Shadee Elmasry – Q&A Livestream on the Importance of This Soup Kitchen & Dawa Center
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Amanda Rahim. hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah
while Ernie was talking Buurman Hello, welcome everybody to
another nothing but facts live stream. Very important and
wonderful topic that we got. Today we're going to be talking about
our latest initiative, which, of course, you've probably heard is
our soup kitchen. And we're gonna have one of the nicest soup
kitchens that you could ever imagine.
With, I want you to think back of to your childhood, when you watch
the movie Ratatouille, and saw that gorgeous kitchen. And that's
what we're going to have, we're going to have a beautiful kitchen,
that's going to be making hot and warm food for everybody. And
they're gonna hear the book of Allah and the word of Allah and
meet Muslims and see what Muslims are all about. That's where we're
going to do and so thank you for all those who are congratulating
us for the acquisition of this property was a big deal. And it
was really something that has been building for a long time. Now the
way that we we got this going, was really just, we just started doing
it. And I felt there's so much talk, everyone talks a good game,
right? And but talking is useless, in my opinion, unless you're
learning something that can be practiced. The practice is the
useful part. Once you have knowledge, now your McAnuff, Allah
is going to ask you, what are you doing with this knowledge? So
what's the action that matters? And when I looked around, and I'm
like, we need to do something. Okay, we need to take action. What
we did is got a bunch of brothers. And they all thought it was sort
of a little bit odd. But I said, Let's go. Let's go get a bunch of
hamburgers from the Hello adjoint. We got these hamburgers, and we
walked around George Street or writer down here in northern New
Brunswick. And we just started giving them out. We'd start giving
out these hamburgers. And that was it. And people are like, this is
not a method of doing anything. I said, Yes, it is. It's called
getting a start, right? Yes, it's completely impractical. It's
financially impractical. It's physically impractical. But most
ideas fail at the start. They just don't start. That's how most ideas
fail. So I was like, we achieved something even if it's
impractical, but we started doing it. And then the next thing I
passed around a Koofi and I said, Hey, at the we were at a, at one
of our bigger gatherings, and I said, Hey, everyone, empty your
pockets, put the money in this in this goofy, and they all emptied
their pockets who came up with like, 150 bucks. We went on the
spot, we ordered burgers. And we did it again the next week, right?
All right, that were that same day, so that we had it two weeks
in a row, and then three weeks, then someone of course comes in
now that they see you're doing it, they realize Hold on, you can
actually tweak this and make it better and make it better. And
then a lot of people got involved, okay, maybe some of them don't
want me to mention names, but some of them who are involved in the
Cinnabon industry, they really took over and they really
carried the weight of this thing on their shoulders for so many
years in a row, they never missed a Friday, and we found a better
location to give out our setup. All this is in the second story.
In the second YouTube video. In our link, it's in this one that
says the story. It's all there. And we found a spot instead of
walking in exhausting ourselves. We were literally exhausting
ourselves walking up and down the streets. Okay, so we we found a
spot and in that spot, we were able to just the people would come
to us. And then the families people need their sins purified.
That's why we need to give the sadaqa their families would would
give us their their would take some of their food, cooked their
food, their dinner and leave some package it and people would just
buy packages, Ramadan every single day, every day. And then Saturday
and Sunday. Forget about it. We had the leftovers from the masjid,
we would package it. And some days we gave out over 100 meals, right?
And then I said guys, listen, this has got to be permanent. We got to
do this every day. Okay. And then we just started talking about a
building. We just kept talking about it. And then somebody comes
up. Another person came in and said, Listen, there's a property
there. And he started talking about it. And then he was a doer.
He made it happen. All right, he made it happen. And then we got
it. We investigated. We got the architects and we are going to
renovate this place and make it literally a landmark in the it's
going to take more than the $30,000 launch good operation.
It's going to take more like $200,000 but the 30,000 is the
first step and we need your help to go into launch good.com
backslash Safina you benefit from all this. We need to take this to
the people who have never heard of to hate.
