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
		
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			ala rasulullah, wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
		
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			man wala.
		
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			Welcome everybody to the Safina Saadi, nothing but
		
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			facts, live stream on a sunny yet cold,
		
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			borderline very cold day in the great state
		
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			of New Jersey.
		
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			And you know, it's very important for you
		
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			all to know the weather report in New
		
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			Jersey.
		
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			Why I always tell you the weather report,
		
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			I guess it gives you some context to
		
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			what we're doing here.
		
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			Let's kick it right off with the news
		
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			of the day.
		
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			It's the alleged ceasefire deal.
		
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			And I'm going to read to you from
		
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			Al Jazeera, ceasefire reportedly agreed.
		
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			Do we trust the parties involved?
		
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			No, I personally don't.
		
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			It doesn't make a difference what they say.
		
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			They're not trustworthy people, but let's read it
		
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			anyway.
		
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			Let's see.
		
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			Just for the sake of, you know, one
		
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			of the themes of this live stream is
		
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			the affairs of the Ummah, keeping in touch
		
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			with the affairs of the Ummah.
		
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			There's been 460 days of conflict.
		
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			The Palestinian group Hamas has agreed to a
		
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			ceasefire deal with Israel after more than 460
		
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			days of war.
		
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			Israel has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians
		
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			since its war.
		
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			What are they getting that number from?
		
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			I'll tell you what, it's like way over
		
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			that, right?
		
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			They're saying 46,000 killed.
		
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			That's like in the first half of the
		
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			war.
		
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			I think it's double of that.
		
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			One medical journal counted 250.
		
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			Lancet Medical Journal, they said 250.
		
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			This is a nonsensical number here.
		
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			The war began in October.
		
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			Prime Minister Netanyahu's office said that a deal
		
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			has not yet been agreed to, but that
		
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			the final details were being sorted out.
		
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			President-elect Donald Trump announced that the deal
		
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			has been agreed on.
		
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			Officials and mediators have also told Reuters and
		
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			Associated Press that an agreement has been reached.
		
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			The reported deal includes a temporary ceasefire that
		
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			will, for now, bring to an end the
		
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			destruction visited upon Gaza.
		
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			As well as the release of captives in
		
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			Gaza and many of the prisoners held by
		
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			Israel.
		
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			The deal will also, finally, allow displaced Palestinians
		
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			to return to their homes.
		
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			What homes?
		
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			What homes?
		
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			Though after Israel's deliberate destruction campaign, many homes
		
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			no longer exist.
		
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			That's exactly what we're saying.
		
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			You didn't need to write that sentence, that
		
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			was obvious.
		
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			The text of the deal has not been
		
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			officially released, but this is what we know
		
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			so far based on reports from Al-Jazeera.
		
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			The first phase will be six weeks and
		
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			will involve a limited prisoner exchange, the partial
		
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			withdrawal of Israeli troops in Gaza, and a
		
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			surge of aid into the enclave.
		
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			33 Israeli captives taken during the Hamas-led
		
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			attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023
		
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			will be released.
		
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			In exchange, Israel will release about 2,000
		
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			Palestinian prisoners during this phase, including 250 who
		
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			are serving life sentences.
		
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			Among the Palestinians being released are around 1
		
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			,000 who were detained after October 7.
		
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			In tandem with the exchange of captives, Israel
		
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			will withdraw its forces from Gaza's population centers
		
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			to areas no more than 700 meters inside
		
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			Gaza's border with Israel.
		
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			However, that may exclude the Netzarim Corridor, the
		
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			militarized belt bisecting the strip and controlling movement
		
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			along it.
		
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			Do we trust the parties involved?
		
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			That's the question.
		
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			You don't trust them, of course.
		
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			Israel will allow civilians to return to their
		
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			homes in the enclaves besieged north, where aid
		
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			agencies will be allowed to bring in aid,
		
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			up to 600 trucks a day.
		
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			Israel will also allow wounded Palestinians to leave
		
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			Gaza for treatment.
		
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			They will open the Rafah crossing with Egypt
		
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			seven days after the start of the implementation
		
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			of the first phase.
		
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			Israeli forces will reduce their presence in the
		
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			Philadelphia Corridor, an ironic name since Philadelphia is
		
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			supposed to be a city of brotherly love,
		
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			this is a war zone, there's no love
		
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			lost.
		
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			There's the border area between Egypt and Gaza
		
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			and then withdraw completely in later stages.
		
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			What about the second and third phase?
		
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			What's going on there?
		
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			They're agreed upon in principle, but they're to
		
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			be negotiated during the first phase.
		
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			This is like an engagement and then the
		
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			marriage.
		
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			Critically, Israel has insisted no written guarantees have
		
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			been given.
		
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			They do not rule out a resumption of
		
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			its attacks once the first phase is complete
		
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			and civilian captives are returned.
		
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			However, according to an Egyptian source cited by
		
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			the Associated Press news agency, the three mediators
		
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			involved in the talks, which are Egypt, Qatar,
		
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			and the U.S., have given Hamas verbal
		
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			guarantees that negotiations will continue and that all
		
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			three would press for a deal that would
		
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			see the second and third stage implemented.
		
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			That's basically just promises and it's a bunch
		
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			of hot air.
		
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			What is the second phase supposed to be?
		
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			The second phase is supposed to be if
		
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			Israel determines that the conditions have been met
		
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			for a second phase, Hamas will release all
		
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			the remaining captives, including the male soldiers, which
		
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			they're going to release last, in return for
		
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			more Palestinians held in the Israeli prison system.
		
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			In addition, according to the current document, Israel
		
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			would initiate its complete withdrawal from Gaza.
		
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			All right, that's good.
		
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			However, these conditions, which have yet to be
		
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			voted upon by the Israeli cabinet, oh, forget
		
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			about it, has to be voted upon, are
		
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			at odds with the stated positions of many
		
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			of the far right-wing members of Netanyahu's
		
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			cabinet.
		
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			They're a problem for him.
		
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			I mean, he's a problem for himself, but
		
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			they're a problem.
		
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			Those right-wingers are too crazy.
		
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			According to the draft of the third phase,
		
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			if the first and second stage be met,
		
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			the third will see the bodies of the
		
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			remaining captives handed over in return for a
		
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			three to five year reconstruction plan to be
		
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			conducted under international supervision.
		
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			I don't understand the bodies of the remaining
		
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			captives.
		
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			Are they keeping the captives in cold, like,
		
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			drawers?
		
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			The dead captives?
		
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			Why don't we release them first?
		
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			Anyway, there's currently no agreement over who will
		
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			administer Gaza beyond the ceasefire.
		
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			The U.S. has pressed for a reformed
		
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			version of the Palestinian Authority to do so.
		
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			Anthony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, said
		
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			the post-war reconstruction and governance envisions the
		
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			Palestinian Authority inviting international partners to stand up
		
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			an interim governing authority to run critical services
		
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			and oversee the territory.
		
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			Other Arab states would provide forces to ensure
		
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			security in the short term.
		
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			For such a plan to work, it would
		
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			need the support of Arab states, including Saudi
		
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			Arabia, which have said they would only support
		
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			the scheme if there is a pathway to
		
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			Palestinian statehood.
		
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			This provides another point of contention for Israeli
		
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			lawmakers, despite Israel having agreed to a two
		
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			-state solution in the Oslo Accord of the
		
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			1990s.
		
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			See, that's why people don't trust this side
		
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			at the bargaining table.
		
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			Israel has yet to suggest an alternative form
		
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			of governance.
		
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			Alright, Khairi, you know the people of Hamas
		
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			know best what is in their interest and
		
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			know best what is for them.
		
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			So alright, let us begin now with our
		
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			announcement on Sheikh Mahdi's latest course.
		
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			Safwat al-Tafasir, a wonderful book in the
		
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			Tafsir of the Quran.
		
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			You know this live stream is about affairs
		
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			of the Ummah, but it's about introducing the
		
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			common person who's out there working as a
		
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			dentist, as an accountant, as in construction, as
		
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			a physician, as a college student, into the
		
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			world of seeking knowledge and sacred learning and
		
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			you're looking at someone who is going to
		
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			continue his.
		
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			So don't ever once think, ah, my time
		
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			has passed.
		
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			Do not ever think that.
		
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			Don't ever think my time has passed.
		
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			As long as you understand the foundation of
		
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			Ahlus Sunnah and then you get a curriculum,
		
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			you could start studying.
		
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			Sheikh Mahdi will be, I'm telling you, one
		
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			of, if not the best teacher you will
		
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			have in the Arabic language because he's dedicated
		
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			to his students.
		
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			Sheikh Mahdi Laak will be reading Safwat al
		
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			-Tafasir.
		
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			Read me Omar, I can't see the details
		
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			on that poster, let me pull up that
		
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			poster right.
		
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			Starts Saturday, January 18, 6 p.m. EST,
		
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			which is 11 p.m. UK time.
		
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			I sent the link in the chat, so
		
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			it's arcview.org slash Arabic.
		
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			Go to arcview.org slash Arabic, sign up
		
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			immediately.
		
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			Do not think about it, do not hesitate,
		
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			do not wait.
		
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			They will read all three volumes by one
		
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			of the greatest scholars of our time.
		
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			And he takes from the, Safwat al-Tafasir
		
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			is like picking the cream from each Tafsir
		
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			and giving it in the verse.
		
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			It starts this Saturday.
		
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			No waiting.
		
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			Omar, remind me to put this at the
		
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			end, too.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			11 p.m. UK time, so instead of
		
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			watching highlights of Chelsea and Man U, you
		
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			take Arabic instead.
		
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			Turn off, what do they call it, Sky
		
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			News Sports or whatever?
		
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			Turn that off and go to Safwat al
		
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			-Tafasir and read with Sheikh Mahdi Laak.
		
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			If you're on the east coast, it's 6
		
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			p.m. in the United States, on the
		
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			east coast.
		
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			If you are on the west coast, subtract
		
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			three.
		
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			That takes us to 3 p.m. 3
		
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			p.m. on the west coast, you're an
		
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			I.T. guy, you take a break, right?
		
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			What do they do when they're all working
		
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			in tech?
		
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			Put it on the side, okay?
		
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			Jay says Sheikh Mahdi Laak is teaching all
		
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			the time, don't know when he ever sleeps.
		
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			So, extremely important to take advantage of this
		
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			opportunity that we have, all right?
		
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			All right, let's go to the next segment
		
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			of our program, which is, we have some
		
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			interesting QAs here, but I'm going to, that
		
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			were not from the audience, but we're going
		
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			to do our du'a first.
		
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			So, let's fire that up.
		
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			Actually, you take it, you follow along.
		
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			Stop here for a few minutes of du
		
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			'a.
		
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			Du'a on Wednesday between Dhuhr and Asr.
		
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			There is a Sa'a of Ijabah somewhere
		
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			there.
		
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			Insha'Allah, we'll stop for du'a.
		
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			وصلى الله وبركه على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله
		
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			وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله رب العالمين Alright, we
		
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			have a Q&A here.
		
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			A very simple question.
		
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			Why is it that Allah سبحانه وتعالى forgives
		
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			some people through intercession where He could have
		
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			forgiven them directly?
		
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			The answer to that is that, there's a
		
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			couple answers to that.
		
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			Number one, by causing someone to intercede for
		
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			you, that honors that person.
		
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			Number two, it establishes one of the strongest
		
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			bonds ever between you and that person.
		
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			Because they were chosen by Allah to be
		
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			the means by which you're saved from the
		
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			worst punishment possible, which is the hellfire.
		
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			Number three, the middleman is an expression of,
		
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			there's a degree of displeasure there from Allah
		
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			سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			But, you basically barely tipped the balance and
		
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			earned some rahmah.
		
