The Defenders – The Characteristics of The Caller

Hello, my name, Mottola here Baraka, two brothers,

and sisters and friends. I pray you all well, and welcome to today's live stream, the defendants live stream the characteristics of the caller. So as you know, during these live streams in sha Allah, we're going to be focusing around the topic which is the characteristics of the dogs, the characteristics of the preacher, the characteristics of the color, the characteristics of the one who shared a song with HCA with hikma, Raha and Hassan with wisdom

and with good and with goodness. And we have with us today Dr. Ismail Latif. And we have our beloved brother use of ponders our lighthouse mentoring manager Alhamdulillah. And we're going to be talking about the characteristic characteristics of the DA we have a new full blown course on this issue. We also have

a book written by Dr. Usman Latif and in between us discussing about this very important important topic, we're going to be asking for money Alhamdulillah and it's a good thing to do. Do you know why? Because sapiens is much needed in today's world Alhamdulillah brothers and sisters, it's been around for years, and we have managed by the grace and mercy of Allah subhanho wa taala. To have touched mood and inspired millions of people. Specifically, we have trained over 40,000 people, we have the leading learning platform in the English language dedicated in inspiring you and empowering you and giving you the knowledge to actually share Islam academically and intellectually. I

challenge anyone on planet Earth to find a similar platform. I'm not saying this out of some kind of pride or arrogance, I'm saying just merely out of fact, and merely of the fact that you have to support this great work and it's all free. By the way, we have over 10,000 students on the learning platform and we have courses concerning atheism, nihilism, how to debate and discuss advanced our training how to do Shubha, destructive doubts, Christology, human civilization, history, and so much more than we produced around 16 books, my dear brothers and sisters, the characteristics of the Duat, divine perfection on being human, the berghahn, Islam and nihilism, and so much more. And

these are dedicated to touch, move and empower you.

So you could share with some academically and intellectually anything is they've been translated in many languages. And my dear brothers and sisters, we have Lighthouse monitoring service that gives free one hour mentoring to new Muslims, ex Muslims, Muslims who Shabbat destructive doubts and to Messiah scholars, imams, teachers, parents to be able to make an impact in the tower. When you put this all together, it is phenomenal. There is nothing that exists that that is like Sapiens Institute. And again, I'm not saying this out of arrogance, may Allah protect us and me, I'm saying it out of fact, we have filled a necessary gap in the tower. And yes, there going to be some

overlaps with other great organizations, may Allah bless them as well. And please don't pick to them as well. But it's very important to understand that we're filling an important gap in the data and we want to double our efforts. And all we're asking for brothers and sisters is only 2000 of you, 2000 defenders to provide us to give us 10 pounds per month. That's two and a half lattes a month for this great work that we're giving out for free. We're accessing millions of people we're touching, moving and empowering. 1000s we're creating a new generation of dads who are able to share Islam academically, intellectually and defend Islam academically and intellectually was 10 pounds a

month is about 35 pence a day. Imagine that. And Wallahi every time you're given sadaqa I know you have never regretted in giving sadaqa and that is the nature of Sadiq Khan the nature of Baraka is the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said sadaqa does not diminish your wealth does not decrease your wealth. So my dear brothers and sisters, tonight, our target for tonight is just 60 of you 60 defenders, that's all we're asking for 60 defenders to give us 10 pounds per month, and I hope we're not going to stop until we get the full 60 In sha Allah. Last time we did a great job. But we still need more. We want to have longevity. We're not asking for hundreds of 1000s of pounds. In one go.

We're asking for group of defenders to support and maintain our services support and maintain the current work that we're doing. And also to take it to the next level. We aim to double our efforts Inshallah, by training 100,000 People imagine these 100,000 people they got just to shahada as a year

Just to shahada up sharing the reward of 200,000 shareholders. And not only this, remember, our work involves in empowering individuals and organizations. We help develop organizations, we empower them, we train them, and you begin to share in all of their work as well. I would argue that the access of people that we have from an impact and our perspective, perspective is in the 10s of millions because of the way that we strategize with not only deal with individuals, but we actually touch moving and empower and become an engine for organizations all around the world. For example, I flew to Riyadh just a few months ago, help develop an organization to establish the vision, the

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And you can see is growing at the bottom, my dear brothers and sisters now, before we ask for more money again, I want Dr. Grossman Latif, to talk to me about the book that we have for free that you could download on our website, Steve King's Institute org for such books is called the characteristics of the dots. And I want Dr. Usman Atif to summarize it for us on why it's extremely important for you to add and people who are aspiring to give dower to read and study the book Bismillah

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examines the law Allah, I pray all of you are well and making good use of the time that we have in the month of Ramadan May Allah make this a month time of transformation for all of us. As Muslims, Hamza, you mentioned a very important word that is the word longevity, I would add to it. Two words, one accessibility, one inclusivity. One of the focus areas of Sapiens of course is to make our works accessible for people. So I wrote the book, therefore, the risk of the color to Islam, the Duat because we wanted people to understand that that was not just a disseminating of information, it is a self transformation at the same time. That means that when we're giving Dawa, we want to improve

our own state at the same time and ensure that we're capitalizing maximizing the Quranic potential here. So remember, of course, one of the chronic one of the Sapiens outlooks is to make our work Quran centric and Accra centric. So I focus therefore the book on seven key characteristics and embedded when they're in them, or other important ones as well. The seven I focus on our number one, taqwa righteousness. Remember, of course, that Ramadan fasting is the Allah content concept as you will attain to taqwa and so ingraining within us a spirit, a culture and attitude, a practice of Taqwa. And also as is very key. It's like the advice the Prophet gave to his companion. Why the

banjo Bell, when he sent him to Yemen to call Chris to Islam. He says why the majority says, for Allah, wherever you are, that's have Taqwa of Allah, wherever you are. So he was telling me that you're going to a new landscape to giving Dawa to new people to Christians, but ensure you have within you that capital of Taqwa within you all the time and there are many examples I go through my book, what makes in fact I think the book quite unique. In this sense, may Allah may Allah accept it as an intro for all of us is that it has number number one that the kind of theory behind the characteristic, the middle section which is on how to obtain that quality, so like steps towards

Taqwa for example. And number three case studies on what might go right what goes wrong in that hour, and think we can learn from and then number two is going to be lost sincerity. Number three is hikma wisdom. Four is courage in our And number five is, is empathy and, and and kindness. And number seven, I think I missed one and along the way the one of them

Yeah, wisdom, taqwa sincerity, and courage, and empathy, kindness and goodness of character. So, all of these have a knowledge of course, knowledge is a key one. So all of these combined, of course, make it so that the person involving in Dawa is doing it with with the right knowledge, right frame of mind. And, and at the end of the day, ensuring ensure by Allah's permission, that he himself or she herself, transforms as a result of giving Dawa within the seven are others like Helen forbearance and Sabra patients. So therefore, the book is accessible as a key word. So we have longevity of the work of Sapiens, but we want to make our work accessible for people before the book

is available free as an ebook on our website, and also want to have inclusivity so we want we want you to be part of the work that's the whole fun of the whole point to make, to make the work of Sapiens not just limited to some people, but everybody shares a reward a

Part of the one that today earlier today I had a mentoring session with somebody in America. And he wanted information about how to give Dawa and what to do with the atheism and this and that. And I kind of I should have, we have courses and books on these topics free. And his whole plan was to access the courses, access to books, and then do an exam at the end of it, and then teach his own community about these things when it comes to mentioned before the scale of reward. impeaching promulgating, and learning is phenomenal. So that's kind of that's the focus of the work this book that I've written, published last year at sapiens.

Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah, Dr. czaka, not only have you written, the characteristics of the art you have written on being human, you have written divine perfection, and you're currently writing the comprehensive dowel manual. We haven't named it yet. But it's going to be a comprehensive down menu, I believe this is the thing that is going to be one of the most stones in contemporary dower like, you know, in the Islamic tradition, everyone knows about, for example, actually, that the heavier and that has transcended, you know, the years, right, everyone throughout the ages has been studying that book and going through an explanation. I really believe this book, My dear doctor is

going to be one of those books as well. And also, we are writing, Mohammed hijab is putting together writing the London year as a manual as well, the whole London year program that he developed, and he taught that's going to be in a book as well, that's gonna be another one of those milestones, the thing that transcends our lifetime, and I argue that if all we did was those two books as Sapiens, than 100, I think, you know, coming to Allah on the Day of Judgment, if we had a class, then inshallah maybe a lower end developers in his mercy. So and I'm not saying that out of some kind of, you know, self imposed delusion. But I'm saying it from the point of view that I really believe in

this work and really believe in the books. So brothers and sisters, you know, we're going to unpack some of the characteristics during this live, we're going to be asking as well, a beloved brother use of ponders to talk to us about how important empathy is when it comes to Lighthouse mentoring, which is a key characteristic of the dogs. We're going to be asking Dr. Samantha to the importance of courage and wisdom, hikma when it comes to the characters of the dog, but for now, remember, is the month of Ramadan, the month of Quran, the month of sadaqa, you know, let's not perish with our own hands, right? As Allah says in the Quran, let's not be the cause of our own destruction, we need

to support the causes that are defending Islam. And we consider ourselves the middle between the protectors, if you like the front of the intellectual frontiers of Islam. And, as Sapiens Institute, our focus is to empower and develop and train individuals and organizations to be able to share some academically and intellectually because our vision, my dear brothers and sisters is what our vision is a world convinced of Islam. And just under four years, we've trained over 40,000 people, we publish 16, free books, all of this could be part of your sadaqa era, you could share in this reward, and it's a much needed, endeavor, much needed endeavor, I want you to think about three

organizations, English speaking organizations, organizations that do the work that Sapiens does, it's very hard to find very hard to find. And that's why we need more of these organizations, we need to support them. And we shouldn't be the cause of our own destruction. Meaning we should take this other can be strategic with it and support organizations that are much needed. Because the type of work that we do has massive influence, we train dots, we train other organizations. So when you see organizations doing great work, we're most likely to be the engine behind that or to have a part to play. We won't say it's us, because that's not our strategy won't put our logo everywhere. We

don't have a capitalistic marketing strategy for sure. But we do. I flew to Riyadh just a few months ago. To do that. We develop the visionaries where we got different organizations together, develop it and Allah centric and offer a centric vision for themselves and a strategy for success. We did this in Turkey, we did this in Pakistan. And we're going to be doing it all around the world. And hopefully, we're going to be doing it in South Africa as well. So the point here is my dear brothers and sisters, if you want to get the reward of 1000s of individuals have been trained to share Islam and defend Islam academically, and intellectually and hundreds of organizations, then your sadaqa

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And we have our finger on the pulse. What I mean by that what happened in Gaza, the genocide in Gaza, we were the only English speaking organization within seven weeks of the conflict to have produced or two books. And then after that, we produce the course by Dr. Dr. smaler. Typical, dehumanized and we produce two Oh,

audiobooks, engage in debates, and we will on media platforms accessing millions of people. We need to support these type of organizations that actually defended some academics and intellectually end the Islamic causes. Remember, ideas of bulletproof ideas are humanitarian proof, right? humanitarian efforts are not going to stop bad ideas. Bullets are not going to stop bad ideas, only better ideas, good ideas, stop bad ideas, and the ideologues of designers and the liberals and so on and so forth. They know this. That's why they fund their own think tanks, their student groups, and there are hundreds if not 1000s of them. But we have one or two organizations that Sapiens, we are destroying

ourselves because we're not supporting such great work. So brothers and sisters, if you envisage a world that's convinced of Islam, and you believe that following the prophetic method of empowering others, and developing others is the way forward like what we tried to do, we've trained over 40,000 people in the past just under four years, then please be one of the defenders we need to sustain our work and to take it to the next level. We're just asking for 2000 defenders to give us 10 pounds per month and in this live stream, we're just looking for 60 Brothers and sisters. We just need 60 defenders to give us just

10 pounds per month per month. So please go to the link in the description below my dear brothers and sisters and donate generously. Let me just check how many of you have done it so far? I've only been around for 15 minutes on this slide. So we've had one so far. handler one, one out of 60

I think he may have accidentally closed his browser. But do you I can look so far? I think so.

