Shadee Elmasry – NBF 8 Prophet Moses Had a Disciple Who Turned Against Him
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going to speak to you about an area and about an individual his
name was better even better our he's an amazing story which I
talked about somewhat while but there's so many different talks
and so many different communities so many different places that
they're all mixed up in my head I can't remember when I talked about
what the in the livestream the Jamaat mbyc or what have you, but
it all comes from spirits out of Surah number 175 and number 171 76
All right, what do I lay him never a levy, Dana who ain't enough and
Celica. Minha Kanima Nova wind, okay, this is so heavy because
it's pretty scary. Yeah, about a man who he was special. Okay, he
was special in the sight of Allah. And he lost all of it. So how was
he special in the sight of Allah and lost all of it, because it can
happen to anybody. And it's really scary when you see she you
are great people, and they lose everything. And these stories are
so important that we have to make sure that we never fall into them,
and you have to learn their lesson. So even our best tells us
about this. Even our best tells us that this man this guy had come
down about a man who had a situation that no other person had
before him. And his name was but um, the Airbnb or Uber or Ben
Bella, they differed on his name, but he was a man from a people
called the badeen. And these were a tribe that lived adjacent to the
Benissa eat and he became one of the best disciples of Sedna Musa
he set up Okay, so what do we actually have Nabi Taraji, Allah
Allah and OCaml can only in some say he was a Canaanite what have
you he was from Benny Slade wasn't doesn't matter those are
irrelevant details. However.
Sedna Musa de Sena he sends this man after years of training and he
trains with said no Musa for years and years and years on end until
he reaches Amma calm in which he knew how to call upon Allah
subhana wa Tada in a way that Allah would answer all of his job.
So anything that this man said his dua would be answered, okay. So he
knew and allow them.
And he was mudgeeraba Dawa. 100%, as he makes a dua for something,
it happens. So say Musa SNM as a excellent disciple of his, he
sends him to these people to go give them Dawa. And he's given
them dollop. Yep.
And as they try to resist the Tao of Musa they know, if they resist,
Musa is going to come by force.
And he's going to be angry, and they know that they can't handle
Musa himself. So what do they do is they start luring that young
men, and they sit and the king says, I'll marry you to my
daughter. Now I have a beautiful daughter, I'll marry you to my
daughter.
And he starts rejecting it at first. Now remember, the first,
when you first get a wave of something always rejected.
But then you're gonna get a second wave, the test is not just on the
first wave, the test is on the second, third, the fourth, the
fifth wave once that thing starts pecking away at you. And so you
have to remember that because we get tested on a matter one time is
not really the big deal. It's when we get tested. The second and
third and fourth wave of something, our reaction starts to
differ. First of all, you get tired of rejecting it. It's not
easy for your body to be receiving a message and your mind to say I'm
rejecting it.
Eventually, you're going to be tired of rejecting so you're going
to see it, you know, you're just going to pass it by, and then
eventually you're going to see it. And the question might start
coming into your mind of well, what if, what if we did this well
If we accept it, what it what would life be like if this
happened? So you have to really always wonder and worry, you got
to worry about ideas that peck away at you. And this idea
definitely picked away at him. And he bought the daughter and he was
so enamored with her beauty
that he married her and he accepted. And he said, I'll drop
the Dawa. I'll drop this invitation to the dean. All right,
that's a no Musa sent me with and I'll take your daughter, marry
your daughter, because he had never come near anyone as near as
beautiful as her get. So then
time passes, and he's just living amongst them. And he's wise, he
has wisdom. So he shares his wisdom, but he doesn't call them
to toe heed. He doesn't write letters better or send messages
back to say animals and I'll say there was getting worried. Did
they kill him what happened? So he said, Somebody say no Musa send
somebody and that person comes in, they found lo and behold, the
guy's changed sides, say knows he's there. He's living happily.
He's married to the daughter of the king. And he's a prince. And
he's changed sides completely. And said, Moses, alright, let's go.
Bring the army they bring out saying the Musa goes with his
armies.
And he gets there. And the people say to him, the king says to him,
go make dua against said no Musa.
And say no. And he says, Are you crazy? I'm not gonna make you want
to destroy me, I'm not gonna make dua against a prophet. That's
gonna be my death sentence if I make dua against a prophet. And so
they continue to ask him again, they realize that this person, he
weakens over time and the lesson on this person is see the thing is
we don't read these lessons just to look at them.
These lessons are made so that we can realize what in ourselves do
we have in that, and what in our environment is in the antagonists,
you have a protagonist and an antagonist. So from the
protagonists reason that ends up not being a good guy, his end is
not really good, is that he's somebody who's very strong at the
moment. But then as time passes, he wickets.
And the antagonist here is a group of people who, their, their what
they ask is so ridiculous at the moment, but when they keep asking
it, it starts meddling in people's minds. And that's exactly how
shutdown operates. Is that something where you think is
completely outlandish, but when it keeps pecking away at you, and he
keep going and keep going that weekend? And how many people are
like this when certain things that we can't even say you get canceled
off of Instagram and Twitter if you say these things, right? But
if you go back only 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, and you suggested
it to a Muslim, he would laugh.
