Shadee Elmasry – The Secret Behind Faith in Allah Shaykh Mahdi Lock NBF 291
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and today, we have our own very own chef Matthew lock, leader of
the ArcView Arabic program bring on our che Smilla
should come as you lock. How are you? Good to see you again.
Michelle la Shukran. First of all, how are you Arabic students from
ArcView.
They're doing very well martial law, they're doing very well.
I would say I've been pleasantly surprised. We've got I think we
brought 60 A number I know the check for a few days and what 16
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spread over three levels, beginner intermediate advanced and we've
got a really diverse bunch I would say mashallah, like from different
not just from New Jersey, but from diverse parts of the US. A lot of
people's spread it over the East Coast, United States, like New
York, North Carolina.
And then people often in Canada, so we're gonna people from Toronto
and Montreal, then it's a few people from the UK. I've got a few
people from India, I think, to buy Ivory Coast, Australia, as it's
really, really spread out. Mashallah. And
I'm not I'm noticing as time goes on Hamdulillah that
you know, because I'm remember what, 14 weeks in now. So I'm very
familiar with the students much longer some of the students,
that's great. And it's good to see, like, sometimes sometimes I'm
noticing in my classes, I'm like, wow, you know, I've got a really
strong class now, you know, models, people, and these are all
people I've seen, really perform and really answer the question
with proficiency. And they're confident. That's,
and that's great to see. And I get really great questions like why
people are not?
Because I hate teaching. And it feels like it feels like a radio
broadcast. Yeah, it's like, radio silence. No one's doing anything.
So. So I like to have a bit of
a bit of rowdiness in the class. I like I don't like because there's
a different styles. You know, I noticed like if you ever watched
like, like doodles from places like Sham, it's very quiet. Yeah.
And all the Q and A's at the end, whereas like an Egypt, it's
rowdies. Yeah, you know, students, students, just get in there and
the interview. I like that I prefer that side. Like I get
nervous. Honestly, they get nervous if it's really quiet,
because I'm like this. Are people listening to me in the community,
some of them saying, so when people just bought in and say,
Listen, I need to know, I don't understand what it means or this
or why is there a casserole here but fentanyl here? Right? Okay,
great.
I'm definitely into that. Because every reaction is a piece of
information I'm using to understand if the students
learning or if they're grasping anything, or what's on their mind,
I need to know that because otherwise,
you have no clue if you're just talking to the wall, like you
don't know if it's going over their head in one ear out the
other. So you got to have that engagement in that interaction.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So that's what I'm, and that is,
again, one of the challenges with
with online, right. So you can I mean, I've been also a face to
face teacher for a long time, you know, 20 years or something like
that. And yes, obviously, when you're in the class, you can see
people you can read body language and read faces and so on so forth.
Facial expressions.
That's like what zoom you're kind of relying on like, I mean, some
people might have the camera on but you're relying on emojis.
He's relying on lol.
These kinds of things, but, but hopefully,
we're getting there. And we're really trying to, I think,
break the ice and try to
I really try not to have what you would call
it with a common business rule power distance, right? I don't I
don't want to be that dude way up there that's unacceptable and you
just have to, you know, I speak ex cathedra and everything I say, you
know, I want I want it to be more of a
fraternal atmosphere, you know, like, like, I'm just the big
brother, and I'm here to help you. And whatever it is, don't be shy
to ask so so people send me questions. So people
have questions in class, they send me questions outside of class and
courses on WhatsApp, because that's what encouraged them, you
know, between classes offered during the week to be
to be keeping up with the work because I've always said that to
them. You know that like one of the things we said in like the
week one is like, again, the Hadith about habit like man, Allah
He had one Mohan when, right when the Lord actions to a lot of those
that are
persistent and longer lasting. Yeah, even if it's small, even if
it's small. So you know, just try to set aside whatever it is you
can do, you know, five days, five minutes a day, 10 minutes a day,
20 minutes a day.
Keep it up, don't try to cram it all in before the review session.
Yeah. Spread out. So that's a really good thing to see that
students are doing that they're taking advantage of it.
That's great. So it's a little beehive. And that's, that's really
what we're going for, because you're really at the core and the
crux of, of our belief system is that about life, you live this
life, spending it between I am. So look, spiritual development
handout. And you don't worry about the creation. You just busy
yourself with that. And this, these beehives are so important.
They're so critical, right in getting there and drawn near to
Allah, these these beehives of knowledge and these beehives of
interacting with you. And that's what the whole purpose of Ark view
is to create an interaction, the engagement is 10 times more than
the lecture. Right? The fact that someone asked the question got it
answered, he'll remember that answer forever. Whereas 100 Things
could have been said in a lecture. And he may retain five of those
things, right? And forget them later. But the fact that something
came from an interaction, good,
it always sticks in your mind. And that's why interaction is so
important. And you do something or gain a piece of knowledge through
a two way street. You always remember it, right? But you gain a
piece of knowledge, because somebody just said it to you. Not
always. And that's the secret here. So for those listening, we
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website. I mean, your blog post here. Very important blog post,
people have been losing sleep. They don't they haven't been
eating. They haven't been able to function normally. Because they
are glued 24/7. Right to the Israel News.
Right. 24/7 and, and this crisis has created Twitter addicts. I'm
telling you people addicted to Twitter, right?
Just because they're seeing you know what's going on, they have to
know what's going on. Okay. And that's really the place of cutting
edge news is Twitter. Okay, corporate media is only going to
give you what their corporate, you know, sponsors want them to say
you have a blog post here. That is about faith in Allah subhanaw
taala the secret behind its necessity and a lot of the issues
that we have
have related to this anxiety people have towards Philistine is
disconnecting Allah from the picture.
That's what causes all the problems.
When Allah is not the only actor, doer, I should say, in your
worldview, you will be very stressed, you're stressed because
your beliefs are incorrect. That's why you're stressed. So what why
don't you lead the way here and tell talk to us on the secret
behind the necessity of faith and Allah as it links and is connected
to people's anxiety and nervousness regarding the crisis,
this crisis and really any crisis
okay.
So, this, this blog post, which is also fixed inside the blogs, it
starts with a moment is because this is a book the book is called
the overall book is called soil minerals Rabbani right some
secrets of the Divine approach it's it's a book by Mr. Mohammed
on a multi book he wrote a long time ago actually.
And so that's the first chapter what's what's on the blog is the
very very first chapter because that probably is the most
important one that's the most important secret because the whole
book is about secrets as to why does a law do certain things and
why are certainly legislated and he starts off with
certain net certain you saw the first chapter, verse 170. We're
gonna addresses all of mankind must even ask a geochemical,
suitable Hakeem aerobic or privately are all people, the
Masters come to you with true for from your Lord, for me hydro,
local, right? So believe and that's better for you right?
Now.