We need to take it to them. Right How are we going to take it to
them? Why would they listen to us? They're going to listen to us
after they start to trust us after they say they owe these people
They, they're there. They're here for the they're good for our
worldly life. And he the Dean has got to be good for people's
worldly life before it's ever going to be something absorbed in
their hearts. And we have to remember that the Dean has got to
be really good for people's worldly life. I mean, this thing
is solving problems. It's this Dean has given me direction this
Dean is a source for me to make friends. This Dean is a source for
me to to get married. This Dean is a source for me to adjust my
physical life, my physical and mental well being is adjusted in
Joe's suit. It's a never one verse, we made the nighttime for
sleeping, and the daytime for working, right. So everything is
fixed. If I turn to Allah, and study his shit, yeah, and the son
of his prophet, everything gets fixed. And we need to take this to
people. And we're going to take it to people the way that we're going
to initiate conversations and talking and everything is around
the table just like a family. Right? If your family if you're
having situation with your family and your family is breaking down,
ask yourself do you guys eat together, start eating together
and eating together does not mean everyone go get a play and sit on
the couch. No, eating together means clean out the kitchen, cook
a meal, cook it together, make a table have plate settings, there
are table manners, just because tables and and forks and knives
did not exist in the Sunnah does not mean there's no table manners.
Well, there parking cars didn't exist in the sun. But there's a
method to park and there's an art to making a parallel parking
properly. So likewise, when you go home, you set the table properly.
Alright, the cutlery should be of the same type, the napkin is on
once, whatever system you use, there's no set system there is I
guess what we have the British system, like the fork is on the
left side, the knife is on the right, the spoon is after that
napkin is under that cup is in front of the knife. Sometimes
upside down. If you're set the table early, you put it upside
down so that the dust doesn't get in the cup. There's a sense for
it, make a nice dinner, and then hot plates, and then put the food
and then you serve it properly. You save the dropper, you set that
table nicely, you put five minutes of effort into something, really
just put some effort into it. All of a sudden, you everyone's in a
good mood. No, everyone's talking now everyone's enjoying the food
now. Right? People talk when they're in a good mood when things
look nice.
And the food is good, and it's warm, and it's fresh people talk
and that's how we're going to initiate you know, these
discussions, right and let it come out naturally out of people.
Alright, so that's the philosophy. And that's the philosophy for
anything. If you don't have friends, no problem. Invite them
for dinner, clean the house, let them just eat the warm food.
And let the conversation come out by itself. It's just a set of from
Allah subhanaw taala. And that's why one of the few from Turkey.
Many of you know him shit, what edge up center.
And I took this from him. I can't recall years ago. And I took notes
and I never forget this lesson he gave us and it was a tangent. He
was given us a lesson. And there was a tangent. And in this
tangent, he talks about how the shoe of his tumble from long time
ago. And from Turkey in general. They did all their teaching was
through the food. It was all through food. Uh, one of the
generals he brought his son to be part of the shakes order, okay.
And they used to live in this place at msgid a kitchen and
living quarters and teaching quarters and a library etc. He
bought his son over. And six months later, he came in to check
on his son. He said, Son, what did you memorize? Right? He said
nothing. I don't take classes. So what the heck you do all day, six
months I've been here. He said, Oh, I wake up in the morning, I
have to clean and then I have to go and get the crops and water
them. Okay. And then I have to wash them cut them up. Then I got
to make the bread. And then I'd have to make the soup. And then I
have to serve all of the moods.
The first meal of the day, then I have to do that all over again in
the evening time. And I serve them to dinner and then the people come
the the poor people come and they we have to feed them to and then
we have to mop up we got to clean it all up at the end of the day.
By that time. I'm just exhausted. I go to sleep. Wake up the next
day. So the general is fuming. Now he's goes over to his to the
shake, slams his fist on the table. What the heck is this? I
give you my son and you're taking him as a servant. He said what did
you want from me? He said, I told you to educate my son not to make
him a servant.
He said I can only educate someone who has edit. Your son did not
know anything about work ethic. Being on time being
He was not clean, okay, he had no manners, and he had no humility.
