Maryam Amir – Celebrate Mercy Recitation alKahf Qari Senan and Lecture
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The Friday gems program is a success in promoting mercy and activities such as givingaway and virtual lessons for families. The importance of shaytan and fear and preparation is emphasized, along with the need for fear and preparation. The shaytan is seen as a tool to bring people to forgiveness and avoid deaths, and resources and books on women's issues are provided. The speakers emphasize the importance of helping young people to identify their reasons for their behavior and making donations to their endowment fund.
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to have you with us again, and the stage is now yours. The honor is
all mine. Salaam Alaikum. It's always a blessing to be with
celebrate mercy in this blessing day. JazakAllah, Inshallah, we
will start with the recitation, be It Mila
Abu lahi, minashe, bonimoji, mi bismila ni wahi Zala Abu dihyl,
kita,
Bawa, lemya, JAA Lev Wah Ja
paimali,
shadidam, Maki, fina
fi Abu, Ava da wa
Yun di waladin na kolu,
tahoa, mada
hum Be him ini o
30
him,
Kala,
30 minu, ILA mu menu, bihad al Hadi, FIA Safa
In jalamala, hum
Aasan, wamala,
Jaba
Amina roshada
fal Boro, benawala,
Dhani, finika fisini na da
sumina, dama ayul His beini Ah Soni malabi, thum Ahmad da
be him I've come
for me.
Dunihila,
ha
Ula,
la
tuna lain bin sulum, bein famumim.
Many Abu
Duna, ILAHA,
Illa, kafiya, Shula, Kum rabukumi, wahmeti, wahai, leqe,
am
Mum,
sweet, love. Paula Talai him, love kadari,
Kabat na Huta
sa lubaina Hum, Ko, la Ko, Ilum,
Min hum, Kamla beef, lebih Tum. Oo lebih
Na, Oum Bao,
bokum, Allah, mubima lebih Tum. Faba Thu ahada, kumbi, Wadi, Kum
ha vi Il Medina, ti FAL Ya, bu,
in
WA,
alaihi, Alamo, He ha, O Na, oe,
ba,
Fi Ha, wana, satiha,
ili
ATA na za una beina, wala yeh, To
wala
Kum,
Sita wakulasa,
minha,
wala Vika, Vimana, temi, ATI, Sini, Nawaz da
Don ti sa
Shri
Kofi
hung.
Kamal, Levina, dunam, bahum, bilhodati, wala Shi URI, duna
wajaha
Wala tadwain, Turi, du Zina tal hayati, dunya wala tut ya men auf
Anna qual vin vikrina, wata, Baha, WA ka na, AMU ko,
wakum, il hakum, Yun, WA, bi, Kun,
fam,
Yaku in
Bucha,
Bi sesharobusa, muruta in Levina, solihat in Asana,
Mala ULA ikalam,
wa al
Basu,
wagburini,
jaldi, ahadihima, janataini, wahaf, Nahum, waha fath
na humabi, nahiN zawa.
Jan tangently.
Swahili, need to be
the heavy
wama
Abu sat mo im, wala, Yun, deep Tu, ILA, RAM, bila, Aidan, na Hai,
WAM, min, ha,
Mum,
koala, ba,
Ko, la, la,
bwala
Nahu, Allahu,
Shri kubila bhi ahada wala
Ola, if the Masha,
Allahu,
ATA, ILA
Vila
in if a
minus
Abu.
Huma
wagbuni kama
in
a
sama if talaatu
Abu As
wala,
The fatal Mujahid.
In
LA,
Soha, wa, wa, Jadu, ma ME LO Ha Ni, Rola, Bucha,
waif Kun Ali Mala,
WA EV QnA, Lil Mala, ika, Kis du ni Ada,
Abu
moon
And senu.
A
Wakana,
Wa ma
Manan,
la
Tati a hum sunul,
musali na il la muba, Sheri Na, WA, mud, di Rin, WA, ja Dilu la
Dina ka FA, mud, Bain, uda hai rum,
Huda fell over
jalala,
Bala, hum, Wai du LA, jedumi,
latilka,
lekwa, lemu wa jaala ke Hima, Wadah,
waif ko La musari, Fata,
mulat,
fella
Jawahar, fella
in
a
seat
for
In
dala
Call
as to
be,
he hung,
she inhale,
come In mudik,
Cool In
So either
He
a
sake.
Mina
Katama,
wam fakanani, Yati, mainI fil Medina, Wakan, nata
un ka
swani Ha far down, Bucha ay Abu for
Bucharest,
Ali his una,
Basa
Baba hatuni, Basham Si wa Jada
hatum,
wa Jada ham
Tuvan nibha,
Man,
what?
Either.
Better.
Bah, Hatha, Shamsi, WA, Jada, ha, Ko, me, Lam Na, jala, Huni Ha, Si,
tua, Ke, Vali, Ka, Wada, ha, Ko, Na, be,
Mala,
dehi, ho, ba, ba, ha i da, Bada, waini, wa Jada, Mia, dunihi, ma ko
mela ya Kaduna ya po Huna, Pula,
oluya,
ini Ju, Jawa, ma ju ja, Muna, fill Abu,
bi
hoy, fain uni, bipoon, a, jaal baina Kuna hum, rad, Ma,
a, jaal baina Kuna hum, rad, Ma,
tu ni, Suba Wal ha di Hata Ida sa wain O swada, fe Ni, Kola,
the Ka
be, jala, Huda, Ka,
WA, Ka, Na, WA, do Na, be, ha, Pok Na, ba,
Mai, di,
a mu, Jumana, hum,
nah.
Jahan, namaya di lil ka fi Naru
boleh, Dina Kanata, Unum, filito o inan di Ki wa Kanu. WA Kanu la
estatli, ona sama
Dinah,
la Pula, Nuna bhi o kumbila, Sarina AAM Alad sa um Phil haya ti
dunya, Husa, munasin Una suna, ULA
ika la Dina ka fam Biya,
Mum,
Sula
na Tula,
Holi di Nafi ha holiday. Nafi Hala ya Beru, Nan Hai, wala,
Kulon, kanal bahru, me Dali, Kali, Mati, Obi, Lana Fidel bah la
nafidel Bahru Kabul
Nihi Mada da
da,
na,
swaliha,
lamella, Swamy,
Jo zakama, JazakAllah, thank you to our brother, Sinan, for that
really, really beautiful recitation. A lot. I wanted to
show you something real quick, my brother
one second, let me see if I can bring it up here, this Manda,
maybe I have it.
Maybe, Sara, could you help me? I was going to show that picture
that someone just shared of who they were watching the program
with. I don't know if, Sara, you were able to bring that up real
quick.
I sent it in the Friday gems panel.
If not, that's okay. We may have to show it a little bit later.
Oh, there we go.
Someone is saying that their cat is in
going mashallah,
I just hope the cat didn't get when the AYA came up about the
dog?
You said behind? Well, I can let of Kahuna test behind. We never
know how they supplicate. Yes, every creature worships Allah
subhanahu
wa. I'm a cat person, actually. And I have, I have my cat was was
moving behind me during the recitation Mashallah.
