Bringing Back Islam to the Phillippines
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Representatives from Christian foundation emphasize the need for individuals to help non-M-thirsty people in the Philippines, especially those suffering from similar struggles. They also ask for immediate solutions to prevent the spread of new Muslims in Sudan and encourage individuals to bring about change and empower their neighbors. The importance of Islam and its obligation to reach non-M-thirsty people is emphasized, along with the need for aid to stop the spread of new Muslims and a donation to support non-M-thirsty people.AI Generated Transcript ©
Brothers and sisters,
23rd
night of Ramadan,
depending on where you are, we will be
hitting Maghrib time very soon and it will
be 23rd
night of the month of Ramadan. May well
be Laylatul Qadr.
And tonight we are raising funds for new
Muslim support
in Philippines. People accept Islam in huge numbers
and then they don't have support. For that
support we need your support. We need your
donations. We need your salakat. We need even
your zakat. This is zakat applicable.
Zakat eligible
23rd night of Ramadan
which is if it's Laylatul Qadr then you're
loaded. We have been joined by our beloved,
our inspiration, Sheikh Green, from all the way
somewhere,
in Midlands.
And
I'm joined
by our beloved,
our veterans,
salahuddin.
And we have
the the lifeline
of our streams.
So Mister Adnan, you came in and he
said, Romeo, Romeo,
what's happening today? You're feeling a lot of
love today. No. That was Quir Bob. Quir
Bob's name is Romeo.
Yeah. Yeah. That's why I was calling him
Romeo. Okay. Did a lot. Yeah. There's a
joke between me and him. You know, every
time I go to Philippines,
I go and buy t shirts. Mhmm. So
he knows he knows he knows what that
joke is about.
Okay. So, Alhamdulillah.
So, brothers and sisters, look, we have come
here to help
you to help us and we are here
to help you to enter Jannah. Okay. We
can do it together. We this is a
joint
effort. We love each other for the sake
of Allah. We have been commanded to love
each other. Okay. Al Muslim Muwakul Muslim.
A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim.
And we feel that this is a this
is a field or this is, this is,
a type of work that is highly neglected
by the Ummah.
Dawah work,
generally speaking,
specifically to non Muslims, it is the most
neglected
obligation. Well, one of the most neglected obligations,
I must say. Right?
There is a lot of money going to
charitable causes like water wells, massages, and orphans.
Beautiful. Great work. But we need to strike
some balance. We need to pay attention
to dawah, to non Muslims. And here we
are, you know, trying to save souls from
jahan. Sheikh Green, I would like you to
come in and then brother Saladin,
you know, tell us bro. I appreciate that,
bro. I think one of the things we
wanna start off with, at least I want
to start off
with, is you know what? What we're doing
here is a ray of sunshine. That's what
it is. It's a ray of sunshine and
hope and brightness,
and it is so aspirational.
We're looking at the world today,
and, you know, I read this. Someone sent
me oh, gosh. I I, you know, I
I'm sure I can remember it, but, you
know, very, very briefly.
Someone sent me a,
you know,
a a a a message
of the shortest Khutva ever. It was, like,
recently delivered by an imam. I don't know
if you have any of you have seen
that. Where he said something along the lines
of, you know,
35,000,
you know, people,
Palestinians
dead, being massacred, blah blah blah.
And this hasn't woken the Omar up. I
don't know what's gonna you know, what's the
point of me saying anything. Hakim al Solla.
That was his Khutba. Yeah. Shaula. And, like,
I can see you can feel the despair,
in in this imam's, you know, in his
Khutba. Like, it's what what's even the point
of talking to you people?
But in reality, yes, it is. It is.
It seems to be hopeless. It seems to
be,
you know, what is wrong with the ummah?
What, you know, why are we letting these
things happen? And, of course, I wanna say
as well,
Palestine is not the only place where horrible
things are happening. You know, horrible things are
happening in Sudan.
Horrible things are happening in Congo.
You know, in Congo, in the last, I
don't know how many years, 6,000,000 people have
just died in the most horrible brutal
Yes. Sort of genocide going on there as
well.
But the thing is, amongst all this doom
and gloom,
you know, there is amazing stuff happening. Alhamdulillah.
You know, we are talking about
13, 15,000
shahadas
every month now. This is what we are
looking at in our era. This is a
beautiful beam of sunshine, a beautiful beam of
positivity
that really things are changing and things are
happening.
And even all of this stuff, brothers and
sisters, in Gaza is waking people up. People
are realizing it's almost like the straw that's
breaking the camel's back. More and more people
are realizing and waking up to the fact
that all of this talk about, you know,
human rights and democracy,
all these type of, you know, international law
and the world community, it's all a load
of lies. They people are realizing it's all
just rubbish, and they're looking around and then
because there's a sort of existential
angst. It's like, well, you know, when your
whole world view just crumbles around and you
think this whole civilization that I put everything
into is actually just a pack of lies.
