Shadee Elmasry – Saving Male Youth NBF 348
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Amanda Heyman hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala Rasulillah
who other early well sahih woman who Allah welcome everybody to the
Safina Saudi nothing but facts live stream on an absolutely
gorgeous Thursday the last stream of the week, but it's so pretty
out here in the great state of New Jersey, and you know that the
weather, humidity goes up, up, up, up, up and then
rains like crazy. And the next week is going to be gorgeous,
because now
humidity is down. And the sun is out and the weather the weather
beautiful, but you know, it's not beautiful, the absolute utter
crisis, and really, the, the stain of this whole era of post World
War Two era and really the end is the end of the post world war two
era in which, you know, the Western nations came in and they
were gonna, like have peace and we're going to be make sure
everything is peaceful. It's over. Okay, based on what's happening
Rafa and there are underwriting this. And New York Times has an
article deadly strike ended up that does not cross Biden's red
line. If you're on Instagram, hop over to YouTube,
Safina society's YouTube channel, and you could subscribe and hit
the little bell for the notifications. But um, we're
looking here at the pictures of the strike, which was so bad that
even Netanyahu himself had to say it was an accident.
Okay, and that tells you how bad it is when you have people running
for their lives and you bomb them in the name that there possibly
was a possibly a Hamas leader there when the whole world knows
that you know
that this is it the civilization you have? No, the moral authority
is a zero right now. It's negative actually, you're a harm to
society, US and Israel now putting themselves you are a harm to
civilized society. If you underwrite this and approve it and
do it. You're a problem.
I mean, President Biden threatened to cut off the supply of some
weapons in Israel if Israel mounts a major offensive and Rafa. Okay,
of course, this thread is nonsense, he can't do anything. He
has no power whatsoever. The The lobby is in complete control of
the United States, if you ask anybody, and they have it like
puppets.
But we haven't seen that we haven't seen a major offensive
and, of course, they just just denying, denying reality is the
new thing. Once you enter the world of denying reality, and it
becomes a day to day thing, denying reality
hulless that civilization is that. And it's just a matter of time
until the death appears on the outside. So society dies on the
inside. Unlike a human being you die on the inside immediately you
can see that you're dead. But a society
probably like a tree is the dead on the inside. It takes a couple a
little bit to see that it's dead on the outside. denying reality is
something that's all over Western society. on the liberal side, it
exists with the transgender
movement. That's nothing other than a movement of denying
objective, visible reality right in front of our own two eyes. What
is a male what is a female
they're also denying reality, that this is not a genocide and the end
of your moral authority, completely denying this reality.
The conspiracy theories in the world
And the right there, everything about them is a conspiracy.
They have no concept of separating fact from fiction, whatever they
want to believe they make it a fact. And that's the whole Reddit
crowd, right? Everything is a conspiracy, you go COVID
conspiracy, or election conspiracy, everything is a
conspiracy is not what they what the facts are. It's just what they
want to believe. So when you have a society that goes down this
route, you could go wash your hands from that society, and go do
your own thing. And it's scary, because if that trickles down to
very simple things, like
parks and services or the sanitation department, then you
have chaos.
That's the scary part. When it's out there, just in the ether, in
theory, it doesn't affect anybody, but the theory may eventually
become a reality.
And now it starts to trickle down in actual
daily life, and that's a problem.
The Israeli military said it was engaging in close quarters combat.
We have kids with no heads
to capitated kids.
Three European countries formally recognized Palestinian statehood.
Canadian Foreign Minister is completely up in arms by this.
They made people speak who were otherwise like on the fence.
Israel had not ordered Palestinians to leave the area
that it struck on Monday, as if that would have made it so
civilized and so clean.
So before we bomb your country, we inform you to leave now does that
make you like civilized or something?
Gods and officials say a strike killed 21 and must mercy US Bill
pier for delivering aid to Gaza.
breaks apart in rough seas.
John Kirby White House spokesman condemned the deadly Israeli air
strike and off but said that the attack was not enough to change us
policy.
Nothing will be enough because they are controlled puppets. We
all know this. What am I saying this for it. We all know that
they're just controlled puppets. US officials said on Tuesday that
the Israeli strike that killed dozens of Palestinians in southern
Gaza was a tragedy, but that it did not violate President Biden's
red line. The bloodshed came after Mr. Biden warned earlier this
month that the US would block certain Arms Transfers if Israel
targeted heavily populated areas and Rafa and they did exactly
that.
As if to test the system as if to test the threat.
Kirby said the deaths were devastating but not enough.
We haven't seen
enough bloodshed to change our policy. Rear Admiral Daniel magari
of the Israeli military insists that their munitions alone used in
a strike and Rafa could not have ignited the deadly fire. So what
are they saying? Is he saying they did it to themselves
please
because there's military said its troops were pressing on with their
ground assaults in the rougher area on Tuesday. They've taken
over the border
hilarious rough seas over this weekend broke for US Army ships
free of their moorings and dam is a temporary pier that pier is a
bunch of
PR in the first place.
Sponsor PR in the first is a PR operation in the first place and
they broke apart within two months
not reading this stuff anymore. It's sickening and we're this is
really reaching the end just you got to look at the pictures. I'll
tell you why blue is it because the world has to testify
I'm looking at pictures it just absolute Cass's must be here in
this picture about
40 people on the back of a pretty big truck
just don't know where they're going. Just fleeing.
So if Rafa was an area for safe for for refugee encampments. It's
no longer that so where do you go?
A million people had are leaving Rafa was supposed to be the
refugee area a million people are leaving that
Israeli assaults continue.
A member of Egypt's security forces was killed because he wants
sympathy. You've done nothing for these people.
United States has asked Israel for more information. I mean, I'm just
I'm not saying that about the person because he just following
orders but in general
You know, the fake famous saying that I was eating the day the Red
Bull was eating. Everyone knows this famous saying, right you know
this thing. So there's a white bull and a Black Bull Red Bull.
You've never heard of this one. Oh my gosh, this is a famous one.
There's a Red Bull and a Black Bull and a white bull. A wolf
comes in, or a
lion comes in,
and roars and they all the bulls stick together. And the lion
realizes I can't eat. So then he goes to one of the bulls, and he
says, Hey, listen, Red Bull, and Black Bull. Just Move aside. Let
me just eat. And I'll save you. Let's eat the whiteboard. So he's
the whiteboard. Next day, next time he gets hungry, and a couple
days later gets hungry again. This time he goes to the Red Bull.
And he said, Listen, let's make a deal. Just move away. Take a walk.
Take a 15 minute coffee break. Right? Let me leave you alone. Oh,
he naively says Okay, good. At least I'm safe. And of course next
time a third time he gets hungry there's no one to defend him.
So he says I was eating the day the white Boise in other words the
day that we started to behave like this and just let the book let the
bully beat up other people for our own safety that's that's when
we're all done and there was a famous Holocaust saying that they
came first for the
what was it they first came for the communists and nobody said
anything then Hitler came for the polish the invaded Poland nobody
said anything then event Czechoslovakia nobody said
anything then he went came after I don't know who nobody said
anything. Then finally when they came after us there's nobody left
to say anything so famous. You know saying about this is exactly
what happens every Arab nation now Israel now goes in and and with
which is not going to happen I believe and utterly was to bomb
Egypt, explained to me why anyone in the world would have 1% of
sympathy for them. You sat there watching seeing it happened to
your brothers.
Okay.
By the way, someone sent a long rant of an email begging me to
stop saying okay. Do you guys notice it
needs to be a little filler, but I guess my He's gone crazy, right? A
long rant.
And he counted them to
the midst of you miss bang is our guests here.
We have a guest here who's doing the real work.
His name is a tuba Jones.
We have a guest here that
this is what I was talking about yesterday. It bliss
wants us to deflect our virtues into
the abode
of non reality.
So he wants us to talk about theory all day long.
And he wants to He wants us to talk about an imaginary future.
And he wants us to talk about things to spilt to put our focus
on things that are not tangible realities.
