Shadee Elmasry – NBF 168 Great Stories and Advice from Shaykh Omar Popal
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Let's take the story from the beginning in case people are
catching it up, you're going to catch up on only one of the
streams.
Say that Isha, she was very covetous over the messenger
SallAllahu Sallam she was wanted to always be number one with the
Prophet peace be upon him. This is considered like a good thing. This
is not a bad thing. Now say to Xena was to her a threat to that
superiority and supremacy that she had with the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam and this just goes to show you we're dealing with
human beings and the Prophet allowed them to be human beings,
the prophesy sudden did not try to make robots out of people and
expect them to shut out their desires and their feelings. So the
messenger of peace be upon him then would visit say designup And
she had honey growth was that what it it's called? I don't know if
it's called that but she had a tree that used to have some nests
in it and they would get honey out of that. So a hive man Subhanallah
Sita really makes you know a thing or two about nature here. It's
called a hive and she used to get honey from that and the Prophet
used to eat from that honey so say that it's just says so I'll say to
Anna what have said that uh, yet Anna, Doc Allah Allah Hanabusa la
Allahu alayhi wa sallam fell topple in Elijah McCurry. Rehema
Garfield, I smell something not good from you. Is that what did
you eat something that wasn't? That was like that. So it happened
and they did it. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
love us No, nothing like that ship to us and then and design a
vintage ash. The end of vintage Ash was some said the most the
most beautiful woman of Quraysh. And she was related to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam through the mother's like her
mother. And and so the prophesy son said, No, I just had this
honey. But I will not go back to it. I won't eat it again. If it
offends if it has a bad scent and the Prophet was very sensitive
about having a bad scent. For example, we know the messenger
peace be upon him did not did not ever have sensitivity about his
clothes. You wore what he whatever was there. He didn't be picky
about his clothes if someone gave him a gift to wear it. If someone
liked it, he gave it away. That's how simple the profit was. He were
close. That was our clothes. He wore a Roman shirt when he was
gifted that he wore a Yemeni garment. When he was given that he
wore many different things. So he was not picky we know that for
sure.
For sure, food was not something that prophet was ever picky about.
Yet. However, the scent he was I wouldn't say the word picky but I
would say the word that the Prophet peace be upon him was was
always concerned never to have a bad odor. Okay, never to have a
bad odor. So he said learn out the ill low I will never go back to
it.
Then Allah to Allah revealed out of mercy to the Prophet and that
this would be a sunnah as well. If he says I will never eat honey
again. What would the Sunnah be regarding honey? And yet Allah
subhanaw taala talks about I sent him I said it's it's something in
paradise. It's a healing in this life. But if that became a sunnah
that the prophet does not go back to honey then that's not what
Allah wants.
So but the prophesy seven did it innocently because he thought that
it smelled bad. So Allah Tala revealed yah yah Nebby limit 200 a
mama halala hulak Tebbetts every metadata as word Why do you forbid
what Allah made Hala for yourself only to make your wives happy?
And then Allah subhana wa Tada revealed the verse is to say die
and said Hafsa revealing that they plan to plot and Allah revealed
the plot.
And this was sort of like, in a sense, you know, just you there
Youth said he said officers were young. It said as Anna was older,
there are two camps of the Sahaba of the wives of the prophets. I
saw them. There were two camps. There were the wives who were of a
more mature of an older age but not old. And then there were the
youth and the oldest one soda so that I shouldn't have sir. And the
other side there was
Xena and OMA selama and there was just like there it was based upon
their age.
And so for them, it may have been nothing. But if the profit doesn't
go back to eating honey, then the whole OMA doesn't benefit from
honey. Right? And the whole OMA would now take that as a sunnah.
So Allah Tada revealed that, reverse that Secondly, do you see
the messengers of Allah when he was setting them having so many
options that he enjoys to eat from? They barely had their
anything. And so when the messenger enjoys something,
Allah wants him to enjoy it from the from the gifts that Allah gave
him his honey, right? There were there weren't a lot of options.
You can live in Arabia. Now think about this for a second. You could
live in Arabia, and you can count probably on your two hands, maybe
15
to 20 foods that you have eaten your entire life. Think about that
for a second. Let's just take from the meats, very simple camel goat
sheep. There's no cow. And there's no chicken, maybe bird. Maybe.
Some of the Arabs ate lizard. The Prophet didn't Christ didn't eat
that they were sort of city. But the Bedouin would eat lizard. You
can count the number of proteins they ate. Got maybe eggs from
birds that didn't have chickens. They had other different types of
birds. All right, let's go to the vegetables. We know that they had
gourds. We don't know exactly what they're like pumpkin squash,
things like that. Did they have lettuce? No. Did they have
tomatoes? No. Did they have cucumbers? Yes, that cucumbers.
See, like we can count what they ate. And you could actually
probably put on a piece of paper everything that you have ever put
in your body for your entire life.
We on the other hand, we live a different life.
We can't even count what we ate.
Today. The ingredients it today's half day here. It's here in the
middle of the day. In England. It's maybe 9pm
or 7pm. Can you count? Can you list the things that you've put in
your body today? Forget the chemicals just you can't list it.
Right? Who knows? An m&m has what? chocolate and peanuts. Reese's
Peanut Butter Cup cereal with how many different flakes? Coffee with
who knows how many flavors in it.
It's very a sandwich. Some of these sandwiches that you eat. You
don't even know what you're eating.
It's like I can know that there's meat in it. There's peppers,
there's onions, there's cheese, desserts, a whole bunch of stuff.
Okay, how many ingredients and how many spices in a curry for
example.
So it's Rama for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam Allah
wanted him to have this gift. Nobody's going to stop it.
Okay, and the province I sent him when he said I had I ate from this
honey or I drank from this honey. Allah says, Wait a sudden maybe
we'll have all the big Hadith.
And the Prophet peace be upon him said to his wife that he had
had this honey, and she said, Oh, it smells bad.
Next Asada boo and Talaq Hakuna, and you'll be Dilla, who, as Rajan
fireman can.
Now listen to this.
There was a time in ever, there's a time in everyone's life where
you start yearning for the dunya. Again,
you just need to get through that time. And that time usually
happens, you know, time goes on. And here we are, maybe we're in a
period of strength of Amen. There is a time it's human nature that
you wait a little bit. You got to know this. You might not want to
hear it, but you have to know it. Especially converts might not be
aware of this, because they haven't grown up and watched adult
Muslims.
Take it from people who have sat who have observed adult Muslims.
It's not like we're sitting there thinking, Okay, what is he going
to do? But you see it in life. You see the behavior of a Muslim in
life. They are strong, they're powerful. I'm telling you, even to
you, and they may get a time where they've been doing it for 2530
years, even teaching FIP for 30 years. They've been leading
Vickers for 30 years. There may be a little bit of a waning there.
Right
They've been going to hedge an ombre for 30 years. It's human
nature, there's going to be a waning there. And there may be an
interest diversion of interest.
And they will stay within the Hello, but there will be
a waning
and that waning people start looking around at the dunya.
Okay, I'm not even kidding you were that this has happened to
noble Sheoak people, I would say I would trade their book of deeds at
any time. But the energy level that they in their waning time,
okay, would probably be 10 times greater than our best moment. But
no doubt about it. There's a little bit of a dip. Good.
And people say that yes, the shift didn't teach this class for many
years. And he said he pass it on to the students and he got busy
with other things. One thing led to another, it's possible. Here
you have and you're gonna see that the Sahaba yet the Mothers of the
Believers also saw all of the women of Medina getting rich. And
they began to ask the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
okay?
For some wealth as well.
All right.
And this has led to the point that perhaps the Prophet may even
divorce them because they were asking the Messenger of Allah what
He was selling what he didn't have, and they were getting upset
about it.
Allah subhanho wa Taala intervened when did Allah intervene 30 days
the prophets spent away from his wives 30 days
and then Allah the Prophet intervene, Allah intervened with
the Quran now tell me if this Quran was from the messengers of
Allah would have done if I had a book, right? And anything I wrote
in that book my wife would do.
Right? There would never be an argument that lasts more than five
minutes. If I was fake, revealing Quran fake revealing a false book
and my wife believed it was true. There wouldn't be an argument for
two minutes there wouldn't be anything for one minute no husband
me or otherwise.
Immediately okay, God said boom. And we do that now. Anytime
there's a All right shut he says boom.
And you shut it down.
Here the messengers of Allah while he was setting them if he was the
author of the Quran, why would he go through this? That his wife
Vigo upset with him? And he's not happy in his home life. Now why
would this happen to the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to
establish sunnah for us. It's very important to speak about this
because everything that happens to the Prophet peace be upon him
happens to be a sunnah for us. How did the Prophet react did he yell?
did he act in a way that was
rude or harsh? Or did he just have sub and remain silent and keep a
distance that Allah Tada revealed Quran for him?
I normative Nakata Raji Allah dawn on who? Kala la Mata as Allah Nabi
UniSA. Oh, so to what degree did this incident happen?
You have to understand that if you ever go camping
that's how the Sahaba lived.
Imagine you take a couple 100 people and you put them on a big
campground, whenever the big campground in this campground.
Everyone's going to pitch a tent wherever they want. That's how
life used to be. There was no such thing as seeking a permit. You
find an empty patch of land Hey, Hey guys, I'm taking this I'm
gonna build my tent here. And sometimes they had homes and
sometimes it didn't. Sometimes they built homes that sometimes
lived in tents. So when something happened in a family, chances are
everybody knows about it and hear the alternative and Khattab knows
about no one else would want to know about it. Well, his daughter
is one of them. Right? His daughter is Hafsa so an every
father, this is a rule of shittier every father and mother have the
right to visit their parents.
Their daughter, sorry. So they could knock on the door. Man. I
would like to visit my daughter and he has to let you in. It's
your right to visit your daughter. Okay.
It's your house.
So said Norma says when?
