have, you know, the things that they're facing in
university and college?
You know, you're maybe you can answer that question from two
different angles, right? The first you know, I personally do not
believe in somebody saying, I don't have time.
I don't care what you're doing, there is always time for you to do
that which you read read a value. Everyone finds time for that which
is precious to them. Whether it's a wife, spouse, whether it is you
watching movies on Netflix, something that you really really
want to do, you're going to find time for it.
And if the Quran is extremely precious to you, you'll find time
if it means you're sacrificing some hours of your sleep
there's a video that I recently told the brother May Allah is
zeroed in by the handsome
Pakistani brother cuts out everything he's doing amazing job
for me honestly, I may die for him all the time.
I told him to cut out a clip from a longer lecture where I spoke
about some of the benefits of my time in Medina and reflections
Right. Was one of the most beneficial advices or somebody
gave me was when I run into a chef or Kashia Kamini don't have you
sort of clip Yes. So I refer to people to that clip Inshallah, to
Allah piece of advice that he gave me. You have to find a time when
nobody's going to occupy you. Whether that may be artificial,
whether that may be before Fajr
because even if you're a very well known personality, people grab
your artifact genetic from your time. Yeah. So when do you find
the time? You know, subhanAllah Subhanallah Yeah, there was that
one? I don't know if it was you, there was a tweet, which said that
we only spend about two hours or 2% of our day was 1% of your day.
14 minutes. And 2% is what 20 minutes. So we can't give you any
2% of our time to the Quran shocking 2% So fanvil You know,
really scares scares us to think about that. Yeah, maybe ask ALLAH
SubhanA to make it easy for us. And to make it easy for us to all
to memorize
not only to memorize it, but also to contemplate upon it and to act
upon it to mean now um, so then you after memorizing the Quran you
went to was it the module is that Egypt, Yemen, Yemen, Yemen, Yemen,
how was your time there? Well, let him delay was amazing. It was
amazing.
One thing I can say about that institute was that you have
so many lessons available at your disposal Yeah, the knowledge was
just like literally they're like is calling out to you come and get
me
even wanted mache.
In Allah was numb often Medina. He would say one year in the merge is
equivalent three is unlimited.
You know,
and that was because of her love the number of lessons that you
have available at your disposal.
One thing I will definitely share it a lot. I don't think I've said
it before, and I don't want to make it repetitive is whenever I
go on a particular always asking questions. So it's hard to think
of different avenues to take a podcast has
just recently started I find it so difficult already. So I think what
is really worth mentioning is the discipline that I learned from
being in that kind of environment.
I even tell my family from time to time, right Tamia, my daughter,
corner semis mellows, which had preserver
as you know, my me and my wife come from different backgrounds,
she comes more from a very wealthy background, right.
And I'm not from that kind of background, an adult I want my
children to grow up in that kind of, you know, environment, I want
to give my children everything that they need and want. However,
there has to be that push and pull type of dealing that you have with
your children. You know, a responsible parent doesn't buy ice
cream for a kid seven days a week, right? fucka Sally's digital, how
many Acorah hemophiliacs are here on an 11 year Hello. Sometimes you
have to show that tough love, right? You don't just give, give,
give, give, give, otherwise they'll never appreciate that. So
I discussed this sometimes with my family that I want to take my
children, my daughters to tell him in a village.
Like the village that I lived in, I lived in a mud house.
And when I think back, and you know, because different
experiences shape an individual right, the way he thinks and what
kind of person he becomes. I think living in that mud house, you only
have water coming through the pipes once every two days.
Sometimes once every three days. Sometimes the water just cuts off.
Sometimes a war takes place. Yeah. And you have to go to the masjid.
You know, with the tubs of water that you have to fill up with
water, you know, tubs empty tubs that you have to fill up with
water.
And subhanAllah not so long ago, someone sent me a picture of the
food that we used to eat and maybe store it I put in my maybe Dr.
Ibrahim, did you see on my whatsapp story? The food that we
had in the image? The potato and the rice? Is kind of like
yeah, it was very simple type food. It's like, you know, I
played that as big as this. Some potatoes and just rice. Yeah. This
is what the students would eat like,
six days a week, and under the seventh day, they'll give you a
bit of chicken, you know, most of the students they barely had
anything and hamdullah was from the more fortunate ones where my
father would send me $150 Every month, but even then life was
unnecessarily easy.
