Riyadh Walls – Jumuah Talk Only AlWagaah Institue for the Deaf Masjidus Sunni (6 January 2022)
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and of either Polly La La La come Tish karoun. So the colada, the
sort of denial, ALLAH SubhanA, Allah says Allah is the one who
took you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing anything.
And he gave you hearing and sight.
And he gave you hearts. Remember, the heart is the seat of the, of
the human conscious, and the words he gave you hearing, and why
hearing because when you come out of the wombs of our mothers, the
first thing
we can physically do is hear, we can't see yet we first hear.
And then we see and then as we grow up, then eventually we can
discern. So we made for you hearing and sight, and we gave you
intellect
in order that you might give things. Now this verse appears in
several places in the Quran in different ways, with different
words, some added some subtracted. But the message is the same
at the end of the contest Quran in order
that you might give things in order that you might be grateful
for this hearing, for the site, and for these hearts of intellect
and consciousness.
And so
something that we take for granted
in a hearing the other Allahu Akbar
to think that brother fuckery Musa, who just gave the Athan
could not hear what he was rendering
for the faculty Musa, who gave the Adana last one authority warrior,
he could not hear what he was rendering.
You and I can't imagine that.
And in one of the stories I found,
from our pious predecessors,
that a man was complaining
about his problems.
And
somebody said to him, that,
you know, if I took off for you,
you know, $10,000 for your eyes
for your site, another 10,000 for your hearing, maybe another 10,000
for your hands and 10,000 for your legs. You know, would you sell
those to me for those prices? I mean, it's it's, of course not
Never. You said you know, you're complaining hid you have all of
these faculties and all of these limbs that you wouldn't sell for
all the money in the world. And yet you complain. And yet you're
ungrateful.
Allah subhanaw taala make us obvious. Obviously grateful
servants. I mean, you're allowed me
and Anita, some of those that are ungrateful
when we have something
and then we only become grateful.
In other words, we only want to wake up from our state of heedless
and kilesas once we have lost that favor, like you've been a tireless
candidate, what did he say? Mala Mia, California and be watched out
for her be.
The person that does not recognize Allah's favors, when they are with
them, will only recognize Allah's favors, once they have lifted him.
In other saying he says, he says
Mala Mia skriniar for
the person that doesn't give thanks for the favors that Allah
has blessed them with must get ready to lose those favors, while
man Shakira
Kalia, but the one who does give thanks has indeed secured those
favors for them.
And that's what the word Baraka comes in either Baraka till iblue
You know, when a camel goes down on all fours, I'm telling you, you
cannot move that camera. It's like he's cemented to the ground.
Actually, the word Baraka comes from the sitting position of the
camel, it is secured.
So Malasana Allah make us of those that are grateful for all the
favors that he's bestowed upon us, especially for these favors that,
you know, we are sometimes unaware of and we take for granted like
being able to hear
and that gives me great pleasure to welcome the Alwah
The Institute for the Deaf
to Murshida Sunni today, we have Dr. Kasim DeWitt, who's going to
be speaking about the awareness of the Deaf.
And
as I said, Brother fuckery Musa, he was the one who rented the
the Athan.
He is deaf. And we're going to be having I think outside. Anybody
that like to contribute to the institute
must please speak to the people is going to be people outside. I
think handing out some pamphlets and giving out some information.
And of course, we going to have somebody signing for Dr. Kasim
Devitt today. And that will be who will be the person that is signing
for us up to the Weidler K. Abdullah, lucky he will be doing
the sign language for the hood but something that
sadly, we are lacking in our massage, it is a person that is
signing because, in fact I know of a number of our brothers and
sisters from the deaf community, or brothers in particular that
attend Joomla and they sit there for the 3545 minutes and not
knowing what has been spoken. So something we need to look into
something we need to make more effort for in order to accommodate
our beloved deaf community. So without any further ado, I call on
Dr. Kasim Devitt happy to Allah Tala Ferlito for the mascara
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Melissa, any of Coco Lee as Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi
Wabarakatuh.
