Nouman Ali Khan – Revolutionizing Quran and Arabic Studies – Whats New in Bayyinah TV 2.0
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The speakers discuss various topics related to AI technology, including a new project in Turkish and a French release in German. They emphasize the importance of the Quran in their work and the need to address the Quran in front of people. The conversation is difficult to follow and appears to be a casual casual discussion about drama and drama. The speakers discuss various topics, including Facebook and YouTube, and mention a new platform. They also discuss a challenge for the 10-day challenge and the importance of the Quran in creating knowledge and informing one's knowledge. The transcript is a series of advertisements for a new YouTube app that is available on the Google Play Store and the App Store.
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I'm very excited that we're actually launching a
new version of the Bayna TV app Alhamdulillah,
and the team wanted to show you a
video of what that's going to look like
The number one complaint we've had from users
is that the Bayna TV app was just
way too overwhelming But the good news is
we've solved all of this for you by
organizing the entire library of Bayna TV content
for you The the other thing I wanted
to share with you is just a little
bit about this project The Quran week is
part of a larger project and the larger
project is what we what we've called for
a long time The deeper look series What
I wanted to do was two things for
the Quran before this short life that Allah
has given One thing I wanted to do
is a translation of the Quran in video
or audio format Because the written translations of
the Quran feel like a book, but I
wanted the Quran to feel like a conversation
Remember the word hadith, right?
So it's a book also its kitab also,
but it's also hadith and it doesn't feel
like a conversation when you're just reading it,
right?
So I wanted to present it as a
conversation with minimal minimal explanation so you can
get through the entire book in flow So
I did that several years ago It's called
the concise commentary.
It's on Bayna TV from beginning to end
from Fatiha to Nas.
It's already there That took a couple of
years to do But then I realized that
there are places in the Quran that at
first I realized there are places in the
Quran I don't understand that well, so I
need deeper studies So I did that for
myself when I started doing that.
I realized I don't understand any of the
Quran that well I thought I did all
of it requires a deeper study So then
over the years, this is this is a
story of the last maybe 10 12 years
Maybe more actually Surah Al-Baqarah, Al-Imran,
Kahaf, Qaaf you know a Huge part of
Surah Muhammad, but I'm gonna do that over
again Surah Al-Fatih Just bits and pieces
of different surahs.
Surah Yusuf took up during COVID.
Surah Yusuf, right?
and Every time I did it it was
like I'm getting a new education in the
Quran for myself Because every surah I engage
in I end up learning things you would
think okay, you've done this many surahs It's
gonna be the same thing.
It's never the same thing It's never every
time in Surah Musallat this week was an
education for you.
It was an education for me Up until
the day we're presenting the surah the team
and I were learning new things about the
surah So it it's embedded something in me.
The Quran can never be underestimated and the
Quran deserves More attention than we were able
to give it and I have my problem
is I have many Opportunities in front of
me.
I have the opportunity to do youth programs.
I have the opportunity to do Arabic programs
I have the opportunity to do men's programs.
I have the opportunity to do, you know
Quran in psychology I have the opportunity to
do you know Quran in children's education and
different things There's there's like 50 things in
front of me that I can be doing
and I have the opportunity to study the
Quran more deeply That's there too.
So now I've got these all these different
priorities and I have to figure out how
to balance all of that so I had
to make a decision and the decision I
made was The the attention to the Quran
that has not been given the deep deeper
look that has not been given to the
Quran That is probably the most important contribution
of all of those contributions Because that's the
one that I feel Has not gotten the
collaborative study attention meaning some person might do
some work on it, but there's no team
efforts doing it, right?
So alhamdulillah over the years we started started
putting a team together advisors together Actually Jawad
Mashallah is here with us a round of
applause for Jawad.
He's my right hand for Quran study and
research Jawad stand up.
Don't sit there stand up.
I'm gonna be embarrassed.
Come on do it do it.
This is Saad Jawad.
Okay Mashallah, so So he heads our he
heads our research team and he does a
fantastic job being to offer him and his
family Alhamdulillah, I dragged him here along with
his wife to be part of this program
because he he and I discuss and the
team discuss every ayah and every subject in
the ayah and Put our notes together beforehand
and discuss them But what we discuss on
the phone or together is different and then
what I presented it comes out Different and
he wanted to see what's the before and
what's the after right because By the end
by by the time it comes out of
me here.
