Shadee Elmasry – The Cream of Tafsir – NBF 416 – 1

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The Safina Society is hosting classes for the church and introducing a concept called "rowning" to reflect reality. They discuss various charitable causes, such as a shower and a shower for youth, and talk about a woman named Monica Heyral who passed away three years ago. The conversation also touches on various professional and personal topics, including a shower and a shower, and mentions a woman named Monica Heyral who passed away in Syria. The conversation also touches on the increasing number of Muslims who need learning teachers and the need for more teachers.

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			Today, I'm going to give you a brief
		
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			introduction to the concept of quantum mechanics.
		
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			Welcome everybody to the Safina Society, nothing but
		
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			facts live stream on a cold Thursday in
		
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			the great state of New Jersey on a
		
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			day in which the flurries have started to
		
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			come down, very light flurries, and we're getting
		
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			snow a couple inches.
		
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			You know that Omar, two to three inches
		
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			of snow we're getting on Sunday.
		
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			You aware of that?
		
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			We start up our classes again at the
		
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			Masjid on Sunday.
		
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			This time it's at two o'clock, our
		
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			class starts.
		
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			If you want to sign up for that,
		
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			you go to arcviewessentials, arcview.org, go to
		
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			arcview.org and go to essentials, sign up
		
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			for essentials.
		
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			That's where we'll be at again.
		
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			That's arcview.org and then I have two
		
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			rooms there.
		
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			I have room for my two different classes.
		
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			In arcviewessentials, you'll see my two rooms.
		
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			You click on my room at two o
		
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			'clock on Sunday where it says my Sunday
		
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			Awaylem course and we're finishing up Ulum al
		
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			-Quran and then we go to Ulum al
		
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			-Hadith.
		
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			We're going from Ulum al-Quran to Ulum
		
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			al-Hadith this semester.
		
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			We study those two subjects first before studying
		
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			Aqidah because the Muslim that's living so far
		
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			from the original lands of Islam and outside
		
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			the environment of Islam may need some background
		
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			on the sources of theology first, the sources
		
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			of belief before anything else.
		
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			Like how can you talk about Haqqaid where
		
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			you haven't yet even, you have no confidence
		
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			in the verses and the Hadith.
		
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			So it's not fathomable or it's not unfathomable
		
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			that you can have a Muslim, he believes
		
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			in everything but he really questions and wonders
		
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			how do we know these Hadith are true?
		
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			How do we know these verses are what
		
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			they are?
		
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			How did the Quran get here?
		
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			Speaking of the Quran, today we're going to
		
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			talk about Safwat al-Tafasir and we're talking
		
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			to Shaykh Mahdi Lakh who is also teaching
		
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			a new course in Arkview.
		
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			Again you go to Arkview.org but this
		
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			time you go into the Arabic unit and
		
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			you sign up for that you will get
		
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			to listen to Shaykh Mahdi Lakh and he
		
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			will educate you, he will teach you, he
		
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			will read with you the cream of Tafsir,
		
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			Safwat al-Tafasir and he'll be joining us
		
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			very shortly.
		
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			He was joining us yesterday but as you
		
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			see the Wi-Fi was acting up with
		
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			us.
		
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			The Wi-Fi was acting up and we
		
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			kept getting cut and then our man out
		
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			of England would match up all the two
		
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			different parts and then put them up.
		
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			So we're gonna probably hopefully we don't get
		
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			cut but Shaykh Mahdi Lakh is coming on
		
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			today.
		
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			GRT is also something that we're gonna talk
		
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			about because we said the other day that
		
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			our guys are going to Shem, they did
		
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			go to Shem.
		
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			Two of our guys went to Shem and
		
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			went to Syria, went to Damascus, went to
		
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			Sidnaya prison and they delivered aid on behalf
		
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			of GRT.
		
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			When Ahmad is done he can fire up
		
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			our GRT scorecard let's see how we're doing
		
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			on GRT and we always gather a couple
		
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			cents here and there for GRT.
		
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			We do a lot of financial things here
		
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			and it all goes towards different charitable causes.
		
