Adnan Rashid – Natives Accepting Islam in Philippines.

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			okay as long as they come I am in Philippines right now brothers and sisters and you may be
wondering what am I doing here? I am here for Ira work. I arise in Philippines doing the work of
Dawa. Okay. And today we are attending us Salah camp. We call it Solokha. During Ramadan, we have
been fundraising for Salah camps as you can remember, or maybe you can remember because we were
doing live almost every other night in Ramadan to raise funds for new Muslim support. So there are
people who have accepted Islam like if you look, they're in front of me, right now they are having
lunch. This is an indigenous village. When I say indigenous village you cannot get more indigenous
		

			than this. They live in the traditional way. They have bamboo houses, they make houses from bamboo.
Okay, you can come come come behind me
		

			very simple lifestyle. Very simple homes. The homes are made of bamboo. Okay. These are indigenous
people in Philippines, in central Philippines. Right now we are with them. Many of them have
accepted Islam in this village and we're doing a Salah camp that goes for seven days, right? So they
learn how to pray. They learn the basics of Islam, they learn how to read Fatiha they learn the
basics of the Quran. Okay, so as you can say, Pray with ease workshop. Okay, so that's the poster
there and Ira
		

			these are indigenous people in Philippines and they look slightly different as well from other
Filipinos because they are a different tribe. They are different ethnic group. If you like
		

			homes, they're very basically even the sharpest made of bamboo and straw. Remember the prophets
Allah Salam said, Iris vision is what what is Iris vision? It is based upon a Hadith of the Prophet
Salla Salah, the prophets, Allah some said, Islam will enter every home on the planet, whether that
home is made of mud of grass, or bricks, I'm paraphrasing.
		

			So this is the Hadith of the Prophet that drives Ira work, IRAs work that drives us to come to
places like this to go to places like Latin America go to Egypt can Asia Pacific countries go to
Africa, this is why we are here it is this. So this work is very important. Because I want you to
understand and I want you to realize that if we can do not continue to support each other in this,
okay, this work and stop. That's why we want your support looking at his house is made of straw. And
Islam has entered already in this area, and it will enter into the places with you or without you.
The question is do you want to be part of it? That's the question is a very, very basic village with
		

			basic facilities. I've been told there is no water. There is no water so people can watch they
actually have to go a long way to fetch water for the basic needs. Right? There are no toilets, for
example. Okay.
		

			Even if I mean is that a mustard knife?
		

			We're gonna see.
		

			We're gonna see a small machine. But I want you to understand brothers sisters. Look at look look
how basic the lives are. They are cooking on firewood. Okay, look at the house inside. There is no
furniture. I mean hardly anything plastic furniture, beds, simple beds made of wood. Okay. And this
is central Philippines.
		

			These people are indigenous people.
		

			In fact, I've been told they are the first people of Filipinos.
		

			These are the people who came here first. So we're working with them, they are accepting in large
numbers, and we cannot abandon them. We cannot leave them without support. Hence, the salah camps,
hence the new Muslim support. Hence the follow up if we don't follow up look how simple and basic
these people are. If we don't teach them Islam, there is nothing. There is nothing they don't know
anything. They don't they don't know what to do what to do. So how can people come and give shahada
and walk away? This is not what we do. Our work is entirely focused on follow up. Okay. We call it
new Muslim retention. The new new Muslim support work okay, the called Basic funnel Look at that.
		

			That's a house by the way. Well, maybe.
		

			Is it like a cafe or something? Okay, right. Okay, I know there are people sleeping. I don't want to
disturb them going. Yeah, I've just got the permission to go in.
		

			Don't mean to
		

			It's really nice. Okay. They're very welcoming, hospitable people. Very open. Look, look, this is
the dwelling. This is what they live in. Okay, that's the kitchen. Okay.
		

			Right next to a bamboo tree or a bamboo plant, right? And you can see this
		

			house, if you recall it that mashallah tomato actually is a beautiful place very
		

			soothing to the soul. And it's made of bamboo look, straw roof is made of straw. So we're gonna
thank you. Thank you very much
		

			you may not think that Philippines is like that, but this is Philippines. This is not Africa. This
is not Africa. This is Philippines. There are indigenous people who haven't who haven't received the
message of Islam. They don't know anything about Islam. There are many Filipinos who go to Turkey
who traveled to who traveled to say you can stay back. Okay.
		

			Who traveled to Middle Eastern countries experts to work the many Filipinos you might have seen
1000s upon 1000s of Filipinos working in the Middle Eastern countries. And yet they don't receive
Dawa and possibly not even get positive image of Islam due to all other challenges they may face
right? But here we are in the country to bring the message of Islam to them.
		

			Are we doing Dawa? Or do we hide the local
		

			through the locals, we hire local dots or we train them how to do
		

			this is the machine. This is a machine. Okay? This is how water comes look. It's been filled then
the wooded area operates like that. And this is
		

			using the drinking water.
		

			And and it's leaking guys. Look it's leaking. Yeah. So this is the masjid
		

			recently, and we have a Philippine team here with us on Hamdulillah. And
		

			it's a new Muslim community. It's a new Muslim community, they are just coming up they're
developing, we cannot leave them without support. This is at least for those who accept we have to
be there for them, reach them and continue the work. So those of you watching right now, don't
hesitate to support you can support them to come down here physically yourself. How about your own
expenses, catch flights, if you want to come as volunteers get in touch with Ira Okay, through the
website, okay, register as a volunteer and you can bring yourself there to support these people we
can tell you where these people are you can go and live with them, teach them encourage them that's
		

			one way and in other ways support financially ira.org
		

			You go to the website and you will see the donations link ira.org ie R A D ie r a.org. Okay. Or the
third way you can support it which is the least way make golfers make the half of this work with
golf are all the pioneers with God for all the workers all the brothers and sisters working here in
Philippines on the ground, they are doing an amazing job. So continue to make dua if you can't do
anything else, but most Muslims can do something. Okay. And this is an obligation upon Muslims.
Okay, we were supposed to be doing the centuries ago. We were supposed to be doing this long time
ago. Right? We need to continue Dawa is life thou brings Islam to life. Okay? Where is where there
		

			is no doubt people even the children of the Muslims will leave Islam and this happened in
Philippians by the way, okay, once upon a time this was Muslim territory. The Spanish came in the
16th century colonized the land and then majority of Filipinos today are Catholic. How did that
happen? While this was ruled by so fans, pre 16th century this was Muslim territory ruled by Muslims
for pawns they minted coins. Okay, so, brothers sisters, that's a very short message for me. Just
remember that this work is very important. And we cannot we cannot possibly allow these people to be
without support. We're gonna continue Sharla if you want to be part of it, I've already given you
		

			the options
		

			this is the first time that you have attend