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Because all the people of intellect
have unanimously agreed that you cannot acquire excellence
or bliss with relaxation.
Right? You have to put in the effort.
It was again, you know, my father and
my mother,
who really wanted us to memorize the Quran,
and to learn the Arabic language,
my mother actually sold her gold,
SubhanAllah. I was one of those brothers
who really really struggled.
And without exaggeration I would sit between 19
to 20 hours,
Ulayed, I would
just trying to memorize 1 page. I'd go
to the teachers as if I never
hadn't memorized anything.
Assalamu alaikum Warrashamullaahi Wa Barakatuhu. Welcome back to
our new episode here on the Hip Status
Podcast
after a long overdue break, Alhamdulillah.
We're joined
today on this very special podcast with a
very special guest, a beloved guest, one who
is
not
unfamiliar to many. And he's our beloved Sheikh.
Just to give inshallah before we inshallah pass
it over to him a little background of
the Sheikh InshaAllah.
Before we delve into, you know, the journey
of the Quran and some of the tips
and practical tips for those who are listening
InshaAllah.
Usaida Boutemia he graduated
from the University
of Madinah.
He studied in Yemen, he studied,
during his years in Yemen, he studied Arabic
grammar, he studied a hadith, he memorised a
hadith and he studied under our scholars such
as Sheikh Arwahili,
Ohamahullah Fela Allah,
Soleiman Arwahili and accompany the Sheikh who said
that would take me resides in Leicester in
UK. So without further ado, inshallah, we'd love
to pass it onto the Sheikh and,
welcome
him for accepting the invite.
We know your schedule, it's very, very tight,
to accept it at such short notice.
We ask Allah SubhanAllah to
make this heavy on your scales, Sheikhna. Inshallah,
for
coming.
And, you know, just bouncing off that short
bio inshallah.
You know, a lot of people have
reached out and been inspired about the stories
of many people who've, you know, attended or,
or come onto the podcast so far. If
we could inshaAllah ta'ala just gain a deeper
insight into perhaps your earlier days of,
healthy early days with the Quran.
You know what sparked that journey? What sparked
that,
movement towards, you know, really taking
that path seriously.
1st and foremost, JazakAllah Khair for having me
on. It's an honestly it's honestly a pleasure,
Barak Lafiq. I think it's,
worth mentioning how
this all came about.
I think it was somebody who, posted
one of your videos in a WhatsApp group.
And honestly, well, I thought it was a
beautiful initiative
to have a podcast just for,
brothers
while memorizing the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
And this is why I actually dropped you
guys a message saying, Mashallah, you know, keep
it up. This is, to be honest, a
game changer, I think it would be. Right?
All of these young brothers have memorized the
Quran, you're bringing them on,
and you're interviewing them,
and others are going to see this and
perhaps maybe be inspired
in taking this journey, right, of memorizing the
speech of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So allahi,
it was really really a beautiful thing to
see these young brothers memorizing the book of
Allah azza wa Jal and then sharing their
experience.
So I ask Allah azza wa Jal to
really really bless this podcast honestly. There's different
podcasts as you guys are aware.
Right?
So to have one for just the Quran
is honestly amazing.
So,
I think one of the main causes,
that pushed me towards memorizing the book of
Allah was none other than
the encouragement of my parents. And I think
that's extremely extremely important because if you look
especially in today's day and age, right, there
are so many distractions.
It's so easy to go astray.
Right?
Especially now when you have,
all of these different institutions and schools and
universities
that have become breeding grounds
for Kufr,
Shirk,
right? Feminism, liberalism,
LGBTQ
and, they're exposed to so many,
different yani deviations, right?
So to have a parent who's going to
put you straight
and,
enlighten you with that which is InshaAllahu Ta'ala
going to bring you goodness in this dunya
and likewise thereafter
is wallahi golden.
Even SubhanAllah, when your dad walked in, I
just thought he was maybe one of the
workers in the building and you could see
the enthusiasm that he has of wanting to
set everything up. So that really really touched
me, honestly.
Right? You normally don't find parents supporting,
their children in whatever they're trying to do.
So
You you honestly will I have a huge
blessing will I the fact that the father
is also heavily involved in setting this up
some of the places we were studying Quran,
and I don't know where it is. If
you take me out to the Netherlands, I
probably wouldn't know
where that place was. But I just still
remember the color of the table,
the
color of the walls.
And I think I was maybe only 5,
6 years of age.
Right? So everywhere we went,
my dad would always hire a Quran teacher.
Either he would take us to an institution,
to Imadrasah,
or he would bring
a a Quran teacher to the house. Like
I remember,
when we moved from the Netherlands to, the
UK, we initially went to Leicester.
Okay. Right. We went to Leicester, and straight
away
the father enrolled us on,
a Quran program. And then we moved to
London.
Moved to London, and I was studying at
the time in Finsbury Park. Okay. I spent
5 years of my life in London.
I can't remember exact the exact reason, but
due to some things that took place, we
couldn't continue going,
physically to the institution itself.
So my dad hired out one of my
relatives,
my cousin, his name is Hashim to come
over to the house
every couple of days and we would be
reading the Quran to him. So SubhanAllah, my
dad would spend and he would try his
utmost best.
And even later on, SubhanAllah, when I decided
to go abroad,
it was again, you know, my father and
my mother,
who really wanted us to memorize the Quran,
and to learn the Arabic language.
My mother actually sold her gold,
subhanAllah.
Having the gold especially for women is
she sold it just so we could go
and seek knowledge and memorize the book of
Allah Azza wa Jal.
Right? And, I sometimes think
because Allah blesses us in different ways,
right? Perhaps, maybe because my mother put all
of that effort in, right?
We, Alhamdulillah,
are blessed with
different blessings and, you know,
so there's a lot of effort that goes
into Yeah. Even now, earlier you were saying
that a lot of these youngsters who have
memorized the Quran, sometimes people see them
and think Mashallah, Subarq Allah, he's memorized the
Quran, but they don't actually know how much
effort has gone into it. No.
And the principle is as Imam Shafi'i Rahmatullah,
he mentioned, biqadril kiddi took tasabul Ma'ali.
Mhmm.
And
according to how much effort you put into
something, this is how much of loftiness you
will acquire.
Right? The scraping of the elbows and the
scraping of the knees. As Sheikh Mook Bilbina
al WaDi used to say, if I could
pour
the knowledge into your, mouth, I would do
so, but I can't, you know. You can
only acquire knowledge with the scraping of the
elbows and the scraping of the knees, and
it's going to be tiring and
it's going to take a lot out of
you. You will be exhausted.
Right?
So putting in the effort. And I think
that's common sense. Even Shaykh ul Samtaym says,
kulluqalayal
ummah ananaynalayudraghubin
Naim. Because all the people of intellect
have unanimously agreed that you cannot acquire excellence
or bliss with relaxation.
Mhmm. Right? You have to put in the
effort. Mhmm. And excuse me for using these
examples. I'm not mentioning them,
in order to dignify them in any way,
shape, or form. But I think it's worth
mentioning because the Shabab
can relate to these kind of personalities. You
have Cristiano Ronaldo.
Right?
Cristiano Ronaldo
was maybe what? 37 years of age?
The average footballer,
he retires maybe 32, 33,
34.
At the age of 37, he's still at
the top of his game scoring hat tricks.
You look him up and
you dig deep a little bit, right, about
what he does with his life, and the
man really puts in a lot of effort.
His sleeping pattern,
his, his diet, all of that, Yani, it
shocks you. Mhmm. Right?
The Yani and the amount of time he
puts into training. Even I remember many years
ago, I looked up his life and what
what does he actually do in order to
reach these levels? Right?
They say he stays behind,
after training
and he walks into training before everyone else.
Subhanallah. Yeah. And you have, for example, like,
Elon Musk as well. I think I came
across a tweet. It was something like
he comes into work 7 days a week,
and he puts in something like 16 hours
a day. And Mhmm. It's not surprising why
he's going through divorces and everything. Right? But,
16 hours is putting in. Mhmm. 7 days
a week. I think it was 7 days
or 6 days. I can't remember exactly. Right?
