Shadee Elmasry – Two pieces of advice to self and friends
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All right, so the first thing I want to say to myself and everyone
out there is that
we should never lose sight of the Rama of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and
Rama of ALLAH SubhanA, which Allah in every era in which there is
hardship, there's more Rama, Rama increases the gamsat. I never
change the rulings of our deen, they don't change. But the
drama that comes down and the forgiveness that comes down,
always increases. So that's something that we have to realize
and recognize. When we're speaking, thinking about Allah
subhana wa Tada. And thinking about our states in our Islam is
that the Rama of Allah azza wa jal, it is always increasing upon
us. And the harder things get for us. And the more difficulty that
we have, the more that we should know that Rama of Allah azza wa
jal is upon us and
coming down on us in increasing forgiveness, and increasing mercy.
So that's something that I want to start with. But secondly, I'm sort
of becoming friends with some of the people
you know, see you all the same people on Twitter and on Facebook
and on all these sites. And I've always said it, that when the
Muslims use social media, it's oftentimes really useful. It's
really constructive, it's a lot better than
other communities and that you get to know people, you have a lot in
common and you have serious things in common as well, not just minor
things, you have the most important things in common. So
these relationships that are virtual end up becoming more
substantive than you know the what you often hear from the largest
society that you need, give us a bunch of strangers Yeah, you do
have trolls but I am starting to see the same people. And in order
for us to have any type of bomb that's any use, what we should be
doing is connecting on matters that are eternal, and nothing is
more valuable to a person on human piano than his half of the Quran.
So what we should be connecting on and encouraging each other on is
this great good which is have the Quran. And so that's the second
point that I just wanted to open up with the first point is never
to forget that um, of Allah azza wa jal is always increasing in
times of hardship. Okay, always increasing. In times of hardship,
Damschroder do not change. However, the Rama is always in a
state of increase. Okay. So that's the first thing that I wanted to
say. The second thing that I wanted to say is, just to recap,
for those that are just joining us, is that the relationships that
at least I'm forming with some people that I see on a regular
basis on these social media platforms, okay, is that our
relationship is meaningful, even if it's virtual, if we're
connecting on something that's eternal, and from those things
that are eternal, our knowledge in general, and HIV, the Quran in
specific, okay, and this is why we're actually I'm taking the
initiative, and also Ali, who you see on his name on the thing, I've
been sad, he lives near me. So we work together on these things. And
one of the initiatives we're taking is that people, we want
everyone to know Arabic, enough, at least to read Quran and to
start getting through classical texts. So you don't have to rely
upon a translation. Okay, of course, translation we all still
rely upon translations. But
Ali and myself will be teaching Arabic, I will be teaching them to
videos, but Ali will be giving the live tutoring, okay. And we're
talking about Arabic from scratch, we're not talking about elfia.
We're talking about Arabic from scratch, that ultimately we can
get you to the digital media level, where you could actually
open up a classical text and start reading it. And it will take it
from from a from scratch, private tutoring. And we'll have some
classes, which we will announce next week, not this week. But next
week, and people can sign up for that next week. In the meantime,
and in between these classes, you can watch the videos that we're
putting it up and I'll just type it in here real quick.
Okay, the name of the website where we're uploading all these
videos. Okay. And this is really the amateur that we're able to
give to the world, which is to try to connect people to the Arabic
language
through these prepared videos and online tutoring classes between
myself and brother Adi besides the Tunisian, so hopefully, you know,
this is Ahmed that will be a cause of the forgiveness of our mozzie
of our sins. And that's the only intention that any of this data is
being done. I'll be honest with you,
the only the the number one attention if there's any other
attention, I don't understand the number one attention is that this
is the kuthodaw of some of our say at that we're not able to thank
Allah and behave properly in this world. Okay? And that hopefully,
that Allah has given us some interest in knowledge. So we
learned something, and hopefully through that learning,
we can be forgiven. All right, by doing that learning, you know, I
mean by doing that
Teaching what we've learned that we could be forgiven for our
indiscretions and our wrong actions. And honestly, the more
that we pump classes on the Arabic language and emphasize the Arabic
language and memorization of Quran, okay, and being busy with
this book, the better off we will be as individuals and then our
families will be in our communities will be and if
hundreds or 1000s of people are doing these same basic things,
then the whole OMA will be in a state of increase. Okay, so with
that those were the two points that I wanted to bring up as my
opening. No See how I guess you could say to myself and to
everyone else, but I wanted to begin with sort of an hurrahs