Maryam Amir – Women Quran Reciters w Qari Ashir Kirk from@MeasuredTonesInstituteofQuran
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The speakers discuss the importance of memorizing the Quran in shaping young people to be successful in Islam, including struggles with Arabic learning and the use of the Prophet sallavi alayhi wa sallam in the time of the Prophet sallavi alayhi wa sallam. They stress the importance of educating the audience on the topic and finding mentors and advice for women in learning from their experiences. The speakers encourage viewers to share their thoughts and share their experiences.
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Inshallah, let the people roll in as they roll in. So Bismillah.
Bismillah. Alhamdulillah, Allah.
Subhanahu, wa taala. So we have a very special guest today on
episode four of measure tones podcast where we discuss all
things Quran. Very excited to have hafila Sheikha, our teacher,
Mariam Amir Alhamdulillah, and before giving her the floor
Inshallah, I would like to take a quick moment to read her bio, so
that we can learn just a little bit about her inshallah before we
get started, not to embarrass her or anything like that. But you
know, we just gotta know who it is that we are, that we're talking
about and talking with inshallah so sada hafila melim Amir received
her master's degree in education from UCLA, where her research
focused on the effects of mentorship, rooted in critical
race theory for urban high school students of color, did not expect
that. Did not expect that. Masha Allah, it's a hot topic today,
too. Masha Allah, she holds a second bachelor's degree. Yes, she
holds a second bachelor's degree in Islamic studies through
Alzheimer University. Alhamdulillah Mariam studied in
Egypt, memorized the Quran and its entirety. Alhamdulillah and has
researched a variety of religious sciences, ranging from Quranic
exegesis, tafsir, Islamic jurisprudence and prophetic
narrations and commentary Hadith, women's rights within Islamic law
and more. For the past 15 years, masha Allah, she's featured in a
video series on faith produced by good cast.net called the Miriam
Amir show. Sha Allah, maybe before we leave, you can tell us a little
bit about the Mariam Amir show and how people can follow that access
that content. Inshallah, she actively hosts women who have
memorized Quran from around the world to recite and share their
journeys through her
into the revelation series and the hashtag for mothers campaign. She
is an instructor with Swiss and hikma institutes and an author
with virtual mosque in El Juma online, Miriam's focus in the
fields of
spiritual connection, identity, actualization, social justice and
Women's Studies have humbled her the opportunity to lecture
throughout the United States and around the world, including in
Jerusalem, Mecca, Medina, Stockholm, London, Toronto, and
more. She holds a second degree black belt and Thai Kwan. Do what
don't mess with this. Sister Allah, and she speaks multiple
languages. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. So we're very
excited to have you on sister, Alhamdulillah. Let's just
Alhamdulillah. So let's just, let's get, get right into it.
Inshallah. So
I just want, before starting, I had wanted to to just get a little
bit about the beginning of your journey with the Quran. You know,
you memorize the Quran. And obviously, obviously, this is
something, this is something that's very, you know, important
to me as a father of many, many young girls, little girls, I got a
bunch of daughters, Alhamdulillah and, yeah. So, as you know, when,
when we think of Quran reciters and and scholars of Quran and
things like that. Typically, you know, first thing comes to mind
is, you know, a bunch of brothers, right? A bunch of men. And so it's
always nice to see our sisters coming out and into the limelight,
to the forefront, and showing our daughters, our sisters wives,
that, you know, they can also achieve this. You.
You know just as much as as the next person, Alhamdulillah. So
tell us a little bit about your journey and how that was for you.
Inshallah,
confit was ALLAH to some Allah. So that is such a blessing and an
honor to learn from you. Imam. It's such a gift to be with you
here, someone who I admire so much in your efforts for the Quran.
Mashallah, father of daughters, who is showing women their his his
own daughters, how they can be the forefront of of happy thoughts and
woman of Quran mashallah, it's such a gift to be able to have
that in your in your life, and be able to see that. Alhamdulillah, I
was very blessed with parents who were intentional about teaching me
Islam. My my family, a lot of my family, a lot of my family members
are converts, and so it was a very intentional way of wanting to
teach, you know, the next generation Islam. But I didn't
feel connected. I didn't know if I wanted to be Muslim. I at the
time, to be completely honest, I really I especially growing up in
California, I wanted to be like Britney Spears and the actors who
were really famous at the time, just like these were the role
models that I saw as the cool people who, as a middle schooler,
as a high schooler, you know, like all of our peers, wanted to be
kind of similar and so, or a lot of a lot of them, at least. So
that was kind of like the path that I envisioned, and religiosity
and spirituality wasn't part of the journey that I had wanted to
see myself on. And then when my parents, they decided that we were
going to go for Amra Subhanallah, they told us, when I was in high
school, we were going to go for Amra, and I was terrified. I was,
you know, as a teenager, that was not any sort of and that I didn't
have any sort of like identity rooted in this is how I would be.
I was worried that I go to Mecca, come back, and become some like
pious person, because I'd seen other people have that story, and
I did not want that to be my story. Subhan Allah, when I first
saw the Kaaba, I just couldn't I couldn't hold back the I felt
like, like this was my heart, and something just slammed into it.
Seeing the kiabah for me, was this moment of waking up. It was like
Ethan man can and Mehta, the one who was dead
that Allah gave this person life. This is the way I felt like my
heart was literally dead, and for the first time in my life, I felt
it come alive. And in that moment, I remember repenting to Allah and
asking Him to guide me and to forgive me and to help me stay
close to Him, because this feeling was something I had never known
existed, and I I wanted to do everything possible to come back
and experience that again. So when I went back to high school, back
to, you know, California, everything was the same. I was the
one who went through a spiritual experience. It's not like everyone
in the world suddenly shifted, but I did, and I didn't know how to
maintain that, considering I didn't want to identify as that
before. And so when I came back, I decided that what is one way that
I can connect to Allah,
and I thought the Quran. I mean, the Quran is the word of God, and
so if I want to get to know Him, then being able to read his book
is the best way that I could get to know him. But I am not Arab. I
didn't speak Arabic. I barely could read the Quran, of course,
like when I was a kid, you know, my parents had put me in classes
so that I could read it, but I had an open Quran in years. Since I
was a kid, I could barely read it. And so I really struggled. I mean,
I intended that I was going to read five pages of Quran a day.
And for someone who doesn't know how to read Quran, that is a lot
of pages. I didn't know that at the time. I thought the number
five is not that big. It was a lot of effort. But every single day, I
was intentional about it. And sometimes it would take hours, but
I would still do it. And one day, my mom walked past my room and she
was like, why don't you read it in English, so that you understand
what it's saying. And
when I share that now, I am overcome with emotion, because I
feel like Allah just gifted me. I know so many people who start the
process with the Quran and they're never told read a translation.
