Shadee Elmasry – NBF 172 Increasing in Love for the Messenger ft. Shaykh Abdul Karim Yahya
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What's up, be human? Well welcome everybody to the Safina society
nothing but facts live stream, where we are joined today by
Sheikh Abdul Karim via here, hailing from Oakland, California.
Now resident of Detroit,
we're going to talk about a couple of things about his background and
study. And then we're going to shift the topic to the love of the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and how that is a
fuel the fuel of our religious life and our spiritual life and
our work and our doubt and everything else. So firstly, I'd
like to welcome Sheikh Abdullah kiddin. Welcome for the first
time, your
first time being on our live stream, and hopefully not the
last.
Thank you, to you and all of the participants and the workers. It's
an honor to be welcomed. I mean, I mean, I mean, right? Could you
raise the volume a bit on the TV?
So shook up the academia here, let me tell you all a little bit of a
personal anecdote.
When I was able to go to Teddy, I was very young, and did not know
much of what was going on. And there were two brothers, who were
the first people I met in the city of
in the in the capital city
of sun that was welcomed by a brother named Jamel Dean Hi saw.
Of course, I'm just kidding knows that his old friend. And he's now
in the in Central America giving Dawa. He's from Atlanta, Chick
Tamala G. And high salt was such a, a good host on those first few
nights
where there's robots there in Santa. And we stayed there for a
couple days. I was eager, I wanted to come right away. He said, Just
wait a little bit. And rest up when we first got to Dr. Mustafa,
I don't know if you remember this day.
That day, the first they took me to a room where the Americans live
in and that you were there. And you had just gotten up from a chi
Lula right before the hood, and had a big Miss whack, like bigger
than this.
And, and then started talking to me, and it was very, it was very
rough around the edges. I was used to that. And you're like, and your
name is? And
I was like, man, who's this guy. And then you know what this is? Do
you know what that is? And making sure that I'm gonna be set
straight. And then there was no beating around the bushes. It's
like, alright, this is the tough team here. This is what you're
gonna do, you're gonna do this, this, this and this, you got a
problem with this. And I remember one of the first things that you
said is you got a problem with to us. So
it was like a filter to weed out the first filter to weed out all
any type of person who would have an issue. And I was like, scared
stiff.
The next person was Ibrahim OCF. I gave him more scared stiff, right.
SubhanAllah. And then
I gave to you put where in the level for me as like the elder
guard. And those people that I looked up where we're headed in
this doubt, and then they study him. So I never forget that. And
now we're in a situation where we're only about two hours away by
playing Detroit, Michigan, not that far away from us. So tell us,
first of all, let's get to how did you get from Oakland? To Teddy?
How does a young man if I'm not mistaken, you're from Oakland,
California, right? So I'm from Berkeley, it's muted right.
Now, you good? Okay. Under that? So I'm actually I was born and
raised in Berkeley, California. But I was part of the Jamaat that
is in Oakland, California, Jamar Yeah, yeah. And it was presided
over by a man who's actually recently passed the Mamelodi Musa
and
how did I get to sit in the acting I'm here in the last year I was a
part of those Alka he advised me to start reading an email was Ali
really just fell in love with the memo bizarrely, from the assurance
or translation and he has an idea. And that inspired me to want to
study and this was like, you convert it into this Gemma? So I
converted when I was in high school student in Berkeley high
school and my junior year at Berkeley. Yeah. And then I there
were members of this July that attended Joomla and, and other
they were at UC Berkeley.
And they got introduced to that community and eventually resided
in that community in Oakland masala, Mashallah. Okay, and then,
so, how did you learn about studying? So I learned about so
first of all, I began in analysts alley then I had a sister in law.
Who is
who was
Studying at gem Abdi nor in Damascus, while the man's aid was
their mandate Chaka and they she was on home on at home for a visit
to
to the United States and there was a dnn sensitive held in 1995 and
Mexico at Dar Salam. So I attended that and was introduced to Sheikh
Zayed shack, there was very much inspired by Sheikh Abdullah Al
kadhi. And also Sheikh Hamza Yusuf was present. And the teachings
were very inspiring. And essentially, what I understood was
that
you know, what's described in here, that's what I want to do.
And these brothers could perhaps point me in that kind of
direction. So my sister and I was already in Syria based I began, I
corresponded some with Sheikh Zayed, but especially Sheikh
Abdullah Accardi, he introduced me to,
to Sheikh no Keller and I began corresponding with him and his
wife as well. And then through my sister Allah, applied to study in
Damascus, and then and then move there to study. And then in the
summer of 97, Sheikh Noah Keller and his wife sent a group of us to
team for the first our first attendance of what was then the
third daughter, Sophia, the Summer Intensive entity, shakey, Mustafa,
che jamaludin haisa. And the faqeer traveled down, sent by
Sheikh no killer and his wife to attend that door and they were
introduced to Habib Omar to be by the Jeffrey who would be really
mature and be one much older brother have encountered them and
check on the same country. A lot of those who are teachers later we
were introduced there in 1997. Mashallah, so you're passing on 25
years now.
With that connection, Mashallah. Now, a lot of people are always
interested in the Muslim history in their country, and we don't
have a big Muslim history here.
The North American Muslim powwow was an event that took place, I
believe, two years in a row 1995 and 1996.
My friend's older brothers, all went to that.
And from there, a lot of people went to Syria, and that those
events were there was like a conference but in the middle of
New Mexico, in this
ranch, that was built with a masjid that was built as a Muslim
community.
What's what was, what is it called again? Alright, so that data
salaam Dar Salam, yeah. And I don't know if it still exists. It
exists. But there's not a lot of people residing there. Because
it's so remote. Yeah, so remote. Yeah. But
the builder is the Egyptian architect who was involved in the
home building of the Ottoman Mechi. And he thought this was an
interesting project to do, on the condition that he would build it
solely from the physical materials that were natural to New Mexico.
This was like an experiment for him. And so everything's made out
of Adobe. Right? Adobe, that's like covered with lime. Nobody.
Yeah. And they even they even accomplished, Don's really nice
tile floors, domes, tile floors. And this is the first of its kind
in North America. And it's something built with a natural
Islamic heritage in mind, basically. But this powwow was was
not just you, who was all persuasions were there, right.
All types of persuasions, Islamic leanings and slants, and
persuasions were there. Right. But it seems like the ones who stole
the show was shake North Shore NorCal or was there a sheikh Hamza
use of any mumsy checker?
And then Abdullah Accardi, or the sheikh not Keller was there one of
those years? He was there the previous year, the 85. He wasn't
there and 95. But he had been previously there and 94. And also,
I didn't attend the power there was a dean intensive after the
power button right after. Yeah, yeah. But it was like you said it
was affiliated with that muscle power. Yeah. I think even maybe,
maybe, you know, like you melamine would have come just a lot of
different muscles.
Jamila mean, and a lot of different Muslims from different
backgrounds. It might be even fair to say that from the traditional
persuasion of the McCollins and Ireland with
that is probably the first conference in North America.
One might say that, I would though I would be careful to say that
because I put up you probably put your
Much of league in the in the
category of McCullough doing Yeah. And they've had conferences for a
long time. Yeah, they've had conferences and believe it or not
in New York, there were Hanafy God that he's from Pakistan, who
dominated the Dallas scene in Manhattan in Brooklyn for a long
time,
a long time until they were transferred, you know, pushed out
of that scene.
But there was a desi che, I can't remember what his name was. And he
had some American convert followers that he was training in
Hanafi fiqh and in the Kadri, yeah. And that's in our history
books, too. But they were very quickly usurped and sort of
bullied out of that scene. So there are these antecedent things
where their chain is broken. But they're there in like the early
history of Islam in America, which I think it's important to have
that sense because any, anything you care about, you want to track
its origins. And you want to see where you got your, what's your
taking from today? Where did it come from? It didn't come out of
nowhere, it came out of somewhere. So this means that you are facing
who is in New York as well. What was his name? His name was Sheikh
doed. Face up. Yes, he gave shahada to a lot of the early
African American converts. And later that was spawned into the
darkness lamb movement, some of those peoples his influence,
influence people that were influential in that. And I believe
that a shadow that connection, sadly, and they would face his
shake was the hails from Pakistan, if I'm not mistaken.
I'm not I don't I'm not certain of that. The I'm not certain of that.
I believe you may be talking about fuqra. And they were a branch that
split off in the darkness them and they had they did have a shave
from
from Pakistan as their following. They call them Sheikh Gilani.
Yeah. So those are some early movements that came that came
around. Now you end up studying in all these places in Syria, and
then down to Teddy Miam. And
before we knew about 1999, to resign, to two years and in in
Syria, and then move to, to today in about 1995 9599. You moved in
1999. Yes. Yeah. And you ended up staying there a decade. If the
more than that.
I relocated to Michigan in 2012. Oh, so you stayed there? 13 years,
Mashallah. The bass? Yeah, I had after about five years, I was in
and out quite a bit. But um, but as a base, yeah. Okay, so
I'm sure that everything has one a peak or something that stands out
most, why don't you share with us if I can ask you
something that happened to you and Teddy more that you came upon and
saw that had the strongest defining impact upon you
that people could benefit from if they hear the story.
I mean, so
there's a rolling joke in my household.