What he doesn't want you to do is take your virtue and apply it to
the people around you.
That's what he doesn't want. The moment you take your virtue and
your virtuous intentions. And you start looking around you and you
look at the mundane person that you've seen your whole life and
for whom service to this person could admit to this person will
not get you any attention is not worthy of mentioning to anybody.
This is the meaning. Where Allah Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said Hoefer till Jana to be McCurry, the true paradise is
surrounded by disliked things. Nobody will get attention for
caring about the grandma. Nobody cares. But you go and travel to
for example, some war torn territory. That's a video you can
make. That's news. You go to the Rohingya area, and you do service
there and you come back and you can say something. Yeah, you go
around and help people who are in your local area, find a job, get a
ride to Joomla No, there's nothing to write home about.
But that's where the head is first. And amendment had dead said
when you see somebody who seeks to benefit that those who are far to
the exclusion and the ignorance of those who are near know that he's
gonna fit within him as NIFA
he is a Murai
He's a moron.
He is someone who's showing off
IBLEES wants the youth. The new converts into Deen. I'm not saying
convert into Islam, I'm saying newly penitent. He wants to
deflect their good intent
In addition to theory, and I give the examples of Marxist earlier
before
I've never seen a Marxist say, Hey guys, I got property, take some.
No, he always wants to come up with some policy and theory
that's out in the ether somewhere that's out in the imagination
somewhere. That's not something hard and fast that he's
benefiting.
That's what they're always talking, talking, talking, talking
and having concern for policy, and you very rarely see them actually
on the street, helping regular people in thankless work. Karl
Marx himself, did the guy ever share an apple with anybody did
ever split a sandwich with anybody? Karl Marx himself? Think
about this. Why don't we ask this question you care so much about
the factory workers? Is it true that you never visited a factory?
You know that I heard that? Look, Karl Marx himself never worked in
a factory.
Yet you care so much. He is the prime example. And this is why
he's Iblees, His justice minister. The people care about justice.
People love justice. So Satan has to have a branch of that. Where
your love of justice gets wasted.
Right?
Your love of justice gets deflected so far out, you're
actually probably worse afterwards. So Karl Marx is that
guy. He's the guy who
represents and he sucks. The people who naturally care about
justice and naturally care about the poor. That's where it's good.
But then we're How does he care about the poor? Does he say, oh,
follower of mine. Go help your mom. Go share food with your
neighbor. No, he doesn't talk about anything practical. He talks
about huge theories
that have never been tried or tested. And then when they are
tried and tested, they're an absolute utter failure. And within
one generation less than one generation, the Soviet Union, and
their leader is killing hundreds upon 1000s reaching to the
millions of people by the end of Joseph Stalin's reign. The first
guy you could say, okay, he was an idealist and he was seemingly a
nice guy and not violent guy.
But then his successors.
If you don't agree with them, they kill you. How was that? What was
it hold on a second?
You first you take my wealth now you take my life
What does it say?
It's not Hadith. So tell us what it is.
never paid a visit to effect.
This lack of firsthand experience that restrained him from having
the most negative kinds of opinions about industrial
capitalism and the czarist Empire. The guy the source, what's what's
what's the website?
Sounds good. To me. The website that brings you the what said
about Karl Marx, he never once visited a factory. Point being
is that IBLEES wants to deflect your virtue into theory. Our guest
today is an exemplar of doing the opposite.
He's taking this action and implementing it, where there's not
much to write home about hard work, blue collar work, thankless
work, and that's what the meaning of the hadith is. Paradise is
surrounded with hardships. And one of the biggest hardships is the
mundaneness. Of of real true work. But give it time.
Give it along give it years and you're going to see the fruits you
will see the fruits. Let's contrast that with all these I'm
using I'm picking on the socialists and Marxists you know
we all hate them anyway. But easy easy target but we're picking on
them let's go his whole life Marxist Professor get me one from
Rutgers named me one actual life that you a few altered
get me get me five testimonials of people that you actually help. No,
it's just theory. Alright, let's bring on our guests. ativa Jones
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Rasulillah what early wa Sahbihi woman wala Welcome to the
number facts live stream.
We have a mutual friend. His name is Todd Amir, and he is a young
Sheikh. And he's a chaplain. And he worked in the prison system.
Now he's moving to the hospital system, and he's the one who
introduced us. So let's start off right away with some biographical
stuff. You're from Atlanta.
Tell us about yourself and your life up until this moment where
you're working with the youth
from the law, so Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Again,
thank you so much for having me. So I'm actually originally from
Philadelphia, born and raised, and I've been in Atlanta since 2000,
moved down here to go to college originally, and been here really
ever since. So while I was studying at Morehouse, after my
sophomore year, I got a chance to travel to Syria, to study for a
few months. And in simultaneously, I got a chance to work with some
orphan boys. And it was kind of in that moment that I realized that,
you know, working with youth was what was what I was supposed to
do. Right. So came back to Atlanta change my major to education. I've
been at it ever since, you know, I've been able to a lot has really
given me opportunity to work with youth in almost every capacity
imaginable, right. So as a teacher, mental health counselor,
starting schools and summer camps, and amazing school programs, and
all types of things, do what you've got a chance to go overseas
for a couple years to Kuwait taught elementary school over
there.
And hum de la so just, that's, that's, that's all I've really
been doing. Okay, we're with a tuba Jones. If you're on
Instagram, hop over to YouTube, so you can see the full screen.
Interestingly, you mentioned Atlanta.
This week, we had guests,
we had said Jamal, Jamal, who Dean hysol, which I'm sure is somebody
you know, in Atlanta.
He talked so much about this, at the end of the stream, he said
that people come back from studying, they enter into the
field of action. And sometimes there's a competition, or a Ria,
could stick into someone's heart that I want to do something that's
going to be recognized.
And that's the idea, a little bit of action, where I want to do
something that's recognized, I would say, there's a 5050 to that.
On the one hand, it's good that I want to be effective. I want to be
effective, and how do I know if I'm effective? People's
testimonials? Right. So on the one hand, that's there's a fair side
to it. On the other hand,
it could ruin my intention.
So that's why being praised, there is an acceptability of of
accepting it. Because it's just an indicator that I'm doing something
good. That's it. But it shouldn't be the reason I'm doing something
good. So very interesting now that you're working here, in, in a
field of youth that is direct direct help of these youth tell us
exactly what your institution does, on a day to day basis with
the youth. And you said that your your bio said here, focus on black
youth who were incarcerated. Tell us about that.
So yes, so um, so save Institute is, is a nonprofit organization
here in Atlanta. Save stands for service, agriculture, vocational
training, and entrepreneurship. Alright, so as I mentioned
earlier, I've been working with youth for a very long time, almost
every, every demographic of youth you can imagine. However, what we
see in, in what the statistics show is that when you look at when
you look at the incarceration rates, when we look at crime
rates, murder rates, high school dropout rates, there's really one
group that's at the top of the list and every single one of those
categories, which is black male youth. All right, unfortunately,
so we know that that's not just, you know,
by accident, right is by design, and it's as a result of several
different types of systems being put in place. So what our
organization does is really kind of,
well, we will we say we replaced the pipeline to prison with a
pipeline to prosperity, right? So we so we have programs that focus
specifically on black male youth, to really to uplift them, uplift
them overall, but then really help to save them from these negative
cycles and put them on a path of success in every way. Would you
agree that
fatherlessness is the number one reason
that a person goes into crime?
