Shadee Elmasry – NBF 233 USA Hifz Champion
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Today we have a special guests.
The winner of the salty via
hips, Quran and recitation award, USA championship.
Is a championship that's worthy of celebrating this young man.
We're gonna meet him. But we know someone who met him.
And he's from South Jersey. That's the thing. That's why everyone's
happy. He's from South Jersey. Now listen to this. He went to this
competition three times in a row.
And the first two were not successful.
But on the third one, he cleaned house. That's what it says here.
Right? His name is Imran Dukkha.
Okay, first place, okay.
It says here in the, in the
little message I got. He did the competition three times. He got
blown out each time like was not even a contender.
But this year, he cleaned house. Right. For some reason when NAS
who was his friend, not NAS from the podcast, who's going to also
be with us. When he said
he cleaned house. It got me juiced up because
you go and you fail three times and then all of a sudden you smash
everybody. Okay.
Let's take a look at something else in the news. Although it's
not Wednesday, but this isn't pretty funny. news story, not the
I mean, not news story. But double down. This is a funny double down.
We all know that there's this Palestinian sister.
We don't have to describe her as Palestinian because that's
irrelevant. And the Palestinians aren't really happy about this.
But she she's all Pro. She's a Muslim leftist. All these most of
the academics, they lean towards this the left or they just stay
silent. They may not be but they stay silent. Right.
And she says here this attack came the attack of gay dancer at a gas
station. You ever heard of it? Okay, so a gay guy, a gay dancer
was dancing at a gas station, he ends up in altercation with some
Muslim kids. And he ends up with a knife in his heart debt.
Right?
So they put out there and they say the Muslims now killing gays.
Okay. And she comes out and she tries to blame the Navigating
differences statement. And she says this attack came only two
months after Muslim leaders released a statement that deeply
dehumanize and demonize gay people giving momentum to a queer phobic
wave that is quickly taking over. Omar Suleiman. Yes, it'll Kaji and
all the signatories who are silent now? Yeah, blood on your hands.
Very dramatic. Okay.
Now, what do we discover yesterday? The killer was not
Muslim at all. He's a Russian Christian, Russian Orthodox
Christian, right? But guess what?
She doubles down. And she says, you still need to hold them
accountable. Okay, because now Christians are hiding behind
Muslims, right? In their hatred for
homosexuals. So now, Jeremy McClellan, the Catholic comedian.
He says he gathers all the screenshots and he says one gay
guy killed that gasses to rumor spreads that attackers Muslim
three Muslim leftists blames it on conservative Islamic scholars for
their statement on LGBT four.
Turns out the attacker was Christian, five Muslim left to say
Christian may be inspired by conservative Islamic scholars on
these people, you can't
get one with these folks. You know what I was thinking about academia
last night, late last night I was thinking in the middle of the
night and my mind was wandering and I thought about academia. And
I thought
in every profession, you
Put an energy in as much as you're gonna get out of it. Right? So
what can you get out of any profession? Number one, obviously
the first thing people want to get money. Number two, a moral or
spiritual benefit,
let's say a moral benefit, like working in charity, it's a more,
it's a social benefit. Number three, you can get social
prestige, might not be beneficial, but it's prestigious, right? Like,
you know, like a lot of politicians, they never make
money, they never make real money, but they got prestige. And the
moment they retire, that's when they'll make their money. Because
all this, corporations will hire them that universities bring them
to speak, stuff like that. So social prestige for spiritual
purposes. And that's the teaching of Dean. Right? The most the
people sometimes work as, that's their earning, but that's not the
real benefit. Because you don't even make that much money. When
you teach Quran or deen the real motivation that keeps you going.
These are images of the angels every day, you're in images of
melodica, every single day, you're also transforming another person
in front of you, which is why I always prefer teaching the the
younger ages, that people were just starting out. Right? Because
those types of people, you're, you're transforming them, right.
Whereas when you're teaching someone who's a fifth year, that
person's set,
you're not in you're not transforming them, or setting
their future foundations, we're teaching the youth is more
satisfying, but either way melodica Hermetica, whether you're
studying at the highest level, or the beginning level melodica, you
know, Armineh, Attica and you in those gatherings, and you're in a
situation that is pleasing to Allah lemma Hala, no doubt about
it. So there's a spiritual benefit some occupations, they have a
physical benefit, right?
Like
I don't even know what but
someone who's let's say, a trainer, that's a job, physical
trainer, and it's a hello job, because you're not playing games,
which is haram to earn our wealth from playing games. But if I'm a
physical trainer, so I am the marketing, so I have an excuse now
because of my job to hit the gym.
Two hours every from five to 7am you hit the gym,
you go home, get you shower up, you hit the start going to the
client's homes, right? Get three four clients, depending on where
you are, you can live you're gonna have a profession from that. So at
least that profession, you you gain physically, you become, you
know, physically fit just because of that. When I thought about
academia
Carly Aminul Jamia? It is empty from all of them. Neither is there
a spiritual benefit? In fact, the opposite. Right? In fact, the
opposite you have to actually pretend that you have no interest
in any of this is just an just an interesting topic.
We're talking about Islamic Studies, the all these Islamic
Studies fakes, they ended up not being able to say this is deen of
Allah. And here it is. So no spirits when in fact, the
opposite.
You have to say, well, you know, we have to look at the shady
sources and we have to look at the every heretical group, right? And
without ever saying that have the HAC where the bottle nor ever
saying this has to translate into action. You never go to the
students and say, All right, you all did the midterm now act upon
it? Of course not. Right? It's just pure theory. This is a bit of
all Bidda is a to teach them without saying how the hukou how
the button.
Number two
is to teach without any health animal. No encouragement to
action, what greater secularism and innovation is this, right? So
that's the first thing. The spiritual one is out. Number two,
let's say social capital. All right, can you name the top
historian in the country?
What the heck knows. Can you name here at Rutgers, any of the
tenured professors. So their social capital is only within
like, their little circle. Right?
And it is the case because when I lived in that, when you're living
there, you do view them as celebrities. Like these are the
people and you want to be like them, right? And I remember even
like walking in the hallways with some of these people, you're like,
oh, maybe we'll talk as if he's like someone, but then I thought
so. Let's zoom out a little bit. Does anyone care? who's reading
these books? Oh, he's got a Braille publication back in those
days the Brill if you got the Braille publican you arrived,
right you got
Jaza Kelly, right? The Braille publication was the big deal.
And I really thinking about and what some one time I emailed one
of those professors, he emailed me back, I emailed him, he emailed
back, like, Oh, he's got time on his hands. That's why no one's
chasing after these people. So there's no real true social
prestige, right amongst yourselves, maybe number three,
physical fitness, total opposite. And I'll tell you why.
This is not to make fun of anybody.
The higher up you go in the hierarchy,
it's an inverse proportion to shoulder with
these guys, they get in like thinner and more physically unfit,
the more you go up, right.
The more you go up in the in the in the hierarchy, and it has
started happening to like bad health started happening to a lot
of us, Hey,
by the way, if you can also remove the bottom part, as you're doing
that, but the physical fitness, it's not there.
And it's like physically, if you walk outside of this environment,
you will be discarded as just like some pencil pushing nerd, like the
outside world who don't know your books and your refined knowledge
will not have any respect for you.
Okay, I don't even know like you have to marry then another
academic. Right? Because from that angle of life, you are no longer
attractive, you lost that, right? Completely lost that aspect.
And they have the academics, liberal arts are going to have
their own fashion like they love the Subaru is a big deal for them.
Right, the Subarus and the certain types of sandals that would not be
worn anywhere else. They have their own fashion. You go to Yale,
the campus there, you can tell like who's who, like who's
actually been in this environment for life. Okay, what else? What's
the most important thing in any job you put up? You put up with a
lot of stuff. If there's a return, like I talked to like my a lot of
my it friends, I say, oh, so what do you do? Like don't ask them
just a cog in a machine? Like, why do you do this stuff is just it's
a paycheck, right? It's a good paycheck. That's it. And so that
justifies eight hours I am. I'm doing stuff, meaningless stuff. In
the immediate sense. It's meaningless, of course, in the
grand scheme of things are fulfilling a function, but he
himself cannot see the function, right?
Cannot see the benefit the Thundra. But he's making a lot of
money doing this. So that's why he does it. Now, fast forward. Or I
should say, rewind to the time when, like the first round when I
was ready to teach, right to actually apply for a job. It was
2005 it was the year I know this because it was the year of the
malice in the palace, not the year, the day. Right. So I flew
flew over from England to to Texas, where there was supposed to
San Antonio, there was a conference job. It's like a job
fair. And there were like three job openings. Everyone's going for
them, right? We all know what the openings are. And that night I
arrived got sick. The first night I was sick, so I stayed home. I
turned the TV on. And there's this pistons and pacers game. I'm like,
I don't care about these two teams. Right. And I didn't know I
was so far removed from basketball. I didn't know that
they were good. Like they had become contenders. I didn't know
that. So it's just this is the weirdest thing. Is that this
probably the NBA is most known moment most infamous moment,
right? I'm not even kidding you. I sat on the bottom so sick. I never
watched TV. But I said rasa, right? I got to watch TV because
I'm sick. I turned it on. I'm not even kidding you. It's a live
game. It was on TBS or TNT. Before TNT was a big deal. TNT was just
like a cheapo station. But I turned it on.
And literally the moment I turned on
the brawl happens, right? And I'm like my watching a rerun. There's
no way the suit for the chance happening. You turn it on and the
thing happens anyway. I go there that what are the jobs? Kentucky?