That kind of lifestyle really makes you simple. Yeah. Honey,
can you don't like
start craving after luxury and things like that. And it makes a
lot of sense to me as to why I'm gonna be allowed to and I
will say I'm a convolution.
You and he makes sure that you get used to a rigid, rough life.
Why? Because when you get used to so much
how can I put this luxury? Right? At the moment, I guess taken away
from you're going to become a bit like a spoiled brat. Yeah. You
start like, complaining all the time, and you won't be able to
just live a normal basic life. So Pamela, I never even never say
shut up. No. Seems like you would say yak Morava here.
So it's somewhere I want to take my daughters.
You know, go and get the water. Yeah, I just like as a boot camp,
you know, you're kind of disciplines you somehow learn the
shapes you as a person honestly, makes you appreciate the little
things in life. Yeah. And I think that's what the image, you know,
one of the nicest things that I took away from that, remember also
when I came to Medina, my Shahada was Salafi. Right. I think his PhD
and Ami Allah presented from Birmingham Somani
he picked me up Zola here.
And he took me to the dorms. And when I first came to me to the
dorms, and he said to me, I will tell him you're going to really
really struggle. Living in these dorms. I looked at him I was like,
shall we have running electricity and running water handler and the
waters hot as well?
You know, he's a little things that sometimes we take for
granted. Yeah. I want my children to really get used to that. Yeah,
it's probably something that you know, all of us should have to
experience in our parents that came from this type of background.
is now in Pakistan Do you hear them complaining about little
things? You don't right because they use that kind of lifestyle
simplicity as opposed to someone who's only ever seen luxury and
he's had everything on a plate the moment things are going wrong
I just see like a child has stopped squirting milk on the
wallet you know it's
so hard to remember loss of Hannah in the in the bad times and in the
good times otherwise when you call him in the bad times he won't he
won't
maybe answer so
sad So you mentioned so then after Yemen you went to Medina?
Medina six years first two years you did you know any Arabic before
you? Yeah, and I learned Arabic in the
in Yemen? Yes of course. I was there for like four years so but
did you in Medina you spent did you still spend the first two
years brushing up or so when I went to El Medina, I mainly went
to do my own studies because a problem that I had at a time was
after I left in Yemen
and it was struggling to find time for myself.
Honestly, because you know Cumberland road message calls you
come here, come deliver election reading. And then you got this
message and that message this here. So it gets very difficult to
find your own time. I always seen myself as a person, if you were
just get, you know, detached from all the distractions. I can sit
down and memorize and study very, you know, really well. Right? I
was studying then. But it wasn't how it is now like now after I got
that advice from Shadow Kashia Kamini finding a time when no
one's going to distract you and you're gonna have to make a
sacrifice for I was just like really struggling to juggle
everything together.
So when the whole idea was I go to Medina and I do the stuff that I
need that I want.
I never necessarily went to like a Shahada. So me going into the mat
head, it was a means for me to just find time. I know the Arabic
language. I need one year to memorize this, this, this and
that. And to read this and to read that. So as my god, I went into
him I had
up until then, until I nearly got kicked out. But
you know, they showed some mercy and and
yeah, it was just I really wanted to do certain things that I
thought I wouldn't get a time for. If I went straight into the
faculty. Yeah. And by the way, for those who are listening, I didn't
lie to get into my head. Sometimes brothers think okay, how did he
get in? I just had a brother who was speaking on my behalf.
Yeah, it's good to know.
I don't know people who pick up the smallest things and they don't
even really matter to be honest. Subhan Allah, so Medina, you and
when you're in Medina, even when you're in Yemen, you're still
coming down to reading martial law. What motivated you to start
your data and giving
you know, I didn't leave Yemen to start giving Dawa.
I was more kind of compelled to do so because of the war that broke
out. And
because it was two wars that broke out. There was first when I was
still there. And and there was a second that
led to everyone being driven out of their homes. Everyone had to
leave and demand just came to an end.
So I remember before that second will happen. My dad was like, come
back.
Save Tomas. Because it was it was it was a horrifying experience
that my dad had when I was deaf stuck. And the war is going off.
Right. People are just going through Jani was it was it was a
very difficult experience. So I was like trauma for my dad.
So anyways, Hamdulillah I stayed after and I finished the Quran.
And then after all of that, I didn't want to leave like I just
went through Well, let me just stay here and I'll finish the
Quran and hamdulillah it happened. So my dad was like, come back off
a hedge. And then after we finish hedge, you can go back to him. And
as we're getting ready to go for hedge that season, the news that
a second was broken out and he was like, You're going nowhere.