The, what he's getting ahead here is that belief and allows is
beneficial for you. Right? It doesn't benefit a law, it doesn't
benefit a law for you believe it benefits you if you believe. And
what explains in the eye is he says that human beings by their
nature differ in terms their capacity. So human beings, some
are some are stronger, some are poor, some are wealthier, some are
smarter, some are less, less intelligent, and so on, so forth.
And he says, Now, if if people ignore their slave into a law and
do not acknowledge their slave to all law, the natural outcome of
that is you will get slave masters and enslaved. That's just the
inevitable outcome of that, right, the people who are stronger and
wealthier, more intelligent ever, they will become slave masters,
and everyone else will be enslaved. So now what people fail
to remember, here are some people, some people a lot, I think a lot
of people overlook this fact, is that we look at fit around, right?
We could fit out and we say, Okay, well, there's a there's a, there's
an obvious case of someone who doesn't know like she's slaving to
a law. Indeed, he says and sorts of nausea signals chapter, verse
24. And the problem will Allah, I am your Lord Most High. So heap so
he saw himself at a time so because he doesn't see himself as
a law slave. That doesn't mean there's nothing hindering and only
blocking him from, from enslaving and and antagonizing and
brutalizing other people. But the flip side that people also forget,
and this was what he was both he says in this chapter is he says
that
the enslaved are in that situation because they don't acknowledge
their slave and tool.
Because if you if you acknowledge your slave to a law, you will not
allow yourself to be enslaved by someone else. Yep. It's a
symbiotic relationship. It's a symbiotic relationship. And I was
talking about this was one of my Arabic students. Just last
weekend, because we were talking about we were talking about what
was it we're talking about? Huff heartful ala when you're doing
when you're doing the film resume, right. Or Phil Emery? Right. And
one thing that's always stood out to me for a long time, if you read
if you read sort of buckler, the story of Musa Islam and the
children of Israel.
Again, it's kind of irrelevant, isn't it? It's like the between
eyes 60 and 70. There's about four instances where the children it's
Israel where they asked Musa they sign to make dua to Allah. But
each time they say, font Odin or rob buck, somehow Subhanallah they
never they never say what a banana they say call on your Lord for us.
What's wrong with these people? Well, they never they never say
call an our Lord. Right? So that's telling us right, it's this the
benefit of the beautiful things about knowing the Arabic language
and noticing these pronouns being used, like wait a second. They
they never acknowledged the laws, lordship over them. They never
know that they were law slaves. And that's why they were in that
situation with real that's a beaut. That's an amazing just that
one suffix. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Robinson's four times so true. I
see once Yeah. So you put that all together and then you realize
Yeah, well that's why they worship the golden calf. Support, right.
That's why they worship the cow calf. Right. And which again,
takes us back to like the broader wisdom, the broader wisdom here.
This is something that the moment has, Ali says in the end
Medina says in his bag of tablets what's welcome where he says that
something along the lines of
he said before you get rid of a dog in the backyard Yeah, get rid
the dog in the house before you were the dog in the house. Yeah,
get rid the dog in the heart. And what he's getting at is it's the
internal enemy, right? It's the internal enemy. So what you learn
from that whole story is that you had a fear fear around was an
external enemy. But he's there because of internal enemy
SubhanAllah. And you can get rid of the external enemy just feel
around. But the internal enemy is still there. Internally, I mean,
there's a story one of my teachers told us a story about
an even be bothered with London who, when he was the Khalifa, and
someone from the children Israel tried try to make fun of them and
say,
say, you know, your profits only been dead for 36 years and look at
all the fitna, you have in your time, blah, blah, blah. And add
these response was well, your your your, your people's feet were
still wet from crossing the Red Sea and you're worshiping a golden
calf of hot Allah with you. So
it probably was probably was alive and with you. Your feet were wet
swaddling clothes, your clothes hadn't even dried off. Yeah,
exactly. Exactly. So yeah, I got it. So that's, that's showing the,
the internal state. So
when we think when we think about this idea, and so you, when you
don't acknowledge your slavery to Allah, that's when these problems
happen. Right? So you can't give us your landmines. So how do we
how do we read it read this to our situation, we actually saw a
situation as and it's something that I've been doing a lot
recently with people
because I'm still doing lectures and stuff here talks about
depression, anxiety book, The Rise, husband and wife book. And
you're starting to see how the fact that really, really, we have
to think now as as a Muslim community,
we really have to start thinking about oppression amongst our own
ranks, we really have to start thinking about you know, who are
we oppressing? Right because again, and that's what they didn't
look in the master loss license study and people around the pond
original rulers a lot of natural law. So the law had this analysis
in the hadith is that so here in this village, Jami of Imams, CLT,
come on to Cooney, when they come as you are, you will be ruled
over.
We really have to take these things on board, and look at
rectifying ourselves. So while I, while I understand it's obviously
it's pretty understandable to be
keeping, keeping on top of the news and seeing what's happening.
Don't Don't let that distract you. Or I would say, let that let these
events push you towards a law. Let those events push you towards the
law. There's a brother
he's on he's on it speaking brothers on Facebook on Twitter.
He's in a * Bucky fucky and he keeps himself very hot. He like
no one knows who he is.
But he does. He does. He does nice little flips. It has nice little
translation clips on on Twitter. And he thought he found he found
one He doesn't bite mom shot him on the bowl to feed people, people
to chefs and more both, you know, there's there's one hood but where
he talked about, he talked about like what is what is the answer
when you're when you're in this deep, soft type of fitness? And he
said he said in this day when I'm coaching this time of crisis like
yes, we have Clinton as he left he said he said never ever ever
underestimate when it will be called see Hamill as Hall
SubhanAllah. Right? The arrows are the predawn hours, right? And this
again is referring to sort of the sort of of all the activity first
chapter 18 will be this how to whom you're stumped, right in the
pre Dawn hours they see forgiveness. So you know, you
mentioned people staying up late watching, watching stuff on
Twitter. Pray at that time seriously pray that time pray to
hedgerow pray Sahaja and make to offer people and
there is there is an effect I think also people need to step
back and see the bigger picture because one of the things because
again, we tie this back to the Koran and we can tie this back to
people feeling anxious and anxious and depressed about events.
There's a there's a beautiful i which we have so many people I had
already but it was one but it relevant here is there's an eye on
sort of look man, it's the 31st chapter, verse 20. World losses
lost Ba ba ba from Moho vital to mobile Athena, like Allah showers,
blessings upon you. outwardly and inwardly. Outwardly and Alexa,
what's the inward what's the inward blessing? What's what's the
what's the net? What are these? Valentina and the Neoma both are
the blessings that are hidden in tribulation.
Right there are blessings Oman was hidden in tribulation. So so if we
if we if we step back and look at the bigger picture, we have to we
have to realize that there are that because of what's happening
in Gaza.