It's just completely It's it's there some recipes
are there But then I add some salt
and pepper and then it comes in and
something else.
But anyway long story short I'm really excited
about this project.
I think it has a lot of benefit
And I think it has long-term benefit
because I think in the age of AI
Something that can happen is this Surah for
example the key takeaways can be extracted turned
into a Transcript then that transcript can be
turned into a voiceover and that voiceover can
be presented in every language in the world
like that Right.
So now we have an accessible to seer
with commentary and insights into these ayat that
we were able to do as a team
Available in Turkish available in German available in
French available in in any language, right?
So that's the that's our long-term goal
is not just to complete this work But
to make this world accessible to the entire
world in Shalala because I think And you
may have noticed in the course of the
Surah.
I said things Based based on our research,
but our research is limited but some of
you might be listening to something I said
about the wind and you've been doing a
PhD on the wind and Somebody might have
heard something about geology or about the way
that empires developed and you say you're onto
something But your understanding is basically kindergarten understanding.
Let me tell you what this really means
And you can unearth things that I could
never unearth.
But you know what it is.
Take a look Assad in Dhaka Jabal, I'm
throwing some pebbles at you and you can
take that pebble and discover the mountain behind
it that I cannot do Right.
So if this stuff is made accessible it
won't just be that my lectures are being
made accessible or a team effort is being
made accessible a culture of contemplating the Quran
a culture of mining benefit from the Quran
a Culture of exploring more and more of
the treasures of the Quran is created I
would rather the Muslims when they're learning their
religion be more preoccupied with the book of
Allah Then be preoccupied with which day to
celebrate Eid with more preoccupied with 8 or
20 with how low the pants should be
above or above the ankle or how long
the beard should be or nail polish or
You know these things that are just become
the the obsession of the Muslims or how
halal is halal Right.
This is our these are our obsessions.
I'm not saying these are not important questions,
but these questions have become dominant in The
in our in our conversations, but the thing
that should dominate everything is the highest thing
and the highest thing is the word of
Allah Right, and if we did that if
we did become that these things these subjects
are there But they have they have a
lower place and the real thing that collectively
we share with each other is Contemplating the
word of Allah.
I think we will experience an intellectual renaissance
We will experience a social renaissance the way
we some of the oppressions in our society
will disappear some of our Narrow-minded thinking
will disappear the way we engage with non
-muslims will change Everything's going to experience an
evolution only because we put the Quran at
the front But when we put the Quran
in the front we need to do that
in a way that is thoughtful Because right
now I feel That when we when we
read the translation of the Quran or we
study any one tafsir of the Quran or
any conversation about the Quran many times we're
just reducing the Quran to one comment or
Reducing the Quran to a limited set of
ideas We're not really mining what's being said
to the maximum and I'm not saying that
we have mined everything that can be mined
out of We did what we could but
there's endless trying probably next year if we
were to come back to the most a
lot We'll find 50 other things.
We didn't find this year.
I Worked on sort Yusuf for two years
Which is so hey Then I went to
Scotland and we decided to translate sort of
Yusuf when we translated sort Yusuf We discovered
almost in every ayah things.
We didn't discover in the two years We're
like, okay.
This is I got a lot of coffee.
These are these are miracles that don't come
to an end This is a fountain that
keeps giving and keeps giving and keeps giving
It doesn't come to an end, but at
least we got something started, right?
So my goal is in Charlotte to complete
the entire commentary on the Quran in this
way.
That's the goal right now We're done with
about a little over one-third Two-thirds
remains and if we keep going at this
pace Twelve years in Shaba And Shalata, so
it's a it's a long-term commitment.
I do in that time I do want
to do other things to some of the
other things that I mentioned Especially when it
comes to children's education translation work some other
things But I will make sure that this
remains the top priority if at the least
this will get 70% of my focus
in a given Year, this is why me
traveling to different conventions or speeches and programs
and this and that that's lesser Importance.
This is more important.
This is more work.
And the last thing I'll tell you is
I when I started this I Didn't think
that People would be interested Because this is
heavy It's a page and a half Surah.
We're sitting here for a whole week three
hours a day Like there's a lot of
stuff Right people gonna get bored give them
something like fun and entertaining make a joke
make a joke right and that that'll be
easier, you know and But I said, okay,
let's try Let's just try and the thing
is in the age of social media and
short-form content and like a You can
watch a 30-second clip.
You can watch a one-minute clip and
you can get your little Islamic.