But that's still a lot. Mhmm. That's consistency.
That is discipline. And that's what you need.
Mhmm. And it's not surprising why he became,
the most richest man on the face of
this earth. Right?
And all of the other you know, you
have Mike Tyson. You have Muhammad Ali. I
think Muhammad Ali, one time, Right? He was,
he was seen running,
right,
in the countryside,
early morning,
maybe straight after Fajr, he's running around. And
then someone took a picture of him and
they asked him, why are you doing this?
He goes, why are my enemies asleep?
I'm getting one over him. Something along the
lines of that. Mhmm. Yeah. Right?
So all these people they put effort into
whatever they're trying to,
accomplish. Right? And that's with everything. Yeah. That's
with everything.
Whether you look at it,
from an Islamic perspective or in any with
any other perspective, you have to put in
the effort
and you know InshaAllah Ta'ala. And it's not
just the effort by the way, so and
I think it's important that we point out,
yeah and with knowledge, this is a gift
from Allah so you have to go and
beg Allah for that to make a lot
of dua. If Allah opens that door
then inshallah ta'ala you will see a lot
coming your way. So it's not just effort,
but also,
you know, tawfiq of Allah ajal. No. No.
No. Yeah. Definitely. There's that very common theme,
and success it's it's that famous quote that,
you know, hard work without talent beats talent
without hard work. Right? So someone could be
talented but if he doesn't put in the
discipline and the hard work and then he's
then he's going to be outpaced by the
one who puts in that hard work even
though he might not be necessarily built for
that thing that he's entering in the beginning.
SubhanAllah. As in like you you mentioned, you
know, with regards to,
a lot of the youth and you yourself,
this is why it's so relatable, mashaAllah, because
you grew up here in the UK. You
were lesser. You were in London. So you
understand, you know, the struggles that people got,
the distractions that they have in school and
university. Especially now. Especially now. Especially
now. And so
on the point of the parents, SubhanAllah, you
know, many people watch these podcast episodes.
And from the parents, this is really inspiring
for them to see that hold and they
can make such an impact upon their children.
Especially at a time where, you know, that
that barrier is being drawn where parents are
starting to there's that there's that culture of
let me live my life. You know, I
don't let me not have let me have
kids later potentially. Mhmm. But we see that
subhanAllah. It's almost like a sadaqa jayi of
this child raising an investment.
Investments subhanAllah.
And so
for those especially
perhaps let's let's shine a light on those
who
maybe didn't have the maybe their parents aren't
Muslim or their parents perhaps didn't push into
Muhammad's Quran.
Perhaps in the in in the stage in
your journey where you got to an age
where you're independent. Everyone gets to that age
where now they can actually say, if their
parents say something, they can avoid it because
they're independent now. They're strong enough.
They've got finances etcetera.
How would you how did you and how
would you advise those
to go about,
making sure that they take the right steps
in order so, masha'Allah, obviously, you went to
Medina University. You studied. But did was that
something there from the beginning? Mhmm. What made
you make that decision? And how did you
make that decision out? Because that must have
been from your own self because you are
old enough to do that. How would you
advise those to, you know, embark and stay
consistent and dedicated on that journey?
The way I used to look at it
is and I always mention this hadith and
I'll mention it again. Right? So it's my
favorite hadith.
Before I left Turayman,
a lot of people were saying to me
that when you, take years out of your
life to go and study, you're going to
fall behind. Everyone's going to,
surpass you in academics and,
and your studies and whatever have you. By
the time you come back, everyone's going to
be working on very high paid,
wages and whatever have you, and you're going
to be struggling and this and that. And
and, of course, that really does get to
you at times. However,
I still can't I I I've completely forgot
who he was that taught me this hadith,
and I always make du'aafim.
Someone told me this hadith.
SubhanAllah, man. I've tried so hard to remember
who he was. Maybe I can send him
a gift and and, and go and honor
him, you know. The hadith was
You don't leave someone for the sake of
Allah Azzawajal. Right? Doing it out of taqwa,
being conscious of Him.
Allah Azzawajal, the almighty accept that he will
give you that which is better.
And subhanAllah, when someone said that to me,
and of course on the other side I'm
hearing all of these different pieces of advice
from different people.
Right? Which of course is without shara'a without
going to affect your mindset and
eventually Allah gave me the Tawfeeq to really
just go with
what I heard of this Hadith. Right? And
I didn't know barely any Hadith at the
time.
And,
SubhanAllah. So I went and when I came
back, I realized that Allah
didn't make me miss out. I didn't miss
out on everything, on anything.
Right? Where they may have been acquiring a
council flat.
But a lot of brothers who are looking
to get married, getting a council flat here
in London is a big deal. Yep. It's
a huge deal. Even got a cousin of
mine who's an optometrist.
He's on a huge wage, Allah Mubarak. Right?
He himself is trying to get counsel flat.
He doesn't wanna, of course, take that haram
route of getting a mortgage and whatever have
you. Right? So he's trying his utmost best
because it will save you so much money.
So, there's like a waiting list. You're looking
at 5, 6, 7 years here in London.
So over there in Lestar, it's a lot
easier, but Allah gave me that straight away.
Right.
I managed to get into a very top
university, Loughborough University. I think it's top 5
when it comes to engineering.
I only did college for a year.
Right? Most people do college for 2 years,
3 years. I did an access to engineering
course and then I got into the top
university.
Why am I mentioning all of this? Like
I always, you know, think to myself, maybe
Allah has already shown me this is dunya.
I'll give it to you.
Right?
It means
everything to most people to get into a
top
notch university like that. But Allah just gave
it to me like that. SubhanAllah. It's like
Allah is showing me, okay, you leave something
for the sake of Allah
And, so I'm going,
out to memorize the Quran, to learn a
hadith, to learn about Deen of Allah azza
wa Jal. And
Allah is showing me, look, all of this
Dunya, I'll give it to you, but it
doesn't necessarily mean anything, right?
So after I seen all of this happen,
the next time around when I had to
make the decision to go to Al Medina,
I didn't even think twice.
Said if Allah gave me this and you
can maybe profile me to be someone who
is, like, fresh off the boat.
Okay. If you wanna call me that, when
I came back from Yemen, I had no
qualifications.
Right? Like, I had my GCSEs. I did
all of that. Does that make sense? I
had my GCSEs. But beyond that, you went
straight? Yeah. I went straight. I did, I
think, 6 months of college. Mhmm. And then
I went straight.
That's the first thing.
It's a big sacrifice. Yeah. It is.
So, I came back, I had no qualifications,
I didn't have any work experience or anything
like that, if that makes sense.
So even then, Allah azza wa jal just
threw everything my way. Right?
So, when you think about the hadith, my
brother and my sister,
the one who's maybe not necessarily ever had
that,
system around them of encouraging him to do
khair and to memorize and to go to
study and whatever have you. Allah just placed
this hadith before your eyes and Allah is
which will take care of everything insha'Allah.
Yeah. So what you mentioned at the beginning
with, with regards to the one who told
you that hadith and, subhanallah, how much impact
that hadith had on you. And you know,
you know, when you it's like it's like
it reminds me of the hadith. When you
mention that, it reminds me of the hadith
of prophet narrate onto me from from me
something
even if it's one verse. You don't know
what impact it will have on someone else.
Look at the impact that his head, Subhanahu
wa'ala, and that person,
whoever is
Even Imam Abu Hari, It's good that you're
mentioning that. Al Imam Abu Hari
the the reason as to why he authored
the most authentic book
after the book of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
is because
a request was made,
you know, why don't you make a book
that,
compiles the most authentic Hadith
and resonated within him and
that one The same, you know, the same
on that journey. SubhanAllah, it's powerful.