That
times when I spin when I spend times with heavy bomber, whether
it's on the road, or whether it is in to the gym, I'll regularly
return home and say that was the best night of my life.
So it would be difficult to find one thing that had a defining
impact.
But what I could say is,
you know, one, part of that was that we, we flew into the airport
on the coast, it's called raeanne as a city, they'll call them
Akella. But it's actually an array on who received us. Have you
caught them so golf received us from the airport, he was, you
know, essentially our hospitality.
So then we drove into the interior, it's about a four hour
drive.
And
and our aim was to investigate whether we could move our families
there.
And when I began,
you know, studying and mental as Ali I said, I want to go find
people that are like those described in efia. And just, you
know, add up be added to Him, live with them and emulate them and
follow their way. So then,
as soon as we hit the interior of healthcare, ma I said, I knew I
was coming back. Then we drove into to the it was nighttime, we
loaded up and Land Cruisers, and then drove to the grave
Given the viola hood in the canyon and maybe Allah hood
and the first night, Habib, Omar and Habiba, the matures older
brother had already had already gone to sleep, sold, her brother
recently passed away. The two of them had gone to sleep. And they
were in those days, a lot of times they would sleep on the roofs in
the hot months. So they were sleeping on the roof of the
cottage, the father of Habima 100 In Salomon VT. And as we were
guests, they instructed the people that are taking care of us to have
asleep up there with them. So we slept with them up there. And then
we got up. And I don't recall Fajr very specifically.
And then, for PE Lulu, we slept downstairs in a big room, with
there was also the room where everyone had breakfast. So then we
were awakened. And it was hubby Walmart, and his older brother
heavy misure. And a lot of the other young students and sadly, we
woke up and we're waking up for breakfast. And that was the first
time I was introduced to to Habib, Omar properly, for the whole lot
to have you mature for the whole lot. And I remember in that Mejlis
just the scene and the relationship between them and the
students, and just their state, I immediately developed a love for
the family, the prophets, I saw them. And it was very logical to
me, I just thought to myself, these are the people I've been
sending Salam upon and mighty Shepherd, for all of these years.
And I love them.
And that was that was that was the beginning of the relationship to
be by the USDA and this little room down below that room. We met
happy by the during that time. And one of the things that I saw
during that visit was I had never seen. So when I as an as an
American convert, when I would read certain Hadith about the
Sahaba and the Prophet say seven, like fighting over his will do
water, or saving his perspiration, or drinking the blood from his
cup. And rather than throwing it away, right like that kind of tie
them in love is unusual to us culturally. I remember a brother I
was very close to said, you know, it's Sunday to put food in your
brother's mouth. I said I'm not ready for that Sunday yet
with that, but I'm seeing the heavy Walmart and his students and
the love that existed between them. And the end that that
existed between them. All of that made sense. I remember that was
the first lesson. Those are the two first lessons I took from that
first day or two and to be.
Now, since you mentioned the topic of the love of the prophets of
Allah what He was selling, which is something that is you read
about it, we culturally may not understand some of it. But also I
want to bring up another point that I always think about, which
is that it's it's a theory, it's a theoretical thing that is very
hard for many beginners to grasp.
Because it When you love somebody, you always love somebody because
you've seen something from them, they've done something for you.
They their appearance is something that you like to look at, whereas
the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is centuries away from us from a different culture. And many
people, myself included when I was a learner in the beginning, did
not just simply did not understand how this is real. How is it real
that you love someone you never seen? How is it real that you've
loved somebody that you've never talked to? And many people also
naturally can't really blame them? Imagine also, the prophet doesn't
know anything about you either. Right?
So you're seems to be you're giving your heart which is your
most valuable thing.
somewhere that has no rational sense behind it. There's no logic
behind this. So hypothetically, I'm a new learner, and I come to
you and I say, alright, I hear this talk. I see everyone's
talking about it, and everyone's doing it. But explain to me
justify it to me, bring it to me in a way that I can understand.
How would you love to this person?
So hopefully, Inshallah, to Allah, a lot would have preceded that
question.
And I would say that really
the way to initiate someone into that is that we who receive that
embody well the Prophet say someone's character and show them
love first.
They love us.
And thus,
that helps them love a lot.
And by loving Allah and loving these Mohamed and manifestations
that they're seeing from other Muslims,
that establishes a relationship for them with Habib so they set
up. And I'm saying that based on a couple of traditions one, and also
experience one, three things if they're in someone in someone,
they'll find the sweetness of faith. Someone who loves a lot His
Messenger more than everything else, someone who loves a slave,
and they only love them for a lot.
Right and the third one hates to be cast into returning cover after
being saved at SEMA David Hayes to be cast in hate to be cast in the
fire, that loving formula.
Those who are beloved to the messenger is, is a means that
initiates one into loving Allah and His Messenger, also the
Hadith. love Allah due to what he nourishes you with His blessings,
love me for the love of Allah, and love the people of my house for my
love. Right?
loving those who are beloved to the messenger, these two loving
him better and if we can say, like in the pedagogy have to solve Can
I talk really clearly about the pedagogy, because if you can, so
they say that a, an aspirant will become annihilated in this shift
first.
Meaning that like all they can think about as a chef, and it can
be, it can be kind of off putting when you meet someone who's like
that. Because at that point, that's all they're focusing on.
And that leads to annihilation in the resource,
which needs to lead to annihilation and a lot. So as you
stated, The Rasul sallallahu alayhi. Salam is somewhat abstract
for most of us, in that he's removed by you know, more than a
millennium, by cultural and you could even say behavioral things
that if we're raised here are unusual.
But meeting someone who really embodies his teachings, is not
abstract.
And typically, those are for someone with belief, those are
very powerful, life changing experiences. And really, if I were
to say, that's being initiated into that relationship,
chain, if you will,
by someone who's really beloved, and embodies his character. So to
get in a roundabout way,
I would say we have to show those new Muslims or people that have
recently come to us, whether they're returning Muslims or
whatever, we have to show them love for Allah sake and prophetic
character.
And these teachings, like at one level, the Shemaiah
are words that we transmit in the Koran or words that we transmit at
another level, there light that is passed on from a gent from a
previous generation to a successive generation.
And those that have received that light
from them that light can be taken. And if that light enters the
heart,
and faith become sound,
one and one taste faith, ones love and loathing will be properly
calibrated. So, this matter cannot be taken as a theory. It has to be
taken from a human. Yes, not theoretical, that could be cast in
the heart. There could be in Shira. I mean, I know people that
they saw dream of the province they settled before they embraced
Islam. Right.
You know, and but it's it's, it's from Alana has gifted to the heart
and ultimately it's the man a heart with healthy man will love
the messenger all of us. So there was sort of a burqa the body. Yes.
And to the degree of the strength of the man, some of them will have
love with the messenger. Yes. And so and two, three of loving the
messenger, one heavy man.
It goes both ways. Yeah, yes. And so it brings to mind the the
concept that those who are living today, those who are near to you
in history,
have a greater impact on you. While those who are further back,
such as the self are the pure, most perfect examples. But those
who are closest to you, they actually have a greater impact. To
set a good Muslim friend for a high schooler, let's say because
the theme of this live stream is for like, I always try to put it
for those who are brand new and learning anything about Islam. So
that's why we always bring that to the
barebone basics, the first steps that a Muslim is going to take. So
for a high schooler like that, or college student to meet a Muslim
friend who is a practicing Muslim friend who they get along with and
they love, or a young teacher
has more impact upon them, then if you were to give them a book about
a robot could do. While we know for sure, aboubaker is more pure
and greater in rank. But it's amazing how Allah has distributed
the blessing that because if it was the pure and rank, is pure,
and has the most impact, there'll be no way for us to get good
deeds, right? Whereas Allah has put people who are close to you
and time, and space and culture and everything else, and age, even
to have a greater impact upon you than anybody else. So it all goes
back to Sahaba. And that's why it would seem to be there is a great
emphasis, the structure of the daily life of such teachers, or
the structure of the religious life always revolves around the
concept of gatherings, gatherings and stuff. And that's one of the
things that I felt was
probably without realizing it, to see the theory of it. It was
exciting, right? And you felt like you're part of a big group, and
you felt like you're part of something far greater than
yourself. And so, talk to us about the importance of gatherings in
the health of a Muslim community.
Allahu Akbar, if I may, just on the point you said of Sahaba.
So just to disclosure, like I was
just doing all kinds of things before I embraced Islam, I put it
like that. I was in the late 80s, and high public high school in the
Bay Area. I was doing all kinds of stuff, you know, and you can just
fill in the blanks there.
So I embrace them, went cold turkey, no longer drinking
alcohol.
Immediately married, stopped having girlfriends, fast at my
first Ramadan. Alhamdulillah. I never missed a day of fasting made
up my prayer will write down my prayers, took me awhile to
eventually make them all up. But that was very difficult.
I believed it was a truth, but it was a chore.
When did it become pleasant?
And you could say to begin tasting a sweetness. When there was a
young fatigue he was he was a Tablighi, I believe he was Sharif,
who just had really incredible, incredible o'clock. And I loved
Him for allah sake.
