Nouman Ali Khan – The Bayyinah Vision
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The speaker gives advice on learning the Quran and emphasizes the importance of learning in a lifelong commitment rather than just a temporary fix. They recommend starting with the "bringing the message" phase and building confidence and public speaking experiences. The course is designed for teenagers and college students, designed for those who want to be educated in the Quran and the public, and is designed for those who want to be educated in the public. The course is designed for those who want to be educated in the public and is designed for those who want to be educated in the public. The speaker also discusses their vision for a new school for Arabic education and their plans to create a curriculum and teaching methodology for Arabic students. They emphasize the importance of personal growth and offer resources for those interested in strategic planning.
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I recognize
that
there are people that are beginners. There are
people that are intermediate, and there are people
that are advanced.
Beginner means you became Muslim last month or
you realized you're Muslim last month.
Okay. That's
either way, beginner.
Okay. That's okay.
And so if you if you're 47 years
old and you just it's okay. Good for
you. Good for you. Some of you ladies
are wearing hijab for the first time. Good
for you. Or you're wearing it just during
this event because you don't wanna feel awkward,
good for you. No problem.
It's all good.
No judgment here. Okay. You're coming to learn
Quran. I'm happy. Some of you guys are
this is like the first time you're in
an Islamic environment. Excellent. This is great. Okay?
So,
this is,
you know, congratulations
on indoctrination into the cult. So
but I want every so I wanna start
from the beginners. I wanna start from the
beginners. The beginners here, many families are beginners
and that's okay.
Many people that may even be Islamically oriented
for a while now just haven't been able
to get get systematic with their learning.
Right? And in a in a in a
learning sense, they're also beginners.
So this advice is kind of across the
board.
For those of you, you don't have to
raise your hand, but those of you that
want to share something how to begin discussing
Quran with your family, with kids especially.
Those of you that have kids and wanna
be able to have a conversation with your
kids, your 7 year olds, your, you know,
6 and older maybe. 7 is probably better.
For for what I'm teaching right now, 7
is probably better. 7 and older, you wanna
be able to have meaningful discussions about the
Quran with them. How do you do that?
Well, you don't do that with Surat Al
Hakka.
Okay.
So so and there's got to be age
appropriate Quran education. Right? So one place that
I recommend for you
is you can you can start this in
Ramadan or maybe you can start this after
Ramadan, but there are about 12
story nights
that I recorded,
that are meant for any age audience
above 7.
Any age audience can can get something meaningful
out of it, and it's not
a geek out lecture like these. It's actually
it was my pent up desire to do
stand up comedy one day, and I found
a channel to do that Islamically.
And that that was story night. So I'm
telling a story while I'm cracking jokes. It's
a light environment. Right? Even non Muslims attend
and enjoy it. Many many Christians use have
attended it and benefited from it.
There's 12 of them. They're all recorded
on, on on TV.
And
you can just do one every Friday night
Instead of what people in Delaware do watch
a movie on Friday night, you can take
Friday night and take your kids, have a
seat on the couch, and just listen to
the whole thing or a part of it
or whatever. And it's just me telling a
story. There's nothing it's just me telling a
story. Right? And then you have a week
to just kind of casually talk about it
with yourselves, with the kids.
You don't have to know the Arabic at
all. It's just just a story and some
of the things you learned from that story.
Right? You're not even taking notes. It's casual.
And you're doing that for 12 weeks. I'm
telling you that's a really great way to
introduce the Quran by way of its stories
and by a non intimidating way. Right? So
that would be a good starting point for
families,
for,
you know, a family discussing Quran together. Right?
So story nights would be a good resource
for you. Okay.
For
teenagers
and college students
that are interested in getting started with studying
the Quran,
like they'd like to understand the Quran better.
My first recommendation
would probably be a course I taught it's
almost a decade ago I taught this course.
I taught it in Texas to a bunch
of teenagers in the summer.
Some parents wanted to imprison their teenagers during
the summer and hand them over to me.
And so I had them
these teenage kids in my campus for an
entire month. And I came I I put
this course together to give them an overview,
some passages of the Quran that I think
young people should know.
Some places in the Quran, every young person
should know.
And I called it, a thematic overview.
So even if you don't know the whole
Quran, it's like if you even if you
don't know the whole building, you know the
pillars of it. You know the main parts
of it. Right? And this was done meant
for a young audience.
What what I think some of the younger
audiences here can do, some of the boys
and girls here can do, is not only
can you learn,
listen to these lectures,
you can memorize those passages. Even if you
don't memorize the entire Suras, you can memorize
those selections.
And you can then the second or third
time you listen to it, you can take
some notes on the surahs you already memorized,
and you can start your own study circle
halaqa
in your high school, in your campus.
You know, if some of you young people
are doing Khuba on campus or, you know,
a study circle, this is this will give
you material to start doing Quran focused sharing
in your circles.
Alright. It'll be your first steps because, you
know, the the best way to learn something
is to teach it and not teach it
for the, you know, to be an influencer.
I'm not talking about that.
Hey, guys. Join my Instagram. I'm gonna be
talking about no. No. No.
Just start a circle,
t you know, share it with friends and
family. It'll it'll build confidence in you also.