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			So, it's almost as if to say, if
		
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			we can give an analogy of the relationship
		
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			or the displeasure, yet mixed with some mercy.
		
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			It's when, for example, a parent sends a
		
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			child to their room.
		
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			And then, they don't want to talk to
		
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			them.
		
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			But then, they do have rahmah for them.
		
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			And so, they say, alright, go send this
		
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			to your sister, send this food to your
		
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			brother.
		
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			Alright, send this dinner to your brother.
		
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			So, they refuse to talk to them because
		
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			that would indicate approval.
		
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			But, they still have some mercy for them.
		
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			So, they send somebody.
		
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			So, that is a third wisdom.
		
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			But, why intercession?
		
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			What is intercession in the first place?
		
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			I didn't define that.
		
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			We should have defined that.
		
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			It's basically when another person, on the day
		
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			of judgment, seeks forgiveness for you from Allah
		
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			سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			Then, Allah forgives you.
		
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			But, you yourself, if you were to seek
		
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			forgiveness, you'd be rejected.
		
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			But, your good deed is that you had
		
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			some good ties with this righteous person.
		
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			They then ask for you to be forgiven,
		
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			and you're forgiven.
		
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			That also encourages us in this life to
		
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			have as many connections to good people as
		
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			possible.
		
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			You never know who will intercede for you.
		
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			Intercession could happen in this life too, for
		
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			punishment.
		
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			For example, a mother may pray for her
		
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			son's forgiveness and guidance.
		
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			And, that son may be astray.
		
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			He may be punished in this life, if
		
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			it was not for the mother's dua for
		
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			him.
		
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			He's a bad kid, but he's a good
		
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			son.
		
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			It could happen.
		
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			He's sinful with Allah.
		
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			Bad to other people, but with his mom,
		
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			he's good.
		
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			So, his mom prays for him in the
		
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			middle of the night.
		
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			And, his life turns for the better through
		
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			that prayer.
		
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			So, there are many, many wisdoms why Allah
		
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			created this middleman in terms of receiving the
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			Not a middleman of worship, of course.
		
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			Not a middleman that's actually forgiving you.
		
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			No, they're asking for forgiveness for you.
		
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			These are the wisdoms.
		
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			So, that's why it's really good to always
		
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			keep in mind, never look down on somebody.
		
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			That person may, he could have made a
		
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			prayer for you.
		
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			And, that wouldn't have been the prayer that's
		
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			answered.
		
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			And, that's why they say, Don't ever look
		
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			down on a slave.
		
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			He may be in the sight of Allah,
		
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			a wali, whose dua is accepted.
		
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			You just don't know.
		
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			Awliya' Allah are not only the fuqaha' and
		
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			the muhaddithin and the apparent people in religion.
		
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			They're in the religious community.
		
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			They could also be the regular person that
		
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			nobody knows about or no one pays attention
		
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			to.
		
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			So, those are all the wisdoms surrounding the
		
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			concepts of what we call shafa'ah.
		
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			Shafa'ah is in ayatul kursi, If someone
		
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			intercedes for you.
		
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			It's because Allah Ta'ala created that.
		
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			Allah Ta'ala made them intercede for you.
		
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			Permitted them to intercede for you.
		
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			So, in fact, when the intercession comes, that
		
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			is from Allah directly.
		
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			That is from Allah, except not directly.
		
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			Through a middleman.
		
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			Now, how is the direct forgiveness look like?
		
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			A person may be called up for the
		
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			judgment into a certain location.
		
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			And, thereupon, they speak to Allah Ta'ala
		
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			without barrier or interpreter.
		
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			And, thereupon, Allah Ta'ala asks them some
		
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			very easy questions.
		
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			Just a few questions.
		
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			And, then, Allah Ta'ala bestows his pleasure
		
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			upon him.
		
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			And, he announces that you're forgiven.
		
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			Go enter Jannah.
		
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			So, that is what the direct forgiveness looks
		
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			like.
		
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			What else did the Prophet say about the
		
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			shafa'ah?
		
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			So, we have a rule of thumb.
		
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			If you avoid major sins, just by that,
		
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			you'll be forgiven your minor sins.
		
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			But, what if you fell into major sins?
		
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			Then, in this life, you have tawbah and
		
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			you have hajj.
		
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			What happens if you didn't do those things?
		
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			You can have sicknesses.
		
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			What happens if that didn't happen?
		
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			You die with major sins on your record.
		
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			Then, you go on the day of judgment.
		
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			And, thereupon, the Prophet announced, My shafa'ah
		
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			is for the major sinners of my community.
		
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			On the day of judgment, you have two
		
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			parts.
		
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			One part is all justice, which is the
		
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			wrath of Allah Ta'ala upon the people.
		
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			They see their sins manifest in different forms,
		
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			such as rivers of blood that they're pushed
		
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			into.
		
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			That's a manifestation of riba.
		
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			They see themselves as tiny ants, and they're
		
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			being stepped on.
		
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			That's the physical manifestation in physical form.
		
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			Flesh and blood, just like we are now.
		
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			But, you find yourself tiny like an ant,
		
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			and you're afraid to be stepped on.
		
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			Who is that on the day of judgment?
		
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			The oppressor.
		
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			Because he walked around the earth, and he
		
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			made everyone else feel like that.
		
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			Just don't say anything.
		
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			Even my shiukh in Egypt, don't say anything.
		
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			Never talk.
		
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			Just walk against the wall.
		
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			Put your head down.
		
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			Why are they putting anyone in jail who
		
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			speaks about anything?
		
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			Don't even pretend you're not even a religious
		
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			person.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			So, physical manifestation of your own sins.
		
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			It's what you're doing.
		
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			But then, the Prophet ﷺ prostrates to Allah,
		
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			and is inspired with words of praise that
		
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			have never been spoken before by any prophet
		
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			or angel.
		
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			Then Allah Ta'ala says, Rise and ask,
		
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			you'll be given.
		
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			He lifts his head, and he asks for
		
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			intercession for his ummah, and he's granted that.
		
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			Then, other people in his ummah are granted
		
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			intercession.
		
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			So, they may intercede for their family.
		
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			For example, you memorize the Qur'an, you
		
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			can get 70 from your friends and family.
		
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			Who are destined for the hellfire, you pull
		
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			them out.
		
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			That's why the social element of the religion
		
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			is so important.
		
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			The righteous mingling with the sinners in the
		
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			masjid, keep in mind, in the masjid, in
		
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			righteous places.
		
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			So, Jum'ah, Tarawih, Eid, what is that?
		
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			It's mingling between the good and the bad,
		
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			so that the bad, who's in a bad
		
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			state, we're not going to say anyone's bad,
		
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			we're saying he's in a bad state, he's
		
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			fallen into bad deeds, can mingle with the
		
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			good people.
		
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			Maybe in this life, he'll be better, and
		
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			maybe he'll go his whole hayat, this life
		
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			of dunya, he'll never get better, but he
		
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			loves those people.
		
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			I'm telling you, there's tons of those types.
		
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			You seem like years and decades passed, they
		
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			never improve, but they love good people, so
		
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			they have that at least.
		
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			On the Yawm al-Qiyamah, you never know,
		
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			that may be their intercession for them.
		
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			A martyr may come, you take more than
		
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			70 people, 100 people, 200 people, 1000 people,
		
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			from your community.
		
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			Just one person, was so special in the
		
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			sight of Allah, that 1000 people, whose records,
		
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			were ordained for them to go to *,
		
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			they go to heaven now, through that person.
		
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			And they will thank that person, and honor
		
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			that person for eternity.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			So that's the summary, of the concept of
		
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			Shafa'ah.
		
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			When we talk about Shafa'ah, we mention
		
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			Shafa'ah, in some ways in the Dua
		
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			'a, after Adhan.
		
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			We ask, for the Prophet to receive, Al
		
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			-Maqam al-Mahmood.
		
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			Al-Maqam al-Mahmood is abroad, has a
		
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			lot of things to say about it, but
		
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			one of them is, he's the Shafi'ah.
		
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			Alright, that's the end of that.
		
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			Is Uthman with us?
		
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			Should I do Egypt first?
		
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			Alright, yesterday's trip, you notice the stream kept
		
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			breaking up yesterday, but you can watch the
		
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			whole stream, on the video tab, of the
		
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			Safina Saidi YouTube page.
		
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			Now, our flight was long, I'm telling you.
		
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			We went Newark, short transit to Cairo, in
		
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			Cairo, Cairo to Jeddah.
		
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			Jeddah, 24 hours, 20 hours we had, Umrah
		
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			and back.
		
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			Jeddah to Sayyoun, Yemen, which is right next
		
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			to Tarim, 20 minute drive.
		
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			Jeddah and Tarim, we covered that week yesterday.
		
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			We talked a lot about that week, and
		
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			shared pictures and everything.
		
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			Then we went back up to Jeddah, train
		
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			to Medina, 2 hours, get to say Salam
		
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			to the Messenger, you know Imam Malik said,
		
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			never say, we're going to the grave of
		
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			the Prophet, say we're visiting the Prophet.
		
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			Hey Omar, use StreamYard, don't use Zoom.
		
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			Yeah, don't use it.
		
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			Zoom messes it up, that's okay.
		
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			Zoom, worse quality is better than cutting the
		
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			stream, right?
		
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			My theory is that Zoom is what cuts
		
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			the stream.
		
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			Although the theory may have holes in it,
		
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			because we've used Stream a lot, right?
		
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			But let's just try it.
		
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			Okay, back to what we're talking about.
		
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			Imam Malik said, do not say we're going
		
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			to visit the grave of the Prophet, say
		
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			we're going to visit the Prophet.
		
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			And he also told Harun Rashid, Harun Rashid
		
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			saw Imam Malik across the Masjid, and he
		
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			said, yeah Imam.
		
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			And Malik went quickly to him and said,
		
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			lower your voice, as Allah says in the
		
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			Quran, do not raise your voice in the
		
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			presence of the Prophet, over the Prophet's voice.
		
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			وَحُرْمَتُهُ مَيِّتًا كَحُرْمَتِهِ حَيًّا His Hurma after his
		
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			life, in his death, the sanctity, the way
		
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			you treat the Prophet, after death, is as
		
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			you treat him in life.
		
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			You don't raise your voice in the Masjid
		
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			of the Prophet.
		
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			So, the Prophet, and all Prophets are alive
		
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			in their graves in a way that suits
		
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			them.
		
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			So, we went, said Salaam to the Messenger,
		
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			we were able to stand there for about
		
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			25 minutes, make Dua, we were able to
		
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			pray Dhuhr and Asr in Masjid al-Nabawi,
		
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			and then we came, went to Egypt, from
		
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			Medina.
		
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			Medina to Cairo flight.
		
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			Medina to Cairo, we spent 7 hours, 7
		
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			hours there in a layover, and we got
		
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			to visit, in fact, my Fiqh teacher, Shaykh
		
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			Mahmoud Shabib, and those are the pictures we're
		
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			going to go to now.
		
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			So, let's go to that Mahad al-Majd,
		
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			and most importantly, okay, most importantly, one of
		
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			our young Shabab finished his Khatm there, and
		
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			got his Ijazah.
		
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			He had already finished the Qur'an here,
		
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			he went and did another round.
		
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			You see, knowledge is like that.
		
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			You repeat things.
		
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			Repetition is one of the most important things.
		
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			I guarantee you, this is the only way
		
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			you're going to learn.
		
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			The amount of things that hit our heads
		
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			these days of information is so much, it's
		
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			like water, it's like a waterfall.
		
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			Constant displacement is happening of information.
		
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			You learn something today, it's 2.35 right
		
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			now, guarantee you by 5 o'clock p
		
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			.m., so many barrage of visuals and information
		
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			will enter your head.
		