You go nowhere. And he is prior to hedge.
I started given hot tub and things like that, because I realized
there's a need.
And I think there were people just giving hot tub for the sake of it
because there was no alternatives. And so I realized, look, Eliza
taught us even a little bit and, you know,
maybe giving the hot buzz. I can you know, give something back to
the community. So it was more out of necessity that I started giving
that our hot tub and teaching and so on and so forth.
And it just, you know, kicked off from then, you know,
just randomly and at the time I wasn't even doing videos or
anything like that. Somebody would notice University they'll be
sitting there and it's from a different
City, they will see you want you to come down to that city. And
that's how Yeah, now mostly a gem of knowledge. Not no not at all.
And
we ask ALLAH SubhanA to make a sincere
no doubt was not everyone's craft. You know, some analysts some
people that have lucky to have fluent voices, you know, they can
give data to people. What would you say one should start and
giving data? Well, I think everyone's different and this will
always say to graduates from the medina
because you know, being a public speaker is not for everyone.
Some may have the ability to write like me and Shapleigh bus you
know, Naveen. We always have this discussion and I say Tim, you need
to put your videos online every hilltop and try to and he brushes
off
the videos and the YouTube and he goes no, I'm a writer. I'm going
to stick to my writing my Shall I steal all of his whatever coming
out now. And mizuna is doing great service
to programs that are being conducted inside of the Masjid.
You see?
So everything has been recorded, but he's a writer, alarm Abadi
County, he has
Janya riding hunters mashallah to varkala. So people are very
different. And their skills and expertise are in different areas.
So, as you know, very good for him. Others mashallah Yanni, they
have the ability to administrate with the knowledge that Allah gave
them, they know how to set up schools, and Madras says you know
how to run it. So everyone's good somewhere. But I just don't agree
with somebody coming back and just completely detaching himself from
the Dawa. You could give something back and give something back six
years that Allah gave you an income back and do nothing, even
if it means teaching the children or any of your doing nine to five
now.
Once a week, can we not get out of you? The teaching the house of
Allah azza wa jal somewhere, there's just not enough people to
give Dawa. Right. So I think it's important that everyone does at
least something. Yeah. Right.
Even if it is a smallest teaching his, you know, his relatives,
and he goes to the masjid and he's teaching the youngsters over
there. So he starts, you may not necessarily have huge crowds
coming to your lecture.
And it can sometimes be disheartening. A lot of people
don't actually realize that.
Right now, they see when the massages get packed out and how
come people are attending here, and they're not attending
elsewhere.
Right. I remember when I first started giving dower in my own
city, Lester.
This is back in 2014. He would you imagine right? That it reached
maybe third week of the book that I was teaching with the fingers in
the market
or one of the other books have to hate write it by week three, there
wasn't a single person that
no one attended.
Nobody would have attended.
And there were difficult times and and sometimes you just have to
keep on going and whatever have you right.
And perhaps if you continue, Lazar will start opening more doors and
now you know that our people they get they get to go to Medina uni,
you know, the 1000s of people that apply and then come back and they
just they just didn't use advantage of that knowledge by
giving Dara and even given data doesn't necessarily have to be
like given data or speaking to people writing to people. Even
those brother I know that he wanted to make an there's probably
an app which can find a hadith
1000s of Hadith. So it can be really anything Subhan Allah,
that's something that I don't think people really recognize.
Like I've met brothers like that, that are very techy, right. In
Medina, he gives so much anything, be a service to the religion. And
he couldn't Yanni miftah and higher in a shot and in be a key
to hire and, you know, do something that can be beneficial
to the community. I don't think any graduate has an excuse.
Right? Yeah, the I'm talking about somebody who just gives up so
nothing back. No one has to see your efforts online. And sometimes
I've heard and this is another extreme right? Brothers belittling
graduates just because they don't have an online presence.
I don't think that's right. Okay, you don't know what the brother is
doing behind closed doors as writers that people are
translating books and he's give something back as be something
that is brought back
with you know,
this very important aspect of learning, because even when you're
given data, then you still you're still learning somehow
Number one learning all the time, you're lucky, I honestly believe
that the one who teaches he's the one that's benefiting more than
everyone else.