Loving first someone from Allah sake was what made Islam just a
chore that was a righteous chore, into something that was just
something that I was in love with, and enjoyed. Now in terms of the
gatherings
you know,
find a lot
those days, those early days when the Dow was really, really strong
and how to vote.
You know,
it was as if all there were all there was was heavy, I felt like
have you had a mentor was the mayor.
Like, have you bought my was a chef that was leading all of these
young men.
And anywhere he went. And in those early days, a lot of times,
especially that first visit, we could jump in the car with him.
And I managed to kind of hang on to that lifestyle for a number of
years. When he would jump in, it would be like about at least seven
of us always in the Land Cruiser. And within a short distance, there
would be guys standing on the running boards and maybe like some
of might even ride in the luggage rack on the top. And then we just
go to gatherings with you know, whether it was molded in mustard
soror on the roof there. I remember that gels to the name
needs to move around the various neighborhoods. And I
you know, African American Islam was heavily influenced by, you
know,
civil rights and black nationalist movement mentality, you could say
ideology better to say, right, a lot of our elders, you know, a lot
of our elders might have been former Panthers, they might have
come out of the nation. They were influenced by, you know, the idea
a lot political, ideological, Islamic movements out of the
Middle East, because they had a strong, you know, influence on the
discourse here whether or not we agree with some of their, their
teachings, they influence a discourse. So we were very
movement oriented. And I felt when I was attending those gatherings
and and you could say, events and that building and revival it
really I would say that I was seeing the most powerful movement
I'd ever seen Sao Paulo, in Dar Mustafa and traveling around town
even handed over
to them and helping them out. Yeah. First of all wasn't really
built that there was one hallway was opened during our first visit.
They were still functioning out of kit, the students were still
living in various houses that were in it. And the teachings were in
mastered mode ID primarily exclusively in the IDT, or other
places around the room, none of them in Darwin stuff yet.
SubhanAllah.
And what drove that strength? And how does a person tap into that
strength?
As I mentioned, you know,
once you fall in love
with the shoe, the I found love for Allah sake.
That's what I'd say we have to teach new Muslims or young people.
Like if we're teachers, they should fall in love with us, good
teachers. And how was that bias being extremely good to them.
That's how it was with the province. I saw them and even
enemies. He was so good to them, and just me the emanated so much
light and goodness, that they would fall in love with him. And
that occurs, everything straightened out.
Obviously, I'm not saying that in our case. I mean, you know, people
will see plenty from us, that's not accurate. And we have to be
honest about that.
Right. And there's levels of tuttavia that we have to be very
clear or above our station. But nonetheless, we you know, Habib
described in the Australian tour, what are you doing, spreading the
lights of love? That's what he called his data tour in Australia.
Or what he said that what are you doing here, spreading the lights,
Allah subhanaw taala. Now, you're now in a position where you're,
you're heading an organization, a robot's data Rama, in which now
you're going around, have a center and go around, doing Dawa, and
calling to Allah subhana wa Tada, one of the things that I find,
that is a contrast between all the old days, and the new era that
we're in the world that we're in today is that in the old days, you
really didn't have access to a lot of people who are active. And when
you did see somebody who had something to give to the world,
and to do, they took up 80% of your attention, right? There was
no competition, except maybe IT person down the road here or
there.
Today's world,
there are so many avenues to dilute
what the local person that's right in front of you that influence. So
when you're when you're talking about Teddy, when I'm imagining,
I'm imagining, like an empty landscape, where there's all the
focus can hone in on one individual. Right? And maybe one
or two competitors, around whether they have different ideologies are
the same even.
But today's world how do we deal with this situation where
there may be an imam who's doing everything yet again, boom, I can
go on the phone, and I can find 50 Imams.
Right.
And even if I follow my share,
there's a dilution that happens. Things are diluted now.
And I remember how you were a person could go from from an
amazing gathering, you go home, you go straight to bed. Now you go
from an amazing gathering, it was an amazing experience, by the time
you get home and you go to bed in order for that thing to settle in
your head, you have had 50 influences.
Put your mind in different directions in between then and
then.
Right.
Talk to us about this kind of this this how do we regain focus and
and the dilution of of influence of positive influence that this
new modern world gives us?
So it's ironic, but
you know, I was staff of Sunni path,
which is the first online Islamic Academy.
And I feel that the proliferate proliferation of online avenues
for learning has diluted the Islamic has weakened seekers of
knowledge and diluted the Islamic discourse, not strengthen it.
Yeah, I felt that for a long time. It's ironic though, because I was
you know, a participant.
I would say that we teachers have to make sure to have meaningful in
person interactions with anyone that we're serving, teaching,
inviting to Allah
And what have you, we need to insist on it.
We need to be
somewhat, what did we say? I'm gonna say creative, I'm saying
creative rather than innovative in that.
And I would say for students, similarly, if you really want to
grow, you have to find someone that you can connect with in
person.
And then in terms of the other influences, I would say that
light is not going to do like,
you know, good is not going to do good. And I've seen this a lot, I
wouldn't, I would be careful, I will caution us from saying that,
seeing others as competitors, for example, like when I send
brothers, and they benefit from my hawan, that are on a similar
mesrob. And when I say similar mesrob, I mean, a similar, you
know, understanding of Islam and aspiration, I'm not necessarily
seem to recall, I find that that strengthens those students, and
will strengthen my relationship with them and their growth.
So I don't believe light is going to is going to be detrimental,
though. If a student
even say, Dr. Shadi or AbdulKareem, I have a lesson or
you have a lesson. And the student says, Oh, he's gonna livestream it
anyway, I'm gonna sit at home and listen to it, versus gonna connect
to you physically, that is diluting that student's learning.
It's,
it's a downgrade, it's a downgrade. And I saw that with
people I've met that I taught online, that I had the amount I
taught them, the amount of courses they had taken and completed. And
when I would meet them,
I felt that were they to have done the same physically,
they would have been further along. If you physically studying,
you're praying with that person, you're doing decay with them
you're eating with, you know, there's a lot of other types of
learning that happened that are not just transmission of
information outside of the class. And just because of that, one of
we have a track that's online. And then we have a track that we
refuse to put online, or even record unless someone's sick,
Allahu Akbar, have some of the the sheets that we have here that
teach. And when they teach, it's on purpose that we don't put them
online. And
we will we refuse to put them online, to force the person to
come in. And we don't have a log of recordings either. Right? We
only have if you're sick, your friend may record it for you.
Right? And if they don't, they don't. So that is too, because we
have all this online things. Nobody can say we're not doing it
online, right, you have access, but this thing, so should not be
diluted as a chef a said you should not want to shove a set
about answering the ignorant person.
Or giving knowledge to an ignorant person is like putting a beautiful
necklace on a donkey. Likewise, certain things you never want to
dilute it. And they should only be purely in person, and which is why
I believe and Allah knows best. Have you noticed that the most
remote areas have produced some of the best results in the Islamic
world? Like where what Where is Yemen and Mauritania in Islamic
history? Like it's not prevalent, they're not the dominant
locations, why all of a sudden they became dominant locations for
many of us. It's because you can focus when you're there.
If you go to Cairo, there is a million things happening at
anytime. And 90% of people will not have the discipline
to ignore those things like I'm here, I'm never going to come to
Cairo again, I got to see this right. That mentality can take
place can can can take someone over and you end up being
scattered, right? Your mind scattered. Whereas if the places
are more remote, a it takes a lot more Hima to go there and be there
just isn't that many things to distract you. There aren't that
many things to distract you. Now, I want to ask you this now
piggybacking from the end on the in person point.
If someone was to fly into Detroit, Michigan today, what is
the schedule of data Rama? What's your life like there? What's your
schedule like there? And how can a person just be in Detroit? For
those maybe who are listening from Detroit as is? How could they
benefit and how could they? What would they do?
Give us a day to day schedule. What it looks like what's your
week look like?
I'm hamdulillah
So, this is a disclosure. Right now. I'm in something of a
seclusion. So this isn't my full schedule right now. And sha Allah
till after I visit my own studio, perhaps it may not be the full
schedule. But typically we try to pray Fajr and Gemma, and read
morning ADKAR from the compilation of Lhasa, and then it's not a
Monday or Tuesday but other days of the week, there'll be a lesson
except
Friday morning, we read surah uncaf and a silhouette of the
prophesy. Salam. And that's up until Doha and that's been this
schedule to the majority of our time, though right now I'll say as
a discloser. The brothers are maintaining that mentalist and I'm
typically not attending with them right now. Tuesdays Mondays and
Tuesdays just brothers praying in Jamar together
actually the Koran students study with my son in law, regular they
don't on weekdays. That's, that's up until the war. Couple days of
the week the sisters meet for a Koran reading or something like
that. And there's homeschoolers meeting during the day. But
Mondays and Tuesdays are a little bit slower, excluding the daily
prayers and then that morning mentioned sippin occurs. And then
every other Wednesday in addition to that we have a men's Holika for
for Tula.
And there's some lessons that I'm not the one who does them and
Majelis so forgive me if I forget anything,
when that's a good thing. Now, others are conducting programs
that I don't always even know all of them if I don't talk to those
who maintain, you know, supervisors schedule. Thursday
night after maghrib we gather and read a poem of silhouette on the
prophecy seven and description of a Sierra at the end that's offered
by a heavy bomber. That's agreed with Isha prayer. There's remained
like wild talks that are given admonitions that are given that
occurs between Maghrib and Isha.