But yeah, so so far brothers and sisters, we've got one defender mashallah for the Hamza is back. Sorry, sorry, I press the backspace. I do apologize the back thing. Yes. So 101 Brilliant. That's perfect. So my dear brothers and sisters, let's have the next two three and four. Before we ask for the use of deep questions about the characters of the characteristics of the dot and deep questions to talk to this man. The TIF is just 10 pounds worth brothers and sisters. That is two lattes a day, two and a half lattes a day. If that 35 pence a day for such great, amazing work My dear brothers and sisters, everything we do is free, free books that are detailed in depth well written free

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organizations that have been developed and supported by us. Support the engine behind the Dharma Dear brothers and sisters support this courageous and very important work that deals with influential ideas, because the power of ideas are very strong. And we know this. If we learn anything about the genocide in Gaza, the ideas are so powerful they can kill. But where is the Islamic organizations fighting Zionism from an intellectual perspective? Yes, there are many layers of the doubt there's many things we need to do. But where is that intellectual stance? because ideas are bulletproof. Ideas are humanitarian proof meaning no matter how much you feed someone, it may

not change the ideas, no matter how much you you know, you try and threaten someone you're not going to kill an idea you can only kill an idea with better ideas and the best ideas the ideas of Allah, the ideas of the Quran, as Allah says in the Quran about a good word, which essentially means La ilaha illAllah. A good word is like a tree with deep roots and is tall it has perpetual fruits, and a bad word is an uprooted tree, and it doesn't bear any fruit. This is what we're doing brothers and sisters is intellectual warfare from that perspective.

To join the frontline get the massive reward, which is considered one of the greatest forms of jihad, as Allah says in surah Al for the con, chapter 25 Verse 52, he says to the person Salah Mala says to the person salaam, to not to yield to those who reject the truth, but do jihad be he wouldn't be he wouldn't the Quran, Jihad and Kabira a great striving. Now this is not taking the Quran and hitting someone with it. Of course not. It is what the Redeemer considered the most superior form of jihad, which was using the arguments of the Quran, engaging with people, even husband and the Lucien scholar, whose words were well respected across the different muda hub and

the schools of Crete. What did he say? He said, This is the highest form, and he analyzed the Life The Process salaam, and said this is one of the highest forms of struggle. So this is the stuff that we're dealing with one of the greatest acts of worship, support us brothers and sisters, go to the link in the description below.

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and just donate 10 pounds a month, 35 pence a day as two and a half lattes, my dear brothers and sisters. And the great work that we're going to be doing in the next couple of months is just absolutely amazing. My dear brothers, this is something we're going to be talking about in a few moments. Hamdulillah we have another another defender Allahu Akbar Hamdulillah. So we're building up so use of your the lighthouse mentoring manager. We try and follow, Inshallah, the principles that have been expressed in the book doctors, manatees book, the characteristics of the dog, let me just pick one of them. One of them is empathy. And obviously, you the law has mentioned managing to do

most of the mentoring for us. How important is empathy in Dawa and in mentoring?

Yeah, it's very important. When you're talking to people, they need to at least feel to some degree that you understand they're going through something.

And then not necessarily just there to mess about you do get the odd one, who is a bit of a

to describe it Plunker from time to time.

But handle it most of the time, like, people just require a little bit of empathy, they're going through certain things, they're a bit confused or a bit lost. They don't feel like they can approach their own community. Because whenever they have done,

it's often met with a bit of hostility, or they've just not had the courage to be able to confront people in their community and ask them the questions that they've got. Half of the time, it's just a misconception of the like, what a shovel hat is. And a lot of the time people just have questions. Or worse, worse, and they don't necessarily even believe the thoughts that are popping into their head. But the fact that it's present in some way, has caused them to panic. And just obviously familiarizing yourself with what people are like when they're dealing with these kind of things, helps you to have a bit more empathy for them, and just understand, they're just going through a

blip. And nine times out of 10 people get out of the blip, just by having a simple conversation with someone who's familiar with the questions that they've got. Others had this conversation 50 times already. So yeah, I would say like, among obviously all the other qualities of empathy is definitely a very important one.

Okay, so Dr. Osman maybe he gives some examples of prophetic empathy. I know you've not only have you written it, written it in the in the characteristics of the dots, but you wrote it in the amazing book on being human, which people can find on our website as well. And they could download it for free. Maybe give us some examples of prophetic empathy and its importance in that hour.

I will just before just before I say that, the importance of empathy, I want to remind all of us that, you know, in the Battle of 100, which was a very difficult battle, in a time of the run Salem, the Sahaba, were kind of you know, we're facing a barrage of hypocrisy from tribes of Medina, also Medina, because they broke treaties with the word Salam. And the Jews, of course, betrayed them, because they promised to go after Medina, the Sahaba, then went to high bar in Haber, they were encountering this amazing field of so much wealth, and wealth and luscious palm trees and, and produce and all of that stuff. And they were amazed by all of that wealth, and all of that kind of

wealth, prosperity. And then the Prophet told them something really powerful. He said that for Allah to guide, one person, you know, from your hand is better for you than the red camels. And this became a very important instruction, particularly that time. Why because Sahaba were amazed by all this wealth that they're seeing. And the prophet is changing their focus by saying

But for Allah to guide, one person through your hand is better than all of this, and all the red camels and that's like the main, like possession someone to have at that time, red camel, because red camels could give birth to new camels and new camel and it's kind of ongoing, ongoing reward. And therefore that's the work of Sapiens that whatever you participate in today, it's ongoing, ongoing, never ending and Charla reward. And that's that I wanted to mention that before I before I forget the point. So empathy, of course, is key. It's a, I wrote a book on being human How is some addresses uttering empathy and dehumanization, some years ago, and it's published, and it's a free

download on Sapiens, as well as a course free course, on free will. And I mentioned activity because we want people to be access to have accessibility, and not to say that we will charge for something, because then they can be to say, therefore, that it was it was free and accessible for them. And therefore that says, providing ease for them. In the province time, of course, he's dealing with a complex mesh of all people in society and that society. So in mentoring, we've kind of mentor has mentals of a good gauge people like from all across the world. Today, I had someone from America and other week from Kashmir and from India and from Europe and all over the world. And that's human

society. In a macro sense. We're all coming from a perspective and think of us as accomplishments of all people. Everybody has a difference in them everybody is different. Everybody is wired a bit differently. And so in the prophets time there were people like a man who came young person and he says uracil Allah is the only bit Zina allow me to commit fornication, very famous Hadith. And Sahaba. They were angry, there's how could you? How could you ask that question? To the Prophet himself was so disrespectful? And the Prophet says, Don't Don't leave him be. And the prophet that says to him, to him only omic? Would you like someone? Do that to your mother? Would you like that

done to your mother by somebody? And the man was kind of shocked to know when Allah, I wouldn't like that at all, anybody to do that to my mother? And then the Prophet says, what a nice and neither would the people love that for their mothers? And then these would you like to have for your sister, no, by Allah, the night or the people like if assistant would like a prayer for your daughter? No, but Allah knows what's going on through the family members, the female members or family, and therefore the man was kind of, you know, taken aback the Prophet and put his hand on the man's chest, it's hard as Allah monk for the Denbigh, who, Oh ALLAH forgive this person sins, and cleanse

his heart and purify his private parts. And when the man said, Adam had a problem ever again, after that day, so this is an example of prophetic empathy. The Prophet knew where the man was coming from, and the prophets should toward him, through having empathic consideration for other people, meaning you wouldn't want people to act like that towards your family, why would you want to do the same thing for other people's families. So this is one example. There's many examples. There's a famous example, which are anybody my book on human,

have a woman who was had some mental problems. And the end she came in, she's yours, Allah, you either need

to fulfill for me, but before she even before the movie, even spoke, he says to her, yet on philon, oh, the mother of so and so. And there is a profound point here deserves reflection, because the Prophet is, is showing this, this was person has has social importance. There are dependents on her meaning she has kids who depend on her. And the Prophet was showing, therefore, that she's already somebody important. And then the Prophet says, Choose which road you want to stand on, and I will hear you out. And then the Prophet gave her power of choice. All of these are reflections of human empathy. Likewise, we know that prophets were also with those on the margins of humans designed not

only with those who are wealthy, but also on those on the fringes like Jollibee, like Zaha, for example. Like people who were like, we're not we're social outcasts in this respect. And so in giving dower therefore, Empathy means that we interact with people with appreciation of their context of their background of their abilities, disabilities, all of these things should frame our understanding of the worthiness of the human being in the frame. That's a key thing I discuss in my book, and particularly the beginning of the characteristics book and also on being human as well, by the fact that we should see people as human beings in giving power to them not as robots, but as

machines, but in fact as as complex people. And that's very profound for that's one of the things I spoke about. My topic on empathy

is aka her doctor. And it reminds me of something that I read from your other book on being human that's been published by sapiens. And from there, we just got the we got

The typeset version done about a week ago, which will now put it for print on Amazon as well.

And

it was the story of Fidella urban mayor.

Mayor was someone who nominally became Muslim, and he was circumambulating, the Kaaba. But he wanted to kill the process, tell them right. And as a son of notice something, and he said to him, what you saying to yourself, and Fidella Mayer was basically kind of hesitant in the presence on and put his hand on his heart, he had asked Allah to forgive you. And then after that moment for the Laban, omerta says that no one was more after this moment, no one was more beloved to me than the prophets, Allah, Allahu Allah He was.

So the prophetic way of dealing with people through his linguistic utterances, and his body language, is absolutely profound to the point where, you know, that famous sahabi, he felt that he was the most beloved to the province of the salam. And then when he asked him whose most beloved, there was a whole list of other Sahaba in front of him. Now, imagine that imagine being with someone, and that person makes you feel, not that you're only you know, good friends, but you are the most beloved to them, you're the center of the universe. And that can only happen if you have a sense of empathy. And you have this kind of intentional directedness to people where the way you

talk, and your body language is really committed to their well being. And that is prophetic. And you see that in all the different nuances in the prophetic life. And it's absolutely phenomenal. And this is something that the characteristics of the dog book talks about is having their own being talks about as well. So brothers and sisters, if you want more of these books, if you want more of these detailed books are by the way, even scholars and students of knowledge, access our material in order for them to learn how to use a particular language and use a particular argument in a way that can touch move in and inspire people. And given our learning platform, we have scholars who are

actually dealing with our work and engaging with our work, I'm not going to mention their names, but there were scholars going through the London year program as well. Alhamdulillah. As I said, we want to be an engine, behind the dour. We develop 1000s of people around the world. And we develop numerous organizations that we support numerous organizations, because our vision is a world convinced of Islam. And we aim to achieve this through empowering individuals and organizations to achieve this to to get you and the organizations and the individuals to share Islam and defend Islam academically and intellectually. It's such a noble cause brothers and sisters, because if you really

think about it, we're even ideological world and we need to be strategic thinkers, we need to revive the Prophetic practice of strategic thinking, we need to have an entity that actually protects the intellectual frontiers of Islam and defends the intellectual frontiers of Islam, and deals with super hot and also trains people how to deal with super hot and how to give dower in this ideological space that we're living in. And it's very important because if you look at the Pew Research in America, in 2017,

they concluded that the number of Muslims that become Muslim in America is around the same as the number of Muslims who leave Islam. And the reason that's the case is because we live in an ideological world and ideologies want to promote and protect the ideas. And we have a responsibility in my dear brothers and sisters to deal with the ideological space. So we prevent those people from hemorrhaging away from Islam. And we actually preserve the Imam of Eman of the Muslims. And we actually preserve the Imam of new Muslims because we live in this idyllic space and we need to deal with those ideas directly. You know, Subhan, Allah, when Allah loves him, well, Lila was in oxen,

Bella, honestly, even if it was just we had mentoring and nothing else. If that was all that works out with all the tables, Isabel, I mean, that's enough. That's sufficient. Because remember that mentoring, a lot of this is like people who feel so alienated and unable to communicate their problems with like the, say, their parents or their Imam because they feel embarrassed. And it provides kind of a private space one to one,

giving them a chance to speak about their problems, and Subhanallah sometimes their problems are like, they want to speak about, like, you know, like doubts that they have in Islam or things they read, whatever, and just to have that private space, and that one one free of charge, meaning no, no biases, no kind of, you know, everything free of charge. It's a profound thing. Subhan Allah but of course, sapiens is much more than that. But that's one of the big things that Sapiens has to offer. So therefore, by supporting this way

At just 10 pounds a month, I mean, that's just two pound 50 a week. It's a it's a, it's a small sum for a great reward.

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straightforward road no traffic hamdulillah so going quite quick but yeah mashallah I was listening in when I was coming in. So I wanted to be a part of it and they realized I was missing out as

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missing. In most cases, we see a lot of doubt, we see a lot of activities. But sometimes what we see missing in some of these activities is that that character that one should have when they especially involved in Dawa, I want to go back to Dr. Smile inshallah and get your thoughts on this doctors mind, Inshallah, you know, the characteristics, the way you carry yourself, the way you behave, your mannerisms, in the Tao, all of these things are crucial, you know, and as much as you know, it is what you say, it's how you say it. And that normally affects the person you're speaking to, on a on a deeper level as well, because, you know, they always say, people don't really remember what you've

said, but they remember how you made them feel. So how important is the characteristics of someone carrying the message?

