Shadee Elmasry – Ali Ben Saads Hadith for Youth

The Youth class and for that our youth class is going to be taught

by I'd even sad, only

only a few years removed from himself being a youth. I leave. I

remember it being a young student, when I taught in Central Jersey or

some people would have called South Jersey, in Middletown, New

Jersey,

for youth and now mashallah he keeps studying and studying and

studying. And now he's the teacher of our youth and he has a class

called Hadith for youth. But if anyone knows anything about Hadith

and Quran, they open up to all the subjects so he may as well cover

many other subjects that overflow beyond Hadith. Alright, so it take

it away. And if you have a screen, let me know we could just share

that. Inshallah. Tada. So mighty Kumar Rahmatullah. I just want to

say, right off the bat, stream yard, we're better than zoom my

Chava has been, it's been easy for all these transitions and stuff.

And it looks great. Mashallah, so I hope that I asked Allah subhana

data blesses Dr. Shetty and Safina society, and Hamdulillah, it's

been great. Being on the student side, and then slowly

transitioning into teaching at a, at a youth level. And for me,

that's, that's always been my goal hamdulillah teaching and

benefiting from the youth as much as possible. And through this

effort, especially with last term, where we had the introduction

class, to took, and that was really great for youth and

Hamdulillah, those students, I don't know if any of them are

watching, or their parents are watching. But they were very, very

active, they enjoyed it a lot. From the feedback that we were

getting him to learn. They were doing really well with the class

and is that loss of Hannah data blesses them too. And we thought

to ourselves, who said, you know, you want to open up more classes

for youth. And, you know, we have a great thing too, because because

of the current situation with the, with the virus and everything that

everybody has to stay home, and a lot of kids are running around the

house screaming, and summer camps are closed, you can't take your

kids anywhere, right, they're all at home. And so it's actually our

advantage now that we can put them in an online program that's,

that's live with instructors that and Hamdulillah. We have so many

options with Safina society.

And then, on the other end, we have opening the openings of more

Hadith classes. And I've actually been telling Dr. Shetty for a

while that we needed some of them as, as we're a number of other

students, particularly with ijazah classes. And so the class with

most DDS i 100%, will be taking that class and I recommend for a

lot of people to do so it's not often that you find somebody who

is knowledgeable in the field of Hadith, who is available to teach

online. And so whenever you have those opportunities, you should

always take them. And then hamdulillah think of my class,

Hadith for youth as the baby version of that class. The good

thing about Hadith like Dr. Shetty said, is that it always includes

discussions into other subjects and into other fields. And I

remember a while back, I was listening to Shadi give his class

on the yellow Saudi hain, which he does in the masjid, and BAC and he

does it with a with a small group of people weekly on Sundays. And

he just, you go off on so many tangents and it's not really on

relevant tangents. It's actually very relevant. And a lot of people

have a lot of questions, and they bring them up. And it's something

that adults really benefit from. But how do we actually translate

that for youth? And how do we begin teaching youth, and you have

a number of parents who are concerned about their child's

education, particularly their fundamental Islamic education, and

the fundamentals of Islam itself. It's not easy to teach. And it's

not easy to find somebody who will dedicate their time to teaching

that or an institution that will do that. And so hamdulillah with

Safina society, we're starting to do that. And we're getting our,

our foundations in to start building a platform for these for

for younger students online at Hamdulillah. And if I can share my

screen, that would be great to let me look at a

similar

here we go. And so I'm going to share it here.

So for the this term, inshallah we're going to be doing

Hadith for youth, and it's going to be based off of what I went

around, and I asked several knowledgeable teachers in the

field of Hadith and I asked them, you know, what's the best possible

book that I can teach younger children? Or I could take from or

what's the best way to teach to teach youth and they all went back

to the 40 of the Imam an nawawi. And if you look into Hadith

literature itself, everybody almost every single Hadith scholar

has written a 40 something 40 Hadith on this one.

