Shadee Elmasry – Ali Bhattis Seerah for Kids

without the battery and then we will go to FNN. And then we will

go to * hammer. So, I liberty is up next at the bottom is

actually someone who has a lot of experience. He's lived in two

different big Muslim hubs. He's lived in Toronto. He's from

Toronto originally.

If I'm not mistaken when he lived in California, right, he, he lived

with the you're from Toronto or California, which one was it?

So

you're from Toronto, you. So you, so you live there. And then you

lived in California for about a decade, right? California was, of

course, a big hub, especially from the late 90s. At that time was a

big hub. And now you're in? Do we qualify as a hub now Central?

I hope so. So inshallah Alibaba will tell us exactly when your

classes will be and what your classes will be under what age

group? Yeah, so I can tell everyone. So I'll be teaching the

kids age group, which is grades two to grade five, generally

speaking, elementary school.

And part of that's because my kids are actually in elementary school

are one or two of them are in elementary school. One of them is

going to be in the tweens class.

And when I was actually when I moved here to New Jersey, we had

put my kids into a different Sunday school. I won't mention

which machine. But my daughter, my eldest daughter had a horrible

experience. She was crying. She hated going to Sunday school. And

me being a Sunday school teacher and having a lot of youth work

kind of broke me to see my kids hating to go to a youth program.

So when I introduced them to NBC, and I saw sister fox, that was her

kids club. It was an I think our Friday night program, it was it

blew me away. I never saw any machine in America. I don't know

even in the world has done stuff that NBC has done things like for

contests.

They have like glow in the dark

things going on, they had so many different obstacle courses. I

mean, they made it so fun.

That my kids, they were blown away. Mashallah. And that really

attracted me to it. In fact, I actually heard about NBC was in

California, because NBC did a Curious George storytime. And I

was I was shocked people in California were shocked. I mean,

the news got out, like, you know, I'm sure people all across the

country kind of

were amazed that I showed up. So anyways, needless to say, I joined

NBC two years ago to teach and I brought my kids along and my kids

are in to my kids will be part of the kids program. And one of my

kids really excited actually for Sister yesterday's class, my

daughter is going to be in that in the twins class.

My class will be in Sharla Sundays. I believe that the time

my timing got changed a little bit, I believe it's 1130 to 12.

Right now, and basically will be 30 minutes. And it's going to

combine the older kids and the younger kids together.

This will and then in terms of the class itself. So the class itself

is Sierra stories for kids. I'm really, really, really passionate

about this subject. And part of the reason why is because I really

feel that not just for kids, for adults as well.

If you love if you have love,

if there's love for Islam, or if there's love for the prophets that

I serve love for Allah, and you do something out of love, it's so

much different of an experience than if you do it because your

parents told you to write, your parents told you you have to pray,

your parents told you dress like this. Right? As opposed to man,

the Prophet saw that his son on dress like that. The Prophet

salallahu Salam did this, right, Allah said this, and because the

kid loves a lot in the process, and they want to be like them. And

you know, a lot of the adults listening we grew up with like,

you know, that whole the Michael Jordan phase or like, be like,

Mike, and you guys probably heard this so many times, but we've had

so many clippers about, you know, forget about Be Like Mike, we want

to be like the prophets of some. But my the focus of my classes, I

want to take things out of the command language of be like the

prophets of Saddam, Do this, do that it's very dry. To actually

let me tell you about the processes and let's go right into

a story. Let me tell you how he looked like, how he smiled, how he

joked around how he played jokes with his wife, how he ran with his

wives, how he sort of how he cried, how he how he interacted

with little kids, right with teenagers, how he interacted with

women with old women. How he cracked jokes with saba. Right?

What was his main say a lot of people this is this, this might

kind of drive the point home.

If you ever take your kid to a hook book, and usually the hook

was pretty serious, right? And they're mentioning a hadith, right

and

And you know the Hadith usually the Imam is either very serious

sometimes the Imams yelling, he said others who and he says the

Hadith, the child is seeing a very serious

Imam almost yell the Hadith.

So the child is like, oh my god, this is how the process I must

have been, he must have been yelling, or he must have been

serious all the time. And, um, it's so sad because when I talk to

kids, that's their image, right? Somebody that's really serious,

somebody that doesn't smile, right? Somebody that's, you know,

like, like, totally off of what the process of what's right, the

process and was smiling almost all the time. Sahaba said that they

they will see him the Messenger of Allah Azza Salam, and he was

smiling. He'd smile while he spoke. Right. Salallahu Salam so,

you know, that's, that's really kind of like, we need to change

that mindset right? Now, there's a hadith that always strikes me,

right? The hadith or Omar Abdullah one when Omar Abdullah when he

goes to the prophets, and somebody says, Yeah, rasool Allah, I love

you more than everything, except my own self. And then the prophets

are self says, well, Omar, Verily you don't believe until unless you

until you love me more than everything, including your own

stuff. And then over on the lawn, it's as if a man enters his heart

and that level of love interest. And he says, I love you now more

than even my own self. And the process song confirms is the man

is that now your Eman is basically complete, right? So I always tell

kids and I tell adults this too.

How are we going to get to a point where we love the profits of some

more than the Super Bowl? More than a Lamborghini more than our

fat house more than Call of Duty or whatever video games kids are

playing these days, more than just our favorite food, ice cream, or

whatever it is, how are we going to because it's okay to love those

things. But how are we going to make the profits on some more

beloved to us? That all that stuff? Right? Because it's it's

that important. That's how a man is going to, you know, be there.

And the only way you love someone hands down is you got to know

them. Right? You got to know their stories, you got to know how do

they work, you know the prophets of some yet swag. Look at the way

he dressed, look at the way he spoke, look at the way he acted.

Look at the way he behaved when you the more children. And as

adults as well, myself included, the more we know about the Prophet

system, the more we just fall in love with them. Until we just want

to know more we want to know more. Right? It's like it's it's like

Jana, to like, listen to the stories of the process of when you

really feel it and you're there and you're imagining it just being

in that it's as if you're seeing the movie of the theater in front

of you. That's like the most pleasurable feeling, seeing the

prophets or something in your mind, seeing what he went through.

Right? So you're taking the hadith of what he's saying. And now

we're, we're gonna paint the imagery around to let kids know

this is this is actually what was going on. Right? We want we want

kids to actually see the process of in their mind. And I'll end on

that point.

If you go into the average kid, or their average adult, right, and

you ask them, How does Donald Trump look like? How does Spider

Man look like? How Does Batman look like? How does this hero look

like? Guarantee there'll be like, Oh, Donald Trump, he's got like,

orange hair or whatever, he wears a suit. He talks like this, he

walks like that, you know, Spider Man, you know that. They can tell

you everything. And then ask them? How do the profits of a film look

like?

How did the process? How did the process of smile? Tell me one

joke, the processes?

Tell me to the Prophet saw some race with kids? That told me one

thing that tell me your favorite story, your top five favorite

stories of the process? And when I asked adults forget about kids,

and then when I asked the adults, their mind goes blank, they can

tell you, they're like their minds, they think, and they

usually say a generic story that they heard when you were a kid.

Right? Like, that's not how it should be like we should have. So

we should know so much about the process of that we could just tell

you everything because that's our beloved. He's Habibollah citizen,

right? And so Inshallah, the goal inshallah is to create this

emotional connection to the prophets, awesome, where they

could see him in their mind. They know stories about it, and most

importantly, they have an emotional connection to the

problem. Right? Because, and this is the very last thing I'll end

with is that when there's a movie, see, think about this, right? If

there's a Superbowl and or there's a movie or there's, there's

whatever, and an adult or one of us is watching or whatever,

there's, there's so much emotion, right people, children see their

fathers getting excited about a Super Bowl. So excited, right? But

then when the father mentions the profit zone, no excitement, right?

Or there's a movie scene and you're watching it, they see their

mom crying because of

emotional scene, right? But then when the Prophet says mentioned,

there's no tears, right? How's the kid going to get that? Right? So

we really want to tell stories in such a way that it shakes the

heart, it moves the hearts, right? The hearts are like the same way

you you be moved from seeing some fake made up movie, we want to

move our hearts about the truth of the profit zone. And we want to

have that love for the process of so really, you know, the goal is

inshallah to get these children in South have emotional children and

inshallah hopefully the parents that are watching to have an

emotional connection with the profits of the learning center. So

that's the class in Sharla. On Sundays, we just kicked off a

short class for adults that are similar, much more shorter, it's

five, five to 10 minutes, every Monday at 7pm called glances of

the messenger. So like I said, I'm that I'm doing right before

everything interrupted. That will also hopefully be for adults. And

then for persons, you know, obviously, this class will be on

Sundays for 30 minutes. And again, the the intention is to increase

our love and compassion for the message of Allah, somebody with

that good luck and thank you so much, and haven't seen it in

action. When we used to do this in person at NBC, he really does get

into it. And it's the right way to do things. And this is why Imam

Abu Hanifa said, at Casa su I humbly lay a minute to tell

stories about the Sahaba and the prophets of Allah when he was

Salam is more beloved to me, then fic because those things show us

how the deen is applied. Whereas studying FIP is the theory very

important and excellent

subject that you have to study. But how do you apply it? That's

the real question. And that's why these stories are superior in

reality to fix is because number one, it's much easier to swallow

theory requires this part of the brain studies go straight into the

heart. Anyone with ears will love to hear that and without realizing

they'll understand the application of the fifth. So just go ahead and

Charla, my kids are looking forward to being part of it. And

they're already big fans, if I'm speaking and then it Bunty comes

on I had to move over. They want to listen to him. So Masha Allah

is comes out with the heart, and you whatever I say naughty says,

Whatever comes from the heart reaches the heart. And so you

could tell that and so thank you so much already, and we look

forward to having it inshallah.

And what and what Ali said otherwise, is that the Monday at

715, he will also give a five minute like a mini clip a mini.

I'm telling you, we need to do this constantly. That's why

there's when he brought up the idea I said Yes, right away

because it needs to be constant constant reminder of the prophets.

I send them. If you look at the things that that get us like what

is getting us today, I mean,

elections, let's say, you see it on your phone and the news and the

TV like 10 times a day. That's why It conquers really our attention

span and a Muslim life. vicar of Allah Tala really dominates our

horizon and it should be there all the time. So even five minutes

here, 10 minutes there. 30 minutes there. So that will be Monday.

That's public on YouTube at 715 and sha Allah does alcohol every

Monday Charla does that go. Okay. Thank you very much. All right, we

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