Guess what? You're gonna start looking around for
alternatives.
Is there any other answers?
And
people looking into Islam. Because they're seeing what
our brothers and sisters are going through, and
they wanna find out about Islam. This is
a beautiful thing. So there is you know,
I I really think that brothers and sisters,
we have to not despair. We shouldn't think
we're not doing anything. We shouldn't think we
can't do anything. But, honestly,
of course, we have to help everybody who
is suffering as much as we can. Yes.
You know, we need to feed people. We
need to,
give them shelter. We need to give them
food, but that's not a long term solution,
brothers and sisters. Is it really? Okay? That
is just a band aid.
But things that are really gonna change, things
that are have the potential to create seismic
shifts
across the world
is Dawa.
That is real solution. That is Now we're
talking about long term solutions. We're talking about
changing the dynamics and the demographics
of societies.
And these things, brothers and sisters,
these can have real positive lasting
effects.
So
brothers and sisters, it's not all doom and
gloom.
Right? So this work, subhanallah, is only happening
because of your contributions,
your donations. This organization, the Iera, has only
been possible because of people like you.
You have been donating month on month, year
after year for 15 years now.
We've been going. And it's for the it's
thanks to the work, especially I have to
say, of people like Adnan,
and people like, Adil, and Saladin with his,
you know, his chat. And, you know, Issa
going there to all these crazy remote locations
where
people have never even heard of Islam. They
don't even heard of the the name Mohammed.
Brothers and sisters, we've got Duarte in over,
what, 36 countries, is it? I I should
know these numbers. Yes. 36 countries, every continent,
we've got Da'is brothers and sisters,
full time, full paid Da'is working on a
beautiful system
that is
actually producing
amazing results. But listen, I wanna say before
I hand it back to you, Adnan. It's
not just about the shahadas brothers and sisters.
Because what is the point if we get
if we get shahadas and then we don't
look after those new Muslims? And that is
why we are appealing to you. Please
help us look after these new Muslims. We
desperately
need to
80% of the time of our du'aat, 80%
of their time
is taken up in looking after new Muslims.
Even subhanallah
Adnan
Mudassar was just messaging me the other day
saying, when do we stop? I I guess,
I don't know when to stop new Muslim
care. There's so many demands, so many needs
they have. When are we gonna draw the
line? Yes. We're giving 80%, but sometimes I
think we even need to give more of
our time and more of our energy, You
know? And the thing is this is the
this is what we're facing brothers and sisters.
We're face facing these issues and challenges that
people are becoming Muslim at such an astronomical
rate.
We just can't keep up with their needs.
But brothers and sisters, we need you to
help us. We need you to help us
to help these people, to help these communities
grow, to help them flourish. And who knows
brothers and sisters how the world is. Right?
Maybe one day in the future,
they will be sending money
to help your kids open a madrasa.
Maybe Africa is the future. You look now
these days, we're sending money to Africa. And
it wasn't so long ago. Let me tell
you something.
When I was in Kenya, I don't know
whenever it was. It was quite a while
ago now. When I was in Kenya,
the brothers were telling me that they can
remember the time
when their their grandfathers,
their fathers, not their grandfathers, but their fathers
used to send money
to orphanages
in Saudi Arabia.
Correct. Absolutely. And if you went
to the Hejaz
if you went to the Hejaz from East
Africa,
they would beg you to marry their daughters
because they were so poor. Yes. Right? And
the people from East Africa were considered wealthy.
Look at that brothers and sisters. The people
in East Africa were sending
money for orphanages and Quran schools in the
Hejaz.
Yes.
Look how things change.
We're seeing here, brothers and sisters, subhanallah,
who knows? Maybe one day we will be,
and it will be our children who are
in need of their help.
Yes.
Well, think about it, my brothers and sisters.
I I know. Think about it. Okay? Because
wouldn't you,
subhanallah, be happy to know that this help
that you sent today
came back to your and your descendants,
How the Muslims are helping and supporting each
other.
This is how we have to think, brothers
and sisters. Who knows where the future is?
Who knows whether Ayno Adnan feels very confident,
even me, that there is a great future
in Africa. It is an untapped continent. It
has so much wealth. It has so much
potential.
The people have they have so much ability.
They are so able. They are so they
there's just it's they really haven't been given
the chance.
And one of the greatest gifts
that any society can have for its growth
and development is actually to be Muslim. Uh-huh.
To have the morals and the guidance
and the, and the paradigms
and the laws from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
These people are open brothers and sisters. Whether
it's Africa or the Philippines, similarly in the
Philippines, the same thing brothers and sisters. The
Philippines used to be a Muslim country.