It's, it's crucial, like you said, it's about, you know, how you say something, and, and how you do something. So the key fear of the, of the, of the animal, and of the coal, the wholeness of the action and of the speech, and that really was instrumental in the way the Prophet of Allah taught his companions because he sent them out to different landscapes. Like for example, I mentioned before, the the one of why the bingeable, the word companion, and probably Saddam to Yemen, to call the Christians to Islam. And it's a very dramatic Hadith the prophet is, it's very dramatic. It's very beautiful. I mean, it will make you cry, honestly. Because why they're saying that the prophet

is going with him as leaving Medina. And he's saying, you know, like, you know, yes, sir. Oh, well, at 200 We're sure our tuna Farah make things easy to make things hard for them, give them good news, and run away from you. And he says to why them enjoyable, you know, confer Allah wherever you are. And the follow up the baddie with a good one It wipes away and will Harlequin as before you can Hassan and show excellent character to people. In fact, in the narration, it says that mod says that the last advice Roberta gave me, when I put my foot on the saddle was make your character beautiful, or madam Jabba. Therefore, you find a very holistic understanding of of Dawa, not just saying the

right words and call them to Allah if they accepted and pray five times if they accept, and so on and so forth. But what if you're saying beautiful words, but your character is rotten, then it will compromise the effectiveness of your of your words. So therefore, to ensure that you're saying the right words, but your character is also key. So in the verse in the Quran, when Allah says that, who is better in speech, then he calls to Allah, and does good actions and says, I'm on the Muslim so we find the verbalizing, we find the actualizing as well, the doing the good deeds as an accompaniment, of of one speech. So therefore, saying the right words is beautiful, but then doing the reaction

because people are, in fact are observing you, and how you behave and what you do. This is really why the prophets example is so paramount because people were amazed by the prophetic character, and how he carried himself and that was like enough. But our once there was a man, and I discuss this hadith in my book on being human, where the man urinated in the masjid, for example, or the elderly man. And so how about like, you're angry? How dare you? And the Prophet came, and he says, leave the man let him finish. And the man finished and the Prophet walks on water, clean up the whole space. Then the Prophet addressing companions, all of them and he says that this is a place of Allah, what

Allah's worship. We don't do these things in this place. And the man that man whenever back in the row of Muslims in the prayer, he says, I testify, he indeed is missing of Allah because he never abused me, nor did he cast me. So the way the Prophet told me the wisdom, understanding, and empathy, kindness and good character. All of these were very effective in transforming people, hearts and minds towards Islam. So therefore, the book outlines these different features of a person's righteousness to ensure that we're not just kind of giving Dawa, but we're trying to improve one's own internal state, through giving Dawa. That's that Sahaba I mean, that's how the

Prophet told us companions that you want to call them to Islam, but you want to improve your own state. Many Dawa is an act of worship. So you want the worship to improve you, at the same time as transforming life for somebody else. And so all of these features, I mean, all of them like empathy, empathy, kindness, and

character are all profound elements of how we would give Dawa and sometimes like you mentioned, the character is enough to transform somebody and somebody could speak very little, or be very, not very good at speaking, but his character, you know, once the people of Nigeria, these were Christians came to Medina and I said, send us someone who is truthful, a truthful person they could have asked for like a knowledgeable person or the bravest person they said sense of someone who is truthful, and the promises I will send you someone who is truthful, how come in her coming in like truly truthful, truly truthful, sob I was thinking that maybe or send me an appropriate sent a verbatim

Euro. And he said that is every nation has a trustworthy one, truthful one, and our one is a verbatim Jehovah. So sometimes, the truthfulness, the good integrity of a person's character, is sufficient to draw people towards Islam. It's like when you had these travelers, who went as traders like to the south parts of India, or in Mali, in Africa, and this is when it's just true as traders, but when people saw they're not lying, they're not stealing. They're not bribing. They're not like ripping people off the truthful, that was sufficient to convince them of the scrutiny. Some that therefore led to conversations, I let people embracing a subsidy for we don't undermine the very

great importance of upholding a spirit of integrity of good character of moral virtue in giving Dawa.

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Yes, Zakah Hebron May Allah bless you. So use of how has your day been today?

Have hamdulillah it's very,

very sleepy. Yeah, I know what you sound like up and like, like five loaves of bread and you just digesting one of these carbs.

So yeah, hopefully I have some sushi and then I had some soup, and then I had some chicken. Whoa. Mashallah. Mashallah, all that? Having coffee? Is? It's pretty in that comatose state. Yeah. Hamdulillah. But how do they anyway? Yeah. hamdulillah humbler, making progress, slowly, slowly catch the monkey Waitwait.

So, let's, let's, let's get some energy. I want you to give a great example of one of your mentoring sessions where you had to apply one of the characteristics other than empathy, because you already spoken about that. Like maybe hikma maybe wisdom, and how it proved to be quite fruitful. Yeah, how about patients?

Some good ones patients. So there's been a few people where you've really had to, like, dig in with them, and unpack a lot and maybe have a few different meetings. There was a really, really good one, quite recently.

It was a brother in Manchester.

And

well, no, he was from London. But his sister lived in Manchester and he came up to Manchester to see me.

And I went to his sister's house to meet him. And we sat down we had this huge conversation, he'd basically gone off the rails, he updated become a monitored, and he was doubling about in every other religion, and he was floating around, he was a Christian for one minute. And then it was some pagan African religion another minute, and they didn't know what they were, where he was going. And we would just read, like we spent hours talking. And we were really just trying to, like, get to the bottom of what was going on. And

that was just like a huge test that patients could try and like go through all of his questions with him. And sometimes, like, at one point,

when it was like getting towards the end of it,

he was pretty convinced of everything that I'd said. And so I was asking him the question, okay, so do you believe in Allah is like, yeah, so do you believe Allah is One music? Yeah. Because I believe the Quran is the word of Allah and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the final messenger. And he said, Yeah, I said, like, the Muslim because so like, do you want to take your Shahada? Is I on maybe not yet?

What what is it you're waiting for? Exactly, exactly. Oh, you know, is that if you've got all of these good reasons to be a Muslim, and you've got no good reason to not be a Muslim, then why are you postponing your shahada

handle eventually, he just ended up taking it and

it was a very, very long conversation. And like a lot of it was just to do with him being confused and like he was a young man. It's very common, young

men aged between 18 and 25. They've been, like, catapulted into the adult world, but they've not really been prepared or been turned into men, they've been educated in prolonged childhood, and where they're made dependent way longer than any other generation used to, it's like back in the day.

You know, in Manchester up in the north, there was a lot of coal mines, the second you hit puberty, you were sent off to the coal mine, you were sent off to the pub, like you were a man, like the moment you were capable of working and bringing an income, and you cease to be dependent, you became a breadwinner, you started contributing to the family. And like now we don't have that, like people are kept. In an like, what it seems like for many people, like an everlasting state of dependence, where childhood is prolonged, isn't it, you're no longer just a child, as a child, you're also a child as a teenager, which is a young adult, and you're treated like a child, you're taught to, you

know, put your hand up when you need to go to the toilet, make sure you do as you told you've got these classes, you need to go to whether or not you're interested in them. It's everyone's put through the education system, almost like it's set on factory settings. And it's, it was developed in the early industrial revolution. But it was built on this factory setting where the only thing everyone has in common is their date of birth, that you know that their date of manufacture. And people are just sort of pushed through this education treated like objects, and we've just got to get this standardized information into their head. And it's not necessarily a benefit to the

majority of people, like if you ask most of the people you have around you, how many of you have made use of the majority of the things that they taught you in education? How many of you remember 90%, of what they taught you in geography? How many of you remember 90% Of what they taught you in science, or math, or algebra, or in history? Like, what how much of your public education do you make use off today. And for the majority of people, it's not made use off at all, people end up working other odd jobs, or they focus in something in particular. And what you find with like many young adults now is that they're just sort of like, pushed through this education system, because

they want the cream of the crop, they want that, you know, that small percentage of people that might go on into higher education, and study the sciences and contribute to the wider development of societal technology and benefit society as a whole. But that's only a tiny percentage of the majority of people are not making use of that education. They're just they go off and they maybe become an engineer, or they maybe become a mechanic or a cleaner, or they work in a call center customer service. They work in restaurants, a lorry driver, like a building, they become builders, welders, and then when they're doing these particular occupation, occupations, over 90% of the

things they were taught as a child, in their teenage years is completely irrelevant. They're not making use of the most of it. And so what you find is that they're just being kept as children when they should be being made into men and women. And once they finish that education, they're just thrown out into this world. And they've just got no idea what they're doing. They're not taught how to manage their finances, they're not taught how to, you know, prepare yourself or develop a business or to run an organization or to deal with employees, or how to file your taxes, how to manage your bills, how to, you know, like manage your income and your expenses. Like that, none of

that. So when they're thrown into it, they get a bit confused, they get lost. And you find many people that are in this state of nihilism now, because of just being overwhelmed by too much information. And when you're dealing with these people, because there's, there's so many things going on in their life, and so many things they have to know, like, they've just got to become adults, all of a sudden, like, there's just there's too many things to think about. And when you're talking to these people, you get this sense of that they've got a bit of a scatterbrain, where there's like, there's this multi dimensional picture in their head. And there's like 50 million

things that they want to sort of discuss and talk about, and it's hard to sort of stay focused on particular points. And like it, really, you need to be patient, like you really have to just sometimes let people talk or try to control the conversation a little bit and say no, okay, that's interesting. But let's just stay on this point. And let's get in you get them a roadmap and say we're going to go from A to B to C to D. And sometimes you might feel the urge to veer off a little bit what we're going to just try and stay on track. We can come back to that at another point. And that is hard, especially if you're talking to someone who's maybe a bit dominant in their character

and they have this tendency to Oh,

to speak or to, you know, to go on these tangents. I'm one of them.

I'm a bit of a tangent, as you can probably tell from this rant.

Yeah, humbler patients like you've got. As long as it's giving you some energy. I'm happy, bro. hamdulillah watch.

Coffee is very profound. The

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That honestly in the reward trickles about the process and has told us this you know, if you advise guide someone something good and they act upon it, you will get the reward equal to them and nothing will be taken away from the reward. So if you are encouraging something to or making a means for someone to do something good, which you are by sharing this link right now in sha Allah, you will be rewarded for that right and it's as simple as that if you can't do anything else, just share this livestream right now in sha Allah may Allah bless you guys keep donating Inshallah, as Hamza mentioned, you know, 10 pounds a month, that works out to be about 35 pence a day that you can

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These ideas Hamza Dr. Usman Yusuf are talking about, you know, these things are, they may not seem very appealing on the surface, because we're not used to it, we're used to seeing very sort of hype related stuff, you know, exciting stuff, things that get you excited. And we don't think about these things too much. You know, we just donate wherever you know, and in whichever way we can, but what we're sharing with you is work that really needs to be done. The lighthouse mentoring really needs to be done, there are people that are struggling, if you have someone in your family that has doubts, that's on the verge of leaving Islam, maybe has left Islam, you know what we're talking

about right now, these people need her and you will give anything, if he was your son, if he was your daughter, if you have children, you can relate to this, you would give anything, if you found your relative in that position, where they were on the verge of leaving Islam so that they don't do this, you would give anything for it. Right? If you genuinely cared for them, you give anything. And trust me, there's our brothers and sisters in Islam out there who have useable tell you they have there's countless people that wanting mentoring, and there's not enough mentors, you know, the use of still struggling to get his his volunteers up. Because again, you can't just hire anyone to do

this job, they have to be an individual have a certain demeanor, they have to have emotional intelligence, they have to have the knowledge, they have to be able to deal with people with doubts. So you need very specific individuals. But there are so many people that need this mentoring. People are coming in all the time. So we will find it hard to keep up. And we need that support. So this work needs to be done. The online platform that you these guys use of assuring he brought up on the screen earlier, where we have free courses. Dr. Ismail has several I think more than one course on there. There's a new one that's coming as well on the on his new book on the characteristics of the

North Inshallah, there's several other courses, the divine reality uses nihilism, and many of the courses again, dealing with ideologies out there today that are affecting again, the Muslims, you know, whether you're in the west or the east, these ideologies are affecting people. They're affecting our family members, people that we know that we relate to our friends. And the way to help these people to help ourselves is to show them the ultimate ideology to share with them the ultimate ideology and break down and deconstruct these false ideologies that are there today. Right? Because all of these ideologies are baseless. Yes, they've been getting some promotion, and they've been

pushed, and they've been encouraged. But the reality is, when you start to look at them, and you start to explore them and start to deconstruct them, you see how weak they are foundationally and this is what sapiens is doing. We're trying to do this work for you to break these ideologies down, but only to break these down. But to then share Islam as a comprehensive worldview with humanity with you with the Muslims or non Muslims. So they can see that this and they can weigh out for themselves, you know, but give people this opportunity help us continue this work rather than sisters. Just 10 pounds a month. If you can't donate, like I said, please share, there's 228 of you

watching right now, that's a big number. If every single one of you shares this live stream, and even if two or three people come through your share, we're going to triple these numbers and the more people that come on Inshallah, the more the opportunity for people to come across this work, benefit themselves and contribute towards this work in Sharla. So keep sharing, keep donating Inshallah, let's go back to Dr. Osman to close man, if I want to go back to the characteristics of the dog quickly Inshallah, because that is of this life. And you were mentioning, you know, when we spoke to you previously that you know, the character of someone that makes the call is integral is

key. Yeah, it has to be in place. And this is a very funny story that's come to mind I'll quickly share it and share what's shared this with me. He said there was a