Hadith on eating for the Hadith on fasting for the Hadith on Ramadan,

the number 40 itself was known as a very

easy number for people to memorize, right, if you want to

give somebody the essentials of, of Hadith of Islam, you give it to

them in 40 Hadith. Nowadays, if you want to give the essentials of

something to somebody give them five things. Back then it was

1000. And then they shortened it to like 100. And they shortened it

to like 40. And so now we're at the stage of five, I think pretty

soon we're going to be getting into like, one or even less, I

don't even know what's going to happen. After that. It's just the

modern student is less interested in, in book knowledge and is more

interested in concise knowledge. And so when we're talking about

youth,

we're really dealing with about 30 minutes of an attention span, you

know, before kids really start getting bored. So giving Hadith in

a very easy way for them to remember. And a very easy way for

them to, to hold on to is very, very important. It's valuable for

them. So we're beginning these foundational works with with

children, and we want them to become productive members of

society, particularly productive Muslim members of society, who are

knowledgeable in their Arcada, who are knowledgeable in their

theology, knowledgeable in their field, or their ritual worship and

the ritual practices. They know all about Islam at a fundamental

level. And the foundations for this begin here and Hadith. hadith

is very essential, because it amasses so many fields of the

Islamic Sharia. And in essence, it's where it all began, all of

the sciences that we have in Islam, for people who want to

study who wants to go into the study of seeking knowledge, and so

on. All of it attributes, attributes itself, to the Hadith

literature, and how that was compiled, and later how the

teachers began to specialize, and teach certain Hadith in certain

fields. And then that's how you started getting 50. And that's how

you started getting Arcada and so on. Even the study of Quran

attributed itself to a similar chain of narration, that that is

also used in the Hadith literature. So you can find, you

can find different ways that hadith is related to the other

sciences. And so it's really valuable for students to start

start with this step. So why the 40 Hadith of Imam an nawawi

because it's so relied upon. It's so common, if I tell you to go buy

a book of, of Hadith, and you go to an Islamic bookstore, most

likely that that the bookseller, he's just going to pull out a copy

of 1408. It's in pocket editions it's in it's on your Kindle, it's

on your it's on the your iPhone, in an app, it's everywhere. So the

40 No, we have Hadith, you can find it anywhere. On top of that

it's relied upon by almost every single sect of Islam. Like you

have the you have people from the far right from the far left from

the far up in the from the far down. Everybody has read this book

has been touched by this book in one way or another. And it's a

true testament to Imam an nawawi and to Allah subhanho dialers

reward of those who have an honest intention behind doing things. And

I ask that Allah subhanaw taala give Safina society, that honest

intention, and that sort of fundamental valuable work that

similar to mmm and know where we are and how he has been able to

affect generations of Muslims is that Allah subhanaw taala allows

for Safina society and for Shadi to have that sort of effect.

Now with what we're doing with 14 Oh, we are we actually teaching 40

Hadith to youth, yes or no? Okay.

We're teaching them the unabridged version version of it. And the

reason for this is because going into detail on every single Hadith

in the 14 hour we there are some Hadith that are relevant to

children to understand, and some that they're not there yet, right.

And so it could be introduced later on, you know, when they're

when they're a little further along their their studies,

possibly in middle school or high school, and so on. So the 40

Hadith of Imam an nawawi while they're meant to be basic Hadith,

not all of them match up with it with a use, like, you know,

understanding of vocabulary and so on. So these 40 Hadees what we do

is we select some of them. And then through that selection, we go

over known figures in the Islamic Hadith tradition. So when you're

reading Hadith, what's great about it is you're going to hear a chain

of narration, you know,

from from email for, you're going to hear like Armada from from the

Prophet So to set up right and so then you're going to have a

discussion about who amagno hot tub is, right? And so for a child

who's 789 years old, they're going to learn about common hot or

modern hot tubs life and so on.

they're going to learn about mmm and know what we they're going to

learn about Imam Muslim imam Bukhari, they're going to learn

about many of the tambourine hustle bacilli, they're going to

learn about so many of these important figures in Islam through

every single Hadith that's narrated. And from there, they're

going to get you know, these these little think of think of it like a

web, right, and they're still they're going to start these

little threads of understanding in different fields of Islam. And so

they're going to know who who among them. The kebab is who Imam

Malik is who Imam Abu Hanifa is, right, and then they're going to

understand these figures. As they go through their study of Islam.

They're going to be able to reference back to this class here.

What's interesting is that for me when I began my studies as youth

is studied, I began my studies with Hadith I began my studies

with the 40 nawawi and then a class on Imam Al Bukhari and Imam

Muslim. All were taught by Dr. Shed the like years ago, which was

he was talking about in Middletown, and that's really

funny because the funny start there is actually a funny story he

mashallah, I think this was a little bit earlier than Dr. Dr.