Hi, you know Almost about what I like.
Ah, that feels good swipe so I like,
you know The the feel-good Islam the
adrenaline Islam the laugh Islam the motivational Islam
You know, I that's the kind of Islam
people are becoming addicted to like any other
sort of thing right meme Islam but this
this isn't meme is this is seriously sitting
there for a few hours every day and
you people have work and family and drama
in your family and You have all that
stuff and you coming here and you have
to park in Leon Like You know what
this is a testimony to this is a
testimony to the fact that you have a
serious love of the Quran you have a
very serious love of the Quran and That
love Allah does not ever leave it without
rewarding it and It the reward of it
comes out in your life.
It comes out in the community.
It comes out in your career It comes
out in your family this blessing it grows
and grows and grows and that's what excites
me that everywhere I go.
I'm hoping I spark a new interest Like
you have a new renewed commitment.
I want okay.
This was one surah.
There's a lot of other surahs to go
I want to I want to know more.
I want to know more.
I want to know more Which is why
I'm inviting you.
I need your help with this.
I was gonna give you a whole PowerPoint
presentation I'm not going to I'll show you
a short video at the end, but I
just I just want to talk to you
Instead of a presentation what I want for
you to do is I want you to
become ambassadors.
I I'm just openly telling you my plan
The 12-year plan I told you right?
There's another plan all of these Recordings that
you saw with mine doing all the surahs
that we're recording.
We keep adding them to bayonet TV and
Bayonet TV costs $11 a month.
It cost $11 a month when I started
it in 2011 It costs $11 now and
My goal inflation and all these things you
could say you could just increase the price
or whatever.
I didn't care I wanted our costs have
increased, but I didn't increase the Subscription $11
and still we try our best anybody who
says I can't afford it We try to
give them a free subscription even though there's
50,000 applications for people that can't afford
the $11 a month my objective is to
get as Many basically any English speaker who
can afford This subscription should get one So
that they have access to the work.
Why not?
Some people say brother.
Why don't you put on YouTube?
For the sake of Allah.
Yes.
Why don't I generate revenue for Google?
for the sake of Allah Why why should
we generate revenue for these platforms?
Because you think it's free, but actually your
attention is not free They are making a
lot of money out of every second of
your viewership and you think it's free I
don't buy into that delusion.
I will use YouTube.
I will use Facebook.
I will use the Kafir platforms To actually
push people to the Muslim platform Because I
want this to become bigger than Netflix That's
what I want inshallah That's and and The
reason I want this to become bigger than
Netflix is because I want to be able
to say to the entire the entire population
of Indonesia I want to be able to
give you this subscription at an Indonesian price
Because $11 might be far too much for
them.
I want to be able to tell all
of Bangladesh I can give you this for
a Bangladeshi price and then keep reducing the
cost for any country that's struggling So that
more and then to be able to translate
this into the language of all the villages
in the world All the other major languages
and to be able to give them access
to that Can you imagine a time when
we can afford that like as as Bayana?
I envision if this grows enough that I
want to be able to invest in you
know devices even even offline devices that the
entire commentary on the Quran in audio form
is Available and let's say, you know Swahili
or Punjabi or you know It's it's it's
in Bahasa or it's in you know one
of the local village languages in you know
in Nigeria or whatever some local language and
we can pass this out to all the
mothers in the village and They don't need
internet access right and while they're cooking their
food They're listening to Baqarah then Ali Imran
then Nisar.
What kind of kids are they gonna raise?
What kind of kids are they gonna raise?
You see what I'm saying, we have an
opportunity to bring a Quran revolution to the
world But to do that we need to
develop a strong subscriber base So my request
to you is not only do I want
you to sign up?
I want you to give this as an
Eid gift Give this as give this as
a gift to your friends give this as
a friend gift to your enemies You can
say you really need this like There's a
there's a lecture on Shaitan, I really want
you to listen to you remind me of
Give this to your mother-in-law and
highlight this passage on Firaon and just get
good you're like, yeah, I'm just saying I
Have a fantastic mother-in-law.
I'm not talking about her.
Okay, she's great But that's what I need
What I need is from I'm gonna do
my part and there are there are multiple
parts to this thing I'm gonna Go through
all of this quickly But I'm just if
you can even have your voice note recorder
on just to listen to this advice because
you'll forget it I'm gonna go through this
super super quick.
I'm not gonna show you anything.