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			That piece of knowledge that you learned at
		
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			2.30, half of it is overflown out
		
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			of your brain.
		
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			So, you're going to need to do it
		
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			again.
		
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			So, he finished his Khatm here, and then
		
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			he went to Egypt, spent three months or
		
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			so, redoing his Khatm from the start, and
		
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			there, they do the old ways, because they're
		
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			from Southern Egypt, also known as Upper Egypt.
		
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			Do you ever get confused by that?
		
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			Upper Egypt means above sea level, but it's
		
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			actually in the south of Egypt.
		
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			So, upper does not mean Northern Egypt.
		
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			It means Southern Egypt, but it's above sea
		
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			level.
		
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			So, they're in Upper Egypt, they're from Upper
		
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			Egypt, they have the old ways, and they
		
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			do not give you a Khatm, a Ijazah,
		
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			unless you can recite the entire Quran in
		
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			one day.
		
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			Now, the first attempt he did it, he
		
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			couldn't do it.
		
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			I mean, how could you blame him?
		
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			Right?
		
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			He missed like maybe five or six Juz.
		
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			He got tired.
		
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			So, then he practiced again, did it again.
		
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			This time, he did it successfully.
		
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			From seven in the morning to midnight.
		
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			Can you imagine?
		
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			Reciting Quran.
		
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			It's amazing.
		
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			He recited the whole Quran in one day.
		
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			This young man is what, like 15, 16
		
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			years old?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			We need to give him one of those
		
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			rose necklaces.
		
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			We don't have that thing in Egypt, we
		
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			don't have that now.
		
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			Huh?
		
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			No, he wasn't, he started before, yeah, he
		
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			started with Hifz Academy, before it was called
		
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			Hifz Academy.
		
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			Yeah, but he's not going to be here,
		
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			unfortunately.
		
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			Yeah, he's still in Egypt.
		
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			Now, he's taken Mutun.
		
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			He has to memorize the Jazariyya, and then
		
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			he's got to memorize Al-Kharid Al-Bahiyya,
		
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			and then he's probably going to memorize Ashmawiyya,
		
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			for the rest of the year.
		
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			So, let's go to the pictures.
		
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			There is the picture of us in front
		
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			of the Masjid of Sidi Ahmed Al-Dardir.
		
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			Sidi Ahmed Al-Dardir, he is, and to
		
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			the Egyptians, he's the Khulasa of the Maliki
		
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			school.
		
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			Don't ask questions after that.
		
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			He is the Sheikh in Aqidah, in Sharia,
		
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			in Tariqah, Khalwati.
		
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			And that's his Masjid, and we were able
		
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			to go to the Darih there and visit
		
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			his grave, and we are proponents of visitation
		
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			of graves.
		
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			People talk about it as if it's some
		
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			kind of crazy thing.
		
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			You go to the grave of that person,
		
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			you make Dua for him, you say Assalamu
		
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			Alaikum, you make Dua for him, and you
		
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			make Dua for yourself.
		
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			You make Dua for anyone, because a Barakah
		
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			is connected to good places, good people, and
		
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			good times, and good deeds.
		
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			So, when you're around a good person, then
		
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			you hope your Dua to be even more
		
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			answered.
		
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			And we visited graves throughout this whole trip,
		
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			and I made it a point to give
		
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			a small talk on what is the correct
		
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			and incorrect way to do this, because we
		
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			don't throw the whole baby out with the
		
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			bathwater.
		
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			In fact, one of the things they say
		
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			is when you go to any city, you
		
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			visit the living people of Allah, and then
		
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			the dead people of Allah.
		
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			If they're Awliyaullah, they have a type of
		
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			life in their grave that is better than
		
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			this life.
		
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			A Barzakh is better, it's vaster, you don't
		
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			have to seek sustenance, you have no Takleef,
		
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			you're just enjoying their existence in the grave.
		
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			And we hold the belief that they can
		
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			hear those who are around their grave, and
		
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			receive the Salam from them.
		
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			So, in one sense, if you were to
		
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			visit someone deceased many times, it's not far
		
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			off, hearing your visitation and hearing your Salam,
		
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			and Allah knows best.
		
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			But we do hold from the Hadith of
		
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			the Prophet, that is not restricted to that
		
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			moment where the Prophet talked to the Kuffar
		
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			after the Battle of Badr.
		
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			The Ulema say, it's not just the Kuffar,
		
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			anyone's grave that you go to, you speak
		
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			to them, they can hear you, they just
		
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			can't answer you back.
		
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			Alright, next picture.
		
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			Al-Husayn's Masjid.
		
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			And then they totally revamped the mosque.
		
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			It's really nice and beautiful now.
		
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			The courtyard almost looks like Medina, with the
		
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			awnings, just like in Medina Manawarah, that fold
		
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			up at night and open up.
		
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			They just made it really pretty, but it
		
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			was closed, we couldn't go into it.
		
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			Next picture.
		
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			Alright, that's the wall.
		
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			You see how Al-Husayn, that is a
		
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			beautiful fence right there, they have palm trees
		
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			on the inside, gorgeous courtyard.
		
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			That's my Fiqh teacher right there.
		
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			I have two Fiqh teachers.
		
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			He is one of them.
		
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			I study with him.
		
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			And we're on Buyu' right now.
		
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			Next to him is Sheikh Marwan, who is
		
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			his friend from age 7 onwards.
		
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			He never leaves him.
		
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			That's Sheikh Marwan.
		
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			You might think he's older because he has
		
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			white hair, but he's not old, he's actually
		
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			young.
		
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			He doesn't have pigmentation at all.
		
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			Even his eyes are bright blue.
		
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			No pigmentation at all.
		
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			Next.
		
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			Alright, that's again the wall of Al-Husayn.
		
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			We couldn't enter in, but you see here
		
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			how they have the awnings, just like Medina,
		
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			and the ground is all marble.
		
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			Beautiful reconstruction.
		
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			Next.
		
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			There is Al-Azhar.
		
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			The school and the area where Ma'hid
		
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			Al-Majd is is behind Al-Azhar.
		
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			So in fact, it's in old, old Cairo.
		
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			I hope I, I think I have some
		
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			of the crazy scenes from the street.
		
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			We got there, we landed at 10.
		
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			By the time we got to Ma'hid
		
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			Al-Majd it was like 11.30 because
		
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			we had to get the transit visa.
		
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			It's free.
		
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			We started the Majlis at 12.
		
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			We did the whole khatm, ijazah ceremony for
		
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			about half hour.
		
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			We ate for half hour.
		
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			Then at 1 a.m. we went out
		
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			for the visitation of Al-Dardir and Al
		
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			-Husayn.
		
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			The whole, it's as if it's like 9
		
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			p.m. It's 1 a.m. There are
		
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			little kids walking around the streets, chickens, dogs,
		
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			welding in a shop, another guy is cooking
		
00:37:01 --> 00:37:01
			food.
		
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			I'm like, what's, hey guys, it's 1 a
		
00:37:04 --> 00:37:04
			.m. What's going on here?
		
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			That's how it is here.
		
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			No one sleeps here.
		
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			I sleep around 2, 3 a.m., 4
		
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			a.m. I'm like, why is a guy
		
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			cooking foul?
		
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			Foul is Egyptian fava beans basically.
		
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			Why is he cooking foul?
		
00:37:17 --> 00:37:18
			He said, oh, people wake up and they're
		
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			hungry.
		
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			Man, it's another world.
		
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			But it's fun.
		
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			Here's he gets a chance to see the
		
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			old city.
		
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			This is great.
		
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			A lot of old masajid here that
		
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			are closed up.
		
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			They're not in use anymore.
		
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			But you can see the walls, the ancient
		
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			doors.
		
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			Look, this is like 1 a.m. This
		
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			is where the Moroccans used to live.
		
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			They say those ancient masajid are not safe
		
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			anymore because they're so old that the walls
		
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			may collapse on people.
		
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			Allah knows best.
		
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			But that's what they said.
		
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			Look at that.
		
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			Complete little alleyway.
		
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			This is a building they want to move
		
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			to, Mahad al-Majd.
		
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			We're going to build a relationship with Mahad
		
00:39:19 --> 00:39:20
			al-Majd.
		
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			Anyone wants to study in Egypt, you contact
		
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			me.
		
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			Midnight.
		
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			Wow.
		
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			Wow.
		
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			Look at this guy's welding at 1 a
		
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			.m. So this is where our young man
		
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			went.
		
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			I was so proud of him.
		
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			He didn't go to the posh spots of
		
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			Cairo.
		
00:39:56 --> 00:39:57
			No.
		
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			He went into the shabby parts.
		
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			Shabby meaning like the poor people, basically.
		
00:40:04 --> 00:40:05
			No.
		
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			It's not the city of the dead.
		
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			Probably your bank account's dead.
		
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			This is inside the building.
		
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			Right?
		
00:40:22 --> 00:40:24
			These are some of our locals here.
		
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			Right?
		
00:40:26 --> 00:40:28
			That's the Sheikh, Sheikh Marwan.
		
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			And the music you heard was the promo
		
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			of the building playing on the TV of
		
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			the organization.
		
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			Okay.
		
00:40:37 --> 00:40:38
			Next one.
		
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			All right.
		
00:40:41 --> 00:40:42
			So this is...
		
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			They run a soup kitchen.
		
00:40:44 --> 00:40:44
			Oh, shoot.
		
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			We're going to have to turn you in.
		
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			Funny thing is that's the administrative office.
		
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			It's also where they slaughter.
		
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			I'm like, wait, how?
		
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			He said that we clear out the desk.
		
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			We clear out the rugs.
		
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			We tie the animal to it, to there.
		
00:41:02 --> 00:41:03
			And we...
		
00:41:03 --> 00:41:05
			Look, this is where they slaughter the dead,
		
00:41:05 --> 00:41:06
			the animals.
		
00:41:08 --> 00:41:08
			Yeah.
		
00:41:09 --> 00:41:09
			You'll see it.
		
00:41:10 --> 00:41:12
			And then they repaint the walls afterwards.
		
00:41:13 --> 00:41:14
			They clean it and they repaint the walls.
		
00:41:15 --> 00:41:16
			Look, that's the soup kitchen.
		
00:41:17 --> 00:41:17
			You all see that?
		
00:41:18 --> 00:41:20
			See, they're just like us.
		
00:41:21 --> 00:41:22
			Mahad plus soup kitchen.
		
00:41:22 --> 00:41:23
			This is the right way to do things.
		
00:41:23 --> 00:41:25
			They feed 1,000 people a week.
		
00:41:26 --> 00:41:29
			Per week, 1,000 people a week.
		
00:41:29 --> 00:41:31
			4,000 people a month.
		
00:41:32 --> 00:41:32
			Okay.
		
00:41:33 --> 00:41:39
			So this idea of the religious school that's
		
00:41:39 --> 00:41:43
			infused with the spiritual path of God and
		
00:41:43 --> 00:41:44
			all that.
		
00:41:45 --> 00:41:48
			And then a soup kitchen.
		
00:41:48 --> 00:41:52
			Look, that's where they tie the bull, the
		
00:41:52 --> 00:41:52
			cow.
		
00:41:52 --> 00:41:52
			Wow.
		
00:41:56 --> 00:41:58
			They slaughter the bulls here.
		
00:41:59 --> 00:41:59
			In this room.
		
00:42:01 --> 00:42:02
			Wow.
		
00:42:02 --> 00:42:03
			They just clear this out.
		
00:42:03 --> 00:42:05
			They tie the guy down here.
		
00:42:11 --> 00:42:12
			They just make it happen, make it work.
		
00:42:15 --> 00:42:15
			Wow.
		
00:42:18 --> 00:42:19
			All right, next video.
		