It's certainly a huge factor, no doubt about it. I would say
though, that there is an underlying cause even deeper than
a young person not having a father Right? Which is what I call it.
purposelessness. Right. So so when you talk about like, look at all
that
Different types of factors like the missing fathers, the
educational systems, the the influence of the music, the the
neighborhoods, you know, all of these different things are real,
right? However, what the common denominator that you see, one of
the common denominators that you see is poverty, right. So poverty
definitely has a huge impact. But even deeper than that, is a lack
of purpose. Because when you when you find a young person who has
been given this in some way, this sense of purpose, then then
they're able to really overcome, not having a father grew up in a
rough neighborhood, you know, and all these other negative things
that he may be surrounded by, if you can give them that sense of
purpose. And they really can, you know, just overcome almost
anything. How do you meet these youth? What's the setting in which
the physical place in which you hang out with them? Yeah, so. So
right now we have two campuses, one, right in an urban
neighborhood, South Atlanta. And then we also have a new campus
that we're building out, that's about 30 minutes outside of the
city. You know, but,
but really, it really started here, where we're currently
located in South Atlanta, with the with the youth right here in his
neighborhood. And then from that, we you know, we began so we first
started, the very first thing we do is we took a group of 12 boys
out on a camping trip, right? And then it turned into a retreat of
60 Boys and then the world. To this point we have, we have
families sending us their boys from all over the country.
Not Muslim and Muslim doesn't matter. Both. Yes. Unbelievable.
Boys only though, on the books. So you so you meet at these camping
trips, do you plan to have your own center eventually? We do
already. We do already. Mashallah. Oh, three years ago, fall 2021, we
actually launched the full time school. So we have now middle
school and high school, where, where students are able to come to
our facility, and they have a full school day. So so everybody go
through our program. By the end of it, they're able to receive a high
school diploma, certifications, vocational trades, they learn how
to grow their own food, and they start to home businesses. It's
this it's a school where you also hire the teachers, are they doing
online school there?
It's all on site, we have we have, we have a staff of teachers, and
vocational instructors, mentors. Okay, that's a this is a game
changer, because that is a humongous endeavor.
So if anyone doesn't know running a school, that means you these,
these people are in your care from eight in the morning until three
or 4pm in the afternoon. And the adults that are on site need to
receive their salaries and everything now you have a
financial obligation. And I'm sure that these students, if there are
troubled youth, then they're not necessarily paying tuition. Is
that correct? Is it tuition free? Private School? That's insane. So
it's all by fundraising? Yes. Put the link in. Please, this program
needs to be supported. Everybody, can you tell me the website that
you that you take your funds on the save institute.org. Open that
up, please and share that screen for everybody to see while we're
talking. Because a private school so these Shabaab are in your care
all day, five days a week. Not only that, we actually have a
dormitory as well. So we have like I said, we have family sending us
their their boys from around the country. So we have a dorm where
some of the other state boys are able to stay. So they're almost
like what is 24/7? Okay, this is keeps getting ratcheting it up. I
don't understand how we have never heard of this. But that actually
goes back to the Atlas, right? That discharge who visited to
promote because this thing needs to be supported by the whole
country. The this school of yours. The administration is Muslim or
just you like is it Muslim run? Or just you happen to be Muslim and
the rest is not?
Yes, the administration is Muslim, the the the all of the instructors
are Muslim.
The youth that we serve our you know, diverse backgrounds. The
percentage of those who don't have fathers
probably 60 to 70 or elite probably 70% and the percentage of
teachers instructors that are males
100% onto percent. all boys school all boys. All male teachers said
that exactly what fits the the bill because we know that a lot of
private schools
A lot of Islamic schools, they have maybe 90% female teachers.
Yes. 10%. Male. That's why I asked that question because it doesn't,
doesn't do the job.
And in most cases, we're not expecting it to do the job. But in
this case, the whole point is mentorship. So that's why it makes
sense that 100% male teachers, 100%
male students, and did you tell me already how many students that you
have so far?
So we do 4040 per year. So um, so our goal always is to is to get
100% of them sponsored to attend the school for free 40 per year,
per grade or total. So total, almost, can you can you pull up
some of these pictures? Because I'm looking at the our screen
right now? Yes, share that whole screen. That's,
that's a camping trip. Yeah, share that whole screen. It's a camping
trip, and he's got a gallery there on the website, we're gonna go to
that gallery. They're all wearing the Save Institute.
T shirts. And they're
pictures of the camping trip, which is very impressive.
Okay, tell us about your graduates so far. How far in do you have
graduates and let's say people that could say, I've been with
austerity, but for
10 years, and this is how my life has changed. Like, how far are you
into this? Absolutely, absolutely. So So there's two sides to it.
Obviously, I have a lot of, you know, young people that have been
with me, you know, since 20 years ago, from other programs, we
launched, we launched save about three and a half years ago,
officially.
So we have some of the students who first were first with us on
our first camping trip on that first retreat, and then they
started the school with us, full time, fall 2021. And they have
been with us ever since. Right? So. So now at this point, we have
19, who have graduated, have been through the program and graduated
from high school, we just held our third graduation just last week.
And and it really is a beautiful thing, right. So just
just a few years ago, similar to what you were saying, this concept
of bringing, you know, these these aspects of tarbiyah together to
service, the agriculture, vocational training and
entrepreneurship, it was a concept, it was a theory that we
believed will be very effective for developing youth. Right? Since
then we've put this concept this theory to the test. And the result
of it has been amazing, right? So these young men who have been with
us now, three and four years, they they're graduated from the program
that really have stepped out as leaders in our community, either
they're in college or trade school, they're in apprenticeship
programs, they're really actually leading efforts and being just
really good examples of what a young man should look like in our
community. So beautiful thing, amazing stuff. Can you tell me
something about, tell us tell us a story of one youth of course,
we're not going to mention names,
unless you have the permission to, but that sticks out in your mind
that when you say when you have a heart on a bad day, the
remembrance of this youth and how he changed in your mind.
It says keep going.
It's there's so many honestly, there's so many. I will I'll
mention one story. We have a young man that has he graduated last
year. So about a year ago, he graduated from the program. He
started with us from the very beginning.
You know, when he came to us, he had already, you know, been
labeled with, you know, things like ADHD and, you know, this and
that, you know, other teachers have given up on him. He hadn't
really been able to find a place for himself in the world, you
know, like, you know, especially like positive peers, no father,
you know, and his father actually was killed before he was born.
Right. So, um, and he came to us really
wanting something, right, wanting to grow and develop and he was
able to, like really take full advantage of the program. And, you
know, he just like within the program itself, he really
blossomed into a leader amongst his youth he, you know, got a lot
of really good friendships, which really became like a strong
brotherhood. He lost a lot of weight, got in shape, active
athletic.
graduated from our program. Now, he's studying electrical at
Atlanta Technical College. He's, he's working for electrical
company.
He and he's still working with us, I save leading a lot of our youth
initiatives for the younger students, he helps out in the dorm
and so many other things. So just really, really beautiful.
Spot a lot. This is amazing stuff. And we're looking at the pictures
here, there seems to be a farm, either that you go to regularly or
the farm that you
that you visited, what is that that I'm looking at here? Right.
So we so we have, we have to actually so we have a small urban
farm that we manage, here at our in our urban campus, which is
within the Glenrose gardens community. But then we also have
the law, we've been blessed to acquire 70 acres of land outside
of the law. So that's where we're building out our new campus. We
have already established the farm so we raise goats, chickens,
sheep, you'd love to have goats out there.
Yeah, because here we have some issues with that.
Yeah.
Tell me something I personally
get so for everyone, I think everyone gets so affected by being
out in nature. Everyone gets it. Do you notice? Do you see a
drastic change in people after they spent a good weekend out in
nature from before and after? Exactly, that's exactly the point.
So we have this three day retreat that we do every year, it's called
the rise to manhood rites of passage retreat. And that's,
that's the whole point to take them out of these urban
environments, put them in nature, you know, and really allow for
them to just really grow and develop in and, and have a space
to reflect and is huge, just just that alone, even if we didn't do
all of the other activities and workshops, and even if we just had
them out there is like just that's transformed us transformative in
and of itself. We did the camp with some kids, once youth high
schoolers and college kids together, just a bunch of guys not
a program.