It's never even suggested to them to read a translation. It's all
about read as much Arabic as you can, and as as much Baroque as
there is in the Quran. In Arabic, Abu Gore, or the Quran, who
mentions that if you recite the Quran in your home, you know the
the Shayol clean, leave the there's there's the angels are
roaming the earth looking for people recital Quran. There's
reward in every single letter that you're reciting, of course. But it
was also revealed in Arabic for a reason, to people who were Arabic
speakers for a reason. And so I'm so grateful for my mother, who
made that suggestion, who she herself really found, you know,
the beauty of Islam to the Quran when she was in college. And my
dad, too. And so for me, being able to Subhanallah, access the
the.
The Quran in the English translation, and hearing it in a
way that I felt related to my life changed my life. I would go to
school and something would happen, and I'd come home bawling, and I
just like, just like, open the Quran to a random page, and then
point my finger in the page that I would open it to. That was the
exact thing that I was going through in school over and over.
It was just a panel of every single time I felt like, Is Allah
listening? And then the next verse would be,
I answer the one who calls upon me when he calls. It was just so
direct. And I felt like Allah knows what I'm going through. He's
watching me. He's aware. And I don't want to just know this book
to read it anymore. I want to I want to really know it, to learn
it, to memorize it. And that moment came for me when we were
driving to tadawiya. It was Ramadan and Sheik Nasr al ramidi,
the tape. Cassette was playing of him reciting, I don't know if
you've heard this recitation, like old school recitations of it was
sort of minuen. I didn't know that at the time. I just heard him
crying so hard. And as he's crying and he stops to take a breath, you
can hear all the people behind him crying. And I asked my dad, like,
why are they all crying? And he said, Oh, this is talking about
the Hereafter. And subpala that night after tadawiya, it was the
first night I ever felt the sweetness of Ramadan. Like people
talk about the sweetness of Ramadan, I never felt the
sweetness of Ramadan until that moment, that night, I felt it. And
I came home after tadawiya, and I opened swords on what me noon, and
I read it in the English translation and in the Arabic, and
I was like, I want to memorize this chapter. And that's the first
chapter I memorized of the Quran. That chapter I memorized in the
English transliteration. I barely could read the Arabic still, so I
read memorized like in English letters and Subhan Allah. After
the blessing of being able to memorize it with the English
transliteration, I was like, I want to, I want to memorize the
Quran for real. And so that's when I started going to a teacher who
asked me, Do you want to memorize this, or do you want to memorize
it correctly? And I was like, No, I just want to memorize. Like,
memorize, that's all. And she's like, No, no. Like, if you
memorize all of it and you're not doing it correctly, what's the
point? So that put me on the process of tijuid and hamdullah.
From that point until I finally memorized Sakura, and it took
about seven years. It took me so long because every time I found a
teacher, something happened, and I had to stop. And so when I found
another teacher, it would take, like the first six months she just
want to review what I had memorized in the past, and then I
take then, for some reason, I had to stop studying with her, and
then I'd find it take another eight months to find another
teacher. And in that time, I'm reviewing and trying to memorize
over and over and over. I was working full time. I was going to
school full time, or a mixture of both. And then Alhamdulillah, in
Egypt, I was able to find a teacher full time. And when I came
back, I was looking again. And this is where Allah blessed my
journey to another level, he blessed me with Sheik Moheb FUDA.
Sheik Moheb FUDA is well known in Quran circles as mashallah, a
master reciter, Tabarak Allah. He has ejazette in every his
recitation is so strong. He never looks at the Mushaf. He opens it
because it's ay bada to stare at the Mushaf, but he doesn't recite
the pages that he's looking at because Subhan Allah, the
recitation that he's saying in his head is so strong that if he looks
at the Mustafa, it confuses him. Masha Allah, Tabarak Allah, his
recitation is so
is so
perfect. Barak Allah, so when he is doing his recitation, and he
shares with you how the Quran is a form of barakah and risk and and
he's sharing all this love for the Quran. But it's not just that for
me as a woman, especially as a non Arab woman, the way that he taught
me to love the Quran as a woman, to find my voice as a woman, was
so intentional, he allowed me to I loved the Quran already. I was in
love with the message the way that Allah guided me through Islam. It
was just I was so nothing more. I I struggled with women's issues a
lot as I was studying Islam more, the more I learned about women's
issues, the more I became afraid of what I was going to find. And
so I stopped studying women's issues for years, until I was
ready to come back to it, and now, Alhamdulillah, those are the
issues that I'm so passionate about, and I find healing and so
much uplift through but at that time when I could barely speak
Arabic, when I was just trying to focus on, how do I make this
connection, the Quran was and still is my life. But Sheik Moheb
taught me as a woman that the Quran is powerful for women,
especially, and being able to have that experience open the doors for
me to start seeing the Quran, not just which is 100% a book that
transforms our lives, and, of course, a book that transformed
the world, but also a book, specially, where women are heard
by.
God, and that especially in a world where sometimes we feel like
we're not seen, and that we have to fight just for some basic
rights or or Forgive me for saying fight for basic rights, maybe it's
not the right term, but sometimes there is so much that we struggle
with just because of being woman, whether it's in general society,
the messages we hear on what our is. It's only about our beauty.
It's only about, you know, the general society messages of what
men are, and then the specific messaging within the Muslim
community, depending on the community you're in, all of those
different things, the healing that the Quran brings through. That was
the message that I found from Sheik Mohib. And so I'm so
grateful and blessed hamdullah. Mean that he that he was my
teacher, and that ALLAH blessed me with him and Alhamdulillah, I'm
still doing my review with Hamdulillah, so grateful for that.
The review is, of course, a lifetime, but that's a shortened
version of my story.
Alhamdulillah. Now I appreciate you sharing that. Alhamdulillah, I
heard you, you and
Imam jihad, talking about Sheik Mohib in the end of Ramadan
program that you guys did with all the Quran and whatnot. So I
remember you mentioning that mashallah, is he the teacher, also
of the the two young the brother and sister that were reciting that
night? Yes, there are two of his students. Yes,
yet. Two
of his students? Yes, I've yet to come out to to the West Coast,
like, you know, the furthest West I've been, I think, is New Mexico.
I went to Islam, the Adobe Masjid out there in Abu New Mexico. Yeah,
that's beautiful. Yes, absolutely breathtaking. Everything about it
is breathtaking. Yeah. And so that's the furthest West that I've
been there in, like, Colorado, but, like, I haven't been to
California at all yet, so I'm trying to get out there. Got a
good friend out there, so I got a bunch of people out there, but oh
my goodness, Talib thought of Safi. Do you know, thought of
Sophie.