So I'm teaching him all of that and doing the work that you should
have done at your own home, and you didn't raise him. So I'm doing
all that when he's ready, then he could sit for the lesson. All of
this was learned from the table from food. That's how much is
learned from food. So when people take this issue seriously, there's
a reason for it. Okay. And there's a reason for this, that we're all
going to all honestly we're going to get our sins purified through
this project. This is what I truly believe. And this is a day and
age. It's so chaotic, isn't it? Only Allah is going to save people
in this day and age. And you're just going to save people because
of the good that they do. For others. There's no amount of
worship that you could do to earn your salvation. You're going to
earn salvation by serving others. And if you don't have a an area
where you can surf, and not everyone has an urban center,
we're lucky in North Brunswick, literally, you could drive for
minutes, and you can see Extreme Poverty Extreme I'm telling you
extreme. So extreme. I told this story so many times that we
cleared out the shoes that had been left over in the masjid some
people. It's very weird. I don't know how this happens. But we
ended up with shoes. How do people go home, the shoes that are in the
masjid for like, weeks and months. So one day I came in on a Saturday
morning the message empty so I know nobody is here. We took I
took all the shoes, put them in a garbage bag and we said Listen,
let's give this to the next run. We go out for the next run and we
lay out all the shoes and then I noticed that there's one shuffle.
It was a nice leather fancy jumper but it was only one foot. It was
only like the left shoe. There was no right shoe. So we put it out
there as I don't know just leave it put it out there. Wallah had
him someone came in he took it. That's how poor people are. Right?
And we're literally a stone's throw away from these people. And
we are living with excess will light all the excess coach bags,
right and Gucci stuff. Okay, well Allah, and it's fine. Hello, if
it's colored good for you. If Allah made you rich, good. May
Allah make us all rich. You know, you want to be rich, I wouldn't
mind being rich, may Allah make them rich and bless their wealth
and make it a wealth that is a cause for them to enter paradise.
We're not
you know, people who guilt and shame the rich. I love the rich,
go and become a donor to this operation. And to whatever
operation you want to donate to use your money to purify yourself,
and send your kid who's probably spoiled more often than not send
him to mop up the floor to cut up the cucumbers and to serve the
poor. So when he sees the poor, he realizes what kind of NEMA he has.
I took my kids to these runs. Sometimes in the summertime, I
take them when the weather's nice out and everything I noticed in
the first time I took them, their eyes were like this, they had
never seen such poverty. Kids with their toes sticking out of the
shoe. They're a three minute drive away from us, their toe sticking
out of the shoe moms that take the food from your hand, it's not even
wrapped will lie sometimes they sandwiches not even wrapped, they
take it and put it in the mouth of their kids. In our society, that
would never happen. The mother would become so obsessed with the
cleanliness and allow them maybe he has a peanut allergy. Maybe
there's no she takes it right from your hand and puts it right in
your kid's mouth. That's how impoverished they have Subhanallah
them. Okay. And they're watching this, and they're going home
silent. No one's talking. They can't believe what they just saw.
Then stop complaining.
Absolutely. They stopped complaining not a single person
from the kids who go there ever complaints. And if anyone ever
complained after that, they say, What are you complaining about?
You want to go and live like them? You're lucky you don't live like
them. Stop complaining. Stop whining. I'm telling you, that's
how it goes. That's the value and the benefit of these operations,
you're going to realize the number that you have when you see the
people that you're serving, okay? And have some humility. And when
they come I said, Listen, you're going to serve? Don't you dare ask
me for volunteer hours for school. If that's why you're here, I don't
want your service. And by the way, I always sign their paperwork.
Right. And I usually tell them afterwards Yeah, I'll sign your
paperwork. So these high school kids come are you coming to get
your volunteer work? Firstly, I accepted if they do, but I just
threaten them a seven that sign and nothing. So come here and just
serve for the sake of Allah. Right? And then once they learn
that, then I'm happy to to sign all their paperwork, right? For
their volunteer hours. But this is the idea is that they they're
getting something and it's not the food that's going to be the big
deal. It's it's so hate.
I'll be damned if this turns into a secular soup kitchen. Never
gonna happen. Not on my watch. It's got to we are given this to
create a relationship to eventually give to heat
And to show them to let them hear the Quran because there's going to
be a flat screen TV, it's going to be playing a C, it isn't a sheet
Spanish speeches about Islam, right? We're going to make a
playlist, they're going to hear the word of Allah the event
they're going to hear. And then it's going to show us deep into
them. Right? So that's the idea. At least they can hear the word of
Allah. And they could be sparked to ask questions. Because the Dawa
is the most important thing. That's more important. What's the
point of view? You gave me stuff for my body? And now you left my
body to go into the hellfire? What's the point? Right? No, we
have to eventually transition this and it is open. Right? And I know
people Oh, you're using this? Yes, we are using this to give doubt.