There's there's something more immediate which people are waking
up to, which is that everyone everyone is now waking up the
reality of Zionism now. Yeah. Right. Everyone's waking up to
that. That's one huge lesson that's coming out of this total
right that they've lost the PR war. They've lost it now. I think
was about 10 days or two weeks ago. and Israeli think tank of all
peoples really think they came out and admitted they
said that of all the protests going around the world right now.
95% are pro Palestine. Wow. 95% are profiles, right? So they've
lost, they've lost that you can see also these un votes how when
they do so in the General Assembly, it's like 140 or 150
countries. It's Israel and us on the other side and a few other
countries, even a lot of like, like, typical vassal states of the
US like, Britain and the EU. They're abstaining.
They're losing that. Right. So that's coming to the fore, but
something even greater than that's happening. And I think I think
you've talked to some of our guests about this.
Which is a peep people people are people aren't only waking up to
the reality of Israel, but they're also waking up to the reality of
Palestinians. And they're saying, what is it that keeps these people
going?
Right, like they've gone through so much. They've there's there's
people have lost everything. They've lost their homes, they
lost their family, they have nothing.
But they're smiling and they're single handedly level shockula
Right there. How is that possible? They don't get so what is that now
doing? So now we think okay, well, they're Muslims. Okay. So and then
they're going and they're trying to read a translation report and
to try and
put the pieces together.
And it's happening like I think I think it was just a My friend has
and he's my co author from depression anxiety like he sent me
he sent me a video of
a lady from America is not a Muslim, right? blond, blue haired
lady, not a Muslim. And she's reading she's reading a
translation on the Koran right? I'm assuming is a pretty decent
one. In a previous conversation, right? I was here with it. Okay.
What?
But she she put a little video of saying the Quran is helping me
with my anxieties. Yes, I have. I have I have anxious I have anxiety
problems. And she read. I think reading is it's subtle.
Talaq
when you're talking about yellow Maharaja
Nikola Tesla Yeah, Tesla, right. Like wherever fears Allah lock him
away out. Vibrate isn't listen. So she's quoting this is that you
close my eyes and super rough man.
And she's almost tearing up. Like, she's not even a Muslim. She's
almost tearing up. And she's saying, you know, with with
anxiety, she's dealing with anxiety. You know, people always
telling people I was telling you, okay, that you have to learn to
let go, you have to learn to let go. And don't Don't fret over that
thing. And then she said, But I'm reading these reading these
verses, and I'm realizing
how can I let go of something that I never really had in the first
place? Subhan Allah? How can I let go, when a lot has been holding
all along?
Right, how do I do it? How do I let go, and she said, so. So then
I realized, and then I realized, wait a second, I'm actually part
of a larger system, I'm actually loaded with harder, like a larger,
you know, apparatus or framework. And all I can really do is act.
That's all I can do. Because a lot is in control. And she says, This
isn't what I was taught, I always taught that it's down to you. It's
always down to you. Right? So if you're successful, because it's
because of you and your hard work, if you're not successful, is
because you're lazy or stupid or this and that. It's like, no, no,
it's all in the laws hands. So she said, she said that, that just
that just gave me so much.
Just relief. Yeah. Just just just to see that. So I think I think to
put all of that together, I think I think for Muslims who are
getting really really anxious and depressed, a situation of us a
look at the bigger picture, look at the bigger picture, see what's
really happening. And then look at these people aren't even Muslim
who are now coming back to or not coming to a lot and now reading
your book.
And just seeing I mean,
they're seeing things that a lot of muscle just haven't seen,
right. There was another lady that one of my students shared with me.
Where she was she was trying to make it she was trying to
understand
she was trying to understand like, Why Why does the law say
I think it's the eyes of the beholder Malala pluvialis one of
them assaulted him, right? Like, why does the law sealed? She says
like, Well, why does the law seal their hearts? Like, is that not
fair? But then he can't read and then she got the Central PA
20 chapters 44 where a law says to where a law says to Musa and Harun
when they're going to fit out right says that the golden Aina
the other way did that reaction right like like Satan gentle
words. So there has to remind in the heat. She's like, gonna wait a
second. Okay. So fill out done. did have the choice.
He did have the challenge. Yeah, yeah. You've given the
opportunities like, oh, wow, she was so she so she saw that. And
that just that's filled her with joy and she's just
she's weeping with joy and she's realizing, wow, like this is what
a lie is. This is a lot and so I think that's what people have to
be
bearing in mind and really seeing how our laws using these people
to
To show us the bigger picture to show us the bigger picture. And I
think when we think as well when we think as well about
the Palestinians, especially the people in Gaza as well, again, we
have to we have to realize that these people are
their shahada, and they will they will have a great rank with a law
that was very rank with the law. You know, my wife is showing me
some clips I've seen sometimes as well on line of, of people talking
about how, you know, the, you know, dead the dead bodies of the
corpses of people are they're like, they smell beautiful.
Right, they smell they smell beautiful, because then they're
Shahada. Whereas the
the other side I know some people call them the IDF The ioof is an
Israeli occupation for us Israeli the Israeli diaper force
but there was there wasn't there was a video there was a video of
this was on different sources right it was just one source of
resources there was there's it was an Israeli doctor and he had he
had dead IDF soldiers in like a truck type of freezer. Yeah,
right. They're trying to preserve the bodies before taking them back
to their families to be buried. So they're gonna frozen they're like,
like, like, what's the what's a ketogenic state Right? They'll be
frozen
any any but he's he he takes it takes like a camera crew and so
and he said these bodies stink Subhanallah stink, so they smell
terrible. And he said, like, you know, a body shouldn't smell this
bad until about six or seven days and
these bodies haven't been dead for 24 hours and and suddenly had this
really horrible pungent smell. And again, these are signs these are
signs indication So
yeah, that would that would be my
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your point on on the
the blessing of Allah being a parent and hidden demon parent,
the Tafseer of that good
will who will lead the US Baba Aleikum Niyama who lie Hera 10,
we're about in it
a parent apparent and hidden. So the apparent one is the one that
we see as a blessing as is. The hidden blessing is the good result
that comes out of a bad thing, something we all
know it's hidden, it's hidden that tribulation you can't see hidden
inside. So something we all see is bad in our world, but Allah has
has a hidden blessing in that and one of them. You mentioned is
people Americans waking up to the Quran. So waking up to Islam, like
asking, how would these Palestinians keep going? I'm
looking here at a Guardian article was written in about two weeks
ago.
Young Americans are picking up the Quran to understand the resilience
of Muslim Palestinians. And then it has here a woman who who
started a book club on Discord. And she posted reviews on tick
tock, right. And she said chats about a book on tick tock, that's
it and her initial genre was romance novels. I didn't know
people still read those things. Where
is romance like Nancy Roberts and all those? Huh? She's out of
Chicago. Okay, she's 34 years old. Then when this crisis happened,
and she has a big platform on Tik Tok, start talking about
Palestine.