00:42:20 --> 00:42:25
			So, this idea of the religious school with
		
00:42:25 --> 00:42:26
			the soup kitchen.
		
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27
			It's an ancient idea.
		
00:42:28 --> 00:42:28
			Right?
		
00:42:28 --> 00:42:29
			It's not a new idea.
		
00:42:29 --> 00:42:31
			They're doing it here in Egypt.
		
00:42:31 --> 00:42:34
			So they have the Qur'an school is
		
00:42:34 --> 00:42:35
			one organization.
		
00:42:35 --> 00:42:36
			It's the same people.
		
00:42:37 --> 00:42:40
			The soup kitchen is a second organization.
		
00:42:41 --> 00:42:42
			And it's run by the same people.
		
00:42:42 --> 00:42:43
			But the thing is, the soup kitchen can
		
00:42:43 --> 00:42:45
			apply for different things.
		
00:42:45 --> 00:42:46
			Here they are.
		
00:42:46 --> 00:42:49
			The people of the soup kitchen came rolled
		
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			in at 10 p.m. to cook for
		
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			us.
		
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			And the ceremony started around midnight.
		
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			All right.
		
00:42:57 --> 00:42:59
			These are some of the family members of
		
00:42:59 --> 00:43:00
			our reciter.
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:07
			All right.
		
00:43:08 --> 00:43:11
			There's our reciter, mashallah, and his two teachers.
		
00:43:11 --> 00:43:12
			Those are the two teachers.
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:16
			One is very soft and the other is
		
00:43:16 --> 00:43:17
			shadid.
		
00:43:17 --> 00:43:18
			See those two teachers?
		
00:43:18 --> 00:43:19
			One, Sheikh Marwan in the white beard.
		
00:43:20 --> 00:43:21
			And that's the shadid one.
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:22
			But he's the one who made sure the
		
00:43:22 --> 00:43:23
			job gets done.
		
00:43:24 --> 00:43:26
			The soft one makes sure you love it
		
00:43:26 --> 00:43:27
			and you feel loved.
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:30
			And the hard one, he makes sure the
		
00:43:30 --> 00:43:31
			job gets done.
		
00:43:31 --> 00:43:31
			Right?
		
00:43:32 --> 00:43:34
			And I've seen other clips of them where
		
00:43:34 --> 00:43:36
			they have a sister finish the 10 qiraat.
		
00:43:37 --> 00:43:42
			And she recites the last three surahs in
		
00:43:42 --> 00:43:44
			each verse that has a difference in qiraat.
		
00:43:45 --> 00:43:46
			She recites it that way.
		
00:43:46 --> 00:43:47
			Right?
		
00:43:48 --> 00:43:51
			And they give out ijazah, full ijazah in
		
00:43:51 --> 00:43:52
			the 10 qiraat.
		
00:43:52 --> 00:43:54
			Now imagine how long it takes to recite
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:54
			the Quran.
		
00:43:55 --> 00:43:59
			Wherever there's a difference in a verse, you
		
00:43:59 --> 00:44:00
			have to recite that difference.
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:03
			So some verses you may recite it four
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:04
			times or four differences.
		
00:44:06 --> 00:44:07
			So they, this is like, when I went
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:09
			there I was like, you actually have ijazah
		
00:44:09 --> 00:44:10
			in the 10 qiraat.
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:12
			Mariki fiqh all the way to sharh al
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:13
			-kabir.
		
00:44:14 --> 00:44:14
			Muqtasir al-khalil.
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:18
			Aqidah to the top.
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:20
			Jaharat al-tawhid and all of its surahat
		
00:44:20 --> 00:44:22
			and the books of Sanusi.
		
00:44:23 --> 00:44:24
			Like what's missing?
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:28
			Hadith, all the books that you have ijazah
		
00:44:28 --> 00:44:28
			in.
		
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			But they're, it's like a small little space,
		
00:44:32 --> 00:44:32
			tiny space.
		
00:44:33 --> 00:44:34
			They got four stories but it's all tiny.
		
00:44:35 --> 00:44:37
			All beat up in the old part of
		
00:44:37 --> 00:44:37
			Cairo.
		
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			And they got a soup kitchen downstairs and
		
00:44:40 --> 00:44:41
			they feed a thousand people a week.
		
00:44:42 --> 00:44:44
			They actually feed 250 people a day.
		
00:44:46 --> 00:44:47
			So, Subhanallah.
		
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			Two to three hundred people daily.
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:50
			The huge kitchen.
		
00:44:51 --> 00:44:52
			Huge kitchen.
		
00:44:52 --> 00:44:53
			Three people were cooking.
		
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			Three full time chefs.
		
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			We're building a relationship with this school.
		
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			If you want to study there you text
		
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			me immediately right away.
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:03
			They have places to stay.
		
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			They can arrange for you studies.
		
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			And you, there's not like a lot of
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:09
			officialness yet.
		
00:45:09 --> 00:45:09
			Right?
		
00:45:09 --> 00:45:10
			So you just put a nice wad of
		
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			envelope of cash in there to go towards
		
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			the expenses and towards to cover their costs.
		
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			And you're good to go.
		
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			And you will study with highly qualified sheikh
		
00:45:20 --> 00:45:23
			of Ahlus Sunnah Qur'an Aqidah, Fiqh.
		
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			All right.
		
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			Next.
		
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			He's staying upstairs on the third floor.
		
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			The school is on the first floor.
		
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			And he, yeah, right there.
		
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			Right with all the dogs, the chickens, the
		
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			little windy roads.
		
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			That's where he's living.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			All right.
		
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			That's the example of what it looks like.
		
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			This is me and the sheikh walking through
		
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			old Cairo talking.
		
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			That's sheikh Marwan on the left.
		
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			The kindest sheikh you'll ever meet.
		
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			I said, Ahmed, is this your sheikh?
		
00:45:58 --> 00:45:58
			He said, no, no, no.
		
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			I'm a student like him and I'm just
		
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			helping him.
		
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			I'm like his older brother just helping him.
		
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			I said, oh, so you're not the sheikh.
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:06
			So I said, Ahmed, who is that?
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:07
			He's like, no, that's the sheikh.
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:10
			Look at these ancient masajid right here.
		
00:46:11 --> 00:46:12
			I love seeing these.
		
00:46:15 --> 00:46:18
			This is literally like we're talking 1500s, but
		
00:46:18 --> 00:46:19
			it's closed.
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:21
			He was lobbying.
		
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			Open it up.
		
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			Let us use it.
		
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			We'll pay rent to the oqaf.
		
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			They said no.
		
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			That's like one of the founders, one of
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:36
			the board members kids walking like a gangster
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:37
			like that.
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:38
			Yeah.
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:43
			You see, the shiur are from the old
		
00:46:43 --> 00:46:45
			school, but the board members and the administrators
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:49
			are all from Cairo youth, like hip Cairo
		
00:46:49 --> 00:46:49
			youth.
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:51
			Yeah.
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:53
			Because they're the ones who do the paperwork,
		
00:46:53 --> 00:46:54
			they file for the grants and all that
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:55
			stuff.
		
00:46:55 --> 00:46:59
			But look, it's all old, very old buildings
		
00:46:59 --> 00:46:59
			here.
		
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			Isn't there a meme with like baby gangster
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:15
			or something like that?
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:17
			That's like this little kid right here.
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:18
			Yeah.
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:22
			Huh?
		
00:47:22 --> 00:47:23
			There's no bad time in Cairo.
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:25
			Now, we saw a kid just walking across
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:28
			this alleyway and he must have been like
		
00:47:28 --> 00:47:29
			in diapers.
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:31
			He was in diapers, I'm telling you.
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:33
			And I'm like, whoa, random kid.
		
00:47:33 --> 00:47:35
			And then there were dogs all around.
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:38
			This is Masjid Sidi Ahmed Al-Darjeer.
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:42
			Sidi Ahmed Al-Darjeer in the Maliki Madhab
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:43
			is a giant.
		
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			He is a giant.
		
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			Alright, next.
		
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			Okay, good.
		
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			In...
		
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			Alright, another clip of old Cairo.
		
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			Looks like there's like still an old city
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:05
			here where cars can't even can't even pass
		
00:48:05 --> 00:48:05
			through.
		
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			Alright, we got a few more minutes before
		
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			we go to...
		
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			We're almost done and we're going to go
		
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			to Othman and then we probably won't have
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:29
			QA today.
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:32
			But just another visual of old Cairo.
		
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			If you want to study at Mahad Al
		
00:48:34 --> 00:48:36
			-Majd in Egypt, you got a week, you
		
00:48:36 --> 00:48:37
			got a month, whatever.
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:42
			Info asafianasided.org will make it happen for
		
00:48:42 --> 00:48:42
			you.
		
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			Five, six.
		
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			It's a full-time head school for kids
		
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			and they sleep there and they stay there.
		
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			They don't have regulations the way we do.
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:06
			Just put a chicken slaughter, a butcher right
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:06
			there.
		
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			Is the group coming?
		
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			Are they lost?
		
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			Oh.
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:19
			Oh.
		
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			Look at that ancient masjid.
		
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			Jameel.
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:25
			Jameel.
		
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			Not a masjid.
		
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			Wadan Hussain?
		
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			Al-Azhar.
		
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			That's the back wall of Al-Azhar right
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:43
			there.
		
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			And then you have to go under the
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:48
			highway to go to Hussain.
		
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			Exactly.
		
00:49:54 --> 00:49:56
			All right.
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:56
			Next one.
		
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			All right.
		
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			Let me translate for you.
		
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			Interpret.
		
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			If you see a green light connected to
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:08
			one of these minarets, it's Ahlul Bayt.
		
00:50:09 --> 00:50:11
			That's one of the graves of Ahlul Bayt
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:11
			are there.
		
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			Ah.
		
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			You see green there?
		
00:50:18 --> 00:50:18
			Yep.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Here's another ancient masjid.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Oh.
		
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			Okay, next.
		
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			Plus the last two videos.
		
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			And this is the tunnel that you have
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:17
			to go under to walk To go from
		
00:51:17 --> 00:51:45
			Azhar to Five minutes Next
		
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			video And there is a mess look how
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:52
			pretty it is they made it they've cleaned
		
00:51:52 --> 00:51:53
			it up signed it based on the courtyard
		
00:51:53 --> 00:52:15
			a message in So
		
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			this is Fast
		
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			forward a bit Yeah, see that's the old
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:40
			wall there they kept that it has some
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:44
			hadiths about the virtues of All right, and
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:46
			that's it right that's the final is there
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:49
			anything else on what What are those two
		
00:52:49 --> 00:52:49
			right there?
		
00:52:51 --> 00:52:53
			That's the dinner we had for the Ijazah
		
00:52:53 --> 00:52:57
			ceremony Yeah, we showed this one already and
		
00:52:57 --> 00:53:01
			then all right, let's move to That's a
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:02
			second visit.
		
00:53:02 --> 00:53:02
			Now.
		
00:53:02 --> 00:53:04
			Let's move to the third visit which which
		
00:53:04 --> 00:53:07
			is with I Guess we should now say
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:08
			say it.
		
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			No, sorry.
		
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			Oh, no.
		