Because if you're not going to listen, what is more important
that to eat for the hot meal? That with the hot meal if you're not
getting any to eat? Right, so we need to consider this as well.
This is the most important thing is people to have guidance.
Without a city we have no purpose. Without a Shinya. We don't know
why we're law. Without a city. We don't what do we have without a
Sharia, right? We have no spirituality. And we're going to
allow on our watch that people are ignorant of Allah and His
messenger. And we're just okay with that. If I was to eat a feast
every single night, right, so Monica, awesome. Good. All right,
timeout for slots and acid. I'm going to shut down. And actually,
you know what, brother?
You guys go, I'm gonna pray with God. He said, when he comes.
I can't cut this. Now. I'll pray about God. He said when he comes.
So you guys leave this alone? You can pull that door.
Okay?
If I was to sit there eating, and there's a guy down the road and he
doesn't have any food, you'd look at us as selfish. Right? And
that's what it is. We are selfish. How is it that he doesn't have
Amen? You can enjoy this food with your family if it was not for the
Sunnah of His Prophet and the Sharia making you Okay, understand
the value of a family and having the Eman to avoid Zina to avoid
drugs with what do you avoid drugs and zeniff to avoid with the men.
So you have a man that gives order to your life and gives meaning and
it gives sweetness of taste. They don't they might not have that. By
the way, they might they might be better Muslims than some of the
people there. But mostly they're not. Okay. Mostly they're not
Muslim.
We have to give them that data. Okay, that's far more important
than anything else. So right now, let's go in here. And let's check
out with anyone has any comments, let me go into the
let me go into the
the live thing here and go into the question box and see if anyone
has any comments or questions. Again, we need all your support.
Okay, we didn't even this is the first time we've ever done
actually, we did this a couple years back with launch good. But
the this is the first day that we've announced this project. And
already we're making great headway. I didn't even expect to
be in the top 10. But we'd happen to be in the top 10 of the launch
campaign. Right as our first you know, time to that we'd done this.
So bring your questions, bring whatever you have, and
see what you guys have here and put it in the question box so that
we can
see what's going on here
all right. So what is it going to be our first node out for the
locals now? Our first note is going to be Wednesday night. We're
going to have a meal and we're going to have a distribution if
you're a local in New Jersey, you can put in front of my office in
the masjid, you're used. You're used stuff okay, you're used
anything used you have a mixer at home? You got cutlery that you
don't use. You got shoes as long as they don't have holes in them,
right that are you got scarves, you got clothes, jackets,
whatever. You go out you gotta baby Allah made you wealthy and
hamdulillah you're driving a nice Audi, go buy diapers for your
babies make a second order. What's he's not gonna kill you to get
another box of diapers. You know, the number one cause a depression
in a lot of families is that the House stinks. The house stinks
because the lady, the poor mom, she can't afford to clean the kid
from diapers. She doesn't have enough diapers. She's got to keep
the kid in the dirty diaper. And now he's depressed. He's got a
rash on himself. And the whole house thinks everyone's depressed.
Okay, all because of a shortage of diapers. It was Celine Patel from
smile. They operate a food pantry up north. He's the one who brought
this to my attention. I was like what? Diapers he said yes, diapers
is the number one cause of the mothers are completely down
because the house stinks all the time. So if you're a wealthy
person out there, go out, get diapers, okay, and give us
diapers.
We got plenty of people to give diapers to this house that we have
acquired. It's in the video, you can see in the Youtube playlist,
you can see the house that we've acquired. There are two families
living in that house.
Those families are going to be our first sources of that we're going
to be giving the setup to and the first people who are going to be
invited to our dinners, and then they can invite their friends and
other those afterwards. Okay, so Ole Miss Akina says, As a woman,
the West, in the West, what is the best way to make Dawa? Through
headman or social media? I mean, whatever Allah gives you a talent,
and personally, okay.
I personally think that
I personally think that we have to give to be generous, and that the
Western nations, Western Europe, there's like a type of like, it's
not a thing that you just give, give out food. So it's not a
thing. I think in the eastern hemisphere, the Mediterranean
areas, that's common, you don't eat, and people could smell your
grilling without inviting them to the food, right? So but in the
West, it's not. Right. I think that generosity is so important.