And then she started noticing that picture that video of the brother
whose daughter died.
This is a he was, you know, a Palestinian man, religious man, I
think is from the web Gemma of Palestine. And his daughter was
brought to meet us she has the two proofs like this was brought to
him and he was just kissing her face. She passed away he's about
to marry her. She's just
yeah, that video once got so many people wondering how was he doing
this? How was he not like yelling, screaming and going crazy. Right?
So they started to pick up the Quran. Here one lady says I wanted
to talk about the faith of Palestinian people how it's so
strong. They still find room to make it a priority to thank God
even when they have everything taken away from them. She said in
an interview this lady her name is Megan be rice.
She keeps posting these videos. One thing Lex leads to the next
eventually she ends up a Muslim and she posts it
somewhere
The Allah subhanaw taala took someone that you are the last
person that you would ever even think of. And this person has been
a means of hundreds upon 1000s if not millions, to discover the
Quran, right? And I really view the Quran in a positive light,
okay because we have enough of bad press, but she has amazing, you
know, good press, so
amazing, these types of things and I loved also, Mordecai Kadar is a
professor who hates Muslims and Arabs has devoted his life to the
hatred of Muslims and Arabs. He said something that it sticks to
me every day I think about it because it's such a powerful
statement and I take it as a point of pride. Okay? He said, for these
Muslims, you have to understand.
Allah was the main actor, and they're the secondary actor. And
he said, we can even say Allah is the only actor.
Right? Yeah, I think I saw that. And he says, whereas at the
battlefield, when we go to the battlefield, as Israelis, we're
the only actor and we never think about God.
He's not even on the field with us. But for the Muslims, he's the
only actor he says, You Israelis. You're living in a bubble if you
don't understand the Muslims relationship with God. I see. See
the same one who talked about equality i to them, as well as a
law male sabia? Yeah, that's him. He's also the same one to show
you. You know, the one or the reason I love this is because when
your enemy says something about you, it's 100%. True. Sincere,
because there's no boss, you know, where his biases it's not there's
no bias, you know, where his biases it's against you. He's the
same one who was interviewed by I think, one of the Arab press, and
they, and she said to him, What do you think of your general or one
of them's equating the Palestinians, to animals? Because
you saw that clip early on. We're dealing with animals here, right?
And he said, I totally disagree with that, because that is an
insult to animals. Right? You know, where he stands this guy.
And he brings this out, it's so important. Now. Can you talk to us
about this, Aki, Ada, this belief, this is so important that, in
truth, Allah is the only DOER of things. That is such an important
part of our theta.
Okay, I'm no somos hula. So. So yeah, it's kind of that point that
just be careful where you said so that's a really academic does not
like her policies are Muslims because he said in Allah and Mao
sabia and so he went on. He went on to he went on TV, and he was
saying that he said, You don't understand that. When the
Palestinians say that they quote an ayah. They sincerely absolutely
believe it. So like, we were patient laws with us, they were
patient laws with us, right? And again, we on there, they would say
we like on the on the design side, we simply don't have that we
certainly don't have that. So when you understand that a law is doing
things again, and again, this is something I've addressed this at
the end in one of my lectures on the depression, anxiety, because
people fall into that trap of because there's some of the
Christians tend to say their theology, they're gonna they're
gonna say,
Oh, how can God let this happen? Yeah, right, right. Because
because they because they believe in a God who created the universe
and then sat back
and put his feet up and his watch his stuff. Yeah, right. Whereas
for us no, because it's sort of the sort of, sort of man if it if
the chapter was 29, and losses.
Kula yeoman's work fishin, right, every day he's in in his affair
and things in a good theory mom continues to theory says is it a
law is constantly
providing for people and answering people's doors and taking care of
people and in other words, Allah is making things happen, right?
Allah is not letting things happen or was making things happen,
right, you have to look at it from the flip the script, it's a
totally different thing whilst I'm just letting things happen.
So a lot is Allah is the only actor so because he I'll give you
an example. Again, if if people are good evening, people who are
watching around Muslim but there was a there was an interesting
book that came out around 2006. There's a guy called
John Gray. Now the guy are all men are from Mars. Women are from
Venus. It's another guy. It's a philosopher, basically, London, he
wrote a book called Straw Dogs, Straw Dogs.
I hope whoever's over there is okay. No piece of metal fell.
Okay. All right.
All right. So what explained in there what explained in that book
is and he's and he's arguing this purely from from a secular
philosophical point of view. What he's saying is that
You know, we in the West, we always talk about, you know,
freedom of choice and individualism. But you actually
make very, very few choices in your life.
Right, you don't choose who your parents are, you don't choose
where you're born, you don't choose your ethnicity, you don't
choose your nationality, your race, your who your family
members, are you there's so many. And then as you're going up, your
parents make a lot of choices for you, what schools you go to what
you know, getting, what homes you live in, and then that affects
that affects, again, your social circles, that affects your friends
that affects your job prospects. It affects everything. So really
what you understand and this kind of ties in with that American
leader is pointing earlier.
Really, when you tie down, your choices in life are really, really
very limited. And your choice in life are ultimately are you going
to believe or disbelieve, and are you going to obey or disobey. So
that's really what it comes down to. That's really ultimately comes
down to you don't really have any influence in everything on
anything else, you're just part of a system, you're sort of playing a
role in something that's already been laid out for you. And as
you're going through it, the choice comes up again and again.
Are you going to obey or are you going to disobey? That's it that
sounds coming across. So
and I think I think people also seem seem seem to seem to,
we have to keep in mind that, again, we're talking about again,
we're talking about the importance of slavery to a law fatal on
slavery to a law is the fact that
we don't
do things as Muslims, we don't do things because we're thinking of a
necessary outcome. Right. Let me let me explain. Because, first of
all, first, first and foremost, you have to think of it this way,
first and foremost.
Allah has promised us let's start with the biggest thing of all,
Allah has promised us salvation. Right? This is uncertain. tobuy
it's certainly Tijuana. La mooning. We know the genetic and
decadent heart right? Allah has promised the bleeding men and
women, Paradise gardens and Jannette gardens and wood rivers
flow. So
when we pray, when we fast when we require and when we do, vicar, we
do all these things, right? We are not doing any of these things.
In order to be saved.
We are doing all these things because we are saved Subhan Allah
Right, right. We're manifesting our gratitude to all law, some
right and this is encapsulate beautifully in the hadith of
metaphilosophy Salam
in which he was praying to hydrate and he's praying to bring us to
hedge it. And I was looking at him and he and his feet are cracking
and becoming swollen. He says, Why are you doing this when a law
could have forgiven has forgiven you for anything you could do? Or
could have done? And he says, a fundamental objection, Cora, or
follow up on ambition question, Should I not be ungrateful slave?
Right? Then you take that so that's the biggest thing, well,
then you understand what we can do as well. We do eyes the same thing
we do.