And we told the high school youth not to use their cell phones, keep
the cell phone in the tent. I'm telling you, if we hadn't done
anything, if we had not organized anything, just say you guys
organize yourself and roam around wherever you want, that would have
been sufficient. And it would have detox their brain off of the tech
and into nature. So that by itself is amazing. Sometimes some of
these ways has no reception in the first place. That's the beauty of
it. And they have to figure out what to do with their life without
a cell phone, you know. So now I want to ask you this question.
What you're doing. Right? Is is amazing in itself. But I can
imagine, do you have many shadows? Many people say my life has been
turned around by a Muslim and these Muslim guys changed my life.
And they enter Islam. So that's my assumption. Does that happen a
lot. Um, the law it has it has. So
our first our very first school year, we only had one non Muslim,
and hamdullah he took shahada on the second the second year, I
think we had maybe three or four. One of them. Another one on took
shahada this year, you know, more non Muslims came, we had another
shot. So I'm the law. We're just we're just getting started. But,
but yeah, they're coming. I read and you could tell a lot of the
other ones, they're most likely on their way.
Many people say, Oh, no, it's about the work. And I say what is
a greater benefit? Why would you care about someone's 3050 6070
years, he's gonna live here, and you don't care about his eternity?
And they say, No, No, you shouldn't use anything for Dawa.
No, this is not a club. Islam, Dawa. Islam is not a club that
you're joining that we're trying to recruit you to buy our brand.
No. And you say that that's low, and it's sneaky? No, we're openly
saying in doubt, the greatest service I could do for you is for
your eternal if your eternal life is to transmit to you this ability
to save your eternal life. Everything should be really
secondary beyond that, and if the only way I can get you to see the
importance of that is by helping your worldly life then that's the
cost we pay. Right? So in Dawa no Muslims should ever be ashamed to
say that the ultimate goal is not to join my club not to join my
message not to buy anything from me. Not even to be my friend for
yourself, do your do your give your dues to your God and your
Creator so you can give you eternal paradise. Even if you
never talk to me again and you never support me again, or
organization or be part of our organization doesn't make a
difference. You'd be Muslim without us. But that's the number
one kedma to do to another person the prophets I send them said is
better than the dunya and what's in it.
And if the route to get you to see that is a lifetime of service,
then Soviet will give you the lifetime of service B SOS who
don't become Muslim. Just wait until he turns 30 and 40 and sees
real life
and see who's doing the work that Muslim guys are doing. That's the
Shahada. That's the testimony. And that's what I believe everybody
should be doing. And so much Yip yapping about talk talk talk is
what I talked the introduce the subject on it bliss wants to
deflect your virtue it into theory. And he doesn't want to
bring your good intention and Islam into actual real life action
that was the introduction to the whole organization, the whole
brother. Now tell me, I must, you must get requests. And this is
probably one of the biggest hardships you're gonna find. So
many communities will say, Brother Atiba come and do it here.
And he you have now the trip, the challenge that every company,
every organization faces have the opportunity, but will it spread
too thin? In Atlanta to the point that we don't do as good a job
here? So tell us how you navigated that. And I'm already thinking,
like, we need one of these here. Right? Yeah, absolutely. And
that's, that's kind of an ongoing conversation, right? So so because
a part of a part of what we do is why we take these young men on
service trips all over the country, right? So you know, so
they're, they're visiting, you know, Philly and New York and
Jersey, and Cleveland and Detroit and, you know, Texas, and many
other places, right, so, um, so obviously, this has resulted in
many of the cities wanting for us to bring save their, the response
right now is just where we are still really focused on perfecting
the model. Right, you know, we've been able to do a lot of really
great work to have a lot of impact, but, but the goal is to
really perfect the model
before it goes anywhere else. But one of the things that, um, that
we have started some conversations on is like, you know, before even
talking about, like, whole branches, or, you know, or things
like that I'm being developed on this concept of a safe outpost,
right, these are like pre existing schools who want to take on our
curriculum, right, so we developed a a pretty innovative curriculum
that's been effective. So now other schools are wanting to see
how they can take it on so so um, so this concept of safe outposts
is this school, they already have, you know, kind of their own
establishment, their own staff, everything but they take on a
portion of our curriculum for their boys. And the thing is about
these my personal belief, it's, it's never like the blueprint.
It's the people. That's what matters. Like anyone could get a
blueprint. But it's the character and the ability to to have a sense
of care. That's really all it is, right? It's not all it is. But
that's the number one thing it's care and its dedication to the
cause. And it's the accepting as we said earlier, Paradise is
surrounded by hardships and everyday fighting through a little
those hardships at a time. That's really truly if someone wants to,
to have one of these, what you should do is not worry about the
blueprint. Worry about the character go if you want to just
like this, you'd go and spend time with someone who's doing it don't
take as emetic it was
it was up remember costume I believe, who said I spent 20 years
who was spent 20 years with medical I've done my costume he
said 18 years taking just from his edit meaning his character two
years Oh, Doc brought all the muscle down. And I wish I did all
20 from his
own take the character and the intention and then do it how you
do it. Right. The The how is not the masala Villa cave, right? The
house is not the Messiah. Tell me what's the is there an Islamic
Quran Arabic component to the program? So um, so basically, the
the model that we have is basically the diet what I did is
that um, to establish a parallel program, really a parallel
organization, right? So keep keeping save Institute as really a
Dawa platform essentially, right? So is not religious specific.
And it's open for everybody. But then to have a parallel program
that allows for the Muslim students to be able to study Islam
formally learn Arabic and Quran so on and so forth, like an after
school an hour after school or something. Very good, very good.
How about
your relations with the broader community of Muslims? And sort of
like integration of the student
or the organization mingling with the other organizations? Have you
found any benefit in that kind of mingling between communities so
that they feel that now we're actually part of a bigger
community? Like maybe
So this was our first
step. And the first group that we knew, but now it's not a lot this
community is massive. Right, right. Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely. So like, you know, you know, Fridays, for example, as a
great opportunity has been a great opportunity for that, you know,
taking them to different massager for Joomla and things like that.
So, and then on the like, the Muslim community, a lot of the a
lot of the messages have been very supportive as well. Oh, that's
great. So you take Juma and different misogyny. Yes. Good.
That's, that's, that's a great way for everyone to see and when the
non Muslim stay home.
So they have an option, right? So they can come with us if they
want, you know, they can, you know, or they can be dismissed
early. Amazing. Okay, your biggest challenge now?
Mashallah, um, so I think the really the biggest challenge is
really a similar challenges for most organizations like, right,
you know, kind of keeping,
keeping the momentum going, while really keeping the funding, you
know, in pace with the growth of the organization, right. So we
wanted to we're wanting to grow and expand and have more and more
impact. But you know, you know, making sure we have enough funding
to keep up with it. So funding is the hardest part. And but they
also say that, if that's your problem, then you have a good
problem, right? Vision, administration, belief, morale,
those are the real things, then if funding is they say that in the
hierarchy?
What's that guy called last lows
in the hierarchy, the reverse now the hierarchy of problems, that's
the best one that you want to have, because you can actually
solve that pretty easily. Morale, vision,
teamwork, between the staff and the team. Those are like the real
if you have issues there that you have cancer, but if you just have
a lack of money, just having a lack of
gasoline in the car, otherwise, the rest of the car is good. So
again, I'm going to tell everybody to go to the website, which Ahmed
has already put the links in. If you're on Instagram, hop over to
YouTube, so you can see the full picture and see the comments that
we're leaving there. And
the the program the summer program is called The Rat Race to manhood.
I almost let's call let's let's That's right, throw it put on the
thumbnail rise to manhood, because that's like a really cool name,
and support this program. It's first time I've heard about the
program.
When Tanaka mirror sent it to me, I'm thinking to myself, it's a
startup, right? It's something that is just, you know, starting
out. And in fact, it's been three years, but it seems like it's the
work of 10 years or 15 years. Mashallah. So Excel were extremely
supportive and impressed by all this. And I believe this is the
real work that people should be doing. So anytime you want to hop
on for any announcements, you want us to share any videos, you just
texted to Omar, and we're at your service in sha Allah. Does that
coming up? Any final things you want to share?