As opposed to mentioned, the A z to be comforted. In fact, I mean,
when course MBQ adventure that, right increases, when you spend
what you only spend from your knowledge, you give it out to the
people, however you hold it back, it will only just reduce. I
remember, Shahar saw the Shangri La dialogue. And he's given that
lecture, the future of the graduates, there was a lecture
that was titled, The Future of graduates, one of the things he
mentioned in there, because once you go back, and you don't teach a
knowledge that you have spent years consuming, within one year,
you'll just become like a commoner, like a general folk, no
luck, but
that's very, very important. That's a very, very important
thing that you need to take into consideration. You lose it as
opposed to you know, what, you process that knowledge. I want
shareholders on my teachers Hanafy
on I was talking about earlier from Birmingham, he said to me,
you brothers, you know,
go back and you process the knowledge in the summers and
whatever have you and then he was referring to himself saying, As
for us, and you know, we have an issue with the language and all
the years that we've been studying, it may just go down the
drain because we don't process that knowledge.
And I realized Subhanallah when he was saying that, you know, when
you take something and then now you teach it, he sticks especially
when it becomes repetitive it sticks with it sticks. Yeah,
right. Someone that had Arabic tested down Imam he went on a
holiday. So he had a seven week gap Subhanallah everything that I
learned Subhan Allah now. No, no, no, you have to you have to you
have to say very articulated and yeah.
You're teaching Arabic now. Charlotte on the first of October.
Yeah, advice. I think a second batch of students were go through
a Larrabee to be needing makan. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's that
discussion that you had out of the oven. Oh, Allah He I have to
apologize to the brothers. Even though Subhanallah I didn't
realize that the brothers posted on my Instagram. And as I was
walking in I'm looking at all these messages brothers are
kicking off standing around with Eva is having a go at me shoved in
my head saying that I'm wrong. No problem brothers and sisters we
can agree to disagree you know, and agree to disagree.
Sally can listen to the rest of the brothers but this is just my
opinion, you know? It's just my opinion. Yeah. So how literally
did they posted it today? Some of the brothers who
I didn't watch it actually didn't watch what was the content of the
video itself because on my Instagram is playing up. But then
I realized all they cut that out and then they put it on
but it's my I'm gonna I'm going to read out a message that I actually
read out to some of the students
that one of the because a lot of the brothers keep saying that a
lot of b2b near dAche
doesn't actually help you understand on
a read on the message.
This was a very touching message that I received.
And as we're speaking Shahab, lambasted messaging me
so the brother mentioned, sort of said, I just want to say thank you
for teaching us this vignette equals so well. It is intense,
however, it is most definitely beneficial as someone who has
never studied the language, I am now able to understand small bits
and portions when listening to Quran and when I'm in the masjid
This all helps me stay attentive and gain greater hope Sure, which
is the most important thing may Allah preserve you and keep us
steadfast and sincere.
And in the brava was also attending my inheritance classes.
And this is the message that he says so we are helping alone.
We're trying to help the student and student who wishes knocklyon
It's not just conversational, modern day Arabic that are going
through. Yeah, Hamdulillah we even seen messages that brought in a
lot of happiness to my heart were in though in the telegram group. I
think it was they were sending each other Arabic messages.
Yeah, I don't know if you saw it. Maybe they posted I think it was
posted we can agree to disagree which I you know, how do we deal
with controversies like that they're like,
brothers. And even when Michelle droichead We're having a
discussion in the podcast, it was all love like, because we disagree
with his brothers.
And he was just like,
a pleasant disagreement. Yeah, we have to be like, mature enough to
you know, agree to disagree on issues, of course or not either.
Other things we can do
Sit agree to disagree without getting emotional and
debunking one another
over the internet because he disagreed with you on a book that
he prefers, which you don't give precedence to.
And Dr. Ibrahim is studied
some Arabic as oh this would you prefer an ROV to me they go Should
we go through down the medina vaquita what you say resonates
with me because I started
11 years
and 20 years on and off on and off. And the program that really
were I felt maybe in the UK this program can actually be
competition okay by continuing
mashallah
study Hammurabi he was doing and when were you guys going through
conversation on Arabic or so there's different modules okay.
Because here the hat your higher conversational here
then you've studied Hadees in when
you
was learning was
at the same time
books three, it gives you good grammar
my argument always is like we have somebody who doesn't know the
English language is the first one that you will start teaching him
English grammar. That's not what you're gonna do. Right? You're
gonna teach him how to speak and how to understand the teacher. And
only then he starts right that's just my argument. And then I
noticed that even some of the brothers though they say you're
comparing
a book with a whole curriculum and whatever have you
then teach it with a my my my response would be teach all of the
other books don't just teach them book one and book two and book
three teach the rest as well like we did in the university. I'll be
in agreement with you. There you go brothers.