When we make do onto a law, it's not about the thing we're asking
for. Right? We forget that it's not we're not we're not asking for
that, that money or that job, or that spouse or those kids or that
thing to be so incedo That probably result? What we're doing
in our dual eyes is we're manifesting our slave into all
law. Right, and we're rewarded for it right? It's the other man
called Dr. Mobley Budda they call it be no eyes the core of it
is you you're manifesting claim to law you're you're putting yourself
before a law and admitting and acknowledging your helplessness
and you therefore you ask well for anything, so again, di is not
about the thing you're asking for. It's it's about manifesting itself
into a law and being rewarded and you're drawn to a law they're in
and you're being rewarded they're in regardless of what happens so
if you take it again to the situation for example with the
Palestinians and the Israelis you don't don't don't think of the of
their fighting and their intention and their fighting as being we're
gonna win necessarily. Yeah, it's greater than that. It's we're
pleasing a law by doing this. Yeah. Yeah, we're pleasing a law
by doing this we're drawing nearer to a law by doing this we're
manifesting or flavor to a law by doing this. Right. And that's what
that's why their motto is our motto is like it's either an
innocent or shahada right either we win or we go out to LA and then
that's that's what a matter of law so awesome said all those years
years ago right are right if we win are deceased but are deceased
or in the Paradise and their disease when the fire so
it's all hanging out. If you just stop and look back at it right? If
you just take a look back, take a step back and look. The whole
thing is head
and we're not the ones who are going to do anything Jerusalem OMA
or otherwise.
But we've been, we're like one grain of cent. Each grain of sand
has a job. Just do your job. And don't worry about the big picture
because that Allah is the one who's going to do that in the
first place.
And I want to draw people's attention to a secular view of
this non believers view. Right? To
how much do you actually do? So, what? When I was young, there was
a guy who writes these clever books named Malcolm Gladwell. I
know him he was like a household name in, in the book worlds,
right? And people with people who read. So he wrote a book called
outliers on the greats. And I picked this up and I'm like,
Alright, I'm going to read this because I want to be like the
greats, whatever they do here, I'm going to do it myself.
What he does is he pulls the rug under your from under your feet in
the very first chapter. And he tells, he says, essentially, these
people
have patterns in their lives, les tricks, and in each sphere of
things, he shows you there's a commonality in every industry. So
he took hockey players, soccer players,
business businessman, you know, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Yep,
computer techs. And he said, All these factors, that each category
has something that was common, and that something that was common was
completely random. And that's one of the reasons why they succeeded.
So for example, all the greats in tech is because they came they
were, they came out at the right time. They came into their,
their birthday, I remember, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and the guy from
Sun Microsystems, they were all born the same year. Exactly. And
therefore, and therefore when they graduated. Exactly. It was like
justice PCs were coming out. So he
was when PCs were just coming out, or a certain a certain revolution
in tech happened. If you were in high school, you're you're too
late. If you are working out of college by one or two years and
working already and had a wife and kid, you're too late. But those
four years in between all the greats came out of there, because
they hit the mark, right. Also, he talks about all the hockey
players, all the soccer players that were great. Were born in the
same year of the same period of time, month, month and month in
terms of hockey players in January, remember? Yeah. And he
said basically, that
when they put all the players like all the 13 year olds, That's so
random to follow the 13 year olds, because a 13 year old born in
January is 12 months older, 11 months older than 13 year old born
in December, right? So he ends up saying that, essentially, because
of a random date that was picked,
all these kids appeared better because they're older, right? And
when you're younger, 11 months is a big deal, when you're 12 years
old, or seven years old, 11 months is a huge difference in growth in
maturity in experience. So he said that one random fact made them get
the cut for the special summer camp. And because of that, it
triggers off that they actually are better than the other kids.
But the initial reason was so random. Point being is he's
saying, you can't be great because you want to be great, right?
People are great in their field because of a circumstance. He even
he even went into why the the kids of New York Jews were so
successful. It's like it has nothing to do with being Jewish.
None of the Torah, nothing to do with anything is as it has simply
to do with when these Jewish Jews came. They got into a business,
the garment business, and they pulled their cousins into the
business and the garment business is you only eat what you kill. If
you can't sell it and sell it. You're not eating dinner tonight.
Right? That ethic trickled down to the kids. All right. That's why
there's a tear of New York Jews that were extremely successful has
nothing to do with. So why aren't the Wyoming Jews so successful?
Why aren't Floridian Jews at the same thing? Brooklyn, Jews, New
York Jews, there's like a good 40 years, the dominating every field,
right? So he goes for the reason behind that. is not it's not
Polish Jews. It's not British Jews. It's New York Jews. So he's
like, What is the reason?
So you goes back to Allah as the doer, and we end up having a lot
less
credit to our success than we think we deserve.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because I think I think that's, I think the term he
used
A Macula was called the ecology of success, as we called it, what
does it tell us? The ecology of success interested in like, yeah,
like, you guys gotta look at the environment, the environmental
factors like these people didn't just come out of nowhere. And
again, like, I remember the one that I remember the most was, was
getting the Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, one because they also had,
they also came from good families, they went to good schools, that's
all part also part of it. And they had early access to the first
types of PCs, and therefore, and therefore they were able to do
hours and hours of programming. Because he I think he said
something like 10,000 hours is a minimum requirement for him to but
it's something. So Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, were doing that in
their teenage years. Yeah.
So we don't, yeah, so we don't we don't really appreciate we put so
much. Yeah, this was an American who was saying that video she was
saying, you know, we're always told that it's all on you. It's
all on you. If you fail, it's on you. And if you succeed, it's on
you.
And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, I'll law is, you know, again, how
can you let go of something that you never had control of, and then
a law was in control of his arm and that and the day and that's
that's what you have to realize that again, we are a law is the
only doer, a law is making these things happen. And Allah's victory
is promised. And we also have to tell ourselves that
it's the only in sha Allah about Allah's victory is whether you
will be a part of it Subhan Allah, that's it, as well, you will be a
part of it. So so that's what you we have to make dua to Allah,
especially, I think, especially these times and like, like ask a
lot to make you part of you know, the queue or part of the solution
part of the remedy to all of this.
Because the remedy will come the victory will come just you want a
lot to make you to use you as part of it. Right?
However, whoever your meat however your means, or whatever you are
able to do to to contribute. Whether it whether it whether it's
raising awareness or giving Dawa getting aid or to the Palestinian
people, whatever it is, but you want to make sure that a law is
using for good because we allows promises through a lot of
promises. True. So and he's the one in control of all of this,
right? I guess, again, I think so as a warning to people. I remember
I remember Muslim voters mentioned this a long time ago, I think,
like one of the one of the pitfalls of when you really,
really start digging deep into politics. And then then you go
into quote, unquote, conspiracy theories and you go into, you
know, who controls everything and runs the world, you can, you can
fall into that trap. It's just like a satanic trap where you can
start thinking that you gotta think that like, laws asleep or
something like this. Yeah. And these people have a lot of power
and control. And the reality is they don't, I think, I think that
conspiracy theory is actually antithetical to even the
conspiracy theory mentality drives so much focus and attention on a
cabal of, you know, evil doers who are in control. Yeah, no one's in
control is no one at the wheel here, right? Of the heels. There
are no human beings can map monitor this right. And usually
what happens in my theory is like this, a crisis happens. The people
with resources
into time we'll figure out how to benefit from the crisis.