He's like in dental he's in he's in LA he's like in dental school,
or no, no, I think he changed. He changed to, like, optometry or
something like that. But this guy's recitation, Masha Allah.
Masha Allah, He has multiple trying to finish his heavenly he's
in optometry school, uh, he's from, like, Jordan or something.
But anyway, so I'm trying to get out there. Sean. Want to visit
him. Want to visit, you know, shakes head, and then you guys are
your community. So thank you. Thank you. No, thank you for
sharing that in that, yeah, you, you actually answered my second
question, because I was going to ask you, you know, because you
have so much content that really, you know, it shows how pat that
your content, basically, is
sort of a window right into your heart, you know, and into your
mind, with regards to the passion and love that you have for the
Quran Alhamdulillah. And so I was going to ask you, you know what
ignited you know what ignited that passion and what keeps you going?
And so you answered that pretty much in you know what you said
just now? Alhamdulillah, well, you said, what ignited and What?
What? What? What ignites that passion? Ignited that passion. But
did you say, what keeps you going? Can you maybe share, share with
us? What keeps you motivated? Why? Why? Why are you not giving up the
fight? Because, in your voice, when you spoke, when you said we
talked about, you know, just sort of the struggle for for basic
rights and so on and so forth, when it comes to women and the
space of Quran and Island and so on, and you sounded almost
exhausted, right? Like, man, it's so much. It's such a, you know, a
tough a tough struggle, a tough fight. Why? Why? Why stay in the
fight. Why stay in the struggle? Why keep it pushing
so especially because I am actively addressing women's
issues. I hear from women every day. I hear from I average. This
is, like so awkward to say, but I'm just going to share it because
I think it's really important to realize how intense this is. Just
on Instagram, I average around 500 messages a week, and those are
women who are messaging me, who are saying the struggles that
they're having with religion, the struggles that they're having in
their marriages, the struggles that they're having with not being
able to access the masjid, the struggles they're having with
whether or not they want to stay Muslim, and a lot of times,
they're coming from young people who are in their early 20s and in
their late teens, who are questioning all of Islam because
they haven't seen women as part of spaces of knowledge, and they're
wondering why women are inferior to men. Being asked if a woman is
some somehow not quite a, not quite a, not quite an animal, but
not quite a human like the question.
That I receive are absolutely just blow my mind the way that these
young women have clung onto their faith despite the fact that they
constantly struggle with the messages they think are Islamic
with regards to women's roles and who we are in the sight of law.
And then I hear from women who are in their 30s and 40s, who have
been hearing certain messages about what it means to be a Muslim
woman in the community, and who now in their marriages, or now
that they're divorced, or because they've never been married, have
faced a lot of struggle because some of the reasons they did
things, for example, wearing hijab was part of a greater community
discussion on the reason that we wear hijab is because you're
protecting yourself, or because you are for men, or because you
are wearing it so that you you save yourself for your husband.
For example, those are some of the messages that these women in their
30s and 40s grew up with, and these women in their 30s and 40s
trigger warning for what I'm going to share
have many times been the victims and survivors of sexual assault or
their their their their marriages have been with, you know, an
abuser who has harmed them physically to great extent, as
well as their children, and so now all the messages they grew up
with, do these things, you're going to have a wonderful, happy
life where hijab,
everything will go well, because it's A protection and it's a
guarantee those were the messages they were taught, and that's not
the experience that they had. So sentence and hearing that your
religion is going to do these things for you and it doesn't, is
really hard for them to grapple with, because when they go into
religious spaces, not always many times like yourself. Sheik, may
Allah, bless you. So many imams are so supportive, actively
accessible to women, actively caring about the protection and
the Rights of Woman. But unfortunately, sometimes that's
not the experience women have. And I've had women who have asked me,
you know, you're the you're the first person who's told me it's
okay for me to separate from, you know, to separate from her husband
when he has held a knife to her neck. Like, I'm the first person
who said that it's not okay for a man to hold a knife to your neck.
That's insane. Like, how is that possible? So the more that I hear
from women like this, like, sometimes people tell me things
like, you know, women already can access the Masjid. Why are you so
obsessed with women and going to the masjid because I'm I'm glad
that hasn't been your experience, but maybe you're not receiving the
messages I'm receiving, and the women who are experiencing the
things that they're experiencing or sharing with me that they don't
have access and a safe place, and a place that they feel like they
can worship, and an imam that they feel come to asking, and a woman
of knowledge they can seek knowledge from. So like, the more
that I sometimes I'm overwhelmed. I can't tell you how often I'm
just like, I just want to get off of all social media. I just want
to focus on my Quran. I just want to focus on my own studies. That's
all I want to do. But then I hear from women who are telling me that
they were about to leave Islam and coming across the content, it's
not because of me. It's because I share so much about other women my
age. Is all about Express
profiling, women who are women of knowledge, women who are
memorizers of the Quran and recent Quran all around the world. She
are, you know, a woman or who are scholars, who have dedicated their
lives to Phil and to Islamic law, and who are, who are Masha Allah,
such examples for all women and many communities never saw that. I
I didn't see this growing up. Many communities never saw many girls.
Many daughters never saw women they could hope to be like as they
were growing up. And that filling that space for other woman has
been a form of healing, and that's what part of part of the messages
that I receive is just the gratitude for doing this, because
they feel like they can actually
find themselves with Islam again. And when I get messages like that,
it drowns out all of the fortunate and unnecessary other types of
messages. It helps me realize that Subhanallah women just need a
space to hear other women. And this is really where it kind of
comes from. The concept of, like, I know this is a discussion that
shalo will have at some point, but just like, Why do women need to be
there? Why do women need to accept Quran in public? Why it's like,
it's not for men to hear us, it's for other woman to have access to
other women. And right now, social media is really the place where
women have access. And yes, Hamidah, now we have, you know,
institutes, but a lot of women don't know about those institutes,
or they've tried, and those institutes have actually been
really hurtful to them. And so being a bridge where it's like,
there are all these options, there are all these institutes.
So all these women scholars, and this is a place for a woman, and
men are our allies. Men are our brothers. Men are our guardians.
They're they're the ones you know. Masha Allah, it's a gift from
Allah to have men who are supportive of women, just like
you. Imam. And so many Imams, so many Imams have reached out to me.