It was gonna be one of those things that every single Muslim
agrees up. I mean, every single Muslim he used to be agrees on the
Palestine issue, for example, right? You go now and all of a
sudden some of this is controversial. Subhanallah I mean,
the if you all remember the gorilla, what was it? What was
that girl's name Harambee, there's like a drummer that killing
Harambee was bad, and that all of a sudden, but when when there's a
war in Gaza, it's like, well, we need to discuss it because they
also fired some missiles too. Right? It's like, that's up for
discussion now. Okay, so certain things start off as HTML. Like
there's there's a complete community wide agreement. I'm
saying it's man in a linguistic sense. There's community wide
agreement that there's no discussion on this subject, but
give it time. And all of a sudden, the controversy, the thing that
was completely no discussion, it's a controversy. No. Or you can't
even say it. Right. You can even in certain there are some
politically correct Islamic environments, right, where they
care so much about being politically correct. You can't
even say it certain thing, or just 20 years ago, we all agreed every
single Muslim agreed on that's the lesson from this guy, this man.
He No, it doesn't matter how pious you are, or how pious you look. As
time progresses IBLEES will peck away at you and peck away and he
will start eroding. What was a guarantee? No brainer. Okay, no
discussion, no brainer, absolute agreement that is starting to
start to peck away at you. Right? I mean, the idea of the obligation
of believing in the Prophet peace be upon him. I remember a couple
years ago, that became like a controversy, that to be a Muslim
to be saved on the Day of Judgment. Either you didn't hear
about the Prophet peace be upon at all, if you've never heard about
Islam. The update in the mid school is that you're saved
completely, you're forgiven of all your sins. The week opinion goes
by a hadith that says that they're tested on the Day of Judgment. But
why the ALMA they didn't take that is because it's an airhead Hadith,
which we has its value, but the in the Quran is not an abode of
tests.
Saying, and that will not condemn what Debian had said about that.
As soon as we don't punish anyone until we send the messenger that's
update. Yeah, had Hadith has is done me so it's not going to
override it. So the dominant opinion is that if you've never
heard of Islam, whether it's after the time of the prophet or between
prophets, you're completely forgiven. And if you're a murderer
and a * and you did all these bad things, your punishment is in
your heart, right? The destruction that you've done to your fitrah,
that's your punishment, or your punishment is going to be maybe in
the grave, you're going to find some discomfort, and Allah knows
best. But when they get to the Day of Judgment, or they get to the
dead judgment, they see all their sins chasing them in the form of
wild beasts and animals, because that's how it works. When you go
in the Day of Judgment, your sins come chasing after you, okay, in
the form of wild beasts, right. And your good deeds are the ones
who protect you. So you might have a good deed of a very weak army,
that your good deeds. So that's their punishment. But when they
come to face the questioning, and they stand in front of the Divine
Court, they say, We never got the message. So they're forgiven.
Okay. They're all forgiven. Question says, so if someone heard
of the Prophet peace be upon him, but didn't hear about him
properly? Can they be saved? The answer is, if they know now you
ask the question of what's the threshold? This threshold is very
simple, that you heard that there is a claim of Alas, profit from
the Creator. All right. And the His name is Mohammed is Dean is
called Islam. And he is representing God. And he's coming
with the last message. That's it after that it's upon them to
investigate in the same way. If I tell you there's a fire in the
building, get it? That's all I tell you. And then you go and you
fall into it, you can't blame me, you should have looked, you should
have asked, I told you the bare minimum that I have to tell you,
there is a fire in this building, be very careful. Open your eyes.
That's enough. Okay. So just telling them that there is
something called the Prophet there is something called Islam there is
a Creator, right? And he has a message that should be sufficient,
and it's up to them to investigate. And Allah has made it
all easy. You can investigate so easily now, but
what he did is he gave it he gives in over time, that's his problem.
And we have to ask ourselves, if that's our problem, we have to ask
ourselves, if that's our problem, if we're a type of people that
over time, we give in to whatever is whispered to us. And that's
exactly what happens to many kids. When they go to school.
They hear something as freshmen, okay, and all of a sudden, they
reject it, but then over time by the time second year third year,
it's it's become normalized. It was a QUESTION All right, good.
Okay, how do we protect ourselves from going from strength to
weakness slash not falling into absurd notions and commands? What
does it mean to be a principled human being in today's age? Okay,
repeat the first one again. How do we protect ourselves from going
from strength to weakness? And also from not falling into absurd
absurd notions and finance? Okay, what did they ask them what they
mean by absurd notions and commands but let me tell you about
the concept here of how do we avoid what but I'm went through
because but um, story goes on. And he goes, and every time he would
raise his hands to make draw against Satan, the Musa in his
tongue wouldn't be able to bring the words out and he would end up
making against his own people, or the people that he joined, until
finally, he, he felt a bird coming at last if a bird coming out of
his chest.
And he said, That's it, that was my Amen. And he lost everything.
Which brings us the Akita question of can someone be overly of Allah
and lose it? And the answer is yes, you can lose will. Only
prophethood is gained, guaranteed and never lost, but Allah can be
lost very easily.
The person can lose weight. Same way, there was a man who became a
companion and the time of the Prophet peace be upon him, he
apostate he left a slump, and he died as a Christian in Ethiopia.
Okay, another one became a companion. Then join the pagans
again, join Mecca again. Then after the death of the messenger
PSV bottom.
He became a Muslim again. So he's not a Sahaba. He's a Tebay. So he
lost the status of Sahabi again, became a Tebay. So to the question
of how do we avoid going from strength to weakness? The answer
is very simple. It's fear it fear going to weakness.
Now saying that you agree that a Alayhis Salam and Santa Monica
ill, they were the companions
of iblees in paradise, they would keep his company when bliss had
his collapse, and he failed and he went down into the abyss. They
were so shocked because you don't know that the bliss lived 1000s of
years on the earth and then hundreds of years in the heavens.
He was a given he was somebody that no
Nobody would doubted his event. And he had a collapse. And it
became an enemy of the truth and enemy of Allah.
So what ends up happening is that it Gibreel and Mikhail are sitting
and they're shaking from fear, like the shock. Okay, the shock
and I remember this, I remember seeing some shoe and drawers and I
still feel very bad for them for what happens if they had a
collapse, they collapse pretty badly in front of everybody. And
it's like, you're, you're shaking because you had an assumption and
you start doubting everything, you know? Like you said, you really
start doubting everything you know about people.
Okay, so saying that Allah has called them to Gibreel and mica
aid. And he said, Why are you shaking like this? They said, We
never expected that a bliss could have a collapse. So we fear for
ourselves. No, of course angels never can collapse. They can never
disobey Allah. But fearing collapse is like an act of worship
and a sign of you men. So. So Allah subhanaw taala said to them,
Do you want to know what will save you? They said, Yes. He said, Stay
afraid. Stay afraid, and you will be saved. Okay, so this concept
and this idea that we fear, losing our blessings, that and the
greatest blessing being Amen. That's the only way to keep it. We
should always never assume so people say, Oh, we got to trust
our kids. We got to I don't even trust myself. Okay, whenever it
gets those, Oh, you don't trust me? I don't, I don't trust my own
knifes. 40 years as a Muslim 20 years, I should say more than 20
years taking it very seriously and studying. I don't trust my own
knifes. And we should never showed an mo buckless. Indeed, he taught
us never to trust our own neffs. Okay, he said that about himself.
If I had one foot in paradise and one foot outside, I still wouldn't
trust myself. Alright, question. So she followed up, commands
emotions, she said, what society or authority demands something
which weakens once? And then someone further ask about
liberalism if it's truly a threat? And if so how do we protect
children and family? Not only ourselves? It is a this stuff is
no joke. It totally is no joke. And the question, I don't know if
you guys could hear the question are speaking, but it's no joke.
Society is pushing stuff. Even laws are pushing stuff. And we
Muslims may slowly be find ourselves edging up more and more
to the margin of society. Right? And there are certain things you
just you capitulate that you cannot do them.
Right? I mean, someone once said to me, Well, given the rulings of
Islam, the you know, the given, you know, what we say about music,
what we say about showing women displaying women, even so self
about men, men and women tucking that mean, he said, that means
there would never be a practicing Muslim director in Hollywood.
And I'm like, Yeah, that's true. There never will be, right,
because he's, in order to make a movie that's gonna get an award,
you're gonna have to do so many haram things. Right? So, but so
what do you think that this gene is without sacrifice? I mean, one
of the things that you have to think about is,
whatever happened to the idea of sacrifice that the, the the Dean
has not
there's certain things we'll never be able to do. So what? That's not
even a big deal.
There was a guy you all heard of Henry the eighth. He's the crazy
British king who killed all of his wives. Right? Every time. His wife
would give him a headache. He's just killer. Right? He killed so
many of his wives. Well, if you might have heard of like the
Morehouse or there was a guy named Thomas Moore. Now Thomas Moore was
a Catholic. And he was basically refusing to submit to Henry the
eighth. And Senator, I think it was Henry the Eighth, right? If
not, maybe it's Henry the 14th. He was refusing to submit to his
insanity. And he said, No, what you're doing is wrong. He got
killed. He had like seven daughters or six daughters.
He told them girls I have raised you on a religion in which we are
ready to sacrifice our life for this religion. Now this is really
hard talk, right? It's really easy. Okay, Henry the eighth. So
Thomas Moore says we were raised on the point that we
could sacrifice we could lose our lives for this faith,
let alone losing various privileges and whatever. And he
ended up did get killed and on the night before he told his
daughters, what did I've what have I been telling you? You shouldn't
be surprised. I've been telling you
All right, this is a faith you could lose your life for this
faith. And you'd be winning. You'd be gaining, you'd become a Shaheed
and the shades don't live in the same way that we live in anyone
who knows a Shaheed they don't live the same way we live the
shahada and the martyrs they live a different type of life than us.
They're when they're death is different. And they continue to
gain sustenance after they die. Some people say Allah permits him
to come back and whisper to people good things right and you wonder
why people do good things sometimes maybe it's your he does
whisper to them alone knows best if that's that's just like a
saying. It's not something from the messenger PSV Vaughn. But what
we do know, the martyrs live a different type of life. Right? And
they're always alive, then we that's why we don't, their burial
is not the same as anybody else's if they die in battle, okay, and
the Prophet said most of the martyrs of my OMA are of this
world. All right, in our sorry, are off the bed, which means they
dedicated their life to Allah, they just happen not to be a
battle. And as a result, they count as martyrs. Right? Let's
see, I'm trying to get on to
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you know how to do this right?
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you can go on yourself and read me the opportunity. You can read me
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find the Instagram live on the
right.
On the thing, so summary of the story is but um, it'd been better
what? He ends up losing his image. And he said, I felt a bird, a
pigeon. It's as if a pigeon flew out of my chest. And I realized
right there that's my Amen. So they said Make dua, he said it's
gone. I've lost all the power. Right? I've lost all of it. Oh my
gosh, did you see this question? Ryan?
GUID, Mike.
I don't know if she's joking or what? No, he's not.
You'll see it later.
Alright, let's hear him in the mortars. The US are they ended on
yet. But
I believe that there has been a lot of situations where
the martyrs they are involved in interacting with people on this
earth. They sell stories about the cabinet. There should be there
should be one unless they change unless they change the there.
There are stories of AbdulQadir and Jayla and there's stories of a
lot of martyrs. Right? That
that are helping people. They're continuing to help people. So
Allah, Allah, Allah knows best but the murder I mean, their life is
completely different. Right? The way they live is completely
different. All right, I got in. So let's go to the question box here.
All right, let's see what are the question bucks. So where's the
question box here?
Let's hear it. We consider homeschooling as a way of
protecting our kids from all the attacks that you mentioned. A lot
of people homeschool the question about homeschooling a lot of
people homeschool I don't really give much advice on schooling,
except that they should be with Muslims. I don't I mean, if you
can, some people, they're living in Iowa, and they're living in
Delaware. And they're living in these states that you don't even
study after middle school or elementary school, but then they
live there. And they're stuck. What can they do? But the question
is, I would not send my kids to and what I would have even give a
photo of taurine to Hareem have sent of submitting children, to
nonbelievers, for anything for education for what have you. So
that's actually considered a federal that people should think
about. And that that's to me is the number one thing. What are
they going to teach and who are these people anyway? Right? And in
California, turns out, they're all like secretly trying to convince
the kids to join the LGBT groups. Right.
So to me, I would never send my kids to these strangers.
And probably some of them are okay, but probably some of that
what's the weather it's
homeschooling, or whether it's
it's a Muslim school, but to me, the Muslim school has to be
cleaned a lot of these Muslim schools, it's really sad the
situation, like they're dirty, they're not clean, they're, it's a
terrible environment. And those things I would avoid, because the
kids are gonna get depressed. So it's either homeschool or a good
Muslim, clean Islamic school. And as for the education, you can
always fix that later. Some people are very picky about the nature of
education. To me, I always look at it that
education is reading and writing and math, right? I mean, that's
the basics. So you can read on your free time, you can get a math
tutor, you can always, you know, fix those things. So I'm not
really a type of Stickler, you know, on the actual education side
of things, right, schooling wasn't even the way kids got educated. In
the past, kids got educated by going out and about with their
parents, and learning the trade that their parents were doing, and
being adults acting like adults, and to me that's lost. So all this
education and the kid comes out of school. He can't even do anything.
You can't trust him to flip a burger. How many times have you
seen a kid
come out with an engineering degree. And the kid cannot even
put up like a rod. And he's got like the highest degree in
engineering from Rutgers, Newark, NJIT will lie about them. I
remember one time one guy
at MBI. See, we had the backdrop. So we had these rods and hooks and
everything. So I said, Hey, put up this backdrop here. I said, you're
an engineer, put it up. We put it up. That thing almost fell on my
head and gave me a concussion and broke. He didn't know how to do
anything. Right? What kind of engineer Are you? A Wallah. He
went to engineering school. He didn't touch a screw in his life.
He doesn't know a thing. He said, Oh, that's construction. I'm an
engineer. I said, Don't give me nonsense. You don't know anything.
Right? You're useless. And that's how these kids come out. They go
to all these classes, that it's all theory and abstraction. Okay.
He's never touched it. Okay. He never did anything. So that's the
problem. So, to me, there needs to be a lot more emphasis on hands on
education than on mere schooling.
All right, what else you got?
There is always a way for a person to get their Iman back. There's
always a way. You're you're never locked, you're never stuck.
There's always a way to get a person's human back. And it's
simply by building it up again, it's by how did you how did you
build it up? You build it up by a bed, and we have to have a lot of
a bad there has to be constant non stop a bad in our lives, and you
gain it back by being around the right people. So if I would say
it's fear of losing what you have, but it's also
not just fear, it's
being with the right people, someone asked what is the best way
to learn how to pray five times a day hanging out with people who
pray five times a day, it's the easiest way? Right? That's how it
works. It's the easiest way. Okay, hang out with people who pray five
times a day.
This question says Abraham OCFS spoke about irrevocable Wilaya.
What is it? Then? If you can lose Wilaya? Maybe he knows something
that I don't know, but from what I was taught in Updata.
Okay,
how's this?
From what I was taught in Arpita, it nothing is is unusable,
acceptable will only Naboo is something that can never be lost.
There is a new international online academy, Muslims called
Vianne Academy, my sisters, she loves it. I don't know anything
about it. I can't say anything. But the creative end is telling us
that it's something good. So you want to check it out? Check it
out. Do you see the same issues with Islamic education where it's
just academic, and not practical?
Islam, Islamic education can not just be academic. And if it is,
it's useless. I mean, some people go in. I can't say useless, right,
but close to useless. They go in to a school. They spend six, seven
years in a madrasa maybe eight years, four years, whatever. They
learned so much. But I guarantee you come out and throw him with a
bunch of brothers that we can't put two words together, the
socially inept. Have you ever come upon this? He's a big shake now
according to his academic degree, or even traditional degree.
socially inept, right, you're useless.
You got to know how to talk to people. So that's why in Daraa
Mustafa, I don't know if they still do it now. But I know that
use
To be this, you would take a group of students, put them in the back
of a van, and they would go out and they would do damage to
people. So they would force the students to get out of the book
Life and interact with real human beings.
And that's what was good, right. And that's why they became they
developed, they had personality they had, they knew how to deal
with people, as opposed to merely just doing books, books, books,
and memorizing, right and not interacting. Now, tell me
something. Let's say you did eight years in us in an Islamic
education, right? Then you come out, and you need to be an
amendment msgid Or a day or something. But you never held a
regular job. You don't know how it feels like to rush out in the
morning, spill your coffee, not have time to polish your shoes,
right? Get in the car, alright, you kids are yelling, you dropped
them off at school, you run to work. By the time you get to work,
you have a ring of sweat around your neck, you're miserable
already. And you sit at your desk, and it's 905. And you're like, I
got to be here until 5pm. And I'm already miserable. Anyone who's
commuted if you're in Chicago, you probably commute. If you're in
Virginia, you commute, most people commute, and they take the subway,
right or rail of some sorts. And it's just a miserable experience.
So if you've never experienced that, how are you going to talk to
those people, and then you got to work. And it's very hard to upkeep
your Eman while you're at work. You can't risk by the time you get
home, you're too tired to recite anything. Right? Maximum, you
could listen to something, you got so many responsibilities at home,
you're completely exhausted. And you can't keep your Eman up
if you haven't lived that. And I lived that for a little bit a
period of time enough to taste it and realize, okay, this is what
the quote unquote working men experiences, right after years of
PhD. Alright, this is what a PhD is just reading all day. And
abstractions that I said, You know what? I didn't pick up a book for
10 years just to feel what is it like? Right? And then I worked in
different jobs. One in I worked in a hotel a little bit in sales. I
worked in an Islamic school. Right? Yeah, that was dini. But it
was work too. And then I were lecturing Arabic to people that I
didn't even want to see their faces to be honest with you get
some of the students who are okay. But you have to have that
experience. Right? If you don't have that experience, how can you
talk to people? All right, the creative end says ban is an online
program for those who want to homeschool their kids. That's
great. Right online, maybe cervicitis should do the we should
do an Islamic studies for homeschoolers, right? Would be
great.
Yep.
Where can one learn?
Online? Where you can learn your father dying online is by going to
my art view.org. Okay, and you could study with us, we'll teach
you for today. Go to my art fi.org Send us an email. Right. And even
if we have to, to to you, one on one. It'll take you like a
weekend. Right? We go che Murad? We'll do it. Ryan, we'll do it.
I'll do it. We'll teach you your fun day in one person at a time.
How do we get formally trained madrasa teachers to strike balance
between Dean and contemporary issues? I think they should
graduate.
Okay, take the cap off, put on a shirt, get a job. Go live that
miserable life that deals with random people get a job. Okay?
Deal with random people for two, three years. Okay, you'll be a
well rounded person and you'll see how hard it is for a regular
person to keep up Islam. Right. And that's why it's so important
for Imams to be able to relate and but also to make programs that fit
them and to establish you know, these
a bed in a group because people are too tired. People ask me Why
do you guys do vicar night in the masjid? It's because I guarantee
you these guys who come if they didn't come they'd be sitting on
the couch with their husband or wife watching TV and so they fall
asleep but you know 1130 At night, right?
When they come to the masjid we they will do they're going to do
an hour of vicar that they would have never done at home. Right and
that's our job. Okay, this question says
if you can't have people how pray five times a day around you? Which
is most people right? Do you work in a hospital you work in wherever
you work? You're not gonna have people who pray five times a day
around you. Then you got to hit up the masajid you got to be
irregular at the masjid. On the way home stop at a masjid after
dinner. Go pray msgid At least two times a week.
Alright, Bing, it says, Should parents be more concerned about
making sure their complaints about Islamic schools are heard or focus
on being a better parent who doesn't complain about their kids?
Being a better parent? Right? I don't expect from the schools. So
what's gonna happen at the school? The kids might have a rough
experience. That's good. That's education. Not good. Like, I'm
happy about it. But that's part of life. I'm not sending them to
school Islamic school to the only thing I wouldn't want them at an
assignment school is that I would expect the curriculum doesn't
have, you know, some of the novels that are no good, right? I mean,
I'm expecting them not to learn that from a summit school. But are
they going to learn some curses from the kids in Islamic school?
Of course, they're, they're not going to school with angels,
they're going to school that they're Muslims. Right?
My expectation is that I this idea that the school has to be
absolutely perfect. Those types of parents to me, I think they're not
saying D. I know, Dean, for sure. It's not one of them, because I
know Dean, but he's not one of them. But a lot of these parents,
no offense, but they're in lala land, every little prick that
happens to the kid, they want a meeting. You're setting the kid up
to be so soft, that he doesn't know how to handle anything. And
to me, that's not good. I'm not saying that there should be
bullying in the school. But I'm saying that why is perfection
expected that your home is not perfect? Why would you expect
Islamic school to be perfect? So to me, the school is what it is
like Ryan, you went to school and your parents, you went to school,
you went to the local school, right? Your parents didn't
complain about the school, the school is the school, half the
world goes to public school, you go to the school that you just
that's next to you. All the Indian kids in the Chinese kids, they
don't go to special schools. They go to the regular rat hole school
that's next to theirs next to their building, to their home.
That's it. And they go home, and they study and they study and they
study and they get the grades and they go to Harvard, and they go
run Google and Twitter now. Right? But what are the Arab kids do? And
I can speak for the Arabs, the Muslim kids, they go to the
Islamic school. And they just expect some kind of a miracle
because they paid a buck. Well, the public school kids, they're
not paying the bank taxes, too, right? They're paying taxes. So
because you paid a buck, you think that everything is going to be
perfect? No, I can to be perfect. So to me, my thing with them is
study at home, do good at home, right?
Make up for it at home.
They're waiting for someone else to do the job for me.
And again, it's not to say that Dean was doing that because I know
him and he's not that's what happens when angels die do their
souls get removed from their form, ie, a lot of they do die and
they're resurrected to all the angels will eventually die to. And
there'll be resurrected as well. How to start studying Islam from
start at age 2425. You take off, you take off into class, that's
the first thing to do. You got to take off you to class.
And then you have to learn how to make to make sure your will do and
your Salah is done properly. And we have a video on that how to
pray on Safina Society's website, YouTube channel. And any questions
so far?
Yes. All right. Let's hear. So please beat us on the merits. I
was in Abu Bakr, some of the merits of saying that Abu Bakr is
that he was such a pure friend of the messenger piece we brought him
in that his intent, and his loss was unquestioned. And this is why
the messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said about him that
if the man of the almost one skill and the amount of a bucket on the
other, the amount of a bucket would outweigh it, because they'd
never been considered never once questioned.
the truthfulness of the prophets I send them
every other person who entered Islam, they they judged it in
their mind.
And then they came to a conclusion. But say no Bucher was
so sincere to the messenger peace be upon him from day one, and he
was the company that the Prophet loved more than any other men and
that he was easygoing He was gentle. So, and yes, the Prophet
loves all the Sahaba but his love for Abu Bakar was something
special. And after that, his love was Abubaker his daughter, Aisha
bint Abu Bakr, and she was very different from her the personality
of her father. She was fiery. Abu Bakar was so lenient, right. But
say that it's just was was created differently. She was fiery than
the Prophet love that too, right? So it's just the Sadiq it's a
special people if they're truly descended from us. That's a
special lineage
and the only tube
people to stand up against Yazeed were the grandson of the Prophet
and the grandson of level buck. Abdullah in his bed was the
grandson of Abu Bakar Cydia.
Okay. Now the question. Yes, that's one of the longer question.
What was the mean when it says it's a book without any doubt? Is
it not true that only logical or mathematical statements are the
only statements without? What could this mean? That's a good
question. The answer the meaning is, there is no doubt in the
truthfulness of this book. That's one meaning. And the other meaning
is, there is no benefit. Unless you approach it without doubt. If
you approach this book with doubts, you won't benefit.
Okay, if you approach this book with no doubt, in its
truthfulness, then you will find benefit. That's the meaning of
that question. Or the law, right, Buffy.
And it's a statement from Allah, there is no doubt about the
truthfulness of this book.
Next, someone said Is there a way to increase willpower
to increase willpower a DUA. If you want to increase your
willpower, this is what you do. Every single time that your your
your neffs tells you not to do something, okay?
Do it. Even if a little bit and every time your neffs tells you do
something, don't do it even a little bit. Right. So if you're if
you're if you're let's say you're you want to exercise, and you're
like, I don't feel like doing push ups, do a push up just what
contradict your neffs all the time, at every stage contradiction
of just a little bit, not too much that you get a blowback that kills
you, but just a little bit contradict your nerves. That's the
first thing second thing, a constant remembrance of the
reward. We're human beings that we want to be happy in life. Right?
Okay, we want to be people who are happy in life. So in order to keep
going, laziness, the cure for laziness is a little bit of greed.
Right? And there's a good greed, you have to own up Boneco fun,
well, thumma Allah says, In the Quran, they call upon their Lord,
out of fear. And out of greed, there's a good greed. There's a
good level of greed. Firstly, when you're seeking your reward from
Allah, and you're seeking it in a way that's how to, and that that
greed or that desire isn't knocking out another obligation or
another virtue, so you're not becoming a monster in the process.
So the solution to laziness is a little bit of greed, the solution
of willpower is a consistent decrease of your knifes, right or
a contradiction of your ego.
There was a story about a Christian in Egypt, and he was
causing a lot of problems. Because he would he was like a monk zakat
type.
Whenever someone would pass him by or come in, he would read his
mind.
For example, someone who would be knocking he would call out out the
door, who it was and why he came. Right. So the the Muslims are
getting freaked out. They're like we thought cut off because we're
only for a Olia.
So the shoe, they said no, there there there can be not cut on us.
We wouldn't call them cut on that. But we would call them there is
cut up colada going against the norm. It can be done by
nonbelievers. Okay. But only of this world only of worldly men.
So finally, one chef, he sat down, and he's knocked on and he said,
Tell me by Allah, you're confusing all of our people. Right? Tell me
exactly what's the secret? What how is it that you've gotten to
the point that you're able to read minds?
He said,
anytime that my neffs wants to do something, I do the opposite. And
because of that, I got spiritual power by constantly contradicting
my neffs against spiritual power. And through that spiritual power,
he conquered it he's he's able to sort of read minds and things like
that, right. So we do believe that non believers can attain a level
of spirituality where they do have what's called Clinical adda. They
break the norms Yogi's do it all the time. I was at GW University,
St. Jose Nasser said that he saw with his own two eyes, a yogi be
buried alive,
buried alive. And 40 days later, they dug him out and he just
walked away.
And he's now he made the mistake of thinking oh, that means he must
be upon some truth. He's not upon some truth. Right? But there is
the human body, the human spirit. The soul has an ability. If you if
you purify it in a certain way from
emits desires, okay? You purify the neffs from its desires, you
gain spiritual powers, but there are only spiritual laws of this
world. So likewise, I could tell if an engineer studies and studies
and he goes against his desires by studying and he he sticks to
studying, he invents an airplane. And he's not Muslim, either,
right? I mean, we spiritual paths
are
not the only power of material power is really important to Okay.
I mean, if you had to make a choice, and you had a war, and
someone says, Hey, your your your soldiers have spiritual power,
your soldiers have nukes and machine guns, I'll take the
machine guns, right? Material power and spiritual power are both
worldly powers. And if you press the right buttons in life, in this
world, you're gonna get that power. We see now the kofod have
that power. And yeah, who would have that power? Hindus in the
past had Yogi powers, right? There were wizards in this world, that
stuff was all real. It was spiritual power, but it's only of
this world. They're not drawing upon melodica. They're not drawing
upon angels. They're not drawing from the riddle of Allah. They're
not drawing from the pleasure of Allah. They're not bringing Sakina
we don't know if they're happy by all this. We don't know if they're
happy. We don't know. So spiritual power is a thing.
But it's not something that is going to be always linked to being
on true belief.
And most of the time, it's believers, most Muslims who don't
go to heaven, they have not an inkling of material or spiritual
power. So it's not a measure for us. But go look at all the books.
They all tell you that yes, there are Yogi's and Hindus and things
like this. And medicine men, they had the spiritual powers.
Question.
Is there any online curriculum from basics to advanced in the
online curriculum, you know, what I'm going to promote here is to go
to my art view.org and get in communication with us take our
free classes, and we will we will guide you step by step right?
We'll take you step by step and we're content we continue to, to
add to our curriculum. Right. So that's, you know, what you could
study, go to my art view.org Sign up, whether it's free classes or
not, you want to email us, send us an email, and we'll guide you
through it. Ryan will answer your emails and we'll we'll guide you
through it step by step. Nabila says is there a type of due out we
can make for Muslim political prisoners? What did the Muslims in
the past Joe Yes, there are plenty of dua have
to fridge el humo, which is to or to accrue to, to Fraser Kurup,
fulfillment or relief of tribulations. So we should we can
make those who are in the middle of the night for these people. How
to be more motivated to complete the last seven Jews in hips. Just
recall what motivated you to remember the first to memorize the
first 23 just okay.
It's my Ark view. I'll spell it for you here, my Ark view not art
to view, my Ark, view the orgy. And we have live and online
classes constantly year round. The classes are either
online, live, or they're pre recorded. So people could study
and they do study year round with these classes. Next question is an
essential necessity something or something compulsory for teachers
to teach? You that doesn't make any 100%? Yeah, 50 Nakita mainly
mainly took an op ed he should have any Jezza Yeah, and if he
knows if he's afraid is right, and his FIP is right. And he has a
general economic general ijazat to teach and to transmit a hadith,
and then read the commentary and give the commentary according to
correct fit canopied next question, which should be read
after each song, as you could see, after each salah, and there are
two A's from Emraan that the prophesies seldom recommended that
we recite shade a low and no la ilaha when Mala equatorial el
corte emember fistula Allah Allahu Allah as is recommended in the
light Islam and then put Allah home American Moulton welcome and
Tisha, what Transjordan welcome and mentorship which always are
meant to share with you the lumen, Tisha, the ethical fire in that
category, Sam?
All right, yes, seeing says you know, you have a thought of who's
around the corner, and then that person is actually there is that
an angel whispering to you that thought in your head, he could be
an angel, it could be a sign from Allah Subhan could be purity of
neffs allow Adam, it could be any of those things.
Next question. Someone followed up saying because you're setting so
don't hope in the Isha Prayer fulfilled with the hadith of the
prophet shall
It will, it will. Whether you recite certain sutras that are
recommended to recite it for example, Waka whether you recite
the insula, or outside of Silla, insula outside of Salah inshallah
you get the same reward for those
is to refer up too long of a topic. Yeah. But it's the Gotha
that is completely agreed upon is devata on the spirit of Tillotson
got to wetsuit is acceptable, that you ask a lot to honor by offering
your deeds if your deed is that you love a certain Welly of Allah
or a certain person then that's that's what you're offering.
Alright case Finn says you mentioned or talk about Mr. Jabba
Dalits now applying what you said so why is it that there are
certain Hadith around
being was to gel with Dalits
you really want to be you shouldn't be you should try to be
Mr. Java, Java. And if you attend Matamata TECHO, Java Dawa purify
your food, you'll be more Java dough, purify your food, that's
the main thing.
And what is to Java to Java is by having absolute no doubt belief
that Allah Tada is gonna get you what you asked for. If you have
doubts, then you're negating it. If you have doubts inside of you,
it's almost like having water inside of a cell phone. It's not
going to work. Right? So you keep pressing the right buttons, you're
pressing the right buttons, but you yourself are messed up. Either
your nourishment is haram or you have doubts.
Those doubts are killing everything else. So your phone's
not going to work. If there's water inside of it. Same thing.
When and how did you start studying knowledge? We'll bring
that up in sha Allah and another less talk. We'll talk about that
Jolla.
Any other final questions? Yes. There's to
reverse be approached to adhere to the proper methodology without
coming across as dogmatic to further clarify is even reversed
after reverting be drawn to extremist ideology. Have you worn
them without pointing fingers?
Sometimes you have to point fingers.
Okay?
Sometimes you need to tell people that certain groups stay away from
them without necessarily being decisive. If you feel like oh,
that's going to be decisive, then you just need to pull them into
your group until they start to learn the foundations of what the
dean is. Okay?
The foundations, and then they'll start seeing that those are absent
in those other groups. Right. So whatever it is, that is absent in
that extremist group, you bring it to the fore to the forefront in,
in your teaching and education of these of the of a new Muslim, so
that when they go there, they'll see it by themselves. But
sometimes you just if it's extreme, you just have to tell
them that we don't do this. Right? We're not going we don't go to
that group. And they have issues. So sometimes you have to say
alright, we'll take one more question from here and one more
from the other stream. So let's go to
someone that we haven't gotten to yet. Let's go to all my alma mater
Mufti says, a Santa Maria can can you suggest a dua for children to
start praying?
A dua for kids to start praying. What did you just tell them to go
pray?
Right? He I mean, we all parents, we all make dua for our kids all
the time. May Allah open their hearts to Iman, if you're talking
about maybe she's talking about a 15 or 16 year olds, that's
different because you can't really control them sometimes, right? But
if you're talking about a little kid, you know, in the same way
that you tell him to eat a salad, eat your food, go up to bed, do
your homework, go make wood do and stand in the prayer line, so it
just becomes a habit. So that's what I understand. Maybe they're
saying something that they're already young adults, right? Maybe
I've missed something so.
So he this is what if you struggled to fight doubts when
making dua? Yes, it still can be answered. But you have to fight
those doubts and making up because the Prophet commanded you to he
said Make dua while you are certain of the answer. So you
really have to remove doubts. How do you remove doubts by
remembering Allah is capable his closet, he created something far
greater. Okay. Which is your life? Your your living is far greater
than whatever you're praying for. The sun is far greater than what
you're praying for. The moon is far greater than what you're
praying for. The Creator
To those than whatever you're asking for can be easily graded.
Just because it hasn't happened yet. Someone said, I've been
making draw for two years. I said,
it takes four years to get a high school degree.
Right? It takes four years to get a high school diploma. And those
things are just a piece of paper, you throw on the side, and you go
to college and you lose it. Right, four years after high school, I
mean, I know some of these people here are surgeons, right? It takes
12 years to become a doctor.
You're gonna do four years College, four years medical, and
then four years of
residency, then you might take another two years. It takes 12
years to be a doctor. Things take time. If you wanted to get a CDL
to drive a truck that might take you nine months. Alright, so if
you if you want to be a real estate agent that might take you
from the moment that you desire to be a real estate agents. And the
moment that they make the sale of their first house might end up
being
two years, maybe one year and we see these guys all the time and we
don't bat an eye when we see them but it takes two years for them to
become like that. Okay.
Pharaoh of NJ you might want to change your screen name there. But
Allen is not exactly a great do I know this person, but you have to
have somebody, right? Have southern
it just remember four years to get a high school diploma 12 years to
be a doctor. So to get your prayer answered, if it's worthwhile you
wait.
Little kids to for prayer, I would say pray in front of them and just
tell them to pray.
Why can't you tell them just just to stand next to me and pray? They
should be able to say that stand next to me and makes Allah
s Bailey Khan says how do we purify our neffs and our heart
must much recitation of Quran and Salah on the messenger will help
you purify your heart. One more question from Ryan sweat. Okay, we
have a lot of good questions.
combined two of them Yep, no problem. Someone asked about the
yogi's and everything is it spiritual power or using gym and
then another person speaking about spirituality? Are Muslims allowed
to engage in acts like yoga for health benefits without the
intention of worshipping other than Allah All right, is it
spirituality or jinn Allah knows best? Right? Allah knows best who
knows about that stuff? But and can we go engage in those
practices? But for the health benefits like stretching and yoga?
Yes, yoga is essentially to me it's stretching if you ask me,
right. Someone said they went to a yoga camp I said always show me
what you what you studied for like three days at this yoga camp. And
they start doing okay, do this stretch that stretch. I was like
you're stretching right? In a hot room. Right? That's what it was.
So it's stretching is okay, there's nothing wrong with
stretching as long as you're not doing those chants etc. But
stretching is fine.
Now the one Sure.
Is it possible to remove the veils in today's life? Is it possible
that the veils can be removed in this life if we work on our
spirituality as the veils will be lifted after death? Is it possible
Can you remove the veils and the answer is yes for sure if a person
does a lot of a Betta and avoids a lot of distractions and the Haram
and purifies their their food than Yes. Which I love those veils can
be removed little by little you know if they're removed all the
ones that will be a great shock but little by little they can be
removed
all right, let's stop here. Just a couple off good and everyone
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middle side ahead what's the wall so we'll hop what's the wall? So
the server we ask ALLAH SubhanA which Allah to accept from us. And
we ask Allah to Allah to
keep let us live and die upon Allah sunnah wisdom our and let
our all of our data and our advice be answered. be higher in goodness
and in gentleness and in protection and with his beloved in
the dunya and with the what pleases Allah subhana wa Tada and
we ask Allah to Allah to let us never be led astray by Shayateen
ins origin and May Allah guide our children and our offspring. Until
Yama piano ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada to keep away the wealth that
is haram from entering in our stomachs and it's our bank
accounts. We ask Allah to keep poverty away from us and away from
everyone on these streams and their families. We ask Allah to
keep misguidance and ignorance and Jihad and bad friends and
temptations away from us. Lastly, we ask a lot that you make none
more beloved to us than his most beloved Sejal, codename Sayidina
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen was salam aleikum wa rahmatullah