The province I said um yeah, it does. Nisa. He stayed away from
them. did he yell? did he shout? Did he do anything that we would
consider not appropriate? No. He avoided them with Erica Kubla. And
yet your Miranda Bill hijab. This incident that we're talking about
was before the full hijab was permitted. What was what did they
where they covered their hair, but they didn't the wives of the
Prophet did not cover their face yet.
They covered their face later on.
Carla Ahmed for call
To lemon, liqueur Leone, call for the call to Allah is fficult. The
Prophet Omer said enough. How is it? You are upsetting the
Messenger of Allah? Do you not know he is the messenger of ALLAH?
So he went in
and he said
he put what is who did say no, I'm gonna go to the strongest one of
them. The one that he knows if she turns everyone's gonna turn who is
the strongest personality? It's not just She's the daughter of Abu
Bakr Siddiq. Well, Asmaa is the daughter of Abu Bakr Siddiq. She
was not the same type of personality. It's not that she was
attractive. Xena was attractive, right? Her personality was like
this. Yeah, if not to be a buck. But Bella gummin, shut Nikka and
took de rasool Allah, so Allah when he was setting them, so your
status your your situation, your power has now reached shut and is
like the cute you have power, right? That you harm the prophets
of Allah when he was
telling me by Allah, if this hadith was fabricated by people,
would they fabricate their own sources of knowledge? This is the
let's say, the magic key method Who is it? It's all modernization
and then if no more than Abu Huraira that's what the medical
method is right? If you want to talk about what's who are sabar?
Who the fatawa are from it's from said all I'm gonna say that so
they dominate the medical method.
Good medic love their narrations. First he loved almost narrations
because the Republic public being all the other Sahaba heard it and
they concurred with it. So that's what that now it's like what's
what's it? No, it's the same thing. I said who's gonna question
her when the prophets told us to take knowledge from her. And here
they are say to Omar said Norma is saying I Isha you your power has
reached the point that you're now harming the messenger of allah
sallallahu when you send them, what did I say? malua melachim
hottub. Oh my goodness. Just to show that.
Right.
I like to be able to pick this is unbelievable. Just to show
what kind of that this is real life that's happening here. This
is not a fairy tale that some people wrote. Nobody would write
this about their people. What is said mom said it she says, Oh my
god, what is your business with the me deal with your own
business? What
Sivan Allah? Is this something that first of all the courage that
she has,
the personal courage that she has. Secondly, it increases you that
this is not the belief that no one would make this up because if
we're going to make
go to any religious group, go to the Maliki's for Imam Malik. And
they're not even a group. That's a method the difference between a
group and a method is a method establishes a principle. Even if
the founder of that method was to go off the principle they would go
against them on that issue. Let's go to a method or a group a group
is like ideologically aligned with that leader. They never go against
their leaders. That's I would say the diversity in a metabolic
group. Go to any method or group. Look at their biographies. You
will never see
you'll never see anything where Imam Muhammad have been humbled
how to fight with his wife. Were a man like Abu Hanifa his wife talk
back to him where the companion of our the Imam of our ship of the
whatever called Did he share the LEA?
His number one had an argument with his wife, you'll never see
that they will gloss it over. Right? But gloss it over. But this
is religion. This is Dean there's no glossing here you have to tell
the truth. So all my ricotta says what is your what is with you is
your power has reached that you're not harming the prophets. I send
them and say that it's just as Malli lamella Kipnuk hooked up she
doesn't even say his name. What's my What is your business with me
son of cooked up? Are they can be a magic go deal with your own
problems. Unbelievable. Okay.
Carla, for the * to Allah Hafsa so what did he do? He moved on.
She's not getting anywhere with said Aisha, he went to say to
Hafsa now this is his daughter. Yeah Hafsa Bella Garmin Chetnik
and took the Rasul Allah so Allah when he was telling him same
thing, so you're now you think the prophets because he's nice to you.
Now you're harming him, peace be upon him.
Well, Allah He la caja halacha island to another Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam lo hymnbook
Well, Hola, Ana, lotta locka key Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam for Beckett, a shut Del Boca Subhan Allah. He was that is
that is some those are some harsh words. He said, Well, I know the
Prophet doesn't like you. Okay.
And if it wasn't for me, he would have divorced you.
He's saying she's hot.
harsh.
He says, Well lie. I know that the robber doesn't like you. Well, my
goodness. He does not have he is not afraid of the truth.
And sometimes you don't say certain things like this, but he
said it.
According to law, she wept then extreme weeping.
And while he's weak, she's weeping. Did he feel bad? He was
tough on us, so that's why she turned out tough. She said, he
says a not a Sula. Where's the messenger of allah sallallahu some
color to a fee Khazanah tin because energy he filled
Mashallah. So he's in a certain place where there there was water
for the cultural for either Anna Grubba Hola, me Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Hokkaido and Allah as Skeletal
Mesh Raja Muda language li Allah and Akira Mikasa there was a
stream there and the prophets I send him was with a boy, the
servant and the prophet had his feet in the water.
Okay.
For another day to Yarrabah instead, only indica Allah
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa Salam o Raba, the servant, permit
me to go give me permission to come into the prophet for another
robber who will go to File from another Ilya Philomela cache and
he looked at the room then he looked at me he didn't say
anything from occult Yarrabah is the end Rasulullah he said, Abba,
let me get it. Let me go and speak to the messenger. Again, he looked
at the room and he looked back at me and he didn't say anything.
Then I raised my voice so that the prophet could hear ya permit me to
go into the prophets of Allah when he was out of them. Because I
think that the prophets I send them done any in the magic to mean
Edgley Hafsa Okay, and maybe that because I thought maybe the
Prophet thinks he doesn't want to let me in.
Prophets not letting him in.
So he said maybe the Prophet thinks I'm here to advocate for
Hafsa okay. Like many parents do, advocating for their kids.
I don't know how
my parents never advocated for me.
My parents your way was to the teacher. Okay. The skin is yours.
The bones are mine. That's what my dad would say to the soccer coach
the teacher we went to a sleepover he would sit me down in front of
the like the dad and he would say, you do whatever what you wish with
them the skin is mine is yours. The bone is mine.
Okay, other parents are worse. They say maximum the hospital not
the morgue
than any in the magic tomb and Edgerly Hafsa Wallahi Lane mRNA
Rasulullah bigdata Bo nuclear ribbon Ohnaka so he says out loud
so that the Prophet would hear this. Maybe the Prophet thinks I'm
here to advocate for my daughter have said no, I'm not here to
advocate for. If he told me to strike your neck, I will strike
your neck.
Okay. What I thought too salty for Elma. Illya and for the call to
Allah Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Then the Prophet
nodded let him in. Well, hello, Mata Jaya Allah ha see it and he
was laying down on a straw mat. And I came close to him. All
right, and he only had one is on. Okay, well, either. I'll see you.
A thorough fee Jambi and the hasil had made a mark on his side
for Nevada to be bursary fee because Zanetti Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for either Ana be a cup that in
minchie na saw when Mitla so this house displays where the profit
would go to. Because he wasn't going home. He looked at what food
does it profit out he said a handful of we got
what is the
color further to Aina dot ini my eyes wept and the prophets I said
why do you weep?
I said oh messenger some PSB Salallahu Salam, good, how could I
not weep? Look at your, your your on the straw mat, your sides are
marked by the mat. And your cupboard has nothing except what
you see here a handful of wheat. Okay. And here we have the Caesars
and the coast rows of Persia and the Byzantines. They're, they're
in rivers and they're in fruits that are hanging low hanging
fruits. And you messenger said Allah when he was on them, okay
and you are the chosen one of Allah are in this little place
with a little triplet of a stream and a straw mat and some wheat in
the cupboard. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
you have not hooked up son of Allah Tada and takuna Lenin Cara,
welcome with dunya isn't aren't isn't it make you happy that we
have the ACA they have the dunya
called to Bella I said
yes, it does make me happy. I thought it was a call to Allah. He
entered the cult
do an RFP watchI Allah dub, I came in I knew I saw that the Prophet
was angry when I came in he was not happy about the situation. So
regarding his was the call to ya rasool Allah may Shukla Lakeman
shunning is what bothers you with these women. Okay, now you see a
man who has a fight with his wife, he can't even do anything can't go
to work can't do anything. Okay. Can't do anything. That wife is
the most and same thing and the other side right? But for a man
you'd be the strongest man he'd be the richest man you'd be whatever
it is.
You're if you're if you have issue with your wife, your whole day is
ruined your billions and millions of dollars can't sit fix that your
popularity with people can't fix that. Any skill that you have
cannot fix that you are in a bad mood any person who prioritize
something over their wife is going to be miserable in their life.
If your wife asked you to cut somebody off you cut that person
off because you just do an analysis Angry Wife or friendship
with this person All right, we're gonna have to cut this person off.
Like if she has a reason not to like him. Or her thing Quinta bad
luck to Hoonah for in Allah hammock woman Aiko Gibreel mica
ill what? I know Abu Bakr well let me know in a Mac. Okay. If you
divorce them Allah was with you. The angels are with you. Jabril is
with you make it eat is with you. I'm with you. A buck is with you
all the believers are with you.
Bella Mata Kalam to
medulla be Kalam it because I'm an Ella Jo to Annie Hakuna Allah has
Dhaka Kohli,
Allah the Akula when as Allah tear the hill.
So he says, and I thank Allah Wa Rahmatullah because Allah, Allah,
this is one of the situations in which almost spoke his fitrah was
so perfectly in the orbit of the truth, that his mind came upon a
reality. That reality was so true, it is also from the words of Allah
subhanaw taala City Council 22 times 13 of them are word for
word, word for word what Ahmad said, Allah says, We revealed it
in the Quran. How do we understand that we understand that because
there's like orbits of truth. And Alma was so clearly on the orbit
of truth, that he came upon a truth which Allah so himself says,
As a boo interlocken and uvlo as well and Herman Kahn
went to LA Jara, I live in de la who Imola? Would you real? Well
saw the whole movement in Palma la vida Delica here,
okay. What kind of dye is the versus mean? If Allah was to
command him to divorce you, okay? He would bring otherwise better
wives than you.