Poor man who lived in a village, and he got an earache. Like his ears, he got an ear infection one day. So he goes to his doctor in the village. And he asked his doctor, he says, Look, I've got an earache, give me some medicine. So the doctor checks is a recognized, he's got ear infection, and he prescribes him antibiotics. And he says to the man, take this three times a day, morning, afternoon, and evening, and you'll be fine. So the guy goes back, and he comes back, the following day says, Doctor, the pain is getting worse. And the doctor thinks, oh, he's a simple village guy, he probably didn't understand the instructions. So let me explain it to him again. So they say, look, take this

three times a day, morning, afternoon, evening, and you'll be fine. So the guy goes away. On the third day, he comes back again, he's a doctor, the pains getting even worse, my ears hurting, it's about fall off. So the doctors thinking now it's been three days I've given him antibiotics should be getting better, but he's getting worse. So the doctor looks inside his ear again. And he finds the antibiotics stuffed inside his ear. So the moral of the story is that the medicine is only effective if it's administered properly, right? If the antibiotics are not taken orally, and stuffed inside your, it's just gonna make the problem worse. And the analogy that chef was highlighting was

that look, the Dow or the coal, you are that delivery mechanism of the message itself, right, you are the one that delivers the message. If you don't administer the message properly, you're going to end up doing damage, right, as opposed to good. And we see that a lot these days in the Dow Well, let's be honest, when you look at the Dow online, some of it at least, is not good, dour, not because the message is improved. But because the one that's carrying the message doesn't carry, he is not the holder of those correct characteristics, doesn't present themselves well, doesn't carry themselves, well don't have the right mannerisms. So please give us some more in regards to the

importance of mannerisms, and how integrity is for the people involved in Dawa, to ensure that they're working on themselves from this perspective.

There's a wonderful example you gave them more than one really profound example, about the importance of understanding of course, the message and applying it correctly.

Remember that Dawa is an act of worship, it's an act of a vida. And so like any act of ibadah, we want to make sure that we're doing it correctly, you have to learn how to do it before you do it. And likewise, Dawa is an act of worship, and you want to learn the for how to do it before you do it. And one of the beautiful things in the prophetic example is that he carried himself, sometimes the words had great importance. But those words were enveloped around the very profound pristine character in him. So Salem, and the province companions took this example from him and carried it through. So for example, a good example of why the bingeable a second ago, but one more beautiful

thing about him once the Prophet was with him, why the builder is a young person, by the way, and the Prophet held his hand. And the Prophet says Yamo is why I love you. So say, so if you unwrap this hadith is very beautiful, because on the one hand, of course, you have the sense of closeness. So one thing of course, that makes, for example, mentoring. Key is as it's a face to face communication, it's a one to one communication, online, we people, we have access to people. And that makes you profound, because in this example, although of course, this is on a virtual space. But in the prophetic example, the prophet held much hand as in why they love you. So just simply

verbalizing that had a profound effect on one's character because then the Prophet says, so say, Now, of course, one would remember what is going to be taught because it's incepted by love. And then he says, so say Allahumma Imy. Ella, the critical issue was, wherever we read the fight, and after our prayers, or Allah ate me to thank you, to remember you, and to worship you well, and that hadith comes from either Java, but it's the way the Prophet gave the message by showing love and genuine concern for its companion. It's that sense of attitude, that very profound, in fact, in teaching and disseminating, and Dawa when the prophet sent more suburban Omar to Medina, it was with

a lot of wisdom, and a lot of insight the Prophet chose Musa not just because he was the most handsome looking person, because he was articulate, he was well trained, well groomed, kind of, you know, for this purpose. And so when he went to Medina yesterday, and he spoke to the people with a great sense of wisdom, and then you know, they would say things like, you know, if what I'm saying is good, you're welcome to listen to it, if I'm not, you're welcome to leave, kind of gave them a sense of, you know, feeling at ease, you know, with his message to them, and that's very powerful. So the die therefore is not there to smash. So whatever head with evidence is and points

know the die even if his words are small, but they're powerful and profound. So person therefore is left, you know, understanding and being impressed by that message. So for the prophets, companions were not the most

verbal or even was articulate people. But the epidermis would he says that they were a binocular when they were the most pious enhance. And they had the most profound knowledge. And they were the least pretentious three qualities Taqwa piety, a profound knowledge, and lacking Ria, or lacking showing off being at least pretentious. And therefore, that attitude is carried through in Dawa, because it means that when a person is giving Dawa is given that we're mindful of his own state, so therefore he wants to enhance his own state, in the course of an hour. Therefore, that's like a double win. Therefore, because he's giving Dawa, the reward is key in sha Allah by Allah mission,

the same time he's not losing himself. And that process is growing, enhancing himself in that process, as all the examples of the prophets, prophets, teaching his companions to become due to become profound people was enveloped in that and of course, you have general Hadith, like when a prophet says that he was alive I in fact, was the Ebola well attaches, you know, be determined to do what benefit you and ask Allah's help and assistance, and don't give up meaning don't feel lazy, and weekends, if you're an old person, meaning be determined to do will benefit you. Therefore, this is one of those transit because this, of course, is of great benefit for us and our children. And one

of the brothers, one of you guys made the point about children. Remember, of course, that Hamza made a point about imagine this was like 20 years ago, and someone said, for example, we're going to have a free mentoring service, and all of your doubts can be answered by people. And he said, Wow, I mean, that's been a big thing. Now, is there Alhamdulillah? You know, we have it there. And it's across the world, and wherever your mentors, and it's free of charge. And I think that just that you want to think about mentoring, I think Subhanallah I mean, that's such a brilliant service, may Allah preserve it for a long time, this amazing service for people, but requires, in fact, your

support, meaning your support is integral to its survival with Allah's permission, because it needs it needs support. So imagine a world without saving Imagine we had no metric that people would consume we weren't, we were mentioning, and we we need it because we our kids have doubts. So the point is that, you know, this grab opportunity while is there before it's not there, that's a key thing. And then of course, sigalas, aid assistance, and don't feel as if you're incapable of doing something. So all of these this is in fact, part of what it means to be courageous. Because Dawa is courage it means Tao is talking courage is to walk it is placing the trust in Allah. So whenever

you're giving Dawa, you're encountering a new people, maybe you have to be outside of your comfort zone, and speak to people who have spoken before, and require some degree of courage in a person. So that's kind of one of the profound points of giving Dawa and all the examples we read the Quran, by the way, it's Ramadan, as a matter of Quran was a crying telling us to grant is telling us that, you know, before us came people, prophets, of Allah and their followers, and they without hesitation, without fair, carry the Islam to the far corners of the world. You know, like, for example, look at the example of story as seen, which are covered in my book, and I have a separate subsection called

the man who came running I call it the man who came running in this section in the book, the man who came running, I called him the man who, because he was the man that we all read about, and sorry, I've seen what your original A man came from the federal city came running. Now, that's the man who came running, but what is it? What's the point he came running to support the messengers in his time? And it says the man was like, you know, he was weak, and the man was busy, and the man was occupied man and he has stuff to do in his life and it was hard for him to get there. But still, he came in Treasury slashed along, to support the message we need to give dower to his people. And he's

making these declaratives the Quran in the Amenti brahbrah conference mount I believe in your Lord so listen to me. And he says twice Allah says a TV Oh, a tabby will follow follow the messages who didn't don't deserve a reward from you? And they swore they killed them. When they slaughtered him. His dad is a martyr but still, what is he saying? You're late to call me a lemon If only my people knew. That's just a profound sense of sincerity in a man's character because you want goodness for his people. That's our that's dour. You know, you want the people to be guided to the truth. And in that of course, that's where the happiness of of a DI Ye is. And so in the Quran, you find all these

people prophets of Allah saying, Yeah, call me oh my people, and even in your comi there's such a beautiful bow point here because you have called me oh the people I share the same food with same language with same cultural habits with same kind of, you know, the same dress sense as Oh my

people with whom same kind of our culture is more or less the same. Yeah call me oh my people, and the one who said the most, by the way in the Quran out of all the people, all the prophets of Allah in the Quran is a man, not a prophet, a man a die, as well have offered in the Quran. This man Allah says he was someone who hid his faith because he was scared of her own and his people and lived in that time. And Allah says yes to him, and he hid his faith. And then he says to his people, why would you kill a man because he must have modeled is Allah. And then he says, all these are called me statements, and they're the most in the whole Quran. Adam, anybody else? Here's, here's the most

of your Comey statements I showed before. That, you know, when he when he spoke, he finally spoke. And Allah ingrained within him a sense of profound sense of courage and patience with his pupils. All of these are discussed at Hamdulillah. And at the book in the book, which is for free download on our website, and this is the work of Sapiens, we want to make it accessible for you as a people, and for you to learn it, and then teach it to other people, your kids inshallah will benefit from it, and people will benefit from it. And that's what we were saying before that, you know, this work can survive, but it needs your input and your support and your help. And if you do that, then you

will take the reward and by the way, the Hadith it says that you will have it will not undermine diminish your reward or the reward, meaning you will take from the reward, and it won't diminish anyone's reward. So you're taking that legacy of Dow and work in resistance this time with you. And that's a profound I think it's a profound thing during Ramadan because particular because most of the Quran and the focus of sapiens is to make the work of Dawa and the work of teaching a Quran centric one that's very profound thing either mentorship the other day, and one of the brothers on mentoring he was, he was speaking highly of William Lane Craig because of his great work on, on

atheism. And as a brother, you know, I wrote a book kind of against him as well, even though we admire him for his great work with atheism. As an I wrote the book, divine perfection, responding to his

is incorrect stances against Islam. Now, somebody might might like I did, like I did some years ago, came across his website, reasonable faith. And I came across all these points, negative points about Islam, that was so incorrect. Now, of course, remember that we might praise him, because he has all these things on Kalam cosmology, and they're amazing, so anything, but not realizing he also has great ignorance when it comes to Islam. Now, he has a very big following very big following all around the world, particularly America. And they might read his works against Islam against the Quran and buy into because he has Grace over atheism. Therefore, the book Al Hamdulillah, was

written as a response, every single chapter in the book is a response to one of his arguments, every single chapter, and the book. And I remember Subhanallah I remember when the book was was done, Hamza, in the office, held the book, and he said, you know, brother, if no one reads this book, Alhamdulillah at least we can say to Allah,

we did something. We were presented to Allah say, Allah, we did something. Yeah. And this is important, too, because people need to realize that we're here to fill gaps in the Dawa. Because see, no one reads your book. But I truly believe it was written with a class and it's profound. I believe millions of people are going to read it in multiple languages when we die. So we're not in here for the short term anyway, we're not here for the little blip. The false glory, we're here for the long game. And the long game is mean Allah subhanho wa taala. And and that's the most important thing. And I really wouldn't when we went through that book, and it started with an essay I said,

you need to write this essay, and then expand it into a book and then you came up with a dammit conundrum, which I use all the time. And I cite you all the time, even in the book that people receive for free. Now, if they donate to Sapiens Institute, they receive a book called Loving, the most loving seven reasons why Allah is where they want most love, in that it cites your work and that Adamic conundrum. And the point is, even if no one reads it now, I truly believe that our intentions will transcend our lives and our actions. And I remember saying,

Yeah, I remember saying on the Day of Judgment, we can say to Allah, look, we defended, you know, your essence, your your nature, your effect that your man, your altitude, and all of these accusations by the other isms and schisms, and the other false religions, or the distorted religions. They we defend them against, for we did have defended you against them. And what's very interesting is, you know, sometimes when you fill gaps in the data, it's not always going to be algorithmically savvy. It's not always going to be great for the marketing. I don't care. If as long as we fill a gap in the down, we've done what we need to do, then Allah is going to have our back.