Yes, I think you're the reason why you asked that is because the
kicking off on the on the Instagram right?
hamdulillah so I've seen Subhanallah some of the Bronx I
don't know exactly. Who is think maybe it's sad. who's responding
back to
need to have a good look at it here.
Hamdulillah. So, Arabic You know, we know that it's very important
that the language of the Prophet SAW Selim the language of the
Quran, how important is it for us to learn Arabic are like brothers
and sisters is good that you asked that. Actually wanted to record
the video
after the podcast, but you asked so it's good.
I just want to invite the brothers and sisters
to stop being strangers in their own religion. Honestly.
Up until you learn the Arabic You are a stranger in your own
religion. Because the Quran came down
you know with the Arabic language, the messenger Salatu was Salam
spoke
Yanni with the Arabic language, right. So up until when are we
going to continue relying on a middleman
to help us understand the Quran? You're missing out brothers and
sisters, right? Honestly, you're missing out.
The sweetness of the Quran is something that really can't be put
into words. Right? And you guys attended the lecture today. So
Jesus, how do you find like undergrad is good? Yes. Good.
Okay, if you think that that was good, like when you hear it in
Arabic is so much more sweeter?
Yeah, you can rely on English translations and Englishmen like
myself coming in and teaching you guys but when you hear it in
Arabic
Lysa is certainly is such a different experience honestly is
Yeah. And likewise in the Tarawa Subhan. Allah or you're praying
behind the Imam
thing is the same when
you don't understand the Arabic language like this province of
Hanalei, as I studied Arabic before focusing more on these bits
and bobs now you know, it's
it's beginning to fall into place and everything
Yeah, man, it's it comes with a sweetness to be honest, like it
can't be put into words really can't. I think people are becoming
lazy nowadays as Subhanallah we've got so many classes that we can
attend, but Subhanallah we don't and online as well. Yeah, life has
been made so much more easier. You have online classes in whatever
science you want. can find it. Yeah, it may well be that somebody
says always expensive. What do you mean is expensive, you're paying
for a pump BT sports?
Or 55, Vizio whatever it might be right on Netflix and all the
different subscriptions that you have. It comes up to how much a
month
invest that in your hereafter right?
Ya know, Subhan Allah says everything you think about
nowadays, people Subhanallah this investors into this into this
dunya they don't even think about the market. And that's a sad
reality. Unfortunately, it's something I'll point out as well.
And no one ever says this to me by see this normally being posed to
others, charging for horses.
And he,
anyway, would there be an issue with paying a small amount every
month, and he is so much more or less than
what you call it, the neck shoes, and it doesn't Balenciaga is that
you buy? People buy pairs of shoes, every single one, they have
haircuts every month, or every two weeks. I have a cousin has a
haircut every two weeks. And he spent something like 20 pounds.
And you want to spend money on all of this stuff. But then you want
to say that is a charging for our corn? That's not necessarily fair,
is it?
Right? Yeah, it's not really an excuse anymore.
Something to get out of it. Really. Even if you think about
it, like me personally,
I don't want to charge anyone for teaching them the Quran. That's
just my personal preference. I might do courses and then up sign
like 10 pound for the course of 30. And there's nothing wrong with
that is like peanuts when you think about it. Me personally, I
don't want to teach anyone for the Quran.
Right? And I don't have a problem with others who charge. The reason
I'm mentioning this is when we went to study Quran, you think it
was free?
Right? I had to travel all the way to Egypt to do my karate and get
any jazz and whatever have you. Yeah, like when you think about
it, that added up for the teacher. And even now I get adjusted for
the different Quran that I finished my teachers, right? And
like, monthly, I'm paying something like, how should I pay?
Maybe 75 pounds, some hard to match or like $400 to have to pay
the teacher for him to give me time because if you want time from
a chef, you have to pay. It's as simple as that. And they always
say they always say this about Egypt, if you have money, you can
get things done. Because people give you time money talks.
So when you when you think about it now all them years Subhanallah
that my father used to
send money to me as $150 Multiply that by four years.
And even then he I teach and I go to the different massage and I
don't ask them for a single penny. I don't think a single message can
say that. I stipulate upon the music Give me this otherwise I'm
not. Dr. Ibrahim is a witness.
