Shadee Elmasry – Ceasefire Algeria & Egypt Trip – Full Stream – NBF 415

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The state of New Jersey and the ceasefire deal with Israeli forces are discussed, as well as the situation in Egypt and the need for a solution to the conflict. The Israeli army will implement a plan to bring all captives back to Israeli, and the Israeli government is working with the Israeli government to negotiate a deal. The MACF program aims to improve reading and writing skills for the American English Language, while the sheikh wakes up before the school starts and students write on their tablets, reciting the schedule and identifying errors. The sheikh wakes up before the Hajj time and students take a portion of the Qels and write on their tablets, reciting their own portions. The speakers encourage viewers to study and learn about their goals and priorities, and visit their sites.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu
ala rasulullah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
man wala.
Welcome everybody to the Safina Saadi, nothing but
facts, live stream on a sunny yet cold,
borderline very cold day in the great state
of New Jersey.
And you know, it's very important for you
all to know the weather report in New
Jersey.
Why I always tell you the weather report,
I guess it gives you some context to
what we're doing here.
Let's kick it right off with the news
of the day.
It's the alleged ceasefire deal.
And I'm going to read to you from
Al Jazeera, ceasefire reportedly agreed.
Do we trust the parties involved?
No, I personally don't.
It doesn't make a difference what they say.
They're not trustworthy people, but let's read it
anyway.
Let's see.
Just for the sake of, you know, one
of the themes of this live stream is
the affairs of the Ummah, keeping in touch
with the affairs of the Ummah.
There's been 460 days of conflict.
The Palestinian group Hamas has agreed to a
ceasefire deal with Israel after more than 460
days of war.
Israel has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians
since its war.
What are they getting that number from?
I'll tell you what, it's like way over
that, right?
They're saying 46,000 killed.
That's like in the first half of the
war.
I think it's double of that.
One medical journal counted 250.
Lancet Medical Journal, they said 250.
This is a nonsensical number here.
The war began in October.
Prime Minister Netanyahu's office said that a deal
has not yet been agreed to, but that
the final details were being sorted out.
President-elect Donald Trump announced that the deal
has been agreed on.
Officials and mediators have also told Reuters and
Associated Press that an agreement has been reached.
The reported deal includes a temporary ceasefire that
will, for now, bring to an end the
destruction visited upon Gaza.
As well as the release of captives in
Gaza and many of the prisoners held by
Israel.
The deal will also, finally, allow displaced Palestinians
to return to their homes.
What homes?
What homes?
Though after Israel's deliberate destruction campaign, many homes
no longer exist.
That's exactly what we're saying.
You didn't need to write that sentence, that
was obvious.
The text of the deal has not been
officially released, but this is what we know
so far based on reports from Al-Jazeera.
The first phase will be six weeks and
will involve a limited prisoner exchange, the partial
withdrawal of Israeli troops in Gaza, and a
surge of aid into the enclave.
33 Israeli captives taken during the Hamas-led
attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023
will be released.
In exchange, Israel will release about 2,000
Palestinian prisoners during this phase, including 250 who
are serving life sentences.
Among the Palestinians being released are around 1
,000 who were detained after October 7.
In tandem with the exchange of captives, Israel
will withdraw its forces from Gaza's population centers
to areas no more than 700 meters inside
Gaza's border with Israel.
However, that may exclude the Netzarim Corridor, the
militarized belt bisecting the strip and controlling movement
along it.
Do we trust the parties involved?
That's the question.
You don't trust them, of course.
Israel will allow civilians to return to their
homes in the enclaves besieged north, where aid
agencies will be allowed to bring in aid,
up to 600 trucks a day.
Israel will also allow wounded Palestinians to leave
Gaza for treatment.
They will open the Rafah crossing with Egypt
seven days after the start of the implementation
of the first phase.
Israeli forces will reduce their presence in the
Philadelphia Corridor, an ironic name since Philadelphia is
supposed to be a city of brotherly love,
this is a war zone, there's no love
lost.
There's the border area between Egypt and Gaza
and then withdraw completely in later stages.
What about the second and third phase?
What's going on there?
They're agreed upon in principle, but they're to
be negotiated during the first phase.
This is like an engagement and then the
marriage.
Critically, Israel has insisted no written guarantees have
been given.
They do not rule out a resumption of
its attacks once the first phase is complete
and civilian captives are returned.
However, according to an Egyptian source cited by
the Associated Press news agency, the three mediators
involved in the talks, which are Egypt, Qatar,
and the U.S., have given Hamas verbal
guarantees that negotiations will continue and that all
three would press for a deal that would
see the second and third stage implemented.
That's basically just promises and it's a bunch
of hot air.
What is the second phase supposed to be?
The second phase is supposed to be if
Israel determines that the conditions have been met
for a second phase, Hamas will release all
the remaining captives, including the male soldiers, which
they're going to release last, in return for
more Palestinians held in the Israeli prison system.
In addition, according to the current document, Israel
would initiate its complete withdrawal from Gaza.
All right, that's good.
However, these conditions, which have yet to be
voted upon by the Israeli cabinet, oh, forget
about it, has to be voted upon, are
at odds with the stated positions of many
of the far right-wing members of Netanyahu's
cabinet.
They're a problem for him.
I mean, he's a problem for himself, but
they're a problem.
Those right-wingers are too crazy.
According to the draft of the third phase,
if the first and second stage be met,
the third will see the bodies of the
remaining captives handed over in return for a
three to five year reconstruction plan to be
conducted under international supervision.
I don't understand the bodies of the remaining
captives.
Are they keeping the captives in cold, like,
drawers?
The dead captives?
Why don't we release them first?
Anyway, there's currently no agreement over who will
administer Gaza beyond the ceasefire.
The U.S. has pressed for a reformed
version of the Palestinian Authority to do so.
Anthony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, said
the post-war reconstruction and governance envisions the
Palestinian Authority inviting international partners to stand up
an interim governing authority to run critical services
and oversee the territory.
Other Arab states would provide forces to ensure
security in the short term.
For such a plan to work, it would
need the support of Arab states, including Saudi
Arabia, which have said they would only support
the scheme if there is a pathway to
Palestinian statehood.
This provides another point of contention for Israeli
lawmakers, despite Israel having agreed to a two
-state solution in the Oslo Accord of the
1990s.
See, that's why people don't trust this side
at the bargaining table.
Israel has yet to suggest an alternative form
of governance.
Alright, Khairi, you know the people of Hamas
know best what is in their interest and
know best what is for them.
So alright, let us begin now with our
announcement on Sheikh Mahdi's latest course.
Safwat al-Tafasir, a wonderful book in the
Tafsir of the Quran.
You know this live stream is about affairs
of the Ummah, but it's about introducing the
common person who's out there working as a
dentist, as an accountant, as in construction, as
a physician, as a college student, into the
world of seeking knowledge and sacred learning and
you're looking at someone who is going to
continue his.
So don't ever once think, ah, my time
has passed.
Do not ever think that.
Don't ever think my time has passed.
As long as you understand the foundation of
Ahlus Sunnah and then you get a curriculum,
you could start studying.
Sheikh Mahdi will be, I'm telling you, one
of, if not the best teacher you will
have in the Arabic language because he's dedicated
to his students.
Sheikh Mahdi Laak will be reading Safwat al
-Tafasir.
Read me Omar, I can't see the details
on that poster, let me pull up that
poster right.