Thank you so much. Keep us in your JazakAllah.
You too, and let's share some of the comments we got during the
recitation Mashallah. We had a lot of people and by the way, brother
Sinan has a YouTube channel. We encourage you to follow him there
Inshallah, and has recitations that he posts there as well. So
we're about to start the reflections for about 15 minutes
inshallah with ustada, Mariam Amir, we're very excited to bring
her to the stage and.
Allah in just a minute, and she is a great scholar, a great teacher,
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So now let me introduce ustada Mariam Amir inshallah for the
first time on celebrate mercy, who's going to reflect on a
passage from Surat Al Kahf. Ustada Mariam Ameer received her master's
in education from UCLA and a bachelor's in child adolescent
development from San Jose University. She holds a second
bachelor's in Islamic Studies from Al Azhar University, and has
memorized the Quran Masha Allah. We have a lot of asharis that come
on the program here. She has a second degree black belt in
Taekwondo, mashallah, and writes for virtual mosque.com and
aljuma.com mustada Mariam is a lecturer with hekma Institute, and
frequently travels to work with different communities on topics
related to spiritual connections, social issues and women's studies.
So to reflect on a passage from Surat al Kaf, and don't forget,
later we have a virtual lesson with her and Q and A as part two,
but for now, she's going to be talking about Surah Al Kahf. We're
very honored to have you with us. Ustada Mariam, and the stage is
yours. Salaam Rahim alhamdulillahi, when we was a lot
of Virgin Mary aleha Salaam was giving birth to her son Isa alaihi
salam. She called out and she said, quality me to pave.
Me see crying out, wishing that she had died before this moment
and that she was something forgotten. Her pain in that moment
was so intense. She both called out because of her pain and also
because of all the realities of what people were going to think
about her giving birth without being married. But listen to what
Allah says next. He says
a
voice calls out some interpretations. This is Angel
Jibreel. When he calls out, he says, Don't be sad. And then he
gives this this next step to shake the deep palm tree. Now we often
hear about this moment shaking the date palm tree because it means we
have to take action when we make a DUA. But psychologists today,
researchers say that when you're in the middle of thinking about
something very depressive, and you're going in a circle, a cycle,
with those thoughts, Maryam alaiha Salam is literally calling out,
wishing that she wasn't alive. Now, what does a lot order her to
do? Shake the date palm tree. Why? Because that is actually something
that's going to cut off that cycle of thoughts. Because when you
break that cycle and do something with your hands, you start
focusing on something else. And why don't we realize that when
Allah is sending these messages in the Quran. They aren't just about
the righteous. They are for us when we are in those moments of
hardship. We have the angels like Mariam alaihi salam had Angel
Jibril, in those moments where we can't think of anything other than
the cycle of our frustration, our anxiety, our self loathing. What
do we have? We have guidance on the thoughts that can stop that
and help us move forward. The angels are part of our lives.
Angel jabriel, alayhi, Salam is part of our lives, and even when
we look at the way Allah.
Hala talks about the angels. He says, Who a living No, he is
the
one who sends that Salam upon us so that he can take us out of the
darknesses and into the light. And the daughter of suniya, it
mentions that these angels, when Allah says this, it means that he
is sending blessings to us, and that the angels are sending their
salaam to us. They are praying for us. They are protecting us. And
because of all of that, what Subhanallah, the Allah, that he
has created these beings of light that have two to four wings, or
like Jibril, 600 with rubies and diamonds falling off of them. And
they're ordered because they can't do anything unless they are
ordered to do it. They are literally ordered to do nothing
but protect us in October. Excuse me, your old Allahu, yes, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, how many angels do we
have with us? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,
la HUM
benillah, that there are angels that are in front of us, behind
us, and they are on our right and on our left. There are two on our
mouths. Our mouth literally waiting for us just to send
Salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to take that
salam to our beloved sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, these angels
that sit here and the prop salah, someone told us about more. Told
him about more angels as well the angels that sit here, one of them
writes the things that we've done wrong, while the other rights are
things that we're doing right. And the one on the right so pan Allah,
when, when the person does something wrong, the one on the
left says to the right, should I write it down? And the one on the
right says, Wait, maybe this person is going to repent, and
then again, should I write it down? No, wait, maybe this person
is going to repent. And then again, should I write it down? No,
wait, maybe this person is going to repent. Subhanallah, these
angels are there writing down our deeds, protecting us, creating
these faces of light for us. And what does Allah say in Surat
kahath, he says what? Nali Mala ikatis, judo, Lee Adam ala ibilis,
Kian Amin al Jin the FASA and AMRI Robbie
so panova, these, angels that have been in all these different parts
of our prized people's lives, helping them in the most difficult
aspects of their lives, reminding them, protecting them, and this
right now in our own lives, is the Role of the angels to be a means
of protection, to be a means of dua being answered al bahwa, he
says that if one angel made dua for all of humanity, it would be
enough for all of humanity's forgiveness. So what about the
fact that Allah has ordered angels to make dua for us and ask for our
forgiveness? 24/7, now in that ayah in Suratul Kath, this ayah
talks about the angels. And in this ayah, the angels are being
ordered to bow down to Adam.
So the angels that were ordered to protect us are being ordered to
bow down to our great, great, great, great grandfather, Adam
alayhi salam.
And the scholars of tafsir mention the Adam Alayhis Salam
was
being ordered to be bowed down to by the angels mentioned in this
verse. And then shaytan, he didn't do that. Can we bring up the ayah
again, please, because I want to show you all these different
parts. So what happens in LA I believe, can? I mean a jin fat and
Amrita? So what happens the scholars of tafsir say that I
believe he was ordered to make sajda, and it's mentioned in this
ayah Allah could have chosen any action for which this was forever
cast out. It literally could have been anything, but it was relate,
related directly to his disrespect, of his arrogance, his
racism towards our great grandfather towards us. And then,
what does Allah say? He says after saying in the Iblis kanamin Abu.
Saliva. Are you going to take shaitan and the progeny of
shaytan, the descendants of shaytan as oliya, as a Wali,
instead of Allah,
these angels who do nothing but look out for you, who are a light
in your life. When you make dua for someone else, and you make to
offer someone behind their back, the angels say and mean and for
you and their dua is accepted. These beings are your supporters.
They bow down to your great grandfather because Allah ordered
them to who didn't Iblis. And yet we take Iblis as our Wali. What is
a wali
oliya, Amin Duni wahma, adu
oliya, who is a wali Allah, says allahum, walidina amanu, he is the
one who is the Imam Al Ghazali mentions the lover and the
protector. He is the lover and the protector. He is your Wali, as in,
because He loves you and He protects you. YALI, he's someone
who is close to you. There's no barrier between you and this
person. So when we're saying that Allah is your Wali, he is the one
who loves you, He protects you. He has a why. Arrakib, as Imam Al
Ghazali mentions, is somebody who is so close to you, who cares so
much about you, he is actively watching over you. And I know a
lot of times when we talk about Allah, we're like, watch out where
Allah is going to get you a the way we talk about Allah,
oftentimes, is filled with fear. It's just like you sin. Expect him
to punish.