That's just that's just been my policy. Again, I don't have a
problem if people want to do that. And they want to say that to
organizations, but
it's just something that I've always
you know, shied away from.
Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned about karate, because that's something
that's always fascinated me, but I've never quite understood it
properly. The first of all, what got you started on what got you
wanting to do the first and foremost on Macari with Carrie
Sabbath. They've
but the reason why I personally went into karate was I needed an
incentive to give me on top of my Quran. Yeah, maybe you'll agree
that you remember he finished right? I shudder to watercolor.
Would you agree that after finishing the Quran, one can get
extremely lazy. Yeah, has just finished the Quran. And it's just
like from Tarawa to tarawih, like one run on Ramadan to the next. He
get very very lazy Yeah, right.
For me, it was okay let me move into different Cara. Right, I
started firstly with the Revive sharp, which is the sister device
of Hafs. When it comes on the Assam, it's one camera you can
have some other sharp started with that. Because you know, there are
differences and these differences keeps you on your toes, you're
revising more than usual, you're going over i at certain I add more
than usual especially when you do a car loan or even look a theory.
Like every time you find Sara to me, we'll jump. Right you have to
say more. So you're repeating the verses more than usual keeps you
on your toes and you have a teacher that is on your case,
let's just say for example, four times a week, you're going to call
him and you know you've got and you're staying on top of it. Yeah,
and I needed something like that. Especially after my brother passed
away my Allah's mercy upon him
and I became even more weak before I went to Egypt. I just got so
busy and then people just so I needed something and that really
really helped me and that's when we made the decision it was
actually my wife's
you know suggestion to go to Egypt. Now our order for that
allow alum would have gone to Egypt at that point in my life.
That wasn't a case for her pushing me because you just had enough of
the UK and she just loves that Muslim environment. And it was
while I was still in Medina. Okay, everything moving online, and
Boris Johnson was gonna throw us into another lockdown
had to run away before he did that. So it was her pushing and I
always wanted to go to two places after graduation Egypt and
Mauritania yeah so Subhan Allah went to Egypt while I was still
doing Medina online and Elijah as a region just opened them those
rods so even up until this very day I read to my teachers online
yeah
so it just keeps me on top of my online you know game
trying just honestly trying on alongside all of the other
commitments something that pushes me and I don't mind paying paying
for someone to be on my case as good with all the commitments that
I have Aki he used to be the light you know, Allah will open doors,
sometimes you have to do that.
So there are charity work because there's so you have good artists
of
luck if how does it work? So you have a surah and then you have
also Cobra.
You have a shelter via okay 1000 line poem. And then you have
Yanni in shelter via for every draw is to rewire. Okay? Right.
For every karate there's what to rewire for example, everyone
memorizes the dy a half's that everyone's memorized. However,
this is a rewire alongside Shebaa which both falls under Assam. It
will two students have some Shaban on the house.
So
then you have what you call it.
NAFTA and under it comes Kowloon and wash. Okay. Does that make
sense? So you have the tentacle rot. So you have several karats
from the shelter here.
And then you have another three adura So that comes up to Timken,
right and under every Corolla there's to rewire
and then you have words that cover the with an asset again
Yanni on the each Corolla, there's what to revise from different, you
know, Torok. So, so when people say they've done Alton rewire,
they're referring to, if they say Sovran Cobra, they mean they'll
end up becoming I think what 20 Corollas
and then each one has what? Two?
So, all of these different ways has been sent down from Allah has
by Allah azza wa jal. And I think he's good mentioning as well,
because sometimes, me I've just been on a mission wherever I go.
My default has become holophone, Hamza. She's like, the rarest, out
of many, many Takara they're out there. And even when you came in,
we did have right.
I think that time I was just getting really used to it. It's
one thing knowing it and there's another reading by it in the
Salawat. It can be a daunting task, especially with Khalifa and
Hamza. It was spinning my mind when they would give me actually
really
can be a headache after a salad because there's a lot of
concentration and focus as needed. You had me correct
I was I didn't know whether to correct you or not as confusing,
honestly. Yeah, it's a difficult one. But when you get used to it,
he's like, I love it. Yeah. Even Yeah, I personally really really
love it. So anyways, the point I wanted to make is, you know, I had
shaman Swede use this analogy right?
And I'll just play around with that analogy to make it a bit more
relevant. People ask was quiet and whatever have you first and
foremost Allah as you're sitting on this carrot as a Rama upon the
OMA.