Because they benefited from the crisis, people will accuse them
upstart kicking off the crisis. Right? That's probably that's one
of my views on COVID. Right, is that?
I don't know what I don't imagine that someone set it off on purpose
with a defined goal. But I believe that it happened. And then the
people with the resources said, Well, how can we use this to our
benefit, and then rushed and because they have the resources to
benefit from it.
Okay, whether you know, and then whether COVID or anything else,
that's probably, and then they also get to
that night, then they get accused of kicking the whole thing off,
and they started it. But what the conspiracy theory people end up
with,
is almost like a type of arcade where the bad guy is the doer of
things. Directly. Exactly. They attribute dine adjuncts to them.
Yeah, yeah. And you're giving them way too much credit yet, and that
their plots and plans are like, unstoppable. And then you end up
with somebody with a completely impractical solution to things.
Right. We got to get off of everything. You know, they're
going to, you know, we're going to be monitored, wrong and yet they
end up in Gulf, a state of Cofman of health. Fear of the creation,
right. That's antithetical to the deen. Right. And that's why I
never really get too involved with those things beyond
entertainment for me
Because I asked the question, what do you want me to do? Okay? Oh, I
want you need to do this, this and this. And I say to myself, am I
doing this based on speculation or your opinion? Or I look at it from
a Kalam approach. So I'm going to change the way I live, why, on a
speculation on a theory.
If this was legal evidence in Sharia, it wouldn't warrant
changing my behavior.
So I'm going to behave as Allah told me to behave, and Allah will
take care of us, right?
I'm going to look at the gym out of Muslims. I'm going to
look at everything from a spiritual lens. And only when
something becomes absolutely a kotite absolutely certain right
that then I'm gonna take an action the conspiracy theorists are all
about this but I want to go back to this silver lining or should we
say the benefit
or the blessings that are hidden? Look at this, you can scroll for
hours and hours and hours watching
hashtag Quran book club.
Why do I think this is important? Because a lot of born Muslims
don't realize what they have.
Born Muslims don't realize what they have.
When you actually look at how many videos here, it's been said by the
Guardian here that as of November 20, videos on the hashtag Quran
book club, that's the hashtag hashtag Quran book club. Have 1.9
million views. That's
November 28. So we passed 2 million by now. Oh, wow, I'm
scrolling here. 12348 10k 14 It's nonstop 18. It keeps Oh see more.
Okay.
All sorts of ages, ethnicities, even a transient became Muslim.
While after, after before transitioning to a female, okay,
hey, listen, it could happen or why do we? Why would we be
surprised? Right? Someone who did? Trans It's very odd for us, but
it's not necessarily
worse than paganism, right? It's just more odd for us. But now it's
evolving now.
The same hashtag to fic. Here's a guy, Holly the barber. How to make
sulla.
Alright, so it's becoming a do you learn your whole Deen on Tiktok
All right, how is this an atheist reads part of the Quran? Okay.
It definitely totally is the silver lining. Right, and now I'm
out Balta it's an inner hidden blessing. Um, I keep scrolling it
you could keep going. By you just keep got Look at this. You just
keep scrolling. And
it's nonstop talking about the Quran. That's why have you by
Omar. He used to say Allah did not create any piece of technology
except that its core purpose is to spread so hate
a lot. Right? He said this at a time when Muslims were not in any
media.
Right Muslims now but now that's a pretty common sensical thing, any
platform that comes into existence in a short matter of time.
Short matter of time, it's going to be filled with Dean.
So this is this was where
the we talked about the blessing of Allah subhanaw taala in
everything, because he's the only real DOER of things. And that's
something that I want everyone to think about the phrase, the real
joy of things. And this phrase is repeated in the humbly athlete of
course, right?
Where we talk about, when we ask people for something, you should
never believe that they have any power.
You're only asking them because Allah commands you to to take
means to take them to take an action.
Why don't you also give us a shot on this statement right here?
Why has the Creator told us to yield to him in loyalty and faith?
Why is this necessary?
It reminded me of the rabbi Moniece Friedman's controversial
book in the world of Judaism and for many people know I ended up in
the rabbi Rabbi rabbit hole, which I call it
watching videos of rabbis to see what they're all about. And one of
the things that kept coming up is this guy Moniece Friedman. He's
type of spiritualist Rabbi New Agey in his vibe, and he has a
book God needs us.
And the rabbi's went insane. I was like SubhanAllah. If If half if a
if a if a Muslim imam ever said that on a member,
he will be dragged down physically from the member, I would get up
right away. First thing, turn the mic off, right? I would run,
because I'm in charge of the clipboard at our mosque, I would
run out the back door and embarrassment of who I selected.
Right?
This guy would be dragged off the member, we'd shut the mic off
right away, take the mic away from him and escort him off the member
the moment he says something as crazy as God needs us. Good. But
the point is when God is giving us commands and telling us to do
things, the non believing mind doesn't know any better. thinks
Oh, God needs us to do this, like the Greeks God are his food is our
prayers. So talk to us about this. Why is it that Allah has commanded
us to be loyal to him? To have faith in Him? And why test us? Why
not come out? And just show us his sign and call it a day? Okay.
What is this? Yeah? Shall we have sorry about that there was a guest
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Bismillah sorry for that interruption. No, I'm done with
that. So yeah, to answer this question, why why do we need to
yield on this something I touched on in the beginning is the fact
that we we have these as human beings, we have these capacities
we have these abilities. Also that animals don't have so in terms of
intellect in terms of strength, the ability to to make certain
devices and machines and other inventions.
And if a law is not supervising all of that, the outcome is going
to be oppression, the outcome is going to be that you will have a
class of slave masters and a class of enslaved. So when we all
acknowledge the law,
we remove ourselves from that oppression and which each other
justly and therefore you do not have oppression. And we all know
from the Quran that the first the first oppression is shipped as the
first impression, right like this will look man says to his son in
the sugar industry,
the vitamin Alvine right so that that ship is an immense
oppression.
And the other thing, the other thing about it, because you
mentioned about tests and trials and tribulations, everything about
this is the fact that
a law is inviting every single one of us to have
a relationship with Him. And that relationship has to be voluntary.
And it has to be based on love. So
far, let's start here. So as a starting point.
There's just enough evidence in the creation for laws existence.