Before before you traveled to Yemen,
I wasn't aware you traveled at such a
young age, Subhanallah. That's a that's a big
sacrifice. Before you went,
were you, were you halffilth before you left?
No. I wasn't. How was the journey of
the Quran then? I I, so we moved
back to Leicester. Yeah. This is, I think,
in year 11. Mhmm. And again, the father
enrolled us on a,
on a Quran,
program in one of the masajid over there.
And, I was memorizing,
But I was trying, you know, subhanAllah, you
know, Ollayah, this is why I really admire
you brothers who memorized the Quran in the
in the UK.
I I I fell into that,
that system of being distracted. Mhmm. Right? I
just finished year 11,
went to college. Right?
And because I was a little bit of
a superstar when it comes to football and
basketball and table tennis and whatever have you,
I would go to these after school clubs.
Right? Football
and and I started becoming extremely laxed with
my Quran studies. Mhmm.
And my teacher, may Allah preserve him, Sheikh
Shoaib, not Sheikh Sha'ib from London. Mhmm. Another
Sheikh Sha'ib. Yeah. He's a he's
an Asian Sheikh. Right? He would always try
to encourage me and and I think he
just eventually became fed up. He even had
a big miswak
Allah. Coated with leather.
I think he was tired of,
you know, disciplining me. In the end, he
just said something like cause I became I
started becoming weak. I'm memorizing, and you'll forget,
if you don't stay on top of your
Quran as you're aware,
it's just going to slip away.
Right? Eventually he says something like, and I'm
so happy, he said this to me. Allah,
I love him for it. Every now and
again, I go to him and I say
to the Sheikh,
you know, you've done, you know,
something amazing for me. And he goes, no,
I haven't done anything. I don't think the
Sheikh realizes
the impact that one statement had on me.
He said, you, you're never gonna memorize the
Quran.
Sometimes you need tough love. No. When he
said when he said that to me, it's
like the whole world came crashing down onto
me.
That's when I said enough is enough. I
need to,
take this journey a lot more serious. Mhmm.
Yeah. At that point, had you were you
a couple edged that into your memorization or
were you just No. I I called it
British memorization.
I think I reached Surat Yaseen.
The the last 5 were always good. Yeah.
Because, you know, from from a young age,
I memorized them and,
yeah. Of course, I would forget every time
I started a new school, a new Quran
school, I'd have to revise it again. Mhmm.
So the first five was pretty good. And
then from Alahaaf
up to Yaseen, that's what I memorized over
there.
Even then it was just extremely watery.
Don't get me wrong, the system that they
had in the madrasah
was amazing. Like the Asians, they have the
best of systems from what I've,
observed.
The system was amazing. They have, like, far
revision. Mhmm. Sure. I think close revision. That's
what they call it. Mhmm. And then the
new
new portion, the Sabak, they call it. The
Sabak.
Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah. So the system was
amazing.
Even though this is the kind of system
that I personally recommend to brothers and
sisters. But it was just me who was
falling short, if that makes sense. Mhmm.
Okay. That's very interesting, subhanallah, what you mentioned
with regards to it it wasn't the way
that the the Quran was taught. It was
the environment that had an impact. How was
how do you feel that impact or the
difference in environment when you when you came
from here, from London, from Leicester
to Yemen? How was that on yourself? Yeah.
So when I went to Yemen, I I
wanted to, study full time. Right? So, it
was at a time when it wasn't the
social media era, if you wanna call it
that.
I don't think there was any there was
even WhatsApp at the time. Right?
2010
it was.
There was no WhatsApp. Was there smartphones at
the time? I think maybe there was. I
would probably be interested.
I can't I can't comment on that one.
Even yesterday when I was at Westminster University,
I think it was no. No. Sorry.
Holloway.
I said, do you guys remember the Nocuphons
with the snake?
Well, they all looked confused, the youngsters over
there.
And it was a packed masjid, and I'm
looking at the brothers like, someone someone reached
out to me. Someone reached out to me.
And then some of the brothers are like,
I don't think some of these guys weren't
even alive.
No. Of course. They're like 18, 19, 20.
Or maybe how many years ago? Yeah. Oh,
SubhanAllah. It's, like, 12 years ago now. Right?
There were many of them were maybe in
their pampers.
Maybe not Pampers, but it was Yeah. Yeah.
Really young. Yeah.
So they were very, very young, maybe 10
years of age, 9 years of age. So
this is when I realized,
you know, it's
I think I'm getting a little bit old
now. North.
It's we say technology is just advancing at
a really fast rate. Last. Last. So 2010,
there wasn't all of that
social media.
I think there was Facebook,
but I don't even think Instagram was was
the first one, like, the first one to
come out. Yeah. Yeah. It must have been
from, like, 55. I don't think I heard
about Instagram at the time. Yeah. Yeah. Or
even WhatsApp or
Snapchat or any of these
different social media platforms. Right? So you had
Facebook,
but we didn't have it on our phones.
That makes sense? You would have to go
to a computer, I think it was Mhmm.
In order to contact people and have a
chat with them.
So Alhamdulillah we didn't have that distraction over
there in the Yemen. Mhmm. In the Marj,
we barely had even electricity.
If I needed to use internet, I would
have to go to
this internet cafe. There was just one internet
cafe. Remember,
we're actually living in between mountains here. Mhmm.
The electricity is switched on by a motor.
There's a huge motor there that switches on.
Right?
And,
yeah. And even the Internet over there was
extremely slow. Mhmm. It would be one of
them dialers, I think it was. You have
to dial it, and then you're waiting, like,
maybe 10 seconds to get on bbc.com.
Right?
Maybe even more than that, in fact. And
then sometimes it just switches off and then
sometimes you just have to wait for minutes
because Mhmm. Something happened to the dialer and
whatever have you.
So this was basically done. You you kinda,
like, just get fed up of you and
using the Internet. Let me just go back
to my studies. Yeah. Yeah. So the environment
really did help in that sense.
And then later on, I think a year
and a half or two into my studies,
I realized brothers were buying these smartphones.
Mhmm.
And then these smartphones had WhatsApp and Yeah.
It was then when somebody gifted me with,
I think, an iPhone at a time. I
forgot which one it is, but a very
old iPhone. Yeah. Yeah. I even then, I
didn't use it. It's like, oh, and I
just put it. Didn't know how to use
it. I only started using
it as soon as I came back. As
soon as I came back, I downloaded WhatsApp
and I started having conversations. People brought me
to WhatsApp groups.
This was in 2014.
Okay.
Yeah. So that's when I became a WhatsApp
guy.
So that's that's the environment over there but
Yeah. Yeah. And may Allah have mercy upon
the people.
These phones are a huge distraction.
Huge distraction. Yeah. Yeah. So how so so
obviously then coming back,
do you feel like you were able to
continue upon that consistency and that discipline
when you came from that environment, for example,
travelling?
And and off the back of that, would
you say it's worth than, you know, leaving
an environment like this and travelling Mhmm. And
and then coming back? How do you remain
upon that discipline? Mhmm. Because you're back in
the deep end. Well, I I I personally
believe in,
I don't necessarily like,
how can I put this? It's not necessarily
the place, but it's actually the movement itself.
That makes sense?
You could be anywhere around the world. If
you manage to discipline yourself,
right,
you can really take huge strides forward, honestly.
There are so many brothers, subhanAllah, like yourself
and so many of the other younger brothers
who are at university.
Right? I have a cousin, masha'Allah, Tabarakallah,
Hamid Hamza. I don't know whether he's finished
or he's on the verge of finishing. He's
doing medicine
at Queen Mary. I don't know if you
know. I'm close friends with them. I really
am. I'm
looking forward to going to Queen Mary, by
the way. I've heard it's the it's the
best
ISOC. It's like the the ISOC's huge. Yeah.
A lot of Muslims as well. Yeah. I
thought yesterday, Westminster was amazing, and I mentioned
something like that. I was like, ah, brothers,
I heard this
Queen Mary is better than Muslim. And the
rest I laugh in it.