And I know I've been managing global organizations since 2017, I believe

And I realize that if you have the right intention, you have the right. You have to work with Allah you have reliance on Allah subhanho wa Taala you're doing the right thing, Allah will always have your back. So brothers and sisters, look, go to the link in the description below. We need 60 defenders this evening, we're looking for 2000 defendants in the whole of Ramadan. Alhamdulillah. We have around 1500 defenders left, we want 60 This evening. And brothers and sisters, as you know, we envisage a world that is convinced of Islam. And we aim to achieve this through a prophetic methodology which is what developing others because it was a process of develop the Sahaba and the

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brothers and sisters coming to our lighthouse mentoring. And they they they come out from darkness into the light. Many of them may have had trauma. They've left Islam, they've had Shubo hearts. They don't like Islam anymore, and we spend time with them. We do the hard work, the hard work behind the scenes and dealing with these people. It's not just about giving lectures and giving courses we deal with the hard work normally dealing with people who are super hot, but also dealing with parents will begin with masa developed helping develop other organizations. We were in Riyadh just a few months ago helping develop a an organization that's going to be working in Latin America. We help

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We trained over 14,000 people. Imagine the next phase of our work now we train 100,000 people and hundreds of organizations, you'll be getting a share in the reward of all of the work. All of the work, there'll be accessing millions and millions of people all around the world. Because of the work that we do behind the scenes. We were in South Africa, Mohammed Mohammed hijab did a tour there, we trained more than 500 or a lemma on liberalism and atheism on the LGBTQ plus ideology. We did our training, we also helped develop an organization there now is seen as one of the leaders in the country, we were behind that, you will never know our logos won't be there. You may never hear

it unless they talk about it. But we don't want that we're not all about the kind of the glitz and the glamour. We want to do this work because we really believe in this vision. And in order for that to happen, brothers or sisters, we need a means Allah creates a means in order for this to happen, and we need your support to become one of the defenders be one of the 60 defenders tonight, we're just looking for 60 defenders to give us 10 pounds per month. That is two and a half lattes a month for the sake of Allah for this great work. That's great. So the kajaria if you're looking on the YouTube channel and Sapiens go, click the button or click the link it goes straight to the page,

sapiens institute.org forward slash defenders become one of the defenders, brothers and sisters, even if you're in doubt, do it. Beat the internal echoes of shaytaan, beat it, just donate and then spend the next few days and weeks checking us out. And I'm telling you, you're going to increase your donation. And if you're still in doubt, then come to us directly. And we'll answer all of your questions. My dear brothers and sisters. The point is, this is work that is so critical and so important. If someone were to tell me 10 years ago, Hamza, there's going to be organization that provides in depth books on intellectual issues concerning Islamic theology in defending Islam and

sharing Islam is going to provide a learning platform that has in depth courses with multiple choice questions, and downloadable slides, and certification, all for free on things like Christianity, atheism, destructive doubts, advanced down, so on and so forth. And you told me that you're going to have a YouTube channel with great free in depth content. And then you told me they're going to have Lighthouse mentoring that deals with X Muslims, news, Muslims, people with the doubts and trends and develops oedema. And you'd have a team that goes all around the world that develops individuals and organizations to better share some academically, intellectually, and so on and so forth. I would say

to Allahu Akbar, Allah has answered our dreams, but Allah has given it to us now. So let's not be a cause of our own destruction. Allah makes it clear Do not be the cause of your own destruction. That's not self destruct meaning give the sadaqa for the sake of Allah give the sadaqa for actually the path of Allah subhanaw taala. And what great work is that in this, this is be honest, this is a massive gift from Allah. I don't deserve I don't deserve this gift. And the brothers definitely don't believe they deserve this gift. Because Allah says in chapter 49, verse 17, to the Arabs who felt that Eman was a gift of the process. Salami was a favor to process Salam, Allah says tell them

this Islam this Iman is a favorite from Allah on to you. So if Mr. Imam is a favor, what about calling other people to Iman is a compounded undeserved gift. We don't believe that we deserve this any shape or form but what a great work this is. Allah calls it jihad in Kibera, the great striving one of the great forms of jihad, the great forms of struggle. The student even Taymiyah mentioned this even hasn't mentioned this of the Roman Banda Commission's is a Lucy mentioned this, even at the and many others, they mentioned that this is in surah Al Furqan verse 52, Allah subhanho wa Taala says that don't yield to those who reject the truth and strive against them with it be the

Quran, Jihad and Kibera a great striving. And this is what we're trying to do use the Quranic arguments make them contemporary for people to understand so we can actually make Allah's word the highest and engage in this amazing work and touch, move and empower people to be able to share some academically and intellectually. Brothers and sisters, this is a great case for you to provide the 10 pounds a month 35 pence a day two and a half lattes a month for this great work sharing the reward of the next 100,000 people who develop and the numerous organizations we support. You can share all of that reward, click on the link below and donate just 10 pounds a month to Zappala

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MashAllah sokola Hey bro, we broken 300 Mashallah produces this is like like comms. So this is unprecedented as far as live streams are concerned. Especially fundraising live streams, let's be honest, right? This is these amazing numbers, Mashallah. And what that shows

Is that you guys know and understand the importance of the work, you get it, you know, it's important. All we need inshallah is you to support this work now wherever you can donate whatever you can give, just go to savings Institute org for slash defenders and make your donations and if you can't just keep sharing inshallah because eventually people will come on that will donate insha Allah or can donate and they will make those donations inshallah keep supporting the work inshallah brothers and sisters, you know, Hamza, you said something very powerful about the algorithm, you know, it's about doing the work that's needed, even if it goes against the algorithm, right. And the

algorithm is probably one of the biggest challenges in the dour today's for as far as online data is concerned, right, it's dangerous is creating, you know, it's creating the sick man of the sick men of doubt. And it's a big problem. And it's true, it's twofold, right, and as you guys are the people that consume content, and this content creators, both are to blame in this case, because if people keep watching, while the algorithm is pushing, the content creators will keep making that type of content that you keep watching. So it's just a negative cycle or negative cycle from this perspective, and we want to break this, you know, sapiens wants to break this we want to do the work

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sleeping, sleeping, I'm wide awake, I'm just looking in the background. Keep an eye shallow. But on a serious note, this lighthouse mentoring for me personally, I think it's one of the most amazing products that sapiens is offering. You know, this one to one service. We were supporting Muslims that are on the edge have left Islam on the verge of leaving Islam have doubts. And you know, it's we say All Muslims have doubts and we take it very lightheartedly. Oh, it's a doubt, but the way it impacts people, you know these doubts, the way it affects the lives the way causes

Anxiety and agitation and angst within them the way it disrupts their lives and the lives of their families. It's a very big thing, bro. So just share some more about this slide has mentioned maybe some experiences, bro, you know, some positive, maybe negative experiences that you had over the years. So the funny thing is, is that it can crop up in absolutely anybody let people have this sort of misconception that are, you know, if someone's got a doubt, it's just because they've come up in a bad, you know, a bad household or something, the parents haven't implemented Islam.

You know, that there's no Quran in the house or anything. And it's just simply not true.

There are people that we've spoken to, that are students of knowledge, or the whole family is like, pretty much engaged in the study of knowledge.

And like, there's one share, who had four children, and three of them left Islam.

And we spoke to them, I think we managed to get two of them, the three to come back. But you know, this could happen in any household. It can happen to people around you, that you have no idea about, we were just,

we were having a little look through the internet.

And I found on some posts, somewhere, there was a young teenager, the parents have become practicing after they went Hajj.

And the whole family's sort of gone on point now. And they've put the youngest

the son, I think it was like 13, or 14, through to become a hadith of the Quran.

And this Ramadan, he'll be leading that rally. But he's making posts on the internet, saying that he hates Islam, that he's left Islam.

And he's leaving the prayer.

And essentially, he's a mud pad and the family have no idea. Absolutely no idea. And some of these people book meetings with us, where they are completely secret about the issues that they're going through the family have no idea. And there's no way that they would know because they hide it, they're fasting, they're praying

to keep up appearances. And they'll book a meeting, and they'll come through and they'll speak to us.

And handle it. I would say the vast majority of the people that I speak to, we managed to resolve it. I'm gonna know what the stats are like for you guys, if it's similar, or not, but I think the majority of people just need one to one conversation. And like Hamza says quite a lot. It's not that the answers aren't available. I give you if you Google it, if you go on YouTube, essentially, pretty much everything we say is available there to watch or to read. It's not that it's new. But it's sometimes it's having that one to one engagement with someone that really helps where you're listening, and the ideas are bouncing off people. And it's a bit like surgery, like when someone

says something, you sort of know what direction you have to take it down. Because especially once you've engaged with so many people, it becomes more of an intuition where you know, okay, this person is focused like half of the time as well. I don't know if this is the same for you guys. Half of the time, it's not even about answering their question. Like you can answer it, is it okay? This is the answer to your question. And that's really simple. And then you sort of go into it in a bit more detail. And it's like, a lot of it has to do with their social circumstances. Like the things we talked about in the no doubt course, you know, their environment, the friendship circle, you

know, they're in an education system.

That's heavily secular, and trivializes religious physicians, that makes them all equal, like, you know, almost like every religion, you know, the sports day when they start giving a medal to everyone a participation medal. And it just completely devalues the receiving of a medal at all. Like, what's the point? Like, it's just didn't feel like it's worthy even having won. And they do a similar thing with religious studies, where it's like, everyone's we're gonna spend half an hour on Islam this year, half an hour on Hinduism, half an hour on Christianity. And then that's it. That's it, you know, class, that's your, your religious education for the and when you look at science,

what the science get science gets lots of different categories. So you've got biology, chemistry, physics, geology, geography.

You know, sometimes you get engineering or depending on what you're in ICT, all of these things get their own hour. And they get it every week for five years in high school. Yeah. And obviously, any previous education you get in primary school at a lower level. And if you look at that, compared to like, how in depth they go into, like the meaning of life. Why are you here? What's the point of being alive? Why What are you doing?

thing wherever you going, what's going on after death? Like, these questions are just sort of like, it's all right. We don't, we don't even really need to think about these. But fundamentally, these are the most important questions. This is the thing that drives you, this is the thing that gives your entire life meaning. And that is the tree in it. Like it's, you know, it's trivial, right?

Like, it's like a piece of clothing that you put on. And you could put this one on, if you want to change it to this bodice t shirt. Go ahead, like why not. And it's, it's a joke, essentially. And so like when people are sort of sucked into this education system, like it because I was raised as a Catholic, I went to a Catholic school. And my mom sent me to a Polish Sunday school. And that was very, like, we used to go to church, I got baptized Christian, Holy Communion, all of that. And, like, there was the religious education in that particular school was central to it. But then when I went into high school, I went to a closer School, which was just a secular school, it wasn't

religiously affiliated.

And there was a huge difference in that. And that was the majority of schools by the way, not many people are going to religious schooling. And, like, they got the crappiest teacher to teach religious education. She had no passion, no one liked no one listened to her. She didn't really give a crap. She also did, she was a librarian of the school. And that was her like, major passion being a librarian. And then she just sort of had to teach a class or like our teach this one. And most of the lessons like were just people breaking the doors in half, setting off fire extinguishers, having water fight, like, it was just it was a joke. And like, when people are sort of raised in this

environment, and religion is made to seem like a trivial thing, like it is a joke, like it is something that you don't really need to pay that much attention to, then that rubs off on people and like the, you know, in the Quran, and the Sunnah were told about being careful who you keep company with. And, you know, we're sending our children to these public schools, and they are a minority. Yeah, and it'd be silly to think that these people that they're with don't rub off on them at all, there's a hadith about the the old seller and the the blacksmith. And, and you might not buy anything from either of them. But you may walk away either smelling good or with burnt clothes,

smelling of smoke. And essentially, we're sending them all to the school of blacksmiths. And then wondering why they're coming home, smelling the smoke, with band clothes. And it can happen to anyone. And even when you sort of try to seclude them. Like we've mentioned, you know, the chef

had three children, who were essentially I think it might have even been South Africa. And they lived in like a very closed community so that the kids didn't really have access to the outside world. But we live in the world of the internet. And back in the day, if your children were kept in a community, you didn't have to worry about a Christian or an atheist given them power.

Like at all, you just didn't have access to your family, there was walls between you and them. But now everyone has access to the internet, everyone has a mobile device or computer. And because of that, even if you just search Islam, on YouTube, what will happen is eventually the algorithm will start sending you everything to do on the internet, with Islam, pro anting, it doesn't care. So whether it's a monitored, making some sort of accusation against the Prophet Muhammad, Salah Salem or a, you know, a die,

you know, defending it, it's going to end up in the news feed and people get exposed to it and curiosity kills the cat, you know, some people, they can't help but click it. And that there was there was one individual, he was collecting dounce Like Pokemon cards. And he didn't even watch the videos. He was just like, Oh, there's another one. I'll add that to my list. And the lad was sending me so many emails, he was like I need like The Avengers Tao team, I want you to get Muhammad hijab and Hamza sauces and Iran and all of these people, we're gonna get together and we're gonna all go through all of my doubts, as ever, like, you. You've got like, 1000 links on here. And more I pushed

it. It turns out, he didn't even watch the majority of them. He was considering these doubts just because they existed in the internet. And when you asked him to articulate even like, like a random selection of them, he couldn't. He didn't know what the objection was, or what the sugar hats was. But he's like, he was owning them. He was taking them and he was like, carrying them on his back unnecessarily. And sometimes you just like, need someone to just laugh at you when you're doing something like that in a friendly way, not in a demeaning manner. But like, what are you doing? What you're doing why, like you're complaining about it?

like these rain clouds, you're putting them in bowls and carrying them in your pocket and wondering why, you know, you've got this dark cloud with you everywhere you go. And it's because you're not just letting it pass off at a time. And yeah, so, so analyze, there's so many crazy stories where you're just, you're talking to people, and they've got this like mad engagement, which people have or doubts, and then you just have a little conversation with them. And by the end of it, they just feel silly. They're like, subhanAllah, I didn't even I don't even think like, I took this so seriously, I thought this was something like that was gonna throw me out the dean, or it was

something that was going to crumble Islam and like half of the time, it's just like, they're confused. There's one guy can't remember that was ages ago now. But like, he had a terrible argument for his house, somewhat akin to like, you know, oh, that thought they use it, because we're gonna come back to that story of this intersect to remind people exactly what we're talking about today as well.