Um, Nila no again, just grateful to be on the show. And, and also,
you know, my encouragement is for all of us to do our part, right?
Allah has given us each a gift, and in things inside of us that we
can share with the world. And I think we all do our part. And we
all you know, take whatever it is that we have and utilize it for
beyond just, you know, ourselves, then the world will look
completely different. So does that Calacatta May Allah make you a
part of that and make me a part of that. And make everyone who's
watching to become inspired to do the local grassroots work, and not
fall into this satanic trap of worrying so much about the theory
of things that you end up after 10 years having achieved zero and get
the hard work as prophets I said them said it's thankless it's
surrounded by hardships. That's actually the sign that you're on
the right track. And you feel something on the inside to you
feel actual
satisfaction on the inside, as opposed to theory that doesn't
satisfy. Oh, and just that Calaca thank you so much for coming on.
Set
Okay, there you have it, folks. And just amazing that all week
I've been contemplating this trick of iblees of of deflecting
everybody's good deeds into the things that are truly ineffective.
Hey, Omar. Some of those pictures were really good. Any chance you
can get one of those like in the background? Yeah, there'll be
good. Some of those Shabaab doing stuff. Right.
Okay, let's we didn't do a lot of q&a this week. So let's do some
q&a. Did you guys find that hadith that narration
Yeah
let's do some q&a Until we wrap up for the week
I think there might be a problem
yeah, yeah. Huh. Let's see your what you've you're finding
you know the sheer you guys responded to the to the to our
response to the to their attacks and say no mode. And the first
responses when I said that
why didn't say naughty say anything about the alleged
will see that was going to be written and the prophets I said
alone.
So say normal said no wait until the prophets I said that it was
better because he was fainting and waking up again.
He responded and he said because he wasn't in the house. Okay, so
the news doesn't spread.
He wasn't announced. So the news doesn't spread.
I didn't watch the rest of it because it was
Okay, time for q&a a
lot of Atlanta this week.
Also in Dallas, there were two brothers from Atlanta, and Dallas.
Yeah, two brothers in Atlanta. Came from Atlanta.
What's Atlanta to Dallas? That's probably a four hour flight.
How do you address the prejudice? Society holds for Black and Asian
youth?
While Asian youth are prejudiced against really in America, are
they
in England? Probably for sure. Desi.
Despite your efforts to support the youth, the community still
treats them as though they are a problem even when they are not.
No, I don't, you know, this thing is again,
I personally haven't found not found a way to address these huge
issues. I just address it locally, address it within the immediate
community, right? Like if I see that in, in our community,
we would address it.
And that's what I found useful.
Like addressing it in the grand at the granular level. As for the big
broad theories, have big broad theories also have these villains
that are unnamed, bad people out there. Right.
What and then we go on a rant about those terrible people in the
community? Who are the community? Is it you? Is it you? Who is it?
So that's again, one of the things that you find in today's society,
especially from those who genuinely want justice. But they
speak in about the in this vague term in these vague terms about
these phantom bad people. Why don't you specify names somebody
who did something publicly who has a public policy, that's bad, then
we could change it, we can address it. We can shame him or her. But
two gentlemen are saying the brothers doing this, but to this
generic talk about society.
The community, I don't find any use in it. Because I don't know
who you're talking about. How can I change something if I don't give
me this specific incident? And we can discuss it? If there are
policy give me the specific policy that needs to be changed?
Things like that. That's to me where it's more effective.
When you get a minut amount of fleece put up Harrison means
operation.
The medical
Kenneth Leachman says, the eye operation you know, medical ocean
I just keep it up there for a while. I'm gonna revert struggling
with Isha Prayer being so late. I work after Fred so I can't go back
to sleep. What's the solution?
The solution? KENNETH is to sleep after mother in this case because
there's a reason won't July you the CARA here won't reach up to
you won't be discouraged for you. And I've seen many of the
righteous people do the sleep after mother to set the alarm for
a shot but before middle of the night. And yes, you will have a
disruption there. But it's better off so let's say you need to sleep
at 8:30pm or 9pm. Pray as soon as it comes in, then sleep then
around 11pm 11:30pm
You wake up
and you pray Ayesha, as if it was such like that, you know how we
wake up prefetch you wake up pressure in sha Allah because
you're doing it out of a hostage and in need, it won't be mcru for
you.
And that's what you can do.
And this is, it would be mcru If there was no need for that, but
the man has to work a long shift after fetch.
And so inshallah that will be solution for you.
What are the rules says, lathe Newton?
Why don't you name yourself is hot?
What are the rules of abiding
by the laws of the land you live in? Maybe when the sun is hot?
If it's not a Muslim lands, you still have to follow those rules.
And if it commands you to do something forbidden
and there is no dire need for it, then you don't do that forbidden
thing. But if there is a dire need for it, then you then it becomes
lawful for you to do
in that circumstance. What's an example car insurance? We all know
that insurance is an unlawful contract in Islam.
It's an invalid contract. And it's number one it's money for money.
Secondly, we don't know what we're getting back we know or giving but
we actually do not know what I'm getting back. I could go 10 years
and not make a claim once I paid paid paid got nothing back.
And peace of mind is not is not a product in Islam to be sold.
It's a scam. So what are you buying peace of mind? If I want
peace of mind? I'm gonna go I have a family. I get peace of mind from
them. I have I have a law. I get peace of mind from them. What are
you trading with me here? Peace of mind is not a product in Islam to
be bought and sold with. So it's a money for money deal. That's it
above? And it's a horror deal means
that I don't know what I'm getting back.
Here's the question.
What's the best concrete deed we can do for our local community on
a small scale?
The best concrete deed is to look at the number one pain that's in
the community.
Every community is different.
There are some knowledge is so needed in the community. That's
the best thing to offer others food is more is what needs to be
authored other spirituality. When you go to suburban communities,
they are in severe need of spirituality, they're just
swimming in materialism. The best thing you could do for such
suburban youth is to well off suburban youth is to to
bring them in for the remembrance of Allah.
Another community it may be knowledge in other community it
may be
fear, physical support food.
Some people it's diapers.
So you find the biggest pain
and then you solve that even if it's just a little bit
showfx says is it possible for Allah to create another got us
stuck for Allah renew your shahada and come so I can give you lashes?
Okay, it's fine is asking? Oh, yeah, it's always different.
He's asking genuinely is saying this
disbelief is not we're not going to a question is not going to be
disbelief.
But what you are asking is can Allah not be Allah subhanaw taala?
Can Allah not be Allah? That's the real question that you're asking.
Can God not be good?
And the answer to that is, what you're saying is an irrationality.
It is inconceivable.
There's no difference between saying that and saying Can a
triangle have more than three sides? or less than three sides or
anything other than three sides? You're just mingling up words in
an Incan, irrational and inconceivable proposition. What we
believe in many people make this mistake and that's why you have to
say it so many times.
In conceive abilities, are not associated with divine power
because some people say Allah can do anything. Yes, anything
conceivable.
The rune Allah Cooley che is
capable and All Powerful Over All Things. A thing must be
conceivable.
Can Allah make a pig that flies in the air? Of course
Can he make? See there's nothing contradictory there. That's why we
believe in miracles. And we believe in all things
inconceivable are a jumble up of words. They're inconceivable. So
when you apply the divine power, Quadra apply it to something
conceivable otherwise, you're just playing with words. You're fully
you're fooling around, it's like saying, Can you draw me?
A scumble? B?
Go to the best artists in the world, draw me a scumble B.
How can you draw it when it's not a thing?
How can you draw and it's not likening Allah to the creation and
likening Allah to an artist with a lead method Allah, we're showing
you what an inconceivable is, we're not likening Allah to an
artist here. We're saying, there are 13 things that are, the words
themselves have no meaning whatsoever. So you do not say can
Allah do it? It's a word with no meaning. A triangle with more than
with other than three sides is no meaning, a god Allah, who denies
himself and negates himself is not a god then who would not be a God?