You've heard how the Australians
speak right? Imagine I said I did. Your English is not valid. Unless
you sound like the Aussies. Yeah. How would you feel?
Would you would you find it easy speaking like them? Or if I said
you have to speak like the Americans and anyone who doesn't
sound like an American this person is not English. I wouldn't even
attempt and it would be very, very difficult, right? Same when it
comes to like for example, Serbia Hey Smarthub bakerella Ali said
sub beer Hi smart Baker Allah Allah. Right.
And then you have what you call a
sub basement of bacon Allah and then you have what to clean in
between Allah you know
so there's different ways of you no reciting it in order to make it
easy for people right.
Even though when you look at the Arabs the Syrian doesn't sound
like the Egyptian does it I don't even believe Egyptian speak
Arabic. You have the Iraqis you have the Saudis you have the
Yemenis. They all sound different. Yeah.
Like imagine it was said that the only way you could speak Arabic is
like this.
I in the series tend to stretch things more than others. And so
these are odds are just different.
Use of reciting certain words to make it easy for people as they
are. Yeah, I think Dr.
xylene? I don't think so. Kara says I think how the Indo
Pakistani journey is actually a mistake. Yeah. This one is zero
pion English ma'am of sin. And ze. That's a way of reading about what
Zaarly and then is incorrect. What if one Zack native languages like
that, so they can't really, it's hard for them to pronounce it as a
fix. So even if the prayer, is it still valid, or less sure, if
you're changing the manner, this is an officer related issue, if
you're changing the manner,
and that's a problem. Okay. Yeah. And Hanabi they also say you have
to come with all the trash the shed does. Yeah, we leave a shed
the fatty housing and also if you're changing the manner as a
problem, like for example, someone says, in the nostril Alton was the
Lima serata Latina, and I'm to La him. Yeah. And I'm telling ya,
right. You're asking Eliza to guide you to the straight path,
the straight path that you bestowed upon
me, as you say, when you say no, sort of thing, and I'm to
the right path that I bestowed. Yeah, you didn't miss anything
upon the people. Yeah. Can you tell that changes the meaning? So
that's a problem. Yeah, I see less problem. It's important for us to
fix that. Because then even when we were learning, we learned from
our parents that were just passed on to us. Yeah. Something I
specifically struggled with that and the Judas Jehovah is making
the the the letters heavy. And making them light is very
difficult to Yeah. Especially the raw. Yeah, unless it's kind of
difficult. So that's why practice is you know, it takes time lucky
you have reverts you have reverse mashallah Tabata colada I would
see in the Prophet slicin was Masjid every single day without
fail, putting in the effort.
And it was only a matter of time for Allah azza wa jal
made it easy upon them right. And even sound better now than
any Muslims were born upon in Islam. Yeah, it's just effort.
We're in the middle anymore with the alumi Wilhelma with the
haloumi.
Il is acquired by studying and putting the work and everything
right. And of course, most importantly, if Eliza opens that
door, right, you have to ask Allah azza wa jal to open that door for
you.
I mean, we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to open that that door for
me. Yeah. Subhan Allah is you know, such you know, ALLAH SubhanA
has made us the best of his creation, such a hefty
responsibility on us to you know, where Mark luck to Jana will
insert allele Abu don't fulfill that lady holla connote will hire
Leah blue Acoma ucommerce anomala So, it's important that we you
know, we complete this test and we ask Allah subhanahu wa taala to
give us the ability to do so it's been a pleasure all those getting
little shout out
for you said about the beginning because I didn't think in a
million years have been coming to you guys.
I would never turn you guys don't even I was telling them in
university reading has a very special place in my heart. And the
reason for that is because there was a time when many massage it
was skeptical. Shall we bring this guy shall we not? Yeah, so you
never forget those who didn't fit the blame of the blamers Yeah,
right.
Loyalty is important. I say that because this is going for you and
I'd never think you were very young than I was
when I used to come to visit
I don't forget this honestly, I don't forget it now everyone's
calling me and we're not going to forget the people who took some
heat for us you know, it's a pleasure sure the message got
blasted for bringing this guy in this guy from the margin and I can
understand why certain people were
skeptical why they were skeptical because students coming from
demand from Yemen didn't necessarily have a good reputation
because of how some conducted themselves and this of course
ruins if everyone else
I never drank the Kool Aid.
I was never
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