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concerning the course the characteristics of the cooler course. Give us a summary of what it's about and what kind of impact you think is going to make.

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Yep. Sorry. Yeah, one thing before I before I mentioned, that is to touch on something that you mentioned Hamza. And that is the fact that we have this war between these false ideas, ideologies, and the truth and correctness of Islam. Remember, of course, that this is a month, we also have a battle going on in terms between the neffs and between the call between the heart. And what makes I think the work of Sapiens so profound, is in all of our courses that we deliver, particularly the no doubt cause my books on Dawa is, of course, emphasizing the importance of the spiritual remedy in Islam. Sometimes, of course not, I think user will attest to this, that we don't just deal with

people who have like Shewhart, as if they have some kind of a convincing argument of some sort. But oftentimes, it's more like a spiritual disease. It's more like a spiritual craving for a sin. And these things, in fact, become the big impediment for realizing of the truth. And so therefore, one of the things that we emphasize for example, in in the courses, no doubt, for example, is to be on scratch with one's at car, have morning and evening of reciting the right dhikr of Allah subhanaw taala not to be negligent in this because this is like a covering of protection against Shere Khan. And so one thing that I discussed before in my book, The first section,

first chapter is on Taqwa. But Taqwa means of course, many things, but it's coming from LA kya, which means self protection. taking precaution that's taqwa, meaning of Taqwa. So if you think about Taqwa of Allah subhanaw taala, and the work of Sapiens Institute in terms of taking a protection, remember, because we have, we have an assault against us, our children in schools, and it's leaving, leading to a lot of confusion about what exactly the truth is. And they're bombarded with all of these different isms and schisms in a wall today. And it's making them very confused. Sapiens provides a response mechanism, a push back against those ism schisms because it's providing a very

rigorous, very well informed, educated response. So we have, of course, the books, we have the courses, we have the online stuff, the debates and the the conversations, we have the mechanism of, of the mentoring. So if somebody does have those kinds of doubts, that of course, he has a way of expressing them or speaking to someone about them. And hamdulillah like you mentioned, most of the time, it's they get resolved because they can hear the correct opinion, quicker argument. Therefore, there's a profound thing I think, for us to remember that this is a month in which we have that war happening inside of us. And sometimes it's like you

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could convince us not to spend in the way of Allah subhanaw taala. Not to support a good cause. That's that's from Shaytaan that like that disinclination to spend in Allah's Cause to support a worthy cause. That could be from Shaytaan. Because he does not want to see the growth of Islam and the growth of productivity in terms of Muslims and Islam. So be mindful of that.

Hums asked me to speak about like this very quickly, a summarizing of the book.

Like I mentioned, the beginning, the purpose of the book, the courage of the color, was in ensuring that we in terms of giving Tao remember, of course, that we have a lot of training we provide to the world, to Allama, to scholars and to art. And so when they have a platform, available free of charge, in which you're able to access and then to do a short exam on it, and then to possibly have a certificate from Sapiens that to teach it to their own students provides very effective mechanism of teaching and learning. The book, therefore, is a mechanism. It's designed therefore, to ensure that the person giving Dawa now is prepared to give Dawa incorporates in himself the most essential

attributes and qualities that would make not only the Dawa, more successful, but also himself become more of an enhanced person in terms of his closeness and attachment to Allah subhanaw taala. That's really the fundamental focus of it. So two things, one, that the Tao that we're giving is far more effective. And number two, that in the course of the Dawa, we're enhancing our own self serve value proposition with Allah subhanaw taala. The book goes through seven types of qualities in the Dawa carrier. These are characteristics. The first one and the most important of them is Taqwa of Allah subhana wa you don't want, for example, that you're saving the world but you're destroying yourself.

You don't want that to happen. And this is through and through in the Battle of qadisiya. When Bob wrote to Senator Merkaz. The first advice he gave him was all seeker we took what law I instruct you have been Taqwa of Allah subhanho wa taala. Meaning that's the most in the whole. After order, I'll do a quick mock up because that is the strongest the strongest weapon against your enemy, and the best strategy in war. So, in all battle, in all engagement, the most important weaponry is an internal one is Taqwa of Allah subhanho wa taala. What if you have a strength volume, you're lacking Taqwa? It makes it makes it ineffective. So what drives a person really is his consciousness. His

fair is love, his trust his hope and reverence for Allah Subhanallah that should be the most important driving force. That's the first section and like I mentioned, the middle section, how to how to obtain that. The how to obtain quantities of taqwa, like go to different types of ways and measures and, and ways that we could do that. And also of course, at car we could recite and do as we read that help us in that. The Prophet of Allah was Aloma antonyms Taqwa was second Hanuman Zakka Antonio Mola in native Hawza were in the meta fulfill lol. So different types of dwarves with the Prophet of Allah would ask Allah for taqwa in his in itself. Number two is going to be lost in 30,

making sure that whatever we're doing, we're doing for Allah sake alone, not for self promotion. So of grandiosity, not for sort of fame no only for Allah sake. And that's a very profound thing. And therefore, in all actions, including, of course, by the way, what makes a fasting so unique is it's a hidden act of worship, that when Allah in the Quran says, When Alan had to go to school, so had to go see, a so Molly, one has to be fasting is for me, and I reward for fasting, the other one has to be the same, because what makes a fight so unique is because there's a hidden action. So it's discrete, no one can see you fasting, it's inside of you. And so whenever giving Tao which is a

public action, if you will, mindful of a class, before the action, during the action, and after the action, that you're not boasting about the action. So right intention and beginning and then you, you galvanize your correct intention during the act of worship. And then you maintain that afterwards. And in the course of that, you're mindful of your car that the Prophet of Allah will teach to say, in the morning three times, even three times aluminio the beggar initially can become an alum, what's that frugal ml alum. Number three is On Being your wisdom, being wise, doing the right thing at the right time. But even like Imitate me, it says sometimes choosing the better to

the best, and the you know, being conscious of these different different kinds of parameters.

So sometimes

it's about having a capacity to make sure to ask people who are already involved in that hour. Because sometimes you might want to give Dawa. But you don't want to you don't want to recycle the whole thing. You want to ensure that you're giving Dawa. But it's purposeful. So one of the beautiful things is like when Allah sent to Musa to fit I want to call him to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. Musa said to Allah, but send Harun my brother with me. And the reasoning provides is Canelo Subic. So we could remember you more, and we could glorify you more. So that's the fundamental premise you want Allah qualified more in the course of Dawa you want Allah's promotion of Islam more

in the course of Dawa so wisdom, doing things, realizing Of course, sometimes there is a point of speaking, sometimes there is a point of not speaking a bill, for example, at the church on a very quickly, but what happens, and after the Battle of Sofia and takes a position high place? And he says a fecal Mohammed and is Muhammad with you. And the person was there with his companions and Buckhorn Omar behind a rock. And the provinces whose companions lead to G boo, don't answer him. That was Sophia and then says a fee can be Kochava is a worker with you? And the Prophet said loud to people don't answer him. But he says that time if he can, we will help Bob is Omar with you. And

the Prophet said lead to G Bo, then Abu Sufian says, Oh, you're horrible, how majestic and glorious is horrible. The false I know the worship. And the Prophet said Ijebu now answer him. So the Prophet therefore dictate this dictated the terms I mean, he set the agenda, the narrative was in the hands of the Muslims, the profit therefore it also combines when to speak, and when not to speak. And then the fourth thing of course, is authentic is knowledge. Everything we do we do buy with knowledge, the Prophet of Allah, Allah, the Quran says, farlam and knihu let you know Allah that you should know that none desert worship Allah Subhana Allah. So knowledge therefore becomes a principal

prerequisite for doing any act of worship, including of course, Dawa. But not just in terms of knowledge of what to say, knowledge of how to do it, knowledge of, you know, of people you're engaging in. So therefore, if you're engaging with giving Dawa to Christians, sometimes it helps to know which kind of Christian I'm speaking to, is it gonna be a Methodist or Baptist or Evangelical, not to say this becomes a rule? No, because the deviation is deviation, but it could help you. So therefore, knowing more, therefore cannot be helpful. And our and then of course, courage, like I mentioned the example of the mannequin brandstory se and this was a courageous person, this was a

brave person and in the prophet's companions like if you look at example of Bilal in narangba, when they would put the idols in his face and say cool alert will also say that this is like today by the way, when they're saying say the names of false gods like the thing then say a lot was that really the thing say secularism say nine ism say atheism, all the isms like stuffing down your throat, and will I will say, in the Los Angeles Zoo, my tongue is incapable of saying those names and but I will say of course, I hadn't had one Allah one Allah, bravery, but Massoud when he recited Quran publicly and get beaten for bravery and nusseibeh in the Battle of her response mechanism, her resistance

evolvement, the battle brave all of these are examples of courage. But they have a middle section like I mentioned, on how to obtain that how to acquire bravery, and a class and Taqwa and then a third section on on case studies of, of when to be brave, how to be brave, what if this what if that happens? And then, of course, section four on empathy and kindness, in that we mentioned quite a bit of that, in fact, today already, and then the section on

good character, and ensuring the flaws that whenever we're giving Dawa, we're also exemplifying that spirit in our person, in our being. And sometimes by the way, we have these secondary objectives and our even if we're not able sometimes to speak openly about the message because of circumstances. We have secondary like we could have, for example, even doing a good deed, a Kinect act of companionship with someone taking someone out for for a meal. And then of course, showing them Islam and in some way can be effective for Dawa sometimes, in fact, even in speaking with people, sometimes when people want really in fact, in life is you just take them out for a meal and

accompany them. In fact, even companion means a means link linguistically, with bread. It's like breaking bread together is companionship. And so, that sense of keeping company and closeness

can be very effective, you know methods in terms of giving Dawa. So all of these effects are useful. And all of these are covered in my book, which I recommend everyone downloads because it's free and support the work of sapiens. May Allah bless all of you, I do have to leave now inshallah. So thanks

so brothers and sisters, as you hear that was a summary of the characteristics of the quarter book. And that is also going to be in a course on our in depth learning platform learn dot Sapiens Institute's dot org and the book can be found on Sapiens Institute org forward slash books, you can download it for free. I know, a scholar, or at least scholars have engaged with the book Alhamdulillah its pedagogy the way it teaches these characters is quite good because it has case study scenarios. And what's very interesting is you know, if you want to summarize everything concerning the characteristics of the DA do you just go to chapter 16 Verse one to five and Allah

subhanho wa Taala says, who they are Elizabeth Arabic called to the way of Europe of your war of your Lord, and convey how with hikma with wisdom, and and with with with good preaching. Now, interestingly, hikma here is very profound because Allah doesn't say convey a song with their end. Allah is saying here convey cool to the way we rode with hikma. A Hickam is something that is a massive neglected practice. And the book actually goes into hikma and if you want to summarize what Hickman is, HCA essentially is we know from a Tafseer perspective, Hickman means the Sunnah, but what does that mean? So if you want to make an algorithm out of hikma, if you like, or a kind of a

structure, for hikma, then think about this hikma is having an Allah pleasing goal. And you want to achieve that goal within a particular context. You apply him onto the context to achieve that goal. So this is very profound, because it means you have to have an apple and intellect to understand what the context is. You have to have access to the knowledge to be able to apply it on the context to achieve that Allah pleasing goal. And you have to know that that goal itself is actually Allah pleasing, which is very important. And this is interesting because there is a distinction between hikma and LM, as Allah says in Surah Yusuf and we grind granted him wise judgment and the n and this

is how we reward the doers of good. So the distinction between wise judgment and L. Essentially, hikma is applied on a particular context to achieve a particular goal. And when you see instances of the Sunnah concerning hikma, you will see that you could apply this on to the Sunnah, for example, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was told to get rid of the Manasa thing. But what did the Prophet some say? Well, if I'm going to do this, they're going to say that Mohammed Salam is actually killing his companions. Right? So he had an Allah pleasing goal, he applied it in a particular context to achieve that goal. What about the young man who came to us and somebody said