There's just enough evidence, right? There isn't too little,
especially if people can deny it and say no, I didn't I didn't see
that. I didn't see no proof. Right? There's intuitive, but
there isn't too much in the sense that people can say they were
forced, will feel full. Right. So like I've said this to a few
people many, many times, I've said to you, like, again, if we talk
this issue, okay. Well, you know, like, this man was saying, you
know, The Lord needs us. God needs us. Yeah. But well, if that's the
case, then why why didn't he just just have a voice balloon from the
sky five times a day? You know, it's better. Yeah, go to the
mission now. And then if anyone tries to walk away, or make, make
it valid, involuntary action, like breathing? Yeah, exactly, exactly,
exactly. Just forces into it. Right. If he needs us, and he
needs our worship, they could have done that. But then again, that
would have been that would have been a relationship under
coercion. That's what that relationship would have been. And
that's not what Allah wants from us. A law wants a voluntary
relationship based on love. So that's the first thing we have to
bear in mind is you should be able to work it out by yourself that a
law exists and he has certain expectations laid out because he
knows he's my Creator, and therefore I must seek out what
those what those expectations are. And that's the whole purpose of
messenger ship. That's why we have the messenger so a lot of them.
That's, that's, that's a really weird thing about certain people
how there are people out there who, you know, they come to this
conclusion that a law exists. They say, everything has a maker
creator, therefore, the world must have a creator and we must have a
creator, but then they stop there. Right? And it's like, that's
really interesting is like well
take it further right.
Yeah, I like like Mr. Mr. Woolsey says that's the guy who's
traveling at night in the desert, he finds a cave. And he goes, and
he goes into the cave, right to propose to sleep for the night.
And he finds like blood marks on the walls and bones of dead
animals everywhere. And he says, oh, yeah, this is the lair of some
dangerous predator. Oh, well.
I'll just talk a toggle over here and get a good night's sleep like,
no, there's something more if you once you've drawn the conclusion
that there's a creator, there's a maker that you're talking to Okay.
Has he communicated with me? That's. So that's the next step.
Okay. Yes, he's my Creator. He's my maker, he created all this, He
created me, what are the expectations? Has he communities
that these equitation these expectations to me, right, that's
the logical next step. So.
So once you've accepted that, and you're a Muslim, and you've
accepted the message, then you have to look at within the realm
of trials and tribulations, and then you have to understand that
this this abode is a realm of of blessing and ease of blessings and
hardships and so forth. And then you then you recognize that
because you are a law slave, there's a, there's a command from
you, there's a tick leave upon you, which is that you're meant to
be patient in times of times of hardship, and grateful in times of
ease. And that's what Allah wants to see from you over and over. And
that's the whole point of this abode. Are you going to be patient
when times are hard? And are you gonna be grateful in times of
ease?
Or even grateful in times of both, if you think about it, so that's
that's why that's why all these things are happening. And so the
tribulations and the blessings although all of this is about
manifesting your life into a law all of it is right so
so if you take if you take an eye like lay you Kelly for long
enough, so in other words, Sahar, which is like take leaf, right, so
legal responsibility a lot a lot is a lot doesn't put a legal
responsibility upon any, any soul more than it can bear. When we
think about tech leaf is like, there's there's the obvious
commands, but they have to think also just just in terms of your
individual circumstances, Allah is command you to be patient, Allah
has commanded not to get depressed, Allah has commanded not
to give up last minute not to despair and commit suicide. And
that's all within your capacity. So it's like you so you have to
tell yourself is, it can almost be like a mantra when when you find
yourself in a situation where you are feeling really down in the
dumps, and you're almost tempted to find some means of escape for
that pressure, anxiety, re thinking maybe I'm going to go for
something unlawful are some, some drugs or alcohol or whatever it
is, you have to say to yourself.
Now you can even walk on us in Lusaka. And that doesn't
necessarily mean I don't know, maybe there was not a lot of
testimony. But know what that means is a law is put in a
situation, and you are perfectly capable obeying Him in this
situation. Yeah. That's what you have to tell yourself, you're
perfectly capable of being him in this situation. You don't have to
resort to anything else, just remind yourself that you're able
to do that you're able to avail on the situation. And that,
that will bring you back on the
on the right path.
I like to point this out that you said here that
patience through trial and error is needed. Well, in this world,
everything good comes about through a hardship, like a baby is
not born, except through extreme hardship from the mother.
Even the
greatest pleasure that two people can have takes physical effort,
right? Which is why they're tired afterwards.
They're like exhausted after the fact.
Everything good, everything great in this world. It comes through a
hardship. tribulations are also like the birth. It's like the
birth pains.
The labor pains of mattify.
Yeah, you get to discover so much about yourself, and about Allah
and about the creation. Through something which we usually call
the hardship, you discover much less through pleasure. You could
discover something like, you can see how generous Allah is with us.
How amazing is the creation, there's like how many fruits there
are and what you could do with these fruits. Right? You could
discover a lot of things.
So we're not saying that pleasure is never a source of modify it is.
But pain.
It's a greater source of modify, modify, meaning, knowledge, direct
knowledge about Allah Himself, about Islam. For example, I think
most Islamic gender laws
that were questioned and just looked at as, like, why did they
even exist? All disappeared after the metoo movement. No one doubts
those rules anywhere. Everyone sees why they exist, right? You
guys went on living, had no law, and you ended up with this crisis.
Right? And so
we look at these things, pain is almost like the labor of modifying
someone, of course, the atheists and all those are going to always
go back and say, Well, why does God need
us to suffer in order to,
to learn why can he teach us the same knowledge? Through pleasure?
No, it'd be paradise then. Yeah, well, that's definitely the
question. The premise here, the hidden premise, the snug premise
that you're not even aware of, is your you have an entitled
attitude. You believe you're entitled to pleasure at all times?
Why are you entitled to them? Right? You're not entitled to
that. There's another snug premise that pleasure can exist at all all
the time.
But also also the the principle of blah, blah, blah, the total
effortless Yeah, right. Like this by opposites, things are known.
Exactly, yeah. So how do you know a pleasure is you don't know what
pain is? Yeah, like this.
And that, that will, that's what caused us to appreciate it all. We
appreciate the good times, because we've been through the bad times.
I want to close with this point, too, that you made.
Before you get rid of the Dog in the backyard, you gotta get rid of
the dog, in the front house in the house, where you get rid of the
dog in the house. Gotta get rid of the dog
in your own heart. And I'll tell you going through Twitter and x,
and talking to people and seeing comments. Of course, sometimes
they're like attacks, right?
One of the things that I found to be one of the most pointed,
accurate and correct attacks, is they said, Why are you guys
whining? You guys got 50 Islamic countries, right?
Where are they?
That points to the dog in the house.
There could not possibly be a dog outside
attacking the house. If there is no dog in the house.
If these countries were upright from the beginning, and they even
believed in Islam,
firstly, you wouldn't have 50 countries, there'll be like two,
because they erase all the borders between them and figure it out.