Yeah. You're gonna have it packed out. It's
hella full. For QM,
it's, it's fun. Even yesterday, it was it
was ajeeb, honestly. Allah reward them. I mean,
I mean I see all these brothers and,
and sisters, youngsters coming, wanting to benefit. I
told them, it really shows there's a lot
of goodness in you,
Right? Because many of you guys could have
been enjoying yourselves. It was Friday night. What
I'm most Shabaab doing on a Friday night,
especially here in London.
So Allah chose them, and that's what I
told them. Right? So anyways, going back to
that point, Mohammed
I don't know. Maybe you can tell me.
Has he finished or is he on the
verge? He's very close to finishing now.
And he's doing medicine, I think. Yes. Right?
Is it pharmacy or medicine? Medicine.
And I look at that and I really
really like,
become inspired, honestly.
So it's the discipline. They even say,
motivation
gets you going
and discipline keeps you going. Yeah. Right? That's
exactly So, so I've seen brothers go abroad
and not benefit. Mhmm. And then there are
people here who have never gone abroad, and
mashaAllah they memorize the Quran. Right? So it
goes back to the person. And, yes, without
a shadow of a doubt, the environment does
help. It really, really does.
Some people like myself,
I need to kinda, like, detach myself from
all of the different distractions. My distraction is
being invited here. Can you come down here?
Do this program. Do this hot up. And
that kind of like just sometimes,
you know, distracts you in your journey and
your consistency in whatever you're trying to memorize
and whatever you're trying to do. Alhamdulillah, I
found solutions for it. But,
I think that,
answers the question.
It's mainly
the person's mentality and the discipline that he
really, really, really needs to train himself Yeah.
To become like that. And there's ways of
doing that. Yeah. With regards to, you know,
and we sort of touched upon this briefly
in the beginning, with regards to people that
have begun their memorisation of the Quran, their
journey in the Quran later on in their
in their in their life.
Would do you have any tips for them
with regards to how they can go about
memorising efficiently?
They might say, you know, it's impossible. You
didn't memorise, you know, under the age of
20. You didn't memorise at this age, this
certain age. There's no way I'm gonna memorise
now. My memory is poor. I've just begun.
But I can it takes me a 100
times before I can memorize a verse. I'm
not cut out for it.
As a Muslim, I don't think we should
believe in something called the impossible.
Right? Impossible should not
exist in our dictionary. It really shouldn't.
With the dua and
what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is able to shower upon you of blessings
and for to had openings, right?
It takes maybe 1 dua
in the last 3rd of the night in
your sujood,
a dua from the bottom of your heart
that Allah
opens so many doors for you, right?
I was one of those brothers
who really really struggled
and without exaggeration, I would sit between 19
to 20 hours
alayd. I
would just trying to memorize 1 page. I'd
go to the teachers as if I never
hadn't memorized anything.
And the sheikh will be extremely gentle with
me because he would see me in the
masjid
up until I became
so sick, subhanAllah.
Remember I got, admitted into the sick room.
I was there for a whole year, whole
week.
Like I became I think I broke, like
that's it was the
straw that broke the camel's back as they
say. Right? And it ended me. Really, really
did.
It was
a very, very hectic schedule that I was
on. And me,
I'm on this intensive Quran
program where you have to memorize 3 pages
a day. I'm just trying to do 1
page. I go to the teachers as if
I never memorized it.
And
I tried and I continued and I was
advised to make Dua in the last 3rd
of the night.
And eventually I just seen SubhanAllah me memorizing
3 pages within an hour and a half.
Right? Maybe even less than that.
I really really struggled honestly. I still remember
them days.
I thank Allah that he allowed me to
go through that experience.
Perhaps it can inspire others. Mhmm. Right? People
just sometimes see videos of me quoting certain
quotations
and ayaat and a hadith,
and they think, oh, you know, mashallah your
memorization or whatever have you.
Akhiyah, it's like I said earlier, if Allah
accepts the du'a, opens the door, Akhi, you'll
see so many things becoming easy.
Right? 19 to 20 hours Akhi, I was
on 4 hours sleep,
sometimes 4 and a half coming up to
5.
I had eye bags and whatever have you.
And eventually, it ended up becoming easy. Yeah.
That makes sense. So the believer should not
believe in something called
impossible. With a dua,
right, Allah can indeed bless you with that
which the mind can't imagine.
Mhmm.
Right.
That's that's really really powerful.
That that that's really powerful because
when people sometimes put up these barriers that,
okay, I won't memorise until I travel, or
I won't memorise until I do this. And
subhanAllah, sometimes when they're done shaitan and they
never actually travel and they never actually memorised
until years go by. Try now. Perhaps maybe
the fact that you're putting in the work
and you're showing Allah
that you really want something. Right? Allah
will make it easier for you to go
and travel. How many brothers
have I seen that happen to? Right? They
might go to Egypt. They're showing Allah azza
wa jalil, look how badly I want it.
He spends from his money. He goes abroad.
Right? There are brothers that I know travel
from east to west. Some brothers, may Allah
bless them. Brothers like Jabir,
Muhammad, Khorim Mojo, right,
brother Abdallah. Some of these brothers, they would
be traveling from East London
all the way to West to attend my
inheritance class.
Right? And some of them have been accepted
to go and study abroad
in Saudi Arabia.
And I think to myself, you know, subhanAllah,
perhaps maybe because they put the effort in,
they showed Allah, azza wa jal,
he opened doors for them, you see. Mhmm.
Nam. On on the point of and we
we sort of briefly touched upon this.
On the topic of parents, you know, there's
there's,
a lot of parents that watch, you know,
the podcast episodes, and they reach out. Yeah.
A lot of parents, they reach out and
they say, you know, it's kind of provided
a sort of template of how other parents
have gone about teaching their children.
And, obviously, we live in, you know,
we live in a city, a major city
in the west, like London. You know? So
so for parents who,
you know, they themselves aren't hafal, they themselves
aren't scholars, but they want their children to
be hafal. They want their children to be
people that study the deen.
How can they go about doing that and
and making sure that perhaps they change something
in themselves and they go about implementing a
certain technique to pass on to their children
and teach them.
You know, subhanAllah, the parents, may Allah reward
them. Right?
I think you find 2 kinds of parents,
right?
A parent who
wants their children to do good.
However, you yourself are not providing the,
example
that they are in need of. Right? If
the parent has these hopes of I want
my children to become righteous individuals,
I want them to become hifal of the
Quran. However, at the same time, I don't
want to detach myself from the movies that
I watch throughout the day.
Like can you see the kind of precedent
you are setting for your children? That's only
going to affect them
and and you're never able you're never going
to be able to fulfill the hopes that
you have as a parent.
Right? Parent is sitting there watching Netflix series
and I think it's important that I also
make mention,
of what could actually prevent
them being able to progress in their memorization.
There are sins,
Right? There's this lecture that I have on
my YouTube channel, it's called 5 sins
that prevent knowledge.
Right? 5 sins that prevent knowledge. And that
which we keep looking at, especially
if we keep staring at the opposite gender,
that without a shadow of a doubt has
a huge impact on an individual's heart, on
an individual's memorization. Yesterday, I gave a lecture
on the effects of sins from the book
of Ibn Taym Alhamdulillahi,
and advised everyone to buy this book. It's
been translated into English. I even had the
book with me. I wish I did. Maybe
I can take a picture of it and
put it on the screen. It's called The
Sickness and the Cure
by
That kitab is amazing. Even when he listed
a number of
effects
that sins have on an individual, the first
point that he started with was 'Hermanal 'il'
to be deprived of knowledge.
What did he mention?
He mentioned the example of Al Imam Shafi'i
when he sat in front of Al Imam
Malik. Imam Malik
was shocked
by the sharpness of
Imam Shafi'i, his memorization. And he said to
him,
I can see that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has placed a Noor in your heart. Do
not extinguish this light with the darkness of
sinning. Sometimes we push our children to go
to Madrasah, and he just doesn't have the
desire to memorize.