that he wants to commit Zina? How did he speak to him? His Allah pleasing goal was to touch move and inspire him and to bring him closer to Taqwa God consciousness. So what he did, he applied his element in that context, meaning knowing the person in the context to achieve that particular goal, he could have said is haram, what you're talking about, but he never said that. It's the language that he used. So Hickman is very profound and we actually don't use Hickmott anymore, because I hear this Khaled is haram but but I'm right this is the Huck shut your mouth shut your mouth when people say that and you know what, that is a sign of kibble. It's a sign of arrogance was a huge spiritual

disease and you to sort yourself out the minute you have to refer to this kind of almost you know,

gum abuse Yeah, it's a ruling is haram Hara are you talking about that? Huck, abuse is truth abuse. You don't know what you're talking about. Allah says you have to have hikma Hickman doesn't mean pushing the boundaries and doing haram No, it means pleasing Allah following the Sunnah. So sometimes, yes, something is actually wrong and it is the truth and you must say it's the truth. However, it's the way you said it, how you apply that in in a particular context to achieve an Allah pleasing goal. And once do I learn how to do this? I am telling you will win so many more hearts over because we're dedicated to their well being we're dedicated and inspiring that person so they

could affirm tell here to come closer to Allah subhanho wa taala. And we're actually assessing what the context is. Because if you're really following what Allah says, to actually call to the way to his way to the way of your LORD with hikma, it means you have to know what the context is because hikma is a playing element in a particular context. And that means you have to seek out the person's context because the Sunnah of giving dower is to individualize the person to understand who that

person is, which requires some psychology skills such as low and behold, listening with the intention to understand very hard to do extremely hard to do, to listen with intention to understand is very difficult. Why? Because you have to be dedicated to the well being, you have to be dedicated to the spiritual elevation, you want them to come closer to Allah, you want them to accept Allah, you want to worship Allah. And you have to understand that by understanding them properly, you're more likely to have hikma and apply it in their context to achieve that pleasing goal, which is getting their hearts closer to Allah. So you have to be there. Therefore, it's not about arrogance

anymore. It's not about just winning a debate or winning them over. It's about okay, I need to actually try and listen to this person to understand them, to give them actually what they need, not what they want. Because sometimes you may see a discussion between two people. The guy's name is John, the guy's an atheist. And, you know, you see one of the brothers say, ah, you know, let me refute Richard Dawkins, you're a methodological naturalist, methodological naturalism is wrong. This is why bla bla bla bla bla, and you start talking about Big Bang cosmology. And the atheist is nodding politely and says, Thank you and walks away. And then when someone else asked him, Well, you

know why you really ate this? He says, Well, it's got nothing to do with science. I don't know nothing about science, in actual fact, is because my mum died when I was three years old from cancer, and I don't really have an answer.

And I learned that when I was dealing with a debate with Professor Ken jeans, and Professor Ken James, I did something very similar in the debate. In actual fact, Muhammad hijab was a student at Queen Mary and he attended that debate, which is quite, quite interesting. Because Ken James is like a scholar of Nietzsche, I think hijab stood up to ask him a question about Nietzsche. And I think I thought he job to calm down or to sit down because this guy was a scholar of Nietzsche. Yeah. But yeah, he was very polite. Of course, it was a good interaction. But nevertheless, I,

I spoke to Ken James, often I said, Look, what's really your problem, because I gave him this deductive argument, I was trying to show that were philosophically more robust. And he said something to me, that really caught me. He said,

Hamza, I've been taking care of my disabled son for the past 18 years or so.

I want I need an answer. And he also said, I want to know what your values are, know what your abstract philosophy is, and not really quote me. Yeah. And that kind of helped me, you know, change my ways, from an individual perspective to really understand people more effectively. And when you look into the Sunnah, that's exactly what the Prophet salallahu It was founded. And what's very interesting to that discussion, it was through his discretion, because he was the dean of the philosophy department at Berbick University, University of London, that allowed me to go in to do my postgraduate certificate in philosophy. Then I did my Master's in philosophy that I did my masters

in research and philosophy. And then now I'm finishing off my PhD at Cardiff. Now he's the one that positive interaction was actually a key to open the door to academia for me to be honest, because it was it was from his discretion that allowed me and, and I run when I finished my masters or something, I sent him an email to thank him. And he said, Let's have lunch. I want to know your story. Well, a great guy, man. And then he got the lunch. And we didn't get a he we shared plates. That was how we should share food together. And it was really interesting, because it was one of the first conversations I had with an academic over dinner, were actually basically just naturally talk

to him about telehealth. And while I was worthy of worship, right, and what's interesting, he's a scholar of Nietzsche. And he never knew that Nietzsche called the process salaam, a successful Plato. He was like he didn't know and I sent him the reference Subsequently, I believe, and it was really good interaction.

Anyway, brothers and sisters

are going to use of mode there. It just went into a story. It's contagious. So heavy, my neighbors beloved brothers and sisters, we only got about 30 minutes left. This is great work. We've trained over 40,000 people develop numerous organizations. We have an in depth learning platform, the number one learning platform for free, that is engaging with people to educate them on how to share some academically and intellectually. We have over 16 books that are free. My dear brothers and sisters are in depth. We have Lighthouse mentoring that provides free one to one mentoring to Muslims, new Muslims, ex Muslims, Muslims with doubts and people want to make an impact in the Dow. I'd like to

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As assisters we're even launching an Arabic website very soon we ship with JD, and we're going to be producing some amazing work in sha Allah. There's some great stuff happening in mind. Hussein's got two books, inshallah coming out this year, dying to believe, and also a book called A young Muslims guide to a godless world. And we have the essentials package that we're traveling all around the world, specifically EU, US, Europe, where we're giving you in your community advanced our training course new Muslim mentoring, training, a young Muslims guide to a godless world and much more in order to empower your communities. And it's all free. And my dear brothers and sisters support this

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said that the number of Muslims in America that become Muslim is equivalent to the number of Muslims who leave Islam. So the net gain is zero. So we need to be very cautious that there's an ideological framework, an ideological echo chamber, if you like that, you know, immigration is, is in and out. For sure. Migration is in and out from different worldviews. But generally speaking, you know, ideologies that have power are going to win or try to win because they have the media, they have the power, they have the dominant short social discourse. That's why it's important, yes, to do the grassroots down, but also deal with the ideas that were as well because we prevent all of those

people leaving Islam and those who become Muslim, stay Muslim, and we can facilitate our own ideas. Cave if you like to keep people safe and secure. And if they leave the cave now and then they know how to defend the cave defend Islam, defend the front intellectual frontiers of the deen. This is great and much needed work brothers and sisters is a prophetic methodology. If you look at the person salaam, directly, he had only about what 150 To 300 shahada himself. But the work happened because he developed the Sahaba the Sahaba develop the tabby in and look what we have today. In actual fact, he developed refined people, local, local, most of the urban farmer Raja Lavon. He went

into Medina, just one man and then there was a Muslim in every home I believe. And as a result of Medina, there was a sense of power that is some could spread in a very profound way showing the peace and justice and mercy of Assam all across the world. So this is what we're trying to do. We're trying to develop individuals and organizations we have to share some academically and intellectually because we live in a ideological world a world of ideas and ideas are bulletproof. They can only be overcome with better ideas. And we want to show that Islam is the better idea is the good word as Allah says in the Quran, like the good word is a tree with lots of strong roots and

is tall and has perennial fruits and a bad word as an uprooted tree with no roots. And this is the jihad and Kabira Allah says in Surah Furqan and for Khan Chapter 50 Chapter 50 Chapter 25 Verse 52, when Allah says that we that to the process some of that struggle against those who reject the truth and be here with the Quran, jihad in Kibera are a great striving and great struggle to use the arguments of the Quran. And it's described as the great striving and many scholars including the student, even Tamia and couldn't include it even has them and many others said, this is the superior form of struggle. And this is what we're trying to do support the superior form of struggle support

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that truth support this great work and Allah subhanho wa Taala blessed with lots of reward lots of southern Nigeria Chava

so go ahead bro we've got what 20 minutes I think to go Shala so here's the situation brothers and sisters got 20 minutes we have 12 defenders so far tonight Hamdulillah we have 384 It's actually the highest it's been on like the highest has been since the beginning. 385 of you watching live right now let's do one last push brothers and sisters inshallah let's get this up. We're 20 minutes. Let's share firstly share this with everyone on your pages inshallah. We

of Tao motivation to the emotional watching zone redeem you got massive network of brothers and sisters, get this outro please share this inshallah so more people can come on inshallah and watch this work, see what we're doing and contribute towards this inshallah. And we've been talking a lot about the application of the message. So how you say what you say tonight, we've mentioned that in many different ways and given many different examples of this. What you say is extremely important, we have the truth, we have Islam, but how you say is integral is Oh, and we see the examples of this through the prophets, even when Musa alayhis salam, well, he was a personal, very strong character.

And when he was sent to for own, Allah told him to speak with soft and gentle speech. So the way you say and conveyed the message is integral to the Tao. Now I want to sort of take that same concept and apply it to finances.

Allah has blessed us with money. Some of us have more finances than other people, some have been blessed with a lot more money than others. But it's not about how much money you have. It's about how you spend that money. That's the key for the Muslim that's that's what it boils down to the gifts, the blessings Allah has given us, regardless of how extensive they are. The real thing is, how are you going to spend those blessings? How are you going to spend your money? If Allah has given you money? How are you going to spend that money in his path? So you want to be very savvy with this you want to make sure you're spending in the right places inshallah. And may Allah reward

you for this, the work we're doing here is essential brothers and sisters, in the Dawa, especially in the times that we live in, you can go online to a learning platform, check it out, you can see the lighthouse mentoring service, you can see all of the courses we have the publications over 16 books that we have, and we have more books coming this year. So inshallah all of that stuff is there if you go and just browse it if you haven't read our stuff or come across and stuff maybe that's what's holding you back. Spend some time after this live stream, go on to our learning platform, go through our publications, look at what's there and then make that decision. Inshallah we have to as

Muslims really consider how we're going to spend our especially in the month of Ramadan. Right we know the price of Saddam was the most generous human being but we know from an aeration that he became the most generous in this month, even more generous. He was spending this month right we are encouraged to spend the month of Ramadan is the month of taco brothers and sisters Allah tells us this in the Quran, even in Al Baqarah. Right in the beginning, when Allah speaks about the people of Taqwa He gives us your outlines qualities of these people. And one of the three main qualities allow lines is that these are people who spend from what Allah has blessed them with their spend in his

path. There is a beautiful narration that Chef had mentioned the other day, and I'm going to paraphrase it where upon an occasion the process of them they sacrifice the lamb or sheep. And they distributed the the meat of the sheep. And in the process of them asked eyeshadow Did you know what was left, and she said, only the shoulder was left. And the response to the process silom in regards to this is phenomenal, because it gives us a paradigm shift in regards to how we see our material possessions and how we value them. The process that I'm said that all of its left except for the shoulder. So the process of flip this 180 degrees, what you think you have, when you look at your

bank account, when you look how much money you have. And you say I have this many 1000 pounds in my bank account or this much money in my bank account. That's not That's not what you have. Because when you die, that's gone. Unless you spend in the right way it's gone. You're not taking any of it with you. But it's what you spend in the right way. It's what you give away for the sake of Allah in his cause. That's what remains. And the process of them in this narration gives us that paradigm shift brothers and sisters. And we have to think like this as people of Taqwa. If we aspire to be people of taqwa, you know even if we struggle with it. Honestly, if we struggle with it, I'm

speaking to myself. You know, if we struggle with taqwa, our awareness and consciousness of Allah subhanaw taala. We struggle with this. This is the month we want to build that. And one of the ways of building Taqwa is Myanmar's economic and legal they spend from what Allah has given them, from what Allah has provided them to give a little from that. So think of your wealth and your possessions in this or whether it's all your wealth, your knowledge, whatever you have, whatever gifts Allah has, given whatever risk Allah has provided you think of it in this way. It's what you give in his path is what remains. What you keep for yourself. What remains with you is what is not

yours. It's not going to benefit you. So think about these things rather than citizens think about the work that sapiens is doing. And all we're asking for tonight is 10 pounds brothers and sisters just 10 pounds a month. If you can donate 10 pounds a month. This is the equivalent of two Costa coffees or two coffees any coffee in the UK, you know, a lunch, a dinner, you know, it's it's literally 35 pence a day, which is nothing. You can't buy anything with 85 pence a day. And if you just take 35 pence a day and trust me we spend pounds

10s of pounds a day, and we don't keep track, we don't think about it. You know, it's just the it's just the daily spend that we don't think about. Yeah, if we spend 100 200 pounds or something, we'll remember it for a few days. But when we spend five pounds, three pounds, four pounds, we don't remember that type of spending 35 pence a day brothers and sisters, if you spend that in the path of Allah for the sake of Allah in the month of Ramadan, the rewards you can get for this potential if you are sincere, that's the key. That's the pivot. If you're sincere, the rewards you're going to get for this you can't even imagine

you know, just donate make that temporary donation a month and forget about it as some of those single you don't even think about it on the day of judgment Allah you stand on the day of judgment and inshallah you will look at the rewards the mountains of good deeds inshallah that they have collated because of those temple monthly donations that you made. Because the work is focused on this think about the mentoring system we've been speaking about this evening, the lighthouse mentoring, there to help Muslims safeguard Muslims ground Muslims remove doubts, save them from leaving Islam Inshallah, by the love of Allah. Then we have the learning platform online online,

which challenges and deals with all of these New Age ideologies which are affecting people, Muslims or non Muslims. There we have our publications, written work over 16 publications, and few more coming this year inshallah. Right and written the written medium is what loss through time, you know, that goes on, we still have books, I mean, I've seen it the Sapiens library that right now brothers and sisters, I can see a nonce ancient collection right in front of me, this book, say from like, 200 300 years ago, the authors are long gone, the bones have turned to dust literally, the books are sitting on a shelf, I can go and open that book, and I can read what the author said

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bro, first times Allah on this life, and that's phenomenal Inshallah, and that's really, you know, inspires us and motivates us because it's a sign for us to ensure that the stuff that we're doing is worthwhile and you're paying attention and you see the importance of it. Now please donate towards the contribute towards the yes, it's not the last 10 nights of Ramadan. We know that you know, yes, we want to donate more on the last night to Ramadan. But don't miss this opportunity. Brothers and sisters. This is the moment you are live. This is all you have ready? You know, the future is in the future. It's just a thought. It's just the projection you have in your mind right now. It's not here

you don't know if you're gonna get there. The past is gone. What you have right now is just this present moment. That's all we have. So true.