Starts Saturday, January 18, 6 p.m. EST,
which is 11 p.m. UK time.
I sent the link in the chat, so
it's arcview.org slash Arabic.
Go to arcview.org slash Arabic, sign up
immediately.
Do not think about it, do not hesitate,
do not wait.
They will read all three volumes by one
of the greatest scholars of our time.
And he takes from the, Safwat al-Tafasir
is like picking the cream from each Tafsir
and giving it in the verse.
It starts this Saturday.
No waiting.
Omar, remind me to put this at the
end, too.
Okay.
11 p.m. UK time, so instead of
watching highlights of Chelsea and Man U, you
take Arabic instead.
Turn off, what do they call it, Sky
News Sports or whatever?
Turn that off and go to Safwat al
-Tafasir and read with Sheikh Mahdi Laak.
If you're on the east coast, it's 6
p.m. in the United States, on the
east coast.
If you are on the west coast, subtract
three.
That takes us to 3 p.m. 3
p.m. on the west coast, you're an
I.T. guy, you take a break, right?
What do they do when they're all working
in tech?
Put it on the side, okay?
Jay says Sheikh Mahdi Laak is teaching all
the time, don't know when he ever sleeps.
So, extremely important to take advantage of this
opportunity that we have, all right?
All right, let's go to the next segment
of our program, which is, we have some
interesting QAs here, but I'm going to, that
were not from the audience, but we're going
to do our du'a first.
So, let's fire that up.
Actually, you take it, you follow along.
Stop here for a few minutes of du
'a.
Du'a on Wednesday between Dhuhr and Asr.
There is a Sa'a of Ijabah somewhere
there.
Insha'Allah, we'll stop for du'a.
وصلى الله وبركه على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله
وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله رب العالمين Alright, we
have a Q&A here.
A very simple question.
Why is it that Allah سبحانه وتعالى forgives
some people through intercession where He could have
forgiven them directly?
The answer to that is that, there's a
couple answers to that.
Number one, by causing someone to intercede for
you, that honors that person.
Number two, it establishes one of the strongest
bonds ever between you and that person.
Because they were chosen by Allah to be
the means by which you're saved from the
worst punishment possible, which is the hellfire.
Number three, the middleman is an expression of,
there's a degree of displeasure there from Allah
سبحانه وتعالى.
But, you basically barely tipped the balance and
earned some rahmah.
So, it's almost as if to say, if
we can give an analogy of the relationship
or the displeasure, yet mixed with some mercy.
It's when, for example, a parent sends a
child to their room.
And then, they don't want to talk to
them.
But then, they do have rahmah for them.
And so, they say, alright, go send this
to your sister, send this food to your
brother.
Alright, send this dinner to your brother.
So, they refuse to talk to them because
that would indicate approval.
But, they still have some mercy for them.
So, they send somebody.
So, that is a third wisdom.
But, why intercession?
What is intercession in the first place?
I didn't define that.
We should have defined that.
It's basically when another person, on the day
of judgment, seeks forgiveness for you from Allah
سبحانه وتعالى.
Then, Allah forgives you.
But, you yourself, if you were to seek
forgiveness, you'd be rejected.
But, your good deed is that you had
some good ties with this righteous person.
They then ask for you to be forgiven,
and you're forgiven.
That also encourages us in this life to
have as many connections to good people as
possible.
You never know who will intercede for you.
Intercession could happen in this life too, for
punishment.
For example, a mother may pray for her
son's forgiveness and guidance.
And, that son may be astray.
He may be punished in this life, if
it was not for the mother's dua for
him.
He's a bad kid, but he's a good
son.
It could happen.
He's sinful with Allah.
Bad to other people, but with his mom,
he's good.
So, his mom prays for him in the
middle of the night.
And, his life turns for the better through
that prayer.
So, there are many, many wisdoms why Allah
created this middleman in terms of receiving the
forgiveness.
Not a middleman of worship, of course.
Not a middleman that's actually forgiving you.
No, they're asking for forgiveness for you.
These are the wisdoms.
So, that's why it's really good to always
keep in mind, never look down on somebody.
That person may, he could have made a
prayer for you.
And, that wouldn't have been the prayer that's
answered.
And, that's why they say, Don't ever look
down on a slave.
He may be in the sight of Allah,
a wali, whose dua is accepted.
You just don't know.
Awliya' Allah are not only the fuqaha' and
the muhaddithin and the apparent people in religion.
They're in the religious community.
They could also be the regular person that
nobody knows about or no one pays attention
to.
So, those are all the wisdoms surrounding the
concepts of what we call shafa'ah.
Shafa'ah is in ayatul kursi, If someone
intercedes for you.
It's because Allah Ta'ala created that.
Allah Ta'ala made them intercede for you.
Permitted them to intercede for you.
So, in fact, when the intercession comes, that
is from Allah directly.
That is from Allah, except not directly.
Through a middleman.
Now, how is the direct forgiveness look like?
A person may be called up for the
judgment into a certain location.
And, thereupon, they speak to Allah Ta'ala
without barrier or interpreter.
And, thereupon, Allah Ta'ala asks them some
very easy questions.
Just a few questions.
And, then, Allah Ta'ala bestows his pleasure
upon him.
And, he announces that you're forgiven.
Go enter Jannah.
So, that is what the direct forgiveness looks
like.
What else did the Prophet say about the
shafa'ah?
So, we have a rule of thumb.
If you avoid major sins, just by that,
you'll be forgiven your minor sins.
But, what if you fell into major sins?
Then, in this life, you have tawbah and
you have hajj.
What happens if you didn't do those things?
You can have sicknesses.
What happens if that didn't happen?
You die with major sins on your record.
Then, you go on the day of judgment.
And, thereupon, the Prophet announced, My shafa'ah
is for the major sinners of my community.
On the day of judgment, you have two
parts.
One part is all justice, which is the
wrath of Allah Ta'ala upon the people.
They see their sins manifest in different forms,
such as rivers of blood that they're pushed
into.
That's a manifestation of riba.
They see themselves as tiny ants, and they're
being stepped on.
That's the physical manifestation in physical form.
Flesh and blood, just like we are now.
But, you find yourself tiny like an ant,
and you're afraid to be stepped on.
Who is that on the day of judgment?
The oppressor.
Because he walked around the earth, and he
made everyone else feel like that.
Just don't say anything.
Even my shiukh in Egypt, don't say anything.
Never talk.
Just walk against the wall.
Put your head down.
Why are they putting anyone in jail who
speaks about anything?
Don't even pretend you're not even a religious
person.
Subhanallah.
So, physical manifestation of your own sins.
It's what you're doing.
But then, the Prophet ﷺ prostrates to Allah,
and is inspired with words of praise that
have never been spoken before by any prophet
or angel.
Then Allah Ta'ala says, Rise and ask,
you'll be given.
He lifts his head, and he asks for
intercession for his ummah, and he's granted that.
Then, other people in his ummah are granted
intercession.
So, they may intercede for their family.
For example, you memorize the Qur'an, you
can get 70 from your friends and family.
Who are destined for the hellfire, you pull
them out.
That's why the social element of the religion
is so important.
The righteous mingling with the sinners in the
masjid, keep in mind, in the masjid, in
righteous places.
So, Jum'ah, Tarawih, Eid, what is that?