Friday morning, as we mentioned then Juma prayer at Joomla time
these days also right after Joomla Salawat on the prophecy seven,
sometimes live an evening program, sometimes not sometimes we might
go out to another locality.
Saturday, same morning program, the whole lesson at the Muslim
center of Detroit. There may be an evening program like if other
organizations or communities invite me I'll put it on like
Friday or Saturday nights sometimes brothers will write to
those Sunday we have a meeting and less than four main volunteers and
then what's called a row ha a lesson in like books of required
books of shemail and to solve and then the board of the reading
right now is after McGraw normally in the summer it'll be performed
our group because my group so they so you mentioned the prayers a
lot. So data Rama is a public Masjid. Yes. So that's a public
masala. Yeah. Anybody could could go in and pray there. And then
even and maybe it won't be open between the prayers, but for the
prayers that will be where I'm pretty much from vegetation,
vegetation. Okay. Mashallah. Now, let me ask you this. When someone
mentions Detroit, Michigan, you have Dearborn and you have that
other town that has a Native American name to it with an H,
what is it called again?
Now next to Dearborn, Hamtramck. And from my little experience in
Michigan, in Detroit, is that there are a lot of Yemenis there.
There's a lot of Yemenis, there's a lot of Lebanese Iraqis in
Hamtramck, so it's it's unique. It's unique. It's unique from that
respect to most places, most cities will be dominated by
daisies with a second after that will be some Arabs. And then you
have the different ethnicities here. You have a lot of Yemenis.
Now why I bring that up? Is that number one, it's probably the
densest population of Yemenis in the Western Hemisphere, possibly.
And you studied in Yemen. Right? So does that is there a link there
that you have a connection with those people when you interact
with them? Or is it that you studied in a different part of
Yemen that they don't relate to? How the remotes in that respect?
So I will say that like the deer Dearborn is its own beast.
Dearborn, Hamtramck, the Arab American community, but especially
Dearborn, those who don't Michigan know what I'm saying? It's an old
community like some of them have anger, anglicized first names.
They have English first names like, like
Andy bigio on or something like that. He's a Yemeni, not a Yemeni,
the Lebanese
The Jordanians? Yeah. So I will say that. And also because of the
currents in the Arab world, the political ideological currents in
the Arab world and like our Ministra. And then also something
about what you know what I know of an Arab. I actually my
relationship to the Arab American community.
Decidedly when I first got here was I wanted it to be Ledley with
either.
I was just trying to come off unscathed. Right? I was trying to
not end up with arguments with Hobbes basically, I didn't, that
was productive. And if I can disclose that, like when we
organize tours for some of the Hubei some of the Yemeni ma Yemeni
influence, mosques actually declined their hobo
because of, again, ideological differences that they have with
the other map held them out, essentially. So.
So I have those that I have very good relations with. But I haven't
focused on that community a lot. The community we focused on are
the African American community secrets of knowledge of all
backgrounds, and pretty much the end homelessness, those are the
areas we focus on. And what is your method? Oh, well have the odd
Yemenis come through, we do have some Dearborn guys. And I just had
this conversation in the last week with a brother that's Syria in
America, I said, You guys need a really strong Holika among the
Arab American community.
But for me, I just was trying to pick my battles wisely and take
low hanging fruit at first.
And, and for that reason, I focused on other areas. And what
do you mean by strong Hanukkah,
just very Yes, strong active dialogue among the Arab American
population, and we need it. But I'm trying to put some of the
Shabaab that come from that population on it, just like me
kind of coming out of a, you know, indigenous Jamaat in Oakland,
having the teachings benefiting from the teachings that I've
benefited from, I have a responsibility to take that back
to Jamaats like that, and anyone who comes secrets of knowledge,
you know, anyone who comes and new Muslims. Okay, now, let me ask you
this. Is your Dawa, organic, or is there a method by which you
interact with non Muslims? Or is it just like through converts and
their families? For example? Yeah, that's mainly it through Congress
and their families in it, but now that we have a physical presence
also by good interaction with the neighbors. Yeah. And is it just
like general polite interactions? Or is there anything concrete,
like cleaning up the neighborhood feeding? Things like that? That's
good, Mashallah. Mashallah. So that's exciting work. And are you
next to that big mosque in Detroit that you see, it looks to me it
was a strip mall that they purchased because the way that
it's structured looks like a strip mall, that they purchased and
established the Islamic Center of Detroit apart from the ICD. I'm
not far from not far from that. Mashallah, because? Yeah, so Adama
should probably be on Google Now. We're on Yeah, for anyone who
wants to go there. It is a physical space that is run by
Chicago academia here. And you could see that Chicago academia
here his Zhaohua is based upon it is directed to who he just
mentioned, of, to love Eylem seekers of spirituality, converts
a new Muslims. And that theme of the love of the Messenger of Allah
who it was Sanlam it comes to you through the gatherings that they
have there. He said he's on a hiatus at this moment or in a
seclusion at this moment, but we'll be back and there are Masha
Allah, so you have trained people,
and they're running the magentas. Would that is a big achievement.
So from 2012 It's now 20 2311 years would make sense now that
you have some people who can now uphold the some of the fundamental
gatherings that'll give you a breather, which is,
yeah, yeah. So that's a big post pandemic aid when we got full time
students. Yep. They were able to begin maintaining the Thursday
night gathering, the Buddha, Juma prayers, whether I'm president or
not, but one of the things though the strong students always go
abroad to study.
That's the next thing. We got to develop more. We need more
faculty. Yeah. The restaurant guys have been sent out though. We have
two guys coming back that were sent this Ramadan, so they'll be
doing some teaching. So that's exciting. That's good. Sheikh Omar
popal the other day mentioned that when he went to tell him the first
time and he of course he's much younger than you. And he's
slightly younger than me.
He didn't go to Don Mustafa right away. I've spent one year in
robots in a net.
And it's excellent. That robots they basically it's a it's a boot
camp or a training ground to be in
The formal institutions such as Dr. Mustafa, where there are
classes, you're expected to know Arabic, you're not expected to ask
basic questions on things, you get that training and I get the
feeling I felt for myself like, Oh, that's a lot of our
institutions are like that, right? Where where are these robots that
people come in? The fundamentals will be covered here, right? Like
the fundamental questions that people will ask a brand new
student of knowledge, or someone doesn't even know what a student
of knowledge is, like many Muslims may not even know there's a
concept called student of knowledge, that there's a concept
called seeker, like someone who's aspiring, which for matters of
their heart, they might not even know what that is introducing
that, paving that road, putting in the cinder blocks have taught us a
lot. So you don't have to ask these basic questions, you can hit
the ground running in any of these higher level institutions. And the
shape of the shoe will be like, Okay, this is somebody who we can
teach now without worrying about their stability. So that's a
similar situation where some of the best and the brightest, they
will graduate on, and hopefully they'll come back and there'll be
staples after that, right? There'll be staples on pillars
afterwards, but to establish that pipeline, becomes an extension of
our programs, right? That pipeline, you're gonna go in
there, you're going to do two, three years there, four years
there. Maybe you come back, maybe you don't, but if you do come
back, there's a spot for you here. So it seems like you're already
you know, a little bit past us in that phase where you have two
students going and coming.
We have students going, we have prayed all along, we're going to
talk to the fact that
we need to build a faculty. That's that's next phase. We have
physical construction going on. Yeah, but faculty component is
more important, believe it or not our membership comes use if I
remember being at Adela in, in California, where she comes to use
if
was frowning at a brother, who he loved. And he said, it's just time
to come back. It's been five years, like we need you back.
Right? And it's the first time you're hearing that, right?
Because you always just think one direction when you're young, you
only think of the future you never think of that you'll ever be
needed to come back. Right? When you're young. You never think that
that one day, you may have be a part a giver yourself, you're just
a taker, taker taker.
Let us now turn to the audience. Let's turn to
our audience on YouTube. Let's um, take we're taking up a lot of
shakes time.
Let's see if you should give us 10 more minutes. Some of our audience
here may not have an opportunity to ask you. Questions again. So
let's now put your questions in in the box in the chat, I mean, and
we'll start taking them right. Could you check the Instagram
because again, I think I left my iPad in Connecticut, to be quite
honest with you. When we went to Connecticut, I think I left my
iPad there, believe it or not. But let's take questions now. From our
audience. What do we have here? These posted in our chat? Are you
going to read them? No. I'll read them to you there from
there on the YouTube channel, where all of our attendees are
right now. All of the attendees are between YouTube and Instagram.
And then we will I'll read them off for you.
All right, our first question is what is the fastest Salah on the
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam that will achieve for us a
genuine love of the prophets of Allah when he was setting them?
It's a good question. It's a common question, but it's a good
question. That's an excellent question. And I would say that all
in any silhouette are excellent.
And I wouldn't say that once otherwise is going to add in.
Another thing is
we should be careful about cause effects relationships and
spiritual growth. Subhanallah
that's a very heavy shake up the cutter J Danny. He said, speaking
to good deeds, metaphorically. beaky law, NASA Well, I bought
them in key Subhanallah I mean, you don't arrive through you. But
you are a must. Amazing Salawat or anything. We establish those as
works out of servitude to a lot. But we don't anticipate them as
the cause of results. About gifts, those results.
It's mo Heba. It's not it's not too simple. It's a gift from
Allah, love of the messenger is a gift from Allah Subhana Allah to
Allah, ask Allah for it and take the means of it. So the walk being
one of them, all in any silhouette are good, but we would encourage
you to do them with
reverence
presence
and to the degree that you can call it to heart, a sense of
longing for the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
we we separate that from the causation, not a cause effect
relationship across and which is amazing because, say it
had been Muhammad. Muhammad has stuck off of Genda. We had a few
Shabaab go to Amara for the first time.
And we asked him for a parting advice. And he said, never imagine
that the the rise of your iman in that happens at the ombre and at
the zyada of the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa Salam is
something dependent upon a location
correct and amazingly that hubby
obey the law Sokoloff said the same thing when he said that you
are now in Mecca leave put Mecca in your heart.
And again, it was protecting people from this concept that if
I'm not in a place, I can't benefit,
if I'm not with a person, I can't benefit and that's an extremely
important Arpita that I believe if that athlete is incorrect, a
person could be at a standstill by nothing but a chain that they
created in their mind. They could be chained by a chain that is
nothing other than in their mind that I will not and you're
actually hampering your belief in Allah squadra that you're hampered
by not being with a human being or doing a deed or in a location that
those chains for those online and those people don't have data Ramas
in their territory in their country and everything like that,
and they can't travel to Teddy, and they can't sit in magentas you
have to break these chains by the name IACA Didya Mata Allah is
capable of arriving you at a higher station than someone who is
right there having all the ASVAB and that's an obligatory update,
not a recommendation. It's an obligatory update. So that
beautiful thing of absolute clarity Jay Donnie Lebu learnosity
Vicki what I can love with the Michaela Anna Sylow. Well, abdomen
cubic Isla Nasu, we'll put them in key Oh deeds, all good deeds and
good places and good everything else.
by you, we did not arrive. But your necessary. In other words,
necessary how necessary to your extent of capacity, right?
It's necessary. So if you're someone who had an idea, it's a
must. So that commanded us Yes. Well, at your capacity, if you're
somebody who's listening out there from a Cardiff and some of the
cities that I see mentioned here that we don't even know where they
are on a map. And there are no shoe there, there's nothing there
and you're stuck with two jobs. And you may feel when you hear
these stories inspired half the time, then depressed. And we want
to break that know what you're capable of doing. That's what
allows you to do, if you can never leave Cardiff and these cities.
That's that's Allah's Will for you. But you can set your alarm
and get up for DADGAD. You can recite the Quran and do what you
can do. And some have said the moment that you do what you can
do, the sub reviewer will soon will come straight to you, you
won't even go to it. And Allah knows best. Let's take another
question Arabic before going to to deem necessary or unnecessary. I
highly recommend highly recommend females. And they I would say that
the scholarship program that I was on in Syria,
you had to have at least a year of university Arabic or have gone
through the courses that Sheikh Hamza Yusuf used to run in the
deen intensives of EDrum. Mia, before they would award you a
scholarship, because what they observed is that people who
arrived in the Arab world in the Arab country without any Arabic
really struggle. So um, I would say highly recommended, meaning
that it's not a condition of Dharma stuff or for admission,
they have an Arabic program there. But I would say anyone that I
send, or any scholarship that we give, just like the scholarship I
was on, we're going to be doing work for that person's Arabic
before they go, okay, work on consider that necessary for that
person success. Yes. So highly, highly recommended to take Arabic
before you go to to any of the Arab world. And it is eventually
Arabic is necessity for success, because the books are in Arabic
tuition is in Arabic.
Sisters and women going to tiddy. Can they go? What's the tendency
like do they have to have a Muharram?
I mean, in terms of their traveling, the issue of martyrdom
is there
in terms of their traveling, some of the folklore I would say that,
you know, a trusted
The group of sisters would suffice, especially on obligatory
journey like that. When they are their mom doesn't have to remain
with them. I have three daughters that are there. Now they're
studying in Dar Zara, which is a sister school of Dharma stuff. And
basically, a woman who will be there that's not with her husband
or parents has to be a boarding student, just like a young man
actually, to unmarried men don't live outside of Donald stuff.
They're boarding students. So basically, you're in normal stuff.
Or in the case of the ladies, Doris O'Hara, which is a boarding
seminary for young Muslim women.
Good.
What was the question on what is your favorite on Instagram? Right?
That's funny. People are asking questions. I don't even have an
Instagram. Yeah, sure. My guess but I just, I can't keep up
daughter, my daughter and my husband.
Okay, she, okay. This question was saying, Go back up. Oh, that was a
comment. So this question, high schoolers, their age 1516. They're
so busy with school. And we know and I wonder to be honest with
you, my, my wife, she works in the summer school. Not she works.
She's a very, she's the high level administrator in Islamic school.
And we support all the Islamic schools.
Alright, of course, I support hers, first and foremost. But
I always say this, I'd make these macro critiques. They're macro
problems. It's not really that it's a real problem, but no one's
gonna solve it. I just wonder you went to school for eight hours?
What's the value of homework for another four hours? I don't
understand. What were you doing in the school? Right? They were
supposed to teach you there. But one of the moms is bringing up a
question. Boys Girls 1516 years old, their entire life is
dominated by high school.
Where is the time for the dean? Can you give us some advice on how
to, to what high schoolers can do you have raised many kids?
Mashallah. And did any of them go to a school?
Not that kind of not that kind, right.
Where they're their life is dominated by a school, right? No,
actually, no, some of them did. Some. I have some some of my kids
that were in Islamic school. Yeah, you see that their agendas
dominate, I will say, I would say that our family agenda should be
dominated
by Allah subhanho wa taala. Our seeking Allah should dominate our
lives and our households and should permeate everything in our
households.
The first expression of that is a prayer should be an event for the
family. We talk about gatherings, our family should have gatherings
that they attend.
Our children should have a rod that they do.
You know, like for for our family. If we're out in the evening in the
car, it's not uncommon. We're going to be reciting lots of other
than never had that. My high school aged daughter daughter,
it's part of it as a fact of the community. She resides in
the Yeah, so this is an isolator that's in the States right now.
She She this one chick Yeah, has committed in in Allentown,
Pennsylvania. She recites regularly wear to the teeth.
They regularly volunteer and she does isn't a school that's like
online. It's it's a blended learning, you know, online Islamic
school, blended learning thing. But they volunteer for the
retreats here, the boys that are here with me, take them to the
prayers, they help clean up daughter Rama. They pass out the
coffee and the mood and the mood and the gathering on Thursday
night. We should live. You know when I came back. I don't know
where the question resides. But when I came back in 2012, and I
was working in the suburbs, you know, what I observed in the life
of a typical good Muslim, in an American suburb is that they were
fitting a lot into their schedule, rather than making their schedule
about Allah. Right, and fitting everything else into that. And I
would say that we all have to make that shift and our children should
live that with us. That Allah is not just something that is
squeezed into our schedule. Our whole schedule is about our
relationship to Allah. And you know, we fit everything else and
based on that priority.
Some people have stronger personalities and stronger
influence. You can have the strongest personality in the world
but the circumstance doesn't suit you. You can have a strong
personality and your Allah has given you the permission or the
ability to mold
your circumstance? Based on your answer, I would say that, at the
very least, if you could have your family recite certain things at
certain times, such as the ODE of the evening, to be recited
together as a group
after Salah Tonatiuh or another, the sedative cuff, it should be
made sure everyone in the house recites it, whether you do that
together, or individually. The message should be something that's
attended at least twice a week. And there should be at least one
class attended in the masjid
at least once a week, if you have those capacities, like I said,
some of you out there may not have any of these capacities, but you
do have some capacities. And I believe that a Muslim in this day
and age has to be a scrapper, a junkyard dog. We don't have the
world does not catering to you, is not the Ottoman Empire. Where then
is and mysticism is flowing through the air. No, this is a
secular grungy world. And you have to be a fighter, if you want this
team, you got to be a junkyard dog that's gonna jam in a weird tear
and jam it in. I don't care what happens, right? And people have
tough lives out there. And this era is going to only produce tough
Muslims. You can't be a soft Muslim, you can be soft in your
personality, but in your convictions, you cannot be a
softy. Okay. You cannot be soft, the secular world will run you
over will attract your kids. You have to fight that stuff. Right?
You have to say no to that stuff. Oh, my friend is doing such and
such. Well. We don't do this period. discussion is over. Good.
And but you have to replace it with something else with a lot of
love and something that they love. So for those who are out there,
like ZIL doesn't, it's all about real life. Yeah, real life meaning
the secular world that's dominated over us.
Okay.
Last question, is common, or that's an author. No, this was a
commenter this? Yeah, I wouldn't say no to all of that. And not to
make it difficult.
