Ebrahim Gabriels – highlighting the importance of Heritage
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The speaker discusses the importance of documenting youth's actions and responsibilities in the context of Islam. They emphasize the need to ensure that children are not forgotten and that children are not forgotten. The speaker also mentions the importance of preserving the dress code and culture in the context of the pandemic and the need for children to be informed about the history of Islam.
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And there are a lot of his family and friends also babara. But
because it was not documented, we've lost it. The school said to
us, okay, we will preserve the kramat. But the others we don't
know about, there's no proof. So they were building on these
grounds because it was not documented. Then Imam abdrahman
Bashir said to us, my dear brothers and sisters, it is
important. This is a lesson for us. Everything must be documented.
So
we've got a beautiful story to tell, and I want to come to the
point of the youth,
you know, if we are not going to tell the story, the beautiful
story, to youth, we might lose our heritage, we might lose our youth,
we might you lose the vibrancy of Islam in this part of the world,
our duty is just to deliver the message. Some days,
children love to hear these beautiful things about their
forefathers. That is the nature of youth. They've got a lot of
energy. So we must make use of the youth. One of the days, my dear
brother and the sisters, we are going to be gone in 50 years. 60
years, most of us will be gone,
and our children will be left over and left behind to carry on the
flag of la ilaha, illallah, Muhammad of Rasulullah, my dear
brother sisters, this is not just another gathering.
It's not a formality, the launching of book and come
together by Islam at Faisal. No, we must take note. You know, like
imamti said yesterday on the on the on the radio, the storm was it
mono. So Allah, Allah, Allah went back to the the drawing board, or
to decide why it was not a kid. Now, we must also go to the
drawing board and say Canis, who come as a super young means and
drug addicts, as drug addicts and gangsterism. And this is such a
lovely community,
and that one of the answers to that is that amofan owns it, a
role of this bill
wata awanu alalibiri, watakawa, imagine Allah says to us, and
Allah doesn't say this to some people in Egypt, in Saudi Arabia,
or in Kuwait, or somewhere in the world, Allah saying to to this
ayah, to each one of us cooperate and help to attain goodness and
morality and piety in your community. Asmaa, man also
responsibility.
This deen is not about Anna, I and I and I about you. This, deen is
about the ummah. This, deen is about humanity. Imagine the NABI
Muhammad. Sallam cried, ya, Rabbi, Ya, Rabbi ummati. Ummati O, my
Creator, my ummah, my ummah. Just
imagine the NABI Muhammad says to us, Allah has given each and every
Nabi a dawah, musta, Java a, a DUA. If that particular Prophet
makes a dua for his ummah, Allah will accept wala adahidu I
Rasulullah says, I have asked Allah to keep my that dua back for
the day of qiyama, so can, so that I can intercede for each and every
individual of my ummah, so they can go to Jannah.
It's not about me. That is why Rasulullah is Habib Allah, the
Most Beloved of Allah. Why? Because? Because of his love and
concern for others.
I'm going to, I'm going to conclude now, and I hope that you
are going to remember this hadith of our beloved, Nabi Muhammad, Abu
Asmaa. It is meant for you and for me. Rasulullah says, hayunas,
unfamiliar vestibus. Rasulullah said the Hadith the best of you
are those who are the best for humanity in the service of
humanity. So may Allah subhana wa bliss gathered in here today, and
may Allah subhana granted so many, so many people looking to benefit
of the writings of Faisal Darius, we make dua for him, for his
father, his mother, his whole family, that Allah subhana was
granted long life inshallah to continue with the good work. And
as you know, my dear brothers and sisters,
I always conclude, really with the concluding words of Rasulullah
sallallahu. Sallam had so much love for us and so much wanted all
of us to enter Jannah. And his last words, he said, assala,
please preserve your Salah, perform your five time Salah. So
that is what we need to do at any given opportunity. As a, as a as a
bookkeeper, as a carpenter, as a dress maker, as a housewife,
everybody, not only the Imams and the Sheikhs, and all of us speak
about it. All of us must speak about the please.
The reason of the Salah, our connection to Allah, subhanaw
taala. So my dear sisters and brothers, if you are you today and
you are still neglectful with the Salah,
make this day a memorable day that you From today onwards, you're not
going to miss one salah, and you're going to be stiff now
salah, and not only you, but you are going to make sure that your
children and all your grandchildren will make Salah
inshaAllah once again, shukran for inviting me to zalka malachilan
wa, sallAllahu, alayhi wa,
I would like just to put a comment there by Chef Gabriel's, you know,
my father and mother, they are quite, you know, in the beautiful
age. And sometimes they would say, when it's around peace, you know,
very cast in the hopakure anahahan. And those are like oral
traditions. And
it was not recorded, so I didn't know about it, and I heard it from
them, but in a few years time, you know, not now or tomorrow, they
will not be there anymore, and we will let go if they didn't
transversion only. So it's good to record stuff, and especially in
now, probably on the internet, because the books also would go
out of will not be in the in modern anymore.
So the next speaker began the researching the history of Muslims
in the strand and obtained his master's degree at the University
of the Western Cape in 2006
the title of this thesis was Islam in the strain 1838 to 1938
he received the senior Lifelong Learning award from the University
in 2009
and the Western Cape provincial arts and culture award in the
heritage category, having published several books on the
subject Islam roots in the Western Cape, the most recent being the
Stand Muslim community 1822, to 1966
Mr. Ibrahim rider, you