Mhmm. When one day he did. Right?
And then the teacher may not necessarily understand
why all of a sudden he doesn't want
to memorize.
It could be that he's involved in certain
types of sins or he's been exposed to,
things that you know the classmates are watching,
you know, that many of our Shabaab are
becoming addicted to. And he's now fallen into
that trap. And now of course that's going
to destroy your heart. Right? It's going to
affect your memory. Yeah. SubhanAllah. They say about
the name of Shafi'i Rahmatullah alaihi, because you
can see now how sharp his memorization was.
His memorization was so sharp, you know, imagine
you have a kitab. Right? Yeah. And you
cover one side.
Like, he would have to
cover one side
just so that side does not become mixed
with the other. If he wanted to memorize
all of that, he would have to cover
the other because of how powerful his memorization
was because he might end up, you know?
Yeah. Yeah.
And and later on, subhanAllah,
in his life, he began to suffer from
memory loss
or loss of memory. I know the best
way to word it. Mhmm. He began to
suffer from a loss of memory. And you
know the famous lines of poetry,
and so every day.
Mhmm. You know? He said I complained to
Akia
my,
loss of memory. And I always used to
wonder why did he go to Akia out
of all of the and the scholars that
taught him? Because he could have gone to
Imam Malik. Right? The one who said to
him, I can see that Allah placed a
nur in your heart. I'll mention that inshallah
ta'ala in a moment. But he went to
complain about his memory loss.
What did Imam Waqiir al Jarrah mentioned to
him? Did he say, Khalas, don't worry, ma'am
Shafi'i,
your glory days are behind you.
You've got nothing to worry about. You're getting
old. La. Fa alshadani la turkin Maasi.
He directed me to leave of sinning.
He told me that the ilm is a
noor, knowledge is a light. And this light
is not granted to a Asi, someone who's
a sinner. SubhanAllah.
They say that Imam Shavir Ahmedullah, he
saw
bangles on a woman's ankle
that affected his memory. He looked at her
ankles and this is what affect his memory.
Hasdun, imagine now in today's day and age,
right, where we live in a sexualized society.
Right? So you as a parent, there's only
so much that you could do. Right? If
you have brought the shaitan into the house,
and I know some parents may think, oh,
this is extremely extreme.
Why shouldn't we have a TV in our
house? I'm not saying the issue is not
the TV itself, it's what you put onto
the TV or the screen. Some people, they
have screens in their house homes. Right? But
they're not sitting around watching Netflix series. Right?
Love, movies and and programs and whatever have
you, and the children are sitting there. So
it really starts with the parent. Mhmm. There's
so there's only so much that you could
do. And the last one that you should
be doing as a parent who has these
hopes of their children becoming huffad
is by bringing the Shaytan into the house,
right?
Where the children are going to be exposed
to so much sin and they're looking at
these girls, you know,
and these love scenes and whatever have you.
And
and then in these movies you have music.
All of this is affecting the child's heart.
Right? What did Ibn Taym Rahmatullah a'layhi mention?
Some lines of
poetry. Right? He said,
The love of the Quran and the love
of music is 2 things that just can't
come together in in one's heart. Remember when
I was young, once my mother, she caught
me with music on my phone. I used
to have these Nokia phones, right?
This was actually the joke that I was
having with the brothers in North London. Right?
And then she caught me and and she
said, Muhammad, you're not going to be able
to memorize
Quran,
while you're listening to music. You know when
we're kids growing up, we always think our
parents are backwards and Mhmm. And then You
know, they're out of touch with reality and
whatever have you. Because back in the day
when we used to have the infrared, you
used to connect your phone to another, hold
it like that, and the music files would
be transferred. So before Bluetooth and Yeah.
But Shaiyah, subhanAllah, she said that to me.
And then years down the line I came
across this line of poetry.
The love of music and the love of
Quran are 2 things that just can't come
in together in one's heart.
So,
as a parent, you really do need to
set the example.
Right? Like I said, there's only so much
that you could do.
If if you as a parent,
you know, you're waking up your children after
Fajr. There are parents that do that. It's
not
easy, and nothing comes easy. Mhmm. After Fajr,
they get into that routine because by the
time they wake up, let's just say, at
10 AM or 9 AM actually, no. They
they go to school at 9. Right? So
maybe 8. They're busy. They're going to school.
They're coming back.
Their minds are ready to Mhmm. As much
baggage like that. Yes. And it has become
polluted throughout the day. So in the mornings,
and it's been proven, the scholars have made
mention of it either before Fajr
or after Fajr. It's a very blessed time
to get them to start memorizing.
Yeah. And the parent has to make a
sacrifice.
That can really, really help. That can really,
really help.
And, if the parent themselves are busy watching
things, then the children are going to be
busy as well. Yeah. Like, I've had parents
come up to me, oh, can you talk
to my daughter? She's on TikTok.
They have a auntie. Like, you've got a
Snapchat on your phone.
Like, how can you expect your child to
come off TikTok?
You have to set the example. Exactly. Yeah.
Or sometimes what happens is the the the
mother
might just give a phone to the child
as young as maybe 3 years of age
so she can continue watching her Netflix series,
right, in peace.
So from a very young age, their attention
span are becoming Yeah. You know, really badly
affected and they grow up like that.
Yeah. There there was a really, subhanallah, powerful
state. I think it was something like in
America,
the average child sees
over half a 1000000 images by the age
of 6 years old. SubhanAllah.
And it's it's a case of subhanAllah. Every
image that you see is stored in some
way in the brain. And maybe you like
what you said about Sufi. Ma'am Shevia used
to cover one side because he wouldn't want
that photographic memory to affect his memorizations on
the page. Half a 1000000 images by the
age of 6. You know, you can imagine
back in the days, they would never see
that. Maybe in a whole lifetime it would
take for them to see that many images.
Oh, yeah. So all these things that impact
Habibi, you know what? Kids as young as
1a half
will likely start imitating their parents. They will
even start praying.
Mhmm. I've seen it with my own eyes.
As young as one and a half years
of age. Mhmm. They'd even pick up the
Quran and they start
humming Yep. Because they see their parents doing
this.
Mhmm. So their parents,
have a huge role to play in the
direction that the child goes. So if you,
like, set
the scene to be, like,
a Quran friendly environment Mhmm. That's all they
ever know. Yeah.
You said, Rakhi, that's a beautiful benefit that
you just made mention of. What'd you say?
6,000,000? Half a 1000000. Half a 1000000.
Yes, palis. It's holy.
We spoke about just now you covered, you
know, what sort of makes a good environment
in a house, what good things parents can
implement.
You know, you as a teacher, you know,
teaching many different various duros and and attending
different halaqas and giving, various hotaq.
Looking at the students that come to each
each session and obviously you got those consistent
students, you got the students that pop in
and they come now and then.
What
in your eyes and this is for those
who are on the journey who have teachers.
What in your eyes makes a good student?
What qualities can a person bring that will
make them a good student in the eyes
of their teacher and ensure that they have
a long journey with their head?
I think being argumentative,
the way you speak to the teacher can
either
really just put him off,
right? They say this about Abu Salimat al
Kufi from the students that Ibn Abbas
had was many, like you have Mujahid, Mujabar,
Abaatayb ibn Abi rabba Ta'wos, and so on
and so forth. However,
Abu Salim al Kufi is not like a
household name. Why?
They say about him he used to really
argue with his teacher. Mhmm.
I just used to be very argumentative. There's
a way to ask a question. That makes
sense? Yeah. There's a way to ask a
question.
So being somebody who's always in the face
of his teacher, you need to realize at
times he's extremely tired and
for you to constantly be in his face
and he's just going to be put off.
Right. They say about some of the other
students of Abdullah when they were extremely soft
and
nice with the teacher and even the way
they worded it.
And that really, you know,
has an impact on the teacher himself. If
that makes sense. Yeah.