Louisiana, Utah, and like Scranton, Pennsylvania, three or
four jobs where I fight for these jobs, right trying to get the
interviews. Good. I got
into the semifinals of one and the finals of Utah. Right? Or no, that
was later But
thinking back we are scrapping
and and traveling across the world to get a job right? In a random
location. Terrible location wants to go live in these places looks
unless it's your home.
What's the pay? 55,000?
What's the actual result of the job? freshmen come in with their
sweatpants and their MacBooks drinking coffee not even paying
attention and just asking you like what's on the test?
That's the actual reality of life of what's gonna happen. And I
thought to myself, you got to produce papers you got to travel.
Is this worth?
Like this is not worth it in any capacity in what capacity? Is this
worth the time? Like in what capacity is this? It's neither
physically it's terrible. You're sitting all day.
Morally, there's no moral benefit. You're given the world spiritually
zero.
Financially negative zero, right. Okay, like nothing they're like
this is like we've been this is you've been robbed.
Alright, in any event, let us now go to something that has value and
benefit. All right, we got
two guests here today. One is somebody you all know as Failla
Soufeel Kabir and Bucha. Callum from South Jersey. All right,
let's go to alright
Nazmul we all know
also known as NAS you all know him. He's from the from the Safina
society podcast. Nazmul Hassan from South Jersey now moving moved
up here hopefully permanently. And he has a friend okay the champion
I must say okay, of the USA CUP Quran concept competition the
shell to be what is it officially called
the Imams shell to be competent. Now remember shell to be is not
the medical suity he's a different shell to be there's two shots, one
is the medical solely and the other is the saw Habitica ads and
he was blind. So let us welcome NAS and Imran unmute yourselves.
Welcome to the Safina society live stream and nothing but facts live
stream. And let us start off with the brother who introduced us to
this which is NAS. Let us start off with your introduction
or recite or
something like that. Fine. Can you guys hear me? Yes. I'm good. Yeah.
Great to be on here today. Dr. Shetty, thank you for bringing us
on. I wanted to introduce my friend Imran Populum. Ron Dukkha.
So
he's been a very long time friend of mine. I've known him since he
was a kid actually. So
in what capacity you share the message, like, say msgid Yeah, and
we there were a lot of sporting events where you know, when he was
a kid, we ran a soccer league. And he he was one of the participants,
Mashallah. And his father was also very involved in the masjid.
Mashallah, Mashallah. Yeah, so he's been a long term youth leader
for YM also in South Jersey.
And Hamdulillah. Several years ago, our Sheikh Sheikh Rashid
Asmodee he's an expert in Quran and Quran. So he inspired both of
us to start studying the Quran, get better in touch, we then even
memorize the Quran and hamdulillah Sheikh Sheikh Imran half of them
run here he finished several years ago, Mashallah. And since that
time, he's been doing a lot of competitions, you know, he's been
teaching at the sheiks Institute. He's my teacher now, right,
because our Sheikh is more busy. So, yeah, so he's just came back
from winning, one of the biggest it's probably the biggest
competition grand competition in America in Minnesota. So shake
Alma Sahrawis was there. He's an expert in the Quranic sciences, a
shake
hands on solid, I think I think you know, who that is, of course,
world renowned, world renowned. So all these judges, I mean, they
were like, I think sometimes Misha used to measure the LFS. He used
to be a judge over there. So tell us about the contestants. So the
contestants in Milan can probably do a better job. But these are
contestants from all over the US. I mean, you have some of the best
profile like they're being produced from Texas, right, as you
know,
from California, all these places and they go to this place to
compete, and it's very tough as Imran himself will tell you very
tough to get first place so Subhanallah mashallah, he just won
first place. We're very excited. So, you know, all right, so South
Jersey is pride now.
I'm Ron Hafez. I'm Ron, I should say. All right, first of all, you
can unmute yourself now. Congratulations. That's the first
thing I want to say. From Safina society myself, everyone here
because they're
Are people in the room with me here who are watching and
listening very impressed. So first thing I want to say is
congratulations and welcome to the number FX livestream barnacle off
making sure thank you for having me so it's honor so it's our
pleasure to have
the these accomplishments and highlight these accomplishments so
let's start with your story let's let's backtrack to when you and
NAS were just youth How did you the idea of in your mind to start
hips come about and more importantly, how did it start off?
Or how did it come about for you to just to to keep going a lot of
people so many people you can imagine drop off? So that's the
second question so there's your first two questions I'm sure
everyone's interested in.
Not having the last the last llama Baraka Nabina Muhammad voila
earlier savage right? So chef, my my story with the Quran is
actually a little different than most people. So I go a little
before I actually started memorizing Quran, I went to an
Islamic school. from second grade, I started second grade. And in the
same school, we had Quran class, but there was no like real teacher
that taught us we kind of just sat at the computer just listened to
the Quran. So from second grade until eighth grade, I was only
able to memorize three jewels. You might think that's a lot, but we
were doing Quran for an hour every single day. So in a matter of six
years, three, just really not a lot. So I was actually one of the
kids that was like bad with boron, you could say to the point where I
would get detention for not doing my Quran work.
So
now you send the link to the teacher who gave you those
detentions now?
So I have I have three of these at the time. And I was involved with
why I'm sure you're familiar with who I am.
And why don't we used to have these pm nights where a lot of the
youth would lead Salah. So you know me just seeing my brothers
lead me in Salah that are my age, sometimes younger, that inspired
me. And I remember one time my brother was leading, and he was
reading a surah they had memorized. But I realized I had
forgotten you almost completely. So at that moment, I was like,
wow, I really need to get back into like Quran I need at least my
goal at that point was not to memorize the Quran, or I was not
thinking about that. But really, all I wanted to do was review the
edges that they hadn't memorized, you know, so spamela Not too long
after that. My chef he came from Medina and he started a Quran
program. At the time, he wasn't my chef, I don't really know him. So
there was a sport and program starting up Nazma was joining a
lot of other brothers were joining. So I was like, let me
just give it a shot. So I asked my dad to put me in. So he put me in
the program and Hamdulillah. And that's where it all started. It
started in 2017. And it wasn't like most kids, they usually go to
like a full time Quran school, where they spend like two years
full time now I went to school, I went to high school. This was like
an after school thing that I was doing. At first, when I first
started I was
I didn't, the good thing was that the chef, the first thing that she
did was he taught us how to memorize and that's what really
helped me a lot. Once he taught me the proper way to memorize the
Quran.
You know, Spangler, I saw that Allah subhanaw taala made it easy
for me to memorize, right, and just me knowing the proper
technique to memorize, it really made things a lot more easy. And
it motivated me to keep going, right? Because when you don't know
how to memorize, and you're sitting there for an hour, and
you're only able to do a few lines, that's demotivating. But
when you can sit there for 30 minutes, and you can memorize a
page, and you're actually making progress that really pushes you to
keep going. So I started in 2017 and August Hamdulillah. I finished
in the year of 2019. December 30 is like the end of 2019.
So there was a lot of those a lot of slumps. But you know, I shared
hamdulillah here, you really put a lot of pressure on me. He helped
me he held me accountable for sure. So yeah, let me ask you,
what are the main techniques that he gave you.
So every person, there's a different way to memorize right
now what might work for me, it might not work for you. But the
main things he taught us was spot, he actually has changed his
opinion on how to memorize so he doesn't even follow that anymore.
But what he taught me, you know, I use that it really helped.
Basically, he would emphasize
the main things he would emphasize was you need to be focused, number
one, you can't be reading it in your mind to think about something
else.
He said that have a timer. Use a timer with you. Because if you're
just reading it, you're gonna lose track of time. But when you have a
timer and you're like, Okay, I only have one minute to memorize
this. There's something pushing you to memorize quicker, right?
It's helping you stay focused. So you will always have a timer, he
will tell us to read as quickly as possible. There's a lot of
students who when they memorize the religous Alhamdulillah they
read in a slow manner and you're really wasting time because what
you want to do is repeat the verse as many times as possible. So when
you read it in a slow manner, you're not able to repeat as many
times
As you wouldn't be able to if you read it in a quicker pace, so you
would always tell us read it as quick as you can, and focus and
have a time. Like, those are the main things I emphasize
a lot of their academic cross two methods of hip, a lot of
Egyptians, they do the whole hips with with minimal review. And then
they repeat the hips to give the student a sense of accomplishment.
All right, they move on quickly, once you give it the testimony
once correctly, they move on quickly. And then you finish your
hips. Then you spend the next set of years doing a second revision,
right and then a third and now you're matza muck and the
Pakistani method is the three parts every lesson is three parts.
The old review the recent review, and the new Huff's. Right. And
what I've noticed from that is a, the student almost does is more
solid right away on the on the, on their hips. But what I noticed
from some students who went from the Arab way to this way, was that
it felt so proud and like it felt like it was taking so long, and
they would sometimes get demoralized. But But whoever came
comes out of that. They're more what's American, more solid than
the opposite way.
So which way did your teacher teach you? So we did the quote,
unquote, facts anyway. So we would have our old division or a new
revision, and our new lesson to check was a, he was very strict on
Revision, he wouldn't let you memorize unless your revision was
solid, like every few inches that we would memorize, he would test
us on what we've memorized previously. And if we didn't pass,
he would stop us from memorizing those probably like, four or five
times in a matter of like two years that I had to just
completely stop memorizing, because my revision was falling
off.