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			Another one I'm very excited about actually we're
		
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			gonna be putting up getting some hoodies.
		
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			It's winter and it's time for hoodies.
		
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			Oversized hoodies you know these big oversized hoodies
		
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			and where's that money gonna go to that's
		
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			gonna go to Umrah for youth so that
		
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			we can send some Shabab to Umrah who
		
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			can't afford it specifically high schoolers okay high
		
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			schoolers are who we like to send I
		
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			like to send out people go before going
		
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			to college go to Umrah once or twice
		
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			not just once once or twice the first
		
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			time is the most important one but you
		
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			need that second one and how much do
		
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			we talk about the repetition of things it's
		
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			so important the repetition of things almost got
		
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			us our Syria fund fired up here and
		
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			we are at 12,000 99 pence pounds
		
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			I mean and 91 P so we are
		
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			9 P away from 12,100 GBP's great
		
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			Britain whatever so let's get that night let's
		
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			get that 8 cents that's all that's what
		
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			I'm asking that's my ask today how crazy
		
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			is that my ask is to it's always
		
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			to round up like if we were at
		
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			1240 which we try to get 60 pounds
		
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			today we're lucky sure lucky day all we're
		
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			asking for is 8 P all right let's
		
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			just get to 12,100 and we'll see
		
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			what happens from there Sheikh Mehdi is with
		
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			us and he is here to talk about
		
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			the cream of Tafsir my first question will
		
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			be for him about the author why he
		
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			chose this book so let's bring him on
		
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			our very own Sheikh Mehdi lock assalamu alaikum
		
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			how are you I'm not everyone hear me
		
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			clear yes loud and clear very good why
		
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			don't you talk to us and tell us
		
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			suffocated Tafsir tell us about the author first
		
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			okay well Sheikh Mohammed Ali Sabuni rahim Allah
		
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			Syrian Hanafi passed away just I think three
		
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			years ago three or four years ago spent
		
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			I think the last I think half his
		
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			life or so in in Mecca he's met
		
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			most life in Mecca I believe he had
		
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			to leave Syria under because of the political
		
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			circumstances back in the 80s I mean has
		
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			to do with the situation in Hama have
		
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			1982 so he's been there all that time
		
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			his specialty is a Hanafi faqih but his
		
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			specialty has always been on the Quran so
		
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			he's very he's so his Tafsir is very
		
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			well known some of the Tafsir he's also
		
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			done a Muqtasir of Ibn Kathir he's also
		
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			Ibn Kathir's Tafsir he's also very well known
		
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			for doing another Tafsir Ayatul Ahkam that's very
		
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			very famous he also has a book on
		
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			Tibian in the Quran a very well-known
		
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			book and he's done lots of other smaller
		
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			books other works there's two Sabunis in history
		
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			Islamic history scholars yeah correct yeah they're not
		
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			a major one that's the other ones I
		
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			think a thousand years ago yeah very long
		
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			time ago yeah Sabun means soap so so
		
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			all so he wrote a lot now the
		
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			the contemporary Sabuni yeah yes yes very very
		
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			very active Mashallah so so that the Tafsir
		
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			has been some that's been kind of close
		
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			to me for a long time I mean
		
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			I actually have this is my own edition
		
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			so I bought this in Fez I think
		
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			in 2001 hmm when I first arrived as
		
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			an Arabic student and people were recommending to
		
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			me then saying like if you want to
		
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			get a nice Tafsir to get yourself going
		
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			and like we're gonna cover and we're gonna
		
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			do this when we start on Saturday because
		
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			there's there's about eight I think endorsements at
		
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			the beginning of the book from different Udema
		
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			of that time because it was published late
		
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			1970s I think the first time it came
		
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			out it was mid to late 1970s because
		
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			there's actually an endorsement from Imam Abdul Haleem
		
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			Mahmood who was a big Shia and Sheikh
		
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			Al Azhar passed away in 1979 a massive
		
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			authority on Marjah who has lots of wonderful
		
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			books as well so he he has an
		
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			endorsement he hasn't he's his endorsement the first
		
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			one then there's lots of other Shia and
		