Because Allah taught his definition is his Bappi you are
saying now can he make himself not empty? So keep in mind the big
difference between conceivable and inconceivable in conceive quote de
la to La he will haka be a joke, Elijah is that that which is jazz
Auckland, that which is possible, that which is conceivable, not a
mix up of words.
That's why we, as a listener, have a firm belief in karamat modules
that easy, can believe them easily. Allah has called that
adequate as long as it reached us with a sound transmission. That's
what we asked. We don't ask what it is. We ask has it reached with
a sound children the only the
most amazing thing that you could see, isn't already in the Quran.
We've accepted it. A woman has a child with no father.
Setting aside the camel comes out pregnant she camel comes out of a
rock, what? A rock. You see the rock, they know this rock.
It opens up and she camel comes out. And we accept that 100%
Because of the rules of confer Khun Allah says Venus, right,
miraj exiting this, not just this universe, be it way beyond this
universe in such a way that
the latest tel telescope footage, have you seen that? It's amazing.
It's so far away. That it's like light years that we have never
seen footage of from before. And yet we believe the Prophet did far
more than that. He went further than that, and came back in one
night in with the body.
So we are not materialists who limit Allah's power to a set of
laws that he created. He created those laws in the first place, and
is not bound by them. But when we talk
when we talk
about divine power,
bringing forth an inconceivable and asking if God can create it is
nonsense. Essentially. Words have no meaning and the kuffaar do this
in philosophy class, the atheist and the philosophers and they say
Can God create a rock that he can't lift? So basically, can God
be not powerful? Can God be not God simply?
Would you ever come to India? I will go anywhere in the world if
there was a use for me there. Is there a use for me in India?
What is the use from in India? You have many shoe there? Yeah.
But if there was a use, yeah, I'd go why not? Even just to see the
shoe and the Messiah and meet them and greet them.
My friend keeps visiting his dad's grave every chance he has. It's I
feel like it's getting excessive. How do I counsel him?
Only counsel him if it's getting in the way of his other
obligations. Such that to the point that he's losing his
friends. He's not he's he's not going to his job. He's not going
to school. Like that.
And really, it's his family, his other family. It's family that his
mother and sisters better off maybe to talk to him about this
but ultimately you know your friend best. And if your whole
group friend group, recognize that he's gone a little bit too far you
guys can talk to him. If it's just your opinion that he's getting too
far then you could present your opinion to your other friends and
his family and see if your opinion is sound
against support to save Institute dot o RG
amazing, amazing initiative that has only three years, it's hard
for me to imagine it's only three years old.
There are 40 students, some of them living there.
You see, every student has its own calamity or its own hardship or
hardship here in the state of New Jersey is physical space.
We're all crammed up, excitement and things to do is never the
problem, you notice that like you never are bored for a day, there's
no such thing as you wake up, there's nothing to do, there's
always some thing in the community. Something's going on.
If you plug in, if you plug in, and you have a sociable
personality, and a humble personality that's can get along
with everybody, which is how we're supposed to be with the Muslims.
And an on a sound belief system, where we support
every Edison initiative, even if we disagree with the photo of it.
And we want to be part of it. You'll never be bored, but try to
go and do something with space in real estate.
So if the space is taken?
Really?
Huh, I want rural space. I want to rural space.
James Berg, send me links. I want links.
Cash has a question.
I recently got married and want to know if I have to give Qurbani on
behalf of my wife and children or is it still just for myself that I
have to give it to.
It's a sunnah for every person who has the ability if they have
money, so your children clearly don't have any money, right?
Unless they inherited, Let's hypothetically say that they
inherited a big tuck a ton of money, you now have to issue this
account for them. That's an obligation and you do the
carbanion for them, which is a Sunday market.
If your wife has money, now, if your parent your wife and kids
don't have their own money, then you just do one for yourself. And
you take some for yourself and you give some to the football and you
give some to the your friends.
I recently saw a video on
chicken
I was so disgusted that I'm now of the school of thought that wants
to do a talk
on if the halal slaughterhouses use these techniques.
And I was so utterly disgusted and felt that
I don't want to consume this again. Although chicken is
everyone's like favorite go to it's a quick cheap protein right?
And it always tastes good.
These chickens are hung upside down
a lot while they're alive. And sometimes for them to to, for the
guy to work with the chicken, the cheese chicken running around and
being annoying and wiggling so much it's hard for him to put on
the hook. So they just take the chicken break the legs so that the
chicken can so easily be put on the hook.
Then it's clasped onto the hook. And these guys are dealing with so
many chickens.
They they pass as they're being put on the hook the conveyor belts
moving
and a splash of water very light splash of water is being splashed
on their
chest to the head.
Then the chicken the conveyor belt goes into you like this. What's at
the bottom of the you.
It's a tray of water with electricity running through it.
The moment the head of the chicken touches the electricity. The thing
gets a shock a jolt and you see the chicken jolting like this.
Then the chicken is and I had heard about a lot of this, but
never seen it. And that's why the shadow of seeing is greater than
hearing because you see people tell you something and you're like
okay, well I don't know. The you're just saying but when you
see it has a different impact on you.
I had never seen this this electrocution part.
I had never seen what the what it actually looks like.
The chickens are now very they're still because they're just got a
little bit of a shock. Then there's a knife that's moving so
quickly. Boom, boom, boom, back and forth. And it goes like this
and it's the chickens are going through it.
Then there's somebody standing at the edge of that knife in
inspecting that each one is beheaded
and then slaughtered, slaughtering it with just taking it with a
knife. Because the beheading may not have worked. It may have
sliced the chest, the beak
and so it didn't bleed out properly and didn't die.
Now if that guy is not there, what happens next is they're dropped
into a vat of boiling Scott
Holding hot water.
So it is possible that if that guy doesn't get it,
that the chicken will go alive into that scalding hot water.
Then the chicken comes out of that, again, this whole conveyor
belts, taking it on this, this this horror, right?
Then it comes out and they all get dunked into some agent that
cleans, it all purifies them, maybe it's a lot of chlorine or
something like that. Right.
And so now they're they have no skin on them the squat the
feathers, I mean, no feathers, then they dipped into this
scalding hot water.
I was told that in the by I called one of these guys.
I really should do it every year. And I really should build a
relationship with these guys. This is a guy named Sadhak in Maryland.
And he says that he makes sure that the chicken is
slaughtered, he makes sure that the machine actually gets all the
heads.
Of course, the enough can not eat any of this, because they require
the best amount on every animal.
So
I'm not
I want to look further into this because it's such a disgusting
view image that you like.
You almost don't want to ever eat chicken again.
That's why I have to see if is the Muslim or the Muslim butcheries
just Islamic versions of this one big Bismillah and let's go. If
that's the case, then the disgust level is so high.
Even beyond the shutter you level or shutter is what's important.
But there is also a level of non type that is so disgusting.
Because you can have so many violations of the shittier
and Cara mcru hat discouraged things and even forbidden things.
But the animal would still be halal technically to eat.
So that's an important distinction there. So yes, you may do many,
many forbidden things, but you did slaughter the animal properly. So
it is halal, but it's very, very
stained
with Makoto hertz and Mohammed and other things that would make you
disgusted from eating it.
And if the head is not getting cut at all, then you're outside of the
permissibility
I encourage everybody to
do some research. We need somebody I'm telling you, we're going to
create the Jersey City Board. Like there's that New York City board
we're going to create the Jersey Shore Edward JSB how's that as a
good New Jersey Sharia board? We're going to register it under
Safina foundation or separately.
And then part of it is to do investigation of what are we
eating? It's one thing to say in fifth and Muslim you saw duck
that's what we say as Maliki Yeah, almost some tells you yes I'm
I own the factory and it's hella house and Muslim you said duck
but
it does need investigation because this was disgusting.