00:53:09 --> 00:53:11
			No, no, he went to West Africa.
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:16
			So CD Muli All right, let's go to
		
00:53:16 --> 00:53:21
			our main man Othman Qurayshi he represented at
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:27
			Algeria in Algeria, so This this winter was
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:27
			blessed.
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:33
			We hit up Tareem Egypt and Algeria and
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:36
			there he studied with Sheikh Ahmed al-maghili
		
00:53:36 --> 00:53:41
			who many many Shabab are studying Fick with
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:47
			him Online every day I'll make can you
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:49
			is there a zoom out possibility on your
		
00:53:49 --> 00:53:50
			on your thingy?
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:51
			One sec.
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:53
			Yeah in the meantime already You could fire
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:55
			up a picture of sheikh al-maghili and
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:57
			in fact, we have class in a little
		
00:53:57 --> 00:53:59
			bit So we're gonna do this in half
		
00:53:59 --> 00:53:59
			hour.
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:10
			So let's All right, awesome man is Fixing
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:14
			his screen real quick Yeah, that's good, I
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16
			mean it's a bit fuzzy but anyway, we're
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:19
			gonna show your pictures anyway, right We're showing
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:19
			his pictures.
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:20
			Anyway.
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:23
			All right, so let's Why don't you start
		
00:54:23 --> 00:54:24
			with your preface?
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:28
			How did you discover sheikh al-maghili other
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:33
			are and Then physically speaking remember Why are
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			we showing this we're showing this so that
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:38
			you the listener could go to these places
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40
			That's why I'm not showing you this stuff
		
00:54:40 --> 00:54:42
			for the fun of it or just what
		
00:54:42 --> 00:54:43
			do you care what I did?
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:43
			Right.
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:46
			I'm only showing you this stuff so that
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:49
			you as a listener Can pack your bags
		
00:54:49 --> 00:54:52
			save your money and make these trips yourselves
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:55
			we may go and try to go with
		
00:54:55 --> 00:55:00
			you and show you the ropes, but Or
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:01
			you could go yourself, right?
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:04
			So Teddy we talked about Egypt.
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:05
			We talked about now off man.
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:09
			Okay, take it away Bismillah rahman rahim alhamdulillah
		
00:55:09 --> 00:55:11
			rabbil alamin allahumma salli wa sallim wa tidak
		
00:55:11 --> 00:55:13
			wa barik ala sayyidina muhammadin wa ala alihi
		
00:55:13 --> 00:55:17
			wa sahbihi wa sallim First of all, I'm
		
00:55:17 --> 00:55:19
			not too sure why the audio is or
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:22
			why the video is blurry looks fine on
		
00:55:22 --> 00:55:24
			my end It's a stream yard, but that's
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:25
			okay.
		
00:55:25 --> 00:55:27
			You by the way, everyone is single you
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29
			can sign up to marry you can apply
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:32
			When you apply to marry him, you have
		
00:55:32 --> 00:55:34
			to not like other people you have say
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			I like strawberry ice cream No, no, we
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:39
			need to know which one you like which
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:39
			texts have you read?
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:41
			Okay, go ahead.
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:44
			Oh, so first of all as just a
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:48
			small disclaimer I'm not like an expert on
		
00:55:48 --> 00:55:50
			a draw or on the way of the
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:54
			Madakia in In Algeria or you know, what
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:55
			exactly is the men hedge there?
		
00:55:55 --> 00:55:57
			I haven't studied there for a long time
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:59
			But I just did want to talk a
		
00:55:59 --> 00:56:01
			little bit about my visit and what I
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:05
			was Therefore and to begin to understand that
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			we have to know who Sheikh Ahmed and
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:11
			Megiddy is and Sheikh Murabit Benavides.
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			He was actually telling me that back when
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:17
			he was in Syria in Damascus in the
		
00:56:17 --> 00:56:20
			In the 90s or in the early 2000s,
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:22
			even at that time Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy
		
00:56:22 --> 00:56:27
			was very very well known where At that
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:29
			time the civil war was occurring in Algeria
		
00:56:29 --> 00:56:32
			and it was a very violent conflict and
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:35
			they had refugees you know from all over
		
00:56:35 --> 00:56:37
			the country going all over the Arab world
		
00:56:37 --> 00:56:39
			and in Europe and things like that and
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:44
			the mashayekh of Syria even they had heard
		
00:56:44 --> 00:56:46
			the name of Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy and
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:49
			his status as a teacher as a murabbi
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:52
			as a sheikh of tasawwuf and A sheikh
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:54
			of fiqh and an expert in the Maliki
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:56
			madhhab His status was known even to the
		
00:56:56 --> 00:56:58
			ulema of asham and this is before the
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:02
			internet was a really big thing and from
		
00:57:02 --> 00:57:05
			that time You know when the students of
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:08
			Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy would visit In the
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:10
			early 2000s and they would move to Syria
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:13
			The ulema of asham would show such ikram
		
00:57:13 --> 00:57:16
			just to the to they would show such
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:20
			generosity and they would honor The Algerians who
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:21
			had studied with Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy just
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:24
			by virtue of him being who he is
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:27
			So even though you know, it may seem
		
00:57:27 --> 00:57:30
			to the Western audience That only a couple
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:31
			of years ago.
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:34
			We started hearing his name He's extremely well
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:37
			known You know for a very very long
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:40
			time in the Muslim world And especially among
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:43
			the Malikiya if you go to any of
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:45
			the mashayekh of the Malikiya Who are alive
		
00:57:45 --> 00:57:49
			today and you mentioned his name his name
		
00:57:49 --> 00:57:57
			is going to be known So, you know
		
00:57:57 --> 00:58:01
			from that time Until now he's known even
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:04
			though only recently has he become known Through
		
00:58:04 --> 00:58:07
			social media through his Facebook page and through
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:10
			some of the students becoming more well known
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:14
			on the international stage so we Had known
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:16
			about Sheikh Ahmed and Megiddy for you know,
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:19
			quite a long time for several years But
		
00:58:19 --> 00:58:21
			you know, there was some personal contacts that
		
00:58:21 --> 00:58:25
			put us into contact with Sheikh Megiddy directly
		
00:58:25 --> 00:58:28
			And we have been studying with him for
		
00:58:28 --> 00:58:31
			some time You know, there's some other mashayekh
		
00:58:31 --> 00:58:33
			who kind of put something together for us
		
00:58:33 --> 00:58:35
			To begin to get into touch with Sheikh
		
00:58:35 --> 00:58:39
			Ahmed directly and after over a year of
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:41
			studying You know, I work nine to five
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:44
			so I can't really just leave You know
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:46
			and go and study there even though inshallah.
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:47
			That's the intention.
		
00:58:47 --> 00:58:49
			I was able to go for a trip
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:52
			to go visit him and his son directly
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:57
			so that's kind of the background and I
		
00:58:57 --> 00:58:59
			could talk about You know what the trip
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:01
			was like How would you like me to
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:02
			start?
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:04
			Let's start with your pictures and you explain
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:10
			each picture that you have here All right,
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:12
			let's let's go to the pictures and see
		
00:59:12 --> 00:59:16
			what's going on here So to begin the
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:17
			first thing that we did I can't see
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:20
			the pictures by the way But you can't
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:25
			see open your YouTube This is a picture
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:28
			of a red building and it says Matar
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:31
			Adrar that looks like a looks like a
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:33
			fruit Store.
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:35
			No, this is farm to table things.
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:39
			Yeah, this is actually the airport where you
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:39
			land.
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:41
			So The first thing that I did when
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:44
			I went I you know, it's a long
		
00:59:44 --> 00:59:45
			trip and there's no direct flights at least
		
00:59:45 --> 00:59:48
			from the East Coast at least from New
		
00:59:48 --> 00:59:51
			York to go to Algeria directly so either
		
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			you have to stop make a stop in
		
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			France or you have to make a stop
		
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			in Turkey and then from Turkey you you
		
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			go to the capital of Algeria The Asima
		
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			or Algiers, right even though it's just called
		
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			Asima so you land there and The first
		
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			thing is that you're hit by like a
		
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			crazy amount of security So people they've asked
		
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			me like how do you go and how
		
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			do you study there?
		
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			And it's actually very difficult right now unless
		
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			you're Algerian.
		
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			So if you're Algerian and you have your
		
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			passport, it's really easy But the first thing
		
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			is that once you get there like first
		
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			of all the visa process took a while
		
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			just to get a visitor visa Because they
		
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			don't want anyone in the country It's a
		
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			socialist or like a Like a neo-socialist
		
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			state and they're very cautious and they're very
		
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			suspicious of any visitors so even getting into
		
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			the country was really difficult, but you land
		
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			in the capital of Algiers and from Algiers
		
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			from the capital Which is on the coast
		
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			of the Mediterranean to a draw.
		
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			It's actually a 16-hour car ride So
		
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			people don't realize that Algeria is the largest
		
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			country in Africa And Africa is huge.
		
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			It's much bigger than what it looks like
		
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			on the map.
		
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			So To get there you have to take
		
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			another local flight in a really sketchy you
		
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			know airplane to land in a draw so
		
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			a lot is one of the biggest provinces
		
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			of Algeria and you land there and the
		
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			first thing that you notice After you get
		
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			through security, by the way, they held me
		
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			up in line for like two hours Questioning
		
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			me and you know looking at my passport
		
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			and just kind of confused.
		
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			What's an American doing in this random city?
		
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			but the first thing that you notice when
		
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			you leave the airport is the name of
		
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			the airport is Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir Airport
		
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			and Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir was one of
		
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			the ulama of Adar or other Algeria back
		
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			in the previous generation and he's the scholar
		
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			who brought this You know random you know
		
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			province in South Algeria, and he turned it
		
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			into a circle and a center of value
		
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			and Before I had gone to you know,
		
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			Algeria I you know had heard his name
		
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			before Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir But the thing
		
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			is is that I wasn't entirely convinced of
		
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			this idea That one individual can have such
		
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			a big impact on the lives of so
		
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			many people But then once you arrive in
		
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			Adar you see everything is centered around Sheikh
		
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			Mohammed bin Kabir and You begin to realize
		
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			that you know these type of alia that
		
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			you hear about in the stories and that
		
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			you read about in the books They're still
		
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			alive and they still walk amongst us The
		
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			equivalent of that would be for example, like
		
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			Habib Omar Hafidahullah in in Tareem and the
		
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			ulama of Adar today where you see that
		
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			this is a very small Hubble province But
		
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			everyone right not just the ulama not just
		
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			the students of knowledge But I'm talking about
		
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			the bakers and the taxi drivers and the
		
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			lawyers and the doctors and the engineers and
		
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			the builders everyone is you know just focused
		
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			on Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir and On the
		
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			ulama and they're guided their entire life revolves
		
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			around the scholars that when the Sheikh says
		
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			something That's what goes their word is law
		
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			and People have this respect for the scholars
		
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			and they understand that when the ulama they
		
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			say something then you know There's a reason
		
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			and there's a wisdom why they say it
		
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			So this was the first time that I
		
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			went to a place where even the government
		
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			was even though they were very protective They
		
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			were very suspicious, but the individuals, you know,
		
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			the police officers the security guards, right the
		
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			random, you know military police Them individually they
		
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			were all followers of the ulama and they're
		
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			all muhibbin of the ulama They were all
		
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			lovers of the ulama.
		
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			They were just doing their job, you know
		
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			on spying on you know The scholars but
		
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			in reality they had a deep love and
		
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			a deep appreciation for the scholars so you
		
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			land there and the first thing is that
		
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			now you have to take a two-hour
		
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			drive to the village of Sheikh Ahmed and
		
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			another Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari.
		
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			So that's where we are so far Good.
		
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			We're at the airport picture next picture All
		
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			right.
		
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			It looks like a barn.
		
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			I guess Yeah, this is the airport just
		
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			to show you You know, this is the
		
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			quality of the airlines and that was very
		
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			sketchy You were like on some repurposed military
		
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			airplane or something like that so Like it
		
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			was very remote but at the same time
		
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			I was pleasantly surprised that the Capital of
		
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			Adrar like the so Adrar is a big
		
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			province of 600,000 people But the capital
		
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			it was actually like a complete city So
		
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			that's a little bit better than you know
		
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			The stories that you hear from Mauritania where
		
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			even like the big cities of Mauritania like
		
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			Nouakchott, they're tiny villages So that wasn't the
		
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			case in Adrar where Adrar was actually like
		
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			a pretty big city There was a lot
		
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			going on You know there it was beautifully
		
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			constructed So and they even had an airport
		
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			But that was a city.
		
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			So if you move on you're going to
		
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			see all these different Buildings with red these
		
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			red brick buildings all of the city of
		
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			Adrar is built like this and the reason
		
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			that they told me is because During the
		
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			desert heat it gets so hot that the
		
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			buildings they disintegrate So the red is actually
		
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			a type of natural sun protection.
		
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			It's red brick You know mixed with some
		
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			red rock or something like that.
		
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			I don't know the details, but it basically
		
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			keeps the buildings cool So this is Adrar
		
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			and I stayed there for only a little
		
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			bit of time and you're going to see
		
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			the HIFS school that was there.
		
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			This is one of many many of the
		
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			schools of HIFS that are there in the
		
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			masjid so And I don't know I can't
		
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			hear the audio, but there's an audio.
		
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			Now they're reciting Quran now.
		
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			Yeah So this dhikr that you hear is
		
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			called Hizbul Falah Hizbul Falah and this is
		
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			the Wird of Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir and
		
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			of his three students So they recite this
		
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			Hizb or a portion of this Hizb after
		
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			every Salah And it's broken down into five
		
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			sections And you know, they recite different portions
		
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			Everyone in the city is reciting this this
		
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			Hizb after Salah no matter where you go
		
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			No matter what masjid you're in they haven't
		
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			really in a place like this They haven't
		
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			even heard the term Wahhabi or Salaf right
		
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			now of course with the internet they have
		
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			but virtually this idea of Wahhabism and Salafism
		
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			and La Madhabia and You know these things
		
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			being a bid'ah and no Tasawwuf, right?
		
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			It's unheard of Everyone in that city is
		
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			on the same dhikr on the same wird
		
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			and Everyone is on the same schedule the
		
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			same taktib and they're all on the same
		
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			page that this is all From Ahlus Sunnah
		
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			wal Jama'ah and that this is how
		
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			life used to be Here is Darih al
		
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			-Sheikh Sayyidi Mohammed bin Kabir Ibn al-Kabir
		
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			so I think it gets squished together So
		
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			this was his where you know his grave
		
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			was and Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir a little
		
01:07:40 --> 01:07:42
			bit of background about who he was he
		
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			was the student of the Sheikh Sheikh Ahmed
		
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			Didi Who was one of the great ulema
		
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			of the time and they actually say that
		
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			the way that Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir became
		
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			a Alim it was a karama where he
		
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			learned, you know The basics of the uloom
		
01:08:01 --> 01:08:03
			and then he asked his father if he
		
01:08:03 --> 01:08:05
			could go to study with the Sheikh and
		
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			his father says that you have my permission
		
01:08:06 --> 01:08:09
			for one year and So he studied in
		
01:08:09 --> 01:08:12
			that one year and there's an incident that
		
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			took place where his Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin
		
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			Kabir Sheikh He made dua I believe that
		
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			the incident was that they it was going
		
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			to be either of her I'm a little
		
01:08:22 --> 01:08:25
			bit foggy on the details But the gist
		
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			of it is that the Sheikh made a
		
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			you know It was supposed to be either
		
01:08:28 --> 01:08:29
			of her and the Sheikh made a comment
		
01:08:29 --> 01:08:31
			and he said that I wish that we
		
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			had something to slaughter for aid and The
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir heard this comment and
		
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			there was nothing that they had to slaughter
		
01:08:40 --> 01:08:42
			And so in the middle of the night
		
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			he walked over Multiple hours to the next
		
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			village and he bought an animal and he
		
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			brought it back and he left it at
		
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			the doorstep of his Sheikh and when the
		
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			Sheikh got up in the morning and he
		
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			saw this he asked who did this and
		
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			They responded that it was Sheikh Mohammed bin
		
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			Kabir and the Sheikh Sheikh didi made a
		
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			dua for him and it said that due
		
01:09:07 --> 01:09:09
			to this dua the Sheikh received the fatih
		
01:09:09 --> 01:09:13
			right an opening in his ilm That allowed
		
01:09:13 --> 01:09:15
			him to within a matter of three years
		
01:09:15 --> 01:09:18
			to master everything that his mashayekh had to
		
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			teach so it said that At the end
		
01:09:23 --> 01:09:25
			of the year, he wrote a letter to
		
01:09:25 --> 01:09:27
			his teacher to his father and he said
		
01:09:27 --> 01:09:30
			to his father You know, I've studied but
		
01:09:30 --> 01:09:32
			I need more time So can I have
		
01:09:32 --> 01:09:35
			one more year his father wrote back and
		
01:09:35 --> 01:09:36
			he said you have one more year So
		
01:09:36 --> 01:09:38
			the second year came by and he finished
		
01:09:39 --> 01:09:42
			And he wrote another letter and he said
		
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			that you have and he asked his father
		
01:09:44 --> 01:09:45
			again Can I study for one more year
		
01:09:45 --> 01:09:47
			just one and his father said you can
		
01:09:47 --> 01:09:49
			study for one more year But after that
		
01:09:49 --> 01:09:50
			you have to come back.
		
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			So within three years the Sheikh was able
		
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			to become a master of fiqh of aqeedah
		
01:09:57 --> 01:10:01
			of tasawwuf of Arabic of Hadith of every
		
01:10:01 --> 01:10:04
			single science to the point that his students
		
01:10:04 --> 01:10:08
			were the biggest hulamah of today None of
		
01:10:08 --> 01:10:11
			them were able to master all of the
		
01:10:11 --> 01:10:13
			sciences that Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir was able
		
01:10:13 --> 01:10:15
			to master in three years That's a good
		
01:10:15 --> 01:10:18
			Sheikh Al-maghiri you're talking about.
		
01:10:19 --> 01:10:22
			So yes a student Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir
		
01:10:22 --> 01:10:24
			had three students that you could say were
		
01:10:24 --> 01:10:26
			his main inheritors and You could add the
		
01:10:26 --> 01:10:28
			fourth one, which is his son, but the
		
01:10:28 --> 01:10:30
			three main students and those were the pictures
		
01:10:30 --> 01:10:34
			of the mashayekh at the airport their Sheikh
		
01:10:35 --> 01:10:38
			Ahmed Al-maghiri and they say that Sheikh
		
01:10:38 --> 01:10:42
			Ahmed Al-maghiri inherited the mastery of fiqh
		
01:10:42 --> 01:10:47
			from Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir, then there
		
01:10:47 --> 01:10:50
			is Sheikh Sheikh Al-Makki, I don't know
		
01:10:50 --> 01:10:52
			his first name Sheikh Al-Makki is still
		
01:10:52 --> 01:10:54
			alive and he teaches in the capital of
		
01:10:54 --> 01:10:56
			Adhrar and they say that he inherited I've
		
01:10:56 --> 01:11:01
			heard his knowledge of Arabic and his knowledge
		
01:11:01 --> 01:11:04
			of Hadith And then the third one is
		
01:11:04 --> 01:11:07
			Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari who is said to
		
01:11:07 --> 01:11:11
			have inherited Sheikh Mohammed bin Kabir's tasawwuf, but
		
01:11:11 --> 01:11:14
			none of them are said to you know,
		
01:11:14 --> 01:11:16
			all of them they received a portion of
		
01:11:16 --> 01:11:17
			the inheritance of Sheikh Al-Kabir.
		
01:11:18 --> 01:11:19
			None of them received the entire thing and
		
01:11:21 --> 01:11:23
			This is really hard to understand because once
		
01:11:23 --> 01:11:25
			you see Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maghiri and Sheikh
		
01:11:25 --> 01:11:29
			Hassan Al-Ansari Right you like it's it's
		
01:11:29 --> 01:11:32
			unfathomable what it means to take even more
		
01:11:32 --> 01:11:35
			that when I saw Sheikh Ahmed Al-Maghiri
		
01:11:35 --> 01:11:37
			I saw a master of fiqh, a master
		
01:11:37 --> 01:11:40
			of tasawwuf, a master of nahu, a master
		
01:11:40 --> 01:11:42
			of sarf, a master of hadith, a master
		
01:11:42 --> 01:11:45
			of Every single science imaginable where just to
		
01:11:45 --> 01:11:47
			give you a little bit of perspective Sheikh
		
01:11:47 --> 01:11:52
			Ahmed Al-Maghiri for the longest time He
		
01:11:52 --> 01:11:54
			was teaching he had a dars where he
		
01:11:54 --> 01:11:57
			would teach Ajrumia, which is a beginner book
		
01:11:57 --> 01:11:59
			and then over there they go straight from
		
01:11:59 --> 01:12:04
			Ajrumia to The Alfia of Ibn Malik, right
		
01:12:04 --> 01:12:06
			and that's considered to be the you know
		
01:12:06 --> 01:12:08
			Usually that's the last thing that someone studies
		
01:12:08 --> 01:12:11
			and he had a majlis for many many
		
01:12:11 --> 01:12:13
			years where he was also teaching Mughni al
		
01:12:13 --> 01:12:16
			-Labib by Ibn Hisham and today that's not
		
01:12:16 --> 01:12:17
			a book that's taught I don't know anywhere
		
01:12:17 --> 01:12:20
			else in the world where Mughni al-Labib
		
01:12:20 --> 01:12:23
			is considered a book that's taught Nowadays, it's
		
01:12:23 --> 01:12:24
			considered a reference book in the past.
		
01:12:24 --> 01:12:26
			It used to be considered a book that
		
01:12:26 --> 01:12:30
			the ulama would study and Sheikh Ahmed Al
		
01:12:30 --> 01:12:33
			-Maghiri and presumably Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari, they
		
01:12:33 --> 01:12:35
			both used to teach Mughni al-Labib, right?
		
01:12:35 --> 01:12:37
			That's something that you only read about in
		
01:12:37 --> 01:12:38
			the books, right?
		
01:12:38 --> 01:12:41
			The likes of Sheikh Ahmed Dardir That's the
		
01:12:41 --> 01:12:43
			type of person that would be studying You
		
01:12:43 --> 01:12:45
			know or teaching a book like Mughni al
		
01:12:45 --> 01:12:46
			-Labib And yet here we are in the
		
01:12:46 --> 01:12:48
			21st century and you still have people that
		
01:12:48 --> 01:12:50
			are teaching those types of books So imagine
		
01:12:50 --> 01:12:53
			what then of someone like Sheikh Mohammed Al
		
01:12:53 --> 01:12:56
			-Kabir Let's go to the next picture Omar
		
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			Now there's a video of he looks like
		
01:13:00 --> 01:13:06
			you're driving in the highway So you could
		
01:13:06 --> 01:13:07
			skip over some of these this was the
		
01:13:07 --> 01:13:11
			right next one Beautiful scenery here.
		
01:13:11 --> 01:13:11
			It was beautiful.
		
01:13:12 --> 01:13:14
			It's really serene and so a lot of
		
01:13:14 --> 01:13:18
			people they actually visit Adrar and south southern
		
01:13:18 --> 01:13:21
			Algeria and the desert the like the desert
		
01:13:21 --> 01:13:23
			area During their holidays.
		
01:13:23 --> 01:13:24
			So I went at a time when a
		
01:13:24 --> 01:13:26
			lot of people were visiting because the schools
		
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			are off in Algeria right now So a
		
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			lot of people they go to visit and
		
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			do you know the same way that we
		
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			would go to Disneyland or Disney World?
		
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			And we'd go, you know, or like to
		
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			a national park They go to the Sahara
		
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			and they go for Ziyara so that's their
		
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			version of a vacation is to go and
		
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			to see the mashayikh living and dead and
		
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			to go and visit their their graves and
		
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			to go and take Baraka and to take
		
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			duas and go and ask questions and Spend
		
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			time in the company of the scholars.
		