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			the Qatira and professors from from from Mecca
		
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			from the from the University because at that
		
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			time because what people think now of like
		
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			Umm al-Qurra University was Umm al-Qurra
		
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			University now in Mecca it started off as
		
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			a branch of Jamt al-Mecca ibn Aziz
		
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			based in Jeddah right that's how that's how
		
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			it was back then the time the book
		
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			was published and there's also so there's a
		
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			lot of endorsements from different professors and doctors
		
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			from the University and then there's also Sheikh
		
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			Mohammed al-Ghazali the big Egyptian Hanafi Sheikh
		
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			so he has an endorsement and what they
		
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			both said they all praised the book and
		
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			what they say is that Alhamdulillah we have
		
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			it's a seer that strikes that balance between
		
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			being between brevity and prolixity you know like
		
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			like being so there's lots of fears can
		
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			be very brief and concise and then you
		
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			feel like you want more and then you
		
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			go to bigger Tafsir and then you find
		
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			yourself like swimming in an ocean and it's
		
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			it's going off and on and on and
		
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			on it's very very likely so so I
		
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			there's something I've been wanting to do I've
		
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			been wanting to do for a while I
		
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			would want to do like a Tafsir class
		
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			with my Arabic students because Alhamdulillah you know
		
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			we've come a long way now Mashallah we've
		
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			done about 18 months and you know my
		
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			students are demonstrating that you know they're they're
		
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			thirsty for more they want to go into
		
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			more detail on things they love it in
		
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			class when we bring up ayat we talk
		
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			about ayat so it's okay let's let's give
		
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			you something that's that satiates all right satiates
		
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			your hunger quenches your thirst but doesn't overdo
		
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			it yeah doesn't overdo it because I thought
		
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			like I crossed my mind I thought hey
		
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			you know there is Imam Abu Zuhaili's Tafsir
		
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			al-Munir but that's like 17 volumes and
		
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			that goes into like yeah it goes into
		
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			Balagha, it goes into Kiraat, it goes into
		
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			Fiqh right it's super super detailed I'm saying
		
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			like but we might be here for a
		
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			while and as I got as a first
		
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			Tafsir yeah the first Tafsir that might be
		
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			a bit intimidating yeah so some of the
		
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			Tafsir it just fits that that that mold
		
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			and also the fact that Shaykh al-Saboun
		
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			he's drawing on the big as it's called
		
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			that that title cream Tafsirs why because he
		
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			just trying to summarize for you what the
		
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			major professor said who does he cover for
		
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			example so like for example like like the
		
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			court to be Imam al-Qudsi, Imam al
		
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			-Mukathir, At-Tabari, Faqhni al-Razi, these major
		
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			figures right Nasafi, Nasafi, Baghawi, and he just
		
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			quotes them he cites them I think he
		
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			does that in the some of the footnotes
		
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			but but what he explains in the introduction
		
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			is that that's what you rely that's what
		
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			he's relying on right so so like for
		
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			example he doesn't want to give you quote
		
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			footnote like like footnote and the Hamish and
		
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			you know detail but he's telling you this
		
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			is what I'm drawing from right so you
		
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			don't always do that directly quotes but you
		
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			know obviously like just just like just just
		
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			yesterday I was I was going over some
		
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			I just out of curiosity I was looking
		
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			at some of the ayat that for some
		
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			of you and I were discussing a couple
		
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			years back on the same show like about
		
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			ayat at Kamanika I just looked I just
		
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			looked at this here again he's saying the
		
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			same thing that I've I would have read
		
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			when I was doing my MA thesis you
		
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			know just summarizing saying this is the ajma'
		
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			position on this yeah I remember that so
		
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			he's just he's just matching what what again
		
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			what Imam al-Mukathir would have said what
		
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			he would have said what Qadi al-Bukhari
		
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			al-Muharrabi would have said and that's and
		
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			that's what I think students we were able
		
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			to do is once once you're going through
		
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			this or you've gone through this tafsir then
		
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			you you have an idea of what the
		
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			bigger Mufassirun said what the other Mufassirun said
		