Extremely discussed
I'll turn the mic on so we can speak did you hear about like how
speaking the mics over here? Yes. Like have you seen like how like
normal some companies that what they do to the baby chicks? Like
they legit like just shred them? Oh my gosh. Alive alive. Yeah. To
make the nuggets and stuff. No. To make what? No, it's just like,
they're just like useless. Like, just like shred them and kill. Oh,
you're saying the animal that doesn't make weight or something?
Like, like no like, like baby chicks? For what reason? They just
try them because they're useless like the male baby chicks. They
just like get rid of them because like they're not they're like
nothing like they just like what's it's too much to like maintain
them and like to actually like grow them into chicken so they
just read them. Oh my goodness, no, you can see like videos online
of that. It's like crazy people are worse than you dude.
Of course not everyone thinks that some group of people they think
something else about your judgment judge but we're not going to go
there are detached limbs considered out.
For example, amputations and skin biopsies.
That means a
Let's hypothetically say a woman's arm
was was let's say cut.
amputated. Can you now hold it and move it?
Like I
did. Right as a new question to me. Right. That is I'll tell you
what question we got is the
prosthetic foot prosthetic hand. It's not required.
Prosthetics do not fall in the category of Who do you
did not make wudu or wipe over a prosthetic leg or sorry, a
prosthetic foot, for example. But to have the solid would you could
you send it to shuttle?
Yeah, in surgery we just amputated a woman's hands for our arm, for
example, or like a finger
or a finger or a thigh or a leg. Can I move it? Can I look at it
while I'm moving it? First of all, there's no shower there. Right?
But these days, these days
I don't put anything past any of these. Any people these days the
sexual element of the society has gone is so disgusting even
sometimes I go into Facebook feeds. And the first thing it
brings me is the videos. I have to block half these videos. All the
comedy clips right the comedy clips. Right? The comedy clips
like this girl Maddie. She needs to be dunked
and purified. Xiao fille de she has her her her and her whole
show. Right, I had to hit block on every one of these things. But if
you do keep hitting block that the algorithm does change. I mean, it
works. Yeah.
I recently got back on Facebook, and I liked the updated. I don't
know how long they updated it.
They updated a while ago, but it's easier to use know, the Facebook
app. Right.
But and I know Facebook is like a dying thing. But to me, I liked
the new app, the update and I don't know when they update it
because it's complicated. The pages are different than than
people's regular accounts. And for a long time pages, went off of
Facebook and went on to a different app that you have to
download and I'm like what is headache is this I'm not using
this. So now that I got the actual Facebook, which is really just to
sell some of my parents stuff on Facebook marketplace. Then I got
on again. That was the reason I got on again. And I'm like, Oh,
this actually easy to use. I can post stuff.
And then as soon as you go on though, it shows you what they
call it reels, right?
shows you these reels, and the reels. Yeah, these comedy sketches
or whatever. They're just disgusting. It's really bad,
right?
There's always been for sup in society, but there is a limit to
how open you are about it.
Elif says how to convince someone to get out of a haram relationship
with a non Muslim, that person knows it's bad but find it too
hard to stop in nomadic.
Just you have to transmit it to them, just remind them and that's
it.
big baller brand and says how to pray Quaaludes in the Maliki
school can I raise my hands we don't raise your hands but if you
do, you're not invalidating your Salah. And we don't recite it out
loud. But if you do you're not invalidating Salah and we recited
after in the second raka affair before the core. And if you did it
after the recoil, you're not invalidating the seller.
But that's how it is silently
before to call in the second I got a federal without raising your
hands
to speak
I'd rather to have a building on it. Like an old farm or something
like that.
Get me an old farm. Any farmers out there that's going out of
business. I want an old farm
over here, that might be redeveloping it. So you can't
build on the form you're gonna have to destroy and build on a
single property house or
how old Mateen says crush that like button so other people can
benefit? All right, fair enough.
Nope.
I hope all these episodes as melody have helped with some
underlying questions with persons connection and community personal
connection community is so critical. Gotta have friends. If
you don't have friends, something's wrong. Most of them
must have friends. If not even better than friends is
acquaintances. Right acquaintances is so easy to make. Um, so and so
you're so and so. You don't We don't have to text we don't have
to invite each other. But we hang out at the masjid when we talk. I
love those relationships, right? You don't need to text you know
that have acquaintances for over 10 years and mustard. I don't know
what guy's name? Well, I don't know his name. Right? But every
day we come and chit chat in the waves to Salah out of Silla, like
every week to three times and never asked him his name. I can't
remember it. Now I'm embarrassed ask his name.
But that's what I acquaintances is a level of that's what a Sahib is.
It's an acquaintance of Saudi. Now we know each other's names, we
text and we go out to eat. He comes to my house I go to his
house. So then the filial
Be very wary of that relationship. Because if it goes sour, it's very
painful. Killeen, like you're in each other's lives.
You don't need to go there. Don't get so close to anybody's life.
Just have a bunch of friends and a ton of acquaintances. And yes,
should we go to any one of us probably has acquaintances if you
keep going that message four or five times for sulla you'll make
acquaintances. And then make acquaintances is simply you smile
at the person you say, Sit, I'm on equal.
Right? Next time. You say hey, what's your name? What do you do
you live around here? A couple of those simple questions and then
you volunteer the same infer from yourself.
It's not an interview sound like a Fed if you do that, say, Oh, you
live here. I live 20 minutes to 10 minutes away five minutes away.
What fields are you in? I'm a pharmacist. Oh, me too.
* sales are really going crazy this spring. Like that?
Is it in our context?
Context allowed to pretend or act on being on the side of the enemy
to get the job done.
It's possible to be a spy. Yes.
It's lawful job to be a spy.
The Battle of conduct.
It was one on the pretense of pretending al-harbi Coda prophesy
centum said lying at
war is misleading your enemy.
Because in war, we have a super high ticket li world events cuddly
we're allowed to kill the guy. Of course I could lie to
any advice for women performing Hajj while pregnant?
Masha, Allah
can't give you advice on something I never did. To be honest with
you. I'd be a fraud if I did.
But ask other pregnant women, there may be things that they know
that you don't that, you know, this is all by experience. Cash
says, How do we approach our wife if they are sitting and not taking
your advice?
We have that in the Quran. And by the way, you have to actually be
measured about this. You married a woman who is in the deen, maybe
six out of 10 in the shittier. They're like maybe
she's not raised on certain things. So you have to go slow and
steady. But you'd have to be made clear that certain things you're
not happy about.
But also that you can force someone you have to really it's
more of an art than a sense.
Then again, if you married her like that, now, don't come and ask
me for help. Right? You married her like that? You accepted that?
Unless you said,
no, no matter what, let's get married. But let's make the
intention that we follow all the rules.
And she says yes, okay, fine. Now, you have to go with a more
sensitivity and common sense and, and an art than a science and
this. And that's the nature of how to really help yourself. First,
you do the same thing with yourself. Let's go slow and
steady. Let's have some rewards, connected to achievements. And
every time I do this wrong, I'm gonna give $10 and sadaqa, $50 and
sadaqa.
And you want to make sure that you're not making people feel that
they're bad or that they're,
they want to if you want to make him feel down, you want to make
them always feel up and that you're a source of someone who
makes them feel good about themselves. So you do that more by
rewarding, so to speak, praising what's good. Then
saying what's wrong? Blaming what's wrong? Then again, you
can't stay silent on what's wrong. If something's wrong and it comes
up in a conversation, he says hello. And then the person in
front of you gets defensive side. Listen, don't get defensive
because you do it.
Just accept it. Take the L in this case, take this sin, right? Take
the meme Maaseiah right and make Toba. Listen, don't get defensive
and try to change the city and pretend you're offended. Take Take
the meme you say I Lamassu less appreciated when a tuple Hola,
hola, Dena gymea and we're all trying to get better. Right? You
say to the person Listen, I got my own sense. You got your own sense.