No one is saying that you can't ask
questions to your teacher. In fact, like, I
love it when students ask questions and they
want to learn and whatever have you. However,
the way you address it, having the, you
know, the good etiquette is extremely important. Yes.
You'll hear sometimes a student
calling out his teacher and saying, yo.
Like,
saying, yo. Like, what was that thing that
you
said
again?
Right. Even if you read up the books
of adab, etiquettes, and everything. Right? There's a
way to address the teacher. No. And that's
in your in your own best interest.
Because with good etiquettes,
as mentioned by one of the scholars, Sheikh
Salih al Ussayim. He mentions this in his
Kitab.
Venuating knowledge. Naam, ta'aleem alaiem, venerating knowledge. Shasha'Allah
was saying he taught us this kitab in
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's masjid,
and he has some amazing benefits in there.
One of the nicest books that I've read
on Atticus.
You also have the Kitab of Jama'atul Kinani,
right? On etiquettes,
how to be with the teacher.
So the teacher will feel more comfortable,
keeping this student by his side Yeah. And,
always having that conversation,
that knowledge based conversation with him and so
on and so forth.
Also that which makes a very good Talib
is that he
always tries to come early.
Right? The way I look at it is
if you're always late, expect to be the
last to understand.
Right? Yeah. You're always late, expect to be
the one who is at the back of
the queue when it comes to,
understanding that knowledge.
Right? There are etiquettes: come early, revise before
and after.
Right? I think that's extremely extremely important as
well.
Also what I think is extremely important that
a teacher,
is respected by the student. Meaning
when the teacher gives him advice
in
his journey, right, he takes it on board
insha'Allah. Yeah. Right. I'm not saying that he
becomes a blind follower,
that every,
you know, something that he's told about,
he does. Like, I think that might be
another extreme, if that makes sense. But you
are now studying under this teacher, and you're
going to see advices from so many different
people. Right? There's Baraka in taking the advice
of your Sheikh
with regards to maybe how to seek
that path.
Otherwise go to someone else. If you're coming
to the teacher and you're saying, look, guide
me with regards to this journey of Quran,
on this journey of knowledge, And then he's
telling you what is best for you. And
at times he may tell you to do
something because of what he knows of you.
Yeah. Because the students are different.
You listen.
Right? And then maybe a couple of weeks
after you've heard another piece of advice, you're
doing the complete opposite. You're just going to
tire out the teacher, and he's just going
to get fed up. And Khalaq will just
say takhi, go somewhere else. Mhmm. Right? Does
that make sense? So listening to the teacher
is extremely important, taking on the advice.
Does that make sense? Yeah.
If we can, Insha'Allah, what we usually do
at this period in the podcast, we usually
ask our,
guests to recite some inshallah,
inshallah.
Okay. Which one would you want me to
read?
I think,
you probably are expecting this request in,
whatever.
So you you like Sheikha, but obviously, Insha'Allah,
maybe in any way of,
what everyone really enjoys, khalaf and hands.
Yesterday, brother Ahmed from Israel, he messaged me
while I was walking out. No. Because can
you come can you come early?
Because we won't hear Hanaf and Hamza.
So I led the Isha there. No. That
was actually one of the first three words
I heard from a young age outside of
we always hear and that's all you know.
You know? And then you hear Hanaf and
Hamza with the second tat, it really throws
you off, and it's actually really, SubhanAllah,
amazing.
And,
on on that point, like,
brothers are looking for an alternative when it
comes to music. I've had a number of
brothers
say to me that had they used to
be addicted to music and whatever have you,
and they used to listen to different types
of music. I think it's r and b
and whatever have you. They were like and
I more than one brother has said this
to me, when I led in a masjid
with Khalif and Hamza, they were like, I
think this is my alternative. Subhanallah. Right? Because
it's sakatat and everything. Not that I'm trying
to before someone takes it out of context,
I'm trying to,
you know It's a variation. Compare Khalif and
hamza with music, hasha, you know, abidil. I'm
not trying to do that. But,
it might be an alternative for you inshaAllah
ta'ala because of how it stops and everything
due to what you may be used
to, to start listening to Khalaf and Hamza.
Mhmm.
You put me on the spot here.
I just you know, there's a lot of,
this is this is one of the perfect
opportunity. We really wanted to get this opportunity.
There's a lot of people that have been
watching the podcast and they'd be like, we
keep hearing the liyuea. It's like,
it throws them off. Sometimes it puts a
bit of doubts, you know, in terms of
so many variations. Like, it almost sounds completely
different. Some words change. Some some of that
if you could, if the time permits, we
could,
perhaps explain what the way it are. By
the way, I'm not.
With regards to,
I had Sheikh, Ayman Swayed,
use this mithal, and I normally tend to
use it. And I think it's a very
good one. Right?
Allah
sent these different riyat as a rahma,
as a mercy upon the people.
Let me ask you a question. Right? You
know Egyptians, they have a particular dialect. Mhmm.
Right? The Yemenis, they sound extremely different. Mhmm.
You'll go
to Libya or Morocco,
they sound very different from the Egyptian and
also the Yemenis and the Saudis and the
Kuwaitis. Yeah. Imagine we said that every single
individual
has to sound like the Egyptian.
Me, I don't even consider Egyptians,
to speak the Arabic language. I don't even
think that's that's considered Arabic language, you know.
No offense to the Egyptians, by the way.
But imagine we said everybody has to sound
like the Egyptians.
How difficult that would be. Yep. Does that
make sense? So from the rahmah of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is that He sent down
these different variations,
these different modes in order to make it
easy
on the people.
Someone who's maybe used to doing Imala, right,
you know the the Syrians,
they,
Mala, you know, they Yeah. Look what I
know. The way they stretch your words and
everything. And subhanAllah somebody wayat might even be
more easy on their tongue than maybe house
for example. That's from the rahma of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And only also you used,
tend to use the example of you know
how the Australians they sound very different to
the British.
And the Canadians and the Americans, everyone sounds
very different. Imagine we said,
if you don't sound like the Australians, the
Aussies I just came back from Australia. I
love the accent.
Imagine we said,
your English is not correct unless you sound
like the Aussies. Mhmm.
Don't you think that would be extremely difficult?
Right?
Or if I said you have to sound
like the Liverpudlians,
the English is so different.
So from the rahmah of Allah is that,
you know, he sent out these different ways
of reciting the Book of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala in order to make it easier for
the people. Right? It was all sent down
from Allah, azza wa Jal, so you don't
need to have any doubts upon the Messenger
of Allah alaihi wa sallam, and the Messenger
of Allah alaihi wa sallam conveyed it to
his companions. And there is a chain going
up all the way to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
A chain that is Mutasil, that is connected.
Right? This is one of the blessings of
our religion is that we have chains. Yeah.
Lo lisnad laqalim and sha masha. Right? If
it wasn't for these chains of narration,
everybody would come and say whatever they want
and attribute to the Deen whatever they think,
right? And when you look at the, the
Christians,
isn't this exactly what's happened even when it
comes to the Bible that we have today,
right?
They will struggle to prove it,
to be a
divine
speech, you know, going up to Allah Azza
wa Jal with everything in there. The Quran
that we memorize
from the time of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
all the way up until this time it
hasn't been changed. And if you just look
at it from a logical perspective,
the guy from the other side of the
world,
he sounds exactly the same
as how we read over here in the
UK. Look how Allah preserved the Quran.
Remember, when I was reading in Tarawih al
Siyyah, in Masjid Quba Al Sasta,
some of the elders were kicking off a
little bit. Right? Most of the people, they
were so happy. People were just coming to
the Masjid in order to hear Khalaf and
Hamza, and I was doing Kisai.
But from time to time, I would interchange
into,
Khalifa and Hamza. And they would love it.
Except, of course, some of the elders
are always causing trouble. Right? So, it was
a bit of a struggle there. Right? It
was a bit of a struggle. But it
was maybe 3, 4 uncles.
And you know sometimes when an individual reaches
a certain age to get a message across
to him is extremely, extremely difficult.
And the majority we've got so many people
praying there, coming for the riwa, they're extremely
happy. SubhanAllah,
this brother from France, we let him lead
a couple of times,
and he also started reading with Khalaf and
Hamza, and that made me really happy. So
I grabbed the mic and I said, brothers,
look.
Look how he read and look how I've
been reading. Look how Allah, azza wa, just
preserved the Quran. This brother has come from
a completely different country. And then he's come
now, and I've never gone to that country.
We've never met one another. And
our Qira'at, our, the way we're reading is
is is almost identical, right? So this is
an example that the Quran has been preserved
and
and, it's one of those that we feel
extremely proud about with regards to our religion
and Yeah. And I was trying to get
a message to the elders.
Even then they still didn't. And and it
really makes me happy when I hear the
misha'ah reading with different lyrics because I feel
like this science is so
it's one of those sciences that subhanAllah I
think there needs to be a lot more
awareness about. You know recently there was one
of the assertive here in London. He read
in Walsh. Walsh
is like
compared to Khalif and Hamza, it's much more
well known. Right? And he forgot to inform
the people before the salah. Right? And and
and
some of the people in the salah broke
their prayer and left Hijeed. Because of the
differences in the recitation. Mhmm. And it should
not be the case because sadly, there's there's
there's a lack of awareness about this. I
think the last 4, 5 years in London
has changed a little bit. I think due
to Sheikh Abdul Rashid. I think he's the
one that's really brought it to life over
here in the UK. Right?
And it really adds that beauty to the
Quran in the sense of
Bringing life to knowledge that may have been
deserted
and forgotten about. Yeah. There's a huge reward
in that, you know, doing
Subhana.
And and it's almost like for the as
well, it kind of because sometimes when you,
you know, you memorize the Quran, you're like,
okay. It stops here, but then you realize
you've got 19 other ways to learn it
in subhanallah. It really adds that Yeah. That
subhanallah.
And and And more than that subhanallah. More
than that. Yeah. Exactly. More than that. Yeah.
For the
Yeah. Subhanallah.
Subhanallah. No.
And I and again, it also what it
does is makes the one appreciate Mhmm.
When Allah
says in
the and just as you mentioned. Mhmm.
It's not that preservation is not restricted to
the one of house. There's so many different
preservations and different and
all of which have been preserved. So if
it does boost the iman a lot as
well, I without a shadow of a doubt.
Right. I normally tend to announce it before
the,
before the salah because as you mentioned, caliph
is a lot more red and worship.
Just for the purpose of, you know, giving
life to knowledge and to encourage the huffad
to maybe because what the reason why I
went into qira'at,
I remember I was having this conversation with
your teacher, Eliza Jafazeb. Yeah.
I only went into qira'at in order to
motivate myself to stay on my toes.
I didn't go into qira'at in order to
become a qari sab or anything like that.
Allah, it just keeps me on my toes.
Because what happens is after memorizing the Quran,
and his shaytan get the better of you
all Taraweeh. You know, there's 12 months,
to go before you get to Taraweeh. And
of course, that really shouldn't be the case.
We should be revising the Quran every day.
But I was I was trying to push
myself with my really busy, hectic schedule. I
was looking for an incentive. Mhmm. I
like, Yani, I need a teacher who's constantly
gonna call me, read, and I'm ready to
pay. So I found some of these
Egyptian teachers,
Sheikh Mohammed Fu'ad, and you're now Sheikh Jalal
from Birmingham. Oh, subhanAllah. Yeah. Sheikh. That's my
Sheikh, for Khalaf and Hamza. La la la.
Yeah. That's my Sheikh. I would say Sheikh
Jalal is so underweighted, subhanallah, he's such a
humble person. A really lovely person. Honestly, a
very, very lovely person.
All of my teachers have been amazing.
Right? Even Sheikh Mounfu'ad is really amazing, Ulam
Barik.
But I recently visited Sheikh Jalal and his
etiquettes
in his Masjid. It was really amazing, honestly.
Very very humble as well.
And SubhanAllah.
And I went into a Quran and I'm
just taking my time with it because of
all the other different
sciences that I study.
I'm just trying to do Infiraat
just for the sake of, you know, keeping
that momentum going, staying on top of my
Quran.
Right? You move on to and also when
you when you think about it, when you
go into a different way, why you're going
to be revising that page more than you
would if you were just going through Hafs.
Yeah. True. Right. These sakatat went easy. It
drove me
not sad times, you know? And I thank
Sheikh Jarrah for being extremely patient with me.
From time to time, I drop him a
message and I say, Sheikh, you're very patient
with me.
I thought he was gonna cut me off
because I know there's a huge waiting list
Yeah. For Sheikh Jalal.
It's like, maybe I'm not worthy and maybe,
because I was very busy at a time
when I started with the Muslim in Medina.
I was revising for my master's to get
into the master's program. I had my exams.
I was still finishing off, Al Kisawi with,
Sheikh Mohammed Fuad.
On top of all of my other commitments,
in the jammy a'ina, in the Haram,
this is a question with regards to the
way
that people have. This is,
the question is,
they haven't studied that they were under,
but they've heard the recitation on YouTube,
and they wanna go and leave the salah
after listening to that recitation. And they say
to themselves, I've listened to a recitation from
that Sheikh, and I understand how to do
it. Like, let's say, that
portion. Let's say someone listens that recording and
they go, I got that. Is it a
lot of work for you? And are they
allowed to are they allowed to, is that
something that's, you know, allowed to allowed to
do, or do they have to study the
whole kalat and and get an ijazah in
it?
Layi Yani, do you have to get an
ijazah
in order for you to read the book
of Allah Azar? Even when it comes to
Hafs, I think most people don't actually
have the Ijazah. Right? Yeah.
So would we say now that they can't?
Mhmm.
Right. As long as, of course, you're reading
the recitation properly,
I hope there's no issue with it insha'Allah
ta'ala. That makes sense? Because the same argument
will be brought right when it comes to
Hafs.
Like over there in Morocco,
they're acquainted with Wash. Now he wanted to
read Hafs because he's been listening to it
for years and he's going to get it
right and would there really be an issue?
That makes sense. No. No. No. It does.
But inshaAllahu ta'ala khalaf is a bit complicated.
It is. It's a bit complicated.
And you read to a teacher. Ah, now
it's a little complicated. Yeah.
And get it passed to him first. Yeah.
At least do at least maybe
good
10jus or maybe half the Quran before you.
Start freestyling with it. No. No. No. So
it's hello. So if someone mentions something really
powerful and and really sort of
of some comments like this panel that really
make you think, you know, that they it
was said that if you're saying it differently
way, it is the sun of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And it's like, wow,
that is so true because the person had
to recite it differently way, it also happened
to know. No. I'm sorry. And so by
doing that, you're actually use that in itself
implementing a sunnah, which is really, really useful.
I know, subhanAllah, you're very tight on time,
and we want to really wrap it up
because I know, subhanAllah, you got,
you got to get to, another
Yeah. Let me just quickly check out what
it takes to. That's fine.
We just got
I don't know if you're familiar with Gen.
I don't know how East London is
a
bit
inside.
We usually just finish it off with a
quick fire round. I'm not sure if you're
familiar with the very rapid sort of question
and answer kind of Okay. Style.
Yeah.
I hope you don't mind, inshallah, shayat al
shayat al shayat al shayat al shayat al
shayat al shayat al shayat al shayat al
shayat al shayat al shayat al shayat al
shayat al shayat al shayat al shayat al
shayat al shayat al shayat al shayat al.
Okay. We just this is a quick fire
round.
So Can I ask what food I like
or Then we'll get we'll get to that?
So what is your favorite ayah currently?
My favorite ayah.
That's very, very hard, to be honest.
I think one of my favorite ayat in
the Quran is,
Right?
Hasn't the time come now for them to,
become conscious of Allah
Right? Yeah. To have the reverence of Allah
Who's your favorite Wasata Sheikh?