I can't tell you, I can't even count the number of Imams who've
reached out to me and said, Thank you for doing this. Please keep
doing this. Let me know how I can support you. It's been such a gift
to hear this, Hamdulillah, but to know that there are women who are
like the woman that they see, and that there are Imams who support
women are accessible to women when maybe they haven't had those
experiences. Alhamdulillah, being able to have that has been such a
gift to be a bridge, to be able to help women who are finding their
voices and finding that healing go back and say, Now I'm ready to
study. Now I'm ready to really learn my religion. Where do I go?
And then hamdullah for being able to share your institute, and being
able to share rubbletha, which is Dr Chairman Grace Institute, Dr
Aisha Prime's Institute, so many different sheikhas who are here
And Alhamdulillah. Have found that that healing with Islam,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. So that's, that's the perfect,
perfect segue. But before, before that, you know, we do have, you
know, some, some comments from the from the viewers, people asking,
may Allah elevate and fortify you, instead of the Mariam
and making Yeah, Alhamdulillah. And also, we have a question up
here, but Inshallah, we'll wait for to the end Inshallah, because
we want to get to the crux of the matter, inshallah. And so what you
mentioned at the end, right there, is what we want to kind of move
into. And so let's talk about women reciting in front of non men
in public, right? It can be a very controversial topic to talk about
at times, but
it doesn't have to be, does it? Right? You know? It's like, I just
got a message yesterday when I posted my
posted the flyer for this live on Instagram, and, you know, all
over, and a sister randomly doesn't follow me, right? I had to
accept the message. She messaged me, and she gave me this whole
thing, and was like, you know, pretty simple, no, right? She put,
actually, she commented on the thing. Pretty simple, no. And then
she sent me this whole thing, and some video, some screenshot of a
fatwa from some Sheik, who said the voice of women is aura, and
she's like, the women's voice is aura and this and that. And I had
said something really short in response to her, nothing like
disrespectful, polite and everything. And then she sent,
like, this whole slew and, you know, and it was, like, very,
like, very passionate about this, right? And so, so, yeah, I wanted
to, I wanted to ask you, like, what you know, what? What's the
deal with that? Do you know? Do you know anything about, sort of,
like, where this come from, and how it became kind of this, kind
of, like, the dominant sort of, sort of theme, but if anything,
just kind of, you know, enlighten us about this topic in general.
Inshallah, please educate us.
It's interesting that when we talk about it as a controversial issue,
it's controversial here for us, because the way that our
communities were founded from the from the majority immigrant Muslim
community, there were certain cultural norms and understandings
from Phil that were brought in and established, and they kind of
became a dominant discussion on how particular norms were
acceptable. But when we look at Indonesia or Malaysia or Singapore
or Algeria or Morocco or so many different parts of the
different parts of the of Muslim majority countries, and also
countries that are not Muslim majority, like Nigeria, but the
concept of how women recite in different areas are, are it's not
controversial there because it's the norm, because it's been their
norm for centuries. And so really, when, when, when I first came
across this, it was because I went to my masjid, and there was a high
school student who was reciting the Quran, who was a girl who the
the director of the of Dawa had asked to recite for an event
geared towards non Muslims, and when I saw a woman reciting the
first and last time I've ever seen it at my masjid, I was so shocked,
and I went to her and I said, you know, this is haram, like, It's
haram for a woman to recite.
I know she's a girl, yeah. I was like, I know she's a teenager,
but, and I know you're, you're, it's for non Muslims, like I get
you're trying to ignore to them, but this is haram, and may Allah
bless her. She's from Indonesia. She's like,
in Indonesia we have women Quran reciters who recite on TV and in
competitions. This is normal in Indonesia. She's like, maybe it's
a difference of opinion that you're not aware of. That moment
just shocked me.
Me a difference of opinion on this, but I've only ever heard
that it's haram. And then when I went to Egypt to study, I walked
into mashal Azhar in meshul Azhar itself, not some random, you know,
I don't know, program that everyone is saying a lot this is
happening. No in meshul alz, one of the most famous Quran reciters
of the time, was sitting so humbly, men on one side in front
of him, women on the other side in front of him, all of them in front
there wasn't a barrier between them. He was reciting an ayah.
They were all reciting back hundreds of people. I could never
seen something like this before, to be in such a historic masjid, a
place, a bastion of knowledge, and to see this there I was just I
didn't ask how. I was taken aback. And then started studying with
Sheik Moheb. The way that I was introduced to this formally was
Sheik Mohib told me, Miriam, you need to recite at our welcome back
banquet. And I was like, Chef, I'm a woman. And he was like, he got
so angry at me. He is the one who introduced this to me from a
formal perspective. He said, Do you know how many women have
taught men Quran? Do you know how many of Quran reciters have been
women throughout Islamic history? This is our legacy. And then he
taught me about a blue boss. It's teacher who was a woman. And he
said that, you know, this might not be he said, actually, this is
what he said. He said, If men have a problem with it at the banquet,
they can walk out of the room.
That, for me, so powerful. The solution, if someone has an issue
with it is simply they can walk out of the room.
Pamela, so I recited because my chef is like, Listen, you got to
recite because you have to show other women in that room that
you're not, that you're not out of that you're born and raised in the
United States, that you can do it, and they can do it too. And what
happened that day in the banquet, I recited. The men listened. Some
of them looked down. Some of them watched. I don't know, to be
honest, I wasn't looking at them, but I'm assuming. And you know,
what happened to the woman?
So many women came up to me and said, I want to do it too,
like the path that then I traveled all throughout the UK with Al
guruj Press. They had me and esthetic Jinnah and Yusuf going
and giving lectures to women and all of these different cities. And
over and over, I would say, in Quran, in these all women's
spaces. And all of these women were coming to me after, and they
were in tears. And these are women between their 20s to their 50s
saying that they had never heard a woman recite the Quran before. And
had they known women can recite the Quran, they would have tried
to memorize the Quran as well. And a woman in her 50s is telling me
she's never heard a woman recite the Quran till this program,
crying, asking me, How can I do it too. Wow. Like, how can you live
all of these decades thinking? Subhan Allah, this is only for
men. And I kept hearing that from women that this, they've been told
that because they're going to have children, potentially, they're not
going to have time to review the Quran. There's no point of
becoming Quran memorizers, because they're never going to lead Tara.
