Naima B. Robert – Reflections
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The host of a live stream discusses the struggles of the wedding industry and addresses audience concerns, highlighting the success of past livestreams and the shift towards feminism and red pill. They emphasize the importance of creating a witness for oneself and ask for feedback on material to cover the topic. The speaker discusses the challenges of addressing issues likeavorability and the importance of marriage, and the need for individuals to create healthy homes and boys and girls to heal society. They thank viewers for their time and offer to answer any questions.
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Guys.
I'm back,
on a live stream.
It's been a while,
and I thought I'd jump on here because
I wanted
to have a little chat
about some of the things that have been
going on.
Looking to reflect on the amazing tour, deep
in the dunya tour
that, I just came home from,
with a group of amazing sisters.
And,
you know, it was
built as a sisters only space.
And in that space,
we had a chance to address the audience,
whatever reminder we wanted to give the audience,
and then they had a chance to ask
questions.
And they were no holds barred questions. They
were
anonymous
so people could ask whatever they liked, and
they did. Okay. Trust and believe they did.
So we got a chance to kind of
take the temperature
of the sisters in the room, of the
types of issues that they are,
struggling with.
Some we expected,
and I'll be honest, some we did not
expect.
And, I'm very, very grateful to 26, the
organizers who gave us that platform to be
able to address some of the sisters' concerns,
to help them through some of the challenges.
Because,
look, at the end of the day,
if they were bringing those questions to us,
then they're not the only ones. And especially
because some questions came up in every single
city that we went to.
So if you're watching, guys, just put put
me a salaam.
If you're a person who used to watch
the livestreams when we were doing them before
last year or the year before last. Oh
my goodness.
I think the the livestream
era on this channel
was 2022,
I wanna say. Yes. So if you used
to watch the livestreams in 2022,
pop a salaam in the comments.
Let us know that you're here from back
in the day.
I'm sure some of you, your names, I
will remember them because at the time, we
used to have regular people attending the livestreams,
where we were talking about marriage and gender
and, you know, all that fluffy stuff that
everybody likes. So
do put a salam in the chat. Let
me know where you're listening from.
Like I said, I haven't done a livestream
in a very long time, but I did
think that it was worthwhile
because I just had this experience, got to
meet all these sisters from different parts of
the country,
and to hear the, you know, hear the
concerns that they had. So at the moment,
I am thinking of going a couple of
directions with my YouTube channel.
One of them is that I want to
create content,
based on some of the topics that we
used to address in the live streams.
Marriage is a continual
topic.
I don't think that things have changed that
much,
from 2022.
The pre marriage conversations are still, you know,
hot topic.
The marriage conversations are still a hot topic.
You know, how to get married, how to
stay married,
you know, expectations, etcetera. I don't know about
you guys, but they seem to have they
seem to be continuing.
I think that a few things have shifted
in the culture,
with regards to, you know, the conversations about
feminism and red pill and all of that
kind of thing. There have been some shifts
in the culture, So that's really interesting to
me.
I think that Muslims are
waking up, okay, to the value of some
things that we may have discarded at a
certain point.
But I think that we're also equally struggling
with the impact of the things that everybody
else is struggling with. Right?
The illusion of choice, for example. Right?
You know, the the types of images that
we are, you know, fed in the media
about what a good relationship looks like, etcetera.
So all of those things seem to me
to be, you know,
seem to be pretty standard.
And based on the conversations that we had,
you know, last week, there are still some
of the same challenges.
So
I'm hoping, inshallah,
that
I can bring something of value to the
table, maybe review some books, maybe have some
guests on, maybe open up the mic for
people to discuss certain things.
I'll see. I'll see. The most important thing
for me is that the channel is beneficial,
and that people
get something out of the content and that
that content is a witness for me on
your mokayama and not a witness against me.
That's the most important thing. So you guys
let me know,
in the comments
what kind of
what kind of material you'd like us to
cover on the channel.
What have you missed from the channel, if
anything?
Are there any guests that you would like
me to interview if we were going to
do another season of the marriage conversation? We
did 2 seasons,
And I'm in talks with a sponsor to
potentially do a 3rd season.
So that's another thing that's interesting.
But I just think that this stuff,
it's what it it impacts us on a
day to day basis,
in terms of relationship,
in terms of the family.
The marriage and the quality of the marriage
impacts the, you know, the the the whole
vibe of the family. Right? And that impacts
the children.
The model
that has been shown to the children
impacts them and it impacts their choices moving
forward.
So I don't think marriage is one of
those topics that we will ever be able
to talk enough about,
because it is so central to our lived
experience. Right? And it may not be one
of the most glamorous topics, and certainly people
would prefer to talk about other things. But,
essentially,
if we can get ourselves right
and through getting ourselves right can get our
relationships and our marriages right,
then we have made a huge investment
in
the next generation
and the future of the Muslim Ummah and
the world, to be honest.
We need more healthy homes.
We need more children coming from healthy homes.
We need girls coming from healthy homes. We
need boys coming from healthy homes. We need
those girls and boys
to come together and create more healthy homes.
Right? That's how we heal society.
That's basically how it works. You know, if
everybody is coming from a broken home, a
dysfunctional home, a toxic home, or just simply
an unhappy home
an a dysregulated
home, then you've got unhappy, dysregulated boys, unhappy
dysregulated
girls.
Okay? Wounded,
broken,
toxic boys and girls
who somehow find each other and then basically
we recreate their toxicity
in the next generation.
And I think that we can
change that.
I genuinely believe we can change that or
at the very least be part of that
change.
We can break that cycle. Right? We don't
have
to live out this script.
And
that's really as I said to you guys,
you know, people have asked me on the
channel, are you pro? You go for the
you know, you always decide with the brothers
or, you know, you always take the sister's
side or whatever the case may be. And
I've told you guys before, I am not
pro men, pro women, pro brothers, pro sisters.
I'm pro family.
And my my my core
my core concern
at the heart of that family is the
children
because they're innocent in all of this. Right?
They are innocent in all of this, and
whatever madness we put them through, they're gonna
have to go through because they don't have
a choice. So I advocate for the family,
and I advocate for the children and the
welfare of the children. And us as men
and women, as brothers and sisters, husbands and
wives, we just have to grow up, and
we have to do the right thing for
the sake of, you know, our future as
an, as a world. Right? So
that is me rabbiting on. Like I said,
I'm out of the out of practice with
the whole livestream thing. So if you guys
have any comments, you can put them in
the chat.
We'll be happy to to to kind of
flag them up or answer any questions that
you may have. Otherwise, thank you so much
for joining me on here. I know that
if we make this a regular thing, we're
gonna have more people on here like we
used to back in the day. But whatever
is. If it's necessary, if it's needed, if
there is an appetite and a demand for
it, then, Bismillah, we're here to serve. If
there isn't, then because YouTube has got a
lot of videos that you guys could be
watching. So I appreciate you taking the time
to join me on this live and any
other live or video that I put out
there. I definitely appreciate it. Masha'Allah.
So with that being said, and as I
I can't even talk for more than 10
minutes,
But inshallah, I hope that that's a little
taste in saying
a to everybody. I'm still alive. I'm still
here. Okay? I'm still, you know, doing my
thing. So,
I will pray istikhara. And if I do
decide to come back to YouTube,
on a more regular basis and back to
live stream, etcetera,
then you will be sure to know because
most of you are my subscribers.
So, we'll see you then. But in the
meantime, leave your comments and let me know
what you wanna hear, who you wanna hear
it from, and we'll do our best to
make it happen.