I really like Sheikha Asadossary.
Mhmm.
Also, Sheik.
That's it.
Right.
Who else do I really like listening to?
Sheikh Jihad, those he's
like. I really, really love the way he
recites. Yeah. Also, I enjoy listening. I know
I know this is gonna surprise a lot
of people,
but I don't know if you guys know
the brother called Abdul Hussein
from Birmingham? No. Abdul Hussein. I'm not familiar
with him, but Yeah. He's a Samani brother,
graduated from the Jannah.
I really enjoy listening to him while I'm
on my travels.
And, Sheikh Mohammed Ayub as well. Mhmm.
And the brother, Abdul Hassan, he sounds like
Sheikh Mohammed Ayussaf as maybe why. Shaa Allah.
Your favorite is Surah Sheikh? Surat Youssef.
I'm doing a tour on it now. And
I think Surat Youssef, the the whole university
tour that I'm currently doing, the theme is
Surat Yusuf. Oh, okay. Yes. Because Surat Yusuf,
a university student can relate to it on
so many different levels. Mhmm. Like people from
different walks of life,
Surat Youssef is,
the Surah for you.
Right. So so relatable, like it's one of
the reasons why I really like Surah Yusuf
is because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not
relieve
Yusuf alaihis salatu wa sallam from his difficulties
and trials and tribulations
by a miracle.
Allah Azza wa jay could have easily split
the prison into half, right, In order
to free him, yeah, in order to bring
him out. Just like Allah azza wa jayr
split the
moon,
right, in the time of the Messenger salallahu
alaihi wasallam.
And just like he split the sea in
order to say Musa alaihi wasallam, perhaps so
that it could be, relatable to every individual.
Yeah. It's powerful.
Yeah. Sheikh, your favorite lidayah?
Akhal Hala. When
I when I first started doing qalun, that
became my favorite. Because after Shorba, I did,
after Assam, I did
Qalun.
And, someone that really, really helped me as
well was, brother Ibrahim. Ibrahim? No.
Was there no way? Yes. No. No. No.
Like, Mehechaikh Mahir Ma'akali. Yeah. Yeah.
I used to read on him kalun, and
I used to practice a lot on him
because he had qalun before me. Yeah.
So, that was my favorite, you know, the
salat to me, Mal Jama. Mhmm. Yeah. That
was the salat to me, Mal Jama. And
then it became Kisai because I love Imalat.
Then Khalaf, it has Imalat, and it has
his takatat as well. Two boxes too. And
I think that's going to remain as my
favorite. Subhanallah.
Right. Yeah.
Yeah. And you've also got the shahtubi and
tayb e t nashat, which shaht sounds different.
It's a different. It's some
Like,
when you when you look at it, it's
very the Khalifa and Hamza is very similar
also to Kisai. Okay. Okay. So it's like
a combination. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah.
It's your
favorite hadith.
Should have sent me all these questions probably
and I would have thought about it. Oh.
Yeah. The hadith that I mentioned in the
in the lecture sorry. In the in the
podcast. Yeah.
You don't leave stone for the sake of
Allah except that Allah will give you that
which is better. Mhmm. That is my favorite
hadith. Yeah. Really, really is.
Right? And you're indeed you're the best of
those who purify.
And Tawari you are your guardian and your
protector.
And also I really really like the Dua
of
Umar Al Khattab
when he would say, Allah marzukhnee shihadatififisabilik
Wajal Muti be buriedar Rasoolik asking Allah for
his al khatim. Right? Oh Allah, grant me
martyrdom.
Right? And, allow me to die,
in the city of your Prophet.
Right? May Allah grant us that.
And also I'll mention the third one.
Alternate of the hearts,
you know Keep our hearts firm.
Upon your obedience, upon your religion.
Just this is another common question that's asked.
Favorite favorite story from the stories of the
prophets who may have touched upon? Yes. Yes.
Which which Yeah. Also the story of Musa'il
al-'sala. Yeah. Which
story from the stories of the Sahaba really
inspires you the most? I
think one of them is
Kabim Malik
Right? It just shows you that
sahaba are human beings at the end of
the day,
right?
In a sense where he made a mistake,
just like we make mistakes, right? And Allah
forgave him.
You know, his Bara'ah came down or like,
should I say the fact that he was
forgiven, came down from the
7 heavens, you know.
And also, SubhanAllah, the
incident
involving Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala in her,
when the allegations filthy allegations were spread about
her and how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala freed
her and from
these allegations.
And I love the it's not this companion,
but the mister salaam,
related the story of the one who killed
a 100.
Mhmm. Yeah. I've got a lecture on it.
I derived 20 benefits from this, this incident,
the story of the one who killed a
100. And the reason why I also really
like it is because it's very relatable.
Right? That's why I was,
giving lectures on it. Yeah. It's on it's
on my YouTube channel, 20 benefits from the
one who killed a 100.
Yeah.
Sheikh, this is another interesting question. Best you're
coming to the end? We've got best live
recitation you've listened to.
Best live recitation that I've listened to?
I think it's in Haram. Mhmm. Haram and
Mekki.
Best country you've traveled to?
I've been saying this quite a lot recently.
Right? Going to Australia,
and I know it's the lands of non
disbelievers, and it's not a Muslim country. Of
course, course, you have Saudi Arabia and whatever
have you, but from a Dua perspective, right,
honestly, it was an amazing experience. Yeah. An
amazing experience. Like, I was really, really shocked
by how many people were turning up to
the programs. Like, just about every misdeed,
it would be ram packed all the way
to the back and wanting to benefit, thirsty
for
knowledge. And the people are amazing. Honestly, it
was one of the
greatest life experiences that I had. It really
taught me a lot,
and it showed me that there is still
a lot of Khair amongst Ummah. Because prior
to me going to Australia, I was reading
a lot of negative things. There are people
of dunya, they're this and they're that, and
probably no one's going to come to the
programs, and
right, the liberals and what have have you,
Ahiman, they showed me that there's so much
khair within people. The fact that they really
wanted to benefit. At times. I remember the
last day before I left Sydney,
they made this last minute announcement that a
program has been organized for a wedding hall.
Because the the Masajid were getting 2 packed
out in the last program. They wanted to
be in
a huge place and it was a 1,000
seats.
I think Yani, it was announced around maybe
10 pm.
And Akhi, the next day it was absolutely
full, SubhanAllah.
So many people came and they really wanted
to benefit you could see on their faces
that they were looking for something.
Yeah. And, of course, Saudi Arabia with that
shadow of a doubt, they were the sweetest
days of my life. To be in Medina,
going back and forth from Makkah and Medina
has so far been the highlight of my
life.
Mhmm.
Sheikh, I think this is a question that
people ask because they wanna know what what
to what to buy when they bring you
to the ISOC event. Favorite cuisine?
SubhanAllah.
Who asked you that? Queen Mary law.
This is, inside. So we're gonna get this
to them.
They're watching us.
I'm a metarian.
I don't know if it's even a word,
or I think Abutima made that word up.
It's a metarian. Metarian. That's a new movement,
man.
No. No. No. No. I was on, honestly,
for having me on. Well, I just cut
you coming down. Blessing us to your presence.
No. I just in between shooting from one
thing to the next, you could have been
is fine. Was gonna lose I was shooting
running,
actually, to love us. Yeah. No. No. No.
I actually got the times completely wrong because
I was planning to spend time with my
mother
because, she lives here. So I I'm from
Lestebay. I come visit her from time to
time. So I completely miscalculated my timings.
But,
but, bakher, you know. And anyway, even she
said, yeah, go. Don't worry. InshaAllah. SubhanAllah. That's
wow. She wants the benefit, you know, to
take place.
Yeah.
That shows a a parent's spell as well
that's visionary and that's spell looking for the
akhil. Allah bless your mother, your parents. Bless
you for giving your time. And Insha'Allah we'll-
Pleasure, it's a pleasure, honesty.
To be sing amongst the Huwatha.
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