It used to be a Muslim country,
and people
are coming back to Islam. They were invaded.
The Philippines were subjected to the most brutal
occupation by the Spanish who forcefully
turned people away from Islam.
They made it almost impossible for you to
be a Muslim
and to function in the Philippines.
If you if you are not a Catholic,
you had to have a certain piece of
paper.
It's only when you have that piece of
paper and you're a Catholic, you're allowed to
buy, you're allowed to serve, you're allowed to
pay, you're allowed to have education. They made
it impossible
for you to be anything except a Catholic.
You couldn't live.
This is how they brutally
changed the face of the Philippines except a
full a small few areas. But you know
what, masha'allah, the people there are so open.
The people there are they love god. This
is the thing. Yes.
You know? And my brothers and sisters, they
are coming to Islam in massive numbers, but
we need your help to support
them. And brothers and sisters, listen. When they
become Muslim,
that's not the end of it because they
will give dua. When they become Muslim and
they become firm in their faith, they give
dua to their families. They give doubt to
the people near them. And then
they themselves become du'at, Alhamdulillah. So you're not
just supporting new Muslims, you are supporting future
Da'is inshallah to help the growth and the
spread of Islam. Now we say, calling the
world back to Allah.
Yes. In the Philippines, we are really calling
them back to Allah. They were following Islam.
They left it. We're calling them back. So
brothers and sisters, donate generously. This could be
Allahu Akbar. 3rd night. So any
donation that you give, any act of worship
that you do, it is gonna be the
equivalent of
a 1000 months
like.
Absolutely.
Astronomical
amounts of reward. Absolutely.
No. No. I wanna say one more thing.
I know talked a lot. Please. Please. Please.
I talked a lot. I wanna say one
more thing. I've got a very interesting question.
Mhmm. Yeah. I'm gonna ask you this question.
Yeah? What is better? What has more rewards?
Yeah.
The worship in Leila's Al Qadr
or your fault?
Very good question, Fard. The fault is more
important. Exactly what I said. Exactly
what I said, Your fault.
Yes.
Okay?
Your fault has more reward
because the prophet
that my servant
does not draw close to me,
yeah, with anything
more beloved to me than those things that
I have made an obligation
to call him. Aloha. And then he increases
on those things
and through that I become,
you know, the ears with which he hears,
the mouth in which he speaks, the, you
know, the feet with which he moves. Yeah.
Okay? And if he's to ask me for
anything, I will give it to him. Right?
So there's a bit before this hadith as
well. Whoever
whoever is at war, whoever shows enmity to
a friend of mine, I will be at
war him. That's the beginning of the hadith.
Yeah.
This is in it's this this hadith is
in, I don't know. Say, hey, I'm Muslim.
And I was reading it just the other
day with my boys. So, subhanAllah,
the most beloved deeds to Allah are the
obligatory
deeds.
Now one of the things I was saying
to my boys
was that one of the big problems of
the Muslim Ummah today
is that they have
forgotten
the obligations.
They are spending a lot of time and
energy
on sunnah
and Nawafil
and, you know, building beautiful mosques and praying
lots of,
and memorizing
the whole Quran.
And many things that all of these are
great and virtuous virtuous things, you know, may
we we ask Allah to benefit and bless
the Muslims.
But the problem is what happens when we
are neglecting
Fard?
What happens when we are neglecting
obligations?
This is a very big mistake
that we make.
That is it is really a great ignorance.
And look at the mosque of the prophet
sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
Look at the mosque of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
All it was made, it was just made
of the trunks of palm trees and the
roof was only just made of the leaves
of palm trees.
This is the mosque of the prophet
They said, O Rasoolallah, let us bring some
wood from Lebanon. He said, no. He would
not let them do it. Why? Because they
were poor people. They were needy people. There
was dua to be done. He needed to
just let out people
to go and give dua, to teach Quran,
to teach the new Muslims. This is what
the prophet
he
needed to expend the money on these things.
Building a beautiful masjid is not affirmed.
Those things were farmit. Right? Unfortunately,
we, Muslims, we have neglected things that are
major obligations.
Yes.
And one of those things is dawg. Yes.
One of those things is dawg. This is
a very, very, very big flaw in the
Muslim. And I'm sorry to say, even amongst
the people of knowledge and the you you
find it almost no one seems to understand
this. Right?
Dua is farrud. This call to Islam is
farrud. The spreading of Islam
and inviting the people who are not yet
Muslim is a farrud. If we abandon it
and we leave it. We should only
expect that Allah
will be angry with us.
Yes. People are gonna go and they're gonna
pray taraweeh.