And if you make a movement out of this, and tada, hoorah Ali, if you
gather together and you think, oh wives of the believers, that
you're going to make a movement out of this. And you're going to
have to rise up against the Prophet peace be upon him.
His protector is Allah
and Djibouti, and all the believers, and all the angels
after that are will all stand up for him.
This was nothing. This was not short of a dispute, a spousal
dispute. And these things curtain can be unfriendly.
While else would Allah say what malaria could do rather than
recover here, all of us are standing behind the prophets. I
said, because there was some
negativity there. It wasn't just
some what you cannot gloss these things. Subhanallah Shikamaru
propels here, he's on debt, but I'm going to tell you
true or false, you can bring them up.
True or false, that every group that you ever come upon every
study HCA and you can maybe raise the volume on the TV so I can hear
every group every study for every organization, every method read
their biography, do they not gloss over their shoe
and there she will be never have anything negative about their shoe
right or wrong?
Because those shoe they're human beings, we have to cover up their
flaws.
This is revelation, this is religion, what happens has to be
recorded properly. Okay. And here you have it. Now what happens, you
know, what the CSA, the CSA, why should we not have a dispute with
the SIBO and they still have a disputed themselves? Good
question. Right. The Sahaba had disputes among themselves, based
upon their themselves as people. What is our link with the sahaba?
Nothing other than their the Companions of our Prophet, but the
Sahaba didn't had more links with each other than Sahaba of the
messenger, so I send them so husband and wife, she doesn't look
at her husband say he's just a hobby. No, he said, He's Abdullah.
When she disputed him she disputed the person of Zayed, the person of
Abdullah not as a hobby of the messenger. That's why the Sahaba
can dispute all they want with each other
And we can write
a man could dispute dispute with his wife. Now the son comes along
and supports his dad. You shut your mouth that's your mom. That's
that's where different right? Husband and wife are at the same
level this is your mother she's above you. So you shut your mouth
okay same thing with with people in their kids a guy could come and
say and talk all the way moms might do it all the time talk all
bad things about their their kids. Oh my kid is this my kid is that
and then the friend what does she expected to do? She's expected to
Oh, that's okay. Have mercy upon and make dua from the moment she
says yeah, he's terrible. All of a sudden that's war. Okay.
There's a saying in Egypt says I'll make dua on my kids but you
don't say I mean
get so let's finish this off a beak so that we can invite a
shithole out here.
Well, Canada is said to have been too heavy but could well have so
tada Rania, Allah says in this setting in his enemies of Allah
when he's settling for country, rasool Allah, upper lokta Hoonah
says Seda Isha had gathered up all route route riled up
this situation
and she said, Did you divorce them? He said, No. Yeah.
Rasulullah needs a cultural master that will mostly Munna
young Kaduna will Hausa coluna Palaka Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam Aneesa O O Messenger of Allah I was in the masjid and I
heard people saying the Prophet he divorced his wives all of them for
N Zela effort and zero for alfabeto and Nicola to Tala Quan,
should I go in and tell them?
This is Omar sorry, we're still on set and
he said yes. Go tell them I did not divorce the new one. No,
there's no divorce happened for them as well. Oh, her death who
had to have several other one was he he I kept chit chatting. Well,
I did just talk about different subjects.
Until the verb came from his said no Madison, Allah when he was
salam, showing the wisdom here of what to do when someone's upset.
And that this is okay for someone, even the leader of the people. His
personal affair becomes known to people. What is the sahaba? Do we
don't have this mentality of just
like some other groups where we view our leaders as some Masumi
non human above human doesn't work that way. No, he's a human being
if it's happened to the Messenger of Allah could happen to anybody
else. What
the heck, I even made the profit left. So the lava is Mecanim and
acid and Nursey Thugger on Salman as Allah rasool Allah, Allah,
Allah is no one has done the prophesy. Salam came down came out
of the place and I came out with him finanzielle to a Cheshire,
Bethel Bill JD, when there's a lot of sort of Lasala, Seneca and MAMC
Allah, Allah the mayor musubi Eddie. And he said, also noting
the power and the strength of the Prophet, I came down having to
hold branches because the Prophet was in some
natural area. I came down having to hold down branches, but the
Prophet didn't have to hold on to anything. Just observing the
strength of the Prophet. Yeah rasool Allah in the makan to
Ferodo fatty tiss Atawhai Shireen, you were 29 days there. Okay 29
days you spent in that room not going home.
In a shot echo notice unwise shooting a month is 29 days so one
month
because a month is 29 or 30 days for come to Alibaba and messenger
different day to be Allah salty. I went ourselves to the door of the
mosque and I announced to everyone LEM you Tala Crassula Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he said
then suited to him more as
a middle middle me I will hopefully that will be well
overdue. Illa Rasul Allah Allah Emery minimal it may Allah DNS
Don't be 20 minimum for country assembly to dedicate Umbra ones
Allah Allah Who as our July Attack Attack year. So a verse came down,
which stated, okay, it looks like it's an accusation against
someone, but it's not. He says, well, either Joe and me, I will
hope if an affair comes of good news or bad news, they announced
it.
But if they had returned it to the messenger, and those who are in
charge, that couldn't extract the truth, and the falsehood and what
to do about it, that would have been better, almost says this
verse was revealed after I made that announcement, and I am from
those people who knew how to discern the truth and falsehood.
Why? Because he took it from the prophet and he took permission to
announce it. Therefore, this is the rule for all of us. Let's say
we're in an organization and we'll have a meeting. I'm sure this
happens with 10 We'd Institute and everything
and there's an issue
If one of the members goes and spills the beans, without us
having agreed that person is going to be out very soon, he's not
trustworthy. So the Quran says when you're with a group, when
you're maybe in a government or in a state and an affair occurs, that
needs to an announcement. Then do not make the announcement until we
agree what we're going to say. And this is all what happened during
I'm sure we all did this during COVID. You have meetings say what
are we going to do? Are we going to close the masjid open the
masjid imagine now somebody from the board now goes and spills the
beans. Right? And we look on organized now. All right.
Let us now introduce our guests and he's been waiting very
patiently. Our guests is Sheikh Ahmad popal from 10 week
Institute. tsukamoto Bell is from Virginia. He now lives in
Virginia. He studied in South Africa, Pakistan, and Yemen Hobbit
emotes Yemen. And he is now with us today. And Ryan, if there's a
way that you can put texts
in front of his name, okay, if not, there's no problem. All
right, sick, all our hope. How are you? And thank you for coming onto
our program and onto our live stream. Now let's
get to Salam rahmatullah wa barakaatuh. First thing I'd like
to ask you is your comments and thoughts on the this is Bevin,
Newzoo of sudut. Attorney, and we were just reading from
now on the CLT is as Bevin Azula. You're
right, I comment on that as my voice clear everything fine. Good
to go. Okay.
I was I mean, I'm just sitting here listening to this, like, so
happy that Dean is being taught.
And not just like, you know, his because many times people want to
talk about this particular topic in regards performance wise, or
limit his wives in the dispute that took place, and they just
want to keep giving their opinions and their opinions, whereas you
took it, you came, let's let's go to the source. Let's read what
happened. And let's read it from the vantage point of the one who
was involved with it. And so I really commend you for that,
Mashallah. But on top of that,
I think if you just took this one story, you could extrapolate, as
you did so many wisdoms of how to deal with not only dispute, but
marital dispute, and then
dispute or marital dispute when it comes to leaders in the public
eye.
And so I'm just reflecting on that right now, being someone in the
community who is, you know, placed in a position of service, you deal
with this all the time, sure yourself as well, you get involved
in marital disputes. And then you see, I mean, handle it, you see,
like, you know, one spouse trying to get the children on their side
to say something about other spouse and it's like, you can't do
that. That's abuse. That's abuse. And, and one thing that happens is
that if we're coming in, and we may have not planned something,
but it becomes a reality that people may look up to us for. They
look up to you, as a sheikh, every Imam that teaches people look up
to them.
From the outset, in this relationship, there needs to be a
rule for both sides. Number one, you do not follow somebody.
Because there must assume except the messengers of Allah who leaves
them, you follow them, because they they have knowledge that you
don't have to have a position that you don't have. They reflect some
sincerity. That's it not because
they're perfect. Expect blemishes expect warts, expect everything
that happens to a human being and still on top of all that, Respect
your leader, if you've chosen them as a leader, if your heart is
connected to them, you believe in them. You still accept them at
that with that?
Or else there will be no better way today? Absolutely. Everyone's
what's greater following your Imam in the mosque, or your you have a
dad and your mom.
Everyone's mom and dad has words out in the open because most most
moms and dads are not you can try to polish themselves every day and
every night, the regular people and you're commanded to have the
utmost respect for that, despite their words and even their sense
that you see. So followers should be told the same thing. Get your
shield, do not go and put haven't ridiculous expectation. That's one
side on the other side.
That's for the leaders for followers.
Remove your ego from the equation.
What Allah says in his messenger says what comes in these books
transmitted by authentic sources. That's we that's the Sun we orbit
around that. You don't like what Omar said
Make yourself like, he's your Sahaba the Prophet approved of
him. Allah approved of him. Oh, he was harsh. How could he tell his
daughter? I know, the messenger doesn't like you. And if it will
only because of me, he would have divorced you a long time ago. How
could he say that? He could say what he wants to say he is
approved by God and His Prophet. You don't like it? You don't like
say da Isha. How could she go to say, to say to say, NAMA, what's
your business with me? Go deal with your own business. Follow?