It's mingling between the good and the bad,
so that the bad, who's in a bad
state, we're not going to say anyone's bad,
we're saying he's in a bad state, he's
fallen into bad deeds, can mingle with the
good people.
Maybe in this life, he'll be better, and
maybe he'll go his whole hayat, this life
of dunya, he'll never get better, but he
loves those people.
I'm telling you, there's tons of those types.
You seem like years and decades passed, they
never improve, but they love good people, so
they have that at least.
On the Yawm al-Qiyamah, you never know,
that may be their intercession for them.
A martyr may come, you take more than
70 people, 100 people, 200 people, 1000 people,
from your community.
Just one person, was so special in the
sight of Allah, that 1000 people, whose records,
were ordained for them to go to *,
they go to heaven now, through that person.
And they will thank that person, and honor
that person for eternity.
Subhanallah.
So that's the summary, of the concept of
Shafa'ah.
When we talk about Shafa'ah, we mention
Shafa'ah, in some ways in the Dua
'a, after Adhan.
We ask, for the Prophet to receive, Al
-Maqam al-Mahmood.
Al-Maqam al-Mahmood is abroad, has a
lot of things to say about it, but
one of them is, he's the Shafi'ah.
Alright, that's the end of that.
Is Uthman with us?
Should I do Egypt first?
Alright, yesterday's trip, you notice the stream kept
breaking up yesterday, but you can watch the
whole stream, on the video tab, of the
Safina Saidi YouTube page.
Now, our flight was long, I'm telling you.
We went Newark, short transit to Cairo, in
Cairo, Cairo to Jeddah.
Jeddah, 24 hours, 20 hours we had, Umrah
and back.
Jeddah to Sayyoun, Yemen, which is right next
to Tarim, 20 minute drive.
Jeddah and Tarim, we covered that week yesterday.
We talked a lot about that week, and
shared pictures and everything.
Then we went back up to Jeddah, train
to Medina, 2 hours, get to say Salam
to the Messenger, you know Imam Malik said,
never say, we're going to the grave of
the Prophet, say we're visiting the Prophet.
Hey Omar, use StreamYard, don't use Zoom.
Yeah, don't use it.
Zoom messes it up, that's okay.
Zoom, worse quality is better than cutting the
stream, right?
My theory is that Zoom is what cuts
the stream.
Although the theory may have holes in it,
because we've used Stream a lot, right?
But let's just try it.
Okay, back to what we're talking about.
Imam Malik said, do not say we're going
to visit the grave of the Prophet, say
we're going to visit the Prophet.
And he also told Harun Rashid, Harun Rashid
saw Imam Malik across the Masjid, and he
said, yeah Imam.
And Malik went quickly to him and said,
lower your voice, as Allah says in the
Quran, do not raise your voice in the
presence of the Prophet, over the Prophet's voice.
وَحُرْمَتُهُ مَيِّتًا كَحُرْمَتِهِ حَيًّا His Hurma after his
life, in his death, the sanctity, the way
you treat the Prophet, after death, is as
you treat him in life.
You don't raise your voice in the Masjid
of the Prophet.
So, the Prophet, and all Prophets are alive
in their graves in a way that suits
them.
So, we went, said Salaam to the Messenger,
we were able to stand there for about
25 minutes, make Dua, we were able to
pray Dhuhr and Asr in Masjid al-Nabawi,
and then we came, went to Egypt, from
Medina.
Medina to Cairo flight.
Medina to Cairo, we spent 7 hours, 7
hours there in a layover, and we got
to visit, in fact, my Fiqh teacher, Shaykh
Mahmoud Shabib, and those are the pictures we're
going to go to now.
So, let's go to that Mahad al-Majd,
and most importantly, okay, most importantly, one of
our young Shabab finished his Khatm there, and
got his Ijazah.
He had already finished the Qur'an here,
he went and did another round.
You see, knowledge is like that.
You repeat things.
Repetition is one of the most important things.
I guarantee you, this is the only way
you're going to learn.
The amount of things that hit our heads
these days of information is so much, it's
like water, it's like a waterfall.
Constant displacement is happening of information.
You learn something today, it's 2.35 right
now, guarantee you by 5 o'clock p
.m., so many barrage of visuals and information
will enter your head.
That piece of knowledge that you learned at
2.30, half of it is overflown out
of your brain.
So, you're going to need to do it
again.
So, he finished his Khatm here, and then
he went to Egypt, spent three months or
so, redoing his Khatm from the start, and
there, they do the old ways, because they're
from Southern Egypt, also known as Upper Egypt.
Do you ever get confused by that?
Upper Egypt means above sea level, but it's
actually in the south of Egypt.
So, upper does not mean Northern Egypt.
It means Southern Egypt, but it's above sea
level.
So, they're in Upper Egypt, they're from Upper
Egypt, they have the old ways, and they
do not give you a Khatm, a Ijazah,
unless you can recite the entire Quran in
one day.
Now, the first attempt he did it, he
couldn't do it.
I mean, how could you blame him?
Right?
He missed like maybe five or six Juz.
He got tired.
So, then he practiced again, did it again.
This time, he did it successfully.
From seven in the morning to midnight.
Can you imagine?
Reciting Quran.
It's amazing.
He recited the whole Quran in one day.
This young man is what, like 15, 16
years old?
Yeah.
We need to give him one of those
rose necklaces.
We don't have that thing in Egypt, we
don't have that now.
Huh?
No, he wasn't, he started before, yeah, he
started with Hifz Academy, before it was called
Hifz Academy.
Yeah, but he's not going to be here,
unfortunately.
Yeah, he's still in Egypt.
Now, he's taken Mutun.
He has to memorize the Jazariyya, and then
he's got to memorize Al-Kharid Al-Bahiyya,
and then he's probably going to memorize Ashmawiyya,
for the rest of the year.
So, let's go to the pictures.
There is the picture of us in front
of the Masjid of Sidi Ahmed Al-Dardir.
Sidi Ahmed Al-Dardir, he is, and to
the Egyptians, he's the Khulasa of the Maliki
school.
Don't ask questions after that.
He is the Sheikh in Aqidah, in Sharia,
in Tariqah, Khalwati.
And that's his Masjid, and we were able
to go to the Darih there and visit
his grave, and we are proponents of visitation
of graves.
People talk about it as if it's some
kind of crazy thing.
You go to the grave of that person,
you make Dua for him, you say Assalamu
Alaikum, you make Dua for him, and you
make Dua for yourself.
You make Dua for anyone, because a Barakah
is connected to good places, good people, and
good times, and good deeds.
So, when you're around a good person, then
you hope your Dua to be even more
answered.
And we visited graves throughout this whole trip,
and I made it a point to give
a small talk on what is the correct
and incorrect way to do this, because we
don't throw the whole baby out with the
bathwater.
In fact, one of the things they say
is when you go to any city, you
visit the living people of Allah, and then
the dead people of Allah.
If they're Awliyaullah, they have a type of
life in their grave that is better than
this life.
A Barzakh is better, it's vaster, you don't
have to seek sustenance, you have no Takleef,
you're just enjoying their existence in the grave.
And we hold the belief that they can
hear those who are around their grave, and
receive the Salam from them.
So, in one sense, if you were to
visit someone deceased many times, it's not far
off, hearing your visitation and hearing your Salam,
and Allah knows best.
But we do hold from the Hadith of
the Prophet, that is not restricted to that
moment where the Prophet talked to the Kuffar
after the Battle of Badr.