And generosity can be in little things that you don't think about,
like giving some food to neighbors or whatever. I think it changed
transforms completely people's image of the Muslims. And I think
that's important, but it's also creates a warmth, and it creates a
bond between people that we need to nurture. And you can't have
doubt without a bond.
The Quran says we have sent you a profit from amongst yourselves.
But I see what I mean and physical. Okay, he's from you.
That means you trust him, you know him, there's nothing new. There
are no tricks with this prophet, you know him, you can trust him.
So likewise, that's what we need for ourselves. We need to be
people who are known. And we have a relationship, right? And it's
not just a stranger who's preaching to us. It's some people
we know, right? And we broken bread together, we've eaten
together, you've been in need, we've helped you. There was a
brother Subhanallah he did something great. When the COVID
thing happened. He had a guy who was like a handyman. Just send him
500 bucks. He said, I know that you're not getting into people's
homes anymore. Because of COVID How are you paying your bills, so
he's just would send him money, that handyman he never charges
this guy anymore. So guess what, that's what a community is. It's
where the relationship overtakes business. And unfortunately, in
the capitalist societies, it's all business, that you will not get an
inch from anybody unless they charge you $1 They're so stupid.
Because that's not even the how to get the most out of life. The most
you get out of life is what you can give out.
You're gonna get it back whether from that person or from somebody
else, it doesn't matter whether you whether that person that
you're servicing gives you something you will get it back
elsewhere, right? And spiritual work gets spiritual gifts. What
are spiritual gifts? How about that Allah answers your drop.
How's that? You answered Allah's call? Right in the dean. So you
might not get money back. But you'll get something greater.
Allah's answers your prayers, He answers your needs. You took care
of people's needs, you got no money for it. But guess what you
got Allah takes care of your needs. Right? So that's social
media is also fine. If you're as long as I don't think that.
As long as you know, we don't get into
the fighting with the Muslims to me is a problem. You want to
fight. If go fight with an atheist, go fight with somebody
else. Go fight with the Zionist go fight with Colin Lutz. But I would
not go and make sure there's fitna happening with the Muslims. That's
where I personally draw my line. If there's some guys from Arizona,
and I don't like everybody from from from every Sunni Muslim. I
don't like them all. But I have to change that in myself. Keep it to
yourself. Don't make it a fight on social media and change your heart
to Why don't you like to oh, he offended me. Okay. be offended.
He's your Muslim brother. Whether you like it or not. Okay. He
bothers me. He says things I don't like tough luck. Maybe he's going
through a phase you're going through a phase. I went through
phases. Everyone goes through phases. So change your heart
that's what I tell myself. Change your heart towards the Muslims
don't have issues with the Muslims. By your tongue. Your egos
hurt, let it be hurt. What is your ego special or something? Is your
ego some kind of Prince of Persia that you you can't be touched? Are
you heavenly? Are you an angel? I'll upset be upset. Alright, so
tough, a little bit of tough a coup. A brotherhood requires
toughness, Islamic Brotherhood that we all talk about. It
requires a lot of mental toughness. I guarantee you that.
He says someone says I always struggle with setting the right
intention whenever I give sadaqa I'm never sure what the what
intent to hold very simply.
Allah gave me and he didn't give them. So I'm thanking Allah for
giving me by giving them that's the intention. That's how simple
it
As Allah gave us, he didn't give them. That's a test.
That's a test. I'm going to give them as gratitude that Allah gave
me.
That's how simple it is. And hopefully, if Allah accepts it, it
will wash away some of my sins. And we need we need that our sins
to be washed away, we definitely need that. Next question here or
comment says similar
debates with non Muslims. No, I don't think debates with non
Muslims as much value except for the Muslim watching. So yes, if
the Muslim watching is going to learn something,
or feel at least that some Muslim is pushing this guy back then and
it was no problem, then maybe that but be careful from your own heart
because a lot of the scholars who are engaged in debates, they said
that their own heart got affected adversely negatively, by debates,
they their own hearts, or they became callous and hard and
vicious almost. So you have to be careful with that. So just keep
that to a minimum debating with non Muslims, I think, keep it to a
minimum, but you can do it if you want. All right.