She says what she that's Allah approves of this woman, the
prophet approves of this woman, she could say what she wants to
say. Right? Our egos
have to be submitted. And we orbit around the sun. The sun doesn't
orbit around us. Yeah, so continue. I just actually just the
end on that. I was preparing
one of the Hadith for that, you know, we bring the telogen or the
biography of saying I'm going to Bob. I think there was a good
amount of literacy amongst most Muslims about St. Arma. But I read
this one line it said that can it can end your heart and he had a
ring. MK tube when I lay and it was written on this ring Kapha
Bill motiva Ilan Yama Subhanallah you know death is a sufficient
reminder Allah subhanaw taala
just
said no matter as I say nobody asked say no matter one time, why
is it that people fear you so much? He said, Because I fear
Allah. Sorry, they asked to say naughty Why do people fear almost
so much? Say naughty says because all my fears Allah so much. So
that fear transmitted trickled down.
So let's begin now with tell us about number one, where are you?
All right now that that's going to be my first question. And my
second question is going to be where did your journey start from?
Virginia? Where did you go? And what did you pick up in these
places? So there's going to be a little bit of an autobiographical
sketch here. And anyone who is in Virginia, you're gonna get to, to
hear about his Institute. And you can go study there and learn their
Bismillah. So how much time how much time we got? We got some
time. All right.
Masha, Allah, I am currently in
Centerville, Virginia, but basically Northern Virginia.
And this is where I was born and raised.
And didn't leave here really, until I just turned 16 When I went
to South Africa. So currently, we're here we have an institute
here called tinware. Institute. And
the main focus is essentially three, focusing on teaching
foundational knowledge. And
yeah, the main focus is teaching foundational knowledge, having
public gatherings of remembrance, and just being in the service,
specifically, more of
I don't the word youngest, quite relative, but like, specifically
young Muslims who are really trying to find their way trying to
find that perfect balance of drawing closer to Allah Subhana
Allah to Allah while at the same time navigating the dunya. So
those are the three purposes of tinware knowledge, which includes
Islamic studies in Arabic, public gatherings of vicar, right I mean,
I'm sure I'm sure growing up Dr. Shetty, like, or even when you
came back from from after graduating, I'm sure you realize,
like, what's up with all these private gatherings of liquor?
There's no public gatherings of liquor like yeah, I'm, I'm sick of
this, you know, to this day, like when you mentioned liquor, like
there's an eerie sense in the room, if you're in like a normal
college bar or something. And so public gatherings, liquor and then
just being in service of Muslims in this area, I also my full time
job and where is
right now, you know, on the side, but also full time, my full time
job is mocassin. I'm an instructor in my class at seminary, as well,
as well as part of the admin team. So I teach online and I go up
every month and
that's them in the work they do. Question for you.
For 10 We'd Institute where's it look at then we're Institute is
located we don't have a physical building yet but we do work out of
a mesh it called the comic center of Northern Virginia trust also
known as surely get measured in Fairfax, Virginia. And so it's
it's like 20 minutes out of DC. I remember the having lived a year
and a half in the Virginia area.
Six months in Silver Springs, Maryland. Six months in Foggy
Bottom, Washington DC six months in I believe it was Arlington,
Virginia and Arlington Fairfax. You have an area called Seven
Sisters, I believe.
Seven Corners seven
corners, okay?
Tyson's Virginia right. These are all little areas are all next to
each other.
And there's always been a lot of police activity there. There's
been for example, there's been Mustafa center. Then you have the
atom center then you have what else?
Phaedra Fidra dal Hijrah, how's doubleheaders doing now? He's just
doing some running. Yeah, they haven't even I'm not even for Han
shout out to him. Graduate of OMO Cora, I think he's been there for
about two years now. And so they have classes. I mean, still, you
know, I was there two months ago after Juma and like, it was like a
parade like Masha Allah. Many Muslims in that area. Yeah, that's
what I remember. It was like, it was a busy place a happening
place. So it was it was fun time to live in Virginia. Yeah, yep.
Okay. So you're born and raised in Virginia.
When you went to South Africa, was that where it was? Sheikh Ibrahim.
Mufti magnesite. Yes, is that we studied with? No. So landscaping
in South Africa. What are the schools there? And the Madonna's
Okay, so yeah, I was in high school in Virginia public high
school, I was a normal Muslim kid grew up
as normal as you can think. I think you were much more into
sports. I was not.
I was introduced, whatever do new types of video games, music, all
that kind of stuff. And my dad I love lesson was he got really into
to beauty Jamaat, and he went to South Africa for like a big
community Jamaat, I think much shorter or something. Hmm. And he
goes there he goes to Johannesburg. And in Johannesburg.
There's two main schools, two main data rooms, which are darlings
Zecharia and darlin, as Advil and he visits the schools and he's
like, Whoa, I don't know this culture of seeking knowledge and
becoming a Madonna and becoming a half it exists. So he comes back.
I'm in my summer after ninth grade. And he goes, you're gonna
go to South Africa and memorize Quran. And I at that point in my
life, I was like, What do you mean, memorize Quran? People do
that, like, what do you I thought there's just one title we got he
just traveled all over the world. But we talked. And it was a back
and forth. It was a back and forth. It was tough. But you know,
something in my heart was like, okay, so I did one month of 10th
grade. And we went to South Africa and my cousin that time was named
Stefan Liu in Tokyo. He also teaches at 10 Weir. He was on a
different path. He just came back from the Dota and he wants to
memorize the Quran.
So we both go to South Africa to this
big city called Durban. And on the mountains of Durban is a city
called Camperdown, where there's a majestic called madressa in
Armenia. And at that time with the Ebro Ibrahim de saya Rahmatullah
idea knew he was teaching there. So that's the third measure. So
that's the third mother. So I said, third madressa. And I would
say those are the three big ones. There's a lot of smaller ones are
the same curriculum. Are they all friends? Like, same thing, right?
Yeah, they're all same mushroom. Same, same, same. They're all
friends. Yeah, those three even the smaller ones Mashallah.
They're really like, unified in South Africa. I think it's like 2%
Muslim like 96% halal food or something. Mashallah. Like
something big number like that. And then you have Cape Town, which
is a whole separate discussion.
We weren't allowed to go to Cape Town. But that's a separate
discussion. What's the reason?
The reason at that time they told us was like, there's too much and
there's good Muslims in Cape Town. There's too much fitna. You know,
you walk on the street. A woman's going to try and hug you. Oh, you
mean it's like the big city? Big City. Okay, I got you. Yeah, it's
like not being allowed to go to New York or something. Yeah, yeah.
I you know.
Okay. Yeah. So we go to Cape Town to to memorize the Quran. And
yeah, that was that was a journey. I don't know if you want me to
talk about that. Yeah. Tell us what is that South Africa? Like? I
mean, most of us probably have never been
to that country and wondering like, what is it like, how did the
Muslims get to be established there, etc. So South Africa,
I think other people will be better in telling you like, as far
as the history, I can tell from my own personal experience,
but definitely post apartheid.
Most of them, especially these like Gujrati Muslims from the
subcontinent that, you know, decades before mid Hijra there.
They became very strong. They all made businesses, those businesses
made money. I mean, like one of the biggest companies, there's a
rival of Coca Cola called Kui,
and it's like a
soda companies owned by Muslim, a lot of big, big companies that are
owned by Muslims and these Muslims
who came from the subcontinent. They had a small group of them had
a care and concern to take that knowledge culture of like learning
memorizing the Quran, right studying the six books of Hadith
that data or loom culture as well. They brought it to South Africa
and they started small, but they built a lot of Baraka in their
work Allah but Allah accepted their sincerity. And they started
to build these big big schools and now, I mean, any city in South
Africa has a couple dollar looms and their path. I'm talking like,
how far mashallah every year in the in the hundreds, right for
each school.
You know,
graduates, right, it's hard to say the word scholars but graduates
mashallah who have gone through six, seven years of training, you
know, in at least in the dozens every single year, so, may Allah
increase them bless their work, like you say, right, the meat and
potatoes work. Yeah. And my experience was different. I mean,
I just got to high school. So I'm going to this school now where
they're telling me, you can't leave here. Right? This is $1 of
them, you can't leave here, right? Except like, every month, you're
allowed to leave for like, one day and you can't walk around the
area.
You have food in the cafeteria, the food is like the most basic
food. I you know, later on I go though, most of the food is even
more basic. But
I remember like your six people to a room at that point, the only
person that ever shared a room with my life was my sister as a
kid.
You have to take all your belongings and keep them in a
small locker. And mashallah, you're like in class for what, you
know, eight, nine hours a day. And then there's review so I had to
learn how to like read Quran properly, I had to learn what it
is to memorize the Quran, you know, masha Allah, Allah bless
them, I'm sure. They don't mean it. But you know, the, the way of
teaching is a little bit severe there. So you know, had to deal
with that. And
lucky for me, though, is that
I was still in culture shock. And my only way to combat that in the
first couple of months was to go to the library, that library, and
I found on a lot of content in there. And there was a teacher
there. And his name was Maulana Mohammad Abbas swimmer, who is
currently with Sheikh Mohammed Allama in Turkey. And he just put,
you know, he would use asked me to talk to me, just like the the
narration you read, right? Say not in the clutter, I've talked to the
prophesy says until the sadness left, he would.
Turns out, he's teaching Sahih Muslim, that's his job, Subhan
Allah. But he's in the library, he takes out time to talk to me, and
even starts to teach me like basic Hadith. And so that was really
nice. And then I started looking at books, I was not a reader
growing up, I read Harry Potter.
I didn't finish the series, and I read a few other books that I
didn't read. But outside of memorization, there wasn't much to
do. And I came across a book, which was called
My if nothing that we have is a weird title is like what is this?
You know, stories from the mercenary,
Muslim of Rumi and I just opened it and Subhanallah I came across a
story.
And I won't go into the story because it might not be fit for
this lecture. Why is it Why wouldn't it be?
You got me interested now.
So I'll say
this book is compiled by a scholar a lot of Merson Hakeem after some
great scholar in Pakistan, and he had a strong connection to Rumi.
So he please says that he extrapolates a story from the
mythology and this story is that there is a disciple and a teacher.
And the teacher is
mashallah very close to the disciple and everything's going
well. One day the teachers made was female, she comes in to bring
tea.
