Maryam Amir – Young Identity

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your hands together for shake up Mariam Amen brother Hemi,

give it up for my sister. Come on. You got it all week. Why is

that?

Now this is a story all about how my life got twisted upside down,

and I'd like to take a minute, so just sit right there. I'll tell

you how I ran France be president, born in California and raised on

the basketball courts where I spent most of my days chilling

out, maxing, relaxing, all cool, taking over the school. What a

couple of people up to no good started making trouble in my

neighborhood. They started one little fight, and my mom got

scared. She said, you're running for ASB president, even if you

don't care. I begged and pleaded with her day after day, but she

kept my lunch box and sent me on my way. She gave me a kiss, and

then she gave me a holler. I put up my signs, and I said, Man, I

wish I was Tala when I started high school. The last thing I

cared about was Islam. I wanted to be popular. And so I thought that

the way it could be popular was to do something like one for ASB

president, because at my high school in particular, that was a

really big deal. So when my parents told me that we were gonna

go to Mecca, I was scared because I didn't want to change. I didn't

think that praying and fasting and being religious would make me

super cool. But when I saw the Kaaba for the first time in my

life I felt like something happened in my heart that went

like

it woke me up, and when I started reading a translation of the

Quran, because I'm not Arab, and I didn't know Arabic at that time,

every time something happened to me, I would open the Quran, point

out a verse in the Quran, And then that verse had to do with my life.

So I would open it and say, Oh, Allah, are you even listening to

me? Do you ever feel that way? Is Allah even listening to me? I

would wonder that. And then I'd close my eyes, open the Quran

point at an ayah. And the ayah was, what either Are you burying?

I'm Don,

when you ask me if I am listening, I am close. I listen to the caller

of the one who is calling when they call, I asked Allah, are you

even listening? And Allah responds when you pray to Me, I answer you

over and over every time I read the Quran, something in my life

would happen, and I'd go bawling to the Quran, open it, point at a

random verse in English, and then Allah would answer me exactly what

I'm going through. And then I came across this ayah make

an UID on the whoever wants honor, whoever wants success, whoever

wants popularity, then your connection with Allah is where

that's at.

By the time I got to this point, I didn't care about popularity

anymore. I just wanted to connection to Allah, but I decided

that I'm gonna run for Abu President anyway, because I wanted

people to see that as a Muslim, we care, we care about social

justice, and we care about reform and we care about change. And so I

ran, and that's the rap that I did. And I want to tell you

something, which is that sometimes, even if you read the

Quran, even, no matter what you do, how much you try to connect

with the Quran, it doesn't mean that your life is going to be

perfect. It just means that you're never going to be alone when

you're going through what you're going through.

Have you ever asked your mom or dad to give you a kiss because

something hurts?

Yeah. Yeah. Have a three year old, and every time he gets hurt, he's

like, Mommy, my foot is hurting. I need a kiss right on my toe. I'm

like, That's exactly where I want to kiss you.

This concept of kissing someone, your child, getting a kiss from

your parent to give you that source of comfort, or someone in

your life who you love, we're gonna look at what that looks like

when it comes to the Quran. We're gonna look at the concept of Kiss.

When I say K, you say a Quran. K, okay.

I already told you my story about the Quran. Read it in English, if

that's if the only language you know.

Read it and connect with it, and it will change your life

Inshallah, and you will never be alone when I say, I, you say,

intention, I, I.

Intention means that no matter what you do, if you remember Allah

when you do it, it's a forms of blessing. So have you ever had one

of your friends? I need two people

right there, in the yellow shirt, right here, in the blue sweater,

black sweater,

yes, yeah, yeah, come up behind you.

Oh, you both can come up. We can get three. Where is your yellow

dress? Come here. Come on up. We can do three. We got three.

Okay, we apparently have four. We have four. I don't know what

happened, but that's okay, all right. Now here we go.

Who here is going to mega cry

who's such a good crier? You look like a great crier. Okay. What's

your name? Yasin. Yasin is gonna ball his eyes out. What's your

name? Zaid, what's your name,

what's your name? Zaina, Zaina, okay, Zaina, Zaid and Yusuf, you

are gonna see that. Our friend here is going to cry his eyes out.

What are you gonna do about it? We're gonna find out. All

right, help me.

Okay, so he's gonna use humor to help him feel better. You're good.

Thank you. Stand up here, what are you going to do?

Help me?

Okay, what did you say? You say

it again. Do

you want to say after me? Pray

free. Allah. All right.

I

tell his parents you're gonna tell his parents, because you want them

to support him. Look at all those creative solutions. When you're

crying your eyes out.

Yours is just natural, which is still creative. You're naturally

creative when you are going through something a friend of

yours is crying when you think of what you can do to help your

friend. That is a way that Allah blesses you, because Allah loves

that you're trying to help your friend. You make the intention

that you want to help him out. Allah helps you out. Got it nice?

Take beer for these awesome kids.

Your family. Famous. You were famous long before you got

upstage. Brother. Masha Allah, all right, go down. Thank you. You're

amazing. So much. Masha Allah, when you make the intention,

whatever you do for the sake of Allah blesses you. The next s in

Kiss is

the Sira of the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, Who

here wants to be a doctor,

who, here is already a doctor,

rufaila al Asmaa, she was a female companion of the Prophet

sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, who was a medical surgeon. What a

boss? Who wants to be a therapist or a counselor, yeah, who is

already

both of them were therapists of the Prophet. Saw them in moments

that he needed that counsel Who here wants to be a social media

influencer. Everyone

Hassan Ibn fabit, he used to recite poetry that got retweeted

and shared like crazy throughout Arabia, every single person that

you want to be, whether you in your life are a janitor who is

someone who is beloved to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam, who is a woman who used to clean the masjid, or if you have a

special ability or a disability, like Abdullah ibn Al Maktoum, who

used to give the ad of the Masjid of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

wa sallam. You have someone in the Sira of the Prophet sallallahu

alayhi salam who is like you. So find support in the Sira. And

finally, that final S is support. Who are you here with right now?

Are you here with a friend?

Yeah. Are you here with a parent or someone older? Do me a favor.

Stand up, find a friend or find someone that you love, and if

there is nobody here, you have yourself and Allah always give

that person a huge hug or a kiss. Go you.

And we're back in three. We're back in two, we're back in one. We

are back in

the row.

The final s and kiss is support, because sometimes you're not gonna

feel like you know what to do, but we got your back. The Muslim

community has your back because you're a younger siblings who we

love and who are standing up, no matter how hard it is.

My friends, my friends, you know what the Quran says about you? It

says

he has chosen you. That means he chose you to be a part of this

ummah because of something that he sees inside of you that even you

might not see, that he knows is going to be a benefit to this

ummah. You've been chosen to be a part of this ummah. We're blessed,

Hamdulillah, to have each other as a brothers and sisters. So when

you're going through anything, remember the Quran intention,

Sierra and support. Send that kiss up to someone that you love, and

don't forget how much Allah loves you.