Ali, Balotelli says, said Can you briefly explain the 48 laws of
karma? According to the Sharia, or does it exist? I'm not familiar
with those or look it up. But the idea is very simple. Whatever goes
around comes around. That's what the prophesy said Kemet to do to
then we're in the errata do we come back to the unit you're done?
The circle goes around. And what you put out, you get back. It's a
simple law. That's how simple it is. And I can maybe one day, I
could talk about it in detail.
The next question is, can we recite the Quran for the deceased
100% You can do any good deed for the deceased and ask Allah to send
the reward of that to the deceased, you can do that. As long
as they are a Muslim, they have to have died a Muslim.
Okay, next question. Are we expecting any content which
excited Ben said I lost touch with him he went to Mauritania, a lot
of other things happens. And I lost touch with the guy. Next
question says how to draw the line with giving and also being
responsible with our own wealth.
If you get a surprise amount of money, a surprise, like it
happens. You get a check in the mail. Oh, I didn't expect this
check.
Cut a portion of it right away. Cut a portion of that money right
away like 10%, you didn't get you didn't you expected zero. Right?
Now you got 1000 bucks, cut 100 bucks out, give it somebody right
away.
You should be smart with your wealth. Do not put yourself in
some kind of a debt. Okay, and make yourself to be like the
sahaba. When you're not, you're not the sahaba. We have needs,
right? We are not the Sahaba we got needs. And we're weak. We have
to cover our own budgets first.
And then you can give some setup. But if there's an emergency with
somebody, then then maybe you have to have more event and give to
your friends who have needs before for years before you worry about
yourself. That's going to be the exception. I'm speaking
practically here. Right, we are have a basic level of Eman I'm
talking about most of us, cover your expenses and then give to
others. But if you get a surprise amount of money, I didn't expect
this. Then give some out. That's it. And when you go out, have some
shame how you go out and spend 500 bucks and walk past the poor in
the streets. You can't buy them food, buy them jackets, give them
cash, right? So Have some shame in front of Allah. I just want to
spend 500 bucks on an evening especially cost 100 bucks to park
in New York City. So you didn't even get started it took you 1212
bucks to get into the city. You had to fill up guess you're you're
already in the whole $130 Just to start this evening in the city.
Right let alone the dinner let alone everything else. So Have
some shame in front of Allah. Okay, and a lot of you don't live
in New York city you live in other parts maybe it's not as expensive,
right? But there are people in need. So have some fear of Allah
to Allah when it comes to us enjoying ourselves and not giving
out to anybody else. does Islam say anything related to Jays who
know?
Nothing related to deja vu? And Deja Vu is not even that important
to be honest with you. Because it's like I had deja vu that I ate
this pretzel. Big Whoopty
How can
Okay, yes, this was the question about the
reciting Quran for the deceased. Yes. And you could recite for any
disease, Sultan Abdul Hamid, who's a hero and all these other great
heroes and then that will be a relationship with you on the Day
of Judgment because they will then
they will ask who's sending me this
On the Day of Judgment, you never know they might come do
intercession for you if you need it. Okay, can we make dua dead
family member that is not a Muslim? We're not allowed to
sit I'm gonna shake and say what are the new courses Safina is
offering in the winter? Well, I will be teaching the Maliki FIP
class. That's one thing. So
why do we fit medically fit? And then we have the history of that
Besitz
that's going well, history of Romania just finishing up history
of ambassadors next.
I just says Why do we feel guilty when we want to say if you
shouldn't? Why would you feel guilty when you save money?
Now, you want to help the Muslims right? Aren't you a Muslim? Isn't
your aren't your kids Muslims? Aren't your husband or wife?
Whatever whoever you're betting aren't they Muslims? So benefit
them save money along with that, can we do good deeds on behalf of
those who are alive like parents? Not that I know of? I don't think
I think that this works only after they're dead.
Okay, but you can do a good deed and then offer that good deed and
make a dua afterwards. And then that dot will be for the living.
Okay, next is it okay to save for a luxury like traveling as
recreation? While continuing basic percentage of charity. Nothing's
wrong with that.
Sometimes you got to take your kids out, right and you got to
show them around you got to show that you're you got to take your
wife and your your wife out. Nothing wrong with that.
Will there be any nuclear ads classes or Kowloon? No,
unfortunately, we won't be having those. We just have Chef Saunders.