And he noticed the disciple looks at her with an eye of desire.
And then he keeps watch every day the lady would come in, and she
would bring the he would bring tea and he would look at her with an
eye of desire.
And
this is the point I'll fast forward but he organizes such that
the lady comes in the next day.
Right? And he makes her look very like not not not neat. Drains
rough sweat and, and you know, she's looking frail and
Skinny by certain methods, and she comes in and and disciple, he
looks expecting that beauty He saw the day before. And he like
quickly turns away and it's like, Oh, right. And it's like, and he
in the teacher made the lady go to the barn. So she smelled like
animals. He just looks away. And the disciple just says, Is that
what you are obsessed with?
That's what distracted you from the words of God and the words of
the Rasul Allah.
Right. That's what your heart was designed. That's why you started
coming to class more eager and early for that.
And as a high school student, like,
that just hit me.
And it's from there. I learned about to solf in SN and
purification of the heart.
My first reaction was one of anger. Because I was like, Where
has this been growing up? As a Muslim? No one ever told us about
this. There's always just like Islam, amen. Right. And even that
on a surface level, like, where's this bit? I need this? Right? I
need this. I need to figure out a way I listened to garbage music
for many years. I need to rid myself of that. Right? I need to
purify my gaze, I need to purify my heart. There's ways of getting
close to Allah, right, that are doable for me. And so that became
my experience in South Africa, I began to sit with other teachers
as well. And, you know,
I can go I can spend multiple podcasts just talking about South
Africa itself. But I ended up coming back almost after almost
about a year. And the story continues there. Mashallah. So you
spend a year there? Yeah, I spent about 910 months there. And you
and you did have there, then you came back to Virginia? Yes. I
didn't finish that about nine years. I came back from Virginia,
and came back to Virginia in Ramadan. And in Ramadan, I,
somehow I don't even know how I read the biography of Malcolm X.
Autobiography of Malcolm X. And my after finishing it, I was like,
Okay, I want to finish high school. But I don't want to go
back to public school.
And there was a South Africa graduate, locally who had just
come back, his name was moved to use of vinyasa flow.
He's still here, Mashallah. And he was starting a school here in
Springfield, Virginia, which is called Medina to Allume. And he's
like, Hey,
I'm starting the school. I don't have any students yet. We can
figure out a way for you to do for you to do high school online if
you want to join.
And there was internet that time. He's young.
I'm giving myself away.
Okay.
Okay.
I feel very old.
Internet education in high school when I was in college even.
Actually, I'm not like some of these young Shiva. They use the
internet. Yeah. I did high school through a program called the
American School of correspondence.
Yeah, yes. So they send you the books. They send me the exams. You
take them. You got to put them back in the envelope. Yeah. Even
the way you pay you had to pay by cheque. Yep. So I did it through
that for the next two years. Now. This school was like it was a
Shaddai school or just academics. But this is this is $1 Earlier,
okay. In Virginia. In Virginia, they do dot all them and you do
high school. I do high school. Okay. I do this for two years.
Okay. Lessing of those two years. Yeah. Was that we were mashallah
really drilled in being able to read and understand tech.
Being able to read Arabic. Yeah. Yeah, so I didn't get to finish my
hair. But
now let's move to you. So I'm talking about we used to wake up
at tahajjud. Right, even though we would go back home, right, like we
would sleep at home there is no there was no dorming Yeah, like
you know, wake up at 200 pray two rakaat boom morphology yellow
Sarraf how you suddenly food tax refund for whom was salary for
you know, memorizing grammar, and then applying it and just doing
that day in and day out, day in and day out, day in and day out.
And so I got, I got I got quite strong for better lack of words
in those two years, obviously studying the other subjects of
sacred law as well, but something happens. And what happens is that
I'm young at that time, I'm 1718.
And I find it very difficult.
In my second year, where the hem starts to dwindle a little bit
Subhanallah and when we started this livestream, I had mentioned
that no matter how strong a person is, there will
Always be awaiting. Yeah, everything must that goes up must
come down.
And I knew what the problem was the problem was LOD n, right? Not
too much thicker. Yeah.
Not not as much to Soloff as I needed, not as much solute as I
needed.
And I felt it.
And I was at the slight loss, and I'll tell you a story.
And I'm thinking to myself, what can I do? Do I have to travel?
What is it? And RIAs comes around the corner?
And
a family member reached out to me saying, Hey, I'm gonna go have a
stall at Rs. Can you come help me? So I researched Rs. I'm like, wow,
look at the scholarship for us and Barney's Hanafy. There are other
100 peas in the world that
Yeah. And I see how you ally Jeffrey is going to view them
like, whoa, who's this individual? He looks Manawa Mashallah. And I
get excited. I'm like, Yes, we're going to RAS. I'm going to find
some answers there and figure out what to do. I don't want to stop
this path to Allah. And the night before I'm packing my bag excited.
This can be my dad comes, knocks on the door. So I'm ready to go.
What's up, Dad? How you doing?
You're going on to begin your month for two weeks.
And I'm like, Dad, I'm gonna I asked I asked you about it. You
know, please. And he goes, Listen, I'm your father. I know what's
best for you. I need you to go on this winter break to the gym, to
Jamaica, New York.
And I broke.
There, you got you too. So
oh, man, I broke and broke.
But better lady Dane. Right. Yep. I mean, obviously people can
debate that situation. But will it then you're allowed under his
roof. Right. So my roof. God said, you're not you're not someone who
earns his own way.
Right. So? Absolutely, absolutely. So we go on to leakage. And we're
in Long Island, New York. And my cousin had recommended that I read
this book called Sufi sage of Arabia, which is about the
biography of email had dead. So I was stood on knowledge. I read it.
I think this is awesome. Even though a lot of that book is like,
and I found like, in my head, Dad's books online called, I'd
absolutely read. And I print out the Arabic. I'm like, You know
what, during this Jamaat, during this web trip, I'm just gonna do
out of and translate this whole book. So I do that and my first
night there I'm like, really depressed. I just make dua Allah,
if I stay in Virginia, and I keep on this path, like, it's really
hard for me, I don't think I'm gonna make it. I think I'm done.
Gonna end on graduating working, just living life.
And
short story, I see a dream that is clearly telling me to go to dream
Yemen,
which I don't really have any connection to at that point.
And I'm like, my dad won't let me go to Canada for all right. Yes.
Well, how's it going? Let me go to Teddy. Mm hmm.
I come back home after this Jamaat. My parents.
They were in Jersey, they come back home to we're sitting down at
a table. So they did Jamaat in Jersey. And you did in Long
Island? Exactly. And women do it too. Like your mom does it too.
Yeah. They have like every now and then they'll have like women to
bleed your monitors. Yeah. All right. And we come home and the
most amazing thing in my life happens. My dad looks at my
sister. And he goes, Do you want to take your dean? Seriously? She
goes, yeah. And he goes, I'm sending you and your brother to a
place called daughter Zara in Yemen. Surat Allah subhanaw taala.
I might die just, I just fought so hard. Allah knows like, how he
goes, We're ended because we're in Jersey. And we're at this elite
gathering. And this man comes. He's wearing, he's white. And he's
wearing he's always wearing those like Yemeni rap. And he just comes
up to me. He goes, Do you have kids? And my dad says, Yeah, us
what are they doing? He goes, Oh, they're in $1. A little night now.
And he goes, Well, you know what I sent my daughter and daughter
Zaha. And if you want your daughter to take her Dean,
seriously, send her and her brother over there. Subhan Allah.
That's amazing. And that's just that's tough. That's that's Tofik
and tastier from Allah Allah. So six months later, through a bunch
of ups and downs. We're on our way to and who ended who was that? Do
you know who that was? I do you know, that was that was a brother.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't see why not a brother and father was Well, ah,
yes. Subhanallah that's the connection. He is a jersey man.
He's origins with somebody.
And then he went to Dr. Mustafa. Yeah Subhan Allah subhanaw taala
mashallah, Mashallah. So amazing story. Allah is proud Allah, then
right? It's amazing. That's why sometimes when you leave
something, you get something better. You know, you leave
something because you have to because you got to follow. We have
to follow Allah's rules, whether we like it or not, if Allah says
better, but at the end of the day, Allah knows what's best. And he
can create something that's even greater than we imagined.
Absolutely. So you're still basically like, not even in
college yet. And you go to a doctor most of them
do you stay there? And what kind of culture shock did you have when
you went there? No. Oh, no culture shock. So how was that? I don't
know. I
like, nothing's from me. So everyone's hearing this like,
Yeah, I'm gonna pause nothing. I'm just telling experiences. Yeah, I
got there. And I was like, home SubhanAllah. Like, like, like,
like, everything that I felt absent in America. Yeah, it was
just there.
And it was not easy. I mean, especially at that time, you know,
now mashallah you go to the animals when you go to to them? I
was there a year and a half ago, there's three pizza stores?
Really? Yeah, there's there was no cheese when I was there.
There were no, there was hardly any fruit and vegetables either.
Yeah, yeah. Back in 2001. There was like, if you didn't get fruit
and vegetables, you got an enema at the end of the trip.
A lot of people don't know what that is. You guys could look it
up. Because of the absence of greens in your diet.
Yeah.
Yeah, so so.
I mean, you know, studying in a place like TDM at that time.
had its difficulties.
But
mashallah, and how did you meet? How many years did you spend
there?
Little over to?
And you said, How
did you have a Hanafy? Teacher there? So, so actually, you know,
when I got there, I just made the intention. I'm staying here 10
years, and I want to have your arm up. And I said, you know, study
100 Be fair, for sure I do. And you gave a really profound advice
that I give to all students of knowledge. So if they're
listening, because they can take this. He said, My Zelda Marina
odorous fitness Shafi. So as long as you're with us here, study
shafiqul. Yeah.
When you go back, continue Hanafi studies SubhanAllah. That's great
advice. And that's because at that time when I was there,
the Masters they were all Shafi. Yeah, the movies they're all
shuffling.