The Ulema say, it's not just the Kuffar,
anyone's grave that you go to, you speak
to them, they can hear you, they just
can't answer you back.
Alright, next picture.
Al-Husayn's Masjid.
And then they totally revamped the mosque.
It's really nice and beautiful now.
The courtyard almost looks like Medina, with the
awnings, just like in Medina Manawarah, that fold
up at night and open up.
They just made it really pretty, but it
was closed, we couldn't go into it.
Next picture.
Alright, that's the wall.
You see how Al-Husayn, that is a
beautiful fence right there, they have palm trees
on the inside, gorgeous courtyard.
That's my Fiqh teacher right there.
I have two Fiqh teachers.
He is one of them.
I study with him.
And we're on Buyu' right now.
Next to him is Sheikh Marwan, who is
his friend from age 7 onwards.
He never leaves him.
That's Sheikh Marwan.
You might think he's older because he has
white hair, but he's not old, he's actually
young.
He doesn't have pigmentation at all.
Even his eyes are bright blue.
No pigmentation at all.
Next.
Alright, that's again the wall of Al-Husayn.
We couldn't enter in, but you see here
how they have the awnings, just like Medina,
and the ground is all marble.
Beautiful reconstruction.
Next.
There is Al-Azhar.
The school and the area where Ma'hid
Al-Majd is is behind Al-Azhar.
So in fact, it's in old, old Cairo.
I hope I, I think I have some
of the crazy scenes from the street.
We got there, we landed at 10.
By the time we got to Ma'hid
Al-Majd it was like 11.30 because
we had to get the transit visa.
It's free.
We started the Majlis at 12.
We did the whole khatm, ijazah ceremony for
about half hour.
We ate for half hour.
Then at 1 a.m. we went out
for the visitation of Al-Dardir and Al
-Husayn.
The whole, it's as if it's like 9
p.m. It's 1 a.m. There are
little kids walking around the streets, chickens, dogs,
welding in a shop, another guy is cooking
food.
I'm like, what's, hey guys, it's 1 a
.m. What's going on here?
That's how it is here.
No one sleeps here.
I sleep around 2, 3 a.m., 4
a.m. I'm like, why is a guy
cooking foul?
Foul is Egyptian fava beans basically.
Why is he cooking foul?
He said, oh, people wake up and they're
hungry.
Man, it's another world.
But it's fun.
Here's he gets a chance to see the
old city.
This is great.
A lot of old masajid here that
are closed up.
They're not in use anymore.
But you can see the walls, the ancient
doors.
Look, this is like 1 a.m. This
is where the Moroccans used to live.
They say those ancient masajid are not safe
anymore because they're so old that the walls
may collapse on people.
Allah knows best.
But that's what they said.
Look at that.
Complete little alleyway.
This is a building they want to move
to, Mahad al-Majd.
We're going to build a relationship with Mahad
al-Majd.
Anyone wants to study in Egypt, you contact
me.
Midnight.
Wow.
Wow.
Look at this guy's welding at 1 a
.m. So this is where our young man
went.
I was so proud of him.
He didn't go to the posh spots of
Cairo.
No.
He went into the shabby parts.
Shabby meaning like the poor people, basically.
No.
It's not the city of the dead.
Probably your bank account's dead.
This is inside the building.
Right?
These are some of our locals here.
Right?
That's the Sheikh, Sheikh Marwan.
And the music you heard was the promo
of the building playing on the TV of
the organization.
Okay.
Next one.
All right.
So this is...
They run a soup kitchen.
Oh, shoot.
We're going to have to turn you in.
Funny thing is that's the administrative office.
It's also where they slaughter.
I'm like, wait, how?
He said that we clear out the desk.
We clear out the rugs.
We tie the animal to it, to there.
And we...
Look, this is where they slaughter the dead,
the animals.
Yeah.
You'll see it.
And then they repaint the walls afterwards.
They clean it and they repaint the walls.
Look, that's the soup kitchen.
You all see that?
See, they're just like us.
Mahad plus soup kitchen.
This is the right way to do things.
They feed 1,000 people a week.
Per week, 1,000 people a week.
4,000 people a month.
Okay.
So this idea of the religious school that's
infused with the spiritual path of God and
all that.
And then a soup kitchen.
Look, that's where they tie the bull, the
cow.
Wow.
They slaughter the bulls here.
In this room.
Wow.
They just clear this out.
They tie the guy down here.
They just make it happen, make it work.
Wow.
All right, next video.
So, this idea of the religious school with
the soup kitchen.
It's an ancient idea.
Right?
It's not a new idea.
They're doing it here in Egypt.
So they have the Qur'an school is
one organization.
It's the same people.
The soup kitchen is a second organization.
And it's run by the same people.
But the thing is, the soup kitchen can
apply for different things.
Here they are.
The people of the soup kitchen came rolled
in at 10 p.m. to cook for
us.
And the ceremony started around midnight.
All right.
These are some of the family members of
our reciter.
All right.
There's our reciter, mashallah, and his two teachers.
Those are the two teachers.
One is very soft and the other is
shadid.
See those two teachers?
One, Sheikh Marwan in the white beard.
And that's the shadid one.
But he's the one who made sure the
job gets done.
The soft one makes sure you love it
and you feel loved.
And the hard one, he makes sure the
job gets done.
Right?
And I've seen other clips of them where
they have a sister finish the 10 qiraat.
And she recites the last three surahs in
each verse that has a difference in qiraat.
She recites it that way.
Right?
And they give out ijazah, full ijazah in
the 10 qiraat.
Now imagine how long it takes to recite
the Quran.
Wherever there's a difference in a verse, you
have to recite that difference.
So some verses you may recite it four
times or four differences.
So they, this is like, when I went
there I was like, you actually have ijazah
in the 10 qiraat.
Mariki fiqh all the way to sharh al
-kabir.
Muqtasir al-khalil.
Aqidah to the top.
Jaharat al-tawhid and all of its surahat
and the books of Sanusi.
Like what's missing?
Hadith, all the books that you have ijazah
in.
But they're, it's like a small little space,
tiny space.
They got four stories but it's all tiny.
All beat up in the old part of
Cairo.
And they got a soup kitchen downstairs and
they feed a thousand people a week.
They actually feed 250 people a day.
So, Subhanallah.
Two to three hundred people daily.
The huge kitchen.
Huge kitchen.
Three people were cooking.
Three full time chefs.
We're building a relationship with this school.
If you want to study there you text
me immediately right away.
They have places to stay.
They can arrange for you studies.
And you, there's not like a lot of
officialness yet.
Right?
So you just put a nice wad of
envelope of cash in there to go towards
the expenses and towards to cover their costs.
And you're good to go.
And you will study with highly qualified sheikh
of Ahlus Sunnah Qur'an Aqidah, Fiqh.
All right.
Next.
He's staying upstairs on the third floor.
The school is on the first floor.
And he, yeah, right there.
Right with all the dogs, the chickens, the
little windy roads.
That's where he's living.
Yeah.
All right.
That's the example of what it looks like.
This is me and the sheikh walking through
old Cairo talking.
That's sheikh Marwan on the left.
The kindest sheikh you'll ever meet.
I said, Ahmed, is this your sheikh?
He said, no, no, no.
I'm a student like him and I'm just
helping him.
I'm like his older brother just helping him.
I said, oh, so you're not the sheikh.
So I said, Ahmed, who is that?
He's like, no, that's the sheikh.
Look at these ancient masajid right here.
I love seeing these.
This is literally like we're talking 1500s, but
it's closed.
He was lobbying.
Open it up.
Let us use it.
We'll pay rent to the oqaf.
They said no.
That's like one of the founders, one of
the board members kids walking like a gangster
like that.
Yeah.
You see, the shiur are from the old
school, but the board members and the administrators
are all from Cairo youth, like hip Cairo
youth.
Yeah.
Because they're the ones who do the paperwork,
they file for the grants and all that
stuff.
But look, it's all old, very old buildings
here.
Isn't there a meme with like baby gangster
or something like that?
That's like this little kid right here.
Yeah.
Huh?
There's no bad time in Cairo.
Now, we saw a kid just walking across
this alleyway and he must have been like
in diapers.
He was in diapers, I'm telling you.
And I'm like, whoa, random kid.
And then there were dogs all around.
This is Masjid Sidi Ahmed Al-Darjeer.
Sidi Ahmed Al-Darjeer in the Maliki Madhab
is a giant.
He is a giant.
Alright, next.
Okay, good.
In...
Alright, another clip of old Cairo.
Looks like there's like still an old city
here where cars can't even can't even pass
through.
Alright, we got a few more minutes before
we go to...
We're almost done and we're going to go
to Othman and then we probably won't have
QA today.
But just another visual of old Cairo.
If you want to study at Mahad Al
-Majd in Egypt, you got a week, you
got a month, whatever.
Info asafianasided.org will make it happen for
you.
Five, six.
It's a full-time head school for kids
and they sleep there and they stay there.
They don't have regulations the way we do.
Just put a chicken slaughter, a butcher right
there.
Is the group coming?
Are they lost?
Oh.
Oh.
Look at that ancient masjid.
Jameel.
Jameel.
Not a masjid.
Wadan Hussain?
Al-Azhar.
That's the back wall of Al-Azhar right
there.
And then you have to go under the
highway to go to Hussain.
Exactly.
All right.
Next one.
All right.
Let me translate for you.
Interpret.
If you see a green light connected to
one of these minarets, it's Ahlul Bayt.
That's one of the graves of Ahlul Bayt
are there.
Ah.
You see green there?
Yep.
Oh.
Here's another ancient masjid.
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Okay, next.
Plus the last two videos.
And this is the tunnel that you have
to go under to walk To go from
Azhar to Five minutes Next
video And there is a mess look how
pretty it is they made it they've cleaned
it up signed it based on the courtyard
a message in So
this is Fast
forward a bit Yeah, see that's the old
wall there they kept that it has some
hadiths about the virtues of All right, and
that's it right that's the final is there
anything else on what What are those two
right there?
That's the dinner we had for the Ijazah
ceremony Yeah, we showed this one already and
then all right, let's move to That's a
second visit.
Now.
Let's move to the third visit which which
is with I Guess we should now say
say it.
No, sorry.
Oh, no.
No, no, he went to West Africa.
So CD Muli All right, let's go to
our main man Othman Qurayshi he represented at
Algeria in Algeria, so This this winter was
blessed.
We hit up Tareem Egypt and Algeria and
there he studied with Sheikh Ahmed al-maghili
who many many Shabab are studying Fick with
him Online every day I'll make can you
is there a zoom out possibility on your
on your thingy?
One sec.
Yeah in the meantime already You could fire
up a picture of sheikh al-maghili and
in fact, we have class in a little
bit So we're gonna do this in half
hour.
So let's All right, awesome man is Fixing
his screen real quick Yeah, that's good, I
mean it's a bit fuzzy but anyway, we're
gonna show your pictures anyway, right We're showing
his pictures.
Anyway.
All right, so let's Why don't you start
with your preface?
How did you discover sheikh al-maghili other
are and Then physically speaking remember Why are
we showing this we're showing this so that
you the listener could go to these places
That's why I'm not showing you this stuff
for the fun of it or just what
do you care what I did?
Right.
I'm only showing you this stuff so that
you as a listener Can pack your bags
save your money and make these trips yourselves
we may go and try to go with
you and show you the ropes, but Or
you could go yourself, right?
So Teddy we talked about Egypt.
We talked about now off man.
Okay, take it away Bismillah rahman rahim alhamdulillah
rabbil alamin allahumma salli wa sallim wa tidak
wa barik ala sayyidina muhammadin wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi wa sallim First of all, I'm
not too sure why the audio is or
why the video is blurry looks fine on
my end It's a stream yard, but that's
okay.
You by the way, everyone is single you
can sign up to marry you can apply
When you apply to marry him, you have
to not like other people you have say
I like strawberry ice cream No, no, we
need to know which one you like which
texts have you read?
Okay, go ahead.
Oh, so first of all as just a
small disclaimer I'm not like an expert on
a draw or on the way of the
Madakia in In Algeria or you know, what
exactly is the men hedge there?
I haven't studied there for a long time
But I just did want to talk a
little bit about my visit and what I
was Therefore and to begin to understand that
we have to know who Sheikh Ahmed and
Megiddy is and Sheikh Murabit Benavides.
He was actually telling me that back when
he was in Syria in Damascus in the
In the 90s or in the early 2000s,
even at that time Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy
was very very well known where At that
time the civil war was occurring in Algeria
and it was a very violent conflict and
they had refugees you know from all over
the country going all over the Arab world
and in Europe and things like that and
the mashayekh of Syria even they had heard
the name of Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy and
his status as a teacher as a murabbi
as a sheikh of tasawwuf and A sheikh
of fiqh and an expert in the Maliki
madhhab His status was known even to the
ulema of asham and this is before the
internet was a really big thing and from
that time You know when the students of
Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy would visit In the
early 2000s and they would move to Syria
The ulema of asham would show such ikram
just to the to they would show such
generosity and they would honor The Algerians who
had studied with Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy just
by virtue of him being who he is
So even though you know, it may seem
to the Western audience That only a couple
of years ago.
We started hearing his name He's extremely well
known You know for a very very long
time in the Muslim world And especially among
the Malikiya if you go to any of
the mashayekh of the Malikiya Who are alive
today and you mentioned his name his name
is going to be known So, you know
from that time Until now he's known even
though only recently has he become known Through
social media through his Facebook page and through
some of the students becoming more well known
on the international stage so we Had known
about Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy for you know,
quite a long time for several years But
you know, there was some personal contacts that
put us into contact with Sheikh Megiddy directly
And we have been studying with him for
some time You know, there's some other mashayekh
who kind of put something together for us
To begin to get into touch with Sheikh
Ahmed directly and after over a year of
studying You know, I work nine to five
so I can't really just leave You know
and go and study there even though inshallah.
That's the intention.
I was able to go for a trip
to go visit him and his son directly
so that's kind of the background and I
could talk about You know what the trip
was like How would you like me to
start?
Let's start with your pictures and you explain
each picture that you have here All right,
let's let's go to the pictures and see
what's going on here So to begin the
first thing that we did I can't see
the pictures by the way But you can't
see open your YouTube This is a picture
of a red building and it says Matar
Adrar that looks like a looks like a
fruit Store.
No, this is farm to table things.
Yeah, this is actually the airport where you
land.
So The first thing that I did when
I went I you know, it's a long
trip and there's no direct flights at least
from the East Coast at least from New
York to go to Algeria directly so either
you have to stop make a stop in
France or you have to make a stop
in Turkey and then from Turkey you you
go to the capital of Algeria The Asima
or Algiers, right even though it's just called
Asima so you land there and The first
thing is that you're hit by like a
crazy amount of security So people they've asked
me like how do you go and how
do you study there?
And it's actually very difficult right now unless
you're Algerian.
So if you're Algerian and you have your
passport, it's really easy But the first thing
is that once you get there like first
of all the visa process took a while
just to get a visitor visa Because they
don't want anyone in the country It's a
socialist or like a Like a neo-socialist
state and they're very cautious and they're very
suspicious of any visitors so even getting into
the country was really difficult, but you land
in the capital of Algiers and from Algiers
from the capital Which is on the coast
of the Mediterranean to a draw.
It's actually a 16-hour car ride So
people don't realize that Algeria is the largest
country in Africa And Africa is huge.
It's much bigger than what it looks like
on the map.
So To get there you have to take
another local flight in a really sketchy you
know airplane to land in a draw so
a lot is one of the biggest provinces
of Algeria and you land there and the
first thing that you notice After you get
through security, by the way, they held me
up in line for like two hours Questioning
me and you know looking at my passport
and just kind of confused.
What's an American doing in this random city?
but the first thing that you notice when
you leave the airport is the name of
the airport is Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir Airport
and Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir was one of
the ulama of Adar or other Algeria back
in the previous generation and he's the scholar
who brought this You know random you know
province in South Algeria, and he turned it
into a circle and a center of value
and Before I had gone to you know,
Algeria I you know had heard his name
before Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir But the thing
is is that I wasn't entirely convinced of
this idea That one individual can have such
a big impact on the lives of so
many people But then once you arrive in
Adar you see everything is centered around Sheikh
Mohammed bin Kabir and You begin to realize
that you know these type of alia that
you hear about in the stories and that
you read about in the books They're still
alive and they still walk amongst us The
equivalent of that would be for example, like
Habib Omar Hafidahullah in in Tareem and the
ulama of Adar today where you see that
this is a very small Hubble province But
everyone right not just the ulama not just
the students of knowledge But I'm talking about
the bakers and the taxi drivers and the
lawyers and the doctors and the engineers and
the builders everyone is you know just focused
on Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir and On the
ulama and they're guided their entire life revolves
around the scholars that when the Sheikh says
something That's what goes their word is law
and People have this respect for the scholars
and they understand that when the ulama they
say something then you know There's a reason
and there's a wisdom why they say it
So this was the first time that I
went to a place where even the government
was even though they were very protective They
were very suspicious, but the individuals, you know,
the police officers the security guards, right the
random, you know military police Them individually they
were all followers of the ulama and they're
all muhibbin of the ulama They were all
lovers of the ulama.
They were just doing their job, you know
on spying on you know The scholars but
in reality they had a deep love and
a deep appreciation for the scholars so you
land there and the first thing is that
now you have to take a two-hour
drive to the village of Sheikh Ahmed and
another Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari.
So that's where we are so far Good.
We're at the airport picture next picture All
right.
It looks like a barn.
I guess Yeah, this is the airport just
to show you You know, this is the
quality of the airlines and that was very
sketchy You were like on some repurposed military
airplane or something like that so Like it
was very remote but at the same time
I was pleasantly surprised that the Capital of
Adrar like the so Adrar is a big
province of 600,000 people But the capital
it was actually like a complete city So
that's a little bit better than you know
The stories that you hear from Mauritania where
even like the big cities of Mauritania like
Nouakchott, they're tiny villages So that wasn't the
case in Adrar where Adrar was actually like
a pretty big city There was a lot
going on You know there it was beautifully
constructed So and they even had an airport
But that was a city.
So if you move on you're going to
see all these different Buildings with red these
red brick buildings all of the city of
Adrar is built like this and the reason
that they told me is because During the
desert heat it gets so hot that the
buildings they disintegrate So the red is actually
a type of natural sun protection.
It's red brick You know mixed with some
red rock or something like that.
I don't know the details, but it basically
keeps the buildings cool So this is Adrar
and I stayed there for only a little
bit of time and you're going to see
the HIFS school that was there.
This is one of many many of the
schools of HIFS that are there in the
masjid so And I don't know I can't
hear the audio, but there's an audio.
Now they're reciting Quran now.
Yeah So this dhikr that you hear is
called Hizbul Falah Hizbul Falah and this is
the Wird of Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir and
of his three students So they recite this
Hizb or a portion of this Hizb after
every Salah And it's broken down into five
sections And you know, they recite different portions
Everyone in the city is reciting this this
Hizb after Salah no matter where you go
No matter what masjid you're in they haven't
really in a place like this They haven't
even heard the term Wahhabi or Salaf right
now of course with the internet they have
but virtually this idea of Wahhabism and Salafism
and La Madhabia and You know these things
being a bid'ah and no Tasawwuf, right?
It's unheard of Everyone in that city is
on the same dhikr on the same wird
and Everyone is on the same schedule the
same taktib and they're all on the same
page that this is all From Ahlus Sunnah
wal Jama'ah and that this is how
life used to be Here is Darih al
-Sheikh Sayyidi Mohammed bin Kabir Ibn al-Kabir
so I think it gets squished together So
this was his where you know his grave
was and Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir a little
bit of background about who he was he
was the student of the Sheikh Sheikh Ahmed
Didi Who was one of the great ulema
of the time and they actually say that
the way that Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir became
a Alim it was a karama where he
learned, you know The basics of the uloom
and then he asked his father if he
could go to study with the Sheikh and
his father says that you have my permission
for one year and So he studied in
that one year and there's an incident that
took place where his Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin
Kabir Sheikh He made dua I believe that
the incident was that they it was going
to be either of her I'm a little
bit foggy on the details But the gist
of it is that the Sheikh made a
you know It was supposed to be either
of her and the Sheikh made a comment
and he said that I wish that we
had something to slaughter for aid and The
Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir heard this comment and
there was nothing that they had to slaughter
And so in the middle of the night
he walked over Multiple hours to the next
village and he bought an animal and he
brought it back and he left it at
the doorstep of his Sheikh and when the
Sheikh got up in the morning and he
saw this he asked who did this and
They responded that it was Sheikh Mohammed bin
Kabir and the Sheikh Sheikh didi made a
dua for him and it said that due
to this dua the Sheikh received the fatih
right an opening in his ilm That allowed
him to within a matter of three years
to master everything that his mashayekh had to
teach so it said that At the end
of the year, he wrote a letter to
his teacher to his father and he said
to his father You know, I've studied but
I need more time So can I have
one more year his father wrote back and
he said you have one more year So
the second year came by and he finished
And he wrote another letter and he said
that you have and he asked his father
again Can I study for one more year
just one and his father said you can
study for one more year But after that
you have to come back.
So within three years the Sheikh was able
to become a master of fiqh of aqeedah
of tasawwuf of Arabic of Hadith of every
single science to the point that his students
were the biggest hulamah of today None of
them were able to master all of the
sciences that Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir was able
to master in three years That's a good
Sheikh Al-maghiri you're talking about.
So yes a student Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir
had three students that you could say were
his main inheritors and You could add the
fourth one, which is his son, but the
three main students and those were the pictures
of the mashayekh at the airport their Sheikh
Ahmed Al-maghiri and they say that Sheikh
Ahmed Al-maghiri inherited the mastery of fiqh
from Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir, then there
is Sheikh Sheikh Al-Makki, I don't know
his first name Sheikh Al-Makki is still
alive and he teaches in the capital of
Adhrar and they say that he inherited I've
heard his knowledge of Arabic and his knowledge
of Hadith And then the third one is
Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari who is said to
have inherited Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir's tasawwuf, but
none of them are said to you know,
all of them they received a portion of
the inheritance of Sheikh Al-Kabir.
None of them received the entire thing and
This is really hard to understand because once
you see Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maghiri and Sheikh
Hassan Al-Ansari Right you like it's it's
unfathomable what it means to take even more
that when I saw Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maghiri
I saw a master of fiqh, a master
of tasawwuf, a master of nahu, a master
of sarf, a master of hadith, a master
of Every single science imaginable where just to
give you a little bit of perspective Sheikh
Ahmed Al-Maghiri for the longest time He
was teaching he had a dars where he
would teach Ajrumia, which is a beginner book
and then over there they go straight from
Ajrumia to The Alfia of Ibn Malik, right
and that's considered to be the you know
Usually that's the last thing that someone studies
and he had a majlis for many many
years where he was also teaching Mughni al
-Labib by Ibn Hisham and today that's not
a book that's taught I don't know anywhere
else in the world where Mughni al-Labib
is considered a book that's taught Nowadays, it's
considered a reference book in the past.
It used to be considered a book that
the ulama would study and Sheikh Ahmed Al
-Maghiri and presumably Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari, they
both used to teach Mughni al-Labib, right?
That's something that you only read about in
the books, right?
The likes of Sheikh Ahmed Dardir That's the
type of person that would be studying You
know or teaching a book like Mughni al
-Labib And yet here we are in the
21st century and you still have people that
are teaching those types of books So imagine
what then of someone like Sheikh Mohammed Al
-Kabir Let's go to the next picture Omar
Now there's a video of he looks like
you're driving in the highway So you could
skip over some of these this was the
right next one Beautiful scenery here.
It was beautiful.
It's really serene and so a lot of
people they actually visit Adrar and south southern
Algeria and the desert the like the desert
area During their holidays.
So I went at a time when a
lot of people were visiting because the schools
are off in Algeria right now So a
lot of people they go to visit and
do you know the same way that we
would go to Disneyland or Disney World?
And we'd go, you know, or like to
a national park They go to the Sahara
and they go for Ziyara so that's their
version of a vacation is to go and
to see the mashayikh living and dead and
to go and visit their their graves and
to go and take Baraka and to take
duas and go and ask questions and Spend
time in the company of the scholars.
So this over here is the drive to
Nzigmir which is where Sheikh Ahmed Al-Naghiri
and Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari They live and
they teach and Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari, he's
been here for a long time Since the
80s.
He's lived here ever since he Completed his
studies and he moved from Adrar and he
lived in his hometown of Nzigmir Since then
for more than 40 years and he's been
teaching since then and Sheikh Ahmed Al-Naghiri
He moved here in 2011.
I wasn't sure why no one was able
to tell me why I don't know if
it was for some political reason or if
it was some tasawwuf reason, but he moved
in 2011 So he's been there for a
small amount of time relatively and he's basically
what you could see as his project is
to teach a very pure version an unadulterated
version of ilm, of Quran, of fiqh, of
tasawwuf away from the eyes and away from
the influences of You know modern life today
So when you get there his madrasa is
like 200 students you know for all the
way from ages 7 and 8 years old
all the way to the age of Around
25.
All right.
That's this green carpet turquoise carpet with lime
green walls Yeah, so that's Sheikh Al-Naghiri's
school.
Yes, and this video that I took is
before Fajr time So this is Tahajjud time
Hmm where all the students are sitting with
each other I think there's another video of
this as well where you can't really hear
much except you just hear the noise of
people just reciting Quran Everyone's just doing things
on the road.
They're all reciting So if you move on
to the next video, I think there's one
video from nighttime and one video from the
daytime as well They're still use the alwah
Yes, so which is the wooden boards.
Yeah, even though they do have musahib.
They have the copies of the musahib but
despite that they still prefer to use the
they still prefer to use the wooden tablet
even though they could if they wanted to
Because of the fact that there's also a
science of rasm Which is the science of
actually how to write the Quran the orthography
of the Quran and this is a revealed
science As well where even though the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He didn't read or
write the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam instructed
his companions on how to write the Quran
as well in about spelling What's that?
You talk about spelling the spelling, right?
So for example, there are certain places in
the Quran where one would expect it to
be written for example with the tanween right
with two You know with the two a
diacritical marks and The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam instructed, you know For example to write
it with a noon instead and there's a
reason and there's a wisdom behind all of
these things Oh, there's a science and there's
books that are written on just the bumps
of the Quran that how is the Quran
to be written as well and It's all
written in The Moroccan or in the muslimy
dialect So for example, they don't write the
fat and the cough in the way that
we're used to instead They write it, you
know the fat and the cough they look
exactly the same except one of them has
a dot underneath the letter hmm, so instead
of doing two dots and one dot they
do one dot on top or Dot on
the bottom for the cough.
So we're looking now at sheikh and Mahdi's
photographs of him sitting on his in the
mihrab with some Students with their with their
wooden boards.
How much can you zoom in on that
picture at all or no?
It's a nice.
That's a beautiful picture there.
The Sheikh is sitting Yeah, there you go,
that's okay if you can it's okay keep
going next so next pictures here are from
Right before Fajr time.
So this is the schedule of the mashayikh
there Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari who I'll talk
about in a second.
He probably has a very very similar schedule
to this So the way that it works
is that the sheikh wakes up before Fajr
time at the Hajj time Maybe an hour
before and he goes to the masjid and
By that time the students are already awake
and what they're doing at that point is
that they're all writing on their tablets Things
that they're going to memorize and the things
that they're going to learn for the day
So the senior students what they do is
that they instruct the students on what to
write on their tablets so they take an
order a piece from the Qur'an and
They if they're a more advanced student, then
they take a couple of lines.
For example from a book like Muqtasir Khalil
The Hikam of Ibn Aqa'illah Asal al
-Masalik from one of these mutoons from one
of these texts and they take a portion
of that and They put it on their
tablet and for the rest of the day.
They're just going to be reading from the
tablet then the Sheikh comes and The Sheikh
he's already awake and he's prayed his tahajjud
and he prays some tahajjud Over there as
well if he chooses to do that and
then he sits there reciting his own portion
of the Qur'an his own his of
the Qur'an what he needs to review
and The Sheikh spends all of this free
time either listening to the Qur'an Teaching
answering questions or reciting the Qur'an himself.
That's his entire life.
So Then the students they come to him
one by one and What he'll do is
that he'll either correct their note where if
they have mistakes he'll correct their mistakes on
their wooden tablet or the students will recite
to him and he'll correct their mistakes and
he'll listen to their Revision and the memorization
that you'd need in the town while In
Zigmir was two hours away.
So if you want to think of that
of it like Adrar would be like New
Brunswick or North Brunswick and then in Zigmir
was like Allentown so You know, it doesn't
have everything.
It doesn't have you know, like fancy restaurants
or hotels or anything it's just a very
basic village and everything has to get imported
from there and there's Pictures of you know,
the clay huts that the town was like
originally So they actually still you know, the
same building methods that had been used for
hundreds of years until Ten years ago.
That's exactly how they had continued to build
these houses from clay bricks that were sun
-dried you know you you get the bricks
and they dry in the Sun or you
bake them and you build the houses out
of those and Only recently have they started
building homes with cement and She can really
actually said that in the past those bricks
those brick houses Their temperature was a lot
better than the new cement homes The new
cement homes are really hot during the summers
and really cold during the winters, but they're
cheap they're easy to use and They don't
retain their heat which is why people they
use them in these hot hot climates but
he said that in the past all these
people would live in these red clay brick
homes and These homes would be cool during
the summer time and they'd be warm during
the winter time So I thought that was
really interesting and when she and Malini first
came to insignia in 2011 These homes are
actually how he started his mother asset to
begin with so now The mother I said
it's a big message, but when he first
started it out it started out from just
one of the homes of the village and
just within a matter of 13 14 years
from The Contributions of the people there and
of the shares personal money himself, right?
These machines they come from big families and
you know, they're well connected So from their
shares personal spending the masjid the madrasa the
library the students living quarters The guest houses
all of that is coming from the family
of the shape So these machines they know
a lot of them they come from money,
right?
They they may have a family For example,
we hear about this of Habib Omar But
all they do with the money any money
that they receive it all goes directly back
into the to the students Everything there is
about feeding the locals feeding the visitor Honoring
the visitor giving them a place to stay
three meals a day, right?
It doesn't matter if you're there to visit
the Shaykh or you're just there for a
free free lunch You just want some food
and to make sure that the students are
all taken care of so Students will come
from all over Algeria and all over North
Africa their parents will drop them off their
parents won't have a single penny or a
single Durham or dinar or anything to pay
these Mashayekh the Mashayekh don't care All they
want is good students and the Mashayekh will
spend their entire personal money Whatever inheritance that
they may have had 30 40 years ago.
All of that has gone towards the students
and towards them amazing Is that the last
picture Omar?
So last thing I have to ask you
Someone wants to go to a draw.
What do they do?
If you want to go to a draw
right now the situation there It's opening up
slowly, but the situation there.
It's not as easy as a place like
Mauritania Really?
It's it's much much harder.
Apparently there.
I mean, yeah Is easier living is easier
definitely living is easier in Algeria and it's
you know, there's more civilization There's more resources.
There's no big snakes.
I asked about the snakes and scorpions.
They said no those don't really Those are
in the way out in the desert.
They don't really bother us here in the
villages So living in a draw living in
Algeria is a lot easier But getting there
and getting a visa is a lot more
difficult right now Because there's no pathways Right
now for you to get a visa as
opposed to Mauritania.
I hear for a couple hundred dollars They'll
even give you a citizenship to Mauritania Yeah,
you just go there and you show up
as long as you know, they're not really
suspicious of you They don't really care, you
know And then it costs you like a
hundred dollars or much less actually to get
a tent from the main city Noakchott and
then you go and you could study at
a place like Nabarria or Taissir or one
of these Madaris in Mauritania But you have
to live in Mauritania, right you live with
the huge kibar of the ulama of Mauritania
But it's a very difficult and harsh lifestyle,
but there are right now It's a lot
more difficult to get a visa and I'm
not an expert But if you are Algerian
and you want to be you're a student
of knowledge I would highly highly recommend if
you don't have a problem with the visa
I would highly recommend going to Algeria and
studying here But if you're a foreigner then,
you know, you might need some personal connections
You might need to get connected to a
university in Algeria or other are you?
You would probably need to be creative to
go and study there, but it's not that
difficult to get an invitation from a local
you know find a local Algerian in your
masjid who has some family there and get
an invitation from the family and then take
that invitation to the embassy and Get your
visa from there.
And then once you're there, then you can
go to at all.
So ladies and gentlemen We we've covered visitations
to Tadym Yemen Cairo Egypt Mahad in Majd
and just now a drawer and in the
mirror of the small town in a drawer
and it's very similar to Tadym in the
the way that they live the Consistency by
which they they teach non-stop Their schedule
even waking up before Fajr going into Like
shortly before the hood then taking the break
there so Remember, why are we telling these
stories?
It's the most important thing is the head
of the goal the maqsad is to show
you all these routes exist to show you
all you can out actually go and sit
with the mashaikh directly and I'm telling you
one of the Most impactful things is seeing
something with your own two eyes The piece
of information is not the most impactful thing
the person carrying the information is what's important
Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala said ask those who
know if you don't know Okay, what the
emphasis here is?
The person the person who knows it telling
you it transforms you you're gonna come back
Your priorities are different.
Your priorities are self purification.
Your priorities are studying your your desire for
the dunya We side of of life even
in the Taoist fear.
There's a worldly side of things, right?
There is a social side of things That
part sort of goes down and in in
your priority and your main priority is to
keep studying I'm telling you the impact of
Visiting Shu you and and and getting connected
with the people of knowledge then continuing your
studies online Here in the States until you
could go back again This is what's gonna
be a major sebab for our salvation People
sort of fall off the wagon all the
time in Islam happens all the time It's
being connected to the shoe to knowledge.
This is what Allah loves.
Allah says that I'll be zidni ilma Our
Lord increases in knowledge you can study with
Othman why should we say CDO?
Do they say CD either in Algeria?
They do or should I just call you
boo, but Bill Qurayshi Member Qurayshi you could
study with him at arc view dot o
RG and go to essentials and Start studying
mad.
He don't ask where we are.
What's the curriculum level?
It's the best curriculum.
Okay Just sign up and start taking the
classes and start watching the videos.
Don't complicate things Essentials you take more than
one class.
You could take my I have I teach
four hours on essentials every week Thursday nights
and Sunday Essentials has all four methods being
taught there So if you're a Hanafi, you're
gonna do the same thing humbly same thing
You want to study Akita with Sheikh Murad
who we're gonna have on the stream next
to tell us about Jordan because he's living
in Jordan So that makes it Teddy Yemen
Cairo Egypt Adhrar Algeria next is a man
Jordan where Sheikh Murad taught and studied so
that's four locations.
You can go next We're gonna have Kareem
Odeon who's studying right now with the show
em with the church with the Syrians in
Istanbul All right, they had at least all
of it.
I know that's what we want and we're
not gonna take the big And we have
to wrap up right now But we're not
talking about the big rihla of five years
even if I don't or whatever like you
go and you study and you Come back
five years later.
No people generally may not have time for
that.
Maybe you do maybe you don't but at
least Instead of going to Disneyland and just
why don't it's better.
You know what take your money put it
down the toilet Instead of going to Disneyland.
I don't understand people who go to Disneyland.
I just I'm not saying it's haram I
know and people have kids and they want
their kids to smile.
All right, but I just don't get the
waste of Time and money.
This stream is to make you love The
whole purpose of this podcast and stream is
to make you love a couple things the
umma dawah I am thicker Connection which you
take your vacation to these places Take your
five days off ten days off.
Go to the one of these places and
We're here to help you connect to those
scholars and to know where where do I
go?
I land in Turkey.
Where do I go?
I land in Yemen.
Where do I go?
We'll help you and Maybe Allah will open
for us for helping you Subhanak Allahumma wa
bihamdika nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta nastaghfiruk
wa natubu ilayk wa al'asr inna al
insana lafee khusr illa allatheena aamanu wa amilu
al salihat wa tawassu bil haq wa tawassu
bil sabr Wassalamu alaikum
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