That, like people will tell me things all the time that they'll
say that's the reality of real life. And honestly, I don't
believe that, who said it as you can change, like some of it, like
what we were talking about ASVAB. If you if you place cause and
effect and circumstance, if you give it more than its do it in
prisons, you
you know, like, we had a talk, it's on our Facebook page, and the
man who's he's trained the most manner, the English speaking
seekers of knowledge I've ever met. And they're not before I met
them, we wouldn't call them seekers of knowledge. They were
just manually, you know, indigenous African American
Muslims that were very man or they and really loved a lot as
messenger and just great material for education. He talks about a
woman who I knew her as a teacher in high school, she packed up her
whole family, seven kids in a car and drove up to Detroit because
there was a Muslim school there and they wanted the kids in Muslim
schools, you know, and they were residing with another family for a
while. And her son is one of my main volunteers and to act two of
her sons to her son's a main volunteers that are contributors
to the community. That are some of those beautiful people you ever
want to meet.
You know, you don't have to give in and what people are saying is
reality. You can make dramatic changes. And I'm not saying
someone who can't make that Allahu Akbar. But you know, it may have
to it may entail relocating man to sell my stuff and going somewhere.
Well, let me add this, in closing the nine to five work week.
Monday through Friday, nine to five. It's It was invented by
Henry Ford. We know who invented the idea. Right? A human being.
And it's not an old idea. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's
that's I mean, his his his plants right down the street is houses
right down the street, I could go visit as his graves actually not
far from America. It's not an old idea. So how do we say that that's
reality, you change reality, or change what people think is their
reality.
Everything that we see around us, including our conception of time
was begin in the imagination of somebody or in the mind of
somebody. And they had the boldness to say, Hold on, I could
actually reach in and change things and I can make this happen.
And a guy like Henry Ford did things like that, right? So every
reality that we think is the reality it is it isn't an
invention, and innovation in action of a human being no
different than us.
And we may end those pioneers. It's pretty lonely to be a
pioneer, right? But eventually things catch on
If we all live this life where the Hijri calendar
takes precedent, the Ramadan is when we take off. If not, then the
last 10 Nights At least that's how we use our vacation time.
Friday at the end, there has to be time for that. So we established
these things. You may be lonely in the beginning, but it will catch
on. And this is something guaranteed to catch on because
this is not in innovation. This is the schedule that Allah has
established for us, right? And if you're lonely, Allah will send
angels to send you people to keep you company and get the ball
rolling in altering the way we live day to day daily life and not
being subjected.
enslaved to these things. In every workplace, there was some guy who
said, Hey, I need an extra hour for Joomla and he got it. Right
things like that. So last question is can we do that out loud after
salah and the answer is yes, let us be Derek. And actually the
prophesy sent him it's me, Miss noon, that the prophets I seldom
did vicar that was loud after Salah to the point that if not
best when he used to hear it is I missed the gym. Ah, it's instant.
So he Bukhari book of event chapter of the Quran behind Salah
will end with one last question, what does it say right? How do you
stay steadfast on progressing in your spiritual journey in times
where it is becoming difficult?
They are second person singular, I visit my shoe. That's what I do.
Revive the visitation. Yeah, revive the visitation. Subhan
Allah reminds what mimetic said that Muhammad who Kegel was was
was was a person that
if that he said that I would visit him once a month,
and then the my heart would would be revived, you know, for 40 days
or something like that, I would visit him and my heart would be
revived. So, or he would say that if if I if I disliked my my neffs
and this was the early words before the early terminology
before the official terminology like rust on the heart and things
like if you look in the self, they had different terminology to
express the same thing is that if I disliked my knifes, like Ankara
to Neff C, meaning I don't like my state I rusty I visited Muhammad
and then when I look at his face, and that holds me for 40 days
mandala.
So shake up the academia, we kept you for more time, and we are
taking you away from us. It's an honor. Yeah, it's an honor. It's
an honor for me. And if sha Allah will not be the last time we
visit, and we can build upon these discussions every time we talk.
Does that go out there and thank you so much. Thank you so much.
Thanks to your team and all of the attendees replace you all in the
last year. I mean,
they didn't know how to do it so.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen.
And both knees here. I like this look, actually, it's pretty
unique.
It's up it's you Time now for the commenters for the YouTubers. And
for the Instagramers Should we go with the double look? What about
four?
Many says it's all about your intention. Yes, seeing says many
says a great point Where is your husband have been Billa have a
good opinion of ALLAH SubhanA which Allah Allah will not demand
something of you, then put you in a jail where you can't achieve it.
I'm telling you, it is so important. The VIP of s Bab
s Bab do not arrive us at our destination, and we simply have to
take what we can.
What I do let him miss dotato Mikko Allah says about about the
army and the military says that
when you go to war as Muslims, prepare whatever you can have
strength,
right? What you can, but everything you can't, that's where
we said sit is so important. Sit is to leave no stone unturned. You
may have five stones, another person may have 50 stones. Another
person may have mountains, at their at their disposal.
The one with the most sick because the best one I'm telling you. I'm
telling you the one the prophet has had he, messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, out of every dark abroad Muslimah every
dark dusty village comes the brightest hearts
because these people have so little to work with
Right. And they do it.
And when they do it, they're sick and their Eman develops. But I
guarantee you there are Shabaab in Damascus Syria, where there are
567 magentas a week within walking distance or cert cab ride.
They go to zero.
And if they see it, they don't they take it for granted.
Those people can never be How are you gonna help them? You have it
right there and you don't take it.
But the prophet said from every Dustin dark and dusty village,
meaning this half they have nothing yet their workers their
strivers. You ever see in the in the finance community, they talk
about people who inherited their wealth, they despise them.
Right? In the New York millionaire community, who I know one of those
guys. And every once in awhile we talk He's a wonderful Muslim
brother, right?
And he said, he says we have a word for them, but I can't say it.
It's foul language. Basically, it's a curse. The people who just
inherited the wealth and they're just, they never got down and
dirty. They never faced being on the cliff.
Some of us and some of you out there, they imagine or face that
they're on the cliff every day. Every day, we're weak, and we
might I might lose my kid, I might lose myself. So what does that
develop inside of you? A mentality of of a scrapper of a hard worker
of somebody who will not leave a single opportunity will never take
anything good for granted. Those are the best of people.
Those are really the best of people.
menos Zeki, what are the best ways to bring your kids from an early
age to the dean? Well, first of all,
cut off the bad influences.
There was a Turkish chef the other day, and he said he was sitting in
his son had a TV on and his son said that the character in the TV
set, banged his foot and said it's my right bangs his fist on the
table that it's my right to some other kid or some context or
something.
says not 24 hours later, at the breakfast table. The kid four or
five years old, says to his dad, it's my right. He's like that's
what happened. The transmission happened the transmission of bad
happened. So he saw the transmission with own twice so cut
off the bad. First attack Leah Kubla. Talia, these are two words
some people say what should we write down from the live stream or
remember write this down at Tech Lea Kabul Atelier and the
difference between Talia and Talia is one dot, the QA versus the hat.
Tech Leah means the emptying. And Talia means the sweetening.
So you don't put a beautiful drink in a dirty cup common sense. You
don't put wonderful food in a dirty plate. Common sense tells
you that right? So cutting off the bad influences, because there is
no value in nullifying your good deeds with bad deeds. Okay.
There's no value in nullifying your deeds. So cut off the bad
influences. Disney YouTube Kids has a lot of bad influences. You
look at this stuff. At the very least it's a waste of time. Okay,
at the at the very least. Okay. And it could get worse than that.
And then the, if they go to schools, remember, I don't mean to
give you depressing news.
But I always have to tell you what happened in Islamic history.
When the French took over, and the British took over, they
established the best schools across West Africa into Egypt, in
Syria and Iraq. What did the scholars say? They gave thought to
a by prohibition of sending your kids to be educated by non
believers for eight hours a day. Then you wonder what why his head
is different. Why his heart is different. Right? They issued
prohibition in those countries.
Imagine now in these countries, and you have plenty of homeschool
options. If you can't stay home. Let me give you an option.
You got a whole bunch of homeschoolers, you rent out the
local Masjid. You hire an administrator, you pay them 20
bucks an hour.
They set up a couple tables. Every kid comes with their computer,
their laptop takes their own schooling throughout the day in
the masjid while you go to work.
That's how they do it. And that becomes a team's an online little
bubble where everyone's doing their own thing, but that least
they're together. At least they're socializing, right? They're eating
lunch together. They're praying so out together, they're with other
Muslims at the very least, physically there and then they
could
They can build on that or they can keep it as simple as possible. So
my first advice to the kids is, kids don't need a lot their
fitness clean.
Their fitness clean. Like how do we get the rain to be better?
We'll stop polluting the sky. That's it.
The rain will come down naturally good.
You can just take rain in the old days. What did they do? You take
rainwater, you drink it today, you do that you spit it out. It tastes
so bad. Rainwater is the dirtiest water that you could have. You
never drink it, right? It's it tastes so bad. So what's the
solution? stop polluting the sky. That's it. Children are on the
fitrah you don't need much a little bit of exposure here and
there to the house of Allah and to the advantage of the Quran.
Their hearts are clean so keep them keep them clean
well, yeah, come to all those who liked the interview and
hamdulillah the interviewee was also had a lot to say that's
that's why hamdulillah was a great hour.
Can we pray in a busy masala while people are praying without having
a sutra between the rows? Yes, inshallah. That's fine.
The first dhikr of the Habib of Yemen is Al Worden Latif, every
morning and aratiatia here every evening.