So so if you want to study like a lovable SN, then just be chef
instead. The chef is cool. Yeah. And it has helped me tremendously
Although in my second year there mashallah, there was a brother who
is quite excelled in Hanafy. Fifth, and so I did continue both.
You can't lose, right? There is no, it's not a permanent
displacement of your knowledge. You're not going to forget one or
the other. Sheikh Mohammed Vidal cobia is somebody who could turn
the switch on. If he needs to teach medic, he felt he can teach
it. And he knows everything about its guts. Yeah, and if he needs to
teach how to flip, he can teach that. Right. And
yeah, there's no concern and if you're gonna go somewhere, where
there are masters It's a waste to not sit with them and take their
their product.
And then sitting in a in a class with someone who's like what's
called potty enough's, right? Yeah. It was like, eat, breathe
and sleep for the last 45 years fit.
Different. Yeah. You know, it is it's so fun. A lot of people think
fitness dry. Actually, I don't think your students think that
much. You got them, guys and train. A lot of people think
fitness, right? And it's like when you sit with evenness, the only
someone who's like, you know, all that fit fit. I know, because
terrain was known before that it must have a right.
Today we're about trim is where the it's not just me and potatoes
that is like steaks of
I'll tell you what, when Fick becomes something that's
that people love is when there's a connection to a message from
studying a message or studying some now that whether it's
physical or grammar that is removed from you, is really
difficult. But if we have an issue right now, like we're traveling,
or we're reading a biography of somebody, and we need to know what
the words mean. So the language or the FIP, it actually has an
implementation to us. Now. That's the best opening. And once you get
interested in one issue, it'll lead to a second to a third to a
fourth
Next thing go down easy. Absolutely.
Two years. I feel like I'm boring you guys with all these stories?
No, this is great. This is great stuff. So you go there for two
years you spent there. Yeah. So I spent two years there first year.
I'm not almost tenure program. First year is the year. And you
study all the foundational texts. Now. There it's so it's so wise.
They generally do the first year in branches. They don't want you
to be at data. Most of them don't want you to be in a branch. So
yes, yeah. Right.
Because if you're in double, Mustafa Masha, Allah ternium has
like 80 gatherings in a day, which you can kind of escape, if that's
what you want, and you'll go do that. So when I was there, they
decided to do it at the branches and they had one Abdullah Mustafa,
for some reason, I got a hug.
In my broken Arabic Hubby,
Anna,
so I managed to say, you know, I'm in my sisters and daughters. I
want to do FTE here. But some of the admin are telling me I should
go to a village called a net and go do it there. And then I'm gonna
says, You got to go to a net and get the Buttercup from there. I
was like, Have you been my sister, because Don't worry, I'll write
you permission stuff to come back every week and visit her.
Her story. She never found out I was there until our last week
Subhanallah I don't want to I don't want to juggle Subhan Allah,
that's amazing.
So we go to Aina and now for one year, with 17 other students, none
of who speak English.
We are at this small institute called ribat arena.
And in that is the town where Sheikh Abu Bakr bin Salim, great,
great, great, great grandfather who
as his town that he established and then he's buried there,
children are buried there. And the small school is different from the
larger schools. In one aspect. Every student gets their own room.
Now each room is the size of my body.
Like upsell, yeah, like high ceilings. But your body fits in
there with the books next to you. And that's about it. Yeah. Right.
In the larger schools, you have other Westerners you can speak
English. Yeah. No, it might learn as much, ya know, Western is one
Arabs and 14 Indonesians. Yeah.
And the third difference is that you are assigned to teachers,
those two teachers teach you everything. And you.
So are there were there ODOT on the on the loudspeaker every day?
Man.
There were not just a rod students had to do though. They were the
ones doing the loudspeaker. Yep. So I think I was I was the guy for
like, three months. Yeah.
And you just get trained in all these overalls and we're not
talking to word Latif and Roger. You're talking all these overall
in that they had an extra with that the people that may not do
you're gonna love this Dr. Shetty they're extra weird, is that they
recite the Athena the short Athena a shithole Bucha sec. Quran every
day. Jeep?
So it's literally an epi that's like a mini the house. Yeah. And
they recited everyday.
Supanova so that was extra there and then
get the PDF. Yeah.
Okay. Abubaker is a cron, I can send it to you after this.
And so and they have like this way of reciting it. And so,
man, it was awesome. So I just spent one year you know, you
memorize pretty much every text you study in that place, you
memorize a lot of Koran, or on circles of review, but the one
story I'll say about this, and I know I'm blabbering Give, give
once people can benefit.
I got very close to the main teacher whose name very few people
know his name is Sheikh Ahmed. I won. And he was a graduate of
delta, most of thought from the north of Yemen.
This individual so the money he would make the little amount of
money that you would make as a teacher and that most of you sent
back to his family.
You will eat with us. He would sleep where we slept. It was as if
he's if you saw anything. He's a student. Yeah.
And
he didn't have sandals. That's how like, that's how much you know, at
that time. His state wasn't. I remember once I caught him
washing his clothes. And he was using the leftover detergent. I
like falling SubhanAllah.
And,
I mean,
he just gave everything to the students. Every second he has. And
his job was preparatory to prepare you to go on to study, higher
levels of study. And so you're going to leave him after one or
two years, right? All the students, they spend one year two
years there. He sets them up. He cooks them. He prepares them for
the big grill. Exactly. That's exactly like our institute here.
Masha Allah. Yeah.
That's very true. I didn't think that's really true. Yeah.
And so this individual just seeing his just seeing his care.
It really shook me and it shaped a lot of who I am. Can I get 10
seconds I love to latch on my wife, I'm sorry. Sure, no problem.
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slash Safina society. Alright, Sheikh Ahmad is back. So now you
finish your preparatory year. And then what happens
go back home for the summer mom wants to see me so go back home
for the summer.
That's where I started teaching Arabic for that summer I taught
was philosophy.
So I started to like, ice again. Well, you want to talk culture
shock spend a year in Sydney and come back here. That's cool. It's
a depression actually. Oh, man, that's depression.
Stories can go on and on. But it was tough. So rushed my way back
to 300. And in the second year now
my mom tells me before I leave your time's almost up. I'm like
no, please. No, you know, I'd actually be very familiar with the
rights like the pullet know like a couple more years.
And
I this year I was advised by my teachers they're not to be in the
formal program, but rather to have what's called a team class a
specific track to where I get what I need. Yep. And so now I'm
studying more advanced books and
it's rigorous and it's just awesome and I'm getting to spend
time with these like these Hubei if some of them will have it. Some
of them are just elders or you have to deem spending time with
the Mufti of Donnell most of the show homeopathy and
getting to find the now sit in the daily class of having over himself
in the row
and so this just is becomes like a year that academically really
excel and I also get the spirit of Dr. Mustafa which is to instill in
the student knowledge so look and our
our trips until you were awesome when you go to the Bruins and you
know and give some data over there. So in this year
so many things stood out so many stories you know, I got to have
you call them and everyday after though her was fourth period he
will come after fourth period and just sit in the masala started
like this is like this. Okay, and for those who don't know how to
call them gigantic scholar. So basically what it was was like,
Who wants to study more after their fourth period after fourth
period is lunch.
If you want to stay ahead of college, I'm willing to sacrifice
sacrifice Subhanallah and and I'm
You know, read a good amount with him and like class with him is
exactly like this. He hasn't misbehaved on one hand. Okay? He's
telling you to read. He gets phone call, okay? Ah, okay, do this, do
this.
And do this. This, this know what that word means this, this. I'll
call you later. I swear to God one time. Okay. Yeah, two phones. So
ha.
No, actually, like, if I mess up a Hanukkah, he's like, No, you read
it wrong.
So follow this seeing like, these amazing scholars day in and day
out. This is the culture here. This is their life. And on top of
that, people have this claim about to solo about about Sophie, right?
They're not about me.
Oh, this boils my blood.
Right? Because I spent two years into them and Donald Wilson
furnace branches. And it's like, all I saw was the highest level of
knowledge, right? And you might say, Oh, you were still young.
Then I went back five years later sat with the scholars and realize
they're talking at the highest level of knowledge. Yeah, don't
get dissuaded because they do a lot of vicar and they have no
lives and they have and they have happy gatherings right. And like
they're enjoying Dean don't don't make that they don't have
knowledge.
And so you see this, like highest caliber I was sitting on, you
know, after the twice a week shakaama hottie he prepares a
fatwa that he needs to review. And look at the other look at the
other prayed vote in JAMA, they finish they read the head of Imam
had that has been necessary.
After that, she almost had to he comes close to hygroma. Right. And
he just waits for him to churn. And this is now Flatworld review
time.
And if you're close enough, you get to hear so hello.
And so like just being in on that and setting in other gatherings.
It was academically and spiritually. It was it was
amazing. Oh, another thing that was really big for me that year, I
was made
in charge of Western students in the in the in the dark. And people
come to data, most of them mainly because it's the hospital.
People, they come with a lot of hurt, and you're looking to be
cured. And I got to be exposed to that before. I'm like only a
student right now I'm getting exposed to this. And the problems
that these students are having the problems that they bring problems
from Austria from Australia, we've got a bunch of ex gangsters coming
up.
And they leave as like amazing people from America, you have so
many different types of people coming in England. So you know, at
that time your son say Saddam was the principal and getting to see
him interact with these students. I'll tell you a story. Yeah. I
feel like I've talked to a lot. So now keep going. Keep going.
I get woken up at 2am.
They used to call me.
This call me Mubarak, because they couldn't pronounce my last name.
Poor pal. Yeah. You know, they just changed it on the admin form
to Ahmed Mubarak IGF
does it going?
I'm like, it's to a n like, what was I sound Museum? Okay. Right.
And you go and two Westerners got in a fight. They got a fistfight?
Well, yeah. And, and they go, and they have a meeting with sights
out look at Sight Sound, by the way, being awakened his office at
2am in Sao Paulo. And I'm the translator. So these guys are
going at it. Right. One of them. miskeen he's going through
something he loses it. Right starts cursing out sites.