So watch out, because he's watching. Of course we should be
afraid of the punishment. Of course we should be afraid of his
displeasure. But it's because we love him so much that you would
never want to disappoint someone that you're in love with. So if
Allah is saying that he is your wali
Yusuf alaihi salam, when he went through one trial after another,
what happened to him thrown into a well
by his own brothers. Oftentimes, we worry about our family issues.
All of us have our own, different struggles. So many people struggle
with their families,
the Prophet Yusuf, alaihi salams brothers, the sons of a prophet,
emotionally manipulated their father, and they threw their
brother down a well. And then what happens to Yusuf? He is sold into
slavery. Then he's seduced by who's supposed to be kind of like
an adopted mother,
and then he started to jail.
He has to go through all of this, all of this so that he can be put
into the position of, what of somebody who is looking over
so he can look over the treasures of the of the of the area to
protect people. Because of him being there, he prevented extreme
poverty and famine because of his role. He would have never gotten
into that role and would never be able to empathize with the reality
of people's hardships to the level he was able to if he hadn't gone
through one test after another. Him being put in that position
didn't corrupt him. Why he didn't corrupt him. It didn't corrupt him
because he had already gone through the training necessary
for TASKI at uneth. And of course, he's a prophet, so he wouldn't
need that anyway. But the point is that he went through intense
hardship, alayhi salam, and
then at the very end, when he is reunited with his father, reunited
with his family in this place of honor. What does he say? He calls
out to Allah, Spano, to Allah, and he says and to wali Yi fed dunya
wala
and tawali yifen Dunya wa
despite everything that he went through any of us with all of our
hardships, we can say,
Why do I have to go through this?
Is Allah angry at me?
Does he want to punish me? Am I going through this because he
hates me? I hear people say those things all the time
when we look at them.
Righteous. They went through one thing after another, but what did
they say in the end, until Wali, yifi, dunya will afiro? Because
all of those things that you have to go through, they build you up
for this moment when everything that you're asking for in your
DUA, everything that you're praying for,
it's answered through a series of events that you have to go through
for that JOAD that you've been begging to be answered, to become
answered in the way not that you're imagining, but is so much
better than you could even fathom. That's because the one who loves
you is your Wali, the one who protects you is your Wali. And how
can we take
shaytan, the one who chose to hurt us, chose to be arrogant towards
us as our lover and our protector
when he cares nothing about us, other than to bring us down.
The angels that Allah Spano with Tada have created, literally to
just protect us. Do you know what they say to us in the moments of
death?
In the moments of death, we're all so terrified of that moment. Of
course, I should all the asked the Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam, but who's not? Who doesn't hate it, who's not terrified of
death?
And so what does Allah say to us
as a form of comfort? Literal, literal, the angels are sent down
to do nothing but come for us when our souls go to him,
Subhan, Allah, they come for us and they say,
La Allah tahafi, wala tahafu, excuse me. Allah taka wala tak
Zanu, whatever she rule Janet in Leti Kun Tum, tu aun, don't be
afraid and don't be scared. Don't be afraid. Excuse me, don't be
afraid and don't be sad. Don't be afraid and don't be sad, the two
things you'd assume you would be when you were passing away, afraid
of what's to come, sad for all you're leaving behind.
And yet he sends angels to give us this glad tidings, whatever shield
and glad tidings for what is to come, what you've been promised,
Pan Allah in the Hereafter.
And there's a beautiful account
of sad rodeo, excuse me, uh, panelists say, I've been jubib sa
idemp Jubeir, a great Tabia. And he says that a person will come in
Paradise, and they will look around and they will say, Where's
my grandpa,
where's my father, where's my child.
And they don't see all of these people that they love, and they're
wondering where all of these people that they love are. And
then it is said to them, you didn't work. They didn't work like
you worked. They didn't put in the same effort that you put in. And
what does this person say? Back?
They say, back, I worked for me,
and I worked for them.
I worked for me and I worked for them. So because Allah Swan tell
is so merciful, what does he do? He brings the people that this
person loves who believed in Allah but didn't do the actions.
He brings them up to this level of paradise to be with this person.
This is mentioned in tefeciro that talk about verses of angels
when we say those who believe. Do you know what Allah describes them
as
with in connection to angels, he mentions,
why is still fear. The
angels, they are constantly asking, constantly Estelle firona,
they are constantly asking for the forgiveness of of Allah, for the
believers. But little Adina Amanu is different from little mini or
little mohani, the embodiment of the action of belief. Lil Adina
Amanu are the people who believed in their hearts, but they struggle
with the actions. As El kibisi mentions, they struggle with the
actions, but they believe. These are the people the Allah has
ordered angels to constantly make dua for the people that we assume
are taking shaytan as a wali because they're constantly doing
wrong. They're constantly making mistakes. But what are they also
doing?
They are also filled with guilt because they wish that they could
do.
Better. They're also filled with guilt because they wish that they
could change that guilt that you feel.
Use it to propel you to come closer to Allah. Don't let shaytan
be taken as one of your awliya
and allow him to push you into a major sin, which is despairing in
the Mercy of Allah,
because Allah has ordered that these angels constantly be there
to help us, to protect us, to a B, means of guidance for us. So even
in the midst of when you're doing something wrong, remember, take
min duty, wahoo la kumara. Do take Allah as your Wali. Take the
angels who he has created to be forms of light for you as your
support.
And say Abu Dhabi, let him in a shelter. Kick. Shaytan out, focus
on moving forward. Have hope and the mercy of Allah, and know that
when you ask for his forgiveness, He promises to accept, he promises
to forgive, and he can be the one who will write you into the
highest paradise, not because of your deeds. But because of His
mercy, He is Al Kareem, the generous. Anyway, he is Allah man.
Anyway, he is alwali Anyway, whether or not we deserve it. So
go back to him, and he promises that He will accept you. It's
panic Allahumma behind the commission when that ILAHA, Illa
and nesta filkiwanatu waiting you.
That was powerful, that was beautiful, Mashallah. And it's
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Amir received her master's in education from UCLA and a
bachelor's in child and adolescent development from San Jose
University. She holds a second bachelor's degree in Islamic
Studies from Al Azhar University in Egypt, and has memorized the
entire Quran. She is a second degree black belt in Taekwondo.
Masha Allah, I actually got a black belt in Taekwondo, but as a
kid, and I think I've forgotten most of it. I'm not sure if she's
keeping up with it, mashallah, but that's amazing. Second degree
black belt and writes for virtualmas.com and aljuma.com
osteta Mariam is a lecturer with hekma Institute, and frequently
travels to work with different communities on topics related to
spiritual connections, social issues and women's studies. So
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So mustada, Mariam, we're honored to have you with us again, and the
stage is now yours.