What is How many of you people here
struggle with Reading the Arabic or on like
just the Arabic sounding it out properly and
you have a hard time pronouncing it or
you?
Stumble or you don't know any of it
at all.
It's okay If you're embarrassed to raise your
hand if that's the case with you Then
on bayonet TV under the Arabic section.
There's something called the 10-day challenge the
10-day challenge is Let me help you
read the Arabic just read just the sounds.
Let me help you get that flow I
did that for a couple of new Muslims
and a couple of Muslims I had no
background in Arabic and I got them to
read in 10 days So the pre recordings
and maybe 50 60 thousand people have done
that already For those of you that want
to learn Arabic, I don't want you to
learn Arabic first, even though there's a Jaliya,
Arabia, but you guys don't know now who
and self well, I know a lot of
Arab students I have here too for the
dream program.
I don't want you to do that first
I want you to go through the entire
Quran first Remember, I told you I did
a brief commentary on the entire Quran go
through that first and that That's the concise
commentary 20 minutes a day on your way
to work on your way back Just casual
listening, you're not taking any notes or anything
just listening just get through you can say
to yourself I've heard what the entire Quran
has to say at a basic level If
you can do that within a couple of
years, you know more about the Quran than
most Muslims on the planet That's pretty sad,
but it's true Right.
So I want you to have that advantage
and that's particularly helpful for Listening in the
car if you have kids that understand it
My hope is inshallah with it with enough
of a volunteer team We're going to be
able to translate these things in French and
German other European languages So you can share
that with your children and and others as
well inshallah.
Okay So that's the bit of advice.
I wanted to give you the other thing
is we need a lot of help so
I'm very bad at organizing We're really bad
at organizing.
Okay, so I have people to help me
organize and One of the things that I've
always seen people wherever I go They come
to me and say I want to be
part of this mission I want to help
in some way and then I ask what
do you do?
Well, I'm a neuroscientist or I'm a historian.
I'm a linguist or I'm a this which
are amazing things But I can't keep up
and I can't Yeah, I lose beautiful treasures
of people that want to help and I
don't know how to Mind them or bring
them together, right?
So Alhamdulillah now in our team We're trying
to organize people that want to volunteer for
us or help in any capacity and put
Like-minded people in different departments and groups
so that we can assign them projects The
most important project right now is actually to
take the commentary of already done on on
these surahs To turn that into summaries that
get the main points of every ayah that
I talked about Turn that into a transcript
and then get that transcript Hopefully in my
voice in all these other languages using AI
or something.
Let's just see how that turns out inshallah
We don't want to start with a couple
of languages and eventually make that a phenomenon
across You know first starting with the seven
main languages of the world and then then
beyond that so if you're interested in helping
in any Shape or form you want to
help with the research and Quran study you
have background in Quran studies You have a
hadith background.
You have a fiqh background.
You have a comparative religion background.
You have a sociology background You have a
law background.
You're a family lawyer You're a psychiatrist.
You're a doctor.
You're a cardiologist.
I whatever you are, you know something and
When we get to an ayah about something
to do with the heart, I'd like to
talk to a cardiologist That'd be nice When
I get to an ayah about you know
criminal law, I'd love to talk to a
lawyer When I get to the ayah about
financial dealings, I'd like to talk to a
business attorney or people in business Because they
have perspective.
I don't have Right the mufasirun may not
have that perspective, but somebody in that world
may have that perspective I don't even care
if you're a fisherman because the Quran mentions
fish, so I'd like to talk to you
When the time comes so if you have
some background in something or you have expertise
in some area Then I want to know
about it I want to know what it
is that you do and if you'd like
to be a part of that larger growing
family So bayina.com slash volunteer is where
you can sign up That's probably the easiest
way and that way we get more precise
information I mean it might be that you
might find people that volunteer that offer to
volunteer from Lyon that are very similar Skillsets
and they don't even know each other.
So now we become a means by which
you guys can connect with each other Right,
so that's the kind of idea There I'm
very excited that we're actually Launching a new
version of the bayina TV app Alhamdulillah, it's
launching on Monday and the team wanted to
show you a video of what that's gonna
look like Imagine you're in the middle of
a busy week.
You're trying to balance work family and studies
You've managed to start an episode in the
deeper look series within bayina TV But you
weren't able to finish it in the evening
though You go back into the app and
you open up and you'll see exactly where
you left off and you can click Continue
without any disruptions.