We have his class. intend to eat and hamdullah we're really happy
to have shipped North Saunders homemade says I want to learn a
Samak theology. What's a good free resource? Hamza Malibu has a good
12 I think it's 12 videos on YouTube on the piano to Hawaii. I
didn't watch all of them myself. But I heard a lot of good things.
And I know the chef, and he is octina is his class is very good
as a PETA class. So I heard a lot about it. So that's a good free
resource.
Also a straw Rashid has on Kalam elemental Kalam, he has classes on
YouTube.
Alright, ism cure. Thank you very much. And may Allah subhana wa
Tada accept from all of us in the LIDAR.
Right,
this question, what can we do in our local community? You could do
the same exact thing we did. You go out find the area where there
are those who are in need. Now, by the way, sometimes my kids would
come along. And they would say, Oh, why are we given food to this
guy? He's got a cell phone. Is that not poor? I said, look,
the poor category of four in Islam is a low bar. It is not that you
are homeless dying on the street in order to deserve a sandwich.
That's not how it works, right? If you are having trouble meeting
your needs, if you are uncomfortable, if you don't have a
security for a year, that's all enough to count as being eligible
for Zika, let alone sadaqa. That's the level of poverty, right? So
the idea here that you have to be someone dying on the corner, is
not That's not how we operate, you don't need to be at that level of
of poverty. So if it's if you're just uncomfortable, you just don't
have enough. That's enough. Right. And most of the people that we
have now, unfortunately, the homeless, they tend to all be on
crack. It's hard to deal with them. We can't even deal with
them. There's nothing there, though. The drugs have fried their
brains, it's a tragedy. We can't deal with them. You can't deal
with somebody and interact with somebody that we can give them
food, of course, but you can interact with somebody who's not
home.
And when I say not home, I mean not home, nobody is there ever.
Okay? And they're they're only almost like, at a very low level
of consciousness enough to get the next fix of drugs or enough water,
or to find a place and not even find a place to go to the
bathroom.
Go to the bathroom in their pants. It's a tragedy. That's why drugs
is such it's one of the worst things that that exists and our
western societies wants to go and legalize this stuff, right? And
these societies are just terrible. They're the path that they're
going on. And they're promising this big Utopia this wonderful
promises and progress. Where is the progress? There's more drugs
and a place stinks. The city stinks. Everything stinks. Okay
with drugs now, and now you want to legalize prostitution, calling
it * work. And you've got even some Muslims convinced of this
that this is * work. What the heck, you guys have produced one
of the worst societies, right? That's where we're headed. So we
can't deal with the unfortunately
We're not a drug rehab center. We don't know how to do that. Maybe
one day we will. I mean, we should you want to do a service to people
get them off this poison. Alright, so maybe one day in five years,
we'll open a drug rehab center, right? And we'll hire people to do
it. Why not? It's a great idea. But right now it's not so it's now
mainly those families that work that but it's never enough. Okay,
they're always in need. Alright, then at that point those are the
first target audience right now.
Okay
prime prospect with the fax machine Yep.
We want this live stream to be a fax machine nothing but facts. I
don't I'm not a fan of things that are not necessary there's no right
and wrong and I like things that
have a clear right and wrong then we could put our put a stake in
the ground.
Okay.
All right. Let's wrap up. If there are no other questions, we will
wrap up with this live stream today. And in sha Allah Tada. We
will
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Hello humor asked the question. If beer falls on your clothes, is it
impure? Yes, you have to watch just that area. So if beer fell on
your knee, you just have to wash that area. When the water comes
off clean. You're good to go. You don't have to worry about the
smell or the stain. Next question.
We grew up struggling hamdulillah now blessed enough to spoil our
children but how to teach them to be more humble. Give them jobs,
give them chores.
Give them jobs. You got to work. Go mop up clean that clean out the
garage, and it's gonna get inspected. If it's not to my
liking. You're doing it again. No problem. But you're not you're not
some Prince. Right? So you are you're going to work. You're going
to clean tables, you're going to go serve the miskeen go serve the
poor go to the masjid vacuum. And if it's not done right, you'll do
it again. Right. Oh, I've been vacuum it for 30 minutes. Oh yeah,
that's not enough time. You're right. Add another 30 minutes.
What are some kink? Right? So you clean clean out my car. What do
you mean clean out your car and don't don't you have a car wash
it? We have a car wash. It's called you because you're clean.