Growing up, I didn't hear very often about companions who are
women, rodi Allahu anhuan, and I felt so connected to Khalid Ibn
Walid, radila anhu, who was the leader of the Muslim army. I was
so connected to Sarah debin Abi Waqas and how he so powerfully
stood up for his religion when the people of the Quraysh were making
fun of him, I was so enthralled by Vila Radi Allahu Anhu and how
bilateral Anhu was so beautifully giving the Adan. There were so
many men who I wanted to be like and when I really started studying
Islam seriously, I had to sit with myself, and had to think, why
don't I feel connected with the woman who are surrounding the
Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi, wa sallam. Of course, I knew some
names. I knew Khadija radiah, I knew Aisha radiah, A.
When I heard about their stories, their stories were always in the
lens of kridija, radila anha being an amazing wife, which of course
she was radila anha and Aisha, radila anha, and how she had so
much haya and so modest the royal dial a whole anha, which of course
she did. And I sat with myself, and I thought, you know, as a 16
year old, I was being told about these amazing women in the in the
lens of being a wife or being a mother, like Fatima Rohan ha or
being modest, which, of course, is a very important part of our
religion. But that was it. There was no personality that I learned
about, there was no interest that I learned about. I never saw them
or heard about them in roles other than in being modest or in being
mothers or in being married, which are so important. All of them are
very important aspects of our lives and of the lives of the
companions the Prophet
Muhammad. Peace be upon him. But what what? What else were the
companions of the Prophet Muhammad? Peace be upon him. Who
were women? Were they mothers and involved in politics? Were they
mothers and involved in society? Were they wives and actively
involved in the masjid? Were they modest and actively involved in
Dawa? Could they be in multiple different spheres? This is
something that I started researching and Subhanallah
looking at the way that the voices of the woman of Medina and the
voices of the woman of Mecca have shaped Islamic history. Is so
powerful because it allows us as woman, and it allows us as a net.
I'm not a man, obviously, but allows men to support the woman in
their lives and also to recognize how much woman played an integral
role in men today and woman today, holding on to our religion. So for
example, let's look Asmaa Radi Allahu anha, the daughter of Abu
Bakr, when the Hijra happened the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
him and Abu Bakr, RadiAllahu, anhu, they are fleeing. They are
fleeing to go to Medina in secret. The Quraysh are running, trying to
capture them.
Who was the woman who took provisions to a cave multiple
times? Now we know that was Asmaa, the daughter of Abu Bakr al the
but did you also know that she was in the third trimester of
pregnancy when she did that?
For anyone who has been pregnant, you know that pregnancy is
difficult. The third trimester is exceptionally difficult to be
walking in the desert, in the heat, trying to protect your
father and the messenger of God, peace be upon him from being
noticed.
Subhanallah, there is an incredible book called Dora al
Marula a CSC the
the role of women, the political role of women in the time of the
Prophet Muhammad. Peace be upon him and the hulafa al Rashidi and
the righteous hulafa. And one of the rules mentioned is the
political in
engagement of Asmaa radiAllahu anha, which is so powerful because
without her actively bringing provisions to the Prophet
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam and Abu Bakr RadiAllahu, Anhu
Subhanallah, they wouldn't have had the ability to have the
strength. It was because of this woman that they did, and
Subhanallah in pregnancy, she did this type of effort. Now when we
look at another woman named Asmaa radiAllahu anha, this is so
powerful. Asmaa bin to Umesh radi Alamo anaha, she made Hijrah from
Mecca to Abyssinia. And when she made hijra to Abyssinia, she
stayed there. It wasn't until seven years after the migration
from Medina, where the companions had been in Medina for some time,
the Asmaa Radi Allahu Anh had joins them. What happens when she
joins them? Her and the people of the ship from Abyssinia, migrated
to Medina, and people are saying to them,
almaroldi Allahu Anhu is saying, subhanAllah Amal radi, Allahu Anhu
walks in to Hafsah, Radi Allahu Anhu and Asmaa, or the Allahu Anhu
sitting together, Hafsah is his daughter. So he says to her, who
is this? Trying to understand who Asmaa is. When he realizes that
she was one of the people of the ship, he says to Asmaa Radi
Allahu, anha, we got here first, as in, we got to Medina first.
Therefore we have more of a right to the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi
wa sallam than you do.
Subhan Allah. This is a man granted paradise. This is all of
our example. This is all model, the Allahu anhu, the Khalifa,
later on,
Asmaa, radiAllahu anha, in that moment, she could have said, You
are way more righteous than me. I have nothing to say back to you,
she could have said, well, it's Amar radila. I know revelation was
sent down because of amaraldi laho. I know. I don't, I don't
know what to say.
Instead, the the rewire, which is in buchare, mentioned FA she got
angry, and she said to him,
you were being fed, you were being taught by the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. While we were far away, we were scared, and we
were only there for the sake of Allah. She said she's not going to
drink anything and she's not going to eat anything until she goes to
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she's not going to add or
subtract anything. Toa amrodilo, and who said she's going to see it
like it is, she went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi Islam heard what
happened, he responded with the fact that Amar and his companions
do not have more of a right to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. They made hijra once,
and the people of the boat made hijra twice. Asmaa Wadi Allahu
anha, and the people with her made hijra twice, therefore they get
double the reward. Abu musal al Shaadi and the companions with him
kept coming back to Asmaa, asking for this narration over and over
and over again. It was because of her voice going to the Prophet,
peace be upon him,
asking about this issue, that policy was created. Now obviously
not policy because there were legal matters, but policy in the
sense of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is the legislator.
He is the legislator in Medina. So when someone comes to him with an
issue, what happens? It sets the tone. So the people of the boat,
if Asmaa didn't speak up a model the law and hope so great. But
also human could have made this statement, which could have set a
tone. Could have shifted the culture for people to feel
comfortable continually saying, we have a right to the Prophet. Peace
be upon him when you don't. And yet, what did Matt Wadi lahuan had
do? She took her agency a voice, and she shifted the culture of
Medina because she approached the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam,
who assured her that they have doubled the reward. Now, why is
this so relatable to us? Because there are so many times when any
of you, any of us with anything that makes us feel like we are
inferior or makes us feel like we're being judged, or makes us
feel like we don't have a space in the community, whether because of
your whether you are a convert or born Muslim, whether it is a
particular race or skin tone, whether it's your relationship
status. So many women talk about the fact that they are single, and
they've been wanting to get married for years, and people ask
them, what's wrong with you? Why wouldn't you get married yet?
What's going on are your standards too high? So many issues we have
women who are divorced, women who are single mothers, and the fact
that people judge woman based on a relationship status. Asmaa bint
Umes herself was married to Jaffa radila Hu Anhu when he passed
away, she later on married Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu when he
passed away. Later on, she married Ali rodi Allahu Anhu Subhan Allah.
It is part of our tradition
that women are not only judged or seen based in the lens of the
relationship to another person, that these parts of our lives are
all aspects that are a journey to Allah subhana wa taala. So whether
a woman is in one area or not. The point is that Subhanallah, we have
so many avenues to come close to Allah and to use the voices that
he has given us to help shift and change the reality of our
community.
Sophia, the aunt of the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, was
in the tower, the fortress that women were in to be protected from
the battle of khandak Hassan RadiAllahu Anu was the poet of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He was known for his
incredible ability to cut people with his tongue with his words.
Yes, but by his own statement, he was not meant for the battlefield.
So during the battle, he didn't he didn't fight on the front lines.
He actually stayed in the tower with the woman, and when one of
the enemies scaled the tower intending to harm the woman in the
tower, Pan Allah, Sophia Radi Allahu, anha saw what was
happening, and she calls out to Hassan, do something. And Hassan
radi, Allahu, Anhu is like, if I could, I would have been on the
battlefield. So she took care of that enemy,
and because of the severity and the way she took care of him, the
rest of the enemy who was trying to climb the fortress and harm the
woman. They said there are strong men that were left there, so don't
go near this place. Subhanallah Sophia Radi Allahu anha protected
the entire fortress of women, and she protected Hassan Radi Allahu
Anhu Allah gave Sophia radila qualities that she used for the
sake of Allah to protect her community, like we see in that of
Nusrah uma Atiyah radiah, who physically protected the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam in battle in Ohad, right and left.
Everywhere he looked, she was there protecting him. She
participated in seven battles, six of which she participated with her
husband, one of which she participated on her own. And in
one of the battles she lost her arm, so she became a woman a
companion with a disability. Muslims with disabilities are so
part of our society. They are so part of the fabric of the society
of the Prophet Muhammad. Peace be upon him. So many narrations of
companions with disabilities, leading salah, making the ad like
Abdullah ibn maqtum,
then Subhan Allah nusay, but all the Allahu anha not only fought in
battles for the sake of Allah, but she also became a member of the
community of dis of believers who had disabilities, and today, when
we look at that, especially as individuals who are part of
Creating the fabric of our communities now we need to
recognize that together, subhanAllah women shifted the
conversations that we should be having now about these roles.
Subhanallah looking at the Companions who were women, we say,
rufe El aslamia ru fail as Islamiyah, was a medical surgeon
in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Peace be upon him. And
she constructed a tent that was the tent of medicine, the tent of
basically like helping cure the sick during battle, help the
wounded and the Prophet Muhammad. Sallallahu alayhi wasallam had
said Ibn wad Radi Allahu Anhu under her care when Subhan Allah
He was harmed in battle. Rufaila Radi Allahu anha is the one who
took care of sad Ibn Wadi Allahu Anhu.
Over and over we see that women played such a critical role in the
lives of the men surrounding the Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu,
alayhi wasallam, so for example, om Salama radiAllahu anha during
the Treaty of hudaybiyyah, when the companions were extremely sad
that they did not get to go for Amra, that they were not actually
able to complete the rights that they had been dreaming about. They
were so overwhelmed with emotion that they weren't doing what the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam asked them to do. So what did he
do? Salallahu alai wa sallam, he was in the midst of men who had
fought battles. He was in the middle of men who had gone through
Hijra persecution, been with him at the baya, and again, the baya,
so many things. He was in the middle of all these men who have
been promised paradise, but they were not listening because they
were so emotionally overwhelmed
Subhanallah that it's okay to have emotions. And what did the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam do? He went to his wife, um Salama
radiAllahu anha, and he asked her for advice. And the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam was given
the advice by um Salama to just go out and do all of this and they're
going to follow om Salama Radi Allahu anha. Her voice on that day
shifted the the whole tone, the whole feeling of the believers.
They weren't ready to hear something, but like Maryam,
alaihi, salam, was told to shake the tree so that her mind, the
cycle of her thoughts that were so difficult and painful, could be
cut off and she could focus on taking action. These companions
roll the Aloha and home, they were focusing on that action. After
that, they moved forward doing actions. Subhanallah, the woman of
Medina, the woman of Mecca, Amar, Radi Allahu, an who said, We never
used to think of women as anything. Shay, we didn't think of
them as anything until what Allah sent, until what Allah sent, of
what he sent, a model the Allahu anhu, saying that we never used to
think of anything. Of woman as anything. Became a Khalifa who was
corrected by woman on more than one occasion, and he publicly
accepted that and publicly recognized that a woman corrected
amarodi Allahu anhu, knowing that woman played such a central role
in the establishment and the Dawa of this message should make all of
us honored as Muslim woman, to have them as our foremothers, just
as we are so honored to see the changes of the men who in one
generation went from burying their daughters alive to seeing women as
not just individuals who they inherited as property, but as
their partners, as a Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi wasalam taught
that they are and as their advisors, Omar ODI Allahu, an who
had a political advisor on his cabinet, who was taking care of
the market, she fab and Abdullah
Allah took woman from being seen as property to being seen as the
woman whose voices shifted an entire nation. And that legacy
this role, the one of being mothers full time, the one of
being a housewife full time, and the one of being politically
involved, the one of being a scholar, the one of Binya Quran
reciter, the one of being part of society, the one of staying home
all the time and being focused on home. And the one of praying in
the masjid all the time and being focused in the masjid.
These women are us, and when we take them as our role models, in
our personalities, in our interests, in our passions, we see
that we can fulfill what Allah has told us, which is wamachala,
Jinnah, well INSA Allah, what that we worship Him and in all of these
roles, when we make the intention, we can use them to worship Him in
the best way. Subhan, a condition.
Mariam, that was really, really beautiful. I really want to show
look at all these comments we got. We're about to start the Q and A
session with ustada Mariam, so don't go anywhere, because we are
about to have a live question and answer session with ustada Mariam.
Mashallah, look at this one. I really like this one by sister,
Khadija, the Speak sister. These are words that need to be spoken.
Many of our young women are leaving Islam because they do not
see themselves in this. Deen May Allah, subhana, Tara, reward you.
And just so many comments like this, people who are really,
really, really, masha Allah, posting a lot about the talk that
ustada Mariam just gave, Mashallah. Masha Allah, it was
amazing. It really was amazing, Mashallah.
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Okay, so let's bring us to the Mariam back Inshallah, and I'm
going to go with our first, our first question here. This is a
really great question here,
so, and I'm sure you get this question a lot, actually,
I was actually looking at the wrong week there. Sorry, the wrong
week of questions. So here's an easy one, probably, What books
would you recommend to continue learning about this topic, about
the women of Mecca and Medina, maybe also especially in English,
what book meant, so people can learn more on this topic. The one
book I recommend immediately is Almohad al muhaddifat. It is on
Amazon. Is by Sheik Mohammed, Akram nadui, N, A, D, W, I, and
it's spelled a, l, m, U, H, A, D, D, I, T, H, A T, I think. And it
focuses really on women scholars throughout history. So it starts
by talking about the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him, who are scholars. And then it continues and talks about
women throughout history who are scholars. Sheik akhma Shala. He
has a Saddam Institute. You can study directly with him. He's a
muhaddi. He's a hadith scholar who teaches in Oxford pan Allah. He's
an incredible scholar in our time period who's just released an
encyclopedia of over 9000 women had scholars throughout history.