Let's not pretend here that we have to walk on eggshells around
each other. And when we talk about the shoe, this is what Allah's
rules are. We all try to get there at the same time, together all
together as as as as a team and as a unit. That type of warmth,
warmth, but truthfulness simultaneously.
And as I told you, it's more art than science and more sensitivity
and give and take
Then textbook answers to this question.
Of course, there are certain things you can't stand for. I'm
going on a business trip with Bob. No.
That's a problem. That is going to be a problem. Where's this
business trip? Oh, nothing is a medical conference in Las Vegas.
The company sending me and Bob to go to Las Vegas together right now
we're going to save me separate rooms. That's that's going to be a
problem. So certain things of course, you're gonna have an
issue. Nealon says is Allah bound by logic? Why can't he do anything
illogical? It's not a law that's bound by logic, you are bound by
logic. Your speech is bound by logic. That's what's bound by
logic. So when we say can Allah create a triangle with five sides?
We're not saying that Allah is bound by logic, we're saying your
speech, your question itself has to be thrown on the garbage is
nonsensical. Your speech has to be about logic and speech are one
thing. Because you speak with what makes sense speech is the
expression of thought,
thought, the thought has to be bound by rules, it has to be
sensible thought. Every word has a meaning. The whole construction of
the sentence in the passage should not contradict itself, essential
to rules of guiding your thought. So for the good question by
kneeling here, it's not a law that's bound by like your speech
is about my logic. So rephrase the question, bring me a better
question.
A sensible question here, you broke the rule of identity. You
said triangle, then you said five sides. That's a contradiction. So
don't ask for that. So your speech is bound by law, our speech? What
do we say Elmont? What does that month look mean? It means the
speech will alumna month look at by saying the Soloman said we were
taught the speech of birds. Okay, what is the word for logic? Munduk
the same thing. Speech is an expression of thought
that he says in Islam, he says well bad while multicultural
journey needs to connect with a listen thank you. Montek. Logic,
right for in terms of your brain and your thought is in the analogy
of grammar for speech, Ted's weed for recitation of traffic rules
for driving a car, it's all the same. Yeah, like you look at the
definitions of month, the misconception here lies in that
people see Montek as like it's something feel hot. It's like it's
something external that exists in reality. No, like, if you look at
the definition of Montek one of them that they give is an Allah
Tondonia. It's a tool, right? So what is an Allah they explain that
means it's versatile. So it's an intermediary between what you owe
and the thing that you're trying to achieve. Right. So it's a tool.
It's not like something that's existing out there. It's like,
exactly, it's a tool between what you have in your heart and what
you're trying to express. And that like some thing that exists out
there, logic and cannot look, you know, contradict No, it's exactly
Thank you. Very well said.
Mohammed, Abdullah Abdullah Ali
says, Can we do the same as Sahaba did with Quran by reading 10 areas
and switching to another after practicing them?
You can but it's not usually the practice of the Muslims to do
that.
What we do is we studied the books of Akita and
where all the knowledge of Quran and Hadith has been organized for
us by the Imams.
And if Phila, do a masculine do a live on masculinity. Okay. You
know, Chef Omar aduro.
Send him a message. His name is Amara aduro. Right. From Abdullah
Dora from from Dallas. Get him on Jolla.
Yeah, the one from your opinion.
Yeah, Abdullah Dora. Sorry, I missed that. Omar Abdullah,
because he has a new
podcast. That's a man cave. It's called and it's all about
masculine issues.
Yeah, what's it called again? The stronghold of Sultan's bring, and
we'll bring him on for that. Oh, invite him to please.
How do I see the prophets of Allah when he was sent him in a dream?
Make much solo Watts upon him. And ask Allah for it is one of the
dreams you're allowed to ask Allah for.
Can you explain the logical reason why Allah is unlike the creation?
Because when we say unlike the creation, the fact that something
is created automatically it has certain properties. The properties
is that it's finite,
that it changes, that it is physical that is subjected to
causes and effects.
The Infinite does not have any of these properties he did not come
into being and is not created of anything and has no limits.
That's that's the in that respect is wholly different from created
beings. And in shared attributes we can say if we ever say that,
let's say existence I exist and Allah exists so how isn't Allah
different from me? Yes, Allah exists without support. Allah
exists without a beginning. I exist with support and with the
beginning
Allah loves and we love we love because we have dependency
we have needs
and our love has limits Allah to Allah loves without a need. He
loves without limits like that.
Top G says have you been to Houston? Yes, I was in Houston I
went to a masjid that was just like a mall basically a strip mall
literally parking lot as if you're going to home goods
no like huge parking lot to the point that if a car was called and
you're parked at the end you're not going to catch your first book
and it was like a strip mall like
really wide like this you go in has multiple basketball courts
massive masala everything in Texas is bigger
What are your some of your three favorite books? Well, one of my
favorite books is the biography section of C without Sure.
One of my favorite books no doubt about that.
What's the ruling on estimate he's made these are two types. One
group is a moped idea and another group are out of Islam then
Bizzarri is made ease which they have a seat at Harvard of course
because they donated that's the only reason otherwise Harvard
cared less about them.
That they're in his Orisha, also known as the assassins originally
in history. And they don't pray they don't fast they don't make
Hajj or they reinterpret this as
hedges to visit their Agha Khan when he's not on his luxury yacht.
Getting divorced from his latest European wife
when he's not doing that then you can make hedge to him that's what
hedges it's to him because they say hedge was to go meet the
Prophet. So now it's the gold meet the Imam they don't pray five
times a day they don't fast Ramadan
so where's Islam? Are these not known in religion by necessity if
you get any person who's vaguely heard about Islam they know that
this is what Muslims do. So then is already Shia or out of Islam
but the Borussia
they do they don't reject these known in religion by necessities
and they have a mustard here my neighbor is one of them. Yeah,
they pray they fast
and they don't respond to the they don't follow the Agha Khan
What did you find a farm had Show fix 616 says if a person says I
believe ALLAH can create another god
mother gift
that's it simple don't
believe a lock and create another gun
it's about 50 minutes 50 Take the spec. How are we going to make
data that's 50 minutes away.
maximum radius 15 minutes drive
is is all chicken stunned if it's done to an allergy. Oh stunned to
kill or stunned.
Before stunning it before. I believe that even the hands slow
to chicken they do this. And they say it's a relaxing stun stun
bath. It's called to relax the chicken. It's funny when I read
that in a festival one time and I said oh who's that what you do
when you relax, go home. Sit on your rocking chair and put your
feet in some electric water.
They say it relaxes the chicken relax is one word to put it I
don't think it relaxes the chicken
we got to wrap up. We got to wrap up.
It's made says this crescent chicken like this? Well, that's
who I contacted and he said that we do we have. We give one
Bismillah on all the chickens and we have someone at the blade and
any chicken that was missed. We then cut it ourselves and we say
Bismillah we cut that chicken ourselves. So I said I was
satisfied with that answer and that but that was a number of
years ago we got to call them back and always check like restaurants
and food you have to always check
things change. You're gonna comment as Mr. Clay pottery
saying? See the Atiba has created the solution for you.
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like a property with me I want to form a guy who's getting rid of a
farm
right and he can even stay on the farm and keep you know pay us rent
but I want to put daughter Feds on the farm
place by where I live it's abandoned farm but the
redeveloping it into single housing.
Too bad.
I've talked to this guy, he's a convert. And he he used to be on a
board of property zoning. He was telling me that you can buy any
type of property and you can drill if you make it into a house of
worship. Yeah, it doesn't matter if it's commercial residential,
you can build it there. So if you get Donald to be like a house of
worship, then you can build it like a residential
well look at his friends with for sure. jolla
does that come located on everyone? Let's wrap up here.
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Anwar Musa the hot water was Soble hardcourts was so quick question
here. Why can't women wear it non gold. She can wear non gold to
such she can't wear them. She can wear them. Non women what women
can wear non gold. Women are not subject to wearing to any
prohibitions on jewelry. They can wear any stone any metal with a
lot of sitting home into it somebody said 100 loaded
a job
know