So for me, I've been studying for al
-kath the second I open the app It's
right there waiting for me at the exact
place where I left off.
So you never have to worry about losing
your place again Now imagine you're driving or
you're commuting you're on a train you're traveling
You're listening to an audio version on B
TV for a particular lecture you get home
You start having some food you sit down
on the couch.
You want to watch the video version now
It's literally as easy as pressing a button
on top of the media player You can
easily switch between audio and video without losing
your place at all Bayonet TV now recommends
content based on your watch history For example,
if you've been exploring the learnt roots for
an you might receive a recommendation for the
learnt roots for n part 2 series This
personalized approach saves time and keeps your learning
engaging and relevant The number one complaint we've
had from users is that the Bayonet TV
app was just way too overwhelming Courses all
over the place videos all over the place
I know how it feels what I was
trying to study the Quran in Bayonet TV
I was just frustrated But the good news
is we've solved all of this for you
by organizing the entire library of Bayonet TV
content for you So now all the content
has been split into four categories.
We have courses surah Arabic and story nights
if we look into the courses section We
can see additional subcategories like Quranic topics Quranic
angles history and what's popular within the library
You can also see within the surah section.
We've broken down concise commentary and deeper look
for you So you can literally just scroll
look at any surah click into it and
go into any video or any ayah you
want We've also discovered that story nights were
very popular among our users So we've categorized
it separately and you can explore the full
series right here for Arabic You'll be able
to get started if you're new to Arabic
You'll be able to go through the foundations
of Arabic and access our full dream program
through Bayonet Arabic Think of it like your
personal learning dashboard.
You've set a goal to study Quranic Arabic
for 30 minutes every day Now you can
hold yourself accountable The new my learning section
shows you stats on total watch hours complete
a series and the ones you're currently studying
This detailed tracking helps you stay motivated and
see tangible progress For example, if you're halfway
through a course, you'll know exactly how much
you've completed and how many lessons you revised
Making it easier for you to stay on
track Let's say you're revisiting a Quran study
series that you've already completed You'll be able
to see how many times you've revised it
when you last watched it and how much
you've progressed This feature helps you focus not
only on learning new content But also on
revisiting and deepening your understanding of what you've
already studied It's perfect for continuous learners who
want to keep their knowledge fresh and relevant.
I Created something where I saw a gap
I'm passionate about the Quran and I saw
a gap in people aren't given access to
think about the Quran deeply and they're not
given Access to meaningful.
How is this relevant to me kind of
discourse on the Quran?
It's not accessible, right?
So I tried to fill that gap you
live here and you have your own experiences,
you know what the gaps are You you
know what gaps lie in This society and
I need you to start thinking entrepreneurially about
the gaps that are in your society and
Build something powerful that does two things one.
It provides a meaningful service To it generates
revenue The Second one's important.
I don't want your institutions to receive donations.
I want your institutions to have a vision
They get so big.
They're the ones that are giving the donations
You understand the the Catholic Church is receiving
less donations.
It is actually give it as trillions and
trillions of dollars and funds and investments and
They've got this machinery and we're thinking.
Oh, well, you know these governments That have
oil or these governments.
They don't do anything.
No, no, nobody's helping you You're on your
own build it build the Empire build Revenue
and with revenue build more and more quality
services For your community if you keep thinking
we're gonna do something that we're gonna ask
for donations and keep do something and ask
for donations If you still have that mindset,
you're never going to innovate You're not going
to excel Because Nonprofits are not designed to
be innovative and creative Right, but entrepreneurial ventures
are always innovating always creating always Upgrading their
quality because if you don't upgrade your quality,
you're gonna lose your customer Right, so you
need to give more value than what you're
asking for I believe at Bayonet with our
$11 a month subscription.
We're giving hundreds of times more value than
what we're asking for And I I believe
that wholeheartedly which is why when somebody's a
brother why you charge the money for the
vanity I say Because I should Because I
should There's a reason because Muslim organizations should
be powerful.
I Believe my organization should be powerful.
And I also believe your organization should be
powerful.
We need a network of powerful institutions This
is not a competition.
This is a synergy.
This is a cooperation that needs to develop
so I want the young people here to
have that mindset inshallah and Like I said
in my earlier comments the way I want
you to build this This enterprise here one
direction is what will you build that will
serve the Muslims?
But another is what will you build that
will be at the service of all of
France all of Europe think big Say why
limit yourself to one population?
Why do that inshallah so that this is
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