I mean, I mean, Christmas.
sites out and looks at me goes to gym time. Oh my god.
I'm like not. So
he goes to gym. Yeah. And I was like, nope, not translating,
sorry.
And then he goes to me, he goes, he wants to punch me. Hmm.
And I was like,
because like, that's what the guy wants me wanted to punch. And and
he just he just calms down and he goes through and he grabs and he
says
I promise you I won't get upset punishment.
That makes you feel better. I have no issue. Punch me.
We can work this out. We can get through this. If this is what you
need to calm down. Nope, don't punch me. And then the boy comes
down Subhanallah so a lot of those sessions
session so turns out my mom calls and she says you need to come back
home for XYZ reason. So the dream is up. You gotta leave Narnia. And
you got to go back into the closet into the real world.
Some
of the things happened later Allah allowed me to continue my studies
and whatnot. But that that two years of study was continued your
How did you continue your studies now? You went back to the Hanafi.
So I come back home, and it's like the year of heaven. Yeah. Without
getting a law facilitates that I'm able to go to Data awesome in
Chicago. Good.
I passed the test and get into the final year of what of what their
of their bachelor's program, oh, the whole thing, okay. But they
have their masters essentially, they studied the six books of
Hadith. Okay. But Shah Wali, Allah de lui, his understanding of the
MALAMI program,
when he was studying was that if you studied Geralyn, Muscats
musalia and that he died in the hunter, he might have, of course,
along with books in Columbia, Canada, Ireland, lesufi, and
everything that comes before if you do that, you are you are,
that's that's different for you than if you want to continue right
now. You got the six books, a headache. So I was able to test in
and had a great year in Chicago.
Where's the first time I live I had to work to support my studies
and got to sit with the likes of Dr. Armando Abdullah chef for one
year. Just really benefiting a lot. And then
I managed to get one more year out of my mom, she gave me one more
year.
And so I make us the hara, I talked to my shoe. And I'm not
able to go back to the gym. So I got a turkey for a year. So I was
really, really blessed. I mean, so many different stories that I get
to study with the likes of Sheikh Khalid for a slot every day for
two hours. Subhan Allah Now did all these models the mask and shoe
are just there. Dr. Hamza, luckily, before he got some famous
you know, I'd actually did the Moto with him I did
that and what that was
and
and then 2017 came back. So and so did you do what have you have
almost said about studying chef a fic while you're there and then
coming back and continuing on if you fit or did you stick with the
chef a school? No, no. So I came back. First thing I did and I came
back from to teach 100 People school I was weak. So got stronger
in that continue to study Hanafi fiqh, through like recordings and
stuff, one $2 classroom
study that.
Also, I was studying
locally with some other people, then once that's awesome, and then
study the hidayah
which is that book needs that book can be another sign itself. It can
have a six year course around it. That's kind of separate. Yes, no,
no, he there is like you need to be solid in all the topics of
Hanafi fit before you can go into hidayah because the he Daya is
like listens. And if he says this, Shafi and Manik say this why is
100 feet opinion better? Let's go. Okay. So it has a comparative
element to it? Yes. And the comparative element has a very
logic undertone, so you have to be strong and move on to Korea.
And because they don't have the ammo, so they have to go to that
month, right.
We have to what if we take the actions of the competitor, right
of coupons? Yeah. Unfortunately, the revelation didn't come down to
Kufa again in Medina. But see, we don't have I was I was thinking
mashallah, this hidayah is a wonderful, that's an awesome book
that it compares, thinking, you know, we don't medicate, we don't
have that. Right. And,
but then again, they don't they don't have that because at the
time, there was, there was no alternate to look at. Right. So
the coupons are tended to be looking at the Medina's right. And
we get a lot of that. In the theater of medics time we get a
lot of the coup fans coming down to Medina and comparing, right,
because everyone will come to Medina for religious reasons,
obviously, right. But Medina and 10 will not necessarily go out to
other cities, they will have no reasons to go to other cities.
Right. So it's interesting that you said that and maybe in Russia,
what's right, even Russia. We have Animoto dots. We'll have those
books. Yeah. And then we'll tow it out. But in the Mattoon, like when
I'm thinking in the in the Mattoon, we don't necessarily have
a lot of those mentions of other opinions. Yeah, because I've not
noticed is not considered like a medicine that's read from cover to
cover. It's like go from you know, the motto a lot. The long books
that you would dive into and then you see all the debates. Yeah, I
mean, we've been talking about for a long time he Dahlia is seen as a
mutton Yeah, but it really belongs in that category. And because a
mutton is not
During the Hanafi school, right goes through all the
good to go. So he does not cover is not read cover to cover.
He died up in a curriculum, it'll be will be there as like cover to
cover. Yeah, it's meant to it's meant to. But let me tell you what
happens. One of two things happens. And this is a problem
with Islamic seminaries and they're figuring it out. Yeah. And
I went through this problem, and I had a very hard time either,
either, and this is the majority, they will speed read.
Right. So it's like, read femdom. No, trying to explain doesn't
matter. I mean, I've had classes like we did 18 pages of you dying
a day in an hour class. Wow. Like, that's Mushka. Yeah. Now, if
you're like 40 Mashallah. And now you're studying udaya? No problem.
Yeah, right. Yeah. The second option is what they do is they'll
just select certain chapters. So you understand that the way to
read this book Yes, that's, that's the best way. That's the best way
I like that way. That's starting now. And I'm so happy. And for
those who are listening, a Metzen is a short book that has all the
conclusions you need. And the Mattoon plural of Metzen go from
smaller to bigger covering like everything you need to know as a
child. Just reach Bulu about salah and fasting. Next one the five
pillars next one will have the five pillars expanded a little bit
next one will have now marriage and buying and selling like I
would have assuredly has a Isiah next you'll have something like
the reseller which has the descriptions of how to do these
things, buy sell war every every chapter. And then you have amorosi
which is covers all those in a systematic manner. The word moto
wallet comes from the word tween, which is really long, and will
tell what is the joy. That's the feast. Okay, and really the shoe.
They're training you so that you can read the Mottola if you think
about it, right. The Moto wallet is where the shake, he knows that
there is it's almost as if the shake writing it. He says he's
basically knowing that you know your stuff. Now we don't have to
worry about teaching you the basics. And we can go deep. And
you can go into a chapter and he will go into every fine detail and
discussion and back and forth
about it. So if I want a very quick reference on what an AI
means, in Tafseer, we go to see it in Germany. But if I really want
to dive into it, and take a super deep dive, I go to FUCKLOAD Razi,
if on him which he wants to deep dive, I'll go to a buggy, for
example, what was it? You'll get information, but it's not long.
And so, in Hanafi, FIP, what you're saying is that the hidayah
that is the book where you can take the deep dive, and it's
almost you're sitting in a graduate seminar where the
professor says, here's the ruling, let's discuss it. Let's see what
the other math hubs say. And why based on our assume this Hoja is
the strongest? Yeah. All right. And so, and that's, if you're a
Hanafi, you really want to get to the point of reading the Hidayat.
All right, in the same way that in probably the chef A's have their
books, that what they consider moto a lot that have all these
discussions. And also they bring up evidences right Moto and do not
give you evidences Mattoon just tell you how to practice your
religion, then we'll tell what that is where you can find your
evidence anyone ever says to you,
then whoever says you will you're doing this, what's the evidence?
You're not going to find it in the Mattoon. You need to go to the
Moto wallet to find why that and not only what's the evidence, why
that's the evidence versus something else.
And the Madigan Hanafi madhhab have a union
and their union and there's a video Sheikh Mohammed Al cobia has
on this to their union is in how they treat the ahead Hadith. And
as the medic you have Ahmed and Medina you have Allama Al Muto, if
you call it, yeah. Which is Ahmed al Coover. Right
there. There's 10,000 So hobbies died in Kufa. How many you think
live there? How about say daddy and Sedna Abdullah bin Miss ODE?
How can you basically if that's your FIP How are you going wrong
as a method right when you have said naughty and UNICEF sub
deliver miss out.
It's made that their home on top of that many, many, many other
Sybex live there and probably that's I need to go back to them.
Right. So
reading Hidayat if you're a Hanafy that's where you want to go of
course probably has never been translated right. It has it has
been Yeah, we have that Ryan in our in our library
Yeah.
Ryan that's not that's that's bad. You should know
books we have.
Yeah.
Okay. So you've you followed that advice that you so you are learned
in the chef phase? FIP? Two. Yeah. So in Shafi felt, I would say that
if needed, I'm able to teach the faculty worship. Preparatory.
Okay, that's really good. That's very good. It's a good tool to
have to be able to, to bring both methods and anyone who needs
something you could you can give it to them, because you may have
Virginia you might have, you know, people I'm sure that they want to
study chef a FIP. Think the Somalis, what are they? There's
FA, if I'm not mistaken, right? I hope so. You have Somalis in all
the habitat, all that habitat area, there's FA all of East
Africa, sheffey, West India sheffey.
Okay. And all of Indonesia, Malaysia, Shafi you, haven't you
given notice on induction? A lot of our Muslim brothers and sisters
who are like they're not they're not Salafi. They're not right.
They don't they don't know. They don't know much to know what a
selfie or what is not a selfie, right? Yes. So, but they're just
like, all Muslim, right? If you look at their practice it cheffing
that suffer? Yeah, because
it comes from the staff of the school. It's like, huh, yeah.
Because the chef and somebody have a union in which they apply the
hat. It's an equal level as anything, hadith is a Hadith. So
they apply it and there's only a few times where there's an
exception, such as their interrupts such as to I had that
seemed to have contradiction, then they will fit it where it doesn't
contradict anything. But that's why they have a union. So the they
have overlaps in the end all muda have some people say why do we
have methods and this is the best answer, the speech of Allah is
potty and funny speech of God and His Prophet can be categorized as
some of it is explicit, it has one possible meaning others, they have
spoken in a way that has multiple possible meanings that I had only
now of the of the money. Some of it, it also breaks into to some of
this speculative speech, interpretive language has Ishmael
upon it.
