Shadee Elmasry – Islam & Japanese Society Professor Yamamoto (1) NBF 285

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deadly poison of your journey in prayer and dua for something in

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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

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