They're gonna pray the sunnah because it's not
far. It is a sunnah, Muwakada
or even
it's a sunnah, but how about the fard
of Dao? Yes.
Absolutely. How about the fards that we are
completely
ignoring?
Brothers and sisters, we have to wake up,
honestly. We the ummah, inshallah, has to wake
up. Absolutely. And to that poor Khatib, who
was so frustrated,
no, we all of us, we need to
revive
the the understanding that we need to follow
these obligatory
things that we have to do.
And the dua
and the inviting people to Islam is one
of them. Anyway, sorry I talked way too
long, Adnan. Thank you so much. Absolutely. What
you're saying is so what you're saying is
so important. You know, wallahi. This is this
is a dilemma. This is this is,
a sad state of affairs
as far as the Omar is concerned. Okay.
All of these things
around the world, these catastrophes
are taking place is because we are not
active in Dawa.
You know, base eventually, it comes back to
Dawa. It comes back to our activism. It
comes back to our
reaching
out the the non Muslim world. Once they
understand us better, once they know what Islam
is about, there will be less there will
be less misconception. There will be less conflict.
There will be less,
you know,
tit for tat kind of situation.
So brothers and sisters, this is why we're
trying to make you understand
that the obligation
of Dawah is the most
neglected
obligation
in Islam today. Or if if not the
most, one of the most, I would say
one of the top five most neglected obligations
in Islam
today is Dua,
reaching out to non Muslims. And when shared
green mentioned it very,
you know, he touched upon it that even
the people of knowledge don't fully appreciate this.
And this is true. This is true. If
you look at most olema,
most,
institutions, most Islamic universities,
how many of them are actually sending out
dua
around the world to give dua to non
Muslims?
Specifically to non Muslims? Very few.
Very, very few.
Well, they just need to simply go to
the, the the link live.aira.org.
The link is there on the screen, brothers
and sisters. You can see it on this
side. There there is the link. Right? Live.era,
dotaira.org.
Live.aira.org.
Or you can alternatively call that number on
the green strip where Sheikh Green can be
seen. Okay. Amazingly,
the strip is green as well. Okay.
03
is it not 03,000? The number is incorrect.
That's the studio number. Studio number. Oh, that's
the studio. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. The blue
number is the donation number. Okay.
03,000, triple 1,
365.
03,000, triple 1365.
Brothers, sisters, wallahi,
I want to announce the good news. The
good news is that anyone who comes forward
and makes the first donation
of the night, you will get the reward
potentially for everyone who follows. Allah, you have
to. Brothers and sisters, I just went on
my phone, and I wanted to donate that
first donation,
but I had no money. Wallahi, I had
no money because I believe in his cause.
I was inspired with what Shaikhin has said,
but brothers and sisters, you can. You have
that money. You have that opportunity.
We want your donation, not yesterday, not tomorrow,
but today. We have a few minutes before
we break our fast, before before we do
something that is pleasing to Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Use this opportunity
to grow closer to him. Just before you
break your fast, we won that 1st generation
£50
to sponsor 1 new Muslim in the Philippines.
Subhanallah.
We are people there who are looking for
Islam. They need Islam. We went to Qatar
and the Qatar World Cup. A lot of
Filipinos were there, and they were accepting Islam
in the big numbers. We keep going to
Philippines, and the dam is growing there. We
need your help and support. We need it
now. Isn't that right, Saladin?
Yes.
Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, when it comes to
the work that we're doing,
all across the world, we need to understand
that, you know, when sheikh Green was talking
about the responsibility
of of dua
and the opportunity,
Ira is leading the way now.
We are across
6 continents,
you know, over 30 countries. We have
you know, hundreds of duat across the world.
You know, the one of the reasons we
focused on the Philippines because they are so
receptive
to Islam. Number 1, they were Muslims in
the past. Imagine that was a Muslim nation.
The Christians came there.
And basically
now, you know, they make up 90% of
the population in the Philippines. But the good
news is the good news for you is
we have teams out there. And when we
share the message of, people
are embracing Islam
in the 100, in the villages.
10 more minutes before you break out. We
need a donation.
Yes. We need that donation. Please brothers and
sisters wake up. Right time. Right time to
wake up right now. This is the time
when Allah accepts Allah. We
got the 5th 100 pound to a new
Muslim. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. We need more.
We need more. Allahu Akbar. Allahu
Akbar. That's the first donation that came in.
May Allah bless you whoever you are. Me.
May Allah accept from you. And you have
started the process
of the night. Brothers and sisters, we have
to hit our target tonight. No matter what,
we have a long night ahead, and we
want to hit the target. You can One
of you can make a donation of £10,000
or one of you can make a donation
of £5,000.
donation of a £1,000. Okay.
donation of a £1,000. Okay.