It'll build public speaking experience in you also,
even if it's in a small setting, and
it'll also expose your ignorance.
People will ask you questions you won't know
the answer, which will compel you to learn
even more. Right? So it'll be a really
good first step for you to do that.
Okay.
Now for for everybody, like, this is generally
somebody says, hey, in the next 5 years,
realistically,
without quitting my job,
without, you know, moving moving to a desert
and sitting under a tree to learn,
I want to be able to study and
be educated in the Quran. I want to
be able to get a good understanding of
the Quran while the life keeping the life
that I have. How do I do that
systematically?
Be ready for a long,
slow, and very enjoyable journey.
Just mentally prepare yourself. It's not a course
where you do it for this many hours
and you're done.
Just be ready. Quran education is a lifelong
thing, and it becomes more and more enjoyable
as you continue.
If you're ready to make that lifelong commitment,
I consider it
I compare it to diet and exercise.
Diet and exercise is not a seasonal thing.
It's either you're committed to it or you're
not. And you can have off days,
but
the diet and exercise are not the exception.
They're the rule. The the the burger and
the cake are the exception,
but the healthy eating is the
the rule. The majority of the time you're
eating something right. If you make that lifestyle
choice,
if that's what you want to do, I
can help.
I'm not the final resource, but I'm the
helper in between. Until you get advanced enough,
you can do your own stuff.
The first
thing I would want you to do is
a course called divine speech.
Okay. It's about 16 hours long. You can
listen to it casually on your commute to
work or in the kitchen or, you know,
just just put in headphones or whatever, or
every weekend you're listening to it, but go
through the whole thing. The purpose of divine
speech is just to have you realize
how divine the Quran is.
That's all.
It's not teaching you
a course material on the Quran. It's just
what makes me. It was actually driven by
me. What made me so comfortable
acknowledging the divinity of the Quran?
So that's why I called it divine speech.
I used to teach it around the country.
I taught it here too many, many, many,
many moons ago.
But then I retired the course. It's turned
into a book. Some universities in the US
are teaching it also,
using the book also.
The book is hard to get a copy
of, but you can get it if you
make lots of dua. But the the series
is there on TV. Yeah. The series is
there on TV, and you can start watching
that. That would be the first step. And
it's casual listening, you're not taking any notes.
Even for people with background in Arabic and
Islamic studies, but I'm I'm still focused on
the beginners.
I don't think by the way, you'll do
a divine speech and then after that there's
something called concise commentary. How many people here
have read a translation of the Quran
or tried to read a translation of the
Quran? Can you call out some of the
challenges
you have when you read a translation of
the Quran?
Understanding. That's a good one.
It's hard language. Good. What else?
Vocabulary.
What else?
Extended meaning?
Old style language?
What about the contents?
The con What's the background? I'm not getting
it. Sure. Sure. What else?
Anything Any other challenges you have in reading?
The relationship between the subjects.
Some things are lost in translation.
Yeah.
Pronoun changes. You became they became I became
we became you became they became I. Right?
So that happens quite a bit. Yes. In
the back.
The meaning? Good.
The backstory?
The gap between the ayaat? Sure. So there's
a bunch of challenges. Yes, yes.
Long words?
Give me one.
Okay. I got a dog ear. Okay. It's
okay.
So here's the thing. I had the same
problem. I when I first got excited about
learning the Quran, I didn't know Arabic. So
somebody gave me one of my teachers gave
me
a a lot of order. She gave me
a copy of the Yusuf Ali translation, and
I used to read it on my, on
the on the f train going to college
from Forest Hills in Queens.
Okay. And I'm reading, hast thou not seen
it?
And then I was reading, glad tidings to
the believers.
The first time I read Glad Tidings to
the Believers, I was like, why is there
detergent in the Quran?
And why is it happy?
So so, yes, there there is it is
it is difficult to read translation, and there's
a lot lost in translation. So what I
did to help with that is how many
people here are gamers? Gamers? Okay. You you
might you might people. You are my people.
Okay.
A lot of the boys. Okay. Some girls.
Okay. Good.
Allah help us all. So
so in video games, you have a walk
through.
Right? Video game walk throughs.
That was that was planned.
This guy, man. This guy. I tell you.
So I was I was leading the prayer.
Okay. I because my baby, you know, what
it is, it is what it is. I
put him down. He looks at me for
a couple of seconds. And then he goes
around.
And he just he does the whole stuff.
He does the whole he does the whole
rounds, and then he'll if you have your
glasses or your your your phone, it's gonna
be wet by the time
the is done. Right? That's that's that's Hadid's
thing.
This guy,
he's walking around too.
He's just he's walking around, walking around, walking
around. And then the salicylae is done. He
starts behaving.
Okay. I see how it is.
He's as soon as I said salami sad
now, he's like, oh.
Anyhow,
so there is Yeah.
Yeah. So there there's a there's a challenge
with translation. So what I did was consider
it a walk through
of the Quran, a simple walk through of
the Quran. Here's what's the background behind this
ayah. Here's something that's connecting these ayah together.
Not too much detail like here. If I
was doing Surah Al Haqqah in a walk
through style, the whole Surah would take 25,
30, maybe an hour. An hour, the whole
Surah is done.