In RUCO, and sujood. Can we make any tests to be yes, any any tests
via is acceptable? Subhan Allah Byham de semana Subhan Allah
subhana Belavia VMs I'm gonna be at Allah. All that is fine. Let's
go to 10 zealots question on Is there a specific group via for a
person experiencing blockages in life like marriage, et cetera, et
cetera?
Yes, the vicar for that is what I'll be in the demands Delta 11
hydrophobically If your goodness in life is being blocked from you
for some reason, you have to examine your sins first of all
examined maybe that your parent is making not happy with you examined
maybe that your disk is not halal? Examined maybe that
someone you have oppressed somebody?
All of those and then after that, you should say don't be in the
demands Delta la McLean and fuck it. But go back to the fifth
books, go back to the books of law and see where did I go wrong, they
should not be blockage here.
Do I should be answered as a default.
Especially now it's also because even saying something as simple as
Allahu Akbar and the teacher would report the child to prevent. In
England they have this thing called prevent, we need the update
on Prevent actually, right, because I don't I actually don't
know
what the status update is on them.
Prevent is an organization that hits it's a way for for
ostensively or the claim is for the British government to make
sure there's no in homegrown radicalism.
And we're not interested in radicalism of taken over a
government.
We're interested in the radicalism of purifying our minds and our
hearts from the filth of the pop culture that's
permeating
and polluting the world. It's a mono culture to us that is filthy
and it's bliss and it's ruining our greatest happiness, which is a
clean heart.
Removing sad Can you do a podcast on removing set?
Another question says sous Ella says I mentioned distribute Brahim
OCF.
And he had a smile on his face. When I told him I listened to
another effects. I need to invite him.
Yeah, can you invite him next?
Yeah, we it's it's hard to find their context, but we should be
able to get them.
Who are the best view for interpretation of dreams allow
Adam Schiff in Chicago? Donald Kasam.
I'm Neil Kawada. If you have contact it's hard to contact.
Mets in every cell of Ibiza aid can I read of it without a
teacher? Or should I seek one first? Yes, you can read it
without a teacher. But just keep in mind that some things are not
the Massoud of the Maliki method been there. But yes, there's no
harm in reading teacher but there is.
Keep in mind there is a mistake in the Octi the chapter where he says
on the throne with his essence
that is not any expression that came in the self or the health
All right, right, give me a question.
Cultivating a love for Allah and the prophets of Allah Hoody was
sown in your heart as an adult, when you did not have that as a
child, cultivating a love for Allah and His messenger. Well,
we'll remember what he said, If you cannot find somebody who is a
spiritual figure, religious figure, a scholar, a learned
person who is lovable. That's really the key.
So you remember when you're young they say to you, what do you want
to be when you grow up?
That's actually not the best question. The best question is,
Who do you want to be like when you grow up?
Because humans love humans. If you notice anything that human beings
get any technology what do we do we socialize it right away.
Anytime that one person dominates over us, right? We want to break
that down and be more close to equal than human beings love to be
with one another.
And
the real question is who do I want to be like? So you got to ask
yourself the question you got to search for that personality that
person
in the Islamic Devil World that you feel like wow, this person
this person they wake me up they inspire me they we click with this
person.
Okay, that to me is the best route to get that flame going. It's got
to be by a human being and in our world it could be by videos.
It could be by videos.
What else he got right
here's Mohammed Aslam, we have faced a lot of difficulty getting
the community into the Masjid. We have weekly programs and young
adults but it's so difficult to any advice. How does the masjid
look? How does the person feel when they're rolling up to that
message driving up to that Masjid? Right.
I can tell you for myself mbyc was a place every time I turn
into the the ramp that leads to the street that are Masjid New
Brunswick Islamic center was on on Livingston Avenue.
My heart would tighten up that first year. This was 2012 the
spring and summer of 2012.
And I realized I hate being here.
Why? It's the Masjid. You should love being here. Yeah, but I'm
also human being is terrible. It was a warehouse
that you just walked into like a warehouse door. Basically, that's
what it was like.
And just concrete. Concrete on the outside, you walked in, you turned
on the lights and had long white beams. It all remember those what
those white beams look like when you go to Walmart. When you look
up, they're just white beams. They don't even bother putting a panel
and on top of the white beams.
You go in you have like medical office rugging the carpeting of a
medical office. And I just said to myself and I didn't I was young I
did not know how things worked or what the budget was or things like
that.
I just despised
physically despise being here. Right. So
hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. The community
permitted me and they let me go on a rampage
of renovating the place. Right and we renovated the place and we
altered the lighting of the master. That was the first thing
we did. I'm telling you, we added an extra switch and added soft
white lighting on a different switch from the white lighting.
You cannot imagine the change of mood that happened on the spot.
You're not going to Home Depot. When you go to the masjid if it
feels like you're going to Home Depot, that's a problem. You're
not going to the dentist office. If it looks like a dentist office,
that's a problem. Okay, you're going to a place of spirituality.
And the lighting has to do with it. Then we all then we started
putting in some life by way of some plants and we put a planter
out on the outside, put some IV going up the walls, right.
It's extremely important to love the to physically love the space
that you're going to
and want to be there with your body. It's not superficial at all.
It's extremely practical because human beings will love it. They
would want to be there
And they'll feel good about being there. And how people feel is
objective is not always subjective. You put a person with
harsh white lights, they're gonna want to leave. Why do they torture
people with harsh white lights in prisons? But you go to the top of
the line restaurants what are the lighting look like?
soft white lights, top of the line restaurants show me one top of the
line restaurant with a beam, those beams going across the top. Never
gonna happen, right? So it's extremely important to alter and
to fix these these things.
Maybe that's why people don't want to go. Secondly, what do people do
when they go and where are they sitting? And what's all of that?
Are they comfortable when they go there? Right? And what are they
doing? So sometimes eating, it's really the way to go. Bringing
people together I always joked that we're like the mafia and be
our crew and the mafia. There's two things if you made a if you
follow us around with the camera and you follow the mafia around
with a camera, you can compete how much we're eating, right? Because
most of our gatherings surrounded around there's some food right
now the mafia every mafia movie is the guy making the pasta right?
Someone's stirring the sauce. Yeah, sitting at a booth at a
restaurant getting steak handed to him.
Marvy choices, what should be the thought process for choosing a
method?
Well, very simple. You are educated, you can read, you can
study the and this is something that you should write down as a
nugget of knowledge that's extremely important. The HD head
of the Mocha lit. In other words, the scholarly effort of the non
scholar is to read and study and decide who is what, who most
worthy of following.
Okay? Who meaning which mm. Which methodology. There are two amazing
books that may cost you a pretty penny. The first one is Mohammed
Abu Zara's book on the four Imams. The second one is Djibouti had det
g f had dad's book on the four Imams, you will read the
biographies and the methodologies of the four Imams there.
Your HG head remember what is a common Muslim? A common Muslim is
simply someone who is not professionally trained in Islamic
law.
That's it does is a common Muslim, a dummy? No. A common Muslim has a
brain.
Right? We all have brains. These days, everyone has opinions and
everyone has analytical capacities.
Your job
is to do with you use your brain to determine which oncologist is
right for me.
Right? And when you get cancer, what do you do? When do you use
your brain when you get cancer? The yet the family around, and
then the wife will be sitting there or the daughter? And they'll
say listen, I talked to everybody. There are four oncologists that
are good. Here are the pros and cons of each one.
Let's go to one, let's pick two, we'll go to one, go to a follow
up.
Compare the visits. So you eliminate two and then you go to
two.
And then you finally pick one, once you pick one, what do you do?
All right, tell us what to do.
You don't use your brain anymore in respect to the am I going to
follow him or not? You already chose what the oncologist is going
to tell you. All right, your situation, here's the situation.
You need this treatment, this treatment, this treatment. Okay?
He's you use your brain in asking, Okay, explain to us, what's the
value and the benefit? So that's where you use your brain, but you
don't use your brain and say to him, alright, I'll let you know
what we decide. No, you've already decided on him. Right? You use
your brain to ask for the evidences or to ask for why or to
understand. So I can have a better understanding what's going to
happen to my body.
But you don't say to him alright, I'll let you know if we're going
to do the radiation next year or not next week or not? No, you've
already decided on him you're doing the radiation, or else
what's the point of the decision? We mocha leads calm and Muslims we
use our brain to determine who is the most worthy of following our
Hanifa Matic Shafi Ahmed, and their methods, their methods,
their methodologies. Does it make sense to you you can read this you
can study this. Now once I've stopped I make my decision.
I'm may use my brain and I may not. I may say listen, just give
me the manual. Like if I if I was to go to a doctor, I don't
understand. I don't have time I'm sick. Just Just tell me when I'm
coming in and when I'm not giving you the pill.
doesn't give me the schedule
that's made that might be me. Another person would be I'm really
curious what happens when I go into radiation therapy? What
happens if I go into surgery? What are these pills do? Where do they
come out of? That's your choice to delve into the mothership, and to
learn the evidences of the method, but remember, you are not agreeing
or disagreeing. You're not there yet.
Okay, that's not your place.
And so that's the concepts of how we we learn our Islam, and it
gives order to our Islam. If I chose the Maliki method, I know I
can drop me anywhere.