And others does not have a huge amount upon it.
That interpretive language of the Quran and Hadith that does not
have HTML upon it, that's where you have methods.
So you could say 25% of the Messiah are going to be different
75 is all the same, because the Qatari will be motivated and our
had no discussion on that. Vani Hmm, no HTML, that HTML side, no
discussion on that. That what's left interpretive type of text, in
which there is no HTML. That's where muda hippo? Absolutely, you
can give me 10 seconds. So shakaama had his breather. I'm
gonna take 10 seconds, I'll be right back. And then Ryan and
Shivamogga will take it from here for 10 seconds, maybe a bit more,
singing the sheet. Whatever you guys want
to ask some questions.
Thank you so much for the stories. And
I was wondering, since we mentioned her dad, and you
mentioned adults to read, which we're reading right now as well.
Something that's big, is taking all these experiences. And for a
lot of people, it's the experiences of our teachers, and
knowledge that we're learning. But what we learned from him or her
dad is that all of this, it's most important to implement it in our
lives. And to spread it and practice it. So do you have any
advice for how to take this earth and, and manifest it on our limbs
and in our in our lives?
That's really, really, I mean, that's the question, right? Why
seek knowledge at all if you're not going to practice it? And I
think that's the difference between a Muslim education versus
the academy. A, you know, if a beautiful book, right, if you want
to learn
and convince yourself of the need to practice what you learn. You
read the first couple of pages that you know was that is my dear
beloved son.
All right, that in that he threw Quran to Hadith and through the
intellect,
he basically just hammers right and says, there's no point
of studying unless you're going to practice what you're studying. And
he gives a good example. He says, let's say that someone says, But
email has led by faith alone, right? We can get to Paradise. The
prophesy. Saddam said Whoever says I'm just paradise, right? If you
don't make Toba, you'll spend some time in hellfire and you will go
to Paradise if you do make Toba, you're gonna paradise. So, so what
do you say? And then email because that he says,
he says, Okay, right, let's say I submitted that you'll get to hear
those, but after how much difficulty,
right? It's action. It's practicing action that increases
your faith and your certainty.
If you don't have any action, how do you know you're gonna die with
faith?
How do you know you're gonna die with Eman? If you know mashallah
all four month hubs, how to pray, but you never actually do the
prayer, feel the spiritual benefits? Right? Then Allah is
saying in the Quran, prayer
distances you from filth and sin and bad things, you'll never
experience that because you're not doing it.
Right. And so
I think that, number one, the first step in applying one's
knowledge is to ask Allah, Allah Am I live? Am I in Fountain
fountain? I mean, I lived in it.
Teach us that which is beneficial to us, benefit us by that what
you've taught us? What does it mean to benefit us? Yeah, Allah
benefit us by that what you've taught us Yanni allow us to
practice it. So you seek help and Allah. The second is,
we need to create realistic standards of how much we can do as
individuals, not as institutions as individuals, and stick to them.
And the third, and this is so important, Ryan, and I hope we can
start this in our communities. Let us read stories about the
righteous and how they practice and what happened in their lives
and the gifts that Allah gave them. They still exist to this day
they went on right now.
Right now, going on right now given the stories.
And,
you know, Imam Junaid said I love the stories of the righteous
because they're the soldiers of God. Abu Hanifa said, my favorite
genre of literature is stories of the righteous. Right? Because
that's what gets you out of bed, man. I want to be like them. We
need role models. And who better than the son of the solid?
All right, Dr. Shara is back. But I want to squeeze in another
question. Yes, please do. Go ahead. So let's let's open it up
to the audience to
bring up any questions that they have.
All right, real quick. Hamdulillah, we were blessed to be
with Sheikh Salman and as a couple of weeks ago, and
you know, Subhan Allah, he's on such a high level though.
I asked him a question. I said, you know, we intend to study a lot
of people from our community, we intend to go study what's like the
greatest advice that you could give us when we go to study? And
he said, really quick, short answer. He said the best. The most
I've learned was here, talking about America. That was his whole
answer. And subhanAllah.
I still haven't figured out like I understand a little bit. But like,
I wanted to ask, maybe there's a lot of people here who will never
get the chance to go overseas. What can we take from our
experiences here and learn in matters of the soul? Woof and
things like that?
So I think I've understood your question, by the way, Sheikh
Salman Daksha, you guys should have a separate podcast with like
one of his students, Michelle.
Yeah, that's if you told me any other answers in that I would have
said that as a solid Jason.
So that's for you to reflect on. Right? And you can reflect on that
answer and Charlotte but as far as, I mean, 100 of that 100
allowed by the by the blessing of Allah and the baraka of the
hydrogen of Madras also, and the effort of people like Dr. Shadi
chick Yahya Rhodus you know a mean seekers guidance I mean, just so
many different Institute's okay.
No one in America can say, I can't study. No, you can study
mashallah, right? Ah, you don't have the discipline to study.
There we go. Right. So your problem is not you can't study
don't convince yourself about false things. You don't have
discipline. Right. So now what do you need? You need good stuff. You
need some
right you need a good companionship. And this is where
you might have to move. Right? Maybe not states but you got to
find put yourself close to a masjid that has programming going
on. Right because remember what we said earlier right like it's it's
it's I'm on that's gonna give you the spiritual benefit, not ism in
and of itself.
So
Dark Shadows gonna say a lot more. But but that's what I would say
there's, I don't want to hear from anyone. Oh, I can't tell you like
if I hear that, like I just I don't want to talk about like,
like what like that means you can't What are you talking about?
Right? Oh, I can't go overseas, okay, no foul you can you can cry
your heart out to me, I'll cry my heart out to you. That's fine.
Right. But we have immense opportunities to study and I have
Dr. Shadi, you mentioned that our institutions are like cooking the
students to go
with the great scholars.
That is true. But we even now like now it's even possible to get to
like almost high intermediate.
It is actually Oh, I'm back on. Okay. So I didn't realize I was
back on it. Is it possible in a lot of these schools and a lot of
these places to get into the intermediate and the high
intermediate levels in these? Even if they're not like official, like
nine to five schools. But the teachers are there, the books are
there, the building is there to do it in. And that's really good.
That's what we got.
Sometimes I think like, Well, where are we headed? I think that
this is life. This is it, you just do this for your whole life. And
you help people get on and learn about how to live and learn.
You know how to make their way in life, until they reach their
graves, because remember, the end result is not going to happen in
this head to dunya. The end really, of all this work is going
to happen after you die, you're going to see the result of it
after you die. Unlike other movements where we could say like,
well, the end result would be, you know, to see the Islamic State,
that's wonderful. But we're so far from anything close to that. It's
not even, there's not even a point to even think about that.
Oftentimes, I also think about all of our work here is a lifeboat.
It's all just one big lifeboat. Because the there's there are
tides. And when you're living in a non Muslim majority country, it's
just going to be one tide after the next it's one wave after the
next and you may grow. But the population around you may grow to
you may get stronger. But the satanic influences can also get
stronger. So, you know, we're always thinking about these
things. Right? So we need these lifeboats and we need to spend our
lives on these lifeboats. But we also need to have a balanced
approach because they're studying. There are what about the person
that you were the person that I was person that Ryan was many
other people at age 15 1415 and 16. That's a crucial age. Any
little influence that happens at that age?
It goes, it could be a life trajectory. Like you can come to a
man who's 40 It's hard to affect his life. Right?
You go to Donald Mustafa, today, it's not going to be the same way
that maybe we went when we were in our teen years, where it's like, I
can't believe what is all this right? And this is it. This is it,
right? But when you're 50 years old, unfortunately, you've seen a
little bit more of the dunya and of the world and you've
experienced a lot, you may get more out of it. You may get more
out of it, that's for sure. At faster and you get more out of it.
But that what you get out of it in comparison to the life that you've
lived, the percentage is less.
Whereas a person may be 14 1516 and get a sliver. But that sliver
for that kid represents 70% of everything he knows. Right? So
who else has a question for sicoma on
the stream
should I should I jump out I feel like I'm taking over your stream
today or something. You are the stream today.
I'm just waiting for Ryan to text me saying Okay, goodbye. No, no,
not at all. As long as this is good for your time in shape. Yeah,
we go from one to three. So it is almost three o'clock. It's we're
past three. So let's take one more question from masscue. Why do some
automat say the macula Dean's difference in differences in one
method is the same as in which to heads difference of the four
schools? Did you understand that?
Why do some are lemma say that the more Coloureds what differences in
one method?
I don't understand the question. So masscue you might need to ask
that again. I don't understand.
Inshallah, all right, let us be in the Lightoller meet up in person.
Eventually. We need to make the annual trip to Virginia.
Do that it should be an annual trip to Virginia. We'll take a
Thursday evening. And we'll go down there to Virginia in the
light aisle and we'll talk we'll see you in person and everyone who
is listening here who's from the south. Like we could make
A meeting point if you're from what's what state is under
Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida. Okay, so it gets really into No Man's Land quick
after
after Fairfax our LinkedIn seven sisters all those areas boom
within 20 minutes of driving down the highway it becomes country you
know huh yeah becomes civil war times right basically, but thank
you so much for having us for coming on the stream. Does that go
Okay. May Allah bless you may Allah extend the benefit of 10
Wheat Institute
far and wide
and may Allah try to give you consistency and let us suppose
live and die upon this type of work and upon kedma of the dean
and the shittier and sincerity and may Allah Tala your whole been an
hour been a Marcia to
make a big gap between us and acts of disobedience was so Allahumma
barik ala Sayidina Muhammad while early he was happy with Salam
Subhan Allah and not a bigger problem is that the MLC phone,
what's more selling? Well Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen And thank
you again to our guests for today's Sheikh Omar Popo which
hopefully we'll have you again another time soon
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