We had a masjid. There's no point of memorizing the Quran. They
consistently were told this. And so these the whole this is the
culture when it's the it's not just one or two people when that's
the culture. When you're hearing this, when the culture is you
don't see women reciting, and you don't know women recite, and then
people tell you this, you just accept, okay, maybe it's not
funny, but Subhan Allah. When you hear about women in Islamic
history who are Quran reciters, it's so powerful to see that Imam
is we have umani who was reciting the Quran, and so her recitation
moved him, and he, he, he mentioned being emotionally moved
by her recitation. We looking at the fiqh, there is this concept of
a woman's voice is out of but where does that come from? Because
even contemporary scholars like Ibn say, mean Rahima hola Ibn
AHIMA Allah, he mentioned that the refute, the refute, to refute this
issue in and of itself, is in the Quran, because the Quran itself,
says philatum, the Quran itself is giving a guideline for how to
speak. So women are speaking and Imam Al Ghazali, Rahim Allah,
Muhammad Al Razali Rahim Allah. He talks about how
za the daughter of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
waited until the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
started praying Salah talm, and they were praying, and then she
called out and asked for the protection of her husband. Alas,
before.
He became Muslim. And after the Salah, the Prophet sallallahu,
alayhi wasallam hadn't was was talking to the companion, saying
that he had no idea that she was going to be saying this. And he
talked to her afterwards about what that it was haram for her to
use her voice while they were praying out loud when people could
hear no it had nothing to do with her voice, and everything to do
with the rulings of Alas, staying with her. And then he went to the
other companions and worked with the rulings of the situation. In
no time did the fact that she used her voice come up. There are too
many. There are hundreds of narrations of women using their
voices, sometimes shouting, sometimes speaking quietly, and
the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam never said to any of them
that you should not speak. So to say that the voice of a woman is a
awra is not it's not factually correct. Where did that come?
Where did the idea even come from? Sometimes we have statements that
become popularized in a particular community that maybe from a
scholar, or maybe from a someone making Dawa who was trying to
encourage good, who's trying to support good, maybe they saw
something in society and they said, Okay, this is going to lead
to harm. We're going to close that door, and we're going to say all
of it is haram. Maybe that's where it started. But the problem with
this is that in in our text itself, it it refutes that point.
So the the concept of a woman's voice in general, being awra is
not something that we see in our religion. Now, as to actual
recitation, a lot of people could say, Yeah, we're not talking about
her speaking. We're talking about her reciting. Where does that come
from? Let's look at the ayah I just mentioned that fella, the
part of the verse that is used for from the from the scholars and
those who say that is haram for a woman to recite. They use that
part of us. But look at the different interpretations of this
ayah. Imam as to UTI mentions that they shouldn't speak. They should
speak quietly. They should speak and not not speak in a soft we
lower their voices.
Other scholars from Beverly to or to
be they have different understandings of what this means,
all of them, ranging in different ways beyond what the second part
of the verses fayal bihi mural, who is the one who has a disease
in their heart? Is it a person, a man who is listening to a woman's
voice reciting the Quran and he is finding himself remembering Allah?
Or is it someone who has hypocrisy in their heart? So be concerned
that if you're going to say something Doctor Muhammad arimara,
he mentions this, he's, he's a he's the sheik of one of my
teachers from Allah mentions this verse isn't about being
what's the word
seductive? This verse is about not,
not giving someone a way into the Muslim community if they have
hypocrisy, if they're willing to use that against Muslims. We're
not talking about hypocrisy. I someone who prays, but they don't
really want to pray, and they wonder if they're a hypocrite. No,
we're talking about in the time of the Prophet sallallahu, some
hypocrites who are actively trying to bring down the Muslim
community. These are different types of interpretation of that
specific ayah. There are, there's not an ijma of what this verse
means. So if there's not a an ijma, if there's not all the
scholars agree that it means that a woman's voice shouldn't be
heard. We say the Quran in a beautiful way, then where are we
going to get that? We're going to look at the words of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. There's no Hadith of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasam saying this. In fact, in Muslim Imam
Ahmed, he passed by a woman reciting he passed by a woman's
home. She was reciting sura. He heard the first ayah, and he
responded in an emotional way, yes, it has come to me. Yes, it
has come to me. And Imam shakiti, he talks about this narration, and
he mentions that it is permissible for women to recite the Quran,
even if there are men who are going to hear her reciting in a
beautiful way, unless there is a fear of fitna. And this is really
where this is based, in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam
himself is hearing a woman reciting. He's not telling her
that she shouldn't recite. And people have said, Oh, that was in
her home. That's different. It's not he's the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa salam. We have so many narrations of women's voices
carrying out of their home, the famous narration of amah who heard
a mother and a daughter talking about being just in what they were
selling, and that led to him asking one of his sons to propose
to the daughter like we have women here. The woman's voice is being
heard outside of their homes they didn't live in, like homes that
were completely isolated and sound so the point is that when we you.
Are looking at the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam is a
legislator of law. If the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wasallam is
hearing a woman's voice outside of her home, we send the Quran. If
that was haram, he has to speak on it. He is a legislator of law. He
he has to say something instead, Salla Salam, he found the verses
to be emotionally moving for him so Allah, it is impossible to
think that woman, in the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
salam, who were learning Quran, who the woman themselves said that
they memorize all of Surah, suraka, or or, or different surah
of the Quran from hearing the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam,
that they weren't recital Quran. They literally live in the time of
Revelation. They are our foremothers. They literally lived
witnessing the revelation. Is it possible to think that the only
way they recited was whispering, that no one else would hear them?
They taught the Quran? We know that the Companions would go to
ask um Ayman radila anha would Amar and Abu Bakr Al dilawah came
to visit um Aman after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasam had passed
away, and she started to cry. And they said, Why are you crying?
Don't you know that what is with Allah is better for the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? And she said, I'm not crying because I
don't know that what is with Allah is better for the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I'm crying because the revelation has
been cut off from the heavens. And so they both started to cry, and
all three of them cried together. That connection with the Quran was
something that the woman companions had, radila. And so
then when we look at, where does this come from? It's the concept
of, said, of the Royal which is blocking the means to evil,
blocking the means to evil before it can become
a form of evil. Now, when we look at scholars from the past, Imam
Abu jaidemi, centuries ago, he was a great scholar from the chef here
in meth, he says
that it if a man is going to find Forgive me for being explicit,
because this isn't just finding a woman's voice beautiful when she
recites Quran, he talks about, if he's going to be turned on by
listening to a woman recite the Quran, it is haram. And if that's
not going to happen, then it's not haram.
Says the same thing. It is haram for a man, the same idea for a
woman's voice. Walo with the recitation of the Quran.