Right? And I've done that already. I've done
the entire walk through of the entire Quran.
It's called concise commentary. It's there on Bayina
TV.
I did this about 11 years ago.
I completed it 11 years ago. And, it's,
after you do divine speech, I would want
you to do that.
Just you're not even taking any notes. This
is just you. I I assume this is
your way
of going through a translation of the Quran
without being,
glad tidied.
Okay. So this is like inshallah,
your first relatively less confusion
walk through of
the entire Quran, which I think is a
pretty exciting goal. Right? And so even if
it takes you a couple of years or
you wanna go through it a couple of
times, before you take a deep dive
is a deep dive. Right? Before we think
about a deep dive, let's at least get
a full view of what's going on in
the book from beginning to end. Right? And
my recommendation is take a year or 2
to do that at once or twice.
Just do it a couple of times, so
you have
a a good picture of the book. And
the next time you're reading a translation,
you have some of the necessary background information
already exposed.
Right? You you got hit with it once
already, so you have a good idea of
what's going on in the book, and some
of the complications have been simplified and things
like that. Right? That's your 2nd round. And
like I told you, I'm hoping that you
I can convince you to be a lifelong,
participant in the in the journey of the
Quran.
And so once you're done with that a
couple of times,
then you can begin
taking a deeper
dive. And the deeper dive for myself is
still ongoing. I told you this is another
14, 15 years before my deep dive is
complete.
Right? So but you have your work cut
out for I've I've the last 15, 20
years of my work are now available to
you for for you to go through at
your leisure.
Right? So this is different from YouTube because
YouTube is everything all over the place. But,
you know, TV is here's a here's a
plan for you to educate yourself with the
Quran.
One of the most encouraging exciting things I
saw this year, I met a family in
Australia.
Their kids, the 2 daughters, they're 13 14
years old. They go to public school
and after every weekend they go through the
concise commentary.
The the brief walk through transition. And the
girls were up to 11th juz of the
Quran.
Okay. And over the last year, they had
done that every weekend as a family, And
they just discussed it, discussed it, discussed it.
And they got to 11 Jews of the
Quran. And these girls at 13 and 14
were more educated in their religion just by
doing that than most adults in the Muslim
world.
Right? And I will it made me so
happy to just see that some parents said,
you know what? We're gonna invest in our
kids' education, not by outsourcing the problem and
putting them in some daycare program or some,
you know, drop them at the at the
doors of a Sunday school and that no.
No. No. We're gonna do this ourselves with
them. We're going to educate ourselves in the
Quran while educating our kids in the Quran,
and we're going to discuss it together. It
was a really beautiful thing to see,
you know,
it's exactly what I was hoping would happen
with this resource.
My hope was that people use this as
a way to connect to the Quran
as a lifetime
commitment.
Some people ask the question, why did you
not make all of this free? Why didn't
you put it on YouTube? All of it.
I said, okay.
Here's why. Here's my number one reason why.
Because I think YouTube makes enough money already.
I think they make pretty good money, and
I'm not interested in making them richer.
I'm interested in building Muslim institutions,
and I'm gonna talk to you about the
vision later.
The vision that I have for Bayina TV
and how I wanted to grow and what
I wanted to turn into. I'll talk to
you about that vision later. But so far,
I've only talked to you about studying Quran.
I haven't talked to you about studying Arabic.
Right? The reason I haven't talked to you
about studying Arabic is if you go through
the concise commentary of the Quran,
the the walk through that I talked about.
Right? Even if it takes you a year
or 2,
I say to you, don't learn Arabic for
a year or 2.
Don't learn it. Even if you want to,
don't do it. Even if I'm in a
lecture making you feel bad for not knowing
Arabic, don't do it. Why?
Because I want you to burn for a
couple of years. I want it to hurt.
I want it to hurt so bad that
by the end of it, you're not doing
Arabic because you're motivated. You're doing Arabic because
you have no choice.
You will not let it go. If it's
hard, you will not let it go because
you're not motivated. If you're gonna learn Arabic
because you feel motivated, you will fall off
as soon as your motivation falls off. But
if you once you once it burns deep
inside, when the Quran gets deep inside you
enough,
you're going to make this a necessity of
your life, not an action driven by motivation.
So I don't say start with Arabic. That's
the wrong start. Start with Quran.
Even if it takes a year or 2,
then I won't have to tell you to
learn Arabic.
You will come to it yourself.
And you will find the motive and the
more challenging parts of Arabic
where most people become demotivated,
those challenges will motivate you extra.
Instead of those being the reasons you quit,
those will be the reasons you work even
harder.
That's what's gonna happen to you. InshaAllah. Okay?
But you gotta
I'm not I'm talking to you as a
teacher now. If I if you wanna be
a successful student, follow a plan. And with
whatever experience I have, this is the plan
I'm telling you works.
So just trust me on this and follow
this plan. Now for those of you who
know who have friends or family
that don't know anything about Arabic.