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			and if you want to go and open
		
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			up their tafsirs it's gonna be familiar to
		
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			you yeah oh yeah I read this you
		
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			can say like oh yeah I read this
		
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			with Sheikh Saboudi yeah this is what I
		
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			expect to find amazing work so it's actually
		
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			one and a half times the size of
		
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			tafsir al-Baghawi which we usually read from
		
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			this is tafsir al-Baghawi that the Egyptian
		
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			and Maliki teachers in Egypt they said this
		
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			is the this is the one that you
		
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			go this is your number one go-to
		
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			and then I believe that Imam al-Haddad
		
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			said the same thing okay yeah so they
		
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			love Baghawi yeah I'm guessing Baghawi would be
		
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			longer than this because of this is obviously
		
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			three three volumes but it could be published
		
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			as one but again I guess it depend
		
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			on the print yeah this is in total
		
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			it's near to 14 1450 pages so yours
		
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			look like 500 pages a pop yeah it's
		
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			like 600 pages 600 so it's a little
		
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			bit longer yeah all right which surahs will
		
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			you be reciting from are you gonna do
		
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			a cut yeah we tend to do a
		
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			cotton we tend to do a backwards or
		
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			forwards we're gonna start what I've discussed so
		
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			far my students because this discussion sort of
		
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			came out during our open Q&A sessions
		
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			and I think when we actually made this
		
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			decision there were majority of Hanafis in the
		
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			room so maybe they push me but we
		
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			decided the point I mean we were open
		
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			were amenable to change but we decide we'd
		
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			start with the introduction start start with the
		
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			Austin the the endorsements the introduction sort of
		
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			Fatiha and then probably jump into Juzama yeah
		
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			go from NASA up yeah or or never
		
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			I mean we'll see we can discuss it
		
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			we can discuss that with the students you
		
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			see what they feel but get that down
		
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			because that those are the source everyone's familiar
		
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			with it those the source of people tend
		
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			to resign their prayers so that will help
		
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			people with their with a salah like concentration
		
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			so for and then we didn't go back
		
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			and do sort of Bakara sort of Bakara
		
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			I have taught parts of stuff here before
		
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			I've talked about parts of sister before I
		
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			think it's another reason I chose it because
		
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			I did I did run this is a
		
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			long time ago now this is like maybe
		
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			15 years ago I did run like a
		
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			new Muslim project in the city of not
		
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			team in the UK and with my wife's
		
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			on my wife's advice I just did like
		
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			a little to see your class I combined
		
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			to see with some fit there was like
		
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			a group of new Muslim sisters so to
		
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			help them out we do like some thick
		
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			and I did some to seer with them
		
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			and other sisters joined in and they just
		
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			really really praised the tough see or this
		
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			like wow I've never thought of you know
		
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			the Quran this clearly I've never no no
		
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			one's ever gone over this with us and
		
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			before we never seen this these kind of
		
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			explanations and it's it is quite it is
		
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			kind of shocking how I don't know again
		
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			what your experience is I don't know what
		
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			it was like the US I I find
		
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			it quite shocking how I find I find
		
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			a lot of people kind of like Muslims
		
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			go through life and they never even just
		
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			go over the Fatiha like what is a
		
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			lot of the Fatiha like what you know
		
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			you're doing this every day you know what
		
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			happened is that my it's not just a
		
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			theory it's fact the there are more scholars
		
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			today than in the past like every generation
		
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			there's probably more scholars but what there isn't
		
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			is the ratio of scholars to people who
		
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			need learning teachers to students the ratio is
		
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			she frozen either he's frozen or he's spellbound
		
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			oh there you go okay did you hear
		
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			what the last thing I said was the
		
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			audio cut up to you you you froze
		
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			okay so I was saying the what what's
		
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			happened is that there there are more their
		
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			scholars being produced every generation but the problem
		
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			with our times is the ratio in the
		
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			last few hundred years has kept going down
		
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			the ratio of teachers to people who need
		
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			a couple ratios teachers to people who need
		
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			to start to be taught the number of
		
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			Muslims who need to be taught is skyrocketing
		