They'd make an
EU version, right? They make an Islamic union. And a country is
merely only for its local laws. That's it because of its language
and all that. But the passport, the currency, the big things the
military, you'd have like
a sub military, and you'd have the IU military, right? And then you
have IU currency, and you'd have an IU passport. That's all you
really need. That's one and then one head of the IU he monitors
these three things only. As for the local roads and township stuff
that's your own country does that. That's that's how it would
operate. But the dog outside the house only exists because there's
a dog inside the house.
The dog inside the house would never have existed if there is not
that many Pharaoh inside the hearts of enough Muslims
that cause these rulers to be our rulers.
Minko Manuel Aleikum your rulers just nothing but one of you is no
different than your average guy in every situation your ruler is the
reflects the heart of the average guy. So Bob mugabi remember Bob
Maccabi
right yeah, declared Zimbabwe. Yeah. Dictator Zimbabwe. They said
to Him, you want American aid? It needs American money. No. All
right. Elections democratic elections. Wait a second sounds
like
almost like s&m Tesla, right? If have elections, you get our money.
All right. But so he said fine. We'll get elections. A young nice
polished south. Zimbabwean guy goes and wins. Okay.
And mugabi was asked, okay, are you gonna give a concession? He
said no, not conceding. Right. And they're like, Well, you lost
though. He said, Did I really lose? He won with a pen. And I
have a gun.
He, he got more people to click off a box. But I got all the
military. How did I lose? That's his world. So I can tell you right
now the average guy in Zimbabwe. Write something about him. There's
some
feature and this some people say, Oh, don't blame the victim.
Victims aren't always flawless. There may be sometimes a reason
you're a victim, I'll tell I'll say, Forget Zimbabwe. So no one
says, I'll say it about Egypt, my own country.
We have no discipline, we have no work ethic.
The average guy has none of this stuff, the average guy is has a
big ego. He could be just wearing his training pants and sleeping
till 12:11am. And what goes does nothing for three hours and says
he worked. Right? Big Ego, right? So how are you gonna get a great
leader, when these are the regular people. So
that that line I think is so important. And it's a trickle
effect. It's a domino effect. And I think the dog on the outside
must,
the introspection must go to the dog in the house, quickly to the
dog in the heart.
And if you start fixing, if individuals have a cultural
revolution amongst them, cultural, spiritual revolution amongst them,
by nature, the leaders will not will either buy into it, or
they'll be on the outside. And they'll be on the outs, they'll
they'll bounce out, they'll be
removed somehow. But that's really what our own needs a cultural
spiritual awakening
culture, when I say cultural, I mean of the people, not a
government, top down can be of the people from the culture of the
Society of graduates, the man has to be renewed. Unfortunately, I
have to say, like, what has done this in most nations in the past,
is war
is getting obliterated.
And see, seeing your blood spilled so much that you start making
things we got to change? Yeah. Subhanallah
we kept you for a long period of time, I want to say just echo
Okay, Ron, thank you very much. And we look forward to having you
on the regular because Chemin de la is in constant translations of
the work of Sheikh Mohammed, a shout out we
said Mohammed says Ramadan and booty shift, and others are just
coming in the pipeline and others. But it's all Quran Tauheed and
Malefor of Allah.
The answer is there's a few things Yeah.
Yeah, really, truly the result of that is so much Sakina comes right
from the study of Tauheed study of Quran and and their angle of
things, the shift sides, systematic approach shift.
Mohammed Metalia shadow is
almost succeeded for tat, you could say his like observations
about the verses, it brings you a lot of so he gives you a lot of
spiritual sukoon and I wish you would go longer, but today we got
to run. So just echolocation for coming on. And we will see you
soon again insha Allah
widecombe Sidama July because remember, the applications will
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Matt de lock through arc views. Arabic program with that, ladies
and gentlemen, unfortunately, we did want to stay longer, but we've
got to go. What do you have a new shahada Ah, all right. We have
let's take this new shadow before we log off. Come Miss Mullah
Lorenzo. Welcome. Alicia has been telling me all about you.
Mashallah. Come with
ticket. Come here. Take a seat here.
All right. How are you? Guys? Very good. Very good. Very good.
All right. So so how this is something very important I want to
share with everyone sometimes there's a new a new Muslim, and
someone makes a schedule for them to come and take their shahada,
we're actually not allowed to do that. You have to give the shahada
right away. Why? Because it's contentment with disbelief. And we
did that.
You called someone recently, as soon as I got the message is that
why did you?
Why do you have to come to me to give so much ahead. This is not a
priesthood here. Right.
I want to tell anybody out there you don't even need anybody to
give you a head. Say I believe there's one God no, no, God but
Allah and unworthy worship but Allah Muhammad is his messenger.
That's it. You're a Muslim. You don't need
a priest. You don't need an imam. You don't need a big ceremony. You
do it yourself between you and Allah. And then all you need is
witnesses. Hey, guys, I'm new. I just want to tell you guys I took
shahada. That's it. Right? Some people like to certain You won't
believe this.
A girl is gonna marry a guy.
They say oh, we need to give you a head. Start right come take Chad
because she's Muslim he wasn't a Muslim
we I said right meet me at the masjid after the you know after
the hood the hood in the masjid is like 130 and going to the masjid
except the guys are working pray though and leave so regardless
take the shot they're like wait a second they came up decked out
like you think this is like a
Christian like, what did they call it? The the
communion or something right? And like where are all the people? I
was like, what do you what do you care to all the people? You're
you're coming to believe in Allah. What's your business with the
people? She they got so upset the girls left, right. Never took the
shad? Like, what do you want a party or something? Right? I
wasn't sincere in the first place. Right? Because they went and they
wanted to impress the guy with a big pot and look how big all this
party is.
It's not communion. It's not a baptism, right.
It's far greater in meaning, but more humble in its reality. At any
moment. You want to give your pay your dues to Allah to Allah, you
just do it.
If anyone calls you say I want to take the shot to give him the
shahada right now.
shahada can be in Arabic or English, by the Sandman 100. I
gave it to you the shahada on the phone. But let's do it again,
right here, Jolla, just for the sake of the witnesses and
everybody else. All right, repeat after me. I bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship.
But Allah and that Muhammad is his last and final messenger.
Shadow shadow Anna La ilaha
illallah wa shadow, Anna, Anna, Muhammad, Muhammad Rasool Allah.
Check their check where? All right congratulation my brother. And
although I got a run, these gentlemen will take care of you
and show love today. So we look forward to having you on you live
around here. Yeah, close to there. Okay, good. So we'll be seeing
you. We do have a couple of days off because of the winter break.
But these guys will be in touch with you. John will be in constant
contact.
Each phone number real quick are the pens here? Here write your
phone number real quick. We're here
All right, everyone. Does that cool. Okay. Subhanak Allahu
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