Don't wait. You don't get carpooled. I don't take you to
soccer with this car. I'm gonna take you to school with this car.
So clean it out. All right, you don't know how to clean no
problem. I will teach you how to clean. Okay. You, you got to take
the the mats out of the car, then you vacuum. Okay. And then you
vacuum the mats. If that's not enough, you shampoo the Mets and
you scrub them. You don't got the tools. Let's go. We'll go to the
hardware store. You go out and buy the scrubbing material. You don't
know how to scrub. There's a YouTube video for that how to
scrub how to clean I'll teach you how to clean it because you're
going to be the cleaner. Okay, why should we go and how spoiled Are
we that we're going to go out and pay a carwash because our little
bratty kids, they can't clean the car. I'm not cleaning it. Alright,
but taking you around all day, and driving here and there. Okay,
you're cleaning it. And that's what you're going to do every
Saturday morning until you get good at it. Alright, so that's how
they're going to be more humbled by cleaning. Alright, let their
hands be a little wet and tired a little bit. No problem with that.
How about humor? What kind of hat is this? This hat is was actually
it's a coach hat. Yes, it's a cold chat. I was looking for people who
could make ads because a lot of the movies didn't fit my head
well. And I got a a woman. She's an immigrant from a European
country. I don't know which European country
and she lives across the river from Manhattan. So I didn't know
any of this. She just makes hats. So I said listen, I want to have
that looks like this this and that's it. And she makes a hat I
asked her well, where do you work? She says I make bags for Coach.
Right in her house. She makes the seat she makes the bags for coach
when coach likes the idea and then they reproduce the bag that's how
she makes her money. So that's why the hats are so good because the
lady who makes them she she works for Coach right so I'm not you
know up for these luxury brands. I could care less coach Gucci
otherwise, but that just happened to be I guess that's why it's a
good hat. And I've had this one for your I need a new one and
nobody has been able to make it right. Right. So inshallah in the
next year she's going to make me some more
There are plenty of services who are now catering for the Muslims
by the Muslims. It's inspiring and motivating, says Shahida, who is
telling talking to us from Toronto, Toronto has got a lot
there a lot more Muslims in Jersey and
I heard a lot about their community you have to go out we
have to go out and visit. So when we do in these live streams, we
really should be doing them every day. And just thing is we don't
have a staffer, I'd have no staff. Soon, that's gonna change, we're
gonna have a team, and we're gonna have a set studio. And we're gonna
have someone to keep me on target to keep do these streams every
day, Monday through Thursday, we should have one hour stream every
single Monday through Thursday, and then the clips should be
shared around and then it should be all put up on YouTube. That's
going to happen in the letter once we get a staff. Right. So we have
a lot of part timers and we have no full timers. So we're now soon
going to have a full time that's going to help with that. And then
we're going to put them all on YouTube Safina society YouTube
channel, how its crypto is how that crypto is Hello. So I haven't
seen that. I have seen some of the scholars forbid it, but also some
print permitted. What Halal investment do you recommend, I'm
not really a money guy. But if I'm going to have investments, I'm
going to have prop real estate. I like something that I could see
that I could improve. Right? And that study of course, real estate
is very slow, right? But it's simple. There's there's not a lot
of stress involved, like you have to check the stock market every
few minutes. Right so I'm not a fan of that. Those things I think
real estate is something that you could study pretty easily. And
it's predictable. And that's what I like I is from France,
Mashallah. And yes, we will be consistent. We're going to get
consistent. It's going to be an hour in the let's all of these
streams. I hope every Monday through Thursday, probably
starting January we're going to start getting consistent, but for
now it's whenever I can do it.
Alright folks, thank you all so much. Does that come along? Karen?
Baraka Lo Fi comm and creative nds. We will get back to the book
on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam gone into Norway.
MashAllah Norway, amazing, beautiful and snowy Norway.
Scandinavia is one of the countries I want to be there's I
love the snow. The snow makes the world seem so pure and clean. And
it's something that one of the places that I've always wanted to
go to. So does that come about getting some Hanukkah humo behind
the shadow Allah Illa Illa into the stock for today take what
asked in Santa Fe was ill Edina and why middle society had
whatsoever sobered up. What was so severe was set up on a gun
Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh