Shadee Elmasry – Islam & Japanese Society Professor Yamamoto (1) NBF 285
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The conversation covers the Safina society's negative consequences, including the loss of face recognition and the need for people to give back. The importance of signing promises and waiting for something is emphasized. The history of cultural and political connections between Japan and Turkey is discussed, including the connection between Japan and Turkey and the cultural and political connections between Turkey and Japan. The use of language support in writing books and respecting indigenous context is emphasized, along with the importance of reading and learning in achieving success. The dark side of history is also discussed, including the use of language in the context of the current pandemic and the struggles people face with lagging events and poor internet connection.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
Rasulillah who are early here will be here women. Well, ladies and
gentlemen, welcome to the Safina society nothing but facts live
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you're worrying about the battery dying out and no reflecting the
screens of this of these devices anymore. So it's a beautiful
Wednesday. And remember, Wednesday is a day of dot between DOD and
VA. So do not ever forget that dot. And people who take too
lightly what is a law called them?
You're not worshipping him? Right? You are mistaken.
You're being arrogant. If you're taking dirt lightly, you're not
being a proper believer in his in his promises. So we take up his
promises and non stop. Nothing is too big and too small for ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada. And Allah loves the mullah.
The one who just says, I'm here, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not
going anywhere until I get what I want. Why would Allah love that
when we hate that, right? We hate it because we can't deliver.
And anything that we deliver is taking something off of our plate.
You can't give $100 out of your bank account except noticing mama
$100 down now. It's why humans don't like to give. Secondly,
Allah has created us to be disgusted by someone who keeps
asking and asking and asking. He's created that inside of us. So that
eventually all the people turned you away. That'll force you back
to the one you're supposed to be growing in your iman with by dua.
And Allah Tada wants us to have this persistence. I'm standing
here I'm going to say this draw, I'm not moving. Until I get what
I'm asking for. Why not with that attitude, of course, but with,
with the persistence, why? Because it is a sign of faith. It's a sign
of Amen. To sign that you're a believer. You're a believer that
he's there. Listening has the power to give and has the
generosity to give. I'm telling you those who understand their
life will change the man will change and, and in fact, this is
it really is the the bone marrow or the essence or the core or the
heart of all worship of Allah, to Allah is the concept of DA and
acting upon it persisting upon it. Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, use to Jabalia had to come you will get everything you
want.
Man, as long as you don't rush, so the companion so well what is
rushing O Messenger of Allah? It he says, the Prophet replied.
It's saying it's stopping to make dua and saying I may do it but
Allah didn't answer that is rushing. So as long as that so the
deadly poison of your journey in prayer and dua for something in
life is that you stop.
That's a cardinal sin as the only cardinal sin is that you give up
and you stop. So as long as if you want something,
if you want something, you'll be willing to wait for it. If you're
not willing to wait for it, then you don't really want it.
Kids, parents and kids when a kid wants something that's really not
necessary, right? But he wants it. So one of the best things to do is
say, Okay, listen, you're gonna pay a price.
This is what I need you to do. And you'll get it not going to be just
for free because it's not a neat it's like an excess almost close
to that. So you but you're gonna give me something you're gonna
make yourself. You're going to work for it. And make me say,
Well, I got something in return. You memorize a certain couple
pages you do this, do that to the other. Then you feel you're worthy
of reward. No. And you reward them. Right so that they know
that.
Things come with work. Things come with patients, they can just
Come like that so that's our little intro for today do not
forget Wednesday between doctor and author which is right now
every few seconds you keep that on your mind and you ask Allah Tada
for it
we have a wonderful guest today someone who is unique in his field
unique in His person even got Professor Yamamoto let's bring him
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Okay, so I can buy from set up July so first question I want to
ask you is you you got to Turkey.
Japan and Turkey have very good relations since the world wars in
I believe the Second World War. I don't know the Second World War I
don't know about anything before the second world war but the
second World Turkey and Japan had good relations. You're now a
professor in Turkey and convert from Japan. Is there any
connection between those political and cultural connections between
Japan and Turkey and you're being in Turkey right now? Oh, political
and connection.
So like I'm not a specialist about the history of the turkey in
Japan. But it's commonly known that the relationship
between the turkey and Japan was very good the saints Dr.
Monetization is like a wall 120 years ago
especially in AF ter the Japanese Empire one against direct Russia
you know the Japanese Russian word because the in history is B that
is the first time that I can say that non white country have like
beaten like a so called a Christian
like
the Ottoman Empire found that you know they pay some like hope that
if you know the word will orient it can work together maybe we can
like afford against like Western colonialism.
But do we have any record that that how can you say there is some
kind of shallow or like superficial like a romanticism
towards like Japan the history of Japan which is Japanese cultures
or or even like a Japanese instance because if you closely
look over the history of Japan especially especially during the
Second World War Japanese Empire have created like a Japanese like
Muslims like decrease their Japanese Muslim to spy on like a
Muslim country and the neighboring countries like Malaysia or
Indonesia or even in China
so so are like fish yeah.
Do you have any motivation? I think most of the more I think the
most of the Japanese Muslims are the first generation like they
were like spies
they were they were sorry to interrupt but they were not real
Muslims they were just sort of actors. Ah like I love all them
like in the end like nobody can know that it was the in their
heart
but the according to the historical like records these
highly likely that like they were not least like sincerely like
practicing like Muslims
but I'm really surprised that you know I talked about this topic in
Turkey I seen like few months ago let me like six months ago like in
my university and I have experienced I you know, these are
famous like ultimate scholar called underachiever him.
Like he he was sent to like Japan bypassing like the the secret
mission of the Ottoman Empire.
And there they are some like a Japanese Japanese who converted to
Islam through his acquaintances, but they also like there are many
like Japanese like a Japanese spy who came became Muslim
like through him, but it did but it didn't mean that you know that
this thing? Obviously the Rahim has an intention that like spy on
Japanese society. Now this actually this this is just like a
project of the Japanese Empire that you know that they access to
you to fight or like well known clicking listener scholar, and it
gets kind of like a credit when the Muslim communities and they
send those definitions introducing countries. But when I talk about
presentation, these like one guy, you know, it's actually guy who
stand up and he shouted at me telling me that I was lying. Or
like I am the enemy of the turkey, because I'm talking about about
Turkey. But actually, I'm talking about just just like historical
like effect. Yeah, okay. But
So, in this sense, so in general relationship between Turkey and
Japan is quite good.
But there are some like strange guy who wants to like bleeps and
kind of like politically like a constructed like a romanticism,
like, it wasn't like Turkey and also insane in Japan. But
like, why not in Japan, like we have, like a new generation of new
Japanese Muslims, and I think this is a good time to hug and say, I
think this is a good time to, like, you re evaluate our history
in the history of a Japanese Muslim. So that, you know, we can
place also like a crack three in the history of Islam. So in the
event, I think, you know, dark history, like, like in which was
first generation Japanese Muslim? No, we don't.
Hug isn't a we must not escape from looking into the dark side.
This was in community, I think that is important. So the computer
community is very small, the history, I can't imagine is very
long. So when you say the dark side, are you limiting that to
like this, the spy world, Japanese Muslims as spies? What else would
be in the dark history of the Japanese Muslim community? I seen
it was just like this, and I just, you know, this, like spying that
has been there during World War again. Yeah. And this is my own
dark history. But you know, when I'm
looking at, again, the history of Japanese Muslims, like
we've done in our generation, like we have started to, like,
translate in Islamic classics.
Like into Japanese, for example, like I am, and so I have
translated
our documents, to, you know,
to Japanese. And also, I was a member of the translating project
of democracy here, we're almost done. No amazing, abridged version
of it here. Again, it was a really big, big project, and I was really
tired or doing this thing, you know, it almost killed me.
But when I look back in the, like, older generation, I think there
are so few translation of Islamic classics into Japanese. What about
Islamic speakers in the Japanese language, because this generation,
while books are amazing, but this generation in, at least the youth
are more easily reached by video and audience than, than by reading
books. I think both of them need to go hand in hand, the preaching
is one thing, get people's attention, you need to go out to
them in their format. Learning is a different thing. Learning you
could say Alright, now there are demands here, you need to come
here. And you need to, you know, learn how to read and beat learn
how to be patient. So what about that initial phase of Dawa
to youth and to people and I would assume that Dawa is just Tao even
to know what Islam is, let alone enter Islam because there's
probably not a large number of Muslim youth in Japan.
Oh, yes.
Actually, no, we have like, lots of opportunities to know about
Islam. And also like immediate Muslims, like we have, like big
Muslim community in Tokyo and Osaka and Fukuoka in big cities.
But especially in regards to like Dawa. I respect you know, the
Hadees is saying that, you know, that is in us all our country
accordion, or like heartlessness Viva Yatta con, it's like talk to
the people in according to the level of the awkward you know,
reasoning and I personally interpret this hadith as like you
know, we need to respect in the context Yeah, ego in it, we need
to respect the indigenous context or the vernacular context. So
either the individual context and so I myself is like more focusing
on like translating the slang classic to the Japanese language.
But when we publish the person here and within you know, average
version was if
we were so happy because this sort of a big project is carried
recorded in the history which is recently Japan. But sure, I can
shirt
Can you see it? This this book?
Okay, masha Allah what is that here? Yeah, this person here. Imam
Al Ghazali. Ladies gentlemen, if you don't know this, he he
abridged his own his own book. So he authored the MCSA here aroma
Dean, which is what I recommend anyone who's never read it before.
Read the matassa okay. There's also English validation is
republished. Could you open the book by the way?
It's in Japanese. So it's long. It's long ways. Now Japanese can
be written horizontally and vertically Correct? Yes, that's
correct.
vertically. Yeah, because I've been wondering, okay, so right to
left or left to right. Oh, like,
from up to down and this way, that way. Okay, good. Good. So amazing.
Now
you know what, I always wondered what when people sent text
messages, right? In Japanese how the text messages work, but then I
was told no, there is a way to write books in Japanese. That's
horizontal.
Yep. So now when it comes to the readership of these books, are
they immigrants to Japan? Who the children grew up speaking only
Japanese, or are they Is there a convert community there? So I we
have to we hope that this book will be read by read by the like,
normal seminar Japanese audiences, like don't listen Japanese
readers, but I also realized that that was a real project, but
some of the real things a huge volume, it's like more than like
20 volumes. And this Mutasa is really abridged version but yet
this is like six 600 pages. Wow. Like 600 pages.
I think nobody gonna read this. Yeah, it's a reference I myself,
you know, I don't have time and I don't even have an energy to read
like six
I think most people what they do with it here is that the read
chapters at a time? Yes, they'll read chapters at a time and you'll
be on your shelf forever but you'll read chapters at a time.
And amazingly if somebody the wooded system is amazing. If
people don't know what that means the WID W IRD it comes from the
concept of water a well going for water you go for water every
single day. Like how much water have you consumed in your life?
Imagine that right? How much time have you spent at a traffic light
in your life it'll end up being like a year or something like that
right at the end your life you'd been at traffic lights for a year
so but the concept of the wooded system the Muslims got this down
perfectly they realized the way to achieve something is to take a
very small dose every single day never miss a day right? Or if it's
once a week it's once a week whatever the dosages and whatever
the schedule is but you never miss and you just sit there waiting
because time is now on your side
fast
lagging again I don't know why
interest if you go for an intensive
against you because it's not sustainable. I've never seen well
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