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			the number of teachers being produced is not
		
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			skyrocketing the other thing is the the imams
		
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			and the teachers the ratio of their message
		
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			to all total number of messages that people
		
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			are getting that ratio is dropping too so
		
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			that you could probably imagine back in the
		
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			day there would have been maybe a couple
		
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			imams and scholars in a town and they
		
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			really almost had no competition maybe the only
		
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			competition was the local storyteller or the local
		
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			poet or whatever that was his only competition
		
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			but now you have millions of hundreds upon
		
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			thousands if not millions of outlets seeking your
		
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			attention and the sheikh and the imam is
		
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			going against all that that's another reason right
		
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			like back way back in the day in
		
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			the 80s let's say it was not even
		
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			way back in the day but in the
		
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			80s in the 90s if you pulled the
		
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			plug on your TV there was no outside
		
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			influence coming into your house hmm right there's
		
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			no outside influence if you pulled the plug
		
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			on your TV if you put the plug
		
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			back in there's 30 channels and they're not
		
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			channels that you could surf they're just channels
		
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			whatever he's showing at that time is all
		
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			you're getting you can never rewind right at
		
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			least you have 30 there's like for the
		
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			UK yeah and you had to pay for
		
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			it right hmm but yeah the license yeah
		
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			yeah it's a TV license but so that
		
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			was it even with TV there was not
		
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			much comp there it wasn't as attractive today
		
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			the the local teacher and imam there's so
		
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			much competition vying for his attention so it's
		
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			those are the two major factors of why
		
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			sort of the the state of the Ummah
		
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			is the way it is today where you
		
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			have people who may go their entire life
		
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			without studying Fatiha and you may have people
		
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			in the heart of Cairo Azhar is literally
		
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			right there they may pass it every single
		
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			day and they may not know one of
		
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			the things that we assume that everyone else
		
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			knows I knew an Egyptian woman she said
		
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			she grew up until her 40s didn't know
		
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			hijab was a fart upon everyone she thought
		
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			it was a custom an Arabic custom for
		
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			old women to do and the Hajj to
		
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			the Hajj was just like a visit that's
		
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			what they thought Hajj was like a visit
		
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			you just visit Mecca before you die that's
		
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			it you just do a visit that's what
		
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			they thought right and literally this is in
		
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			the heart of Egypt people don't have this
		
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			knowledge so you wonder like how did this
		
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			happen there was a Syrian woman who amazing
		
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			story she said that she was so far
		
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			from Islam so much so she would wear
		
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			we're frozen again frozen you're good okay yeah
		
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			what's the last thing you guys change my
		
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			connect yeah I got you I got you
		
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			yeah I got what you said people don't
		
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			have this knowledge so now there's let me
		
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			tell you this one other story which is
		
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			an amazing story she said that that this
		
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			woman is her future is very bright but
		
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			in the beginning she was like 22 years
		
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			old doing a master's in mathematics and wearing
		
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			like a short skirt and sleeveless and she
		
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			had no connection to Islam at all in
		
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			her family this is in Damascus like the
		
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			one of the heartlands of knowledge the first
		
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			places of now one of the first places
		
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			of knowledge in Islam so you know Medina
		
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			to Kufa Damascus miss so she saw a
		
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			woman sitting around at the lunch table talking
		
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			telling stories and all her friends listening so
		
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			she goes there it turns out she's telling
		
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			a story from the seerah and she's she
		
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			likes she like was shocked she was she
		
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			loved it and she said she thought that
		
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			all this time Muhammad is just a historical
		
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			figure that ruled at some point it's like
		
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			you like a Greek person may know yeah
		
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			Alexander he ruled at some point right who
		
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			knows when but he ruled yeah right we
		
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			don't know much about him but he ruled
		
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			I'm a sir some scholar knows about him
		
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			some historian so she's like that's what she
		
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			thought Muhammad was just someone who ruled at
		
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			some point in time right and she became
		
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			hooked within a year she had joined a
		
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			Quran circle and then she entered have and
		
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			give it ten years and she is a
		
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			half of with a jazz