It's from if this is going to happen, who do these scholars put
the responsibility on? They put the responsibility on men who are
listening, who find this happening to them fearful. Be he moral. It's
not fearful. Be He, oh, he's thinking mashaAllah, her
recitation is beautiful. He's coming closer to Allah. No
SubhanAllah. Shel haniti, who I was so blessed to interview, from
Spain, she's established a school that's that works in Spanish,
teaching Quran to women and men. She's She went to Morocco to study
Islam and come back and establish a school because there was nothing
in Spanish for native Spanish speakers and Subhanallah, she said
fiocalbihi mural. It's somebody who had a Zs in their heart. It's
not some random person. Not every man listening is going to have a
disease in his heart. If you're listening to the Quran and you
find yourself turned on by that, that's a disease. So this is who
the verse is addressing. So over and over, the scholars who address
this issue with permissibility say the responsibility is on the man
to scroll away, to stop listening, to walk out of the room. Not haram
on all women to stop reciting. And when we talk to the scholars
today, the men scholars and the women's scholars in Morocco and
Algeria and Malaysia, these are countries, if you look like if you
scroll through my page on Instagram, at the Miriam Amir T, A
E, M, A R, Y, a m, a m, I R, you'll see so many interviews with
women who are on TV, Who are on competitions, reciting Quran with
major Quran scholars because they are major Quran scholars who are
men and the scholars of these communities, they don't
when I asked them when I when I've interviewed women who've come on
and I said, like, what is it like for a woman? They'd say, they'd
say to me something like, you know, maybe in California, this
isn't the norm, but this is normal here. Women, Recep Quran, women,
Recep Quran, with men and women win competitions over men. That's
our norm. And for me, that was so powerful because they have,
I'm so sorry to say this, but they have. They have removed any sort
of the concept of, I
don't even want to use the word
making the Quran anything other than undivine. The Quran for them
is Quran.
Thank you.
It's just focusing on the revelation of the word.
Of Allah. The beauty of the recitation, it's not about who is
reciting. It's not sexualizing Abu DHA recitation. It's it's part of
focusing with Quran. Now, of course, there are scholars who
made the opinions that it's going to lead to fitna, if men listen,
it's going to lead to doors of fitna being opened. If men have
access to this and hear women are reciting, no worries. If that's
the opinion that someone wants to take, that's totally fine. This is
a difference of opinion. Donald IFTA and in Jordan and in Egypt
said the same thing, that is permissible for one to recite. Men
are the ones to hold the responsibility, unless there's
fitna, if there's a concern of fitna. So when we're talking about
fitna, what is a concern of fitna? We're worried that there's going
to be a man who's going to hear a woman reciting, and something
could happen inside of him. This is a problem, of course, but
closing the door completely for women, it's recitation is where we
are right now, women who are leaving our religion, women who've
never memorized the Quran or even thought about it, because they
thought it was for men women who don't feel like they have a space
in Islam because they've never heard a woman reside in the Quran
before. And as I mentioned, I hear from these women in the hundreds
weekly. So this isn't some obscure reality that someone is making up
in my head. These are women from all around the world saying for
the first time in my life, for the first time in my life, and she's
saying that she's in her 40s, that she messaged me saying I recited
the Quran for my parents, and we all wept for the first time in my
life. I'm reciting the Quran for my children. I'm reciting the
Quran for my children. I never knew I could recite out loud. That
might seem shocking to some people, but that's the culture for
some people. So the point is, for me, at least here. The point for
me is not like some people say, Why? Like, why do you why are you
obsessed with women being equal to men in Quran and recitation? I'm
like, that's your pitch that comes from you. I'm saying women need
access to other women to recite the Quran. If men here women on
social media and have a problem, they can scroll away from him,
because we have women like in Ilhan Asmaa, which is a book that
was overlooked al Hana in Hannah said that was overlooked by iba.
It was written by a Sarah Denny. He talks about women reciters of
Egypt from the time of Muhammad besha, the Ottoman ruler, the
ruler in the 1800s how a woman would come and be the Quran
reciter for the court. She's buried by Imam ashefari, Rahima,
Allah rahimahamu, Allah SubhanAllah. We have women who are
Quran reciters, who are actively part of the Egyptian culture of
Quran recitation that stopped because of a fatwa that was passed
by Al Azhar in the mid 1900s
and then women's recitation stopped publicly in Egypt. And now
the the daughter, if that in Egypt, has reversed and has
changed that position. But the point is, when we're talking about
women reciting, where does it? Where does the Haram part come
from? It's based in the concept of preventing fitna. If we're in a
community, if we're in a society, if we're in a culture where women
reciting could truly bring fitna, then absolutely we should prevent
it 100% I'm not addressing the culture of Saudi Arabia. I'm not
addressing the culture of different places that might have
that concern. I don't know what Saudis culture is with this, but
here in the United States, where women have access to the Wap Song,
and they're finding that to be empowering, yes, I want women to
hear other women reciting, because the greater fitna is that women
are leaving and they're not coming back. And that is the fitna that I
think we need to start prioritizing. Because once we
focus on that as a priority, we can, Inshallah, start seeing women
feeling like the true gift of Islam that Allah has blessed us
with. Subhan, Allah is such a gift to be a Muslim woman, and people
say that, and they don't realize that pain women go through in our
community, sometimes, so many Imam so many communities are actively
focusing on access to women and inshallah. More and more that will
happen, and we'll start to see the shift for your daughter's
generation and my son's generation, so that they will grow
up with a healed space inshallah.
Inshallah. Inshallah. You
got. Me emotional over here. I'm over here trying to keep it
together. Thank you, sis. I really appreciate you sharing that. Got a
lot of excitement in the comment section. A little pushback, but
nothing, nothing major. One of one of our our viewers, was saying
that she, she, she was of the opinion she was kind of taking
more of a, sort of, like a middle ground, right? So she wasn't
saying It's haram, but she's saying that it's, it's, it's
permissible, but they can't use makamats because they're
beautifying their voice if they use, if they use the Makah mat.
And then,
and then she said, yeah, basically what you were saying the.
That's fitna for other men and then. But if it's a situation
where a man can't find another man who is fully qualified and has
mastered all the rules of tejui, then it's okay for him. Then in
that sort of extreme case, to to take a female teacher, but I think
you just addressed a lot of that. But if there's anything in the
comment, you know what you want me to let you read the the comment.
You want to see it,
and you maybe you can address it this way. Oh, sure.
The issue is that reading with me, Matt, the rhythm, the do it
purposely, and this something makes fit enough for other men.
But what but reading with rules of tijuri Clearly, with tension of
teaching without going up and down and making like music with your
voice, that's the problem. And sometimes it goes to the point
that they say Allah like they are amused by isaana the Quran.