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			So this over here is the drive to
		
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			Nzigmir which is where Sheikh Ahmed Al-Naghiri
		
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			and Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari They live and
		
01:14:07 --> 01:14:10
			they teach and Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari, he's
		
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			been here for a long time Since the
		
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			80s.
		
01:14:13 --> 01:14:15
			He's lived here ever since he Completed his
		
01:14:15 --> 01:14:18
			studies and he moved from Adrar and he
		
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			lived in his hometown of Nzigmir Since then
		
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			for more than 40 years and he's been
		
01:14:23 --> 01:14:25
			teaching since then and Sheikh Ahmed Al-Naghiri
		
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			He moved here in 2011.
		
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			I wasn't sure why no one was able
		
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			to tell me why I don't know if
		
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			it was for some political reason or if
		
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			it was some tasawwuf reason, but he moved
		
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			in 2011 So he's been there for a
		
01:14:40 --> 01:14:44
			small amount of time relatively and he's basically
		
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			what you could see as his project is
		
01:14:46 --> 01:14:51
			to teach a very pure version an unadulterated
		
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			version of ilm, of Quran, of fiqh, of
		
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			tasawwuf away from the eyes and away from
		
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			the influences of You know modern life today
		
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			So when you get there his madrasa is
		
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			like 200 students you know for all the
		
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			way from ages 7 and 8 years old
		
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			all the way to the age of Around
		
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			25.
		
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			All right.
		
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			That's this green carpet turquoise carpet with lime
		
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			green walls Yeah, so that's Sheikh Al-Naghiri's
		
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			school.
		
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			Yes, and this video that I took is
		
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			before Fajr time So this is Tahajjud time
		
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			Hmm where all the students are sitting with
		
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			each other I think there's another video of
		
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			this as well where you can't really hear
		
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			much except you just hear the noise of
		
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			people just reciting Quran Everyone's just doing things
		
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			on the road.
		
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			They're all reciting So if you move on
		
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			to the next video, I think there's one
		
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			video from nighttime and one video from the
		
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			daytime as well They're still use the alwah
		
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			Yes, so which is the wooden boards.
		
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			Yeah, even though they do have musahib.
		
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			They have the copies of the musahib but
		
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			despite that they still prefer to use the
		
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			they still prefer to use the wooden tablet
		
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			even though they could if they wanted to
		
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			Because of the fact that there's also a
		
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			science of rasm Which is the science of
		
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			actually how to write the Quran the orthography
		
01:16:27 --> 01:16:28
			of the Quran and this is a revealed
		
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			science As well where even though the Prophet
		
01:16:31 --> 01:16:33
			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He didn't read or
		
01:16:33 --> 01:16:34
			write the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam instructed
		
01:16:34 --> 01:16:37
			his companions on how to write the Quran
		
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			as well in about spelling What's that?
		
01:16:42 --> 01:16:44
			You talk about spelling the spelling, right?
		
01:16:44 --> 01:16:46
			So for example, there are certain places in
		
01:16:46 --> 01:16:49
			the Quran where one would expect it to
		
01:16:49 --> 01:16:51
			be written for example with the tanween right
		
01:16:51 --> 01:16:54
			with two You know with the two a
		
01:16:54 --> 01:16:57
			diacritical marks and The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
01:16:57 --> 01:16:59
			sallam instructed, you know For example to write
		
01:16:59 --> 01:17:01
			it with a noon instead and there's a
		
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			reason and there's a wisdom behind all of
		
01:17:02 --> 01:17:06
			these things Oh, there's a science and there's
		
01:17:06 --> 01:17:08
			books that are written on just the bumps
		
01:17:08 --> 01:17:10
			of the Quran that how is the Quran
		
01:17:10 --> 01:17:13
			to be written as well and It's all
		
01:17:13 --> 01:17:16
			written in The Moroccan or in the muslimy
		
01:17:16 --> 01:17:18
			dialect So for example, they don't write the
		
01:17:18 --> 01:17:20
			fat and the cough in the way that
		
01:17:20 --> 01:17:22
			we're used to instead They write it, you
		
01:17:22 --> 01:17:23
			know the fat and the cough they look
		
01:17:23 --> 01:17:26
			exactly the same except one of them has
		
01:17:26 --> 01:17:29
			a dot underneath the letter hmm, so instead
		
01:17:29 --> 01:17:31
			of doing two dots and one dot they
		
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			do one dot on top or Dot on
		
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			the bottom for the cough.
		
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			So we're looking now at sheikh and Mahdi's
		
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			photographs of him sitting on his in the
		
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			mihrab with some Students with their with their
		
01:17:49 --> 01:17:50
			wooden boards.
		
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			How much can you zoom in on that
		
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			picture at all or no?
		
01:17:54 --> 01:17:55
			It's a nice.
		
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			That's a beautiful picture there.
		
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			The Sheikh is sitting Yeah, there you go,
		
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			that's okay if you can it's okay keep
		
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			going next so next pictures here are from
		
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			Right before Fajr time.
		
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			So this is the schedule of the mashayikh
		
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			there Sheikh Hassan Al-Ansari who I'll talk
		
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			about in a second.
		
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			He probably has a very very similar schedule
		
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			to this So the way that it works
		
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			is that the sheikh wakes up before Fajr
		
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			time at the Hajj time Maybe an hour
		
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			before and he goes to the masjid and
		
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			By that time the students are already awake
		
01:18:37 --> 01:18:39
			and what they're doing at that point is
		
01:18:39 --> 01:18:42
			that they're all writing on their tablets Things
		
01:18:42 --> 01:18:44
			that they're going to memorize and the things
		
01:18:44 --> 01:18:45
			that they're going to learn for the day
		
01:18:45 --> 01:18:47
			So the senior students what they do is
		
01:18:47 --> 01:18:50
			that they instruct the students on what to
		
01:18:50 --> 01:18:52
			write on their tablets so they take an
		
01:18:52 --> 01:18:54
			order a piece from the Qur'an and
		
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			They if they're a more advanced student, then
		
01:18:57 --> 01:18:59
			they take a couple of lines.
		
01:18:59 --> 01:19:02
			For example from a book like Muqtasir Khalil
		
01:19:03 --> 01:19:06
			The Hikam of Ibn Aqa'illah Asal al
		
01:19:06 --> 01:19:08
			-Masalik from one of these mutoons from one
		
01:19:08 --> 01:19:10
			of these texts and they take a portion
		
01:19:10 --> 01:19:12
			of that and They put it on their
		
01:19:12 --> 01:19:13
			tablet and for the rest of the day.
		
01:19:13 --> 01:19:14
			They're just going to be reading from the
		
01:19:14 --> 01:19:17
			tablet then the Sheikh comes and The Sheikh
		
01:19:17 --> 01:19:20
			he's already awake and he's prayed his tahajjud
		
01:19:20 --> 01:19:23
			and he prays some tahajjud Over there as
		
01:19:23 --> 01:19:25
			well if he chooses to do that and
		
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			then he sits there reciting his own portion
		
01:19:28 --> 01:19:30
			of the Qur'an his own his of
		
01:19:30 --> 01:19:32
			the Qur'an what he needs to review
		
01:19:32 --> 01:19:34
			and The Sheikh spends all of this free
		
01:19:34 --> 01:19:37
			time either listening to the Qur'an Teaching
		
01:19:37 --> 01:19:39
			answering questions or reciting the Qur'an himself.
		
01:19:39 --> 01:19:40
			That's his entire life.
		
01:19:41 --> 01:19:43
			So Then the students they come to him
		
01:19:43 --> 01:19:46
			one by one and What he'll do is
		
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			that he'll either correct their note where if
		
01:19:49 --> 01:19:51
			they have mistakes he'll correct their mistakes on
		
01:19:51 --> 01:19:54
			their wooden tablet or the students will recite
		
01:19:54 --> 01:19:56
			to him and he'll correct their mistakes and
		
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			he'll listen to their Revision and the memorization
		
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			that you'd need in the town while In
		
01:20:04 --> 01:20:06
			Zigmir was two hours away.
		
01:20:06 --> 01:20:08
			So if you want to think of that
		
01:20:08 --> 01:20:11
			of it like Adrar would be like New
		
01:20:11 --> 01:20:14
			Brunswick or North Brunswick and then in Zigmir
		
01:20:14 --> 01:20:18
			was like Allentown so You know, it doesn't
		
01:20:18 --> 01:20:18
			have everything.
		
01:20:18 --> 01:20:21
			It doesn't have you know, like fancy restaurants
		
01:20:21 --> 01:20:24
			or hotels or anything it's just a very
		
01:20:24 --> 01:20:27
			basic village and everything has to get imported
		
01:20:27 --> 01:20:32
			from there and there's Pictures of you know,
		
01:20:32 --> 01:20:36
			the clay huts that the town was like
		
01:20:36 --> 01:20:38
			originally So they actually still you know, the
		
01:20:38 --> 01:20:40
			same building methods that had been used for
		
01:20:40 --> 01:20:43
			hundreds of years until Ten years ago.
		
01:20:43 --> 01:20:45
			That's exactly how they had continued to build
		
01:20:45 --> 01:20:48
			these houses from clay bricks that were sun
		
01:20:48 --> 01:20:51
			-dried you know you you get the bricks
		
01:20:51 --> 01:20:53
			and they dry in the Sun or you
		
01:20:53 --> 01:20:56
			bake them and you build the houses out
		
01:20:56 --> 01:21:00
			of those and Only recently have they started
		
01:21:00 --> 01:21:04
			building homes with cement and She can really
		
01:21:04 --> 01:21:06
			actually said that in the past those bricks
		
01:21:06 --> 01:21:09
			those brick houses Their temperature was a lot
		
01:21:09 --> 01:21:11
			better than the new cement homes The new
		
01:21:11 --> 01:21:15
			cement homes are really hot during the summers
		
01:21:15 --> 01:21:17
			and really cold during the winters, but they're
		
01:21:17 --> 01:21:20
			cheap they're easy to use and They don't
		
01:21:20 --> 01:21:23
			retain their heat which is why people they
		
01:21:23 --> 01:21:26
			use them in these hot hot climates but
		
01:21:26 --> 01:21:28
			he said that in the past all these
		
01:21:28 --> 01:21:31
			people would live in these red clay brick
		
01:21:31 --> 01:21:33
			homes and These homes would be cool during
		
01:21:33 --> 01:21:35
			the summer time and they'd be warm during
		
01:21:35 --> 01:21:37
			the winter time So I thought that was
		
01:21:37 --> 01:21:40
			really interesting and when she and Malini first
		
01:21:40 --> 01:21:45
			came to insignia in 2011 These homes are
		
01:21:45 --> 01:21:47
			actually how he started his mother asset to
		
01:21:47 --> 01:21:49
			begin with so now The mother I said
		
01:21:49 --> 01:21:51
			it's a big message, but when he first
		
01:21:51 --> 01:21:53
			started it out it started out from just
		
01:21:53 --> 01:21:57
			one of the homes of the village and
		
01:21:57 --> 01:21:59
			just within a matter of 13 14 years
		
01:21:59 --> 01:22:04
			from The Contributions of the people there and
		
01:22:04 --> 01:22:07
			of the shares personal money himself, right?
		
01:22:08 --> 01:22:10
			These machines they come from big families and
		
01:22:10 --> 01:22:12
			you know, they're well connected So from their
		
01:22:12 --> 01:22:15
			shares personal spending the masjid the madrasa the
		
01:22:15 --> 01:22:18
			library the students living quarters The guest houses
		
01:22:18 --> 01:22:20
			all of that is coming from the family
		
01:22:20 --> 01:22:24
			of the shape So these machines they know
		
01:22:24 --> 01:22:25
			a lot of them they come from money,
		
01:22:25 --> 01:22:26
			right?
		
01:22:26 --> 01:22:29
			They they may have a family For example,
		
01:22:29 --> 01:22:31
			we hear about this of Habib Omar But
		
01:22:31 --> 01:22:33
			all they do with the money any money
		
01:22:33 --> 01:22:36
			that they receive it all goes directly back
		
01:22:36 --> 01:22:39
			into the to the students Everything there is
		
01:22:39 --> 01:22:43
			about feeding the locals feeding the visitor Honoring
		
01:22:43 --> 01:22:45
			the visitor giving them a place to stay
		
01:22:45 --> 01:22:47
			three meals a day, right?
		
01:22:47 --> 01:22:49
			It doesn't matter if you're there to visit
		
01:22:49 --> 01:22:50
			the Shaykh or you're just there for a
		
01:22:50 --> 01:22:52
			free free lunch You just want some food
		
01:22:52 --> 01:22:55
			and to make sure that the students are
		
01:22:55 --> 01:22:58
			all taken care of so Students will come
		
01:22:58 --> 01:23:01
			from all over Algeria and all over North
		
01:23:01 --> 01:23:03
			Africa their parents will drop them off their
		
01:23:03 --> 01:23:06
			parents won't have a single penny or a
		
01:23:06 --> 01:23:09
			single Durham or dinar or anything to pay
		
01:23:09 --> 01:23:11
			these Mashayekh the Mashayekh don't care All they
		
01:23:11 --> 01:23:13
			want is good students and the Mashayekh will
		
01:23:13 --> 01:23:17
			spend their entire personal money Whatever inheritance that
		
01:23:17 --> 01:23:19
			they may have had 30 40 years ago.
		
01:23:19 --> 01:23:21
			All of that has gone towards the students
		
01:23:21 --> 01:23:25
			and towards them amazing Is that the last
		
01:23:25 --> 01:23:26
			picture Omar?
		
01:23:27 --> 01:23:30
			So last thing I have to ask you
		
01:23:31 --> 01:23:33
			Someone wants to go to a draw.
		
01:23:33 --> 01:23:33
			What do they do?
		
01:23:35 --> 01:23:37
			If you want to go to a draw
		
01:23:37 --> 01:23:41
			right now the situation there It's opening up
		
01:23:41 --> 01:23:43
			slowly, but the situation there.
		
01:23:43 --> 01:23:45
			It's not as easy as a place like
		
01:23:45 --> 01:23:47
			Mauritania Really?
		
01:23:47 --> 01:23:48
			It's it's much much harder.
		
01:23:49 --> 01:23:50
			Apparently there.
		
01:23:50 --> 01:23:54
			I mean, yeah Is easier living is easier
		
01:23:54 --> 01:23:57
			definitely living is easier in Algeria and it's
		
01:23:57 --> 01:23:59
			you know, there's more civilization There's more resources.
		
01:24:00 --> 01:24:02
			There's no big snakes.
		
01:24:02 --> 01:24:03
			I asked about the snakes and scorpions.
		
01:24:04 --> 01:24:06
			They said no those don't really Those are
		
01:24:06 --> 01:24:08
			in the way out in the desert.
		
01:24:08 --> 01:24:10
			They don't really bother us here in the
		
01:24:10 --> 01:24:13
			villages So living in a draw living in
		
01:24:13 --> 01:24:16
			Algeria is a lot easier But getting there
		
01:24:16 --> 01:24:18
			and getting a visa is a lot more
		
01:24:18 --> 01:24:23
			difficult right now Because there's no pathways Right
		
01:24:23 --> 01:24:25
			now for you to get a visa as
		
01:24:25 --> 01:24:25
			opposed to Mauritania.
		
01:24:26 --> 01:24:27
			I hear for a couple hundred dollars They'll
		
01:24:27 --> 01:24:30
			even give you a citizenship to Mauritania Yeah,
		
01:24:30 --> 01:24:32
			you just go there and you show up
		
01:24:32 --> 01:24:34
			as long as you know, they're not really
		
01:24:34 --> 01:24:36
			suspicious of you They don't really care, you
		
01:24:36 --> 01:24:38
			know And then it costs you like a
		
01:24:38 --> 01:24:41
			hundred dollars or much less actually to get
		
01:24:41 --> 01:24:43
			a tent from the main city Noakchott and
		
01:24:43 --> 01:24:44
			then you go and you could study at
		
01:24:44 --> 01:24:47
			a place like Nabarria or Taissir or one
		
01:24:47 --> 01:24:49
			of these Madaris in Mauritania But you have
		
01:24:49 --> 01:24:51
			to live in Mauritania, right you live with
		
01:24:51 --> 01:24:53
			the huge kibar of the ulama of Mauritania
		
01:24:53 --> 01:24:56
			But it's a very difficult and harsh lifestyle,
		
01:24:56 --> 01:24:58
			but there are right now It's a lot
		
01:24:58 --> 01:25:00
			more difficult to get a visa and I'm
		
01:25:00 --> 01:25:03
			not an expert But if you are Algerian
		
01:25:03 --> 01:25:05
			and you want to be you're a student
		
01:25:05 --> 01:25:08
			of knowledge I would highly highly recommend if
		
01:25:08 --> 01:25:09
			you don't have a problem with the visa
		
01:25:09 --> 01:25:11
			I would highly recommend going to Algeria and
		
01:25:11 --> 01:25:16
			studying here But if you're a foreigner then,
		
01:25:16 --> 01:25:17
			you know, you might need some personal connections
		
01:25:17 --> 01:25:20
			You might need to get connected to a
		
01:25:20 --> 01:25:23
			university in Algeria or other are you?
		
01:25:23 --> 01:25:25
			You would probably need to be creative to
		
01:25:25 --> 01:25:27
			go and study there, but it's not that
		
01:25:27 --> 01:25:29
			difficult to get an invitation from a local
		
01:25:30 --> 01:25:32
			you know find a local Algerian in your
		
01:25:32 --> 01:25:34
			masjid who has some family there and get
		
01:25:34 --> 01:25:37
			an invitation from the family and then take
		
01:25:37 --> 01:25:40
			that invitation to the embassy and Get your
		
01:25:40 --> 01:25:40
			visa from there.
		
01:25:41 --> 01:25:42
			And then once you're there, then you can
		
01:25:42 --> 01:25:43
			go to at all.
		
01:25:43 --> 01:25:47
			So ladies and gentlemen We we've covered visitations
		
01:25:47 --> 01:25:51
			to Tadym Yemen Cairo Egypt Mahad in Majd
		
01:25:51 --> 01:25:54
			and just now a drawer and in the
		
01:25:54 --> 01:25:57
			mirror of the small town in a drawer
		
01:25:57 --> 01:26:00
			and it's very similar to Tadym in the
		
01:26:00 --> 01:26:06
			the way that they live the Consistency by
		
01:26:06 --> 01:26:10
			which they they teach non-stop Their schedule
		
01:26:10 --> 01:26:14
			even waking up before Fajr going into Like
		
01:26:14 --> 01:26:16
			shortly before the hood then taking the break
		
01:26:16 --> 01:26:20
			there so Remember, why are we telling these
		
01:26:20 --> 01:26:21
			stories?
		
01:26:21 --> 01:26:22
			It's the most important thing is the head
		
01:26:22 --> 01:26:25
			of the goal the maqsad is to show
		
01:26:25 --> 01:26:27
			you all these routes exist to show you
		
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			all you can out actually go and sit
		
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			with the mashaikh directly and I'm telling you
		
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			one of the Most impactful things is seeing
		
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			something with your own two eyes The piece
		
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			of information is not the most impactful thing
		
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			the person carrying the information is what's important
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala said ask those who
		
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			know if you don't know Okay, what the
		
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			emphasis here is?
		
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			The person the person who knows it telling
		
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			you it transforms you you're gonna come back
		
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			Your priorities are different.
		
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			Your priorities are self purification.
		
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			Your priorities are studying your your desire for
		
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			the dunya We side of of life even
		
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			in the Taoist fear.
		
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			There's a worldly side of things, right?
		
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			There is a social side of things That
		
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			part sort of goes down and in in
		
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			your priority and your main priority is to
		
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			keep studying I'm telling you the impact of
		
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			Visiting Shu you and and and getting connected
		
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			with the people of knowledge then continuing your
		
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			studies online Here in the States until you
		
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			could go back again This is what's gonna
		
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			be a major sebab for our salvation People
		
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			sort of fall off the wagon all the
		
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			time in Islam happens all the time It's
		
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			being connected to the shoe to knowledge.
		
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			This is what Allah loves.
		
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			Allah says that I'll be zidni ilma Our
		
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			Lord increases in knowledge you can study with
		
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			Othman why should we say CDO?
		
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			Do they say CD either in Algeria?
		
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			They do or should I just call you
		
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			boo, but Bill Qurayshi Member Qurayshi you could
		
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			study with him at arc view dot o
		
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			RG and go to essentials and Start studying
		
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			mad.
		
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			He don't ask where we are.
		
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			What's the curriculum level?
		
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			It's the best curriculum.
		
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			Okay Just sign up and start taking the
		
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			classes and start watching the videos.
		
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			Don't complicate things Essentials you take more than
		
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			one class.
		
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			You could take my I have I teach
		
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			four hours on essentials every week Thursday nights
		
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			and Sunday Essentials has all four methods being
		
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			taught there So if you're a Hanafi, you're
		
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			gonna do the same thing humbly same thing
		
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			You want to study Akita with Sheikh Murad
		
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			who we're gonna have on the stream next
		
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			to tell us about Jordan because he's living
		
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			in Jordan So that makes it Teddy Yemen
		
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			Cairo Egypt Adhrar Algeria next is a man
		
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			Jordan where Sheikh Murad taught and studied so
		
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			that's four locations.
		
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			You can go next We're gonna have Kareem
		
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			Odeon who's studying right now with the show
		
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			em with the church with the Syrians in
		
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			Istanbul All right, they had at least all
		
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			of it.
		
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			I know that's what we want and we're
		
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			not gonna take the big And we have
		
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			to wrap up right now But we're not
		
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			talking about the big rihla of five years
		
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			even if I don't or whatever like you
		
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			go and you study and you Come back
		
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			five years later.
		
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			No people generally may not have time for
		
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			that.
		
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			Maybe you do maybe you don't but at
		
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			least Instead of going to Disneyland and just
		
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			why don't it's better.
		
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			You know what take your money put it
		
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			down the toilet Instead of going to Disneyland.
		
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			I don't understand people who go to Disneyland.
		
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			I just I'm not saying it's haram I
		
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			know and people have kids and they want
		
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			their kids to smile.
		
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			All right, but I just don't get the
		
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			waste of Time and money.
		
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			This stream is to make you love The
		
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			whole purpose of this podcast and stream is
		
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			to make you love a couple things the
		
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			umma dawah I am thicker Connection which you
		
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			take your vacation to these places Take your
		
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			five days off ten days off.
		
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			Go to the one of these places and
		
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			We're here to help you connect to those
		
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			scholars and to know where where do I
		
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			go?
		
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			I land in Turkey.
		
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			Where do I go?
		
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			I land in Yemen.
		
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			Where do I go?
		
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			We'll help you and Maybe Allah will open
		
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			for us for helping you Subhanak Allahumma wa
		
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			bihamdika nashhadu an la ilaha illa anta nastaghfiruk
		
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			wa natubu ilayk wa al'asr inna al
		
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			insana lafee khusr illa allatheena aamanu wa amilu
		
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			al salihat wa tawassu bil haq wa tawassu
		
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			bil sabr Wassalamu alaikum
		
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			Oh