They don't know any they don't know what
an alif is, they don't know what a
bias. Or they barely know what an alifin
bias. And some of you were raised in
a Muslim family. Your parents forced you to
learn how to read Quran, but then you
lost touch with it. It's been many, many
years. Now you're a grown adult, educated. You
have a normal life, but you don't know
how to read Quran properly. It's embarrassing. Like,
if I opened up the mushaft to you
right now, and I said, can you read
this for me? You'd feel like I'm embarrassing
you. Right? And I feel terrible that you're
in that position,
and you feel terrible that you're in that
position, and you can't exactly put yourself in
a kid's class at a masjid where the
8 year old is reading better than you.
Right? That's embarrassing too. So I can help
you with that a little bit. There's something
called the 10 day challenge.
It's on Bayina TV. I took a couple
of new Muslims and Muslims that have been
that had didn't have a chance to study
Arabic before,
that had accepted Islam. They weren't that new,
but they they hadn't studied Arabic before. And
in 10 days, I got them to start
reading from the Mus'af 2 hours a day.
Just in 10 days. It was called the
10 day challenge. It's recorded. It's available. About
60, 70000 people around the world have already
done this. I met people who took Shahada,
and 10 days later, they were reading the
Quran because they were motivated to do that.
So you can give that as a gift
to friends and family. You can give them
a Bayina TV subscription and then say, hey.
And by the way, it costs $11 a
month.
Right? So the the Starbucks boycott should go
this way.
Right? So this is what
so
so
that makes a really good resource for people
to get started. At least they can enjoy
reciting the Quran, reading the Quran little by
little. Right? So that's that's, you know, for
the very beginners. Now,
for those that have done some Quran study,
now they're ready to do the Arabic, then
there are the Arabic resources like Arabic with
Husna,
or the dream program. There are multiple approaches
you can take. They're all available. I can
talk to you about that at a later
time. But I wanna talk talk to you
about my vision first. So,
by the way, there's a there's a summer
intensive,
also happening this summer, but I think it's
almost full. So I won't talk to you
about that. It's happening in Istanbul.
No. It's in person. It's no. It's in
Istanbul in Turkey.
Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. I'm not even teaching.
I'm I'm studying there.
I'm going to
Okay.
Okay.
So it's basically an Arabic studies immersion program.
So if you're a beginner in Arabic or
you know some grammar but you don't know
how to speak, it's a multilevel program. You
go there, and you're just immersed in Arabic
all day. Lunch is in Arabic. Dinner is
in Arabic. Crying is in Arabic. You're like,
Like, that's like it's like everything's in Arabic.
Okay?
You if you have to go to the
bathroom,
study your Arabic
because
nobody's gonna talk to you like, you know,
the the people who will come name people
like, oh,
they're not. No. No. No.
So but it's it's a way to learn.
But I want to spend a few minutes
talking to you about, the vision that I
have for Bayina, inshallah, and I'll let you
guys go.
There are there are 2 parts of my
vision.
I'll be as as open with you and
as I don't want to sell you anything.
I just want to be, you've given me
a week of your time. It's not easy
to give this kind of time. So I'm
gonna talk to you as if you are
bought into this vision,
and we're having a conversation over dinner. That's
how I'm gonna talk to you. Okay?
When I started
this work,
I wanted to revolutionize how Arabic is taught.
Because I felt like Arabic is the main
obstacle for people to be able to appreciate
the Quran.
That's when I started.
My view evolved since then.
I believe it's one of the obstacles
to the understanding of the Quran, but actually
properly studying the Quran and contemplating the Quran
itself is an obstacle.
Like even if you know Arabic, you don't
know how to approach the Quran
in a systematic way, in a in a
in a deep way. So there's 2 problems.
One problem is Arabic studies. The other problem
is Quran studies. Those are 2 major problems.
And I wanna be able to whatever life
Allah has given,
I think of this as the, you know,
I'm in my mid forties now.
So I I think of this as the
last,
chapter of my life
has begun.
And so I think about death, and I
think about whether it's tomorrow or it's 30
years from now or 40 years from now,
I need to plan
leaving,
leaving something behind that can make a contribution
to these two problems.
The one problem being how to revolutionize
and democratize Arabic education and create a standard
for it so Muslims around the world
across languages,
can learn the Arabic language and have access
to learning the Arabic language for the purpose
of accessing the Quran,
and beyond.
And then on the other hand, leave something
behind that can open the door for even
further study and investigation into the Quran.
So so that the end of my life
and my work become begins becomes the beginning
for the next generation and they take it
way further than I could have taken it.
Right? And then as generations go, if that
legacy continues, then more and more service is
being done to the book of Allah. And
more it's penetrating more and more in society.
That's the vision. Now
my first vision was about Arabic. And so
eventually, that materialized into a building, a campus
in Texas,
where I was teaching the Arabic language. I
had full time students and all of that.
And but I'll I'll be, again, honest with
you about
my experience of that campus and and what
happened with that campus.
I was teaching students Arabic. I was teaching
them Quran. I was teaching these things, and
I think I was doing a pretty good
job. People were students were in their 4th
month, teachers would visit
from abroad
like Moroccan teachers, Serudi teachers, Yemeni teachers would
visit us and say,
Like they'd say they learned this much in
2 years. I was like, no, this is
the 4th month.