Okay, here's a question for you.
How many times a week did you meet your shift?
So initially, it was in person. And it was five days a week for
like the first I want to say 10 months maybe. Um, so I would go
every day, five days a week.
But then after that, the chef moved away, he moved like 3040
minutes away. And the Quran program kind of became, he did add
a different method. But for me, I couldn't go there because it was
very far. So I had for 19 adages that that I memorized, I actually
did over the phone. So those 19 years were a lot harder to
memorize than the first 11.
And then you and you would just do Hibs every day and trust me every
day.
I'm probably not every day, I would probably take like a day or
two off. Okay. I mean, I would still, I would probably do it on
my own memory memorizing not every day, I probably take a day or two
off revision every day. And what about the session? How long would
you sit for one single session?
Usually, like, it depends, but usually like 45 minutes, the
entire class was 45 minutes an hour, but I would probably read
him for like 1520 minutes, however long my lessons, but then you do
your hips for the rest of the time? Yeah, so I would do. Like it
wasn't a thing where you go to class and you memorize in class,
you do all that at home, you say? Okay, so I would just read to the
chef, my new lesson, you would test me on my revision that was
okay, because
because some students I've seen in our hips program, in order to
like, they sort of bundle their habits together. They do their
they show up early to class, and they just sit in the back, and
they actually do their hips there.
Right? And then they give the test Mia so when you were at home doing
hips is you sat for 45 minutes, you would say.
So when I first started memorizing Quran, it was it was less. A lot
of people memorize the Quran, they know that when you first start,
the amount that you're memorizing, the beginning is not going to be
the amount that you finish, right? It's a skill. So initially, I
started memorizing, I think half a page. And by the time I finished I
was doing two pages regularly. So when I first started memorizing I
was probably spending per page maybe like, let's say half a page
because it has been half a page like 45 minutes towards the end
like two pages I was doing in like an hour and 15 Okay, in the
process of hips do have FAS do a Cutsem.
Like do they ever recite for the sake of recitation? Or is it just
purely hips, like read from cover to cover? Without any intent of
testimonia revision or memorization? Do they do that or
they do they leave that off completely? I personally actually
never did. I would never just read for the sake of I would always
like be reviewing instead Huff's. Okay, now let's go to the world of
competitions. First of all, who introduced you to the world of
competitions and then
tell us how it went? Like which competitions Did you show up to
how did you place how did you
feel after that. All that stuff? Who are you? Who are you competing
against? Yeah. And what's it like in the
because it's competition yet at the same time, it's Dean. So it's
sort of like everyone's encouraging everyone yet competing
against them at the same time. Yeah. All right. So take us
through that world. So
small lot when after, maybe like, a few weeks into my health
journey. Like at this point, I'm a little kid, I'm like, 14, I only
have a few Jews memorized, I had just begun. And I walk into class
one day, and my shirt is showing me a video of a brother named
Hamza have a sheep. And he was competing in the Dubai
competition. This was many years ago, and my shares are showing me
the video of him reciting in Russia, he says, it says, that's
going to be you one day,
might I have, have like three just memorize at this time I had just
started memorizing my shirt is making a bold claim. He said,
that's going to be you. And you're going to be in that chair one day.
And ever since that day, like I always had my, my vision on that
goal, right? I always wanted that was always my goal to compete in
Dubai compete in Dubai, and in general just compete. I'm a very
competitive person as it is. So you know, my love of the Quran
competition, it just like, went together perfectly. So that was
when I was first introduced to competitions when he showed me
that video. But obviously, you can't just go straight to Dubai,
you have to like build up with local competitions and then
regional International. So when I finished Tengiz actually there was
there was a local competition. I think that was my first one. It
was in New Jersey. You might be familiar HGH rd. I think they had
a competition a long time ago. But that was a very small competition.
It was like just Usama.
My first, you could say like, major competition was mass Akena.
In the year 2018. I did a Tengiz. So
this is my first competition. I remember I prepared a lot, or what
I thought was a lot the time and then I go in there. And
I'm on the first question, I'm reading perfectly. And then I
like,
I go back and I mess myself up. It was really a dumb mistake. And I
remember after the competition, because in these competitions, if
you like, make one mistake, sure hits is over. Like, yeah, you're
winning are they're gone. So I didn't know that at the time. I
was like, Is there still a chance I can win, but there was no
chance. And I remember, I was like, really down really upset. I
was young also. But uh, that was my first loss. And that was
definitely, it didn't feel good. And then after that
I want my first Imam shot to be competition was there was probably
some local ones in between that I don't really remember at the
moment. But then my first major one after that, or my next major
one was the mug shot being 2020. I'm sorry, 2021. So at the time, I
was still I remember I was put on like the beginning of 2020. So my
head was still kind of fresh. This is my first major competition is
very rare that you see someone went on their first year unless
they like abroad or something like that.
But if you're, if you're listening, if you're watching on
Instagram, come on to YouTube, then that's where you'll be able
to see everybody. For those who are on Instagram, hop over to
YouTube. Safina society.
YouTube channel question for you now. How many contestants are in
this first in the mass competition?
Oh, that's
it's probably a ballpark. Yeah, like 40. Something like that. 40.
And what did you get at the end? Oh, I didn't please if you don't
play today, we don't want to tell you. They only tell you if you get
top three. Oh, they don't. Okay, so it didn't even place and how
did you feel when you left there?
I was so upset. I'm not gonna lie. I was young at the time. So I
didn't like
you know, but yeah, I was definitely upset. And then did you
say, you know, this is not for me or did it you say like, No, I'm
going back. Like, were you totally in? Or were you ever one foot in
one foot out? In terms of like competitions? Yeah.
No, I was always for competitions even after that loss. You know, I
got over after some time, and it just pushed me to like, I want to
be better. I want to win the next one.
Okay, so after it no mas. Where'd you go?
Probably my shot with 2021.
Must be on Zoom then I guess. Right? No. 2020 they actually
didn't personally. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Were in Minnesota is in
Minnesota sort of every year. Okay. So I remember is my first
like, major competition. You know, I was expecting no one honestly.
And my confidence was pretty low at the time. It was kind of I
wanted to win, but it was kind of like
a far fetched goal. So first question, actually, I read
perfect. Second question. Perfect. Third question. Remember, he gave
me the and I was just like, I was like, this is not going to be
good. Right when he gave me the I knew was it was a tough question
for me. So I read that and I had like, oh,
One or two mistakes on that question. And then the last
question, I was perfect, but like I said, Well mistaken is over.
Yeah. And that was 2020 then 2021. The next one Imam Shafi.
Allah, this was actually, honestly 2021, I got fifth, I was probably
more excited than than I was this year. And the reason for that was,
it was a complete shock. And I was not expecting to win at all,
because I was perfect. They give you four questions. So my first
three, I was perfect. The last question, I got what you call a
bell. So basically, you mess up, the judge will ring a bell to
notify you mess up. And then I corrected myself right away. So if
you correct yourself, it's worth like half a point. But if they
have to correct you, it's worth an entire point. So but even if you
get a bell, usually, you're not gonna win. It's very rare that you
went like most usually the top five, top three, they're all
perfect. And then the judges are just looking at your your voice
when you did tweet. So when I got a bell, I remember after that, I
texted like, I texted my parents, my friends back home, I was like
in Sharla. Next year, I'll and Shawn actually, like, in my head
wasn't even, I wasn't even thinking about it. And then I
remember, I was about to actually skip the award ceremony, because I
don't even think I was gonna win. So we got to the award ceremony. I
remember, I'm just standing there talking to my friend. And then the
guy that announced that he goes, fifth place from the state of New
Jersey. And he and right when he says from the state of New Jersey.
I'm like Who else came from New Jersey?
I'm like, I'm very confused. It's all happening very quick. I'm
like, There's no way he's talking about me. Right? And then he says
my name. And I remember, I was just completely shocked. Find a
lot.
And then that was last year. So fast forward now to this year.
This is your third time competing in that tournament. Yeah. And then
in that competition, so now do you feel you felt like none of this is
new? I know the judges, I know the building. So all that extra
distraction is completely gone. Right? There's definitely more
confidence. But
people who do the competition don't tell you every year it only
gets harder and harder. Because there's more contestants is more
competitive, everyone is getting better. Like I'm getting better.
I'm getting more used to it. But so is everyone else, you know. So,
and there's a lot of recitals, Chef summers, people that have
been competing in this competition for five years, somehow this is my
third year, but some people have been doing this for five years. So
I knew you know, a lot of people who have won this competition give
it gave me the advice not to worry about anyone else. Just worry
about going perfect yourself and then leave the rest of Allah, you
know. So that was my mindset mindset going in. I was like, let
me just go perfect on every question. And then if I get first,
second, third or fourth, it's okay. I did my part. So this year,
there's probably like 50 contestants. And I started
prepping like, three months, I'll say three to four months before
like, seriously prepping.
I was having people listen to me, I was increasing the amount that I
was reviewing. And
I was just I was I was really motivated, really disciplined, I
was determined to win. And
there was probably shift, there's probably people who worked harder
than me, who, you know, have a better voice than me maybe better
to read maybe even better hair than me. Actually one of the
brothers I was reviewing with, he actually got second shake his head
is probably better than mine. autofeed from Allah. Now really, I
try to make a lot of DUA and I try to I try to, you know, leave it to
Allah after I did my part. I truly knew that, you know, if someone
told me that, if you think you're going to win because of your own
efforts, that's when Allah will show you that you're not right. So
I made a lot of dough. I remember after every single question that
Joe's gave me, I was making sure that I was singing Hamdulillah I
was making the Isola he makes the next question easy for me. So
that's truly what I think saved me was the DWIs and you know, just
having trust in Allah subhanaw taala know when you're reciting
Are you is his shots. These are your citing only in house.