Actually, this is a really good point, and thank you for
mentioning this. So there is this. There is a difference between
recitation in mat being used in a way that follows the tijuid rules
and is for expressing the meaning of the verses versus actually
taking as a song. And when scholars talk, when scholars talk
about women not reciting in public, this is one of the points
they make. Don't sing the Quran. But this is not specifically for
women. Men do this as well. Sometimes you hear the Quran being
sung like a song that's problematic men and women. The
Quran is not a song. It has rules. Makama is different, though. Maka
mat is a different discussion completely that we don't have time
to get into right now. But the point is that I encourage, I
encourage anyone listening to go and listen to the woman who I've
interviewed from Singapore. Her name is
shehami and also we have water Hassan, Sheikha, Warda Hassan,
from Indonesia and from Malaysia, their recitations with med. I just
want you to listen to them. You will find yourself on a different
level. Different level. You will realize Quran is different from
what you've experienced before, and this is so parallel there. The
recitations is just so beautiful to hear and having to that we had,
you know, I I've been so blessed and grateful to to interview women
from so many different parts of the world. We have women from
Bosnia to The Gambia. We have women from Australia to
Canada. We have women from Nigeria to, I
can't remember any countries right now, Algeria, like literally all
different parts of the world. And in all of these, all of these
different parts, their recitations, like the recitation
of the shekha from Sudan was completely different from the
recitation of a shekha from Morocco. Their styles are
different, and it comes with this, and it's all still within our
tradition. It's all still completely based in traditional
understanding of Quran. It's just so powerful to see all the
different tests of recitation, and none of them are singing the
Quran, right without the rules of teaching they're using. Oh,
alright, go ahead. Tell me. No, no, no, tell me what. What is your
like? Ethnic background? I actually thought you were out of
right, but I noticed that when you did your interviews in Arabic.
They were always in fusha, and you never really spoke the dialect,
even when the people were speaking the dialect back. So I was like, I
was like, I wonder if she's like Arab, or if she's like, you know,
if she's like Arab, but like, grew up without, like, like, not having
learned Arabic, and then just kind of learned fusha later. I just
noticed that. So then you said you're not out of and so I now
have absolutely no idea.
Yeah,
I actually this is so funny. I never like talk about this, but
it's fine. My parent my my ethnic background is Persian, but my
parents were very my parents were kids when they came to the United
States, and so I wasn't raised with the culture at all.
I wasn't raised speaking it. I wasn't raised with the cultural
part at all. And Alhamdulillah, you know, they really found his
time in college. Every single one of my relatives married someone of
a different race. Alhamdulillah, we are so blessed. We have, like
Masha, Allah, like so many different races in my family, and
Alhamdulillah, oblami, the majority of my family members are
converts, or they're not Muslim, but they, you know, our family
members who we love so much, and So alhamdulillah, it's such a gift
that really, I don't identify ethnically with my culture, with
that with I don't that's not my culture, like with the culture
that I Guess people would ask me from, where my background is from,
but Alhamdulillah, my family itself being from so many
different racial backgrounds, like my extended family, who were very,
very Alhamdulillah, like we, that is my tribe. That's really, that's
really like, kind of where my
I guess my upbringing came from. That was.
So awkward. I never talk about myself personally like that. It's
cool. No, no. I mean, that's great. I mean, it's nice to know.
I mean,
especially because you know where this video, this interview, is
going to reach a diverse crowd as well. And so to hear that you know
that you know this, this Quran, can reach people outside of a
certain you know, particular demographic, someone who's, you
know, someone and so forth coming up in this in a society like
theirs, you know, it's something that could possibly be a source of
inspiration. Inshallah. So thank you for sharing that. Appreciate
that. So since we only got about four minutes left, I do, I have
one question in the crowd from the audience, and I have one question
that I wanted to ask you, so hopefully we can have enough time
and get you on your way, on your way, and not hold you up.
Inshallah,
so we have a question here on the screen, if you want to go, go for
that. Inshallah,
how much Arabic Did you know prior to memorizing? How much do you
recommend a person to know? I knew no Arabic before I started
memorizing, I knew about Alhamdulillah and mashallah and
Jannah. I would recommend that you, I would recommend that you
read a translation while you are trying to memorize. Like again, I
started memorizing by the transliteration. I didn't know how
to read Arabic like I did barely. So just reading the
transliteration is really helpful. I mean, the translation is really
helpful, so that as you're memorizing the verses, you start
knowing kind of what the general messages are. But before I started
memorizing, I spent a few years just like listening in Arabic,
reading in Arabic. Like reading it while I listen, following along
with the with the reading, so that I could kind of keep up a little
bit so I accustomed my ears to like Abdul boss. It's recitation a
lot, just like hearing his recitation and being able to read
the translation at the same time. I recommend you start as soon as
you can Mashallah. There are, you know, you could take classes and
roll with the measured tones Institute. Measure tones.
Institute is a great place to start
memorizing right now. You don't need to know Arabic to memorize
the Quran. Definitely. You can start from now. If you're going to
say, I need to know Arabic until, like before I start in the next 10
years. If you don't know Arabic, what are you are you going to say?
I'm going to wait. And then you're 80, and then you're 90, and, oh,
it's kind of a little I never learned Arabic. I never was like,
No. Start now. Inshallah, you will get you will get there. Inshallah.
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Thank you so much for that amazing
advice for sha Allah. So my question, and hopefully the final
question,
is, what advice do you have for young, aspiring students, slash
reciters, of Quran or anyone who wants to pursue Quran studies,
regardless of gender. But I mean, if you wanted to specifically send
a message to
young women young girls about this, then you can do that as
well. However you want to give that advice in
Shaw, I'm so sorry your voice cut out a little bit. Can you restate
the question for me. I heard something about little girls and
little Oh, sorry, I said. I said, What? What advice do you have?
Sorry about that. I said, What advice do you have for young,
aspiring students, slash reciters of Quran or anyone who wants to
pursue Quranic studies, regardless of gender, or if you want to
specific, specifically talk to young girls as well in your
message. I mean, that's fine, you know, however you want to package
that message. What advice do you have for people who who want to
Well, you you just said the thing about the transliteration, right?
But if there was some other kind of message you wanted to direct
towards, you know, some aspiring young reciters? Inshallah, please
do give that advice.
There is going to be so many times where you feel alone, where you
feel like, maybe you want to give up, maybe you feel like, why am I
even doing this? Always remember that the one you are doing it for
sees everything that you're doing. He is a Shakur. He is the
appreciative. He remembers what you do 10 years after you do it,
when you've completely forgotten about it, not a single moment of
your frustration, your isolation, your tears, are going to be
missed. There are times when you're on the path of knowledge
where you feel like you have to give certain things up,
give it up, but ask Allah to replace it with something better
for you. Find a community who can support you in your process online
right now. Measure tones, Institute Rubble, talk suhaib.com
there are so many institutes that have teachers and a community who
will support you so you won't be alone. Find a Teacher to work
with, find mentors to work with. It's so critical, because when
you're going through this process on your own, you're going to hear
a lot of things, especially if you're a woman, you're going to
hear a lot of things about what you should be doing, what you
shouldn't be doing, and you're going to get confused. So find
people who will help you navigate what your reality looks like.