Shed these days, but we were, we showed up in T shirts and shorts

because it was the summer

and he looked at us, and we because we were kids like we were,

it was me and my friends and we were sure like a lot of kids that

were they came with like really short shorts or whatever, like

bathing shorts to the masjid. So we didn't know that. That was

improper dress for the Masjid. Dr. Shadi took one look and he said

Not again.

Not like kids my home and they were so upset that you can they

could have wear shorts but mashallah I think.

Yeah, or like sweatpants. And anybody knows. Dr. Shetty does not

like sweatpants, no pajamas, no short sleeves, nothing. You come

in, you dress well, and you sit down and you just like you deserve

the knowledge that's been given to you. So I think you come prepared

for that. And that's a very, that's a very established

understanding. And that's a that's a very good understanding too.

Moving moving past that, and the handler, what we're looking at

here, and the third bullet point, 12 weeks and 24 classes. So it's

actually really good. You have 12 weeks 24 classes,

it comes out to be a 12 hours of instruction for every single

child, those 12 hours, they'll be able to get a good fundamental

understanding of Hadith, a good foundational understanding of you

know, who's who in Islam. And then on top of that, they get valuable

lessons from the from the Hadith tradition, valuable lessons, like

lifelong lessons. And so you learn these Hadith and it sticks with

you, the teachings of the Prophet alayhi salatu salam, what it means

to have an intention, what it means to what it means to make

dhikr of Allah subhanaw taala what it means to, to pray, what it

means to so many things that hadith touches, they will be able

to walk away with those understandings. And I hope that

Allah subhanaw taala makes it a blessed effort. Everybody, here we

have, we have an honest intention. And we're trying to do things that

are geared towards, you know, your family, all of our families, and

the people here we're not some distant far off organization,

that's, you know, like, like a, like some crazy institution, you

know, one of these like large, like a Harvard or anything like

that. Where are your local people where everybody from the masjid,

we come to the same prayers, we all eat from the same food, we all

wear the same clothes, we all talk about the same everything. And so

we go through life experiences together. And so we understand the

things that youth are going to go through, I understand it, right,

and so many other people do too. And we're all here at Safina

society trying to, you know, make our community a better place at

Hamdulillah. And that all starts with with these classes here. And

that all starts with Dr. Shetty as well. And I want to thank him and

thank everybody for watching the stream and hamdulillah and I hope

that um, you know, this served as a little bit of a benefit for you

all, and having done inshallah Tada, you guys will all benefit me

and Allah.

Thank you very much. And for the important reminder that Imam you

know, we what he provides for us is an example of a Qubool that

Allah Allah has accepted his intention, memory. No, he's not.

There's no building that he built. There is no country that he

conquered. He put together books. And if you look at the work of 40,

no Hadith, there's nothing except that he chose 40x. Technically 42

admits he put two extra in case you forget one you still have 40

memorized, but he just gathered them. But why is it that his

gathering of 40 Hadith when there are hundreds of scholars in the

past who have gathered 40 Hadith why his 40 Hadith and the ultimate

Oh, tell us it's the EClass Imam and now he has a class and he

established the intention to establish to collect the 40 Hadith

that give us a foundation of our

legit. And we actually have to take that as an example. And if

there's one thing, it's not names, it's not anything else except for

the COBOL. From Allah subhana wa Tada. You should never trade that

in the baraka that Allah Tala accepts the intention, you could

be doing something very simple, but Allah accepts the intention,

it will have a far reaching impact. And that's what we hope to

do. So we ask Allah to, firstly, thank you to Ali, for the reminder

on the importance, and the example of the amendment, no, we it loss.

And all of us in our work, when you study, when you take these

classes come with a gloss, that you're going to teach this, that

you're going to take it for yourself, you're the first person

and then to the next person next to you. And this is the first

lesson that that I partially personally received, and is the

methodology of all the teachers that I took is that this knowledge

is meant for you first and then to be passed on. And that's what he

was alluding to that this is not some hype, we don't have interest

in highfalutin ideas that have no impact on daily life. It's daily

life, and it's lived life and tried to impact the next person

down the road, the next person that you live with, and that's how

a hate is going to spread. Okay, and that's how the goodness is

going to transmit so thank you very much. If anyone has any

questions on this class, just

send a message over his he has his own Safina society, email address

ally dot bend sad at Safina society.org or send it to my

ArcView at Safina cited.org If it's a logistical matter, or

administrative matter, so thank you very much.

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