Or is it in multiple meet personally? So there's
competition. There are Yeah, there are add categories in those
categories, you're obviously going to do all of that. Or whichever
one the judge tells you. But in the 30 just category, you can do
any genre, but usually people are going to do the one that they
memorize with or that they're best at. And everyone in America
memorizes with half so everyone usually reads in house so the
competition isn't half solely.
Yeah, but you can read in a different color if you want but
usually everyone doesn't house okay. So he's not going to tell
you recite this unwashed recite this in duty. Okay. So now,
imagine that. They do that where
they have other competitions where they do the IGP model. Okay, the
scorecard. Obviously, accuracy of the hips.
Number two accuracy of the test suite. Number three voice which
seems a bit subjective, right? Yeah, we have so
What's the weight given on each of these things? If I'm not mistaken,
have this 70 I think 70 or 75%. That read would be like 20 or 25
versus five. And then and then voices. Yeah, it's voices just
because that's too subjective. Right? Some people are monotonous
by nature. And that's just how they're created. Right? So. Okay,
good. So, so now you you win this. Tell me exactly. The nature of the
competition? Are there rounds? Is there a round robin where everyone
gets one chance? And then like, to come out of a group? Or is it just
one shot, and that's it.
The reason this competition is so scary is because there's only
there's only one round. And if you even make a small stutter, you
basically lost so much pressure, because there's no room for like,
any error at all. Even like, there was a rubber spatula, he had one
stutter, and he went back. And because of that, it took him from
first to third.
Yeah, so you have to like flow a snow stops, no, nothing just
perfect. That's.
So there's no like, rounds where you can actually afford to be
relative to somebody else and survive. Nothing like that. And
how long is each recitation? How many minutes is each question?
They do four questions. Every question is one page. So usually
12 to 15 minutes, depending on how fast your Senators reading, but
usually around around one page, and they tell you when to stop,
right? I'll tell you. Okay, and how about the motor Chevy hats?
Are there any?
I don't, I can't, would they say for example, begin with the first
mention of a certain what's a Shabbat verse, or the last mention
of a certain, which is seven verse, for example. Usually the
questions are, like pre written. So the judges are not the ones
choosing. So it is possible that you get an idea that comes twice.
And they usually tell you read the first one read the tech one. Or
you know what they'll do, they'll read the entire idea. So that are
those start the next Ask so that you can know which one it is. I
see. Okay, okay. Yeah, sometimes that happens, but it's rare. All
right. How many judges are sitting there? There was? It was five.
Sheikh Hassan Salah has one of them. Yeah. Okay, from from North
Jersey.
Who else?
Should marsali Of course, Chef Marcelo is from from Egypt, right?
Yeah. So he flew over for this. Four of the judges. Got to know
right? Yeah. So he flew over from one of the judges actually came
from overseas Subhan, Allah Subhan. Allah, masha Allah. So the
whole competition takes place in a day? No, it's actually like, five
days, five days. But your site once? Yeah, so it was from August
5 in the entire competition, they probably have 600 500 competitors.
So what? Because so 50 on your day, there were 50. So the way
they do it is pretty so on my day, it's not just 30 just reading. So
there's gonna be other categories. There's one juice category,
there's five juice categories.
There's 15, there's 20. There's 30. Then there's all those for
boys and girls. Sometimes they have separate categories for boys
and girls. Then they have the karate categories have the best.
There's a lot of categories. So they have like a period of a week.
So they start on August 1, and they ended like August 5, and
what's the broadest category that most competitors are in?
I think most of them usually have like the same amount like 50 Okay.
I'm imagining the 30 Just the whole must have would be the
hardest competition to be in part of, in my opinion, I think it is.
They have 30 Just Korat as well which is very different. But I
think there's more hype in this the most competitive is probably
the 30 just speaking of hype, you have some hype. Here's Xion
Ibrahim is here buddy. How about a half a Sharif? Okay, how about
Sohaib Ahmed? Are these are all your friends because they're all
shut up? Say it DeRoche who? Yeah
you guys shake our guy from Philly? Yeah, that's my shake
eyebrows my shake. Mashallah. MashAllah so anyway you got a lot
of people here saying you know congratulating you given you send
you some love here on the on the chat get now
you make it into the winner's circle you when what happens now
that she will take you for dinner or what?
Not nothing like that. But I mean they should bring you into their
fold. Do they?
Where do you put it? They put a Buddha on you like some they gotta
give you some. There's gotta be for this shot to be a scarf that's
unique to them like the green jacket in golf, right
So is that what it is now there, they'll connect you to the
international competitions now. Yeah, usually that's what happens
you it opens a lot of doors for other competitions from Okay, so
what's the next competition for you?
Honestly, I don't know. Usually like, if an opportunity comes then
we'll see. But so far nothing has really, really confirmed what's
the
like hierarchy of of these competitions. So the US? That's a
big competition. Apparently now the brothers are telling me which
I never thought nobody imagined that the US is involved in the
Quran. But the US competition has become something big. I'm sure.
Probably Mecca has won. Medina has won and these are epic
competitions. I'm sure. Probably.
What's
the prize was a 2024. Toyota Camry. 2023 2020 2023 24 Who
hasn't come yet? 2023 Toyota Camry, that was the price. Yeah.
Well, because we never asked about what the price was. So you got a
Toyota Camry and you got to ombre? Yeah. Okay. You got a Toyota
Camry? And like, how does that work? Do they just give you the
keys like, NHL All Star game? Or how does that work? They gave me
the keys to take a picture and then they took the keys back and
then deliver a similar car to you or what? No, no, they don't have
it ready at that moment. So they said they would have it ready,
actually today. But I came back to Jersey because my clothes next
morning, but I'll probably have to go back and show it back to
Minnesota. Yeah, to drive it back. There's a lot of paperwork and
stuff like that. Of course. Yeah. We might drive it back. Or we
might ship it. I'm not sure yet. But we'll see no matter what color
I think is black. I'm not sure though. Black. Nice. So I've
actually never seen the car. So I don't know, your college,
automobile and your first. You know, automobile has now been
covered by this Quran competition. Your mom and dad? What's your
family situation like and what were they what was their reaction
to all this?
Initially, it was just going to be me. My sister was going to come,
my cousin and one of her friends they were going to come they
wanted to make their own trip out of it. And I was gonna go to
compete. My parents have never come to me with this competition
in the past two years. But the night before
my cousin was allowed to come she wasn't allowed to come her dad
said she couldn't come unless my dad was gonna go. So maybe four
hours before my dad books a ticket to come. Jesus was like very last
second model and my dad decides to come. My mom was home. The next
day, my mom decides to come. So my dad was my dad booked a ticket for
it. So Subhan Allah, it was so last second but the one year I did
when my entire family was there. That's great. That's great. Now
Dukkha I'm trying to place that name, ethnically What language is
that? It's
it's all being in Obion mess. Y'all being you know me. Okay, so
you are Albanian? Yeah, in that case.
Are there were there other Albanian families there to cheer
you on
in the Quran online online they definitely one mashallah good
because, you know, this is like, it's always unique when an
Albanian like when you have a nationality like that, that does
something important and something and has an achievement.
I'm sure we have some Albanians here I'm going to share this link
with them they're going to be very proud mashallah, alright, so from
here on now it's going to be there there's got to be a tournament in
Egypt chicken masala. We can get you there. I'm sure. Well, he
doesn't go to Egypt himself.
Egypt doesn't have a competition.
They don't want to go to the Egyptian competition. Why are the
competitors what people expect it to go to Egypt and like, see, like
a five star operation? Or a one star operation? Competitions?
Yeah. very prestigious. Yeah.
You're gonna you just unbelievable. And who told you
this?
Yeah, somehow. Okay. The debate competition you're going to is
that the big one?
Libya, Libya, Libya, Libya, as they say the most difficult in
terms of like, probably the biggest and like,
I guess like, the one that's most known is by Dubai. Dubai. How
about Pakistan?
I've never heard of one actually. No. budget. I mean, they gotta
have schools ever have Alba
Okay.
Not that no, not International. Okay, so Dube is the next mountain
for you to climb.
Shall lunch. Ah, all right, well, you got to make New Jersey proud
you got to win Dubay now
just showing up at one of these competitions is an achievement to
be honest with you, right? And then you got to make Albania
proud. And and make Jersey proud. And you know that there's a
competition here that involves have the Quran
and fitness. Okay? It's called 114 Look up the website and plug it
in. They're just like combining hips and fitness. So for example,
this is something else. This is like a type of
the biggest.
It's not really competition, but the I guess you could say it's
sort of a competition is you memorize suits or Bacara. And run
50 miles. 50 miles, right. 50 miles. So you need to be in tip
top physical shape. And your hips is in shape. The next one, you'll
see it on the website. 114.
No, no, right one. Oh, honey, and then 140 Honey.
Like that with delete the first digit, the one the delete that,
click that and see what comes up. So yeah, so see the 114 Challenge
suit, it's an hour off. And 26 miles. They're not playing games,
right?
The least one is like suits and molk. And like 5k. Right.
So I think that you should go and speak there to be honest with you.
You should show up to that. And
no, you don't recite while running. No, you sit on recite on
Saturday.