Where you are, because it does make a difference if you're
studying in the United States versus if you're studying
somewhere else, the culture is going to impact the way certain
rulings are made. So look at your reality. Speak to scholars in your
locale, and work with institutes who can help support you. And
remember that Allah, Panama, taala, his door is always open. So
constantly make dua, constantly, ask constantly knock on that door.
And every such day that you make pray that Allah opens the doors of
the Quran for you, every single time you break your fast, make
that constantly, make that dua, the Allah will open the doors of
knowledge for you, and the doors of wisdom and the doors of action
and the doors of sincerity. And remember that the road is
lifelong. I know nothing. I know this. I literally know nothing.
I've been studying for 17 years. I know nothing, nothing. And
sometimes when I'm
I think, Hannah, you know, I've been focusing on these issues, and
so I know a little bit about those, but this nothing. I've
literally nothing. So remember that it's okay to know nothing.
It's that's part of the journey. But remember that, Inshallah, the
more that go, you know, go on the journey, that the responsibility
that you have is heavy, and the question is, what are you going to
do with that responsibility once you're done? And that's a question
I get all the time for women, especially, what do I do with
this? Like, I can't become an Imam, so like, what do I do? And
that's really where the responsibility falls on
communities to start creating spaces for women teachers, to
ensure that the Imam hires a woman teacher who can teach women to to
have these spaces where women know that they can study and come back
and teach. So that's a completely different discussion, but that's
something that we need to work as well to Inshallah, create these
spaces where women can use this knowledge and teach other women.
Inshallah,
yeah, sorry, my audio, it just tripped a little bit. So let me
just switch back to the Yeti.
There we go. Alhamdulillah. Am I clear? Can you hear me?
Yeah, okay. Alhamdulillah. So thank you so much. Baraka laufiki
For that, for that inspirational message. We do have something from
the from one of our YouTube viewers saying, masha Allah, this
was so inspiring. May Allah preserve you and bless you and
your family. We need to hear from more women's scholars, or really
motivate and inspire other women in their journey. Masha Allah, and
lots of lots of love and support in the comments,
from Sister Jamil, we got the hearts. We got the the hearts from
Sister Siobhan and from Sister cola and from Sister joy. May
Allah bless all of you. May Allah bless all of you. She's come on
now
sister Samia,
you know, we got, we got lots of of love in the comment section,
Alhamdulillah. And, you know, we ran out of time. I wanted to try
and snag a little recitation. But Inshallah, maybe we can have you
on again to maybe talk about one of those Splinter topics that came
up inshallah. We can discuss it
Inshallah, and maybe we can have you back in the include with that
inshallah recitation. In the meantime, at the bottom, we have
scrolling at the bottom,
Mariam Amir's
Instagram tag, which is at the Is this correct? Is spelled correct
at the Mariam Amir, M, A R, Y, a m, a m, I R at the Mariam Amir, go
to YouTube. She gave you a couple references, some names, some
people to check out on her page. Pretty much everybody up there is
awesome. She also recently had the interview with the young lady with
Down Syndrome who just memorized the entire Quran, and I watched it
live as it was happening. I was very emotional. Had me messed up
in a good way, masha Allah, and I was just like,
she just melted my heart. Man. And then her mom, like the most
phenomenal so mashallah, great content. Don't want to keep you,
Alhamdulillah. Can you please close us out with a DUA? But
before you do that, I do want you to know that, Alhamdulillah, many
of our measure tone students are actually tuning in and watching
you. Alhamdulillah, we, we had over 60 registrants, and three
quarters of them were women and And Alhamdulillah three. Three of
three of our four Teachers are, are women as well. Alhamdulillah
as one of our students, she said, Alhamdulillah measure tones is
definitely creating those spaces. So zakalaha for allowing her to
bring her experience to us. Alhamdulillah, man, that's what
that's what is. That's what it's all about. Alhamdulillah. So if
you can close us out with the DUA so that we can get you on your way
to to what you need to do. Bismillah, please. Thank
you so much. It was such a gift and an honor to be here chef and
to learn from you and your recitation is mind blowing. May
Allah bless you and increase you and the work that you do. And
thank you all for listening and leaving me for my shortcomings,
and butterfly looking for your kind words. And SubhanaHu wa in
English. So I'm going to face the hamdu Kim, a young lady Judy, what
you call all the mistonic Allah Abu Asmaa, Tala Allah on this
blue.
Ya Allah, we ask You, ya Ara Hama Rahi mean, Allah humma, do not
turn us away. Allah humma, do not turn us away. Allah humma, if you
turn us away, who will we go to? You told us, and your words are
the truth. Darunia, come pray to Me, it will respond to you. We are
here praying. Ya rabal, Alameen, Oh Allah, answer the needs of
every single one of our hearts. Ya Ara Hama, Rahim, Allahu, antari,
Allah, you are the most generous. Ya Allah, every single one of us
has things in our lives that we need help with. Oh Allah, answer
us. Give us more than we even think to ask for your hammer.
Rahimid, bless our brothers and sisters. FI kulima can and help
the vulnerable everywhere. Yorba aramin and use us for your sake,
sincerely for your space and forgive us for all of our sins. I
mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, thank you so much. Once again,
it's such a blessing. We most definitely have to have you back
on again, at least one more time, as many times as we can.
Inshallah,
wow.
Man, how cool was that? How cool was that? Masha Allah, Masha
Allah, this was, this was really excellent.
Had me really excited. Masha Allah, sister, madam, I mean, you
can see the passion man, the passion just like just pouring,
just like oozing out of her pores. Masha Allah, she was just, you
know, it was very, very heartfelt testimonies from her, from her
students, from the people that are coming to her for advice.
Barcolofiki, sister, Hola, thank you for your contribution as well
and all of you who are watching. Thank you for your comments, your
words of encouragement, inspiration. Thank you for sharing
the video. For those of you who shared and if you haven't shared
it, go ahead and share it now and when it archives, share it again.
Inshallah, BarakAllahu, salaam alaikum. Baraka I hope you guys
have a blessed Friday, and your enjoy your weekend with your
families and so on. Barakah of it. Allah here. Barakatullah.