The talk today is to give you a little insight into the lives of
the deaf community.
In particular, the deaf community of Cape Town, Charla,
as you can see, brother Wakita, he's doing the interpreting.
He's the only male Muslim interpreter in Cape Town.
And for this reason, we have to do this awareness create awareness
about the Deaf, because as she said earlier on, they come to the
masjid on a Friday, which is the most important day in the week.
But they have no gain when they leave when they leave here, no
benefit. Except that benefit that Allah Allah put in their heart.
And the first thing that our wives and our daughters ask us when we
come home from massage it
is what was the lecture about?
Now some of us will fall asleep and say subhanallah, I can't
remember.
And unfortunately, they have to say, we don't know.
Allah nospace.
About 37 years ago, my late wife and I, we woke up to the fact that
our baby daughter is deaf.
There's no difference in the family, none in enough in our
group of friends.
So we had no way to turn
a family law through doctors detector, we refer to Red Cross
where they confirmed
and then we will refer to the call the toy Center, which is in
tygerberg. It's attached to the Stellenbosch University.
And they then decided on a course of action and that course of
action is that the parents will have to come three times a week to
where they teach the parent and the child to verbalize.
Now, if you cannot hear the language, you know, children when
they learn language by imitating they don't know what the meaning
is. But they can say mama Papa, you know,
and this is a problem for the Deaf.
After the course with called the toy, they decide whether the child
can be mainstreamed meaning in mainstream school, whether the
child has enough yearning to do that, or
whether the child has to be referred to a special school,
why they call it special, I have no idea because these people are
not special at all. It's just the name to shove them into a corner,
and then forget about them.
But it's nice, it's special.
So there's only in those days, there were only one school special
school available for the deaf. And that is invertible, coma and
Weinberg.
If the if the school is full, you cannot get the child into school.
So many of the deaf community end up sitting in the backroom at
home, not being able to go to get educated now access to education.
In addition, they have to be transported from all over the
greater capetown area to that school. If the transport is full,
the child will have no access to education.
In addition to the signal in
1940s,
a policy of education was decided on
that the learning language for the Deaf would be verbal, or oral,
English or Africans.
So if you can't hear the language, how can you grasp what is taught
to you
that for a failed policy has persisted until about 15 years
ago.
They now use what they call total communication. And the reason for
this is that teachers are not able to sign they're not being taught
to sign.
So they can use sign language or oral English or Afrikaans it means
that education is still poor.
So 80% of this group of people,
the deaf community, they end up being uneducated and basically
illiterate.
So what happens to them after that we all know if you want to become
a sweeper in ShopRite, you must have a matric certificate.
In addition, the special schools are all Catholic schools.
So we are unable as a household to teach that particular child
about our wonderful dean.
And there was no facilities available to send him to learn.
We can send our school our children to the masjid, we can
send them down the road is Mollema or limb teaching them. But for the
Deaf, there was nothing.
And many of our Deaf community has passed on with the incorrect
Aqeedah.
Even those ones that came to our to the madressa, which was
established in 1995. When we ask them, Do you know who Allah is?
They say yes. So can you explain? Then they say, Yes, Allah is the
same as Jesus, to bahala.
So this whole means that the community, the Muslim community
failed them.
And I'm not trying to say this to make us feel bad. But it just the
fact we failed them.
The Catholics, they were underground. I mean, the school in
Weinberg just celebrated the 95th anniversary.
And our waha only stands for 27 years.
SubhanAllah.
So, the reason for me being here today is to encourage the brothers
to find out who this they've committed to who they are and how
we can assist them. Awawa is the only my dresser in the southern
hemisphere. I'm talking about South Africa, sorry, not the
southern hemisphere in South Africa.
And we don't know whether there's any in the northern in Northern
Africa,
the only one?
So the madrasa is not enough. If education are still fair, if the
education department is still failing the deaf, then we have to
do something about it.
How do we aim to do this? First of all, we've been teaching the
community sign language for the last seven years
on a Saturday at our premises.
I just want to stop here for a moment and ask
Is there any of the brothers here who communicate and is in the
presence of a deaf person
No, no, no, no. And that's exactly how difficult it is. For them.
They're isolated community.
You know, we often hear people talking about doing a 30 days and
the 60 days and we go to India and Pakistan and all of those places
to do Dawa work. hamdulillah that's fantastic. But the is a
Deaf community, that right there under our noses, and they are not
getting any of that.
So that's really poor of us as a community.
I just want to ask you,
because this is about the insight into our lives that day, if you
see the brother year signing, but it will be difficult to follow him
even if we're watching him, you try and figure out what he's
saying. Because the structure of sign language is different to
spoken English.
So I just want you to do something for me inshallah.
When we greet, we this normally when we greet, we'll just do this
Assalamualaikum. But if we do it in English, we say, Peace be with
you.
Can the brothers Just repeat after me? Can Allah or at least reply to
me, Peace
be with you
are hamdulillah so now you know, it's easy.
The problem that exists with Deaf people is not the fact that they
cannot hear you.
It's the problem that we cannot communicate with them in the
language.
Now, it's a lot easier for us to learn sign language than it is for
them to learn spoken English,
believe me.
And I will encourage the brothers to come and find out from us and
join us in a sign language class.
In addition to this, we also want and we encourage the massage
across Cape Town we've partnered up with a Muslim Judicial Council
to get youngsters that are studying at the masjid to come and
learn to interpret
so that we have an interpreter in every single Masjid in Cape Town
inshallah.
I mean,
as a worker we've been trying to do this to take an interpreter to
the masjid but I believe this over 300 Masjid massage it in Cape Town
area alone.
So, we cannot we cannot provide 30 of them. If at the moment we only
have one
but if each Masjid does that and train an interpreter then our
hamdulillah will be able to reach all the deaf people
in the Western Cape inshallah.
In addition to this,
we also felt that we must make education for the deaf accessible
and for this reason we have purchased the property in in
Silvertown, just opposite gates for
and we established a Montessori school and inclusive Montessori
school open to all
and we feel that we put a group of hearing learners with deaf
learners
those hearing learners will learn that today for no different to us.
They just speak a different language and they got to be
treated slightly differently because they can't hear you.
So, we started the Montessori School in July last year and we
intend inshallah to do primary intake this year this month
inshallah
and we want to grow that to high school and as well as tertiary
inshallah in the future.
And I'm hoping this will still happen in my lifetime inshallah.
So, the deaf community, the Muslim community in Cape Town there has
been supporting the madrasa for ages Alhamdulillah very well
supported. But right now, we need a little bit more than that. It
takes a lot to purchase a property and to run that property and run
the school
even just for the madrasa, we have to collect all of the data across
the wider metropolitan Cape metropolitan area, and that costs
money as well.
So we will incur
Nature brothers, she said earlier on the table outside, just talk to
the to the our representatives they and see how you can help. We
also need people with skills because the building that we
purchased was vandalized badly. So we need people with skills,
artisans to come and assist and people who have businesses to try
and assist financially. We also run a campaign debit order
campaign at the moment, where we just asking everybody to
contribute 50 Rand a month inshallah. And I think you've all
of us do that, then we should have no financial worries, I'm sure.
This school was also established with the idea and the concept that
if we've been running behind the Catholic schools for so long,
that we want this one score, amount of eight very difficult for
an interpreter to interpret, and he's still learning to interpret
fully for so long, normally we have to, but they only they
females, and then we swap them around.
But, you know, it's still a little
you need a break there. Know, how they will.
It's still a bit difficult to,
you know, to get this done, but we believe that
it will work it I must tell you is married to a deaf lady, our
harwinton umara, about
in 2019, we took 60 Deaf people on this Omar Al Hamdulillah.
And 60 Yering people joined us as well. So it was one of the biggest
groups and we were treated royally in the kingdom.
I just wish all of you were able to go with us. And maybe
Inshallah, we'll do something like that soon.
And the reason for that Omura was besides creating the awareness, it
was also to establish connection or to try and establish a
connection between Allah subhanaw taala whenever you will have a
total Salaam and the deaf community, because they can see
what happened in churches, you know, the church is sorted out,
they've got interpreters everywhere. And of course, they
can have a female interpreter in front.
It's still a laugh, if we have a female interpreter Gemma. So we
really need those interpreters. Malphur repeating that. But what I
wanted to say is that this school needs to be the pride of the
Muslim community, inshallah.
And with every penny, with every effort that you put in, it will
bring us closer to that goal.
I mean, Muslims, we are innovators, right? We always been
in history, we just don't hear about it. But we the innovators.
Recently, I traveled to Spain, and you hear the story the about the
Khalifa. And you hear the story of, you know, the buildings and so
on. And in the seven hundreds, there were streetlights, there was
running water wells in London, people were still throwing the
human waste after the front in the street.
So the Muslims are innovators. And we feel that this is an innovation
by the Muslim community.
But the only way to achieve that is to get your assistance.
So we've always been a charitable community. And we are asking for
each and every one of you to adopt this year in 2023, to adopt the
deaf community, as your charity as your effort. Insha Allah.
Allah Subhana Allah Allah says in the Holy Quran, in Surah of man is
pillar upon Rahim for ba Allah, Europe B Kuma to cut the ban, Then
which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?
If we are thankful for those favors, then we should return
those favors. It is said in a hadith that the Prophet sallahu wa
sallam said that the best of you are those who are beneficial to
mankind.
The Muslim community I know in Cape Town, very generous. We
support the massage eat hip schools. You know, poverty
alleviation, pots of foods are made everywhere.
And we're not asking you to divert from doing that. We are just
asking you to invest in the one and only
madressa for the day and inclusive school.
for the Deaf, inshallah
JazakAllah heron, as salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.
Spelled out hamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah. While early
he was so happy he woman who Allah
we say you saw Kamala Harris to Dr. Qasim to vet
and to Abdullah right now okay
Subhan Allah
sometimes we just need a reminder
for the kefir in the Quran meaning so remind for verily,
the reminder benefits the believer
and
Inshallah, to Allah,
you know, we have two ways of giving.
The one way is seal run,
which is in secret, you know, to give with the right hand that
which the left hand doesn't know about, but that's not the only way
of giving you know, four times in the Quran, Allah Subhana Allah
says, serum wish
to give in secret,
and to also give in open, if it is to encourage others to give so in
sha Allah, I would like to be the first person to put me down for
that debit order insha Allah.
Doc, do you see the minimum of 50 Rand?
For those of us who can afford that
and inshallah to Allah, if you can afford more you know what to do?
But I think inshallah and I start with myself, I will put myself
down for that 50 grand a month. I mean, if we can pay, you know,
subscription fees for this and for that, and how can we not make some
effort insha Allah to help develop the services for the deaf
community, in the light Allah, and inshallah I'm going to speak to
the committee, we need to look into finding a signer that we will
send to you to teach the signing, so that inshallah Masuda Sunni can
be known as the first officially friendly masjid for our deaf
brothers and sisters to come and watch the cookbook with delight
Allah. So again, you circum la cara, Allah Subhan Allah, Allah
reward you abundantly for this great efforts that you are making,
in the obedience of Allah subhanaw taala seeking the pleasure of
Allah subhanaw taala Allah subhanaw taala cause you to go
from strength to strength and help you and aid you in delivering this
vital service to those beloved brothers and sisters of ours in
the community, just like Kamala Harris Baraka FICO will ask you to
die now and in hamdulillah Belladonna Sarah Malecon
Warahmatullah Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
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