I can find thematic scholars, I know exactly what they're
teaching.
Okay, I know exactly the books they're teaching. If I if my
daughter was to come in there, and the husband was to say, Hey, we
are chef Hayes. Okay, fine. Show me your law books. So I know
exactly what you're all about. They're Hanafis and show me your
law books. But someone says no, I just I just read and whatever is
easiest, whatever I'm convinced by okay, I can never predict where
this is going then. Right? I don't know where you're going. I go to a
masjid. But what's this Masjid established upon? All Islam is
good. Okay, so that means I have no clue. I will never have a clue
who's got the conditions of the preachers and the teachers of this
mosque?
chaos.
Chaos us?
Gas.
Does any court of law operate that way?
Every government will tell you, you want to know the court of law.
You're a prisoner. We've we've taken you you want to know the
court of law. You can go read it in the book. There's not going to
be a new law that's going to come up tomorrow.
Right?
That
line sometimes they call it
when someone presents salah, and Salam on the messenger, does the
Prophet respond? And the answer is yes. And the answer is many
answers some once a week, some when you're there some all the
time, some once a day, and the truth is immediately. That is the
truth.
If a student loan gets written off after a certain time, or it
requires an income threshold, is that permissible? Is that classed
as a gift?
Well, the rules alone is very simple. What you get is what you
pay back, you don't pay back more than what you get.
Okay, if they write it off,
good for you. They forgiven the keep the daddy has the right to
forgive alone.
Fo says we need serious holistic educational curriculum for our
kids, the administrator in the mosque with the computers is
insufficient. But we're talking to people who are sending their kids
to public school because both parents have to work.
They don't have the time or the mind for holistic education. And
I'll tell you what my philosophy of a holistic education is.
Following around your parents and learning their trade, if possible,
is a very good part of education. In the old world, they used to say
you should know the trade of your parents of your dad.
That's your one of your first educations. If your dad owns a
restaurant, learn learn how to run a restaurant, learn the back end
of running a restaurant. It's a great education.
If your parents in the medical fields, take him to the office
with you. So they could observe how do we treat a patient? What is
billing look like?
All these things.
So that's actually to me, apprenticeship, apprenticeship in
a real of a observing a real life job.
To me, it's so valuable you can imagine they grow up so quickly
observing it then being part of it.
Okay.
And eventually they take a load off of you, even if it's a family
business or a job that they could that they could do that. But I
really believe that the apprenticeship, whether it's with
you or an uncle or a grandparent is so valuable, okay. A holistic
education to me also involves
socializing with older people.
You will learn a lot if you hang out. Like one of the things we
encourage is that the, the Shabaab
and the young girls and the young guys that there are some
gatherings where all the ages are mixed, that it shouldn't always be
girls over there are a middle aged women here and the old ladies
sitting by themselves, mix it all up. You learn stuff and talk,
talk, talk, talk talk, you'll learn stuff that to me is part of
a holistic is that formal education? No, it's not formal
education but it is part of your maturing process.
Those two things I really like and I find them to be really important
part of a kid's a child's life because you own is it permissible
to pray Salah in totality in any language other than Arabic? No, it
is that isn't Salah is not valid. Why salah is a OMA unifying
ritual. And it must be done as the Prophet did it. No other way in
the Arabic language. The only thing that you're allowed to say
in your language is dua Institute, the silent prayer supplication to
Allah in your prostration or in any time where you're making
supplication to Allah that may be in your own language.
But could be a semi Allah demon Hamid Allahu Akbar, the Quran must
be in the Arabic language
Karen Lindsey is back.
Who are you?
Care Karen, I'm not talking to you change your profile to what you
really are.
And you're putting a non Muharram who did you Where did you get this
woman from? You? Did you actually Google Karen. Right and that's the
first picture that you joke.
By the way.
Tomorrow on on
the affairs of the OMA we're going to be reading up about the Nikolas
tight.
Tight it's not Tyree. But I can't remember his last name.
They beat the life out of this guy literally. My theory if you don't
know about this down in Tennessee, can you find me his name real
quick run Nicholas t something.
They beat the life out of this guy. It appears that put a why?
Because I know there's a why there.
There
is a guy who just It's supposedly the story is routine traffic stop.
Oh Tyree, Nichols
Tyree. Nichols is a regular guy. He's got a son. He works. He's
going home. They stopped in for a traffic stop. He ran away. They
take they tased him they went overboard on the traffic stop. And
they ended up beating the life out of him.
And he died in the hospital a couple days later. It's all on on
on footage. How stupid are these people? You have a body cam?
There's cameras everywhere.
And they did this? How stupid are these officers?
It's really ridiculous.
What they did and
is there's no discussion of it just informed me because there's
no innocence here at all. There's not like a debate. There's no
debate on the subject. They should be executed. And they there is
death penalty in Tennessee. They should get the death penalty. It's
and their their his parents and his child should never work
another day in their life. Because the city of Memphis has to pay
them. That's you're supposed to be protected by these cops and they
did this
Karen Lindsay
what are you guys I'm new to Islam. We're at we are at Asana
and Gemma which consists of the form of hubs. Hanafi Maliki
cheffing atma. That's where we derive our religion from. In
Octavia. The schools of Arcada are Ashati metal Ed and humbly that's
what we accept and to solve the science of purifying the heart.
We're all about it from the works of Imam Al Ghazali.
Don't understand, to be honest with you how there's even a case
and I sometimes I just did not under
Stan the legal process in America.
Bring your attorney common standard, the footage is right
there.
What else you need?
By the way, footage is not something that's trustworthy all
the time anymore. footage is something that
can be doctored. But when you have proof that it's genuine footage.
You're an officer of the law. But here's my only my only thing I
have to believe I can't believe there's no side story to this.
I gotta believe that.
I don't know that maybe he was a witness to something that the cops
did. They needed to eliminate him. But that's not even how you do
cold blooded elimination of a witness. If you're eliminated
witness in cold blood. We've watched enough mafia movies. We
know how it's done. Right? It's not done in the middle of the
street by kicking his face in when he's handcuffed. The guy was tased
first of all, he was tased he's the guy's got his two hands behind
his back puts them on the ground. Okay, then lift him up so that
he's like at a at an angle. He's totally flat on the ground. They
lift him up says as an angle, another cops comes and kicks his
face and
then that's not even acceptable in general fighting rules. And then
they took the guy
he's in handcuffs behind his back and they pummel his face. Like a
punching bag.
Something is wrong with human beings. something is terribly
wrong with human beings. Khadija Asif I'm all about what could he
Joseph says we need to underground community that just
highlight delete when no one's looking. I'm totally honest with
you. Okay
ladies and gentlemen.
It's now three o'clock. We will stop here just a second without
getting everyone Subhanak Allahumma. Habib humblebee Hamrick
Masha Allah Allah Atlantean iStockphoto can actually grind
let's close off with Da note.
If you could kindly pull that up
real quick you got it right. Let me pull it up inshallah.
Cancel me, I see. I should pull it up as an image on my phone so I
could have it right away. But we should close off with some
remembrance of Allah to Allah.
If you are new to Islam, oh, Karen, Lindsey, listen up, go to
mbyc.org forward slash links, Li N ks
and then go to converts. And you'll see new Muslim playlists.
Okay, go down, you'll see, you'll see general links, you'll see
vicar, and then you'll see new Muslim playlists, I highly
recommend you start listening to the biography of the Prophet
salallahu Salam. Okay.
Karen Lindsey, who we're gonna give him slash her the benefit of
the doubt, maybe their parents don't want to know that they're
Muslim? Or for some other reason, we'll give him the benefit of the
doubt.
him or her? We don't know.
But go to and go to new Muslim playlists. Again, nbc.org forward
slash links?
Not
oh, maybe we put it on both pages. Did we put on both pages?
Do we maybe have on both pages there?
Let me just double check that real quick.
mbyc.or G forward slash? Converts?
And yes, that's easier, much easier. Okay. Very good. So Karen,
Lindsey, do your thing and get on that and start benefiting from
those playlists? Alright, let us recite from Da Nora.
Where did I put it?
Well, while you're looking, yeah, go ahead. Part of the reason why
we're inviting all these show you on right is that there's a lot of
bad things that go on in the online community. And we like we
see on Wednesdays, it's almost always bad news that we look up.
So it's important for people to become aware and to have exposure
to the plethora of great resources that are online as well. And you
know, bacon basically became
of light that we have in America and soon in the UK will go there
too. Yeah. And to tap into that so it's not just to listen and to
benefit for 30 minutes it's to be exposed to them to refer other
people to them like shake up the academia here was saying they need
set staff and faculty it doesn't mean he you just need students
only, like if someone's in the area that you know, refer them to
shake up the academia you need to admin you know, so that's part of
the reason you know, there's so much good out there. We can do
interviews every day. There are so many good there's so much good out
there. We're actually this is one of the best times that we've ever
had there's so much good out there and so many shoot coming up with
with institutions that have been molded by bad times. And as a
result, you find them they're opening their doors there's a lot
of compassion and there's a lot of benefit right and so we're going
to continue highlighting these few and these events and where they're
at and Ryan off man, they're going to keep bringing us amazing guests
inshallah John
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