Like they were learning fast cause the the
curriculum works. The teaching methodology works. So the
the program was successful, Alhamdulillah. I ran it
for about a decade. But I realized something
about the program. I was graduating these students,
but then they were going on to not
do Quranic studies. They were doing other Islamic
studies, which is cool.
But if that's what you want to do,
then I don't want to invest so much
in you can learn Arabic somewhere else.
I want to invest in that which leads
to my vision,
which is the furthering of the study of
the Quran
and in its shade all the other Islamic
studies.
Because to me, that's the, that's the need
of the hour. I respect all the other
Islamic studies and the other institutions that are
helping
excel in other Islamic studies. I love that
they're doing that. That's not what I'm doing.
I'm not against it, but that's not what
my focus is. My focus is to further
the study of the Quran.
And then I realized that this work is
actually global in nature. When you have a
building, when you have a campus, when you
have a big masjid, etcetera, etcetera. You know
what the people who run the place, you
know what they're thinking about? How do we
get more people through the door? How do
we get more youth involved? How do we
start a program that's gonna get more interest?
How do we bring in, bring in, bring
in, bring in? And plus, there's the building
maintenance. Then there's the, you you know, the
expenses of the building. That is the human
resources. So how do we raise the funds?
How do we do this? How do we
do that? So instead of thinking about the
big vision, the building becomes the vision.
The problem is the building becomes the vision.
So over the years, I actually started doing
lesser and lesser programs on the campus.
And I started doing programs in Indonesia, in
Malaysia, in Turkey, in Canada,
across this country,
Pakistan. I just started going and spreading the
work everywhere.
And I realized
there's a lot more to do. And the
worst thing I would do is to build
put all the focus on
the campus. And there are I'll I'll be
honest with you. There are people that I
admire. I think they're profound thinkers,
intellectuals that have a great, great bit to
offer the Ummah. And they became obsessed with
the the idea of an institution, brick and
mortar, campus institution.
And they spent the better part of the
last decade raising funds for that location
for those 30, 40, 50, whatever students.
And they could have been impacting millions of
people,
But they chose not to do that. They
chose to build that building instead.
Right? And I personally,
all the best to them. I pray those
institutions are legacies into the future. Alexa accepts
that from them. I don't see myself doing
that. I see myself not as someone who
will build an institution. I want I see
myself as someone in my team, as someone
who would help
others build their institutions.
So I wanna be the cloud services.
Right?
So
all the other places are downloading us and
using us. Right? So I wanna build a
curriculum and a teaching methodology for Arabic that
Islamic universities can use, that Islamic schools can
use, that homeschoolers can use, that new Muslims
can use, that, you know, the universities in
Pakistan can use, in Indonesia they can use
it, in Turkey they can use it, in
America they can use it, they can use
it everywhere.
Right? That's that's the vision for the Arabic
side.
But there's a bigger vision for the Quran
study side,
and that is that I eventually
there there's two parts of that. The the
the the very grand vision is I wanna
have
so much so much subscription to Bayina TV
and so much money is coming into Bayina
TV that what Netflix is now doing, it's
creating its own films.
Right? And it's taking,
you know, what do you call, Paramount Pictures
and others out of business
because they have their own powerhouse production. Right?
I think if enough
funds are coming in through the subscription base
that's benefiting from the Quran, I can actually
start investing in documentary
and full feature production film,
inspired by the Quran.
I I can start investing in
so so
wait.
Wait. Wait.
So and I I'm, you know, I'm I'm
I'm of a different,
inclination in certain things.
So I do believe, for example, I'll give
you an example that I that that impacted
me a lot.
Astaghfirullah, when I when I was in Delaware,
I was driving through. I watched some TV.
So,
there was a TV show called House.
Okay.
Somebody admitted. Okay. Very good. Okay. So House
is a is really great, really well written
TV show about a doctor
who solves, you know, medical issues that nobody
else is able to solve. But he is
a
really a jerk
and he's a it's highly, highly intelligent. Makes
everybody feel stupid and he's a staunch atheist.
He's a staunch atheist and virtually every episode
is him somehow making fun of some religion
or somebody who believes in God.
No professor, no intellectual,
nobody was able to preach atheism more successfully
than House was
in the middle of a show.
Right? That's the nature of propaganda,
right? You can normalize something and you can
present the arguments by something, by what looks
like entertainment,
but it's actually messaging,
Right?
And for some reason,
Muslims haven't learned that lesson.
We're not producing what we should be. I
think there should be Quran inspired anime.
I think there should be. I think there
should be Quran inspired kids shows. Not just
overtly Islamic kids shows where, you know, Alhamdulillah,
Masha Allah, oh my god.
That's all cool.
That's very good.
But also stuff that even a non Muslim
can watch. They won't even know it's Islam
until it's too late.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Because you won't even know the show is
about LGBT until it's too late.
That's what they do,
Because they have a very successful media strategy.
We need a media strategy. And that's that's
maybe 10, 15 years down the line when
we have enough of a subscriber base. But
I wanna I wanna get into that space
because there's creativity needed in that space on
multiple fronts. Okay?
But let's come for that's that's way later.
Now let's come a little further back.
I wanna be able to finish my primary
objective is I wanna be able to finish
my commentary
on the Quran
because I think with the team and with
the growing,
compilation that's happening and the and the the
perspectives that we're gaining, I think a lot
of people
will take some of the work we're doing
and they're gonna add to it in some
amazing ways.