So his book, mashaAllah is an incredible resource. And he also
has another book called Ibn Hazm treaties, on the treaties of women
attending the Masjid. So he is, he is the best resource in English
that I've come across so far. Unfortunately, I don't have other
book recommendations in English that I personally have read and
can recommend. I have a number of them in Arabic, but I am working
on a book, hamdida Inshallah, where I am translating the Arabic
that I'm able to access on women of Medina inshallah. I'm going to
be teaching a class this upcoming Sunday, starting with Suhaib with
with suhaibweb.com where we're going to look at all the different
issues on women and and the issues related to women from the lens of
the woman. So right now, those are the only two resources I can offer
specifically on this topic. But there are also institutes like
rubble talk, for example, funded by Doctor Tamara Gray, where
Inshallah, she's he, she has found an institute which Inshallah, you
can take so many classes about women's issues, about companions,
the prop Muhammad. Peace be upon him. And there's also a Jannah
Institute by Dr Hefa Yunus. So we don't necessarily have so many
books in English that I know of, I'm sure there are more that maybe
I haven't come across yet. I've been asking scholars that I work
with, and unfortunately, haven't heard of too many. But if you know
of any, please share them in the comments. I'm sure that there are
some out there that I just don't know about. But hamdullah, there
are also institutes that you can take courses with and inshallah
with those with those courses, you'll be able to to learn more
about about them, inshallah.
Inshallah. Does that call here? So another question is, I personally
have spent a lot of time on the boards of masajid, and I've
noticed that, unfortunately, sometimes, you know,
women are not treated very well in the masjid, or the way even the
masjids are built, are not, you know, are not in a way that is
fair. You know, often women are put in small spaces, or they're
not given access to hear, hear what's going on, or see what's
going on. So there, there are problems in our community on this
issue of like realizing the place of, you know, women in Islam or in
our tradition or in our history, and even leaders, you know, women
leaders in our in our history. So what can what are some.
Practical steps. And I know, I know you're a parent, mashallah,
so like, what are practical steps that you are implementing or
hoping to implement with your kids, Inshallah, to help cure us
of this disease of you know, looking down on women or women
can't have a significant role in our communities, it starts with
our kids. So what can we do with our kids? In that regard, I went
to a camp that I was invited to speak at, and and this camp, I was
one of two, you know, visiting
like teachers, basically. And when I was going to give the lecture,
there was a brother who had a problem with the fact that I'm a
woman, and Subhan Allah, this other, this other brother, there
he was leading the Salah, and his recitation was so beautiful,
tabatical law and
and he said his Mother had the most beautiful recitation he has
ever heard, and because his mother had the most beautiful recitation
he's ever heard, and he grew up seeing her recite the Quran and
actively being involved with the Quran. And he raised she raised
him this way.
He advocated for me to recite the Quran. Instead of having him be
the reciter at a lecture that started with him seeing his mother
teach him the Quran,
our children look to us as examples, and if we are going to
continue, often, very often from certain cultures, a colonized
understanding of what it means to be woman, one that has been
impacted highly by colonialism and when There were certain
puritanical ideas in Christianity that were shipped in thought
because of colonism, colonialism, when the Greek philosophy,
philosophical books were translated into Arabic and started
impacting Islam's understanding on women, not from Islam, but from
Greek philosophy, which at the time believed that women were not
the same as men in terms of their spiritual ability, and they also
were questioning whether or not women even had souls when those
works were translated, and they started impacting Muslim cultures.
That started impacting the way that children were raised, because
parents are telling their children, like I often hear now
from young woman that their sons don't have to do certain things,
their daughters have to do everything, and that there are
such unfair limitations or expectations between daughters and
sons. And that's not something that we take from Islam. That's
something that we really take from unfortunately generationalized
trauma on what it means to be a woman. So when we look at our
roles as parents, we can decide that we're going to break that
continuous cycle of expectations on where a woman should be and
where a man should be, and instead, look to what the Quran
and the Sunnah say in our roles of men and women, there are so many
powerful ways in which men and women work together to create the
Society of Medina, the ideal Islamic society the during the
time of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. So we raise our
children in that way. I all. I have two boys. They're very
little. They are five and two, and the way that they see me engage
with Islam is the way that they also see my husband engage with
Islam. They see us, and when they see you, they start recognizing
what that emulation looks like. So really, number one just practicing
it. And it's not just, of course, praying, and that's so important,
we need to teach our children to love Allah. But also, what does it
look like when my husband is the one who is spending quality time
with his children so that I can teach a lesson? What does it look
like when fathers choose to be invested in upbringing their
children so that their mothers have time to become
skilled or passionate about certain things that they want to
learn. So just emulating it, number one is the most important
thing, and of course, it's a privilege to even say that there
is so much so much pain and so many marriages in our community
and so much burden placed on so many individuals in our community,
especially when it comes to parenting, so shifting that
culture as a community is really key to helping us how.
Children be raised in community spaces where they see healthy,
protected,
engaged, empowered women and men who have healthy relationships
with one another that are founded in mutual respect and partnership,
which is what the Quran and the Sunnah consistently teach us. So
the first is emulating the second is creating the culture, and the
third is letting children really develop the skills that they're
passionate about. I have had so many young girls tell me that,
excuse me, they're not young girls. They're young women. Tell
me that they used to love reciting the Quran. They were in heft
programs like their their brothers, and when they were 13 or
14, the Imam of the masjid said that they're not comfortable
teaching girls anymore, and the Imam was the only teacher. There
were no women in their community who were teaching Quran. The Imam
is the only access to knowledge. There were no online programs at
that time, so these women now
are
not memorizers of the Quran. And of course, that's a decision every
person makes. Of course, I'm not blaming that one incident, and
blame is such a strong word, I don't mean it in that way. Not
everyone has to be a memorized of the Quran. I should have rephrased
that. What I'm trying to say is that these women have brothers who
are hostile of the Quran, because from the age of seven, they were
able to continue and keep memorizing the Quran, while we
have women who wanted that, who were told they can't.
If any man is uncomfortable teaching women, then that Masjid
board should ensure that they also hire a resident scholar who was a
woman. It's fine if he doesn't want to teach women, no problem.
So also provide a woman who can teach women. There is a solution,
looking for ways in which we can accommodate if someone is
uncomfortable, or perhaps say, maybe this isn't the right
position for you, or maybe you only teach men, that's fine, but
we're also going to have options for women to access knowledge, as
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam ensured that women did so
when we see young girls being told that this space is specifically
for their brothers, when young girls are hearing that they can't
memorize the Quran, but they have beautiful voices and they want to
sing. They go into choir. They go into choir, they sing songs and
memorize them. And this is not a discussion on music at all. It's
simply to point out that now women in their 40s are telling me that
for the first time ever, they are going back to the Quran, and
they're reciting the Quran again because they're seeing other women
do it, and hearing that woman should recite the Quran too. And
if you follow on Instagram, there's a campaign called the
foremothers campaign. If you follow me on Instagram, at the
Mary Mir, you can listen to all these women reciters from all over
the world. If you check my Instagram, TV, there are so many
women from all over the world memorize the Quran on
international Quran competitions Quran reciters. Subhan Allah, that
is what we want our young daughters to see. You have to
become a memorizer the Quran. But you should know that you can if
you want to. That is the lesson that we should be teaching our
sons and our daughters, that the religion, the spirituality, that
God, that the Quran, is for all of us, not just for men. And it's so
sad that I even have to say that, but from the many, many, many
messages that I hear from young women, that's actually something
they're asking, is it really for me too? And
that's something we can change.