Live that is a quite profound that's and once it's gone, like that moment is gone when I just said that it's gone. colorless. Now it's this moment. Spend now this is the moment to do something. You know, Allah subhanaw taala in Surah Al Mulki says Alladhina I love the colorful moto will hire Talia blue aka yo complejo Max anomala. The he is the one that created life and death to test which of us is best in deeds and actions. Life is all about actions brothers and sisters. It's all actions. That's the test. Are we doing the right thing as opposed to the wrong thing? Are we making the right decision as opposed to the wrong decision? Are we using our money in the right way as opposed to the

wrong way? Are we just ordering it not using our own? Or are we spending in the right world trying to spend it in the right way? That's what's being carried brothers and sisters. That's what's been judged is the actions make those actions now don't delay your actions for another 10 nights or another 50 nights do it now. Inshallah Allah will give you the means to do it in the last 10 nights as well as spend now donate tonight share now and may Allah bless you guys for everyone that has donated Inshallah, this is not the light last livestream. We're going to be doing lots more challenges one more in two days time.

On the 16th, I believe so definitely join us again, for that essential I'm gonna go back to Hamza

or anything else. We're just just encouraged. We only got 15 minutes left.

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Perfect. Okay, good. So a few moments left.

Yeah, no, for a few more moments, moments left, my dear brothers and sisters. As you know, we're looking for 2000 people in the month of Ramadan to give just 10 pounds a month so we could sustain our work and take it to the next level. We aim to train 100,000 people and develop hundreds of organizations to be able to share a sum academically and intellectually. And we want to ourselves as a team, able to go out there all around the world, from America, to Pakistan, to South Africa, to Europe, all around the world, to actually convey some academic and intellectual because we live in a world of ideas. People have influenced us ideas. And you know, the Sunnah of giving Tao is also sort

of giving giving out to influentials. And that means different things in different contexts for sure, and at different times. But with our work, it definitely means dealing with these ideas because these ideas have affected everybody. Brothers and sisters think about Darwinism post modernism queer theory, Zionism, liberalism secularism all the one of these isn't a schisms have, basically, they started with an academic idea. But there was support by individuals and organizations physically and also monetarily, with money with the finances. And the power of ideas unknown today, even if we run anything in Gaza, is like Zionism, ideas can kill. And but ideas are

bulletproof. And ideas can be overcome with better ideas. And we believe that if we defend Islam academically, intellectually, and actually showcases some its veracity, to different people at different levels to influentials, online and offline and create people to be able to do that as well, then we're able to basically shift the narrative and change the paradigm. And this is extremely important, just like the President when he developed the sahaba. And for example, most of America, Raju Allahu anhu, went into Medina, he was a refined person, shed Islam. And you know, the rest of the story, we need to follow this prophetic approach, my dear brothers and sisters is a much

needed approach, especially in our heavy ideological world. And when you look into the Quranic narrative, you know, a lot of the Quran deals with the arguments of the Quran, which deals with the arguments of the Arabs of the time, but not just the general Arabs, yes, it was meant for everybody, but also specifically dealing with those who are espousing and propagating these ideas, like the poet's, like the leaders, like the Quraysh, and so on, and so forth. So the Quran was situated within an ideological space if you want to use those terms. Similarly, we have to learn from that and understand that, you know, these ideas and ideologies have a lot of power. And as Pew Research

has indicated, in 2017, they did this research, that the amount of Muslims that leave Islam in America are the same as those who become Muslim. So the net gain is about zero. So we have a role to play when it comes to these ideas. It's much needed work, we've trained over 40,000 people in the past, just under four years, we've developed a learning platform with over 10,000 users and it's growing, we have about 19 in depth courses for free with PDF slides with multiple choice questions and a certificate at the end when you complete it. And we have Lighthouse mentoring that deals with gives free one to one private sessions to people who have left Islam X Muslims, people with doubts,

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work that we've done. So my dear brothers and sisters, I mean, I bless every single one of you. Just one more defender, go to Sapiens Institute. org forward slash defenders, or go to link in the description below. And just give 10 pounds a month, the sadaqa jariya is going to be absolutely mind blowing. My dear brothers and sisters. Just want to interject quickly. So there's a brother here asking, do we answer questions?

And he's asking about how do you have any tips on how to engage with evangelicals. So if you go to Sapiens institute.org, which is the website you can see here on my

my right hand side, it's mirror image. Point. There's a link here to a part of our website, which takes you to Lighthouse mentoring, where you can book a private one to one meeting with one of our mentors. And you can discuss this for an hour. So if you've got certain questions you're being asked, you know, the Christians are saying certain things in the certain problems you want to try to overcome. You can book a meeting for free one to one, there's not that much of a way, I think you'd probably max two weeks before you can have a private meeting with either myself or one of the other mentors. And we'll give you a full hour. And if you need more time after that. And there's a few

things that needs to be unpacked, you can book more sessions, and they're all free. So if you do want to talk, because we're wrapping up now as well, and we didn't manage to get to the 25 backers, but we can we can still talk to you in a private setting. Probably also you should have you could mention as well that while you do whilst you do that, as well, please book your Lighthouse session, you go to a learning platform where we have two amazing courses or three amazing courses and Christianity and one on Dower. So you have awakened in the truths within which goes through how to give dower you have a course on divine perfection which deals with basically William Craig and other

Christian academics, their perspective of divine love and we show that Allah is the most impure just

his love is the most maximal and purest form, even in contrast to the Christian tradition, because of this great PR campaign that God is love. And when we unravel the theology we like hold on a second Allah's love is most maximum impure. Then you have another course which is about Christological controversies by Jake who I believe is probably the leading

intellectual concerning Christology and Islam. I don't think they

Is anyone else that is on his level, like, yeah, there's two courses by him, by the way, there's the theological controversies.

And then testing the Trinity as well. And they're brilliant, I was there for the recording of all of them. In total, it's about 20 hours plus worth of content. Yeah. So that

I do both do both because it's hard to navigate. Sometimes we are developing a course, on the learning platform, which is going to be mandatory, we're going to do an essentials course, that gives you the essential elements from Arcada, phip, tarbiyah, perspective,

and the Islamic sciences perspective, like and will Hadith and so on, and so forth, and a normal Quran, the essentials that you need, as someone who's going to get involved in sharing Assam academically and intellectually, because we appreciate jumping into it, you can get lost in this ocean. So we're going to have a course that check that the scene is leading on. And we're basically going to make it the essentials course for you to do before you go to any other course. Because we have a duty of care as well. This is not for everybody, you know, people get excited, sometimes we think you know, Ismaila. But actually, that's not the best thing to do. So that's coming up next

year as well in sha Allah. Sorry, so if I've already mentioned that, so that's okay. Yeah, so just wanted to get the learning platform, you can get that by going to learn dot Sapiens institute.org, the lighthouse projects sapiens, sapiens Institute, org forward slash lighthouse.

And you can also just get go to savings, institute.org. And get access to all of that there, including our books, which are again, free here. And you can also get access to our audio books, there's a few there at the moment for, you can get access to our essays, you can get access to everything, if you speak Spanish, Arabic or Turkish, we've got content in that, as well. And yeah, so there's lots here to engage with. Just go to our website and check it all out. And again, it's all free. So you could just go on there, read the books, download the PDFs, and there's no cost on your end, because we don't want to put that barrier between potential days of the future. And then

we want to make the all of that accessible to absolutely everyone, regardless of where they are in the world, or whether or not they've got an income and they can afford such thing. And it's just because it's free as well, because this is something we keep getting told we should just sell it. Because people don't appreciate free things. This is all high quality stuff, especially if you go to the learning platform.

It's you know, very professionally filmed academically source, like the latest course, or one of the latest courses, the the one on LGBT is 33 hours. Mashallah, like

Kyle, Sharif,

he's so like, vigilant or diligent with the way he set this up for like 33 hours is just a crazy amount of time of recording, and all of it is very well sourced, you've got quizzes, and each part, you know, going through it, just to test that you've, you've actually absorbed the content as you're going through it. And if you can get to the end, and you receive a certificate of completion, that shows that you've done it. And that's not going to be something you're going to be able to achieve if you're failing all the the the little quizzes as well. So it's a brilliant opportunity, I think for everyone make use of it, because we do want to share in those rewards, we want you to take the

courses, read the books, use the lighthouse project. And you know, listen to the audiobooks, go on our YouTube channel, engage with that, share it with people you think might benefit from it if you don't need it yourself. But you know, someone who maybe is engaged in Dawa, or suffering from certain doubts, then point them to our resources, take them to our website, show them the lighthouse projects, show them the learning platform, make use of it, it's there for free, you might as well and it's not shoddily put together, it's there's a lot of effort that's gone into producing all of this content. There's a lot of effort that goes into the lighthouse project, and all of the hours

that many of our volunteers are putting forward in order to do the mentoring. And it's you know, it can be very difficult sometimes, especially when you've got to deal with very difficult people every now and then it's May Allah make it easy for the more but yeah, it's there to make use of it. And but we've got other things coming out soon as well. The Essentials, which I think that Imran can maybe

we could maybe wrap up with this brother in mind if you could just tell us about the essentials package that's going to be coming out soon. Inshallah yes, there's a couple of things but one of the main things inshallah we want to do after Ramadan is we're launching the essentials package,

which basically is taking some of our core courses and delivering them in person on the ground with different institutions, organizations, leaders, our leaders, etc. Inshallah across the UK and across EU each other. So that's I think that's

So we thought it was gonna it's much needed as well because of all of our stuffs online but we really want to get into the communities and engage with the communities inshallah so we can really develop them inshallah so that's coming after Ramadan that will be a no doubt course it will be the new course which is a young Muslims guide to godless world it will be the awakening course our training course and it will be the new Muslim mentorship which uses working on Inshallah, so it's gonna be a comprehensive package all of the courses are standalone but at the same time they sort of support each other as well and build off each other to inshallah so we're going to be launching that

very soon. Also I'm thinking inshallah because you guys mashallah you know, come on to these lives and benefit from them and lots of people will be talking about questions, these are fundraising focus streams Inshallah, right because we need the funds to carry on the work but after Ramadan I'm going to discuss it with Hamza maybe you can do like a weekly, live weekly Sapiens live I think there was something I think comes ahead something before it's like a Sapiens thoughts or something, maybe you can revive that or maybe you can have a new product like that Inshallah, where we are engaging with you guys on a weekly basis, answering your questions, giving you updates, and just,

you know, building that community inshallah Yes, we do have the lighthouse live. We do that on a monthly basis at the moment.

So if you want we can maybe try and open up and we can add another one more lives for the brothers and sisters online and show if they benefit let's do that because this could be more so general q&a updates Sapiens updates, Inshallah, it'd be good to have to have both inshallah I think, but yeah, it's brilliant. MashAllah JazakAllah her brothers and sisters May Allah bless you all you guys have come on supported. You definitely shed mashallah we can see the results that we have even right now into the end of it most people are praying Travia Mashallah. And we still have 434 people from across the world on the stream. May Allah bless you guys keep sharing this after the live like I

said, and join us again on the 16th inshallah we'll be back with a new topic inshallah. And may Allah bless you all, anything else you guys want to add before we sort of close it off for today?

For the defenders May Allah bless you and make it make it we heavy on your skills, and inshallah we have a transformative Ramadan and we'll see you in the next live in shallow, shallow circular hair slowly while they are here.