Because when when if I'm talking about, like,
I was talking about consciousness,
and there was a neurologist who was finishing
his PhD research, was listening.
He came up to me and shared things
with me I would never have imagined. And
I can imagine 5 years from now, he'll
be writing a paper, producing a documentary on
consciousness inspired by Suratul Kiyama
that that the the seeds of which were
in this lecture,
but the fruits are something revolutionary 5 years
down the line. Right?
I was talking about
the divorce.
Right? There may be an experienced divorce attorney,
a counselor,
maybe
an arbiter, you know,
you know, maybe a judge, a county judge,
somebody listening to this stuff. And they might
be able to introduce legislation one day.
They might be able to produce papers on
this stuff one day, do an investigative journalistic
piece on maybe even revolutionize how some of
these policies are implemented, not only in the
West, but even in the Muslim world.
Right? This all of this is possible. But
it's possible if we make this stuff we
finish this work.
We've got to finish this work. Now the
challenge is this. Here's the challenge.
Quran week, 1 week. How big is Surat
Al Haqqah? How many pages, you know?
So page and a half, 2 pages,
7 days
as 50% of the Quran is done.
And what's gonna happen if I get to
Surah Al Nisa?
I can't do Quran life. I go to
Quran week.
Right? So I can't and it's it doesn't
make sense for me to do Quran week.
I am number 1 to 4 in Maryland
and then do 5 to 8 in Sydney.
It doesn't make sense.
Right? So I have a plan.
Well, it's crazy. Well, I have a plan.
Because the plan for me, any plan has
to be the vision is first and the
plan comes second. Because a lot of times
in our institution, the plan comes first
and the vision what? There's a vision too?
So here's the vision and the plan. The
plan is I wanna
start teaching,
Quran studies and Arabic studies to a batch
of students
for 10 months at a time.
So I'm gonna re I'm gonna reinstitute the
full time dream program
in 2026
when I'm done with the Quran week Surahs.
So it's gonna take me all of 2024
and 2025 to finish these Surahs.
And in 2026, Insha'Allah,
I'm gonna start a full time program,
for 10 months
where I'm going to
go through one of like maybe it's Surah
Al Nisa because 10 months is enough time.
And if I have 10 months of 1
group of hostage
that have to go through the whole thing,
I can do that. But I will teach
them Arabic also.
I will teach them I will teach them
I'll teacher train them too.
Meaning, I'll teach them to become teachers,
But it's I I don't wanna because I
already got rid of my campus.
So I'm not gonna do it on my
on a campus. Not on a Bina platform.
I'm gonna go to
a partner community
somewhere,
one community in the US
for Wait. Wait. No. No. Wait. Wait. Hold
on. Hold on. There's lots of candidates. Michigan's
a candidate. Texas is a candidate. Minnesota is
a candidate.
There's a lot of candidates and Maryland is
a candidate. See, they're candidates. No. No. Hold
on. Hold on. Don't get excited. Let me
finish what I'm that's not the plan, dude.
Just let me Finish the plan.
So I'm going to do a Surah,
but I don't want
many students.
I want students that I can say even
from 2024 right now, hey, this is happening
in 2026.
Show me that I should be investing 10
months of my life into you.
Show me how much how invested you are.
Finish my entire Arabic curriculum that's already online.
Finish the entire concise commentary.
Show me that you've done the work
so I can take you further
than you couldn't have gone on your own.
I want to take
and what I'm hoping for is in every
community,
there are some young men and women that
are activists.
There are some young men and women that
are good. They can they can do a
halaqa.
They're confident.
They're outgoing. They're smart. They have a good
career path ahead of them. I don't want
somebody who's full time in Islamic work. I
want someone who's an MBA. I want someone
who's a doctor. I want someone who's an
engineer. I'm someone who's an entrepreneur. I want
someone who works at the state department or
someone who works somewhere else. Like, I want
I want people that are accomplished in life,
that are at the top of their careers,
at the top of their Quran.
That's what I want. That's that I want
a generation of people like that.
I wanna generate like, I want a community
where all these young men and women that
are in their twenties thirties, by the time
they're in their twenties thirties, they have their
masters, PhD, whatever education they have, they're successful
in their careers. And if there's every week,
a halakah can go on by any one
of those guys, they can give an excellent
Khutba. They can get up and give a
khutbah. Excellent. They and every one of them
can pull it off.
Because they they know their Quran studies, and
they have the path to deep Islamic studies.
So I wanna create that. I also wanna
do this in a way that I will
do it once. Like, let's say I picked
let's just say I picked Maryland, hypothetically. Right?
And I did it once. I did Surat
Al Nisa. After 10 months, I'm gonna leave.
I won't come back. I'll come back to
visit, but I won't come back for the
full time program.
I expect that the people that I trained
will carry that on.
I want, I want every community to carry
its own weight.
I want to come teach how to fish,
but then you carry on fishing yourself. I'm
going to go next, the year after that,
I'm going to go to Jakarta, and I'm
going to train those teachers for a year
and teach Suratul Mahidah there.
Train those teachers, leave.
And now I'm going to go to Islamabad,
and I'll spend 10 months there, teach a
bunch of kids there,
do the teacher training, get them running in
whatever institution I partner up with, and leave
and go to Malaysia the next year. And
so the big surahs, each surah will become
a location
where I hopefully
do some teacher training,
create
a chain of and then I wanna take
all of these newly indoctrinated cult members from
all over, and I wanna connect them to
each other.
I wanna be able to build an alliance
of these people, a network of these people
that can then further each other also and
build also. So that's kind of my
crazy idea,
insha Allah, from 20 2026
onwards.
If you're if you're thinking you want to
be a part of that,
because I I my guess is
the first of them, at least 2026
is gonna be in the US. Whether it's
in Maryland or not, is not the problem.
Don't don't think, oh, it needs to be
here. If it's not here, then
If that's
if that's with your attitude, you're not fit
for what I'm hoping to do.
If you see yourself being a part of
the Quran,
the restoring Quran in the society
legacy.
If you want to be a part of
that along with me and my team,
then I want you to become very serious
about your own personal growth.
And
understand, this is the last thing I'll share
with you.
I don't think that the Quran will penetrate
society,
Muslim and non Muslim
until
we
abandon secularism.
Again, what is secularism?
People of religion have their own world and
people of profession have their own world.
Until we
bring that together,
So our doctors
and our engineers
and our accountants
and our contractors and our business people are
well educated in the Quran also.
And so our our khatib is not just
looked up to because they're khatib.
Our khatib is also looked up to because
they're they're killing it in every part of
their life.
They're executing on all, you know,
in on all cylinders. They're firing on all
cylinders.
They're either an elite athlete
or they are a professor at university. They're
they're they've got their own thing too. And
on top of that, they're doing this. That
will become
the best of Deen and the best of
Duniya.
Isn't it?
The Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had high credibility
in Makkah before he was a prophet. Why?
Because he was doing business.
You know where credibility comes from? From doing
business.
He wasn't at home
not doing anything. He was engaged in business
transactions.
And because when you do business the right
way, you build a name for yourself. You
build credibility for yourself.
Islam will not enter into the hearts if
it's not coming from people that don't have
credibility, and credibility comes from your dealings with
the people.
It doesn't come from your appearance. It doesn't
come from your education.
It comes from your dealings.
So the people that are actually in the
depths of society are the people that need
the word of Allah the most, and the
best they're in the best position to share
the word of Allah.
They're in the best position to share it.
So that's that's, inshallah, the vision.
And it's a long term vision because my
eventual goal, what I wanna what I'm gonna
plant in these these people's minds
is I don't want you to become a
doctor.
I want you to become the head of
the hospital.
I don't want you to become the pharmacist.
I want you to own the pharmaceutical company.
I want I need you to be the
CEO of the pharmaceutical company. I don't want
you to be a researcher. I want you
to run your own labs internationally
where you're doing the research, where you're conducting
the research and there's a 1,000 researchers under
you. Why? Because there's it's high time
we developed and cultivated
an alternative
to the conglomerate
multibillion dollar industries that are sucking the blood
of humanity.
Right?
They're the
of our time.
Allah says when they weigh from people, when
they when they want their money from people,
they take the full amount. But when they
give back, they give back less. Isn't that
every insurance company?
Isn't that every pharmaceutical company? Isn't that the
oil and gas industries?
How are we not how are we gonna
complain about those spaces and we're not in
those spaces?
How are we gonna do that? So that's
that's the vision. I know it's grand, but
if you're gonna wish if you're gonna aim,
you better aim high.
You better aim high. And I think it's
very very very possible to accomplish. The thing
I need from you is to be immediately
the thing I need from you is to
become ambassadors.
What I need from you inshaAllah is I'd
like for you to subscribe to Bayina TV.
The this Surah will be uploaded
there. Other Surah that have already been done
from,
like, Surah Dariyat in in Scotland and Surat
Tur in Jakarta and Surat Al Inzaad and
Kuala Lumpur. All of them are recorded. Whatever
gets recorded and edited gets keeps getting posted
and posted and posted under what's called the
deeper look series.
So this is part of the Surat Al
Hakka was part of the deeper look series.
Okay?
And that's already available there inshallah. I want
I I really like for you guys to
subscribe, and I'd like you to encourage other
people to subscribe. And more importantly,
I'd like you to
give,
gifts
to, other people to subscribe.
2 things I have left to share with
you, and I'll let you guys go. One
thing I have left to share with you
is even though our subscription is $11 a
month, there are 45,000
people that are asking us for a subscription
that can't afford it from around the world.
And
as much as I'd like to give all
of them a subscription, our server costs
and our hosting and streaming costs don't allow
for me to do that.
I need help in covering those costs.
Right? And that that's, my vision for I
have a plan for that too because most
of those people are not in the US
or Canada or, you know, some of the
wet better off countries. Many of those people
are in, you know, in in Bangladesh. Some
of them are in back many of them
in Pakistan, India,
some of this and and Turkey because of
its economic collapse, right, and the the the
dropping of the lira. So or South Africa,
places like that, right, where there's there's economic
difficulty. People wanna learn this stuff, but they
can't afford to.
I genuinely believe
the the Afghani community in America and Canada
should be sponsoring every Afghani in Afghanistan that
wants to learn this stuff. The Pakistani community
in America and Canada and England should be
sponsoring every single Pakistani that wants to learn
this stuff. The Indonesian should be helping the
Indonesians, the Moroccans, the Moroccans, the Egyptians, Egyptians.
If you wanna help the entire Ummah, good
for you. But at least take care of
your tribe too.
Right? Because you you wanna help bring this
change even in the Muslim countries.
In fact, I argue we're doing better than
they are in many ways.
It's harder for a girl to wear hijab
in Islamabad and in Karachi and in Lahore
than it is in Maryland.
It's harder. I went there. I know. They
said they get bullied at school.
They get made fun of. The teacher makes
fun of them at school.
And this is not just in the in
Pakistan. This is happening in Bangladesh. This is
happening in Egypt. This is happen This is
happening all over the Muslim world.
It's how It's hard The question, it's very
difficult to wear hijab. I'm getting that question
in Indonesia, the most populated Muslim country on
earth. I'm getting that question there. I'm getting
that question in Malaysia.
Why?
Because
these devices have brought this ideology, the west
western ideology all over the world.
It's time we spread Quran ideology, isn't it?
It's time we spread, you know, we stopped.
We built the Yaqeen at the bottom. We
solidified that based on Quran and then we
can have powerful youth, inshallah.
I really want to see,
I was even talking to some government officials
in Pakistan. Hey, why don't we just provide,
college students a free Bayina TV subscription? So
by the time they're done with college, they've
gone through the entire Quran,
and give them some college credit for it
too,
and encourage them so that,
1, they don't fall into anti Islam sentiments,
and 2, they don't fall into other extremist
within Islam, other extremisms
that exist. Because those that's a real danger
too. Right? So that's that's the other side.
And then finally, that was one thing I
wanted to share. Here's the last thing I
wanna share with you guys. And that is
that,
I am looking for
people that wanna
partner with me in this mission. This is
not a one man job. Even the Quran
study, as you can see, is not a
one man job.
I have a lot of
execution ideas,
but there's only
there's only so much my team can do.
I'm already exhausting them.
But there are areas in which I need
help
like
strategic planning.
And those of you that have background in
strategic planning,
those of you that want to help, a
Quran week costs about 10 to $12,000
per Quran week, and it's much cheaper for
me to stay home and do this. It's
much much cheaper, but I choose not to
do that. I choose to come to a
community and I I'm, you know, Hadid is,
you know, my my my youngest addition.
So,
I don't wanna travel anywhere without this guy.
So I'm I'm I'm just if he's he's
stuck on a plane with me, he's he's
already been how many flights has he been
on?
22?
22 flights already. Yeah. He's 7 and a
half months old. He's a world traveler. He's
been to Australia. He's in the, you know,
his grandfather counts the number of planes. He's
got the boarding passes.
But
but the the the thing is that
I I wanna be able to if you
wanna help with that, you can.
If you wanna, there's there's other,
collaborative
ideas
If you wanna help with that, if if
you're from the tech space, the creative space,
if in which which in which way you
can help. Right? In which way you can
help, I want you guys to email me.
You can email me at [email protected]
and kind of write out in what way
do you think you can help. If you
think you can help with, for example, translation.
If you can help if you think you
can help with being a teacher's assistant
or you what you have some background in
Islamic studies, you wanna contribute to the Quranic
studies component, the research component.
Whichever way you think you can help, my
I've given my team the job to of
putting you guys in different baskets
even if we don't reach out to you
immediately. Because eventually, I wanna build a network
of people that are they want to contribute
in some way.
And the money is the least of it.
Money to me is the least of it.
It's the it's the human component that I'm
very interested in and building the networking and
and and effectively
hoping to make this a global phenomenon. So
thank you so much for patiently, patiently listening
to me. I have truly, truly, truly enjoyed
being here with all of you, and I'm
grateful on my behalf, my wife's behalf, and
baby Hadid's behalf. Alhamdulillah.
I have Khutba here tomorrow,
and then soon after we're heading to the
airport, I have to be in the UK
for all of Ramadan with my with with
them and my parents.
So we're gonna be in Manchester. We'll be
doing something from there. Look for what we're
gonna broadcast live from there. So you'll see
some of that.
So,
so I'm and and again, I'm very, very
grateful for for so many of you that
attended this entire week. I hope you guys
benefited from it, inshallah.
And, I hope to see you guys for
one more Quran week at least next year.
So we'll make that happen.
And
my special, special thank you for the Gaithersburg
community that made me feel
just as home as they made me feel
the first time I was here so many
years ago. It brought back beautiful memories to
see some of those beautiful faces again and
so many new ones.
Thank you so much for the wonderful kids
that were here. Round of applause for the
kids that were here. And
really beautifully well behaved and some great really
smart questions from them. My due apologies to
those whose questions I didn't get a chance
to get to. I pray that Allah gives
us a chance to meet again.
There that is part of my plan. I'll
probably come back here for a story night
also, inshallah.
But if, you know, if we don't get
to meet here, inshallah, we meet in a
much better place where the branches come down.