And they should have an honorary you know, like position speech
from the hips champion of America. Right? You're going to backup your
championship next year, you're gonna let someone else win.
In terms like, like, Do you are you planning to show up again to
defend your title? Are you going to let somebody else have a shot
to beat you? Yeah. If you win once, they don't let you compete
again. Oh, forever. So I would have to do I would have to do a
different category. A different category. Okay. Above it. Yeah.
Okay. The only categories above that would be like, so if you
want, okay, so you can go but a different? Yeah, okay, good. So
you should come to this one for 10 minutes, I'm gonna get you invited
to this. And you could talk. You don't have to run if you don't
want to, but you could definitely talk. They do all the tests, Mia
on Saturday, and all the running on Sunday. And then people get
awards, I guess, or they get at least accolades that they have
achievement in both of these categories. Remember, I was
telling you when I was bashing the academics and making fun of them,
how neither is it spiritual, nor moral nor social nor financial.
And your physical fitness goes down the tube, right?
This is the opposite 114 The 114 challenge is opposite. You have to
do serious hips and you need to be in tip top physical shape. So
now I'm Ron, you are going to go into teaching hips I'm sure.
I'm already kind of doing that. But in Sharla keep doing that.
You're already doing that, Mashallah. And you're going to be
I guess now you're in college, right? Yeah. You're headed to
college for the first year? No, I'm actually going to my fourth
year. Oh, your fourth you're gonna be a senior in college and what
what will University what? I go to Rutgers, but Camden Rutgers can
Okay, so for the for those in South Jersey, they have a campus
down there. And what do you study right now? Computer science,
computer science? Is there memorizing code involved in that?
I mean, you should be really good at that now. Right? It's not
really memorizing code. It's kind of like understanding it. There's
certain things you memorize mashallah, let's see if it's been
a pleasure having you on and meeting a winner, right and a
competitive Masha Allah, Allah protect you and bless you and make
your parents proud. Taha Sheikh said he's a Hooper an SJ so that
our hips champ is a bucket shooting machine in South Jersey.
Zijn your buddy though says that. Now he fails all his classes. All
right. Okay, so here he is. Good.
These buddies having some banter going back and forth. Okay.
All right. Some tillow are now on Ebola and I don't know if that's
your friend, but he's putting you on the spot now and saying we need
some tillow
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have a group here in the studio with us, masha Allah very
beautiful now, while you were reciting, there was a whole
discussion on the threat. Okay.
There is a question two questions. Now. The Moca mats. I'm going to
ask you about that because your your mates and your friends are
talking about the Moca mats number one, number two. Before that, I
want to ask you the simpler question. There. Is there a
women's competition for this the girls? Yeah, there is some
categories they have it separate for boys and girls sometimes there
altogether because there's not enough competitors for just boys
and girls separately. So they put them in one. Okay, good and is
there like there is there is there a company
addition of one or two or three jewels only for girls,
there's a wondrous category. They don't have to wondrous, like just
30. Yeah. And they have a five just as well. Okay, and what's the
website of this competition? I think the mom shot the beat.org
just look it up like that. All right now
karats. I mean, my comments, the others are saying, Yeah, hey,
Jazzy. Now I want, et cetera. Everyone's wondering what it is
because your friends are talking. And a lot of people don't know
what these are. So why don't you give us a quick explanation of
what a MACOM is, first of all, so my palm is basically a tune or a
melody.
So that's basically what is this a tuner melody that you were saying?
Okay, basically, just and then so what is
how are they measured? How are they differentiated from one
another?
I guess the way they sound like they have a different rhythm or
melody to them that like the more you listen to it, the way to learn
McClements just by listening over and over and then your ears will
be able to recognize you start seeing like similar patterns. And
you'll be like, Okay, this is a jazz this isn't the Hawaiian stuff
like yeah, okay, so I wonder when this originated like no one does
that the macula the carotid or what
the carotid recited or what? Right?
More recent than that, okay, that's good Hamdulillah you put my
heart at ease so Oh, okay, so it's always um Ron You are hereby
invited you and all these kids while maybe they're not kids
Jemelle abroad tomorrow Dean Zia and a deep all you guys only need
all these guys Raha
and NAS Mia, Nas will be in sha Allah Tada MBSE family night.
Okay, this Friday, seven o'clock. We have family and I'm inviting
all of you. And of course, especially our winner to family
night where we're gonna have family night, then we're going to
prime Avenue. And then we're going to have dinner which I hope they
bring that fried chicken again, because that was some good stuff.
All right, so check your schedules, and let NAS know and
shall lie so you're invited to family night to be there we'll
meet in person and you can bring your whole crew with you in sha
Allah to Allah and we'll present this again
to the community and to the youth and get the youth jazzed up about
you know, showing up to these competitions, right I mean, South
Jersey has done it for the first time South Jersey has done
something that central and north you know are looking up to or
though geographically we look down right but come so inshallah you if
you guys are free, and we will host would love to host you guys.
And maybe you show up in that snazzy Honda of yours, Mashallah.
Or Toyota, right? And listen, maybe when the next competition
will get you rims? How's that? Next competition? If he wins the
next competition? Here it is. We're putting it on the hook
Safina society will tint your windows or you get like kuffaar,
you got three options. Or we'll wrap your Toyota or we'll get your
ribs either one of them. Next competition this brother wins. Oh,
no hope you too. Okay. He's Yes, you hold me to it. And if they
give you a new car and Dubay they might give you a Tesla or
something. Same thing holds rims tinted windows or or wrapped. I'm
Ron, it was lovely having you on the program. And NAS thank you for
bringing our attention to this
and bringing him on. And we hope to see you guys in person on
Friday, who knows any parting words?
Nothing much shake just It's surreal. Because I remember a
month ago or so I went to class to read a half as Imran and I asked
him how he's feeling about the competition. And he's like, I
don't know, man. And then Sheikh Rashid right next to us. He's
like, with that mentality. You already lost Subhanallah so and
then so it runs again and I don't know. So it's just surreal that
like in a couple months. Yes. In person you know is marginalized,
won the competition. Share Rashid hasn't gotten enough love from us
and love credit. He's the coach, right? He's the manager.
basketball fan, by the way. Who is he? Where's he from? He's Sheikh
Rashid studied in the University of Medina. And he spent almost a
decade there learning the Quran, the Quran, and but his initial
studies was in Hadith from the University of Medina, American
Yeah, he's Yeah, he was from California, like American born and
raised. Yeah, American originals. Yeah, he's up getting the whole
thing is the whole thing from the coach to the student is is
American born and bred
meaning geographically at least much amazing, amazing, amazing.
Well Masha Allah He should be really proud that one of his
students has won at all. And Imran final words
shout out shout out to your boys here.
Definitely give a shout out I give a shout out to abroad and at the
Souhei
definitely got to give a shout out to my family to my friends why MSJ
to my show you the Nazmul for setting this up recycling and
particle. Okay, I hope to see you guys Friday inshallah and the
brothers are saying Friday. If it happens Friday, then it's going to
be some recitation, but also some Buddha to there saying here so we
can recite some of that and also your other friends who are
students of shift Rashid can also recite for us so we could have all
these Shabaab out and getting our youth jacked up and energized with
this two inshallah.
Alright, just a little kid and a nice try to make this happen for
Friday. Inshallah, all right Baraka Luffy comm thank you guys
very much.
Welcome salaam Rahmatullah. But I gotcha. All right. There you have
it, folks, there was we have a winner from SubhanAllah.
South Jersey, making us proud. And I think it's going to
it's going to catch on with the other people. Because we people
see these Quran competitions, and they're like,
you know, that's another world. That's like, we don't know how
that happens, where it happens, how you study to be that, right?
But now that you have someone who actually knows the mechanics of
what it takes, how do you even sign up? Right? And what are the
competition's like, et cetera, et cetera. I really hope he could,
they can make it Friday, so that some of our youth
could see these these, you know,
to see him and see that, how this is doable. Even you start with the
smallest competition, like the one just competition, but get yourself
in there. And what I love about it is that you do hips, and you have
a sense of right, I have my classmates, I'm doing hips with my
teacher, and you want to finish that's the goal. But sometimes
these competitions they give you added juice along the way, like
you added reason to be on your hips, right? And that's not bad.
But that's not wrong or anything because the Satan Alma was the
first person to give out a prize for hips to the second generation
of Muslims when he realized that they're getting weaker, their him
was dropping. So he went to Kufa and he he announced a certain
amount of gold, for whom members memorize a source of Bukhara
can imagine I'll say no matter who these Sahaba like, lived and died
with the Prophet sallallahu sunnah. But the second generation,
it's all done for them, right? They're not as devoted as the
first generation. And I can only just imagine the the surprise and
the shock of any Sahabi to see a Muslim who was not as enthused and
as energized as them, right. And they must feel saddened, almost
grieved at the sight of such a generation. But say no more, sort
of foresaw it knew that human nature's like this. And he said
they didn't see the Cofer that we saw.
But he also adapted and he set a precedent for us and he's the
first one to give a sack of gold to whoever would memorize suits at
Bacara. So these competitions, and I don't think anyone goes really
for the prize you go for the ability to to compete. And when
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What is one reason why depression exists amongst people? Okay, this
is from Shrek say that I'm done booties lecture series. By the
way, all it can amass is M capital M as Muslim American society.
Yeah, it was I was laughing here when you had Akena mass
competition.
Yeah, he had ma s s, mass mass amount of people. All right, most
people do not are not aware of the reality of a life. And this is one
of the reasons that depression exists, this is the first reason
you're unaware of where you are. And to be aware of the nature of
had to dunya is so liberating. That had to dunya. It's almost
like being sent from your country,
to
as an ambassador to another country, and you have to fulfill a
mission. And that country, it's like there's a war going on there.
Right? It's unregulated. It's an unregulated land.
So there are good times, there are safe areas where you can enjoy
yourself, and there are out of control areas. This land is a
mixture of admixture of good and bad. All you have to do is stay
there fulfill the job that you're given. Don't worry about anything
else,
until you get called back. So when you get there, there's a ticket in
your name, there's a room already reserved for you, all your food
and drink and everything is going to be sent to you. Good. You just
focus on your mission. Focus, focus on your goal, every time
that your mission and your goal requires more expenses, more
sustenance, it will be provided for you do you just do your job.
And there are cameras everywhere in their body cams, and mics and
everything's tracked, so that the government that's sent to you is
watching
and is able to judge you. One day, your day is gonna come and you're
gonna be called back, the ticket will show up in the middle. And
you can't disobey, you have to come, the marshals will come
escort you to the plane, you come back home, when you come back
home, you're going to either going to be heralded as a champion,
or you're going to be a failure and a bust. And you're going to
walk down the walk of shame. All right, and then be thrown in jail.
That is in the nature of head to dunya.
Like we belong here, but we're not of this earth. We belong on the
earth. But we're not of the earth. We belong here as a temporary
mission, just like the Ambassador of the United States, to
Venezuela. I don't know if we have relations with Venezuela, let's
say Brazil, the ambassador to the United States to Chet, the
Ambassador of the United States, any country is it his country? No.
Does he belong there? Yes. Temporarily. He belongs there to
fulfill the job.
Is it natural for him to now start putting American flags everywhere
and trying to visit the restaurants that have American
people in it? Of course, when you're an expat? That's what you
do. You try to almost recreate, you know, all the Andalusi are in
architecture originally is Syrian, because the bene will Mejia
when they were expelled out of the Khalifa.
They all left. And Abdurrahman a deckle was their strongest person
at the time in that family. And he traveled all the way across and he
Arrived at Andalus.
And there he saw we so far away from that Bessie territory. This
is where their territory stops. This is going to be our new home,
and he brings his family. And he comes in and he fights about 29 to
30. What happened to the TV 29 to 30 civil wars, they didn't want
them. They just did. They didn't want the beniwal. Mayor. But the
bene Omiya are a proud type of people who always have to rule
like allele like Leo may not even be the most competent. But just
his his nature, he got to be in charge. You ever see those types
of people? Like he may not even it's just his nature to be in
charge, even if he's not even the most competent one. And people
seem to give it to him. Right like for he has the qualities of the
leader. And the beniwal Mayor were like that. And wherever they went,
they're not going to be ruled by some other tribes. They are going
to rule whether you like it or not, so people didn't like it. And
he quelled. 29 rebellions. Good. It's almost like
an unblessed start to be honest, but he has they they wanted to
rule. And they felt there's no other way around it. So
everything that they built in endless, was mimicking their
homeland of Damascus. Right.
And so you'll see a lot in art Samick art and architecture, this
is one of the biggest themes. Our original Andalusi art is exact
copy of Syrian art, right what existed there. And it's not like
Syria. It's like what? The Romanians at that time, the arts,
artisans and stuff that were in Syria, that's what they would,
that's how they would build things. So ignorance of an it's
not ignorance, it's lack of awareness that this is temp
doesn't have to be perfect, may not be perfect. It doesn't have
to, we shouldn't be perfectionist in our work. But the forces around
us will render everything imperfect. That's the nature of
life should command you luck brought a beautiful point where he
said that
a lot of the Marxists their biggest flaw is why isn't
everything perfect? Like why do why are there poor people and
their rich people? Now obviously there was a reason an oppressive
reason for that. But even in the Quran, there is an idea that you
will not go against Allah's Will and make everyone even for him
fee. He's so up. Right? You will not do this, you will not make
everyone even if Allah blesses you with something, and he didn't
bless somebody else with something, and you're like, No,
this is not fair. He has to have it too. Sharing is one thing, but
internally say no, no, he has to have to otherwise this is not
right. This is also the same mucked of Allah's decision, the
same disapproval of Allah's Will as envy, right. But it appears in
the guise of righteousness, we're rich, all right, we have to make
sure everyone's equal, everyone's not going to be equal, you can
share as much money as you want, people will not be equal. Okay.
And so this is one of the reasons people get depressed in the world
is they don't realize the nature of head to dunya. And they're not
conscious of its shortness, and how long the future is. And it's
one of the
features of Eisenhower, medical Moats. How is it that he so easily
ticks the souls of people, and this is a harm to us? Right?
Because he knows what's awaiting them. Right? What awaits you was
far better. Like you may be kicking and screaming, but what
awaits you is far better. And this is what every parent will go
through something similar to this with their kids. Where something
for example, like an ice cream melts and false, right, and the
kid reaches to eat it off the cement floor. And you're like, No,
no, this is garbage. This is me kicking and screaming, and you
don't know that you have a nicer one, you know, in the freezer,
that you're going to get him right now. And that trip from the
driveway, back to the freezer. Is is like are that right? For the
bait for an infant or toddler, right? For a toddler. And then
finally, when he gets it though, he smiles and he laughs and the
moment you get it all that pain is wiped away. As if it never
happens, some pain is just literally deleted, some pain less
you but something is literally deleted. Right? So why do we come
into the world? It's nature. And then our departure from this
world. The thought of it merely the knowledge of it is a removal
of anxiety and depression just by itself. Right? And I would say
that's probably the number one thing, anybody who's upset about
the distribution of things in this life, or the hardships and efforts
in this life, if they simply merely contemplate the shortness
of it and
What awaits the next life and the true purpose and what is it that
Allah looking for, they'll eventually it will alleviate so
much. Not only that, the true Zed is not the one who puts an effort
in not buying and not acquiring, that's not as a hit. That is like
a much as a head. That's someone who's making himself as that's not
a chooser head. The truth is a head is the one
who is of two states. Number one,
he sought the dunya
in a good way, in a halal way.
And Allah granted to him as a blessing.
And give him so much that he's now no longer wants anything.
Allah gave him the Kurata iron, for him, the thing that fills his
eye and calms his heart. Now, he wants to spend the rest of his
life being grateful, he willingly he's happy he's hadn't he's
reached his fill. And that's a toughy from Allah, because some
people never do is want more and more and more. And the sign of
that when you want more and more and more, that means you're
seeking of it was not right in the first place. When you seek
Annamma, it is only the
most optimal way to seek a blessing is, Oh Allah, you said,
Love Me for the blessings that I have given you. So I'm going to
seek these blessings so that my love for you can be even greater.
Right? That's like the most optimal mentality of seeking
something of the dunya. Right, so that it could be a source of me to
be great, more grateful, like, say, Ali, when he took a cool
drink one day, and he's the head of the ascetics.
And his someone asked him about it, he said, I want to, to the
gratitude to spring from my heart. So I take some of the NEMA of this
dunya, so that I can be grateful. The other one is the one who
contemplates Acura so much.
And doesn't really have much reason to mingle with the dunya,
that the only logical conclusion is to sit and just prepare for
that.
It just makes no sense for him to invest in any dunya or to have any
dunya. And usually, that's someone who's single, who doesn't have
responsibilities. Because once you're in the world of
responsibilities, you're stuck in it, it's going to take you you
can't halfway be in the world of responsibility. Like if you guys
have a kid, for example, the moment you have forgotten, the
moment you have a wife.
That means you're gonna have friends in the society that you
have in loss. You have to put up stuff, there has to be
appearances. Right? So the Zohar immediately once you're in this
had to dunya it's very hard to be in it with responsibilities and
actually be a zit. Okay. All right, sec. Next segment. What
what book were we reading from? It's called Al Qaeda ASVAB where I
learned depression and anxiety causes and treatments by Mandy
lock. You can get the book I guess on amazon.com That's by Noah
books, and the forward publications. Alright, so again,
depression, anxiety, causes and treatment according to the Quran
by Matt de la based upon a TV series with Sheikh Mohammed Saeed
Ramadan and booty. Alright, q&a time we got a few minutes for q&a
Now you're in your q&a.
In the q&a, there was a question on the
parentage of the prophets of Allah who said them in the famous Hadith
Ebby Buka Finnur my father and your father are in the fire that
refers to the father can refer to the uncle, the biological father,
the grandfather or anyone who raised you. That's what an oven
is. So why would anybody assume okay, that it's his biological
father? It's not his biological father. All of the fathers of the
prophets of Allah when he was setting them and mothers were
honey Fs Okay, and Allah says What's up a Luba kaphas serger
Dean describing his lineage okay as people of sujood. So they were
all Hanif, smother and father,
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question. How do we know that it is give by Allah as a reward for
our good deeds or a test or is to draw edge Excellent question by
Hilmi Allah hills as
Hill mill us, sorry for butchering your name there. The answer is
yes
It's how you react to it. If you have a blessing and you react to
it by thanking Allah for it in your heart, obeying Him out of
gratitude.
For example, when you have a lot of wealth, you say it 100 Allah
and then go spend on the Haram know, the shocker. The hunt is
with your mouth with your heart and with your actions. In your
heart you feel gratitude. With your mouth, you always say this is
namah from Allah.
And it's not from myself and you should say that because what is it
from yourself? Oh, I worked with what limbs? Where did you get the
limbs?
Right the investor who created that this body that deserves all
the credit right? Oh, not always my ideas. Really? Where'd you get
the ideas? Who taught you how to read? Even so they can have ideas?
Who gave you the idea? where do ideas come from? You ever think
about this? You just accepted it. That's all you did. Okay, you got
the tofu soy thank thankfulness in your heart in your tongue and with
your limbs by not using it for the Haram and that's how and then
shook what is sugar helping people with your nema? You help people
with your nem Okay, Muhammad Ali was said, God blessed me with all
this fame. I have to use it now for the good, right? I have to
guard my fame. Polish the reputation and use it for the
good. So that's Shaka. So Hamed is between you and Allah Shaka is
between you and the people.
Okay, so that's it now if you use your blessing for sins
then
that's a sign that it was it was a punishment, it's bad, you must
have earned it with the Haram or you're going to be punished for
it. If you use it for sins yet at the same time keep getting more
wealthy that's what we call is to drudge instead Raj is raising you
up to drop you down
is an extreme wealth inequality oppressive in Islam,
extreme wealth inequality cannot it will not
continue if Sharia is observed.
One simple reason is the inheritance rules. Right? The
inheritance rules will disallow for this. Number two, this is a
Carol's were disallowed for this if a person is actually attaining
wealth in a lawful manner. And following all of the city with
their wealth, okay, then, as they go up, others will go up to by
giving Zika. Right, and by observing but
wealth inequality in itself is not a problem. Because think about
this. If someone is in the field of energy,
and this person works 100% You know, puts out 100% effort. They
wake up at five every morning, okay? They work six days a week.
They're frugal about their time. They're smart, they're educated,
but they're in the field of energy. That field is a
multibillion dollar industry, versus a man who puts the same
exact effort teaching fifth grade history. Right? That is not even a
couple $1,000 industry, right? The maximum you'll ever get expending
that effort in the world is a very basic salary. In contrast to
someone who's in the oil business, and doing working like that same
brains, same work ethic, but one is in the Atlantic Ocean. One is
in a little lake. Right? So that's the difference between risk. It's
just it's where you end up.
Minaj we're staying in our home country in our apartment for two
weeks. Can we pray sort of the traveler?
Nope. Two weeks was beyond the travelers distance in the form of
hubs ends at four days or 20. prayers. Hanafy
15 prayers 15 days.
So two weeks, if are you a Hanafi? Mina Mina, ag then then yes, then
yes, two weeks
having less children says Abdullah todich Because of concerns that
you won't have energy finances to give them a good upbringing, macro
to do that fear of fear of not being able to take care of your
children so not having children. It's also to help children come
with their own risk. Here's the thing you have more children
you more chances that one of them's it is is a posh upbringing,
right? And that's why people get rich. If you have seven kids, the
likelihood
of their destiny, being poor upbringing for all of them is not
that the likelihood one of them Allah has willed that we want to
give him a posh upbringing. And you get to skim off a piece for
yourself, right? For being the conduit to that is, right. That's
how it is works. We believe more kids you have the more chances
there just comes with the children.
Sunshine says just if you decide to have a Quran haves for adults,
and more specifically for females, we don't as of yet, we're going to
get our kids one down first. And we can add after that.
How can one decide what method to follow says use of Muhammad, you
can do that by studying the biographies and methodologies of
the four Imams and then choosing which one you believe is most
worthy of following. Okay, and there in this case, you use your
intellect and you make a decision yourself. That's the HD head of
the common man is to know who to follow. And someone said why can't
we do tuck lead and update as we do in FIP you can do to plead in
the secondary matters have updated but not the first.
In in Octave ADA
the primary matters of data such as knowing that there is a lung is
messenger and believing in them. Right? That you can not have tuck
lead in that. As for everything beyond that, you can have totally
done right you don't have to have direct can personal
investigation of
nor he says I've been given the opportunity to study under shake
in my area and I really want to do it. But my parents are not sure.
It is a good use of my time and money. Do you have any advice?
Firstly, Nori is the question is
the qualifications of the chef, the your other responsibilities?
It would be hard to say that seeking knowledge is never good.
Okay, unless the quality I mean, the qualifications of the sheikh
are not there. Okay, someone says for example, I'm going to
I'm going to take
a full time course. And we're just going to study the theories about
the end times. Right, that we could say, well, with who, for
example, you're gonna go to Malaysia for that, or what are you
going to wait? Where are we going with this? That's not one of the
Allume. That takes that effort in that time, especially from someone
who is not quite if they're not qualified. But if we're talking
about
Tafseer, if we're talking about FIP, for talking about Hadith,
optina hips and the shape is qualified, then we'd never say no
as for how much that really depends on your life
responsibilities.
As for money, it's never a waste of money, seek knowledge.
I know know if my staccato has been responded to I know Allah
will make things clearer. But there are many signs. Okay, no, it
works like this. Many people think not saying the question, but many
other people think we praise Takata and we sit and wait for a
sign No. Is Takata implies that you have already made a decision.
Okay?
I'm going but I would. I'm praying for Allah to give me a sign that
I'm on the right track. But the idea of Asana is you're going
you've already made up your mind.
If I'm going on the right path, Allah will open up the path and
make it easy. That's a sign that you're staccatos that's a sign of
this to follow.
That it's a yes. If you're going and now all of a sudden an
obstacles come in my way. That is a sign that Allah saying you know,
you made the wrong decision. So is Takata you're not saying Oh ALLAH
A or B? No, you're saying Oh Allah, this is what I'm doing.
Make it easy. If it's wrong decision make it bad, but this is
what I'm doing.
Right? If it's not the right decision, make it difficult. So
ease versus difficulty is the sign of a staccato
look at the wording of the staccato
could you answer Mohamed hijabs argument at minute one hour for
one hour? 43 minutes that there is a valid argument against the Kalam
Cosmological I didn't see it.
I saw the suit and the Koofi and never didn't click after that. Now
I'm just I'm just messing around Muhammad hijab is a great guy. We
went had lunch at in England and we hope to have him here on the
program who could talk about it so I'm gonna go track him down for us
inshallah is actually from
from Buddha here. Really nice Allah nice, but it just right
around the corner from us here.
Piscataway, Khalil Hamza.
Aki requestion said something like this God's knowledge of himself in
addition to us means you add to God's endlessness. No
The knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala is his attribute everything
that can and therefore it is pre eternal.
His knowledge is pre eternal, there is no addition for example,
if a baby's born
alright, and the parents named the baby. Okay, whatever, Abdullah,
you we now adding to Allah's knowledge that he didn't know
Abdullah was going to exist until he existed. No, all of what will
happen in all of the creation is in Allah's knowledge as alien, pre
eternally.
And it is in his knowledge, when he will manifest it into physical
form. And that's creation, the act of creation, it's manifesting it,
oh, my God, when you do well, I admitted here. So all of the
knowledge is with Allah, that's his attribute. So all of us have
existed in Allah's knowledge eternally. But that's not in
existence. For us. That's just in his knowledge. When he wills to
manifest us into physical form, then we come out and we get born,
or a phone gets invented, because that every single thing, from the
smallest thing to the biggest thing is in Allah's knowledge, pre
eternally, nothing can ever his knowledge never increases or
decreases, right? And then the timing in which everything
manifests.
And this is why, if that tool isn't allows knowledge, and it
manifests when Allah wills, okay, this is why the knowledge of Allah
to Allah would not be written, if all the pen trees were made into
pencils, not big tree pencils, no, little pencils like this. Every
single tree on the earth was made into a pencil, and he took all the
oceans of the earth were ink, and then you add seven more oceans
like that.
It would still not, we would still run out of ink, and we'd run out
of pen, pencils. Why? Because existence, the creation will
eventually live eternally, right, eternally, in Jannah, or not. And
if it's eternal, then no amount of oceans, no amount of ink and no
amount of what pencils will ever match the eternity you will need
an eternal amount of ink. And the kalam is going to be writing and
writing and writing and writing. Right because every human will
continue living. So that's the meaning of
the idea that Allah has knowledge, it never increases, never
decreases. All of what will happen and will exist is in his knowledge
as alien because knowledge is attribute. And his attributes
are pre eternal. They don't come into existence. They don't come
out of existence, they don't increase they don't decrease.
What are you doing, waiting for a DUA to be answered remaining to
make dua and believing that the DUA will be answered that is an
act of a Betta you are in an act of worship, when you're continuing
to make dua and you're believing that it will come to fruition.
Lavon Brown, there's also my opinion, the Hanafi school that
one can utilize the rulings of the travelers prayer, as long as they
are considered a traveler, but it's not the ultimate good.
Do you have specialization courses for scholars? No, we do not have
something someone who completed their scholarship programs for
example, we don't have courses for them no.
I'm a graduate student, the teachers qualified Shafi FIP from
Team All right.
I mean, if you're a graduate student, you're short on time
short on money, but no, that's still not a reason yeah to you,
timing wise, you can measure it the time you can measure it, but I
didn't has Baraka with it. And so don't worry about the money, the
time you should be reasonable with your time. But the money should be
fun with that. Knowledge always has baraka and
why does so many scholars prescribe the seven dreams
process? I've never heard of it. But I do know. Some people said if
you see seven dreams about a certain topic, it's like
affirmation that it's from Allah and it will happen and Allah knows
best to be honest.
Turquoise daughter, Herb daughter, so later Inshallah, can we insult
Hindu idols if they insult Islam? Not if not if they're just going
to become more insulting to Allah subhanaw taala because
it's one of the prohibitions is to instigate someone to insult Allah
his Messenger if I know that somebody is going to insult ALLAH
SubhanA which I shouldn't instigate them.
Okay? I mean, says what are the seven dreams method? I don't know
what it means. I think it means that you just keep your eye out
for having seven dreams about the same topic. It's not the method. I
don't observe that method.
I know it's it's a strong
indicator of things if you have dreams over and over about the
same subject, but it's not a method that we involve because you
can't control your dreams. Right? Someone can be fully 100%
righteous and never see dreams at all. That's okay. What's the first
step that you take to study the deen
something called Fatah Dine,
which is learning
the fundamentals of what you have to believe about Allah and His
messenger. And the semi yet of the last day and the prophets, Heaven
and *, these things, father dying of Arcada and then Tahara,
and then salah, and Psalm NZQA, if the person has money, and hedge if
that's part of also they have wealth and able to make hudge and
then the fifth of their trade, whatever trade they're involved
in, you have to know the fifth of your of your trade.
And after you finish for the day, and you study Tajweed, so you can
recite the Quran properly.
And then after that, it's whatever you study. After that, so bathmat,
best method to learn Arabic.
I like this method. You listen to an Islamic video that has
subtitles, but you've covered the subtitles, like you pull the
browser down. So the subtitles are covered. And you listen and you
pause, then you go back and you read the subtitles.
Right think about that as a method. Because you go to like
Mohamed Omar Mustafa is YouTube channel, and he has classical
Arabic with subtitles. So listen for a minute, or like 50 seconds
or 30 seconds, then go back and try to put two and two together.
So one of the best ways to learn and it's easy.
The Millionaire says Here are the seven dreams method read to
nothing before going to sleep with the question decision in mind. If
you see a positive dream score that as a yes. Negative as a no.
After seven nights, the balance of yes no is your decision. No, we
don't play seven game series in the dean. Right? It's Takata has
no business with seven game series. Right? So so it's on game.
So it's three three. Now it's game seven. No, no. No, we don't do
anything that looks like that'll Bill Islam. Chance. There's
another one they call it is to call it upside not in it's not
true at all. There's nobody away from saying that it's
holding your mind. What is it that you want? Okay.
Then look in the most Huff first word that your eye comes upon. If
it's Rama, you keep reading until either it's Rama or other a
promise or a threat. A good mention or a bad mention. And then
you mark it down. And you play a best of three.
I wouldn't play games here. Like we're like naming people in the
village like this. Right?
That's how they used to do that. Right? This is how you get people
with names that make no sense no offense at Jemaine right.
All together as remain where it is Jana edge my
insha you know, there's insha right? Well, that's a good analogy
and in the follow Derek Illa and Yasha Allah so intro
it's not a way to name people. And it's not a way to to make a
staccato either, right. And I'm sorry for anyone who's named a
drummer out there. I just insulted everyone, which I apologize for.
Okay.
La, right, right. So it's two words. LA is the word that I visit
word, right?
larive
So in that case, I'm telling you that not to make fun of anybody
but we all know it's funny to be honest with you. Right even the
people who are named that they know it's hilarious
the
the Egyptians also have just to so we can make fun of ourselves to
listen to this.
On top of a barber in Egypt, you know the story of Sedna Musa where
the mother said to the daughter go look for him. Right go look for
him.
A barber puts on a verse on top of his barbershop we'll call it the
hippo see
where I could see means go find his whereabouts. But it's come to
me in an Arabic us gospel Marcus, right. All right, so they put that
in Arabic. And she said, we'll call it Loki and she said to his
sister, go find him. But they mean by that where they think it means
Cut it. Cut it off the pussy. Right? How about this one?
The tailor has above his shop had a debate. Like I'm gonna fight us
what
the white thread becomes clear from the black dirty news puts
that up there, right
I think I'm not even kidding you in the airport of Egypt. There was
a once a sign that says let's go to Mr. Insha. Allah m&e, right?
They still have that when in fact they had left Egypt and miss it
was another country, right? The Benny's trade had left Egypt
missing meaning a location a city, but they took it as Egypt.
schoolmaster. Insha. Allah many
Egyptians have a lot of that stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah. In terms of Ennead with scholarship and stuff, there's a
lot of a lot of mockery of scholars to like, that's one of
the things that drives me crazy
Okay, let's listen to this. Millionaire. One guy I know said
he did the seven dreams method for his marriage.
Why don't you just roll dice. That point
he gave up. Now check it out. It's three, three.
He gave up on night three after three dreams. Oh, it's he's down
oh three in the series. So he just gave up. He got swept. And then
that night, next next morning, his mother in law crashed his car.
We are not playing chance in these matters. All of this is button I'm
telling you. 100% of it is bots at anytime, that your own mind and
your own willpower. And your own decision making and your own
responsibility is removed. And we are now making decisions out of
laziness.
By chance for the biggest issues of your life. The biggest issue of
your life. This is jelly. I have to tell you that. Allah subhanaw
taala. In this Deen gave us a brain he gave us a willpower. He
gave us responsibility. You are responsible. Why don't you want to
take responsibility for a decision? If you don't know how to
make a decision don't make a decision but don't roll dice.
Quranic rolling dice. That's what it is. Islamic rolling of dice.
What kind of dreams? Nobody has the ability to attract a divine
dream from the angel of dreams. Who's So some have called him
through hate.
These dreams aren't by our choice. Right? We can't do this. Andrew
Hale. How about you give us the scoreboard from the beginning? If
this is how it is? Why was he playing along? So he's gonna play
along with you now? Oh, he's got a seven game series. Let's scare him
a bit. All right. Let's give him three in a row and see if he gives
up well, Boston Celtics boom, they made it to game seven. Why can't
you? Weren't they down three zip. And they went
What a letdown.
And then they still give the guy money. At the end of the year when
he could have shown up that guy's a Muslim by the way. What's his
name? Jamal brown or whatever his name is? What's his name again,
the two J's. So the guy goes down with the ankle and the first first
minute the guy goes down in the ankle.
Jalen Browns now chance to be
the alpha
and he just brick brick brick all day threes, threes, threes on that
and I can't like when is just going to turn. This is the miracle
year for Boston down three zero coming up. Look what they got us
talking about. Right? Look what they've got us talking about. They
got us talking about low because this whole methodology is low.
It's it's Balton and it's nonsense. Okay, and then we
crashed cars. No, none of this means anything. What is the
meaning when I want to make a decision is I think and I ask and
I praise Takata and I take responsibility for my own
decisions and I trust in Allah. Okay. And then you go about
getting married or choosing not to get married.
But we don't play games like this. I'll tell you when we take sides.
If you're going to do something that you know is haram, you know
is haram, and then something bad happens. Then you can say that's a
scientist stop doing it. Why why why can we say that? Because you
have to stop doing it anyway, by Nussle Quran. So anything on top
of that is icing on the cake. Right.
Second, like all the kids guarantee you this happens every
Muslim kid talks back to his mom. Mom tells them to do something
then he stubbed his toe. Then the mom says See you shouldn't disobey
your mom. Right because wow, she really
but you should disobey your mom anyway. So whatever bad thing
happens in the process, and you want to throw it in the category
of a bad sign and a sign that a
was given you to deep do it no problem because it's haram anyway.
What about the opposite side? When you've made your decision
and you praise to God and you've done everything in the way that is
the Sunnah, such as is to Shada, asking those who know is Takata to
to any go slow and steady to any minute Rama go slow and steady. No
no rushing. Go slow and steady. This this hadith Hiral Amelie
Kira will be very agile who is in a Baghdad not in one minute
credible agile Okay, let's write a contract right now and make trade
No, we think we make a relationship we develop cleobury
Agile is should I make we do now or later? No. Should I do my to
know now? Or should I do it later? No, you don't know what's gonna
happen that's in a bad debt.
Or sadaqa right? Should I give this money man money now or should
I save and give him more later? No, no. So
what were we saying? We're saying you did everything right, then on
the day of the wedding. Plus, you're in you're ready your
mother's making to offer your dad's make this can't go wrong,
right hamdulillah everything's in right place and a nice dove flies
by you say okay, Mashallah. Little icing on the cake, the sign that
Allah Isida is upon us, right? Anything that comes from your
parents, from you, if your parents are pleased with your making dua
anything that comes associated with that is good anyway, because
this hostel is good. How about the Quran, you open the Quran to do
your recitation, and you read a beautiful idea, right? That you
can accept because you didn't go in trying to guess to roll dice
with the Quran you went in just to read and then a beautiful ad comes
up right? So that's the meaning of all this and that's how
unfortunately, millionaire I didn't really mean to roast you
guys like this or your friend, but he roasted himself with his down
three games to nothing.
And that his mother in law crashes the car Kulu all of its button.
Yeah.
And that's not how to make a decision.
Is it true that prophet would do things three times Yes. Anything
that could be done a number of times the prophets way was to try
to do it three times like three sips of water, things like that.
Should women cover their feet so lunch if you met them? Yes. Not
just their feet.
Yeah, niqab is the ruling from the mistake for face enhance.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have to stop here. It does not come along
here on robotic Allahu Feeco Subhanak Allah humo Byham Deke, no
shadow
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course, el Alladhina amanu I'm inside hurts whatsoever. So but
Huck, whatsoever so severe was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah?
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