Josiah, Shaw Mariam, we do have another question. I'm going to
pose the question to you, and then I have to squeeze in an
announcement. So while you're thinking about it, I'm going to
announce something inshallah. So the question is, and I'm sure you
also get this a lot, how can we understand the Hadith about it
being better for women to pray,
about it being better for women to pray at home.
Many women, many women, feel disconnected from the masjid in
the Muslim community. How can we properly follow the prophet's
message while being connected to the community? So especially as
messages are reopening now this is an important question as well, so
I'll give you 30 seconds to think about that as I make a quick
announcement and there was a duat request I wanted to show as well.
This is a duat by nijat Zahid who said, please do make dot for my
cousin Ramzi Abdus Salam, who passed away yesterday from covid
19, just like Allah that's all Inshallah, recite the Fatiha for
the soul of your cousin. Inshallah, Rahim, Alhamdulillah,
Rami, rahman, rahim, iAk and Abu Dhana the.
Mean very sorry for your loss. Nijat Zahid, very sorry for your
loss, and may Allah make his grave a meadow of paradise inshallah.
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can bring back ustada Mariam, and the question again was, how can we
understand the Hadith about it being better for women to pray at
home? Many women feel disconnected from the masjid and the Muslim
community. How can we properly follow the prophet's message while
being connected to the community? Inshallah? So different scholars
have a different interpretation of that particular Hadith, and one
similar to it, whether that was for a particular sahabia or
whether that was for all women until the end of time. Abuka, for
example, talks about how there are hundreds of narrations of the
companions of the prop Mohammed peace woman who are actively going
to the masjid, making a TI caf, going in the middle of the night,
Fajr, Aisha, when it's so dark, time, making it, making it a point
to pray in the masjid, Alma Radi Allahu, an whose wife, she
actually would go to the masjid constantly. And Amra, the law. And
who was, was someone who was mashallah, like a very, you know,
strong individual. And he was he, he had this lira, which we say as
jealousy, almost. That's a terrible translation.
Unfortunately, we often use that word when we talk about men as
like he has so much lira for her, and that's why he doesn't want her
to leave the house. He's so jealous over her, he doesn't want
other men to see her. And we almost praise that, and that's
okay, if that works for that couple. But Amar radila, who in
his lira for his wife, didn't prevent her from going to the
masjid. Radi Allahu anha, she asked him, she said, unless you're
going to prevent me, I'm going to keep going. So why would all of
these companions who were women consistently go to the masjid, if
it wasn't the best place for women to pray. Ibn Hazm mentions, are we
going to say that a woman who is going to put in so much effort in
terrible weather, walking through the dirt, she's going to go
through all of that to pain the masjid, and she's not going to get
as much reward as men. In fact, she was not even going to get
reward because it would have been better for her to pray at home.
Are we going to say that? That's what Ibn Hazm says. Ibn delhita
laid mentions that the reward of a woman praying in the masjid is
like the reward of a man that does the Hadith that talks about men
and the reward that SIFA doesn't mean men, as in just men. It's
meant to be like the word mankind, like humanity, whoever is going to
pray in the masjid. So there are too many narrations of women
praying in the masjid who are the companions of the Prophet. Peace
be upon him. Too many discussions of the scholars who talk about the
reward of women praying in the masjid. One of the wives of the
Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam, used to pray in the
masjid when she was in the state of isti habla with a tray under
her so the point is that women of Medina would actively pray in the
masjid. So why would the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam say
that it would be better for a woman to pray in her home? This is
the discussion. Was that meant for a particular woman or particular
woman with particular circumstances, or is that intended
for all women until the end of time? It's a difference of opinion
a month.
Scholars. And what I think is so important is that when we say,
even if it's not the majority opinion, when we talk about this,
we at least say some scholars interpret this in a different way,
and they have strong reasoning behind that. So allow a woman and
her family, if she has other responsibilities, to decide what
would be the best way for her to worship. For example, as I
mentioned, I have a five year old and a two year old. Hamdulillah.
It is extremely difficult when the masjid was open. As much as I
loved praying in the masjid, it was extremely difficult for me to
pray in the masjid because my children were always excited about
running out the door. So in Salah, I'm like Allah Akbar, where are
they? It was so hard for me to pray in the masjid. So I was so
grateful that Allah gave me all those years where I loved to go to
the masjid and prayed the masjid and be at the masjid and hope for
that reward. And now I pray for that same reward while I'm at home
with my responsibility. So every woman is going to have a different
circumstance. Why don't we be grateful that Las peninsula has
given us the option and instead see how best we can focus in a
relationship with Him. Now that's an individual level. The problem
is, if one opinion becomes a policy, if one opinion impacts the
infrastructure, architecture and the policies of the masjid,
they'll cause women to feel like they shouldn't be there, like they
are pushed out, like there's no space for them. That is where we
need to be addressing. What is the understanding we need to have for
our community, for the protection of the Iman of women and for the
entire community. And alondo is best.
Jazakamolo here, Sara to take one more question Inshallah, and it's
a question that was submitted in the comments. And again, before
you answer this, I'm going to thank our sponsoring family who
helped sponsor today's program. But we have so much Baraka in our
grandmothers, so I had to ask the question from this grandmother,
sister, Azra Pasha.
Auntie, I'll say Auntie Azra Pasha. I am a grandmother. I am
really worried for my granddaughter who is drifting away
from the religion. This is, this is a broad question, so I don't
know how you're going to pull this one. Please advise me. So I just
wanted to, I'm going to thank our sponsoring family real quick
before you answer that question, to zakala here Sara for showing
that here on the screen, and let me bring
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that question again was, how do I give me advice as a grandmother,
I'm really worried for my granddaughter who's drifting away
from the religion, may Allah, bless you, Grandmother Azra, bless
your granddaughter with being so close to Allah, make every single
one of our family members and ourselves as people that Allah
santala loves and help us be a means of helping them come closer
to Him. It is extremely painful to think about someone that you love
moving away from Allah, and it's very hard to see that and not know
what to do. The first thing I suggest is making so much dua for
your granddaughter and everyone that you love always make dua for
them. Non Stop. Do every moment, make dua. Allah is the answer, and
be certain in his answer. The second thing is, be her friend, so
she maybe may not connect to someone else in her life. Maybe
she goes into the masjid and she doesn't feel connected to Islam
there. It's so hard right now to be a young person. Subhanallah, I
recently joined Tiktok because I was recommended to do so from one
of my teachers. And there are so many youth on there who are the
things that they are exposed to without at the same time, also
given the strength of Islam, so many questions on what it really
means to be a Muslim, especially what it means to be a Muslim
woman. So it's really, really a difficult time for young people.
So being someone for them who they can trust and they can love, and
you don't have to sit and talk to them about Islam at all. Just go
to the movies with them. Make cookies with them, hang out with
them, be their friend. They just need.
One that they know they can trust, so that when it hits their heart,
like I do, want to ask about Islam to someone, and no one is going to
understand, or maybe they're going to judge me if I have this
question, but I know that I can go to my grandma, I know, and that's
not to say that she doesn't have that in her parents or anyone
else. But the point is that be that person for her, be someone
for her, so that she feels comfortable with you, comfortable
going and sharing her, her, her confusion, her pain, her her
everything she's going through. We don't know what a person is going
through that they're not sharing with us. So being a safe person,
safe space for a person, is a really big deal. I know someone
who got a tattoo on their body of someone else's name, even though
they don't know very much about Islam, they don't know really
anything about Islam, but they got a tattoo of someone else's name
because they had a Muslim name, and they felt like that Muslim was
the only person who fully accepted them and who loved them
unconditionally. That's huge. They only felt close to Allah, even if
they don't even know about Islam, because of one Muslim's
communication, because of one Muslim's relationship with them.
So the point is, be that person make dua for them, and also, if
you have the ability help impact the things that they are
surrounded with, the culture that they're surrounded with. So a lot
of times we say things like, Well, what do you expect? If you know
the home is filled with movies, the home is filled with music, and
so what do you expect? I don't think that that's helpful. I think
we should recognize that we as families, can
focus on the actions that we can take, as well as the messages that
young people are hearing from the media without fully blaming the
fact that they have access to social media or access to movie
and music, we should help women and men. Our young people feel so
strong in their religion that if they are confronted with these
things in general society, whether it's on TV or whether it's in
music, that they can actually identify what the problem with
that is, why it's impacting their psyche, why it's causing them to
maybe hate the way that they look. This is a really big thing right
now. So many young women are asking me about plastic surgery.
I'm talking about 11 year old girls, 15 year old girls, 20 year
old woman. Why? Because of the way that women are expected to be so
perfect. Literally, it there's a movement to make plastic surgery,
nor surgery normalized, so that you can love your body, love your
body enough that you're willing to get plastic surgery to make it
look like the body you want. How about love your body enough that
you focus so much on who you are on the inside that you are willing
to love the features that God has given you, because it's not about
all you look like. Why aren't we gearing why aren't we sharing that
message too? So like, how are we going to shift the cultures and
equip our young people that when they're hearing these messages,
they know instead that they can find healing, love for themselves
and a voice for themselves in our religion and unfortunately, at
least in the generation I grew up in, I did not See that actively in
the culture of the Muslim community, but I'm seeing a shift
in that celebrate mercy, and is an amazing example of that. And
Inshallah, by exposing young people like your granddaughter to
all of these different organizations, and young women and
older women who are scholars, who are teachers Inshallah, giving
women the example of Sheikha Isha prime, the example of a example of
Layla Graham, giving women these examples of women they can
emulate. And shall I pray that they'll that we will be able to
help shift our culture, so that young girls and young boys will be
able to say, I understand why that is a problem for my life, and I'm
finding healing and inspiration in my religion instead. And finally,
don't underestimate the importance of addressing mental health.
Sometimes young people struggle with religion, not because of an
issue in religion, but because they're going through something
that they're not telling anyone. Maybe they're telling people and
they're not listening. So please recognize the importance of a
therapist. Definitely connect young people with therapy. Khalil
Center has sliding scale therapy for those who are looking for a
therapist. It's so important to identify and to recognize the
impact of mental health in the way that we see spirituality. So
support your young children and getting the help that they need to
become comprehensively healthy, Inshallah, including in their
minds.
JazakAllah here, Rosada Maria, my wife, is actually a PhD in
Clinical Psychology, so I think she'll she's a therapist herself.
She'll really appreciate your answer. But would you agree with
the statement that maybe.
Before we focus so much on, like, love your body first, maybe we
should be saying love your soul, right? Love your soul.
Thank you for that catchphrase. Love your soul. Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah. Well, we were really we're really grateful to
have you with us. I mean, we I don't know if I've ever seen and I
know I've said this before, but I really mean it this time. I don't
know if you've ever seen so many comments in the in the chat
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and we have pictures of some of our sisters who are with us in the
group here. So we take groups to Jerusalem, Mecca and Medina. We
even have scholarships for those who may not be able to afford
these trips. You can learn more and fill out the short interest
[email protected]
Slash trips that celebrate mercy.com/trips.
Inshallah, maybe as as the pandemic lifts inshallah and we
can start traveling again, maybe you can join one of those programs
inshallah. We all tell you guys about Amazon. Smile when you shop
on Amazon, you could be helping celebrate mercy. How can you be
helping celebrate mercy? Well, whenever you shop on Amazon,
instead of going to amazon.com go to smile.amazon.com
and that's where you can go to do your shopping. Inshallah, bookmark
that site, and they will ask you, when you shop on smile.amazon.com,
they'll ask you, do you want to support a charity? You say yes,
celebrate mercy. That way, anytime you purchase something on Amazon,
Amazon will give a donation to celebrate mercy at no extra cost
to you. So this is a great way to support celebrate mercy if you do
shop on Amazon, and when you do shop on Amazon, Inshallah, just
make sure that you check out our online store. We have some amazing
books, some book bundles. We want to encourage you to check those
out. We have some great Islamic art. We are hiring these days. So
if you're interested in a full time job, or a part time job, or
even like an internship role with celebrate mercy. Check out
celebratemercy.com/careers
especially, we're looking for interns as well, with the month of
Ramadan coming up and again, like I said earlier, if you're
interested in sponsoring one of these Friday gems programs, please
send us an email inshallah at [email protected]
that's info at celebrate mercy.com if you're interested in sponsoring
one of these Friday gems programs, you can even sponsor it on behalf
of a loved one who has passed away, and we had Masha Allah
people who did this in the past. I'm going to show you some slides
of people who have sponsored past Friday gems programs, just to show
you some examples of how you can do it anonymously. You can do it
here as a married couple. You can do it again. This is these are
just past examples of some of our sponsors. May Allah them for
helping us with the funding of these programs. Look at this one
in honor of the parents of this sponsor, masha Allah, may Allah
have mercy on their souls. Amin, I mean, so we want to thank you all
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to help us continue these programs going forward. And thank you to
all who are listening in on clubhouse, because this is Today
is a historic day. It's the first time that celebrate mercy is
streaming to the clubhouse app. There is a room you can follow us
on clubhouse, and we are streaming the audio of this program on
clubhouse right now. So a shout out to all those who are joining
on clubhouse. We're planning to do more of that inshallah in the
future, and having some discussions there. So mashallah
was just telling some friends and some of our team members that who
would have thought that celebrate mercy would bring Jumah Friday
gems to a club, but we did that. We did that because we are now
streaming on the clubhouse app bringing light to dark places.
Alhamdulillah. So JazakAllah, everyone. Thank you for joining.
Keep us in your prayers. Keep us in your draw. Thank you to our
family who helped sponsor today's program, jazakam and Salaam
warahk. Applause.